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Live from Bremerton. It's Monday night in Jeremiah 46. Let's pray. Father, we come before you, Lord, and thank you for the a nice fellowship here, the food and and friendships and prayers. And we lift up all those that are sick. You know who each one is, Lord, And we ask for your healing touch upon their bodies, your continued moving, working by your holy spirit. And Lord, we need to be refreshed in your word tonight and as we worship you. And Lord, we ask that you'd be our teacher, that you'd open the scriptures to our understanding. We pray, Lord, that we'd lovers of truth, that we'd walk in the truth, and that the truth would keep us free, Lord. Not just set us free, but keep us free, that we'd not be deceived and and distracted in these last days. So help us, Lord, to discern the truth, to be lovers of truth, and apply that word to our lives, that, Lord, there'd be stability in our homes, that we'd have your peace that surpasses all understanding to guard our hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. We ask this in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Praise the lord. Praise the lord. My heart oh lord. Make it ever true. Change my heart, oh god. May I Draw me close to you. Never let me go. I lay it all down again to hear you say that I'm your friend. You are my desire. Alright. Praise the lord. Thank you lord. Thank you. Alright. Jeremiah 46. And you guys have an idea of a for a podcast, Be Not Deceived? Vicky and Rob do podcasts here. For those of you on Facebook don't know, you can go check them out. Any ideas for a podcast? Anything you wanna expose? What's that? What do you think about it? Okay. What's urgent? Alright. Father, we thank you. Once again, we ask you once again, Lord, to bless our time as we study here in Jeremiah 46. We pray that you open the scriptures to our understanding, that you speak to our hearts and lives. Lord, help us to connect the dots prophetically. Help us to to, Lord, see Jesus in every every word, every letter, every gap between the volume of the book is written of him. And, let us go away from here more in love with you than when we came in, Lord. So bless now. Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Alright. So in chapter 46 here on to to chapter 50, you're gonna see that Jeremiah has some prophecies concerning particular nations. And so it starts out in chapter 46 with Egypt. And then in chapter 48, he's gonna deal with Moab. Chapter 40 let's see here. 49, gonna deal with Ammon and also of Edom and Mount Seir, I think. Now when we get to 49, this is an interesting section here because some some commentators feel that this ties in this chapter ties in with Psalm 83. So it could be this is prophetic of what's going to happen, like in Isaiah 17 when Damascus is gonna be reduced to rubble like a ruinous heap. That's the Isaiah 17 prophecy. But you see Siri here also mentioned. But some feel like, Psalm 80 three's, Jim will help me in prefectory prayer. Imprepatory prayer? That's it. Yeah. What that is. You asked for vengeance, basically. Like, bring them what they deserve. Okay. Because we're kinda tired of it. So some commentators feel that Psalm 83 is say that word again. Imprepatory. Yeah. I'm I'm gonna get that in my vocabulary. So I like it. Imprecatory. I like I like words. I love words, but say it again one more time. Imprecatory. Imprecatory. Okay. Imprecatory. So it's it's basically crying out for vengeance against your enemy. So some feel like a mirror and all that Psalm 83 has already been fulfilled. And doctor the guy from what's his name? Anyway, there's some other guys that think it's imprecatory, but imprecatory. And then you've got Bill Salas who's written a lot on Psalm 83, and you've got others that feel that Psalm 83 tying in with with 49 with these particular nations and their attack against that that it's future. It's still gonna happen. And so we'll see that. And then chapter 50, Babylon. And then 51 is rehearsing or going back over again the destruction of the temple in May, so going back over it again. And so we start out with Egypt. Now what's what I love about Arnold Frutkenbaum's book, Footprints of the Messiah, he's got a great section in there on the millennium and really has helped me to see I mean, my eye when I was first a Christian for a lot of years, Israel's good, everyone else is bad. And all the Muslim nations are bad. Everybody's bad. You know? And Israel is supposed to be the light unto the Gentiles. So even presently, Israel is wanting to take over the Gaza area, wanna deal with Hamas, and and all. They wanna keep going. Apparently, the Biden administration's wanting to slow them down. There's a lot of Muslim nations that are not happy about it. So you got this you got this thing going on. And America needs to be real careful because God will bless those who bless Israel, curse those who curse Israel. Ultimately, in Zechariah chapter 12, two and three, all nations are gonna turn their back upon Israel, and Israel is gonna be a burdensome stone to everybody, and they're all gonna turn against them. So including America when it's gonna turn against, Israel. But presently, with Israel back in the land from 05/14/1948, they have geographical areas that are theirs. They've been regathered in unbelief. But what's a blessing to me is the fastest growing and you're not hearing this anywhere for me. I keep saying it. Is the fastest growing church in the world is in Iran. Of the prophecy guys are mentioning that. So what happens is we demonize Iran. We demonize any of the enemies of Israel because we love Israel, and we do. But it doesn't mean that Israel, regathered in unbelief, is always righteous and doing the right thing. That's been the most difficult thing for me in the last six months to come to grips with because I can I I'm afraid to say it because you'll be labeled anti Semitic and a hater of Israel? I'm not a hater. I love Israel. But what I like about Arnold Fuchenbaum's book, he being a Jew and a saved Jew, is Israel's function part of its function was to be a light unto the Gentiles. Part of its function is to bring forth the Messiah. He's the savior of the whole world. So what's what's really cool about this is you'll see Egypt in the millennium. You'll see Moab. You'll see all these nations in the millennium saved group of Gentiles with Jesus ruling and reigning as king of kings and lord of lords, David as his prince, the 12 apostles, you know, also with thrones ruling and reigning, and you and I as kings and priests ruling and reigning, and we all have our new glorified bodies, but the Gentiles that come in, blessed is he that comes to the twelve hundred and thirty fifth day. So the signing of the peace treaty in Daniel nine, twelve hundred sixty days in is the midpoint. So that's that's Revelation chapter 11. Twelve hundred and sixty days after the abomination of desolation spoken by Daniel the prophet, this twelve hundred sixty is the second coming, but there's a seventy five day interval. In that seventy five day interval, who knows what the Lord's doing, you know, getting things straightened out because the, marriage supper of the lamb starts the millennium, but there's a interim period there, it looks like, of judgment and a, like, a re reestablishing or restoration of the planet after all of the plagues and the signs and seals and everything that came upon the planet, you know, how wiped out it is. But also the judgment in Matthew 25 between the sheep and the goats. So the Gentiles is the sheep and goat judgment, and the Lord's gonna judge the Gentile nations that are alive during the tribulation period of how they treated the nation of Israel. I was hungry. You gave me food. I was thirsty. You gave me drink. I was in prison and hospital. You came to visit me. Even and you've done it on the least of these, my brethren. Jesus said, you've done it on to me. So that group of people, the believing Gentiles that come through the tribulation period as believers, not taking the mark of the beast, that's gonna be a big big thing there, they get to come into the millennium. K? And you have different phases of the resurrection. Jesus, the first fruits of the resurrection, and then the church, the dead in Christ shall rise first coming up to Easter. Right? So we're a part of that in the chain of command, a military command, first Jesus, then the church. At the end of the tribulation period, the Old Testament saints are resurrected, and the tribulation saints are resurrected. So all of us have new glorified bodies, but the Gentiles have until they're about a 100 years old according to Isaiah 65, to receive Christ or not during the millennium. So it's a thousand year rule and reign. So as we're looking at Egypt here, they're gonna be really smacked down. We know that Egypt's still around today, but they're not a superpower. So when we study the book of Daniel, we talk about the times of the Gentiles. In, Luke twenty one twenty four, Jesus spoke that Jerusalem be trodden under the foot of the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles come to a conclusion. So, when Babylon is coming on the scene, Babylon is one of the first dominated world powers. Right? So Nebbe's vision in Daniel two of the image that that David that David alluded to, what is the head? Head of gold. Representative Babylon. And then a chest of what? Iron. No. That's down lower. Oh, bronze. Bronze? Silver? Silver. Silver. And what nation is that? Persians. Medes and the Persians. Cyrus and Darius. And then down lower? And that's bronze. That's bronze, and that's Alexander the Great, the Greeks. And then the iron mixed with clay at the bottom is the rebirth of the Roman Empire. Right? So you got the iron Rome mixed with clay, the rebirth of the Roman Empire during the during the tribulation period, the one world empirical nation. Now at the end of all that, that will be the end of the times of the Gentiles, trodden in Jerusalem under their feet and messing with them. So at the second coming, Jesus reestablishes the supremacy of Israel ruling over the Gentiles. So Israel in the time of Solomon, they were pretty strong. Nobody messed with them. It never never entered into all the geographical area that the Lord had promised, not yet, but they were they were dominant enough to have years of peace. And then as they apostatized, Solomon had 700 wives, 300 concubines, and he built a lot of temples to the pagan women he he was associating with. So he introduced idolatry all over the land, and even he fell away from the lord for a period of time. And and so, you know, it it lent itself toward a a backsliding of the entire nation. And then they have certain people that come along, during Israel's history, Hezekiah, and Manasseh was the worst king that they've ever had, worse than all of them put together. And god says, I'm gonna judge you guys simply because of Manasseh no matter what reforms you bring about. But in our text here, we're gonna see a guy named Josiah, king Josiah. And king Josiah was a grandson, great grandson of king Hezekiah, came after Manasseh. Now Manasseh, there would be no Manasseh had the lord taken Hezekiah home when Hezekiah got sick. But Hezekiah went to the wall and cried and cried out to god, and god gave him fifteen more years. And in that fifteen more years, Manasseh was born. Manasseh ruled for fifty five years, and he's the worst king, the most evil king of all. And, Vicky, what happened to Manasseh? He repented, and God forgave him. After he was taken away with a hook and a jaw. How did yeah. How did he repent? He was taken by the Assyrians who were very vicious and evil, and they put hooks and all sorts of things in the in their captive captives. And while he's in, you know, torment like Jonah in torment in that fish, you know, then the word of the lord comes to you a second time. You know? So we talk about free will. You may not be willing, but the lord can get you willing. Right? He has a way to get you willing. Alright. So times of the gentiles. Presently, have world powers. We're watching the, Israel regathered in the land according to Ezekiel, thirty six and thirty seven. And Ezekiel thirty eight and thirty nine is a war that's gonna come with a coalition of nations, led by Russia, Turkey, Germany, Iran. And they're gonna a coalition of nations are gonna come and and think they can seize, the spoil because Israel's in a vulnerable position with unwalled vill unwalled villages. So what's happening is Israel's strong militarily presently, but if they get into a rocket war coming up here, which is Isaiah 17 and maybe Psalm 83, it reduces their power, but they have Leviathan, which is a huge, enormous, deposit of of, natural gas. And, also, they predict the in the reds the Dead Sea, there's an enormous amount of wealth in the Dead Sea from minerals, strategic minerals and such. Plus, there are food growers that is blossoming. So 05/14/1948, a miracle born again nation, but born again in unbelief by and large. So now we go to the book of Romans eleven twenty five. Blindness in part is happening unto Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles be come in. That represents the rapture. In the present dispensation, the gospel is going out to the Jew first. They have priority. Then to the Gentile. And in this dispensation of the church age, which was a mystery once hid now revealed, Jew and Gentile, male, female, barbarian, Scythian, bonder, free, whosoever will let him come. We don't know that cutoff date or that cutoff person, that last person that receives Christ that ends the church age. But a very important thing as we're studying here is what's it mean to have a view, a belief that God's done with Israel? What do they call that today? Replacement. Replacement theology. Why is that aberrant teaching, heretical teaching? It moves Israel from God's plan. It it stuffs us into there. Yeah. That's it's it it you have to you have to die pull a bunch of prophecies out of the bible, you know, like Ezekiel thirty eight and thirty nine, Ezekiel thirty six thirty seven coming into the into the into the land being born again. You know, you you have to shred the bible up. You know? It's like your theology won't work. So that's why they don't teach prophecy to these guys. The guys that believe in a post trib or a mid trib rapture, they typically don't teach prophecy because they have no proof text. They have no verses of the Bible that can prove any kind of replacement theology. It's just their opinion. And but we have tons and tons and tons of scripture that God's promising that he's gonna restore the nation of Israel. Even at the end of this chapter, he's promising them that he's gonna restore them. He's gonna chase and punish them, but he's gonna restore them. So he hasn't replaced them. So this, in their rejection of the Messiah, Jesus said, what? You're not gonna see me again till what? Name of the So he's coming again. He's speaking to nation of Israel right there. Right? So they're still gonna be around. Right? Alright. So one of the the key issues for people that are studying prophecy is you have to make the distinction when you're studying prophecy is who god is speaking to. Is he speaking to Israel? In Matthew 24, the elect, except those days be short, no flesh be saved. But for the elect's sake, Is that as many people think the saints or the church, or is it Israel? It's Israel in the context of 24. When you get that right, then you, don't overimpose upon other passages that where you can't, come to a right conclusion. Alright. So the word of the Lord which came to Jeremiah the prophet against, the nations. And so many of these nations are judged because they mistreated Israel. God's using Nebuchadnezzar, my servant, but God is then going to judge Babylon for how they mistreated, you know, Israel eventually, and, he's going to going to judge them. So the word of the Lord which came to Jeremiah the prophet against the nations, against Egypt, against the army of pharaoh Necho, king of Egypt, who was by the river Euphrates and and Carchemish, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon smote in the fourth year of Jehoiakim, son of Josiah, king of Judah. So that's packed with a lot of info there. So you remember when we were we were studying previously, that there's a siege upon Jerusalem, and the false prophets I think it's chapter 44. Is it 34? The false prophets were saying, see, see, Jeremiah is wrong. The Babylonians have left their post. So they had a siege, but what happened was pharaoh Necho started bringing his troops to come against the Babylonians to try and free up the Jews as a sort of a help, an alliance, if you will. And so part of Nebuchadnezzar's troops had to leave the immediate work that they're doing there at Jerusalem and go over and deal with pharaoh Necho and his armies. And it's it's this, Karchemish is where they fought, fought this battle. And, of course, Nebuchadnezzar won, then they came back to Jerusalem. They tightened the siege up and destroyed the city and burned the temple and all that in May. Now turn to turn to second Chronicles second Chronicles 35. Now remember he talked about Josiah. Josiah was a a revival king. He restored the Passover. And and so I'm gonna have Robbie read once again because she reads so well, and she knows she knows how to say profectory. I wish I could say that. Second Chronicles 25. So I'm gonna have Robbie read second Chronicles 35. I I want you to read start with verse 18 because I wanna I wanna see I want us to see Josiah's heart at 26 years old. You know, he's coming in after Manasseh. It's horrible what Manasseh did, and and he wants to restore. He wants to bring some restoration to the country. Now this is gonna be an account of what the word we would use is meddling. There's gonna be a a battle with the Assyrians and pharaoh Necho, and and Josiah wants to go out and help the Babylonians. So second Chronicles Yep. Chapter 35 verse 18. And 18 is just a blessing because he they haven't had a Passover in quite a while. K. Verse 18 starting with And then finish up on 26 27. Gonna we're gonna pay close attention to the account of of pharaoh Nekel killing Josiah in battle. So I start with 18 and go to where? The 20 seven. The '27. Okay. There had not been celebrated a Passover like it in Israel since the days of Samuel the prophet, nor had any of the kings of Israel celebrated such a Passover as Josiah did with the priests, the Levites, all Judah, and Israel who were present and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. In the eighteenth year of Josiah's reign, this Passover was celebrated. After all this, when Josiah had set the temple in order, Necho king of Egypt came up to make war at Carchemish on the Euphrates, and Josiah went out to engage him. But Necho sent messengers to him saying, what have we to do with each other, o king of Judah? I am not coming against you today but against the house with which I am at war, and God has ordered me to hurry. Stop for your own sake from interfering with God who is with me so that he will not destroy you. However, Josiah would not turn away from him, but disguised himself in order to make war with him, nor did he listen to the words of Necco from the mouth of God that came to make war on the Plain Of Megiddo. The archers shot king Josiah, and the king said to his servants, take me away for I am badly wounded. So his servants took him out of the chariot and carried him in the second chariot, which he had, and brought him to Jerusalem where he died and was buried in the tombs of his fathers. All Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah. Then Jeremiah chanted a lament for Josiah and all the male and female singers speaking about Josiah and their lamentations to this day. And they made them an ordinance in Israel. Behold, they also they are also written in the lamentations. Now the rest of the acts of Josiah and his deeds of devotion as written in the law of the Lord and his acts, first to last, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah. So a few things here. You've got Pharaoh Necho. It's the same battlefield, Karchemish, and, you've got, the emphasis upon don't meddle. This isn't a war that you're supposed to be in, Josiah, but he's enjoying such great success, that he wants to, you know, come out against the Egyptians. Interesting. He's killed at Megiddo, Armageddon. That's where Armageddon's gonna be fought. It's a great battlefield. Also, he's dead at 39. And then the other thing is, imagine Jeremiah, forty years of ministry. Imagine if Josiah would've lived, how much better Jeremiah's ministry would've been working with a king that was godly. You know? Wouldn't that be much better than working with a Biden? You know? So it's a So great. You know, it's or an Obama. You know? I mean, golly. That's pretty pretty hard. So so who is who is Egypt coming to fight them if it wasn't They're they're coming against the Assyrians. Oh. Assyrians. Yeah. And and they're and the the Babylonians are also starting to rise up. They're just starting to rise up on the on the the world stage. And so pharaoh Necho is very wealthy. When we're reading here in '46, Egypt's very wealthy. He is so wealthy that and so soft that the Egyptians really don't wanna fight anymore by the time we're here, most of them. So they hire a lot of mercenaries from Africa and pay them handsomely to be part of their, you know, their military. But they've got the best of the best as far as chariots, horses, all the armaments, everything. And, but their shelf life is over. God's saying, I'm gonna raise up Babylon. Neb Nebuchadnezzar, my servant, is who I'm raising up at this point. So Egypt, we're gonna put you down a few rungs, and you're gonna wind up being subservient. Yeah. So against Egypt, against the army. Now Assyria Assyria was a world power and dominant until July. They were destroyed. And then and then Israel Israel May, the Babylonians are used to or excuse me. The 10 northern tribes were destroyed by Assyria in July. Judah lost the Babylonians in May. There we go. So there was a time where the Assyrians were dominant. Syria tried to, dominate Judah even in the time of Hezekiah, but you remember one angel God used in Jehoshaphat, one angel God used to kill a 185,000 of the invading Assyrian force. They wiped out 42 fortified cities surrounding, Judah, surrounding Jerusalem, but, they could never penetrate, Jerusalem and take Jerusalem out. So God preserved Judah until the point in time after Jeremiah's ministry, they didn't come to repentance and allowed the Babylonians to subdue them. So, again, Egypt against the army of Pharaoh Necho, king of Egypt, who was by the river Euphrates at Carchemish, so the same battlefield that that, Josiah died at, which Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, smote in the fourth year of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, king of Judah. So around June, four years earlier, Josiah had died in June. So order the buckler. So from here to verse 12, we're gonna get a picture of that battle. From verse 13 forward is going to be a description of the prophecy of the invasion of Babylon actually going into Egypt and destroying Egypt. So at this point, they're north, on the Euphrates at a city called Kharchemish, which is on the border of Turkey and of Assyria. So that's where the battlefield is in the first 12 verses. So order the buckler and the shield and draw near to battle. What's a buckler? I know what a shield is. Right? They have these round shields? Yeah. So arm MRIs, what's a buckler? Small shield. A buckler is on the the front part of the shield. We used to push away the pony. So buckler is the bigger one. Cover the whole body. Right? And, No. So it's in the dead center as well. Dead center? And then there's a a a smaller round one. Right? Okay. Buckler and a shield. So get the buckler and the shield ready. Got some military people here, and we could go to Ephesians six and look at our armor. Right? Buckler and a shield and draw near to battle. Harness the horses and get up get up horsemen and stand forth with your helmets and polish the spears and put on the coats of mail. So, you know, get ready. And Psalm 20 verse seven, some trust in horses, some in chariots, but we will remember the name of the Lord. Right? Amen. So we have a great military in America. Awesome military. Greatest military on the planet. But if we forget God, he could humble us with all sorts of different ways to humble us. Right? So only thing that makes America once great was our god, you know, walking in submission unto him. So we gotta be real careful of being boastful and thinking that, well, we got the nukes. We got this. We got that. And the lord can take down a great nation like like Egypt with all the armaments, all the military might, but they're soft now. They're soft. They they don't have that that appetite or tenacity, that drive like the Babylonians do. And oh, thank you, sir. And so they get your coats of mail on. Why have I seen them dismayed and turned away back? And their mighty ones are beaten down and fled apace and look not back for fear was round about, saith the lord. So they're retreating in this battle. They're being chased by the Babylonians, so they're they're losing. And he says, let not the swiftly away nor the mighty man escapes. So the Babylonians are going after him. Don't let him get away. Don't let him go away. And so remember king Jehoiachin that he tried to sneak out the back door to get away from the Babylonians when they came, and the Chaldeans grabbed hold of him, brought him back. And in his crazy, crazy disobedience to Nebuchadnezzar, then he they took and they executed all of his sons. That's the last thing he ever saw. Then they plucked his eyes out because of his disobedience. So they chased him. So let not the swift flee away nor the mighty man escape. They shall stumble and fall toward the north by the river Euphrates. So they're all confused. They're near the border of, Turkey and of Syria. And, who is this that cometh up like a flood whose waters are moved like the rivers? And so the the picture there is that the Egyptians think that they've got this huge military surging, this surging huge army that's gonna be able to come up against the Babylonians, but it's not working. And they're getting they're getting whooped on. And, you know, Isaiah 59 verse 19, when the enemy comes in like a flood, the spirit of the Lord will raise up a standard against him. Right? Mhmm. And you're overwhelmed. Then remember Jeremiah 12 verse five. Remember how I told you I love that verse? You guys know that verse? Jeremiah, if you're whipping out, you're having a hard time in the time of the footmen, the foot soldiers What are you gonna do when the horses show up? What are you gonna do when the horses, chariots, and the swelling of the Jordan Yeah. When they're coming in like a flood after you? So buckle up, gang. Buckle up, America. Get ready because it's gonna get harder. How do you prepare Christians to get ready for what's coming in America? You teach them the word. Teach them the word? But they don't like to hear it. A lot them don't like to hear it. They don't like to hear what's coming. They wanna they wanna evade. They wanna live in denial. They wanna act like it's not gonna happen. Just as just as Jeremiah's ministry tried to warn the people, they didn't wanna hear it. They listened to false prophets. They didn't want to hear it. And so for me, if I was to be asked what what's the message? What's the solution? I'd say it's always repentance. It's always repentance. It starts with repentance. So I see in in the Ninevites, forty days and you're gonna perish. That's not a very nice message. It's not very nice. Where's the love, man? Love your neighbor. And from the king on down, they repent in dust and ashes, and God repented. God gave a reprieve over a hundred years. Right? It tickled his heart that they repented, this foreign nation, a foreign nation. So we didn't even need to go to second Chronicles seven fourteen. We just go to the example of Nineveh, god dealing in such a merciful way with with the Assyrians, you know, during that time. And so, but America, if it thinks of itself like Egypt, like, great. We're not doing anything wrong. Like we read like we read when he was gonna waste Josiah, he actually thought he was doing God's work. Pharaoh Nekel thought he was doing God's work, you know, to come against him. So pride is what blinds. It's that pride that's there. And really hard to fight against treason, isn't it? That's gonna be the the difficult thing. So let not the swiftly away nor the mighty man escape. They shall stumble and fall toward the north by the river Euphrates. Who is this that come up like a flood whose waters are moved like the rivers? Egypt rises up like a flood, and his waters move like the rivers. And he sayeth, I will go up and will cover the earth. I will destroy the city and the inhabitants of it. So big Egypt, huge army, a lot of armament, and the Lord can cause sand, a sandstorm, to take out an Apache helicopter. The Lord can cause rain and mud to cause a a battlefield to just stop. You know, with all the technology you have and everything, the Lord can intervene with weather issues that can just take all of all of your your chariots, Pharaoh, when when the children of Israel are are leaving Egypt. You know, the the Gulf Of Aqaba has apparently still has remnants of Egyptian chariot wheels in the Gulf Of Aqaba. If you're a diver, you can read and get videos on it. So when the Lord parted the Red Sea, not the Reed Sea, the Red Sea, the Egyptian army tried to cross. Right? And they got drowned in the water. And so some of that's still there. So the Lord the Lord can obviously obviously, you want the Lord on your side. Since God before us, who can be against us? Right? Romans eight thirty one. I I always want the Lord between me and the devil. I don't wanna fight the devil, you know, directly. I want to resist the devil. Submit yourself to God. Resist the devil, and he'll flee from you. But a lot of times we leave out the submit yourself to God part that Peter alludes to. So you, first of all, you submit yourself to God, to his sovereign will in your life. Now resist the devil, and the devil will flee from you. And when you're tempted, when the devil is coming at you and tempting you, you always come back with the scripture because he's a liar. Right? And he'll leave for a season, he'll come back again. So we're at war. We're in a war. We're fighting against spirits and principalities of the air. And we've got to have our armor on constantly, diligently, but we're to be moving forward in our walk with the Lord because we're storming the gates of hell, because Jesus said the gates of hell not prevail, right? And so if we're moving forward, we're not inactive like David in a time when kings go out to battle. David was idle. And when David was idle, when he put it on cruise control, he went through a midlife crisis. He already had a harem of women, but he wanted Bathsheba, and then he murdered Uriah, and then he tried to cover it. He got brought he brought about an opportunity for the enemies of the Lord to blaspheme God's name because of his disobedience. But the problem was he was idle and should have been more, you know, get to work, Elijah. Get back to work. It's important that we work, that we do what God's called us to do and and stay on point. Keep doing that. Because as soon as you drop your guard, the devil's gonna attack. And he's so patient. He'll wait fifty years to take you out and ruin you at the end of your life. But we wanna keep pressing toward the mark of the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. Paul kept pressing, kept moving forward. He didn't retire. Nothing wrong with retirement. Maybe you retire from your day job, you get to serve the Lord more or whatever, you know? But we're always serving the Lord wherever we're at, in our day job, night job, fishing, whatever it might be, being the grandkids, we're serving the Lord. And so a surging Egyptian army, and they've risen up like a flood. So the Nile has overflown its banks, its waters are moved like the rivers. And he saith, I will go up and cover the earth. I will destroy that city and the inhabitants of it. So come up, horse and rage, ye chariots, and let the mighty men come. Come forth, cush and put, the handle, the shield, the lubum, and the handle, and the bend, bow. So these are the mercenaries. These are those from Libya, Lydia, and, let's see, Ethiopia. And so these are the these are the conscript, the speckops, these really good mercenaries. And and the Romans began to use a lot of different mercenaries also, different countries they'd conquer and offer citizenship for guys that, you know, stayed in long enough and such and the privileges of citizenship. So mercenaries looks like the Biden administration wants some mercenaries. They're bringing them in across the border, aren't they? Military age guys, gonna give them uniforms. And apparently, are saying they're the ones that are gonna go door to door and force us to give up our weapons. Right? Because our own military won't do it. So interesting. For this is the day of the Lord, God of hosts. God of hosts, he's got an army. We got a bigger God. We're bigger than you guys. A day of vengeance that he may avenge himself on his adversaries. The sword shall devour and it shall be filled to the full and made drunk with their blood of the Lord God of hosts with a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates. So God saves by few, not by many. God just the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the earth to show himself strong on behalf of one man, one woman whose heart is perfect toward God. God can do great things with one Abraham. He can do great things through one Moses. He doesn't need a huge army. He says to Gideon, you got too many, bro. 33,000 is too many. If I let you win this battle with 33,000, you're gonna be boastful. You're gonna talk about how great military guys you are, you know? And 10 thousand's too many. 10 thousand's too many. And so we're gonna go with 300. Okay? We're gonna go with 300, and and I'll give you the victory, and the glory will come to me. So the Lord sets the sets the stage so that all the world knows that it's God. So let's look future. Let's look at the nation of Israel. So you got the nation of Israel in the land. We know they're really, really good soldiers. We know they're really smart. They have God's help with them, the seventy three and the sixty seven war, and they have a philosophy of of of within their country, no more Masada. If you go to Israel, you go up and you'll visit Masada. Right? So Masada is a place where the Romans were coming and putting a siege upon the nation. And and you could there was water source and everything at Masada. King Herod the great made. And so you could you could you could fight off the siege for quite a while at Masada. You had the high ground and all. But what the Romans did is the Romans began to conscript Jews to move toward the wall. So the Jews were not gonna kill their own countrymen. So what they did was they killed themselves. Suicide. So apparently, I don't know if they still do this, but once you graduate and you're in the military in Israel, man, woman, child, whatever, they do flyover, a Masada, and they they basically say never again. So their philosophy now is taken from Samson in that he grabbed hold of the pillars, and he took the Philistines down over 4,000 in his death that he took down with him. So, basically, they're saying we have nukes. We have a great military here. And if you don't respect us, leave us alone. If any of you threaten or jeopardize our existence, you try to scrape us off of here and push us into the Mediterranean, which a lot of them, that's their philosophy, a lot of the Muslim nations, the hatred against the Jews, then we're gonna take everybody with us. So that's their that's their what drives them, basically. But they they're going to be met by a coalition of nations in Ezekiel thirty eight thirty nine, and they're way outgunned, way outmanned. They're they're it's like I said, there's unwalled unwalled cities. Like like, let's just go in and take the spoil. And god puts a hook in the jaw of Gog Magog and brings them back as they're moving through the area. And the leader of Russia is Gog of Magog. And like I said, there's an alliance of nations, and they're gonna come in and take the spoil. But what do you think is gonna happen when that battle takes place and five out of every six of the invading force is killed by God? What do you think the world's gonna do? Uh-oh. We better refigure this. Right? Even in their most vulnerable condition, with all of the weapons we have, with all the technology Russia has and everybody else has, we couldn't take little tiny Israel out because God intervened, and he took out five out of every six of the invading invaders. So the whole world, I believe Ezekiel thirty eight and thirty nine is gonna happen before the tribulation period, and that's gonna be the occasion for the Antichrist to emerge to sign a peace treaty with the nation of Israel in that we couldn't get rid of you by tricking you. So now we wanna sign a peace treaty with you, a seven year, and we'll help you rebuild your temple and that whole thing. So but the world the world's gonna stand back and say, what are we gonna do? You know, five out of every six wiped out. Now you got direct you have people who go out and mark the bones, mark the bodies, and and specific people that bury these bodies and all. And and so less people be defiled because they're gonna try and restart the Judaism and all in their worship. So some are saying that pretty soon here they're gonna take the ashes of the red heifer and make an offering on the Mount Of Olives, an altar they've made in preparation for one day being able to rebuild the temple and to start it there. And so that's the temple, the Antichrist temple, right, and that he's gonna go into. So so anyway, God is for Israel, and and he's not gonna allow any nation, not gonna allow anybody to exterminate them as a people. He's not gonna you don't meet a Philistine anymore. The name Palestine is a derogatory term by the Romans that they gave to the nation of Israel to cause people to forget about Israel, the name Israel. And it's a derogatory Latin term. There are no Palestinians. There's no such thing as a Palestinian. So the ancient Phoenicians came from Crete, the island of Crete many, many feel, and they became the Philistines, if you will. And the Philistines in the Gaza area, you know, fighting against the Jews. But you never meet you never meet anybody that says, hey, my lineage goes back to the Philistines because they're all wiped out. And there's a lot of nations like that that been wiped out. They're not there's no lineage, you know, no record, DNA record, but there are Jews and have been Jews, sons of Abraham, dispersed all over the world, and all the antisemitism, all the hatred, whatever, has never been able to wipe them out because God has a plan for the nation of Israel. And you you do well to know that if God's for them, you better not be against them, you know? You don't wanna I would hate to hear that America goes to war with Israel. I would hate to hear that. That would really, really I know we're in deep, deep trouble if we wanna do that. And does anybody know the story of the USS Liberty? You can look it up. In fact, I think it's in the seventy three or sixty seven war, one of them, but you have to look it up. Okay. So so the sacrifice, the Lord's gonna cause this army that's being wiped out, the Egyptians. He'll consider it as a sacrifice, this slaughter that's taken place by the river Euphrates. And this is a holy war, if you will. And a slaughter in Revelation nineteen seventeen and eighteen, who wants to read that? A slaughter at Armageddon. And this this should Revelation nineteen seventeen who's got a brand new, really nice bible she wants to read? Alright. Revelation nineteen seventeen and eighteen. Now this is gonna be exciting because the globalists think that they're gonna establish a utopia, a demonic utopia, and it's gonna be very, very short lived. And God's allowing them to set the stage for the return of his son. In Revelation seventeen seventeen, he's putting the minds and the hearts of these globalists to actually do God's bidding. But, ultimately, these carnivorous birds, the fowls of the air that that they're carnivores. They're not vegans. They don't they don't eat soy, and they don't eat bugs. They eat like the Haitians right now. They're eating human flesh is what they're gonna eat. Right? And that's a bad bad thing. He said too many numbers. Revelation nineteen seventeen and eighteen. Seventeen and eighteen. So this is the picture of Armageddon. Blood as high as the horse's bridle, kings, battlefield strewn. I get to read it. Yeah. You do. And I saw an angel standing in the sun, and he cried with a loud voice saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of the heaven, come and gather yourselves together onto the supper of the great God that ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great. And so the battlefield's like a 200 mile square mile battlefield called Armageddon stretching stretching from Israel all the way over to Basra to Petra and all that. And 1,640 furlongs, I think, is what it said. And the armies of the world are gathered with the Antichrist to try and destroy the one third remnant. Two thirds already been wiped out according to Zechariah thirteen eight nine, but there's a one third remnant that flees to Petra, Roksiddira, Basra. And they're wanting to stop Jesus from returning, if you can imagine that, the globalists. But they're also wanting to exterminate the Jews because in Revelation 12, the woman is who they're after, and she flees. And the devil knows his time is short, so gonna try and, you know, wipe out the apple of God's eye. And as their backs are against the wall, they say, blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord. And so except those days be short, no flesh would be saved. But for the elect's sake, the Lord Jesus intervenes. And and we're told in second Thessalonians two that with the brightness of his coming and the sword of his mouth, he wipes out the antichrist and the false prophet there in the battlefield. Their bodies just drop. And he doesn't even have to engage. The sword of his mouth just wipes out all of those those troops there. And if you watched the Raiders of the Lost Ark, there's a verse in Zechariah where their eyes, everything just melts. It just melts. You know? So by him in Colossians, by him, by Jesus, all things consist. So the realm that we don't see here in the air is a mixture of the ability to to split atoms and neutrons that can create fire, that can barbecue everybody. So Jesus with the sword of his mouth and the brightness of Shekinah glory just obliterates not not any weapons, just just his his word, and they they just fall apart. And so the blood is four and half feet high. Blood is high as the horse's bridle is the description there. So in Isaiah 63, you know, his he's trampling out the vintage. His outer garment's just covered with blood, and he's stomping his enemies. Right? So, I mean, it's glorious. It's glorious that the only way we're gonna really have peace is when the prince of peace comes and it's war. It's war against evil. He's gonna grab the antichrist and the false prophet and put them in the lake of fire immediately. And then the devil, who is a fallen angel, he's gonna put into the abyss for a thousand years. And then after that, when he loses them for a short season in at the end of the millennium to test the people that are repopulating the planet then, then he's gonna put the devil into the lake of fire. And we're gonna see a great white throne judgment, and we're gonna see the wicked dead bodily raised from the dead in in Revelation chapter 20, and they're gonna come before the great white throne judgment. They're given a give account of what they did while they're in their body, whether good or bad. And basically, one question is asked, the unbeliever, what did you do with my son? And if you didn't receive Christ, then all the sins that you've ever committed are still due, and that's where you can't pay, you can't make due because it's by his blood and you didn't appropriate the free gift of eternal life. So now you then are with the devil, the antichrist, the false prophet, the wicked dead. So there is no annihilation. There is no purgatory. There is no cessation of thought, you know. You are you are you are cognizant. You are a being that's alive. You're being in the sense of aware. You're not alive in the sense of the new life that we have. Death is also defined as separation from God. You're separated from God, which is death. You're in outer darkness. You're at the lake of fire. And the duration, the Bible says, is for all eternity. So we win. Our name's written in the lamb's book of life. Right? So don't fear him who can kill your body, but fear him who can not only kill your body, but cast your soul into hell. Fear God. And so he told his disciples, don't be rejoicing that you can cast out demons, you know, but you rejoice in that your name's written in the lamb's book of life. Right? That's it's it's a it's a done deal for us. It is finished, paid in full. So no fearful looking to have judgment for you and I. No fear of being on the wrong side of this battle of good against evil. We're on the we're on the side of good. We're we're on God's side, and more importantly, he's on our side. And I don't ever wanna be outside of God's will in a situation where you see like in Revelation nine and Revelation 11, these people are so incredibly rebellious against God. No matter what he does, they just they just will not, you know, repent. And so, verse 11, so go up into Gilead and take balm, O virgin, the daughters of Egypt. In vain shalt thou use many medicines for thou shall not be cured. So there's no cure. There's no cure for this. This disease that Egypt has is terminal. There's nothing gonna save them. There's no medicine. There's no vaccine. There's no pill. There's nothing that can save them from the corruption that so permeated their culture. God's saying, I'm gonna put them down. Now not wipe them out completely because, again, in the millennium, there's going to be nation of Egypt is going to be a part of it, but as Gentile nations. So I get pretty stoked when I think of the fastest growing church in the world is in a Persian nation, that of Iran. That's amazing. And then you think of China. They say the church in China is larger than the professing church in America, the amount of people that have come to faith since, you know, communism took it over, you know, because when Chiang Kai shek was there, the evangelists were going all through China planting the seeds and watered, and the persecution that came against them just caused them to flourish and grow. So it's exciting to see in these Muslim nations and around the world. Look at the Christians in Nairobi, Nigeria. They're not backing down. Right? They're being wiped out. They're being slaughtered. They're being martyred. But the devil's frontal attack always causes the church to grow. The devil joining the church during the dark ages when Constantine nationalized the church is what leads to corruption. It leads to incredible, incredible corruption that the salt loses its savor and is good for nothing but to be trodden in the foot of men. So the balm of Gilead speaks of medicine. It speaks of healing. Jeremiah alluded to it in Jeremiah eight twenty two. So there's no guru, there's no political process, there's no medical process, there's no economic process, there's no solution to the problems men are facing. There's only one escape from judgment, and that's Jesus Christ. The globalists and the people upon the planet during the tribulation period, it says that men's hearts would fail them. What's it mean when your heart fails? Heart attacks. The men's hearts failing them for fear as they see the things that are coming upon the earth, the earth dwellers. They're wanting to build bunkers deeper and deeper. Right now, Zuckerberg building his in in Hawaii, Gates and Soros and all these globalists have these bunkers underground. Bezos sold enormous amount of his stock two weeks ago. Zuckerberg sold stock. Microsoft sold stock. So rich guys, when they wanna get richer, they buy their stock. Why do they buy their stock? Because they know it's gonna go up. Right? So when they sell stock, what are they telegraphing? Enormous amounts of of stock sell off Bezos did. He's letting you know that it's gonna crash. It's going down. So they're insiders. They know ahead of time. So and not only that, but when you see their hand toward stockpiling food and heirloom seeds and water sources and going underground, billion dollar bunkers, what are they telling you? You don't wanna be on the surface. Whatever it is they've got planned, you don't wanna be on the surface of the earth. Right? And so we see them in Revelation chapter six. They're underground, and they're trying to hide from the wrath of the lamb, and there's no place to hide because God causes the earth's earthquake to happen. And these guys have no they have no way out. So for me to live as Christ, to die is gain, to be asked on the bodies to be present with the Lord. We don't fear death. I I if I have any fear that's present in this timeframe is my heart breaks, number one, from the deception that's happening. But the only thing I can think of that's greater than the deception, and the deception is huge that we're living under, is the stupidity. Yeah. Yeah. I'm overwhelmed recently with the stupidity of professing Christians that just can't get it. And it's so hard because you invest like Jeremiah, you invest so much time and pleading and begging and and they just don't want to, though. They just don't wanna hear. And it's it just breaks my heart. Breaks my heart. It's 40 All the excuses all the excuses they make for evil people. They won't hold anybody accountable. It's always making excuses for people that don't do their job, that don't do what they're supposed to do. Making excuses for pastors that don't teach the word, making excuses for governmental leaders that don't do what they promise you. You know? It's just always, always making excuses. Pastor Chuck used to say, man, that's good with excuses is very seldom good at anything else. Right? Mhmm. If I if I tell them if I tell the guys at the gym that, hey. I I got busy. I couldn't get in there on Saturday or I couldn't get in with such a date. You know what they say to me? A girl told me this. She says, it's a twenty four hour gym. I thought, holy smokes. She's hardcore. And then I made them these are military people. A lot of them are military people. And and then I made an excuse, another excuse, and a guy says to me, the numbers don't lie. That's hardcore people, man. That means your calorie intake. That means the time that you have to sleep and the what you can lift, the numbers don't lie. If you're getting fat, it's because the numbers don't lie. It's because I had pecan pie and Yeah. But the So you saw a small pecan pie ad right there. Alright. Okay. So It was taking a lot of time. It's just it's just amazing to me. We as Christians, what liars we are to ourselves, the excuses we make. It's just mind boggling. That's why I marvel at people who are disciplined and regimented and sacrificial, you know, where where what happened to those qualities? You know? What happened to these qualities? I mean Sometimes I think there's just way too many more choices. More choices? Yeah. It used to be pretty easy, and now there's instead of two choices, now there's four choices. Tall. Alright. Okay. So I could see Jeremiah the weeping prophet. It broke his heart to see how obtuse, how stupid, spiritually stupid the people were when he's over and over and over again proving God, proving the prophecies right, forty years of it, and he can't get even one person, maybe Baruch, saved, you know? And mind boggling job that the Lord gave him to do. So the balm of Gilead, this is a this is a healing balm, medicinal. And is there is there any healing balm for the unbeliever? Jesus. Is there any is there any pill the psychiatrist can make, the pharmaceutical companies, any medicine they can make to transform and change a person? No. We appreciate the hell. We appreciate the groups we meet with and talk and listeners and all that. But ultimately, got a heart problem, and I need a new heart. I need a new heart. And only God can transform and change a person from within. Right? And only Jesus, his blood, can wash away my sins. Right? Continually wash. There's no there's no medical process. Now think about it a minute. What is Klaus Schwab and all the guys doing? They're trying to come up with a way to make it so you will live forever. They're looking for the healing balm of Gilead. They're looking for a chip that they put in you. They're saying Jared Kushner said his generation is not gonna die. The lie in second Thessalonians two, when people reject the truth, they're given over by God to a strong delusion that they would believe the lie. The lie is we're gonna techno technologically make it so that you never die. We're going to find the cause of all diseases, this mRNA vaccine. We get that one going right, it will attack cancer. It will attack all the diseases that could develop in your body. Not only that, but we're going to combine the iron with the clay. Man was made from the clay, from the dust of the ground. We're going to combine the technology with man and cause him to be a new kind of man, a transhuman. We're gonna change the DNA. Right? That's what these guys are dreaming of. Right? Now, the first time men were where there was nothing impossible for men to do, the Lord destroyed them with a flood. Right? Lest they go too far with the demons. And so it looks like there's a return to the days of Noah. There's a return to the days of Sodom and Gomorrah. Right? Morally. And so you and I, we don't fear because we know a lot of them are just we'll see at the end here, Pharaoh is just a big talker, just a bunch of noise. And and that's why I like Jesus. Because over here in verse 17, it talks about Pharaoh Necco being just a bunch of noise, a blowhard. Lot of blowhards on YouTube prophets a day. Lot of blowhards. And but here's the way you get around that. Destroy this temple. In three days, I'll raise it up. So any of you guys out there, Klaus Schwab's and all you, Noah Yuval Harari, God's dead, we just haven't buried the body yet. Well, why don't you go be crucified, buried, and raise yourself from the dead? Because that's what Jesus did. That's the proof text for us. We're gonna celebrate that at the end of this month. Right? Easter. Right? We celebrate it every day. But Jesus proved it, and his enemies knew what he what he said. This deceiver said, we need to guard the tomb, you know, unless his his disciples steal the body. Well, good luck with that. You know? Alright. So our faith is an intelligent faith, but the balm of Gilead, I'm for medicine. A lot of people in our church are sick, and the doctors have been doing a wonderful job, the nurses, lots of good medicine, keeping my dad alive and all that. But the it's rudimentary compared to what God can do. It's it's entry level compared to what God can do. So, you know, I see Jesus casting out demons. I see him causing the blind to see, the lame to walk. In John nine, the guy says there's never been anybody that's ever come around that could cause the blind, a man born blind, to be able to see. You tell me who he is. You know? Who do you think he is? You know what I mean? These these pretenders. You know? So so shall not be cured. So now let's look at the nation. This is imposed upon the nation of Egypt. So if we look at the America, are we sick? Are we a sick society? Yeah. Is pedophilia gone off the charts? Yeah. The most vulnerable among us are our children. Right? You can tell where a nation is and how they treat the weakest among them. Right? The most vulnerable. That's where you know that nation is. And where are we? Do you think our elected leaders, the criminal DC guys, do you think these globalists have a a vampire, adrenachrome, pedophilia, an appetite for the most heinous wickedness you could ever imagine? Yes. Of course, they do. And Epstein's still alive, like I told you. He's alive. He's a Dave Hodges did a thing and showed a picture of him in August. He was on his island there. So they just faked this and stuff like that. Anyway, they have an appetite. Pizza gay, all of them have an appetite for children. Sex trafficking, cages for little kids, all that kind of stuff. I mean, we're at the end. You you can't rectify or fix that. There's no balm of Gilead to fix that. This is a country that's that's the shelf life has expired. And doesn't mean there aren't other nations out there worse than us, but as a global power, as a superpower, God is in the process of taking us down, and we can't like ancient Rome, we can't withstand the corruption from within. It's not a foreign enemy. It's from within the corruption. The the dollar's corrupt. The 34,000,000,000,000 in debt is a corruption. The way we treat children, the marriage marriage is corrupt. Family's corrupted. Everything's being corrupted. The solution is salt and light. The solution is we as Christians, we stave off the putrefaction. We as Christians, if the church is living the way God's called us to do, Jesus said you're salt and light. Salt is used to salt the deer when you kill it so that the meat doesn't putrefy, so the meat doesn't corrupt. You are a influence in the culture preserving that culture, lest it corrupt upon itself and worms and all the stuff, you know, poking out of it. You're light. The light exposes the darkness. What I love about people in this church is they they look at alternative media sites. They do their due diligence. They read their Bible. They study prophecy, and they expose the real simple lies of the media and the and the wicked people that are trying to lie. We're in a war for ideas. As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. So being light, you simply open your mouth like John the Baptist did, and you let him know that's not right. That's all that that's not right. Well, in whose eyes? In God's eyes. And boy, they get mad, don't they? And they wanna go crawl back like cockroaches underneath the cupboards because you turned the light on them. So they wanna make laws, snitch laws to snitch on you and get $2. And they wanna make censorship because you're ruining their party by exposing their lies. They're fraud science and everything. So that's part of the corruption. You allow the lies to permeate, it's gonna corrupt everything. There won't be any truth. You're gonna be like Pontius Pilate, you're gonna say, what is truth? Right? There's no real truth. Yeah. So it has to be based upon truth. The devil's a liar. He's a murderer from the beginning. His greatest weapon is lying. He's a liar. Alright. So the nations have heard of thy shame, and thy cry has filled the land, for the mighty man has stumbled against the mighty, and they are all fallen together. So Babylon invades, chapter verse 13 forward. But it's terminal, there's no cure, they're all falling on each other, there's confusion. The mercenaries, all of them, the whole Egyptian army is in disarray. And then now verse 13, it is a prophecy of invasion of Egypt. So the word of the Lord spoke to Jeremiah the prophet how Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon should come and smite the land of Egypt. So we saw the battle at Carchemish, and now the focus is Egypt itself. Back from 44 verse one. Declare in Egypt and publish in Migdal and publish in Memphis and Antaphanes, these are big cities of of Egypt, say, stand fast and prepare for the sword shall devour roundabout roundabout thee. So you're doomed. So Nebbe's coming to a city near you. Wouldn't that be ominous? Why are thy valiant men swept away? They they stood not because the Lord did drive them. So your your bravest men, your spec ops, your greatest soldiers were so filled with fear, they retreated, they deserted, they were destroyed. And Jesus said in John ten, that the hireling, the mercenary, is the one that's gonna flee when danger comes. Right? They have they they're they have no interest. So greater love is no man than this than a man laying down his life for his friends. They're foreigners. Right? You sworn to uphold the constitution against enemies, foreign domestic. You're never going to fire upon your grandma and grandpa and your family and your friends, right? But you bring in foreigners, mercenaries, and they're gonna fire upon you. But if you get the upper hand on them, they're gonna flee, aren't they? They're gonna flee. They have no divested interest in holding their ground and staying here. So these guys flee. Now the shepherd, he'll lay down his life for the sheep. He'll lay by the door. He won't let the wolf come and get the sheep. And so the difference is love. What motivates us is love. Jesus loves us, and he wants us to love his sheep and protect the sheep. So why are they valiant men swept away? They stood not because the Lord did drive them. He made many to fall, yea, one fell upon another and they said, arise and let us go again to our own people into the land of our nativity from the oppressing sword. And so the war, the hireling, they flee. In May, Babylon invaded Egypt is when this is happening. They did cry there. Pharaoh, king of Egypt, is but noise. Man, what a great way to describe the the stage of leaders presently. You know? What a bunch of blowhards. You know? So he has passed the time appointed, and it's just talk. Back it up, you loud mouth. So on the good side and the bad side, we we have a very difficult time extricating ourselves from, generations of thinking left and right. On the left, we got the bad Democrats. On the right, we got the good Republicans. You gotta quit thinking like that. You gotta look at it from up above that it's the globalism. It's globalism. And both sides, it's the uniparty. They're both working for the globalists. They're working for Satan, a satanic development of the of the beast system. And so these guys will promise you they're gonna make America great again, and they're gonna fix the economy and oil and jobs and all these other things. I'm gonna drain the swamp. I'm a do this, that, and the other. And I'm in the warp street jab daddy. You know? And but then they don't do it. And then everybody makes excuses for him. But wait a minute. I thought he was a genius. I thought he was a four d chess player with QAnon and everybody, and the pillow guy liked him and general Flynn and everybody, you know, everybody's sleeping good now. And, you know, and then all the Republicans stand down and don't do anything. Don't do anything to stop the evil of the boldness of Obama and Biden. No. Everybody's afraid of January 6 when the FBI's in buses wearing mega hats causing this huge false flag to put fear in anybody that would question the stolen election. So now we're gonna come back as blowhards and start to say that we're gonna make America great again. We're gonna take it back. Well, how many years that gone on now? Eight? Eight years? Gonna be about the eighth year. I don't even know if we're gonna get to the election with what's happening. So much talk, but no action. No action. Just arrest one person. Arrest one criminal, but blow hard. Just blow hard, man. And so as I live, saith the king, whose name is the lord of hosts, surely like Tabor among the mountains and like Carmel among the sea, so shall he come. Speaking of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar is gonna stand tall. He's gonna be a tall mountain of a man dominant. So this is gonna be a world power that of the Babylonians. O thou daughter dwelling in Egypt, furnish thyself to go in unto captivity for Memphis shall be waste and desolate without an inhabitant. So it's gonna be just ruined, you women get ready because you're gonna be taken into captivity. Egypt is like a very fair heifer. Well, at least they're carnivores. Right? Egypt is like a very fair heifer, but destruction comes upon it, comes out of the North. So the Babylonians are coming. They're gonna bite and devour you like a soft heifer. You're real soft. Now one of their gods that they worship is a bull named Apis, little g god bull named Apis. So it's a picture of a real strong bull. You're god. You're but you're like a soft heifer. You're not you're not a bull to be feared. You're a soft heifer that we should butcher and eat. Right? So you're gonna be butchered. You're gonna be devoured by the Babylonians. And Babylonian is gonna bite and devour every facet of you. Also, hired men are in the the midst of her like fatted bullocks, for they also are turned back and are fled away together. They did not stand because the day of their calamity was come upon them and the time of their judgment. So if we go to other countries and we fight in the name of democracy, we fight in the name of freedom fight, what would that fight look like on our own soil? Probably a lot greater intensity, right? We'd have a lot greater intensity of preserving our own homes, our own streets, our own communities if a foreign enemy ever attacked us here. And I have no doubt in my mind that America could defeat anybody if we're united. If we're united around Jesus, right? Defeat anybody. But if we're divided, and we go into a civil war, ethnic group against ethnic group, nation against nation, kingdom against kingdom, biting devouring, our enemies, foreign enemies, will just wait while we gobble each other up and then just walk in and take the spoil. So that's the that's the reason why we wanna be so careful not to take the bait of all the hate mongering, hating everybody. I don't hate any Democrats. You know? I don't hate LBGTs or any of that stuff. Don't hate any of it, any of them. I hate the ideology. Yeah. I I hate the lies. I hate the that sort of thing. But I'm not gonna go be mean to somebody that's a Democrat, you know? They got a Biden sign up. I'll prick for them. I feel sorry for them, you know? They're bunch of droolers, you know? But but, you know, there's nobody that I wanna I just wanted to be able to defend myself. I don't wanna go on the offense of of being taught to hate people, you know? I don't hate Muslims. I I I hate Islam. Muslims are the people. Islam is the belief system. It's a it's a it's a demonic belief system, and it's it's horrible belief system. So we can hate evil and love that which is good. So we wanna be wise. So the hire men, the hired men, they're gone. They're taken off. They're just hirelings. And the voice of it all go like a serpent. So rather than being like a big lion and and ferocious, now you're on your belly and you're just hissing Egypt. You're you're lost, and now you're you're you're slithering away because king Nebbe's come in and whooped on you. And so the voice of it shall go like a serpent, for they shall march with an army and come against her with axes like hewers of wood. And so the Babylonians were known for their battle axes. Battle axes to cut people's heads off, axes to denude a forest. If you in military campaign cut down the enemy's forest and then you also take the people out of out of their country and you pull them into captivity, they have less of a chance of having their patriotism and their nationalism to preserve them or rebellion against you as a conquering group. And so the nation of Israel, when they came back into land in '48, their forests were denuded. And the forests, in the ecosystem of trees and plant life and forests, it affects precipitation and rainfall. So you start cutting down all the trees, you know, and you don't you don't treat the forest properly by re you know, replanting and such, you're gonna change the weather patterns. Israel is prolific in growing food and such because they have a whole new ecosystem based upon planting, you know, it goes against this whole environmental carbon footprint stuff, you know. They're using true husbandry. And so that whole climate thing, carbon footprint's a lie, and it's a means of gaining control. So anyway, they're cutting down the forests, so you're not going to have wood, you're not going to have building materials, you're also going to have mudslides and all other sorts of things. And your topsoil is going to come off the top and you're going to have a soil that can't grow food and stuff as a result of a change in the newt in the forest. So also a hired men are in the midst of and fatted bullocks for they also turned back and are fled away. So the hired men are really soft. They were eating really well. They were getting rib eyes every day and everything was cushy for them. And and now it's getting a little nitty gritty, and they just wanna flee. They don't wanna stay. They're not getting the good food and the good treatment and all that anymore. And so they they they wanna go. So the voice of it shall go like a serpent. They shall march their army and come against with axes like cures of wood. They shall cut down her forests, saith the Lord, though it cannot be searched because they are more than the grasshoppers and innumerable. So they're going to come in like a swarming like locusts. The locusts come in and just swarm and just overwhelm them. And I've read some articles recently, I think Leo Hulman or one of them, of these tiny micro drones, swarms of them. They they're saying, they're saying, I don't know if this is true, but the the threat of mutual assured destruction because of our our navy and our our submarines, we can go undetected, but now they have swarms of little drones that go into the ocean. And I mean, we're talking like millions and millions of them, so many that they can move in the ocean and cover a region, and they'll they can listen for signatures of a Russian sub or our sub or any kind of sub. And so it's a detection mechanism that we've never had before, so you don't have the element of surprise anymore. And but fascinating. Swarms. I mean, like, articles, like enormous amounts of these little guys, but able to detect and able to let who is ever monitoring them know that you're there's an encroachment. That one's kinda like the border. Pardon me? That one's kinda like the border, how everybody's coming over the border. They're swarming the border. Yep. Swarming And of and and back in back in Genesis ten eleven, God established nation states. God established borders. He just he established ethnic groups and languages. He confounded the languages. So people spread out, and they had geographical regions, you know, that's it's their homeland. And so we should all be able to understand the importance of preserving our borders. And not not to say that we don't invite a lot of people into America because it's a melting pot of all nations, but it used to be you go to Ellis Island, you'd check for typhoid, check for diseases, and have a sponsoring person, a family member, somebody in a job, and, you know, and then a process of learning English and learning the constitution and becoming a citizen, know, whole process. And now they get $3,000 and they get weapons, and they they just come across and and and they get to vote. They're gonna get to vote for the Biden. You know? So it's a wound to them that call evil good and good evil. It's upside down. And so the daughter of Egypt shall be confounded, and she shall be delivered into the hand of the people of of the North. So they're gonna be put to shame. The Lord of hosts, the God of Israel saith, behold, I will punish the multitude of Noh and of Pharaoh and of Egypt with their gods, little g gods, and their kings, even pharaoh, and all those who trust in him. So the idolatry, they're gonna be killed, they're gonna be defeated, and basically you could put out the sign God is dead. They're gods. Little g gods are actually demon influenced over the people because we know there's only one god. One god in three persons, father, son, and the holy spirit. And so that which the Gentiles sacrifice unto, they sacrifice unto demons. So the idolatry, and I will deliver them into the hand of those who seek their lives and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, and into the hand of his servants. And afterward it shall be inhabited as in the days of old, saith the Lord. So here's the promise that we started out with. During the millennium afterward, Egypt is gonna be reinhabited with Egyptians. They're gonna be able to be part of the one thousand year rule and reign of Jesus from Jerusalem. The nation of Israel is going to be dominant. The times of the Gentiles is over, but Gentiles will be allowed and prescribed. We'll see in Ezekiel. They got to come year by year to Jerusalem and various feasts and such, lest they not get any rain on their land. But fear not, oh my servant Jacob. So contrast there. This is Egypt. This is their destiny. They're gonna be a part of the millennium. But fear not, how many times God has to say fear not, oh my servant Jacob, and be not dismayed, oh Israel, for behold, I will save thee from afar off and thy seed from the land of their captivity, and Jacob shall return and be in rest and at ease, and none shall make him afraid. That's why we don't have any replacement theology. God's promises to Abraham are gonna be complete. We saw in Jeremiah 31 that it's an everlasting covenant, unconditional promises based upon God's faithfulness, not Israel's faithfulness. And then I've got written in the margin there, you remember in Ethiopia when the Jews that lived in Ethiopia were under fire? When it talks about here, I'll regather you. The Israelis took 747s and they took all of the seats out of them, and they were able to airlift 14,000 Jews out of Ethiopia, from Ethiopia to Israel, in thirty six hours with 1,100 in each plane. Isn't that amazing? That's a mission accomplished. They actually did that. And so so fear thou not, oh Jacob, my servant, saith the Lord, for I am with thee. I will make a full end of all the nations to which I have driven thee, but I will not make a full end I will not make a full end of thee, but correct thee in measure, yet will I not leave thee wholly unpunished. So we go to Hebrews 12, whom the Lord loves, he chastens, and he scourges every son or daughter. Right? Those that don't receive chastening are not children. Amen. They're illegitimate. So the Lord chastens Israel. The Lord chastens you and I as Christians, as a father chastens a child, and it's corrective. It's restorative. It's to keep us from destroying ourselves. So God will bring the spanking that's necessary and and if with his own people now, sit back for a second and ask yourself. If God will go to this extreme with his own people, Israel, to what ends do you think he'll go to correct America? Somehow we we somehow we think that we're a Christian nation and God's never going to judge us or correct us or punish us or anything. It's always gonna be good. We're none. You know? So if he if he's We have none. If if he's gonna spank his own people in this way to get them ready for an eternity and rule and reign in the millennium, what kind of things is God gonna do to restore us? So for us individually as Christians, if any man be overtaken in a fall, you who are spiritual restore such a one in the spirit of meekness, lest you also be tempted. So we're we're running toward the prize. We fall. We have difficulty, and then we come alongside and we restore a person, help them back up, help them get going again. And the Lord his correction in our life is not punitive. He's not punishing us in the sense of, oh, you did that and I'm gonna you're gonna pay for it. It's always restorative. It's corrective. It's to help us continue to move forward in our walk and relationship with him. And so much like we as parents with our children, Brittany ran out in the street one time and a car almost ran her over. And so I grabbed her, even though she knew the parenting, the instruction was don't go in the street. She saw a friend across the street and she was running toward that friend and a Suburban where the family was coming. My van was out there, my work van, so they couldn't see her. But then as she emerged, as she came out, thank god they were going slow, and they I can still see that Suburban, those kind of shocks they have where the car was going like that after breaking it. You know? And so I grabbed her and spanked her, you know, and caused enough pain upon her rear end that maybe she would think twice to do that again. And it wasn't because I wanted to hurt her, it's I was trying to save her from dying. You know? So that's that's God's way of dealing with Israel. He's he's chastening them in the tribulation period to purify them. As they go through his chastening, he's purifying their hearts to bring forth the believing remnant during the time of Jacob's trouble. Alright, let's pray. Father, thank you for the time that we got to spend your word, and we ask that you would give us a great evening, a great time, help us to sleep well and enjoy one another, And give us a vision, Lord, of the future. Just speak to our hearts prophetically. Help us to see through the lies of the media, the lies of the politicians during this election cycle. Help us to see through the lies of the churches, Lord. So many liars in the pulpits, Lord, espousing things that just aren't true. Help us to be men and women in the word, to be like the Bereans, to search the scriptures, to see whether those things be so. And Lord, as you said, and and to the seven churches, he that has an ear to hear, let him hear what the spirit is saying to the churches. Give us ears to hear, Lord, in these last days. Let us be like the sons of Issaquah, Lord, that we're watching and we're well aware of the times in which they are living. Help us be aware of what time it is, Lord, and the last of the last days. Help us, Lord, to keep looking up knowing our redemption draweth nigh. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Amen.
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Calvary Chapel Bremerton - Home Bible Study
Listen to Rick Beaudry, Pastor of Calvary Chapel Bremerton, lead our home Bible Study session in worship and teaching the Word of God. Be edified and built up in your faith with solid Bible teaching. New episodes released on Tuesdays in the Pacific Standard Timezone.
