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Live from Bremerton. It's Monday night, Jeremiah 31. Let's pray. Father, we thank you for this night that we can worship you, fellowship, Lord, to have a meal together and to study, Jeremiah 31. Lord, we commit this night into your hands. Pray you bless those, that are at home watching who are sick. Help them to get better, to heal them, with Lee and Kathy and others, Lord. And, just pour your holy spirit upon us and bless this night in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Thank you, Bob. Alright. Do we have a Christmas song? Anybody got a Christmas song? Christmas song. Christmas party this Sunday, 05:00. Merry Christmas. Christmas. We can say it all a month long. Right? Yep. Alright. So, Nancy, there was a lady that received Christ on Sunday, and you had a chance to talk to her. What's her name? Alicia. Hi, Alicia. I hope she's She gave her heart to the lord, and you talked to her afterwards? Yes. Good. How'd it go? It went good. I just love the daylights out of her. I knew her prior Oh, you did? Because of our homeschooling Oh, okay. Group. And I interviewed her Okay. To see if she fit the profile of the people in the homeschooling group. Did she need to be safe? So she came and got saved? I don't know. That is a deal. I don't know. I don't know. But we talked about Christ a lot while I was interviewing. Oh, praise the lord. Because there is something you have to read and decide. Do you believe this or not believe it? Praise the lord. Yes. I was excited. She was she was excited? Oh, yes. Did you get her a bible? She talked to Ronnie. Yeah? Yeah. Did you get her a bible? Did she have a bible? I think she had. Well, she was taking notes, which is really I think it's so cool when someone does that. Yeah. So I didn't know who she was, but I know she was taking notes. Oh, okay. Praise the lord. Yeah. Alright. Oh, I was just get a chance to talk to her, so I I heard that you guys did. Yeah. You did. I hope you get an opportunity. Nice. She's delightful delightful. We'll just pray for her. Yes. Delightful. The lord bless her. Alright. Well, every now and then, the lord saves somebody. That's good. Mhmm. Alright. We have Mitch the trapper in the house tonight. Anybody need a Yeah. I do. Anybody need a cougar or a bobcat or coyote, an otter, a bear otters. Mountain lions. If any of them are bothering your livestock or your property, it it's Mitch the trapper. Mhmm. Mitch. He's saved. His name's written in lamb's book of life, and he's got a gift in trapping That's wonderful. These animals. No. Thank you. You need a bobcat coat or anything? For pies. No. They got really nice stripes, those bobcats. Yeah. The furs. Yeah. Well, I've I've never had a trapper in the bible study. That's great. Mitch the trapper. He's amazing, talented man. Loves Jesus. I'm blessed by the lord. Alright. We always like think in terms of alright. They're so gifted musically. Oh, they sing. But, I mean, sometimes people are gifted trappers. Right? We need our trappers. I have a question. Wild critters. Will you catch predatory politicians? If I'm paying him up. Okay. Alright. He can he catches those liberals. Yeah? You got any pest pesky liberals, Mitchell, Mitchell Gil. Neighbors. Your neighbor. He'll set a trap. He'll set a trap, baby. Yeah. Alright. Who else listening? Vicky? Who's listening? She's right there. Who's listening? Who's your people on there that are listening, watching? We shout out to them. Is Lee and Nancy Dunn? Are they okay? Shannon Erickson. Shannon Erickson? She's not in the house, but she's listening. There's some other. And Lee got a Lee Lee got a knee operation. Hasn't been back yet. We miss them. Ronnie and Fred, Mike and Dee Yep. Kathy b. Mhmm. Ricky b's wife. Who else? Ricky B. Some some people on there that I don't know. Okay. Oh, that's good. Yeah. Alright. Well, praise the Lord for this time together. And Christmas is coming. We have a Christmas party, Sunday night at five, church at 10AM, and then Sunday night at five, a church potluck Christmas party. And anybody's welcome that's listening. Tell your family and friends, and I'm just so blessed to see what God's doing. Alright. Jeremiah chapter 31. Father, we thank you for the joy and the blessing of singing some worship songs and singing that Christmas song Silent Night. Just filled our hearts with such joy. Thank you for Mitch and others, Lord, that you would help to raise up within the body all the different gifting that people have with with Robbie and Mitch and just Rob and Vicky and just so many people, just various types of gifts that you use for your kingdom and glory. We just thank you so much for the body of Christ, and we just pray that you bless this time as we study Jeremiah 31, that you'd speak to us, and help us to rightly divide the word of truth, Lord. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Alright. So he says at at the same time, say it the Lord, will I, the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people. So if you need some notes, I had Kathy post Jeremiah 31 on Facebook, and so we teach from these notes. That's what we do. So if you need some notes, there's some notes for you. So what time is it? What time is he referring to? In that day. At the same time, saith the lord. The same time. So what's the same point back to grammatically? The time of Israel being brought back to the land. At the same time I I put the note there to it's it's a cheater sheet right there. There it is. It's I wrote it right there at the same time. What time were we previously talking about previously? Chapter 30 verse 24. Don't guess. 30 verse 24. Thirty verse 24. Yeah. Alright. The fierce anger of the Lord will not turn back until he fully accomplishes the purposes of his heart. In days to come, you will understand this. In the King James, it says, in the latter days. Verse 24 of chapter 30, in the latter days. Are we living in the last days? In the latter days? Latter days? In And so last week, told you when the latter days started. Hebrews chapter one verse one and two. Hebrews one verse two. God who at sundry times in in diverse manners spake in times past through the prophets has in these last days spoken to us through his son. So the last days began with the first advent of Christ. We're in the last days. It's been two thousand years, but we're in the last days. And the last of the last days is the seventieth seven of Daniel, the tribulation period after the church age, and Jesus will, there'll be a campaign, basically, the revelation of Jesus Christ, revelation, the book of revelation. But, in chapter one is a revelation of him, in his glory. Write the things which you have seen. The things which are and with and the things which shall be here after the timeline in Revelation chapter one verse eighteen nineteen. So write what you have seen, a vision of Jesus chapter one. Write the things which are. Chapter two and three is the church age. Right? And then he talks about hereafter, after these things, after the church age. So you see the church in chapter four in heaven. You see the church, the four and twenty elders in heaven in chapter five. The tribulation period, the 77 of Daniel begins in chapter six and goes till chapter 19 in the second coming of Christ. That's the that's the culmination. So the book of Revelation is the apocalypse or the unveiling of Jesus Christ in his second coming. Okay? So this here is gonna telescope future, and we know at the end of the tribulation period, Israel is backed into a corner and a one third remnant according to Zechariah thirteen eight and nine, a one third remnant is gonna be saved. So we talk about the repentance, the confession, and conversion of Israel. Very important here. This chapter is gonna be a strong proof text of all these people that are talking about the church replacing Israel. God's gonna make a huge statement that if you can stop the sun from coming up, if you can stop the tonight's a full moon, the moon from shining and the stars shining, that's the if that could happen, that's the only way that he wouldn't fulfill this promise that he's making to Israel. You can't stop it. Right? You can't stop it. Can't stop me. Right? MC Hammer, can't stop me. So it's it's gonna happen. So that's very important to understand. Any kind of preterist or replacement theology that says the church takes the place of Israel, messes up all your eschatology. You can't make distinctions between saints, can't make distinct distinctions in the scripture between Israel or the church. You don't know who it's who who you're talking to. So that's why they don't teach it because they they it doesn't make sense to them. So somehow they jump off of a cliff and they just say, well, I think so. I think so. I think so. And they don't have any scriptural proof to prove their position that the church has taken the place, you know, of Israel, nor, the rapture timing that somehow it's gonna be, you know, you know, verse 16 or 17 of Revelation six, you know, the after man's wrath, well, the wrath of the lamb doesn't happen till verse, you know, 17. And and it's all speculation. It's all jumping off a cliff. They don't have any working knowledge of the scripture. So what I'm what I'm thinking when I was studying this is, could it be these guys don't study the Old Testament? Could it be their pastors don't take them through the Old Testament? And because of that, when they try to deal with the New Testament teaching the rapture and the eschatology to the New Testament, they are not able to go back to Daniel. They're not able to go back to Jeremiah. When they look at the book of Revelation, the book of Revelation is a study of Daniel, a study of Zechariah, a study of Jeremiah and Isaiah and Ezekiel. You see what I mean? So, fortunately, as we study here, it's gonna reinforce, and encourage us and strengthen our position that Israel's in the land right now. And according to Ezekiel thirty six and thirty seven, God promised that he would bring Israel back into the land, and on 05/14/1948, he did just that. Now they're regathered what we call in unbelief presently. Blindness in part has happened unto Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles come in. So that's Romans 11 verse 25. But verse 26, as I wrote it here, verse 26 alludes to that all Israel shall be saved because the deliverer is going to come. Jesus is gonna come. Now when it talks about Israel, he's gonna differentiate between those gathered in unbelief and those that are con confess, be converted, and have the word of God written in their heart. There's a one third remnant, a one third remnant that's going to believe, and they're gonna cry out, blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord. Jesus said, you're not gonna see my face again. So two thirds are gonna perish during the seventy seven of Daniel. How do we come up with the 77 of Daniel? Back in chapter 30 verse seven, alas, for the day is great so that none is like it. It is even the time of Jacob's trouble, but he shall be saved out of it. Okay? So the time of Jacob's trouble is the tribulation period, the seventieth seven of Daniel. The 69 sevens in Daniel nine twenty five through 27 pertain to his first coming, four hundred and eighty three years after the command to go forth and restore and rebuild Jerusalem. In Nehemiah chapter two verse one, Artaxerxes Lodimonenes, he gave the command to go and restore and rebuild Jerusalem, and that apparently was on March fourteen four forty five BC. And then you spin the clock forward and you go four hundred and eighty three years. I think it's a hundred and seventy three, eight hundred and eighty days later, on that very day in Luke 19, Jesus walked into Jerusalem, and he wept over the city because they didn't know the time of their visitation. They officially, as a nation, rejected him in his first coming. So that was April after the command or sixty nine seven year periods of time, and so there's a one seven year period of time left. That's called the seventieth seven of Daniel that in God dealing with the nation of Israel. So the it got struck. There's a there's a gap there of God specifically dealing with Israel. What happened was Paul describes in Ephesians two, a mystery once hid now revealed. What was that mystery once hid now revealed? The church. None of them saw the church. They didn't understand that messiah would be cut off. They were waiting to receive messiah. They're looking for messiah, and messiah was going to, you know, wipe out the Romans and all and set up his kingdom. That's what they wanted. That's what all of them in the natural were looking for. But, they didn't understand that messiah would be cut off and that he would go to the cross and be crucified and that, he'd be buried and raised from the dead. And then so the church starts out Jewish, entirely Jewish. And then the Samaritans half breeds in chapter eight when Philip goes and evangelizes in the area of Samaria. And then in chapter nine, Paul's going all the way to Damascus to grab hold of Christians. It's starting to spread. And then in chapter 10, the house of Cornelius, now it's full blown, you know, Gentiles coming to know the Lord. And so there's a small segment, very small part of the church that's Jewish, started out entirely Jewish. She had 3,000 saved, the 5,000 saved in Jerusalem, but then gradually as the nation of Israel settled down in its rejection of Jesus, the gospel goes forth, you know, to whosoever wills. So to the priority of the Jew first, but as the Lord said, there's blindness in part that's happened to them as Paul as Paul points out in Romans eleven twenty five. So the time, at that same time, saith the Lord in the last days, will I be the God of all the families of Israel. I'll be I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people. So he hasn't he hasn't given them up. We're gonna see a little while here. It says, didn't cast them off. The god didn't cast off Israel in verse 37. He says earth searched out beneath. I will also, cast all the seed of Israel for all they that have, done, say it the lord. Thus say it the lord, if heaven above can be measured and the foundations of the earth searched beneath, I will also cast off. So he's not gonna do that. He's not gonna do that. He's not gonna cast them off. And and so he's he's talking about this remnant that's gonna be saved. Now he makes a covenant with him in the Old Testament, the Mosaic covenant. They have the Abrahamic covenant where God says from Abraham, in thee all nations of the earth would be blessed. And so the Messiah is gonna be a Jew, and your seed, Abraham, seed singular speaking of Jesus, but also speaking of his posterity, a nation is going to come forth in him, the nation of Israel is going to come forth in his loins. And there's an identification in Genesis, book of Genesis, that the tribe of Judah would have the kingly line, which would Jesus is the root and the offspring of David, that's the Davidic covenant, but he's from the from Judah. And and so from the Abrahamic covenant, we have the land, from the Abrahamic covenant, we have the people, From the Abrahamic covenant, we have tying in with Genesis three fifteen, a person. That person, the seed singular, speaking of Jesus, in your seed, all nations of the earth be blessed. Father Abraham, in that Jew and Gentile are gonna be saved through that seed, through the Messiah, the savior of the world. Then later you have the Davidic covenant. David wants to build a house for God, but he can't his hands are too bloody, God says, I'll build you a house, a dynasty, in the second Samuel chapter seven. And and that covenant pertains to David being the root and the offspring of of Jesus being the root and offspring of David, David the prince, Jesus the king. So we know the kingly line. We see the lineage, and as we're studying at Christmas time, in Matthew one and Luke three, the only lineage that we have because in seventy AD, all the records were destroyed with the fire that was broke out when Titus surrounded Jerusalem. So we have the record of Jesus through Joseph, the legal line, his stepfather, and then also all the way back to Adam through through Mary in Luke chapter three. So we know we got the right guy, Jesus the Messiah. And then after after that covenant, we have the Mosaic covenant. The law comes along four hundred and thirty years later. So God's saying, you can relate with me through the law. And in this covenant, as long as you're obedient, as long as you fulfill your part of this agreement, you know, we can have a relationship. And and yet the salvation is still by grace through faith. So the intention of the law is to stop every mouth. The intention of the law is to bring even the old testament patriarchs to the place of crying out for a savior. Salvation's always been by grace through faith in Jesus Christ. Abraham rejoiced to see my day, and he saw it and was glad. So God spoke through, you know, the in times past through the prophets of the last days through his son, but he spoke in Hosea 12 verse 10 in similitude. So we remember in Genesis 22, the similitude, the picture of God the father offering his son, Isaac, on Mount Moriah, which is Calvary. And so and we see the picture in Genesis three fifteen, the seed of the woman, the virgin born son of God. We see the picture of Adam and Eve leaving the garden in coats of skins, the lamb of God who would take away the sins of the world. So those of faith in the Old Testament understood that the Messiah was gonna be crucified, buried, raised from the dead. They believed in the resurrection. And so that faith that they had, the faith that Abraham had, as God alludes to it in Hebrews 11 that he lifted the knife to kill Isaac, he knew that God had a problem because Ishmael is not gonna live before you the work of the flesh, only in Isaac shall thy seed be called. So he believed in the resurrection that God would raise, you know, Isaac, a type of Christ, from the dead. So in the Mosaic covenant, the problem was not the covenant. The problem is not the word of God. The problem was with man. Man cannot keep the law. And so it's a it's a pedagogue, a tutor, Paul says, the church of Galatia. It was to it was to guide man, keep man safe, but it's external, not internal. In this chapter, we're gonna see it becomes internal. So when you hear people say, hey. We're not under the law, man, and we're under grace, and they turn the grace, as Jude said, into lasciviousness, meaning, you know, Rob will tell you about people living together, having babies, and guys at the gym tell me about all these people living together, but they go to church. They call themselves Christians. So they're practicing all sorts of immorality, and that's what Jude says. They take the grace of God, and they turn it into lasciviousness or an antianomianism, which is your anti law. Yeah. But heaven and earth will pass away, but my word won't pass away. So the law is not the problem. The law is good, but now the law is gonna be written in your heart. So you have a greater responsibility now to live a life of obedience to God. Shall I sin that grace may abound? Paul says, God forbid. You know? So we didn't have the ability, but now sin shall not have dominion over us. We can't keep the law 100%, but basically, the law is to love. God gives us the capacity to love. So in regard to the law, does it mean, hey, we're not under law anymore. I can murder? No. I can commit adultery? No. I can steal, lie? No. The law is written in your heart. You know you're not supposed to do that. So you're not relating with God according to the letter of the law. The letter of law kills, makes me guilty, but the spirit of the law gives me life because now I'm looking at the cross. Now I'm looking at Jesus. And now by faith, I ask God to help me to live a life of obedience unto him. And that's that's where he fulfills what he's called me to do in my heart. And he's written his law. He's written his word in my heart. And and he's he's continuing to transform and change us with the renewing of our mind. We're overcoming the old nature. We're overcoming that edemic nature that's warring with the life of the spirit now because we're born again. And so we don't violate God's law. We don't make excuses concerning God's law. We simply ask the Lord for the strength to live the life that he's called me to live. And and our desire is not mechanical or external. It's internal. We want to please God. We want to be like Jesus. I do always those things that please the father. Like Joseph who said, how could I do this great evil against God? We don't wanna be like David where in our authority or our power, we make the rules up as we go, but we give great occasion of the enemies of the Lord to blasphemous name. We don't wanna be there. We don't wanna do that. Knowledge brings responsibility. Too much is given, much is required. So it's not less a life of holiness or perfection. Should be a greater emphasis upon obedience and a life of holiness. So Jesus said, if you love me, what? You will obey me. You'll obey me. You'll keep my commandments. Right? So the obedience of faith. It's not a legal relationship. So it's not a a letter type thing, but it's a desire within the heart and not a violation of your conscience or the thing he's telling us to do. I think in many cases, the sin that we commit is not because we don't know. It turns out to be more of transgression. We step over the line. We do it anyway. And a lot of us say, well, god will forgive me. I'm just gonna do it anyway because he'll forgive me. And that's how a lot of people are living. You know? But god's not mocked. Whatsoever man sows that, she'll also reap. So we reap the consequences of that pattern or that that that continuing in our own way, whom the lord loves, he chastens and scourges every son or daughter. So he's chasing and scourging his own people here, and and he's gonna bring them to the brink. He's gonna bring them to the very brink. They're gonna be backed into a corner at Petra, at Basra, and then they're gonna confess their sin. And as they confess their sin, as they turn from their sin, then they're gonna be converted. They're gonna experience conversion just as you and I did. They're gonna be born again. This nation, the whole nation is gonna be saved. Nation as in the true Israel of God or those who believe. And so thus saith the Lord, the people who were left of the sword found grace in the wilderness, even even Israel when I went to cause him to rest. And so Zechariah thirteen eight and nine, you know, two thirds of them are gonna die. A one third remnant's gonna be saved. When the sword is coming after him, Revelation 12, the devil knows that time is short, so he's gonna go after the woman. He's gonna go after the nation of Israel in the tribulation period, and God's gonna save a one third remnant and give them rest. The Lord has appeared of old unto me saying, yay, I have loved thee with an everlasting love. Therefore, with loving kindness have I drawn thee. And so the Lord's appeared unto me of old. He's given me this promise. And in this promise, his love for me is an everlasting love, and with loving kindness have I drawn thee. Was it your idea to be saved? No. How did the Lord draw you? Again, I put the notes there. Through his word. In John six, Jesus said, no man can come unto me except what? Father draws. Father draws him, draw woos him. Right? So you've heard my testimony. In my case, God used the guy to invite me to a concert. Right? And I wasn't looking for God. I wasn't seeking or searching. I wasn't a seeker. I was very content and happy and ignorance is bliss. But that night, somebody shared the gospel, And it was the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit drew me. Holy Spirit wooed me. Right? It's like a groom wooing a bride. Right? Just wooed me. So very powerful work of the Holy Spirit, where I knew at that moment that there's a Savior. I knew that there's a Jesus. I knew at that moment that I was a sinner in need of a Savior. And at that moment, I yielded, I surrendered, I gave into the conviction of the Holy Spirit. And as I gave into the conviction of the Holy Spirit, godly sorrow leads to repentance. And as I turned in my heart for my sin, the Holy Spirit came into my heart and life at that point, and I became born again. Right? So that's that's my conversion experience. Yours might be different, but as you look back on your life, you're gonna know that your grandma may have been praying for you. People may have been witnessing to you. You may have been going to church, Sunday school, whatever. In a lot of cases, could have been, you know, external, artificial, not the connection not there quite yet, but at a certain point in time, the holy spirit wooed you, the holy spirit drew you. Romans two verse four said it's the what. It's the what that brings us to repentance. Godly sorrow. Godly sorrow in second Corinthians seven, but the kindness of God. It's the kindness of God. It's his love. You start to you start to realize the love that he has for you. So he's describing this love here. You have I loved thee with an everlasting love, therefore with loving kindness have I drawn thee. This love's never gonna dissipate. It's never gonna get old. It's from old to the present on into the future. It's an everlasting love. And I know that Kathy loves me because God's put a love in her heart for me. God loves me through my wife. It's not a love that she can manufacture because I'm a real jerk, you know, but it's something tangible, something real that God put in her heart for me. And and I really, really appreciate it because I've never I've never met somebody that's loved me unconditionally. I know a lot of people that say they love you. Hey. Love you, pastor. Pat you on the back. Family members, all sorts of people. But we know that people, they may have good intentions and such, but, you know, they just kind of move on. You know, just keep going or whatever. There's no end to God's love. No end to his love. It's a love that you have hopefully for your kids, your grandkids. It's a it's so let's look at four four words for love in the Greek. I love cheeseburgers, and I love Judah, and I love Ruthie and Evie. Now something's weird there. Do I love those kids the same way I love a cheeseburger? No. Right? So we talk about people saying they're gonna make love. Let's go make love. We talk about family love. We talk about Philadelphia, the city of brotherly love, church of Philadelphia. So we got four words in the Greek for love. God says his love for us is an everlasting love. Right? So we've got storge. Storge is a family love. Family love is I love my family, and we're gonna go camping on Sunday. I love my family. We're family, and we're gonna go play soccer on Sunday. What's that say about your love for God? Put him a second. Is your family an idol? Oh, you're family man. So you're saying you love your family more than you love God? Jesus said if you love family, son or daughter, mother, more than me, you're not worthy of me. Better reevaluate your priorities. Because you really love your family, you'll put God first. K? You put God first. Second kind of love, brotherly love. Hey. We're firemen together. We got a brotherly love. Hey. We served in the military. Brotherly love, sister love, comrades. That's phileo. That's a phileo, a brotherly love. Then you've got an erotic, eros, the sensual kind of love. And there's nothing wrong with the sensual. God designed the sensual, the two becoming one, but in the context of marriage because that fire, that passion, as long as it's used in the fireplace, it's good for cooking and warming. But if it gets outside of the context of marriage, it can burn. It can burn the house down, burn everything down. Right? And then the fourth kind of love is agape, agapeo. So it's a it's a spiritual love, and this is a love that a worldly person has not a clue, doesn't know how to love. That's that love I told you Kathy has. It's agapeo. It's a it's a spiritual love that God gives her. It's a spiritual love that he gives me. And those in the world that haven't been loved in this manner, that haven't received this kind of love, that don't receive the holy spirit and have the capacity to love in this way, they know nothing of this everlasting love. You see it all the time going through divorce, and well, you know, we got married too young. Well, we just we don't have that love anymore. Well, God's married to you. You're the bride of Christ. He's never ever ever ever gonna say, you know, the love's kinda dissipated now. You're not who I thought you were. And all those excuses that we have and the sadness of of that. So, you know, if you've never been loved and you become a Christian, the love is so great that it overpowers all of the injustices, all of the ways people haven't loved you. You can't keep bringing up the stuff of the past of who abused you, who hurt you, who this, that, or the other, because his love is so great, and he chose you to love with his everlasting love. So everything else pales in comparison to this love that you've entered into in this love relationship, not a legal relationship, a love relationship. There's no prenup. You know, he loves you with an everlasting love, unconditional love. He says again, I will build thee and thou shall be built, O virgin of Israel. Thou shall again be adorned with thy timbrels and shall go forth in thy dances and those who make merry. So you've been anything but a virgin. You've been idolatrous. You've been very unfaithful to me. You have all sorts of lovers. And, we'll illustrate it with Hosea. You know? And, but I'm looking at you as a virgin. I'm looking at you as a Paul says, you know, I'm I'm jealous over you with a godly jealousy for I have espoused you to one husband, even Christ. Right? And I fear lest as serpent beguiled Eve, so you would be seduced, you know, away from that relationship with God, to a different Jesus, a different spirit, a different gospel. And so this godly jealousy that God has that that he wants you to love him, the way he loves, loves us. He doesn't wanna be second fiddle. He doesn't wanna share the marital bed with somebody else. He's not into any of that. He wants you to love him with all your heart. So he looks at Israel and he says, Israel, you're not blemished. When we come back to church in Revelation 19, we have clean, unspotted, unblemished garments. How did we get that way? The blood. The blood of Jesus washed all of our sins away, past, present, future. And he sees us as a chaste virgin bride in that white dress. Right? So, oh, virgin of Israel, thou shalt so Israel is the wife of Jehovah, the church is the bride of Christ. Thou shalt again be adorned with the timbrels and shall go forth in dances, of those who make merry. So we say Merry Christmas. We sing Christmas songs, but the devil wants to wipe out Christmas. The devil wants to, you know, get rid of Christmas, our culture. They wanna take every Christian aspect of our lives away, and and we're joyous people. We're a married people. We're a gay people. And they'll take our rainbow, and they'll take our word gay, and they'll take everything that's good, and they'll taint it and corrupt it and try and ruin it. Right? But that's who we are. As Christians, there's a song in our heart. There's a dance in our step. We we wanna celebrate. We wanna celebrate Christ. We're not you know, going to church for me is not a funeral. For some people, it's a funeral. I thought we're gonna have a Pentecostal revival the other day when yesterday when Vicky was going, hallelujah. Hallelujah. I had to stop short. I had to stop. I had to stop right there. I was afraid what's gonna happen, man. The angels are gonna come down, man. I'm not ready for that. Be afraid. You see It's not my my child. You see how I stopped? Do you see how I stopped? I said, Hallelujah. Hell I'm like, oh, man. Oh, man. He's coming down. This is Shekinah Glory is there, man. I'm gonna get I'm gonna give him 50 right there. Alright. I love it. I love it. But it's not a funeral. You know? It's a day of celebration, a time of celebration. Tonight, being here, it's it's not a funeral, not something I have to do. Something I look forward to doing, being with God's people. Right? And, it's joyous. It's exciting. The Christmas parties and times we get to be together. And as you start doing funerals, you're gonna begin to cherish what time you have left with those you love. You know, and you're gonna realize that this is a gift. It's a gift that God's given us that we can gather together in his name and be with those who love Jesus. And I know for many of us, it's also a time of great sorrow, great heartache and pain because we can't be with those we love. But he's saying here, I'm gonna take away that sorrow. I'm gonna wipe away every tear. When I come back for you, those days of sorrow and pain are over, and there's gonna be rejoicing. Make merry. Thou shall yet plant vines upon the mountains of Samaria. The planters shall plant and shall eat them as common things, and so there's gonna be great abundance. The area of Samaria would be the West Bank. So Israel has a title deed to the West Bank area. Everybody arguing over the dividing of Jerusalem, dividing of Israel. There are geographical boundaries that God has bequeathed, that God has said. And, as you see on Facebook all the time, it's God gave it to him. You know? He's given them this land. It's their land. And and it's just a sliver of a of a piece of real estate compared to all the other guys around them. You know? So you can see the hatred of the devil not wanting the nation of Israel to even exist. You know? And so the planter shall plant and shall eat them as as common things. So it's gonna be so common food's so common, there's gonna be great abundance. And I saw today people posting on Facebook. It's been coming. It's been coming. It's been coming. And BlackRock and Vanguard and State Street are working, you know, with these globalists, and they are using companies like Tyson Foods who used to produce a lot of chicken for us, you know, selling out and gonna make worms now, worm protein. And and ain't gonna happen in my home. We ain't gonna eat any worm protein. We're not gonna do crickets or worms or meal worms or Bill Gates synthetic meats and stuff, but it's coming. And the sad part is I think many people are gonna comply Mhmm. Just as they did with COVID. I think they're gonna line up for the stuff. Mhmm. They're so insane, aren't they? They're just insane. And that's why I have to listen to the Lord because he's saying, Rick, they can't hear you. They don't they can't hear me, Rick. They can't hear you. It's so so frustrating, isn't it? Mhmm. It's it's just so frustrating, the the spiritual deprivation. The the no spunk in them. No life in them. Just dead while they're yet, you know, alive. And it it it's just so sad. I mean, you really would reduce yourself to eating his bugs? Do you know how much he's laughing at you? The devil's laughing at you. You know? That isn't what god wants for you. You know? He's got something so much better. For there shall be a day that the watchmen upon Mount Ephraim shall cry, arise, and let us go up to Zion. So what's the watchmen presently doing? Warning of danger. Chapter six verse 17. Warning of danger. They would have these guys in the strategic areas on top of mountains and and tall, you know, places to see and to view, and and it's for war. They wanna blow the trumpet because an an enemy is trying to invade. Well, there's a time coming where there's no more war. The watchmen instead are gonna be watching for people saying, get up to Zion. We're having a party. We're having a Jesus party in Zion. You know? The king's there. You know? Let's go up the King's Highway. Let's go celebrate. You know? No more war. And let us go up to Zion under the lord our god. For thus saith the lord, sing with gladness for Jacob and shout among the chief of the nations. Publish ye praise ye and say, oh lord, save thy people, the remnant of Israel. And so Judah is gonna be restored, Israel restored, the 10 northern tribes, all of Israel restored, and notice it says the remnant of Israel. Mhmm. A remnant shall be saved. And so, again, that's that Zechariah thirteen eight nine, a one third remnant is gonna go through the time of that fire. God's gonna purify a one third remnant. And you hear Jammerkel and many people today describing we believers, they differentiate of the remnant church. Remnant church versus the professing church. A lot of churches out there, people professing to be Christians, but in works, they deny him. The works in the sense of there's no fruit. There's no proof that they truly believe in him. Their lives are just like those of the world. But a remnant, a small remnant who haven't fallen away from the word of God, which would be the apostasia, the departure from God's word, departure from the truth. And and so Jesus speaks in Matthew seven of a broad way that leads to destruction many go in there at, but a narrow way and few there be that find it, that would be the remnant, that one third remnant or many are called, but few are chosen, very few. So we're gonna be surprised as the left behind series kinda alluded to. They're gonna be surprised in heaven. It's been said that you're gonna be surprised of who's there. You're gonna be surprised of who's not there. And you're gonna be surprised that you're there. Big surprise. Behold, I will bring them from the North, Russia, North country. How many Jews in Russia presently are experienced that inkling inside of them to get back to Israel. You've been reading? Have you been reading about since October 7, there's people in France and all over Europe, all over the world, this inkling, this desire to move back to Israel? God's drawing the diaspora, the those who've been scattered all over the world are sensing this desire, this hatred that's coming against them. All the different nations out there are starting to that that holocaust mentality, that Nazi mentality, that antisemitic mentality is starting to spread. And they're sensing, you know what? It might be time before the windows start to be broken. It might be close to nineteen thirty eight. I better get out of here, before they start putting us in the trains and the gas chambers and such. And so the great holocaust is coming. A huge holocaust is coming against the nation of Israel. And it's very sad, but it's part of the way the Lord purifies a remnant. They're gonna go through terrible, terrible times ahead, and but those that make it. So behold, I will bring them from the North country and gather them from the farthest parts of the earth, And with them, the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her who travails shall return here. And so all of the weakest, the lame, the blind, the Lord's gonna bring them home. Do you remember several years ago, the nation of Israel sent airplanes to Ethiopia? Yeah. There's there's black Ethiopian Jews, and they sent they airlifted them out and brought them brought them to Israel. Simon of Cyrene, who carried the cross for Jesus, you know, he and the Ethiopian eunuch that went back to Ethiopia with the gospel when Philip ministered to him, you know, brought the gospel there, but Jews spread out all over the world. And so you don't know how they intermarried or colored skin or all that, but the identity of that of being a Jew and son of Abraham. And who travails with child together, great company shall return. So a great company of people heading back to Israel. They shall come with weeping, and God's going to send angels out to gather his elect from the four corners of the earth, right? Matthew 24. He's got his angels out at the end of the age to gather him and bring the rest of him back, you know, back in. They shall come with weeping and with supplication. So here is the here is the godly sorrow that leads to repentance. Here is the fulfillment of Zechariah twelve, ten, and 11. Who wants to read that? Zechariah twelve, ten, and 11. Watch this. They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them. I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way in which they shall not stumble, for I am a father to Israel and Ephraim my firstborn. So Zechariah twelve ten says they're gonna come with mourning, right, with sorrow. They're gonna look upon me whom they pierced. Who wants to read it? George. I will pour out on the house of David, and I have spirit of grace and of supplication. So that day, I will look on me whom they have pierced, and they will mourn for him that one mourns for an only son. And they will weep bitterly over him, like the bitter weeping of a poor firstborn. In that day, there will be great mourning in Jerusalem, like the morning of yeah. Okay. Had them on and the plane of Migoto. Migoto. Yeah. So when Josiah died, they all wept at Valley Migoto. The people wept. So can did you see him weeping at the cross? Were they weeping at the cross? What were they doing? Cursing. Let his blood be upon us and upon our children. Right? Was there weeping when I read Isaiah 53 prophetically 700 before he even came on the scene? No weeping. Do you see him today reading Isaiah fifty two and fifty three or Psalm 22 or Psalm 69 and saying, hey. This is the Messiah. This is Jesus. No. Why? Because they're blind. Yeah. It's like you trying to share the gospel with people who are blind. They don't have ears to hear. Salvation's a miracle. It's an absolute miracle for you to respond. I mean, don't take it for granted. It's a miracle. You go back and you visit your friends from forty years ago like I've been doing the last few years, two, three years, and, I'm telling you, it's a miracle that I got saved. Why not them? Why was it so powerful? Why did it arrest me? Why did it stop me? Why does he keep me? You know? It it's a mindblower. So his own nation needs that same work of the holy spirit. You're never gonna be able to boast that it was your idea that you saved yourself. You never saved yourself. He saved you. Right? And without him quickening you, without him giving you that measure of faith, without him stirring your heart and revealing himself to you like he did to Saul of Tarsus on the road to Damascus, you'd still be in unbelief. Jesus said to his disciples, you didn't choose me. I chose you. And I ordain that you bring forth fruit and that your fruit remain that was who asked of the father, you know, he may give it to you. And so even our our service unto him, our relationship with him, everything stems from him. It's all him. So Ephesians two eight nine, who has that one memorized? For by grace You are saved as a gift of God, not of the works that he mansions of. You can't boast. For by grace you're saved through faith and that not of yourselves. You didn't even have the faith to believe. That faith was a gift from God. Right? That's right. Amen. And it wasn't work, so it wasn't you joining the church or doing 10 things. Right? There's no boasting. No boasting on our behalf. There's praise and worship unto God. And that's why I believe when we see Jesus and he's still bearing those scars, they look upon me whom they pierced. None of us are gonna have a why God question for Jesus. It's gonna be a why me. Why would you save me? It's not gonna be, you got something to answer for. It ain't gonna be that. There's no why God question. You're gonna be just totally blown away when you see the suffering that he went through, still bearing those scars in heaven, still bearing those scars in the millennium, and he did it for you. Right? He was beaten beyond the recognition of a man. And so that it's that national sorrow, the mourning that begins to take place. It's that they recognize their sinfulness. They recognize they crucified him. It starts to it starts to trigger and connect in their hearts and minds. The Old Testament scriptures start to make sense to them. And then there's the confession. And what's the confession? We'll get to that in a moment. Think about that. We'll get to that in a moment. Vicky knows it. We bring it up all the time. Okay. They shall come with weeping and with supplication will I lead them. I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way. And so it's a narrow way that leads to eternal life, and few there be that find it. It's not the broad way. And the blind lead and the blind, they fall in the ditch. I love the exclusivity of Jesus Christ. I don't have to learn 10 different ways and try to decipher which is the best way for me. No. There's only one way. It's through Jesus. Made it simple. The reason I know that is because he was crucified, buried, raised himself from the dead. Nobody else able to do that. Right? So it's the only way narrow. So when they try to say, all roads lead to heaven. God's a god of love. We're all no. No. No. No. No. No. One way, narrow way. Few there be that find it. Exclus well, we wanna be inclusive. We wanna include include everybody. No. Sorry. Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists. No. Sorry. Going to hell. If you don't believe in Jesus, you don't pass go and collect 200. Sorry. Not gonna do it. Not gonna happen. Only through Jesus. Only through him. And I'm excited because the fastest growing church in the world is in Iran. Right? World's trying to demonize Iran to go to war with Iran. But god's doing the work in the hearts of the people in Iran. He's saving them and in China. Israel and Ephraim. I am a father to Israel and Ephraim, my firstborn. So remember Ephraim, Manasseh and Ephraim? These are the two sons of Joseph. Right? And down in Egypt. And Manasseh was actually born first, but Ephraim, firstborn, or Jesus, the firstborn, speaks of preeminence, of priority. And so Ephraim has the has the priority and also is is used to describe the the northern tribes. So it speaks of the preeminence of Ephraim that Ephraim received. So hear the word of the Lord, o ye nations, and declare it in the coast and afar off and say, he who scattered Israel will gather him and keep him as a shepherd does his flock. And so in Micah two twelve, he's gonna gather them and keep them as a shepherd gathers his flock. Where? Basra. Where's Basra? Mhmm. Isaiah 63. Basra. The sheep of Basra. Micah two verse 12, the sheep of Basra. Petra. That's right. And high walls, high walls in this area of Moab, Southern Jordan, and the antichrist can't go there, not till the end when he's chasing them. So it's an area of where they used to have cities of refuge. Remember? In the old Testament, cities of refuge, if you committed manslaughter and the family's gonna avenge you, if you could run-in hightail and get to a city of refuge, they couldn't touch you. The family couldn't touch you. So can't touch me again. That just keeps coming up, that song. I just tell you. So they they they're gonna reach over to Petra, and the antichrist gonna chase after him with his armies, and that's except those days be shortened. No flesh would be saved. But for the elect's sake, for that remnant there, and they're crying out. Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. Oh, man. I love studying the Bible with you guys. I love it. It makes sense. And so Hosea eleven one says, he called his son out of Egypt, and so Mary and Joseph had to go down into Egypt when they received the gold, the myrrh, and the frankincense, and Herod killed the babies. And we turn the page here, we're gonna see that. And and he called his son out of out of Egypt, A father son relationship, Ephraim, my firstborn, the sheep of Basra. Verse 11, for the Lord has redeemed Jacob, so redemption. The Lord has redeemed Jacob and ransomed him from the hand of him who was stronger than he. And so the Babylonians were stronger. Right? Babylonians brought them into captivity, but spiritually speaking, the devil's stronger. The devil takes people captive against their will. Right? Before we're Christians, we're no match for the devil. And there's many people who come into bondage to, you know, sin, drugs, alcohol, other sorts of things. They're deceived, and they're being held captive by the wicked one. And so Matthew twenty twenty eight says that Jesus didn't come to be ministered unto, but to minister and to give a life a ransom for many. Without Jesus' intervention, we'd still be held captive, by the wicked one. The gospel in acts twenty six seventeen and eighteen that was given to Paul, he said to open their eyes and turn them from darkness to life and from the power of Satan. So when you're saved, you might have had seven demons in you like Mary Magdalene. You might have had a legion of demons in you like the two at Gadara cutting themselves. But when Jesus comes in to your heart and life, those demons flee. Every single one of them flee, and they can't get back into your life. So all this talk here, got the demon of overeating, demon of obesity, demon of being ugly. There's no such thing. There's no such thing. You're never gonna change being ugly. You're no. I'm just kidding. It's the ugliness of deceit. We're all beautiful in the eyes of the lord. But I get to get so tired of it. It's like demon demon that, demon this, demon that, demon under every rock. You know? I'm gonna pray for you and get the demon out of you. No. I'm a Christian. Greater is he that's in me than he that's in the world. You know? You can't get no demons in there. The holy spirit's in there. House divided against self can't stand. You know? There's this house isn't divided here. Alright? So get off it. And Right. And you're not all you think you are, you so called, NAR prophets and apostles. They have new positions with authority. You know, they're blowing it. So second Timothy two verse 26, speaks of overcoming him that held them captive against their will, the gospel. The faith comes, conversion converts a person, brings them out of that. And so him who was stronger than he, therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion and shall flow together to the goodness of the Lord for grain and for wine and for oil and for the young of the flock and of the herd, and their soul shall be like a watered garden, and they shall not sorrow anymore at all. So when Jesus in Luke four eighteen, when he went into the temple and he opened the Bible to Isaiah chapter 61 verses one and two, the spirit of the Lord is upon me. Isaiah sixty one one and two or Luke four eighteen. And he and he stopped just short of this advent, his second coming, but in his first coming, Isaiah sixty one one and two, to set the captives free, to to cause the those who are held captive, He said, the spirit of the Lord God is upon me because the Lord has anointed me to preach the good tidings under the meek. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and the opening of the prison to those who are bound. So then he stopped there. He stopped there. He didn't continue to read verse two because in his first advent, that's what he came to do. In his second coming, to proclaim the acceptable year of the lord. Okay. So that that part he did. And then he stopped in the day of vengeance. So that's where he stopped short. He did read the first part of verse two, to proclaim the acceptable year of the lord in his first coming. And that was and then he stopped and set down the scroll because it wasn't time in that first coming to bring that vengeance of our God to comfort all that mourn. So now we're at that place where he's setting the captives free. He's delivering them from Babylon and all their enemies, delivering them from the antichrist and all of his armies, but also spiritually speaking, delivering them from unbelief, delivering them from the power of the of the wicked one, and and bringing them to the place of of salvation. And it's the repentance that takes place. Judgment of sin and repentance comes before the blessings. So we we turn from our sin, we turn unto God, and then we enter into the blessings that he has been want to bring on us from the very beginning. Verse 13, then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance. So again, this dancing, the festivals, the various feasts that they have. And they're and when they get together, do you see any place in the bible where they get together to eat mealworms? Anybody? Anybody. That's demonic. That is demonic. And, you know, my heart goes out to people in countries that don't that are very poor, and I need to be respectful. They get their protein from some bugs. That's not the ideal. That's because of the poverty. God's going to fix that. He's going to fix the poverty. And when these guys are imposing that upon us as they're eating the rib eyes and we're going to get the bugs, it's the devil, the devil wanting to demoralize us and reduce us to just cattle. You know? And so at the feast, you know, they're gonna they're gonna get the fatted calf, man. Calf meat is tender. You know? You go and you kill the fatted calf, the prodigal, when he comes home. You don't go and find the old maciated cow that, you know, it's meat is like leather. You know? You don't go grab that one. You You eat the little lamb. You know? You get the lamb lamb chops, baby. Alright. And and when you're doing the offering and all that, the fat is just burning, going up and smelling. It's like somebody's having a barbecue. You know? That's what it's like. It's a huge feast. Mitch knows how to do it. You see Mitch with that brisket, man? Just everywhere. Just unbelievable. That's a celebration. And Sunday night, there's gonna be a celebration. People are bringing food. You know? And who knows? I might even dance. I don't know. But, no, I wouldn't do that. I wouldn't do that. Vicky will. But people will be dancing. Right? Both young men and old together, for I will turn their mourning into joy. Wouldn't that be great? All that they've been through, All the heartache they've been through. You know what's breaking my heart presently? We're starting to hear over and over again these families who took the jab, and their children have problems with their hearts. Mom and dad are having problems with their hearts. They're being quiet because they're so embarrassed. But it's words getting out now through the grapevine. People locally here who, in order to keep their job, took the jabs, several jabs, and not just mom and dad, not just grandma and grandpa, but the children have heart problems now. That incredibly, incredibly breaks my heart, and because of a lie, because of a genocide, a means of and Bill Gates recently is talking about another one's coming. Your immune system's not gonna be able to stop it. That's directed toward the children. Mhmm. You know? They always act like these these Nazis and communists, they always posture themselves that they're gonna save the children. Well, at least these guys are honest. They're eugenicists. They want reduction of population. They know they're going after the kids and after the young people to sterilize them so they can't have children. They're anti growth. You know? So incredibly demonic. Now the thief, his strategy in John ten ten, the thief, the devil comes not but to steal, to kill, and to destroy. He's a destroyer. Jesus is our savior. He's gonna save us from the devil, the demons, the globalists, all of them. They lose. Jesus wins. We win. We're more than conquerors. We're gonna be triumphant as we as we enter into Jerusalem with Jesus, you know, as the blood is his eyes, the horse is bridled. So there's a there's a new day coming. So he says, I will turn their mourning into joy and will comfort them and make them rejoice from their sorrow. And so, I think of Job's restoration. I think of Job, all that he went through. And then I see a chapter where the Lord gave Job twice as much as he'd lost. And the there was nobody in the whole kingdom with more beautiful daughters than Job's daughters. Right? You know? Job's wife's there, and they're restored. And I just love that. I love the picture of the Lord restoring Job. You gotta get to that point of restoration, that point of and it may not be till we get in the millennium. It may your life here upon earth may be one filled with a lot of sorrow, but great joy, the joy of the spirit. The Holy Spirit gives you joy. Joy is not predicated on circumstances. Joy is a fruit of the spirit. So we learn to be joyous and thankful and grateful and and worshipers of God regardless of circumstances. These circumstances, it's easy to rejoice when God's given you huge abundance and no more enemies and no more war and all the circumstances are favorable to you. But you and I as Christians, we can rejoice even now in the midst of this fallen world in which we're in, because this place isn't our home. He says, and I will fill to the full the soul of the priests with fatness, and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, saith the Lord. And so in a time of apostasy, where people are falling away from the Lord, pastors and priests and people that have dedicated themselves and been called of God like Jeremiah, Isaiah, Apostle Paul, people that have dedicated them life to serve the Lord by providing the spiritual needs of the people. When I was crying out to God in regard to my grandma, it occurred to me, they don't understand faith, hope, and love. They're mechanical. They don't get it. In their minds, somebody that's in their eighties, it's time for them to die. Right. Yeah. No question about time for them to die. They're taking up space. And, oh, by the way, how much money do I get in your estate? That that's how cold they are. They're so cold. And I'm crying out of the injustice, but they don't have the ability to understand how important faith, hope, and love are. You know? And that's the same with with with pastors that are trying to minister to the spiritual needs of families. And so I say it this way sometimes. I say, you know, you guys, if you want a good marriage, you need to put the Lord first. You need to put the spiritual part first, and then the Lord will take care of everything else. But if you think you're all that and you can do it on your own, all the power do you. But I'm telling you, it's gonna be hard without Jesus. You need Jesus. And so you you you try to sow spiritually into people's lives and get them to know spiritually how important it is. But at a time of apostasy, which means a departure from the truth, many of these priests would have to leave the ministry. Many pastors and pastors' wives have to leave the ministry in a time of apostasy because people don't support that little small church or whatever. God's taken real good care of Kathy and I because you guys are spirit filled. But if there came a time where people didn't value the Word of God and didn't prioritize and support the work, you know, these priests have to leave. They have to leave the ministry. And but this is what he's saying here. And I will fill to the full the soul of the priests. God's gonna bless them with fatness. I love fat. And my people shall be satisfied with what? With my goodness, saith the Lord. So the Lord's our portion. If you have Jesus, you have everything. You have the unsearchable riches of Christ. You get of all that the world has to offer and have not Jesus, and you're a pauper. You're you're poor. Right? What's it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his own soul or what would a man give in exchange, you know, for his life? And so a promise of abundance. So no poverty. There's gonna be spiritual, material, and relational abundance. Spiritual, material, and relational. Ain't that great? Sometimes you meet people that are very wealthy, but they're alone. They got no friends, no family, nobody they can trust. Always worried somebody's gonna take it. Right? And maybe for good reason. So you got the material, you got the relational, and the spiritual. Without the spiritual, nothing else works. Right? Vanity, vanity, all is vanity and vexation of spirit. Solomon started out so well, and then he apostatized. He turned away from the Lord. And how tragic that is. Thus saith the Lord, a voice was heard in Ramah. Ramah, in first Samuel 10 verse two, Ramah is on the way to Bethlehem, the house of bread, and about five miles north. And so some say it's right there at Bethlehem, right there at Bethlehem, Rama, another term, just right there at Bethlehem. So thus saith the Lord, a voice was heard in Rama, lamentation and bitter weeping. Rachel, you remember Rachel? Rachel weeping for her children, refused to be comforted for her children because they were not. And so a picture here, a poetic picture in Matthew two verse seventeen and eighteen, where Mary and Joseph fled with Jesus to Egypt. The reason being because Herod the great was still alive. Herod had heard because of the, wise men that came from the East, that came from Babylon. They'd learned about the king of the Jews, probably from Daniel and all them that were there, that one day there'd be the messiah, the king that would come. They said they saw his star, not just any star, but the Shekinah glory of god that two years later would hover over the house where Jesus would be at. Right? Not just any star. Shekinah glory of god, god's presence. And they saw a star, they followed that star. They came to Jerusalem, and they're looking for the king of the Jews. Now Herod if you look at Herod and study Herod historically, do a little history study on king Herod the Great. He's Idumayon, Ishmael. He wasn't a true Jew. He wasn't received by the Jews in that regard. Great builder, but one of the things he was known for was killing his own kids. He would get very insecure if any of his kids, his children, his sons showed any sign like Absalom did to David. He'd he'd get rid of them. And so one of them, I forget who it was, Augustus, or one of them said it's better to be a pig than a a son of king Herod. So Herod hears about this king of the Jews. He's very insecure. He's got what people call a Napoleon syndrome. Little they said he's a really short guy and very insecure, prolific builder, very smart, and gifted in a lot of ways. But when he heard about this and when he was tricked by the by the magicians who were told by the holy spirit, you know, angel to go out a different way, because it's only like a six mile trek from Jerusalem to Bethlehem to go see for yourself. So when Herod asked, you know, where Messiah would be born or whatever, Bethlehem Of Ephrathah, Micah five verse two, they didn't even bother to go see. Mary and Joseph are there, you know, in a in a stable. And by the time these guys find them, they're actually in a home, and they give them myrrh, gold, and frankincense. So the myrrh is for what? A prophet. Oh. Myrrh, incense for a priest, gold for a king. The gold is the money they're gonna need to go down to Egypt for a while. Right? They're gonna move to Egypt. Called his son Hosea eleven one out of Egypt. He came back to Nazareth. Right? Didn't settle in Bethlehem, but the house of bread is where he was. So the picture here is that that that weeping of all the mothers when Herod killed all the babies two years old and under is part of the the picture that's presented here that's used to describe that in Matthew two seventeen and eighteen, the sadness that took place there. Now Rachel, weeping for her children, Rachel had Joseph earlier, but now she's pregnant with Benoni. Benoni, the son of my sorrow. And she died in in birthing Benoni. She died there. They had the the handmaidens there, the lady's trying to help, and Genesis thirty five nineteen. And and as she's dying, she names him Benoni, you know, son of my sorrow. But the father, Jacob, says, no, not son of my sorrow. He's gonna be Benjamin. He's gonna be son of my right hand. We're not gonna go forward with this sorrow. We're gonna turn this sorrow into strength. And and so Rachel, weeping for her children, refused to be comforted for her children because they were not. And so the babes that died, and then it says, thus saith the Lord, restrain thy voice from weeping, so don't give in to the weeping, don't give in to the son of my sorrow, and thine eyes from tears, for thy work shall be rewarded, saith the Lord, and they shall come again from the land of the enemy. And so some have applied this to those of us that have prodigal children, And there's that weeping, there's that sorrow. And when I read this, for thy work shall be rewarded, and the Lord, and they shall come again from the land of the enemy, I read that concerning my wife, Kathy, who was working at the telephone company when I married her and could have had a really good career, could have retirement and climbed the ladder and made good money, been a career woman. And so I asked her what she wants to do, and she said she wanted to be a stay at home mom. She saw that raising children, they need their mom. In her value system, they need their mom. And it may not be your value system, in her value system, they need their mom. And they it's it's the greatest calling, you know, on the planet. God didn't ask you to have the public schools raise your kids. If you had to do that, I'm sorry. But Kathy dedicated herself to homeschool and to raise those kids, and I'm sorry, but she's not being rewarded for that. And it breaks my heart. Kathy should have two girls that are following Jesus and that everything she poured into him, they're a picture thereof. A picture of that investment, that pouring into their life, that sacrifice she made, that being a stay at home mom, not only that, but being a homeschooling mom and pouring into them all those years. And unfortunately, sometimes our kids decide to go into the world. And notice it says here, and they shall come again from the land of the enemy. The world sucks them away from your Christian home. And in our case, it was in the church. The devil presented a guy from a church that in this community that continues to be incredibly evil with these kinds of things. And the kid was in the worship team. And unfortunately, Jessica didn't say one very important word, and that is no. All she has to say is no, but she was seduced. She was coerced. She was drawn in, and it looked like an angel of light. It looked it looked cool because homeschooled kids, when you take them away from their home in California and you bring them here, they have no friends. And they're 14 years old, and they want friends. They're craving friends. And so they go to the youth group that their dad and mom lets them go to, and we assume that the leadership in this church and that they're going to police it, that they're gonna make sure it's safe for Christian kids. And the very first family that we let her spend the night with were smoking pot. And when Jessica, you know, questioned it and watched and rated R movie, they said, oh, are you Mary and Joseph? You know, they mocked her. So she she didn't have that that tenacity that Britney had. She was seduced and drawn into that. And once she drew in, you know, it got worse and worse. And so Dee on Sunday was telling me how great her you know, how how well her daughter is doing, and she had a prodigal daughter, and her daughters got a really good guy. They're sober. Jessica has seventy days of sobriety now. Jessica is 41 years old. Do you know how long Kathy's waited? Do you know how long Kathy's waited for Jessica to come home? To come home? I mean, I talked to parents, their kids go into the gay and the lesbian lifestyle from Christian homes. It devastates the parents. Devastates them. They they didn't raise those kids to go do that stuff. Where do they get confused? How do they get seduced? How do they go that way? Will they ever come home? Will they come home from that? Will they be rescued from that? And so thine eyes from tears, and I I can't tell you how many nights Kathy would put her hands on the door of Jessica's bedroom and just pray and weep over her as she's going through these things, as she lived under her roof. And the ability to lie, incredible lying, deception, and it just got worse and worse and worse and worse and worse, and you feel so incredibly helpless. And as a mom, those kids are your crowning achievement. They better be. And to watch the devil steal that from her, pull that away, has been so incredibly devastating. But these verses give us hope. These verses give us hope that one day our kids are gonna be brought back to us. That we're gonna be brought back to our kids, we're gonna be restored one day because Jesus is gonna intervene. Jesus is gonna bring them home. And and Dee is rejoicing because her daughter is walking with Jesus again, sober and that sort of thing. And so Dee was encouraging me Sunday that, yes, it's happening to her daughter whom she's prayed for for so many years. It's just incredible. Can you imagine what it'd be like if Jessica and Germ just, you know, quit drinking and follow Jesus and find a church and find a bible study and start to have some children of their own? Can you imagine how good that'll feel? What a blessing that'll be, you know? Isn't that what we hope? So there is hope in thine end. It isn't over yet. Don't give up. Keep praying. There's hope in the end. God's gonna restore the years that the locusts and the cankerworm have eaten. God's gonna restore these prodigals and bring them home. Right? We prayed over them. We dedicated them to the Lord. We've never stopped praying for them. And one thing about Jessica is her faith is tenacious in that she still believes in Jesus. She's never stopped believing in Jesus. She's had a hard time navigating her Christianity, but really it comes down to surrender, doesn't it? Yes. And so, for there is hope in the end, saith the Lord, that thy children shall come again to their own border. Ain't that what you want? You want your kids to come home? Come to their own border? And God says in Jeremiah twenty nine eleven, I know the thoughts that I think towards you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil to bring you to a hope, to an expected end. Right? And then Jeremiah thirty three three, another verse for you to remember, for to memorize. Jeremiah thirty three three, call unto me and I'll answer thee, and show thee great and mighty things which thou knowest not. Prayer. We intercede. We pray. We as parents, our job's never done. We as grandparents, our job's never done. Robin Vicky prayed Brandon back into the fold. Right? Very sketchy time with Brandon. Very scary time, raising a good Christian home. Brandon veered for a period of time, and they didn't give up. And they've been able to see the blessing of of Brandon come back to the Lord. Right? So many, so many prodigals out there. So many parents weeping, sorrow, praying, Rachel weeping. They're dead spiritually, like the babes of Bethlehem, snatched, stolen, killed, executed. And I've surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus, thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised like a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke. So you you you know, bull riding? Mitch, do you ride bulls too? No? These bulls are wild. You know? They're wild. And you look like a guy that ride a bull, man. And but these bulls, these bulls, Ephraim's like a wild bull that needs to be broken, you know? I've surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself. Thus, thou hast chastised me. And so there's a cry of repentance coming out. There's a godly sorrow that leads to repentance. God's been chastening. God's been dealing with them, unaccustomed to the yoke. This yoke doesn't fit me. And what did Jesus say in Matthew eleven twenty eight? Come unto me. What is it? All ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I'll give you rest. Take my what? My yoke upon you. My yoke upon you. Learn of me from meek and lowly in heart, and you shall find rest under your souls. So Jesus, the carpenter from Nazareth, has a perfect yoke for you to be yoked up with him, to serve alongside him. Right? And the yoke isn't gonna chafe your neck. It's not a calling that's gonna be like, it's gonna be a good fit, good fit in serving the Lord. There's gonna be rest. There's be joy. There's gonna be blessing. There's gonna be peace in your life instead of fighting God. Custom to the yoke. Turn me back and I shall be restored for thou art the Lord my God. So turn me back. Help me. He's crying out for repentance, crying out, Lord, turn me back. Bring me back right with you. You broke me. You got me to that place. So I think of Jacob, heel catcher. Remember Jacob, how he wrestled with the angel of the Lord? He wrestled with Jesus? Remember he lost, but he won? Mhmm. And that he lost, and Hosea describes it. He lost and that God dislocated his hip. Yeah. Lot of pain. But in doing that, he tapped out, man. He said, alright. Alright. Alright. You know? I give. And when he gave up, he won, and god changed his name from Jacob, which means heel catcher, supplanter, to Israel, governor of god or prince of god. He finally yielded his will under the lord, and that's what the lord will do with us. Now my daughter Jessica, she might be like that all the way up into her forties resisting the lord. What's it gonna take for finally her to say, alright, I tap out. I give up. I'm gonna do it your way now. You know? How far do you wanna go? I talked to people with drug and alcohol problems and partying. I said, you blew through your twenties. You blew through them. Now you're in your thirties. You're gonna blow through another decade? Another decade of this? What did you get in that first decade? Alright. You blew through your thirties. Now you're 40. Right? What are gonna do now? And, you know, they don't wanna continue it. They wanna stop. It's like, you know what? I'm tired of it. And that's a good that's an answer to prayer, isn't it? Answer to prayer where they're sick and tired of being sick and tired. You know? And their way is not working. So turn back and I shall be restored for thou art the Lord my God. Surely after I was turned away, I repented. And after I was instructed, I smote upon my thigh. I was ashamed, yet even confounded, because I did beat the reproach of my youth. And so corrective discipline, God's discipline, whom the Lord loves, he chastens and scourges every son. And so finally, you're coming to that place of blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord. You're crying out to God. And you're like the prodigal in Luke fifteen thirty. You come back home and you're rehearsing your your apology to dad, and, you're eating pigsty. You're eating pig's food. You're in a foreign land. You've blown through your twenties. You know? You've blown through all your money, your inheritance, and everything. And, now you're rehearsing. You're recognizing that even the servants back home are doing better than you're doing in a pigsty, eating pig food, you little Jewish boy. And so you turn toward home. You turn toward home. Now, God, I had a lot of people tell me that I needed to head down to New Orleans and kidnap Jessica and bring her back here. You can't kidnap an adult. It's illegal. Nor would the father of the prodigal go kidnap his son. But if he if that prodigal kid ever picked up the phone and said, dad d, before it's even out of her mouth, help me, you'd be on the first plane down there. Amen. But you can't until they turn their will. Because they you can't you can't interfere with what God's doing. Yeah. And so when they finally turn and they're heading toward home, the father's been looking out the window the whole time. And when he sees that prodigal child, he runs. It says the father ran. God will run to that prodigal. Right? And embrace him, kiss his neck, hold him, and put a robe of righteousness on him. Right? Take off those rags and put a ring on his finger. You know, seal him ownership, part of the family. Right? Then he's gonna go let everybody know they're gonna kill the fatted calf. And so the celebration that comes. In Ephraim, my dear son, is he a pleasant child? For since I spoke against him, I do earnestly remember him still. Therefore, heart is troubled for him. I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the Lord. He says, I know the thoughts that I think towards you, thoughts of peace and not of evil. I'm thinking upon you, and my my heart, my stomach is churning. My stomach is churning inside of me, troubled. My gut is troubled. My stomach's upset just thinking, praying for you, thinking about what you're going through. I will surely have mercy upon him. Mercy is not getting what we deserve, saith the Lord. Set thee up waymarks, make thee high heaps, Set thine heart toward the highways, even the way which thou wentest. Turn again, o virgin of Israel. Turn again, o thee, thy cities. And so turn toward home. Run toward home. And so we used to sing a song here we go again. The King's Highway. Right? I'm walking up the King's Highway, and that's what they're doing. They're gonna be walking up the King's Highway into Jerusalem, into Zion. Everyone's gonna be called home. Come home. There's a big party here. Come come hook up with Jesus. And so we're gonna see a new relationship, a new covenant, and a new city here. How long will thou go about, oh, thou backsliding daughter? So remember down in verse 16, come again from the land of the enemy? How long? How long will thou go about, oh, thou backsliding daughter? For the Lord has created a new thing in the earth, a woman shall compass a man. And so Robbie is gonna really, really like this verse. This is where there's a new thing taking place. God's changing the hearts of people. Now a woman shall compass a man in that these Israeli women with their weapons on their shoulder, they don't need a man. There's gonna be such incredible peace that the women can whoop on the Chaldeans. The women can whoop on the baba Babylonians. Any enemy that surfaces, these women are gonna be so hot. They're gonna be so strong, so adept and skilled, they don't need the help of the men because it's a time of peace. Right? A woman shall compass a man. And so not that you don't need men, but the weaker vessel, so so to speak, it's gonna be a time of great strength and stability and security. And I like that first, the big fat Greek wedding. She said, well, you may need to submit. He may be the head, but honey, you're the neck. And so women are smart enough to know that if you let the guy think he's in charge, he'll he'll be fine. But you're the neck, and you have a way of turning his head any which way you want. Right? And so it may be that the man is supposed to be the stronger, but in this case, there's such peace, such security, Jesus has conquered everything, and that you're gonna see a new thing in the earth. A woman can pass a man. And, if any man be in Christ, he's a new creation. The old things are passed away. All things will become new. So what's taking place here, the new thing is not just that relationship, man, woman, but the relationship that you have with God, a new relationship. You're gonna be a new creation in Christ Jesus as he as he changes us from the inside. So thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, as yet they shall use this speech in the land of Judah in its cities when I shall bring again their captivity. The Lord bless thee, oh habitation of of justice and mountain of holiness. And so you're gonna see in that new relationship where Ruth pursues Boaz, where she pursues him as the kinsman redeemer, where she pursues him as she's sitting at the foot of his bed, and then he pays the Goel price, the ransom price to ransom her. But in this new relationship, everything's already been done with Jesus. He's already accomplished that. They're both believers, and they're gonna start speaking Hebrew, the Hebrew language in the time of Christ. After the Babylonian captivity, they neglected the Hebrew language. So in the time of Christ, they spoke Aramaic and Greek prime primarily, and very little Hebrew. The Jews that are coming back since 05/14/1948 that go to Israel, they're relearning Hebrew. So what's gonna happen is they're gonna say, the Lord bless thee, just as we sing the Lord bless thee from Numbers chapter six. The Lord bless thee. So that's gonna be a phrase that they start to say in Hebrew. And so we would say, they're gonna praise the phrase, you know, that phrase, the Lord bless thee, or or they're gonna praise and using Hebrew, they're gonna they're gonna use it again. A praise language, praise phrases, they're gonna begin to use use again. Now I'm told that there's no cuss word in Hebrew, that if you wanna cuss, you have to use English. I wouldn't doubt that. Beautiful language, the Hebrew. Right? Okay. But the heart of man is deceitfully wicked. Right? Desperately wicked. And so even though you may have a clean language, clean outside, the heart needs to change. God says, I'm gonna change the heart. Right? From the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks. What we find for us as Christians is when we get saved, the Lord changes our words. The words that used to flow out of our mouth. Like, when I see people that can't help themselves cussing, it's f bomb this, all that, I just feel sad for them. You know? I I don't I don't correct them or make them feel like, hey. Do you know who I am? I'm a heavy. You can't talk like that around me. They just that's who they are. You know? And same when I got saved and my mom. I didn't expect my mom to act like a Christian. She's not a Christian. You know? She wasn't at the time. So the worldly people sometimes they'll say, well, what do you do for a living? I say, oh, I'm a pastor. Oh, I'm sorry, man. Sorry. I've been talking like that. You know? I don't care, you know? God's gonna change your heart. And now if you're around kids, grandkids, then, you know, be careful. Don't don't do that around them. But I don't expect unbelievers to act like Christians. They it's it's they've got a three word, four word, five words in their vocabulary, and they just keep repeating them. It's kinda sad, but that's how a lot of us were. So God's gonna change your heart. Your heart's gonna be filled with praise and and worship. And there shall dwell in Judah itself and in all of its cities together farmers, and they who go forth with flocks. And so I love farmers. We should be supporting farmers. We should we should make it easy for farmers to produce food. Right? We shouldn't be shutting down the farms. We shouldn't be allowing the Chinese to buy up all the farms and Bill Gates to buy up all the farms. We shouldn't deny them nitrogen for their fertilizer and, you know, try to destroy food production and production plants, meat packing houses. We shouldn't be selling our production to the Chinese and foreign governments. It shouldn't be that way. We're gonna starve. They're purposely gonna create a famine. So there's gonna be great fertile production, great soil and production of food, plentiful. For I have filled full the weary soul, and I've replenished every sorrowful soul. So not just material, but spiritual. It's gonna fill the soul, the inner part of us. There's gonna be plenty for all. Upon this I awaked and beheld, and my sleep was sweet unto me. So he's the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep, and he gives his beloved sleep. And then he says verse 27, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and with the seed of the beast. And so I'm getting not only a new relationship, but a new beginning, a brand new beginning, and I'm gonna cause you to be productive and plentiful. And it shall come to pass that as I have watched over them to pluck up, to break down. So remember in Jeremiah one ten, the job of Jeremiah, he was to pluck up and break down. Got to pluck up and break down this culture, these people. They they need a breaking. They've had a sweet table. They've had great prosperity, and they're just not listening in this time of prosperity. So we're gonna root up. We're gonna break down. We're gonna cause them to go through some pain, break down and to throw down and to destroy and to afflict, so will I watch over them to build and to plant, saith the Lord. So build back better. The devil always steals God's phrases. Right? And the devil is not doing a very good job of building back better. In fact, it's the opposite, they're tearing down. And I don't believe it needed to be torn down, but that's what the devil is doing. And so, to build up speaks of edify. So we're to build one another up. The job of the pastor is to build the sheep, build people up, build them up spiritually, to edify the body of Christ, each of us to edify, build up, construct, not tear down. The devil is the one who tears down. He's the accuser of the brethren, uses words to accuse and condemn and try to defeat people. So in those days, they shall say no more. The fathers have eaten a sour grape and the children teeth are set on edge. And so this is a false proverb. This is a proverb with the false prophets, and it goes something like this. Your fathers sinned. Your fathers made slaves of people, and you children owe reparations. You children are responsible for the sins of your fathers. Heard that lie before? Each and every individual is responsible for their own sin. You're not responsible for the sin of the fathers. Right? So this whole idea in promise keepers where these men get together, and these white guys have guilt for being white, and they're gonna start apologizing to black guys and other ethnic groups and stuff of what their daddy did or somebody did to them, they're just as well off as the white guy, those guys you're talking to. You know? And ideologically, yeah, as a nation, as a people, whatever, we need to admit sins we've had, but admit it's wrong, don't allow it to happen again, but I've never enslaved anybody. I'm not responsible for anybody except my own sin. There's enough sin in my life to be responsible for, so I'm not gonna I'm not going to delve into that area and call it spiritual. The Bible forbids it. In Ezekiel chapter 18, turn there, Ezekiel 18. The false prophets were saying this. It's a guilt trip. And the present guilt trip against white people, whitey, he's feeling so guilty that he would vote a black half black, half white Oreo cookie, you know, as president, and he's a gay, non US citizen, homosexual, crazy man with a man as his wife. You know? And you do it not once, but you do it twice. And you're running around voting for this guy because you feel guilty? You kidding me? Allen Keyes was a much better, if that's what you want. You know? Much better black man to to vote in. So it's it's regardless of black, white, brown, yellow, whatever, we just want the most godly guy we can get in there. You know? So you play this race war with people, and so they'll turn it on them. So it's a false proverb. The Lord says not gonna happen. And so, Ezekiel 18, the word of the Lord came to me, me saying, what mean ye that ye use this proverb concerning the land of Israel saying, the fathers have eaten sour grapes and the children's teeth, you know, are set on edge. So, the children are suffering because of the father's sins. Why do you keep saying that? As I live, saith the Lord God, ye shall not have occasion anymore to use this proverb in Israel. The false prophets were using it. Behold, all souls are mine. As the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine. The soul that sins, it shall die. And so each and every personal responsibility. If you do your history, you find out that in Africa, it's Africans selling their own people into slavery. It's it's a means of the industrial revolution when it came. And there was no morality in the North either. The the North simply brought in the cotton gin and industrialization to to, you know, to overcome it. So it it was really a fight over states' rights of the state against the feds. So it's a centralization of power is really what was, you know, at stake there. And so Abe Lincoln and the guys jump on board a moral issue of we're gonna free the slaves, which eventually happened, which is great. But this emancipation movement happened in England way before. And so, yes, there's a moral high ground coming, but just like the globalists today, they're gonna use the system as long as they can until they replace it with something else. They're gonna always exploit people. So there's slavery still today. Saudi Arabia, slavery all over the world, and human trafficking is slave slavery. The children that are being trafficked and sold. There's more money in trafficking children presently than there is in all the drug, you know, selling that the guys are doing. So you can't stand there and say that you stopped slavery. One person told me systemic, racism in America stopped with Martin Luther King and the the the way that the laws have changed and such. You can't be prejudiced against any ethnic groups or whatever. But but still, the heart of man's the problem. You gotta change the heart, the gospel. So so here's another aspect of this. We come along when we're kids, when I grew up, and you couldn't play the blame game. If you did something wrong, you got spanked, you got in trouble, and you took ownership for what you did wrong. As I get older, I I hear that the kids are allowed to blame the parents. And then you're allowed to blame the coaches and mister Whitey, and there's no end to the blame game, victimization. Everybody's a victim. Well, how about take responsibility for your own sin and man up, grow up, be an adult, and quit sinning? Quit blaming somebody else for who you've become. You know? Be you know? So and that's what he's that's what basically he's saying. You're not gonna take this false proverb and continue with this. You're setting your your your mouth is on edge because your dad, ate sour grapes. So sour grapes we call, oh, that's just sour grapes. And Adam blamed the woman, the woman blamed the serpent, and the blame game continues. So it's mind boggling to me how blessed we are in this country. And so anyway, I've never been able to get away with playing the blame game. Every time I throw a pity party, nobody wants to attend it. You know? So I stopped. But everyone shall die for his own iniquity, and every man that eats of sour grapes, his teeth shall be set on edge. So each individual can be responsible for his own his own actions. Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah. And so we have this new covenant. In Matthew twenty six twenty seven through 29, Jesus gave this new testament, you know, in my blood, and and the day is coming where the Lord's gonna bring this for the nation of Israel. Not according to the covenant that I made with the fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt. So the Old Testament, the 613 precepts of the Old Testament, the Old Covenant, By covenant, they broke, although I was a husband unto them, saith the Lord. So the nation of Israel being the wife of Jehovah, they delved into idolatry, gross idolatry, and sin. And in Isaiah one, he says to quit with the offerings. Quit going to church. Quit going to temple. You know, it's you're just going through the motions. These people do draw near to me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. I'm tired of the oblations. I'm tired of the animals dying and all that, because there's nothing behind it. You don't love me. You're you're involved with a with another another man. But this shall be the covenant that I'll make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord. I'll put my law into their inward parts and write it into their hearts and will be their God, and they shall be my people. So after those days, what days? After the tribulation period. At the end of the tribulation period when that remnant saved, there's gonna be a remnant of people where God's gonna save them. They're gonna come with national confession, national conversion, and they're gonna be the true Israel of God. And and and they shall be my people according to Ezekiel thirty six twenty four through 32, and Joel two twenty eight-thirty two, God's going to pour out his Holy Spirit upon them, and they're going to be reborn. The rebirth of the nation of Israel spiritually is going to take place after those days. Now turn to Hebrews chapter eight. Goes on into chapter nine, this truth, but we'll we'll start with Hebrews eight verse eight. For finding fault with them, he saith, behold the days come saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, with the house of Judah, not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day which I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt because they continue not in my covenant. And I regarded them not saith the Lord. For this is the covenant that I'll make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord. I'll put my laws into their mind and write them in their hearts, and I'll be to them a God, and they shall be to me my people. And they shall not teach every man his neighbor and every man his brother, saying, know the Lord, for all shall know me. So they're all gonna be saved. The ones that go into the millennium, all Israel shall be saved. That remnant will all be saved from the least to the greatest. For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more. So it's not because they're perfect. They're still sinners, but I'm not gonna remember it anymore. So in that in that, he saith a new covenant he has made the first old. Now that which decays and growth old is ready to vanish away. So we're gonna live by faith now, not of works, not of trying to keep the letter, but by faith in that God's written his law within our heart. And and so so they verse 34, and they shall teach no more every man his neighbor and every man his brother saying, know the Lord, for they shall all know me from the least of them even to the greatest of them, saith the Lord, for I will forgive their iniquity and I will remember their sins no more. So God's gonna, in Isaiah 11 verse nine, as the waters cover the sea, is gonna be the knowledge of the Lord. So a famine in the land for the word of God, people hearing the word of God and teaching the word of God, no more famine. As the waters cover the earth, cover the sea, and so it's gonna be the knowledge of people knowing the Lord. Know the Lord. Know the Lord. I will remember their sin no more. Psalm a 103 verse 12, he takes our sins, he casts them the east, the west, he remembers them no more. And now here's the covenant. Here's now this hits the replacement theology guys. Okay? This is real, real simple logic, real simple reasoning, and kind of like irrefutable proof. There is no such thing as replacement theology. And yet it's so prevalent today. Thus saith the Lord who gives the sun for a light by day and the ordinance of the moon and of the stars for a light by night. So the green movement, climate change, global warming, it's all a lie. Our god is a god of order. Right? From the beginning of time, he's a god of order. There are boundaries. There are tides where the sea comes so far and can go no further. Right? Sometimes, god allows a storm and it can creep, you know, a little bit further, but not to cover the earth again, not to cause catastrophic, you know, type type events. The lie that the planet's getting warm and all the polar ice caps are gonna melt and and drown everybody is a bold faced lie. There's cycles. There's cycles with the sun, the moon, the stars. There's cycles that the Earth goes through. And if anything, the Earth is getting cooler, not warmer, according to the true science. And so notice the god of order here. He gives the sun for a light by day and ordained the moon and the stars are light by night, who divides the sea with its waves roaring. So these waves are wanting to go further. They can't go any further. They can't can't go any further. The sea, the waves, he stops them. Right? Not gonna allow it because the covenant that he made with the rainbow, he's not gonna cover, you know, the earth again with a flood. The lord of hosts is his name. He's got an army. And if those ordinance depart from me, saith the lord, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me forever. So if tomorrow we wake up and the sun doesn't come up, we're still in the dark, oh, bummer. Israel is gonna cease to be a nation. Do you think that's gonna happen? Anybody stop that from happening? No? So why are you gonna try and wipe out Israel? You're gonna lose. Anybody that tries to mess with Israel is gonna lose. So so if the ordinance depart from me, saith the lord, then the seed of Israel shall also cease from being a nation before me forever. Thus saith the lord, if heaven above can be measured, can you measure heaven above? How big is the galaxies out there? Galaxies, plural, keeps growing, I hear. Right? Big black holes and all that stuff. And the foundations of the earth searched out. Can you do that? Is it a flat earth or a round? Is it a sphere? How can people be running around saying it's flat? What what's up with that? What's happening to the world in which we're living? It's crazy. Crazy. Then the sea and Britney's telling me that they're saying, there's actually real estate out there. There's land out there, these flat earthers are saying, that nobody lives on. And by making people think it's all around, there really aren't maps. There really isn't mapping out all this land out there that only the elite have or something like that. So, woo hoo. Man, this what drugs are these guys smoking, man? It's crazy. So, anyway, she's got some friends that are flat earthers, and and they're Christians, though. So my my grandkids, so funny, I'll say, hey. Where are guys going today? Oh, over the flat earthers. What what did they say to you guys? Oh, you you know? Yeah. It's funny though. Flat earthers. Yeah. So I thought and I guess it's a growing movement. It's it's like they're not alone. Say how stupid people are. Well, I mean, the whole climate the whole climate change thing, the whole electric car thing, electric buses, electric ferries, the windmills, you know, windmill farms. Blight on the land. It doesn't produce produce energy. Energy, You you know? Know? The lithium that you're getting out of the ground, yeah, for for, you know, electric bikes is fine, and tools and stuff, but to put your whole, you know, traveling, your whole being able to travel, relying upon these cars that that are blowing up and burning up and all that, I like how my father-in-law used to work on what's called a hydrogen cell before he died. And and now it's so cool to watch Honda and Toyota, these Japanese companies that have produced a hydrogen cell to run a, you know, an engine on. And now, I guess, Honda is has a partner with GM to bring that technology to The US market. You know? I don't know why they didn't bring it themselves, but apparently, if you do it with GM, maybe you get in on The US market. Can you imagine the Rockefellers, all the oil people keeping that technology from coming to you and I for so many years, not allowing the hydrogen technology? Oh, the Hindenburg. Remember the Hindenburg? Oh, it's gonna blow up. You know? Well, your electric cars are all blowing up, man. You know? What are you talking about? And you can't even go but 250 miles. You know? You're better off with a with a horse. So, anyway and then the the unit of energy, the amount of energy that's in natural gas and, you know, from oil and gasoline to diesel, I mean, they're in California, he says that Newsom is gonna force the truckers to have electric trucks to convert. It's not gonna work. It's just not gonna work. You know? In the long haul ride. Yeah. Everything's gonna be so so Berkshire Hathaway, what's he invest in? Mhmm. Trains. Because he knows everything's gonna be delivered by train. Mhmm. Because the trucks aren't gonna work. You know? So the rail system is gonna be used. So used to be. It used to be dominant. They're gonna go back to that apparently. Berkshire Hathaway's investing in, you know, the trains because it's you know? And then you're gonna have rail system, and you're gonna have, public transit. They're gonna get rid of cars is what they're really after. They live in these cities. Everyone using, you know, walking and stuff. So that's ultimately what's going on. So, anyway, it stems from people not having true science, a true understanding of god of order. So the scientists that are paid are able to lie to everybody. The other scientists that can't be bought tell the truth about so called global warming and inconvenient truth of Al Gore and all them. They still fly in their jets. They still eat meat. They still do all that. So they gotta use this lie, and the other one that they're coming at was water. They're gonna say there's a shortage of water and submit everybody to, water rationing and not allowing water. So the aquifers, are extremely valuable. As I told you before, the Bush family years ago bought an aquifer in Paraguay. Why would you buy that? You know? And why would, an oil baron in Texas, Tibun Pickens, buy the La La aquifer that comes from Oklahoma to Texas, the control of water, you know, in food production and all? They shut the water off. They shut the electricity off, all your smart meters, all your smart everything, everything on electrical. They got control. So that seems to be more the reason in going that way. So thus saith the Lord, if heaven above can be measured and the foundation of the earth searched out beneath, I also will cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, saith the Lord. So it's not gonna happen. It's not the heart of God. He's not gonna go to that place. And and the way that you'll know that is if you can ruin or remove these ordinances, this God of order, these promises, a promise each and every day the way that the Lord is consistent and faithful in in this creation ordinance, this order of the of of creation, so too the promises that he's made to Israel. So Romans nine, six and seven remind us, Not as though the word of God has taken on effect for they are not all Israel who are of Israel, neither because they are the seed of Abraham are they all children, but in Isaac shall thy seed be called. So you remember when Jesus was talking in John eight to the religious leaders, told them that their father was the devil, that he's a murderer and a liar from the beginning. So the true Israel of God are the men and women of faith, those that believe, in Jesus. They're gonna be the ones that are part of this new covenant where he writes it upon, their heart. He says, verse 38, behold, the days come. So three times now the days come. Behold, the days come. We saw it in verse 27. Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah, the seed of man. So a new beginning there in verse 27. And then we saw, behold, the days come in verse 31, a new covenant. And now the third time we see, behold, the days come, a new city. Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that the city shall be built to the lord from the Tower Of Hananel under the gates of the corner. So this is the northwest corner, the city. So the the dimensions of the city are gonna be expansive, and the measuring shall yet go forth over against up the Hill Of Garib and shall compass about to Goa. So this is the western area. So he's given the dimensions of the city, but nothing mentioned of dividing the city. No division of the city. The solution for many today with the Palestinian problem and Hamas and Hezbollah and all the Arab nations and everything is we're gonna divide Jerusalem. We're gonna divide, you know, Israel. God's saying, no. Not gonna divide anything. I've given them plenty of land, you know, all these other people. This is the city of the great king and hardly even mentioned in the Quran. You know? So what significance is there of this city, you know, to the to the Muslims, to the Islamic Islamic people gonna be the focal point capital city even for the antichrist, his religious system. The temple, Ezekiel's temple that or excuse me, the the temple that's gonna be built for the tribulation period is gonna be built, but this one's different. Going into the millennium, we're gonna have a picture of Ezekiel's temple, a description in the book of Ezekiel of what God's gonna build for the millennium. And so and the whole valley of the dead bodies and of the ashes and of the fields under the Brook Kidron, under the corner of the horse gate toward the east shall be holy under the Lord. It shall not be plucked up or thrown down anymore forever. So everlasting, the Valley Of Hinnom in chapter nineteen one through six is where we get our Greek word or Gehenna, perpetual burning. So the Valley Of Hinnom outside of Jerusalem was a place of perpetual burning. When Joseph Of Arimathea and Nicodemus asked for the body of Jesus, the reason was is because they take dead donkeys and bodies that they wanted to desecrate and corrupt, and they just throw them in this perpetual burning area. An area earlier, that was a place where the people would go and offer unto Baal, and they take the unwanted pregnancies and put them on the arms of Baal, kinda like present day abortion, and they burn these babies and sacrifice unto Baal. And so this is Valley Of Hinnom. It was very wicked and evil, perpetual burning in that area. So then we get the term of the New Testament of Gehenna, a perpetual burning. And so an abode, the lake of fire where the wicked dead are gonna be in a place called Gehenna, the Lake Of Fire. So that's the picture there, but he's gonna say, nope. There isn't gonna be that place there. The city's gonna extend out over that area, not just outside the city of Gehenna anymore, Valley Of Hinnom. Nope. We're gonna extend it out. We're gonna build over it, and the dimensions are gonna be much larger. And so all that the devil means for evil, God's gonna turn around for good. And there we go. Oh, wow. Longest bible study we ever had. You guys okay? Anybody on Facebook awake? Alright. Anybody wanna close us in prayer? Amen. We'll sing a song? Alright. Let's pray. Father, thank you for Jeremiah 31. We probably could have broken up into two nights, but, Lord, thank you for the stamina and the endurance of this church, people here, the excitement, the the joy, the blessing. Thank you for Betty. I think she stayed awake, and she thanked me she thanked me yesterday that I finished so early on Sunday and how what a good idea that would be if I kept doing that. And so I showed her how stubborn I am tonight, Lord, and I went extra long. So blessed this time, in Jesus' name, amen. Amen. What's she say? She wanted to know how you knew she slept last week. Because of the turkey. Because of the triphantine or whatever they call it. Tryptophan. Tryptophan.

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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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