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Live from Bremerton. It's Monday night, bible study, Jeremiah chapter 50. Welcome. Let's pray. Father, thank you for this night. Thank you that we can be in your word and have a meal together and pray. We lift up those who are sick among us, Lord. We thank you for the praise reports, those who are being healed. And, Lord, we just, pray for the peace of Jerusalem, Lord. Pray for your hand to be upon Iran and all the new believers that are there, and, Lord, for your grace to be poured out, diffuse the tension, the problems, and such. And just bless our night, Lord. In Jesus' name, amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Change my heart, oh God. Change my heart, God. Change my heart, oh god. May I be like Alright. Thank you, Rob. Alright. Jeremiah chapter 50. Father, we just thank you for the sweet time of worship. And Lord, we just pray that you'd be with those who are sick. Help them all to feel better and bless our time in your word now. Be our teacher. Give us ears to hear and hearts to apply these truths to our lives, Lord. And, Lord, we pray that you'd be glorified. Thank you for Rob and Vicky opening their home. Thank you for all those who brought food and the fellowship and the prayers and just being able to be a Christian and to be so loved by you, Lord. In Jesus' name, amen. Alrighty. Turn to Jeremiah 51 beginning with verse yeah. Just do as you're told. Devils. 51 verse 59. Fifty one fifty nine? Yes, please. And quit asking me again and again. I'm haven't lost my mind. Alright. Now you got your finger there. This this prophecy of fifty and fifty one was written in May in the first wave of, people that were being sent to Babylon. And this prophecy was to be broadcast, notice, in 5159. Do I stutter? Alright. Got it. And I'm gonna have Robbie read it since none of you respect me, but fifty nine fifty one fifty nine through 64. And please listen. He's lost his mind. 51. Yeah. 51 verse 59. Say anything. I know. I know. That's why I let you read right now. Oh, okay. Next time, I'll say something. K. The message which Jeremiah the prophet commanded, Sariah, the son of Nariah, the grandson of Mosiah, when he went with Zedekiah, the king of Judah, to Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. Now Sarai Sarai was quartermaster. So Jeremiah wrote in a single scroll all the calamity which would come upon Babylon. That is all these words which have been written concerning Babylon. Then Jeremiah said to Sarai Sarai, as soon as you come to Babylon, then see that you read all these words aloud and say, you, oh, Lord, have promised concerning this place to cut it off so that there will be nothing dwelling in it, whether man or beast, but it will be a perpetual desolation. And as soon as you finish reading this scroll, you will tie a stone to it and throw it into the middle of the Euphrates and say, just so shall Babylon sink down and not rise again because of the calamity that I am going to bring down upon her, and they will become exhausted. Thus far are the words of Jeremiah. See that? Thank you, Robbie. Nice job, Robbie. So as we're as we're starting out here, what we're reading, this prophecy concerning the demise of Babylon, which fell in May years later. So what you have is May. You have a seventy year, the captivity of the nation of Israel in Babylon, and Jeremiah is letting the ones that are going to Babylon to broadcast publicly, let everybody know that there's a day coming where God's going to judge Babylon for what they've done, to Israel. Okay. So you got that? Public, tie a stone on it, throw it into the Euphrates, and then here we go. So in May, Babylon was destroyed. So the word of the lord spoke against Babylon and against the land of the Chaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet. Now a lot of, commentators, teachers, and also YouTube prophets, p r o f I t s, are speculating that America is ancient Babylon. A lot of good commentators have looked at America as symbolic. In Revelation chapter seventeen and eighteen when we deal with Babylon, we have chapter, 17, the religious part of Babylon during the beast system, and chapter 18, the economic and political side of, Babylon. So the beast, the antichrist, is going to have part of his headquarters be in Babylon, and it's gonna be the economic center of the world. So where is the economic center of the world today if we were to go if we were to watch the world from up in heaven as we're up there in heaven where Jesus is, and we're watching the world down below go into the tribulation period, and the antichrist is has a a headquarters in Zion, which would be Jerusalem, but also in Babylon. So where would that Babylon be? New York. Alright. So Jason says New York. A lot of people say New York. So presently catch this. When people are saying, hey. Babylon's gonna fall. It's gonna fall. It's gonna fall. What they're doing right now is they're saying America's falling. See? It's Babylon falling. And the economic, world global economic system that's predicated on the dollar and was also a part of the petrodollar, there's a deep pegging from the petrodollar. Oil barrels of oil are being sold in all different kinds of currencies now. So since '73, Kissinger brokered a deal that no more gold standard, but where the de facto global currency would be the dollar, and the dollar would be able to stay up because every barrel of oil was, had to be sold in dollars. You couldn't sell it as Qaddafi and Saddam Hussein were plotting to sell barrels of oil in the dinar, the dinar. And, the globalist bankers don't like that when rogue nations are not a part of their economic system and try to circumvent it. So what? You get invaded. You get invaded. These rogue people that want to do those kind of things are removed. So even Russia, in all these countries prior to recently, had to sell all oil, had to first be sold with, Saudi Arabia was involved, all of them. So the BRIC nations are selling oil to China presently. Saudi Arabia is selling enormous amount of oil to China, and it doesn't have to be sold in the in the dollar anymore. So the dollar is inflating, and, the reason it's staying afloat is because of the confidence, the rest of the world still has in it, but that confidence is waning. So what they're saying is as the global economic system implodes upon itself, trillions and trillions of dollars being being spent by Obama and Biden and everybody and the Republicans, enormous amount, what happens is devalues the currency, and there's a certain point historically we know where paper currencies wind up. The Weimar Republic, you remember in Germany, wheelbarrows full of of of currency to buy some bread, and pretty soon you could it wasn't worth anything, so you just light your fire with it, start a fire with it. So the Zimbabwe, other other nations. So, so these guys are saying, as Jason alluded to, that New York City, Wall Street, with the stock market and the bonds and all the different things, that are tied to it, that when that goes down, they're speculating as they read Revelation 18, all the tanker ships and everything looking from afar. And as in a moment, Babylon is blown up and smoke billowing out and taken down. So a lot of the prognosticators are saying, look. That's what's gonna happen. A nuke's gonna hit New York, and it's as in a moment, the economy is gonna be gone. What's the problem with that? What's the problem you see with that? You guys know. America is not in the written revelation. But they think mystery Babylon is America. Rednecks. Rednecks. There's always rednecks. So let me ask you the chronological order of the book of Revelation, and where does Babylon come chronologically? No. Yeah. At the at the end. At the end. Yeah. Not the beginning. Yep. So the new global economic system comes off the heels of the crashing of the present system. They're already got the SWIFT ready. Right? They're already implemented all electronic. So it's a it's a blockchain technology. It's the central bank digital currency, and the center presently in the world is Basel, Switzerland. That's where the Rothschilds have their central the central banking center. And so all the different federal reserves in Texas and New York and all over our country and around the world, those are just lower aspects of the Bank of International Settlement. So the whole world's gonna be drawn into a global economic system. Everyone's gonna receive a mark on their right hand or their forehead according to Revelation thirteen sixteen through 18. That's the system that's coming. And at the end of the tribulation period, the city of Babylon is going to be destroyed. And, and the religious system in Revelation 17 is gonna be destroyed at the midpoint of the tribulation period. The antichrist is gonna use the apostate, the house of Abraham that's being built presently with Judaism, Islam, Christianity, all meld together. And, at the midpoint of the tribulation period, the antichrist is gonna go into the temple, declare himself to be god, demand to be worshiped as god. And from that's twelve hundred and sixty days in from signing the peace treaty. And, twelve hundred and sixty days later is the second return of Christ. And, then there's a seventy five day interval, blessed is he that comes at thirteen hundred and thirty fifth day after the return of Christ. And, because he's gonna do the sheep and the goat judgment is Matthew 25. And so the remaining, three and a half years or forty two months or twelve hundred and sixty days of the great tribulation period is going to be Luciferian, people worshiping the devil and worshiping the beast, which is the antichrist and the false prophet. And so, so that's the problem I see with people prognosticate and presently that America is mystery Babylon, mystery Babylon The Great. What happens to America? I don't know. America is going down and, may resurface as America with a k or, but America, as we know it, is going down. We're not gonna be the dominant global power anymore because, governmentally, the world's gonna be divided into 10 regions, already divided into 10 regions. So we know the global government's gonna have 10 kings. Three of those kings are gonna fight against the Antichrist in Daniel seven or Daniel 11, and and he's gonna become the eighth. And so Revelation thirteen and seventeen also. And so these 10 kings are gonna rule, be regional. Many feel that they're technocrats, kings in that in that regard. So if you look at Bill Gates, you know, the Soros, the billionaires around the globe, the Schmidt's from Google, Apple, these kind of guys, they want to be, you know, in power, not just technologically, but also from a from a king standpoint, working working the global government. I don't know how, how that's gonna happen. But in any event, there's gonna be a guy that comes and brokers a peace treaty, and the peace treaty is due to war. And the war looks like it's starting in The Middle East. It could be that the rapture happens before Ezekiel thirty eight and thirty nine, or it could happen, the rapture could happen after, which means we would see, Russia, a coalition of nations, according to Ezekiel 38, would be Russia from the North, Meshach, Tubolsk, also Turkey, Germany, Libya, The Sudan, and Iran, that of Persia, are going to, try to invade Israel from the North, and, five out of every six of the invading force can be wiped out by God. And the whole world's gonna know that we can't eradicate Israel, and god's gonna be glorified, and then the people are gonna broker. There's gonna be a brokering of a peace treaty, just like right now, trying to broker a peace treaty, and the antichrist will be the one that brokers that treaty. So there's a few things that haven't happened yet. One is there's not a temple in Israel. We know there's gonna be a temple. Right? Because the antichrist, according to Daniel, and Jesus is alluding to it in Matthew 24, the abomination of desolation spoken by Daniel the prophet, their antichrist is going to help the nation of Israel rebuild their temple. They're ready with everything. They can put it up just lickety split. Now it used to be that people didn't believe that Israel and none of this could happen because the church replaced Israel and or there is no Israel. Israel wasn't in the land prior to 05/14/1948. And then, boom, God did a miracle. And and after World War two there, and Israel was reborn, you know, as a nation, fulfilling Ezekiel thirty six and thirty seven prophetically, God telling them that it would happen. So some some bible students said, yeah, this is gonna happen. Others said, oh, no way. There's no way that could ever happen. So now I say that to say, could there be a literal Babylon rebuilt in Iraq rather than New York City or America or the economic center that people think? Could the Antichrist, could the world with their technology rebuild literal Babylon with Saddam Hussein and our government over there, facilitate and help in our present day Iraq, you know, help with their infrastructure, their water, and everything after we, you know, beat them into submission. Could it happen? Yes. Yeah. Okay. So maybe we can take it literally that Babylon being taken down, ultimately, Revelation seventeen and eighteen will happen literally during the tribulation period. Otherwise, you can look at symbolically that wherever the economic center around the world is and the religious center around the world during the tribulation period that they're and that's a whole lot of speculation going on. That's huge amount of speculation. So as we're going through this, we're gonna see a telescope, and we're gonna see some of what's said here, being immediately, interpreted for Cyrus, the Medes and the Persians come in and overthrow in Babylon in May. But there's other things here that aren't fulfilled, not till later, and still haven't been fulfilled. So what we do is we say, well, that's telescoping to the tribulation period when Babylon will, you know, completely be destroyed. So when Cyrus comes in to Babylon and overcomes them, the Medes and the Persians, some of Babylon is destroyed, but not all of it. And so, in fact, during the '70 during the time that Daniel's there and stuff, it wasn't completely, you know, destroyed. But the picture here as of jackals, you know, being there, just everything devastated, kinda like you see it today where it's been devastated, and then now Saddam Hussein or prior was trying to, you know, rebuild it, start the rebuilding thereof. Another another anomaly that I think about sometimes is Dubai, Saudi Arabia, the kings of the East, some of these other Islamic nations, Arab nations, with enormous amounts of money and, how they play in, when the kings of the East cross the Euphrates and and, you know, wanna come against Israel later when Israel's in the land. So how do they play in there? Don't know yet. Alright. So the word of the lord that that that the lord spoke against Babylon and against the land of the Chaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet. So Babylon's the city. Babylon's also the empire. The Chaldeans is the land the land, the larger land area in the empire of Babylon, the the country of Babylon. So declare among the nations and publish and shut up set up a standard. Publish and conceal not. Say Babylon is taken. Bel is confounded. Meroedak is broken in pieces. Her idols are confounded. Her images are broken in pieces. And so this, this idol named Baal, also known as Merodak, is gonna go. It means it means a storm. And, in what in verse two, the Lord's saying it's gonna be powerless to protect Babylon. Your gods, your little g gods are gonna be powerless to protect you against what I'm bringing against you. So let everybody know that. And, that's what's being said there. Verse three, for out of the North, there shall cometh up a nation against her, which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell in it. They shall remove themselves. They shall depart both man and beast. So to the Northeast are would be the Medes, and we've talked about this. Who are the Medes? The present day Kurds in, Northern Iraq. Who are the present Persians? Iran. Iran. So we had the Medes. Now it's important distinction. The Iranians are not Arabs. They're Persians. So, you got the Medes and the Persians. For some reason, Turkey hates the Medes and, trying to wipe wipe out the Kurds, the present day Kurds in the northern part of of, of Iraq. So Cyrus, the Persian, and Darius the Mede, they come and they they, you know, overcome the city of Babylon, come in in Daniel chapter five, just right on in to the city. And, so out of the north. In those days and in that time, saith the Lord, the children of Israel shall come. They and the children of Judah come going and weeping, and they shall go and seek the Lord their God. Now there may be a time of partial fulfillment when Cyrus came. One of the things he allowed was for the children of Israel that were in captivity that had been there for seventy years to return to, you know, to Israel. You got Nehemiah rebuilding the wall, you've got Ezra the priest helping to rebuild the temple. Zerubbabel's temple began to start at that point in time. You've also you also have projecting future to the tribulation period. Zechariah 12 verse 10, there's a mourning that's taken place. The nation of Israel's mourning as they're coming out of the tribulation period, and they're recognizing, that they crucified their Messiah. They realized they'd been deceived. And according to Matthew twenty three thirty nine, Jesus said, you're not gonna see me again until you say blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord. Romans eleven twenty six, the the the true Israel of God will be saved. So you have you have the nation as a whole, but according to Zechariah thirteen eight nine, 0.6666666666666666666666666667 of them are gonna die during the tribulation period. And you got a one third remnant that's being purified coming through the time of Jacob's trouble. And so Romans eleven twenty six eleven twenty five says that blindness in part will happen unto Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles be come in. So the fullness of the Gentiles be come in is the church age, and that's the rapture of the church. And then after the rapture of the church, during the tribulation period, this remnant, a one third remnant is gonna be, brought to the place of saving faith in Jesus, and all Israel will be saved. The true Israel of god are those who believe, and Isaac shall they see be called. So it's gotta be mixed with faith. It's not just the natural posterity that are saved. You can see that with Jesus talking to the religious leaders in John chapter eight where he told them their father was the devil. You know, they weren't the true Israel of God because they didn't recognize the Messiah. So but they thought the outward would get them in, but the outward's not gonna get you in. You must be born again, Nicodemus. Jesus told the one of the priests. You know? Alright. So they shall ask the way to Zion, which their faces toward it saying, come and let us join ourselves to the lord in a perpetual covenant. Shall they not be, forgotten? So in Isaiah thirty thirty five verse eight, we hear of the King's Highway, the holy highway. And so they're gonna be say, which way? So these groups are are gonna be traveling to Zion on the King's Highway, which is very exciting. Holiness under the lord. The animals would have signs saying holiness under the lord. And we see this covenant in Jeremiah 31. Remember how we studied Jeremiah 31? The unconditional covenant that God's gonna have with the nation of Israel as they're gonna become born again, and they're gonna be heading back toward, toward Jerusalem. My people have been lost sheep. Their shepherds have caused them to go astray. They have turned them away on the mountains and have gone from mountain to hill. And so they have forgotten their resting place. So in the in the Diaspora as as the the sheep were scattered in May, the shepherds failed. You had the prophets. You had Jeremiah. You had Isaiah. You had Hosea. You had Ezekiel. You had the prophets coming to the nation trying to wake him up, to call him to the Lord. Jeremiah spent forty years trying to call him to the Lord. So Jeremiah did his job, but you had Hananiah and the false prophets counteracting everything Jeremiah would say and keeping the people in the place of idolatry and rebellion against God. And the Lord identifies the problem, the same problem that we see today. The problem is with the shepherds. It's the pastors. It's the ones that spiritually were to be watching over the sheep, the believers, whether it's the church, whether in the time of of Jeremiah, it would be the nation of Israel. The church was didn't exist. And so they're the ones, you know, entrusted with the word of God. And as long as they can teach the word of God, the people follow the word of God, the people are strong spiritually, and they say no to idols. They say no to the gods around them, the little g gods around them of the of the world, and they stay close to the lord, and the lord fights for them. The lord keeps them safe. The lord blesses them with the early and the latter rain, and and they enjoy a great fellowship with the lord. But when they backslide, when they apostatize and turn away from the truth and turn to a place of rebellion against God, they're being ripened under judgment. And so, the Lord lays it at the feet of the shepherds, the false shepherds that deceived the people. So they have gone from mountain to hill, and they have forgotten their resting place. Where is your resting place as a Christian? Rob says in the Lord. Jason, in the Lord. So if you don't have rest, what's happening I've been hearing more and more that Americans are melting down. The word that the world uses is mental illness. I'm hearing that the church is using the same terminology as mental illness. We're seeing a lot of mental illness in the church. What does that mean? They have no resting place. Right? They have no peace. What is one of the aspects of the fruit of the spirit is what? Love, joy, peace. Peace. Right? So if you don't have peace, you're mentally ill. So we would define it as fear, as anxiety. Men's hearts failing them for fear during the tribulation period. Right? So if people who call themselves Christians are mel I use the term melting down. You're not able to handle reality anymore. The economy's becoming more difficult. Housing is more difficult. Food price is more difficult. The uncertainty, the chaos, the lies of the media, the lies of your government. There's a twilight zone taking place. There's a delusional people out there, and people sense something is happening. And consequently, those in the church, they don't have peace. So what did Jesus say in Matthew eleven twenty eight? At the time that he came, he looked at the sheep and they were sheep having no shepherds. He looked at the sheep and he had compassion on them as the sheep of Israel. Right? And what did he say? He gave an invitation, Matthew eleven twenty eight. Come on to To me. Me. I will give you rest. Yeah. I give you rest. Keep going. Keep going. Oh, well, that's all I know. You know it all. You know it is light. Yeah. My locust light and my Alright. I'll help you. Come on to me all ye that labor. So stop there. You're laboring. Why are you laboring? Because the religious leaders put you under the law. Mhmm. Now you're trying to work it. You're trying to work it. And Jesus looked upon the multitudes as sheep that had no shepherd. His heart went out to him. Right? All you that labor and you're you're heavy laden. You're carrying a burden. Right? Why are you carrying a burden that you're not designed to carry? The burden of the law, the guilt that comes with your inability to to keep the law perfectly. Right? So he says, come on to me all ye that labor and heavy laden and what? I will you I will give you rest. And then he says, take my yoke. And what's a yoke? He's a carpenter of Nazareth. What's a yoke? Thing that goes around a horse. I've heard it. Alongside Yep. And so Thank you. To pull the load. To pull the load. So come into me, take my yoke upon you. So the carpenter of Nazareth has a perfect plan and purpose for your life. So the yoke that he makes for you to put around your neck is not gonna chafe. Right? Yep. Not gonna rub and, you know, rash. I got a rash, man. You know? I don't like my calling. I don't like what you've called me to do. So you're yoked up to Jesus. Right? You're yoked up to him. And then he says what? Learn of me. Isn't that what we're trying to do? Isn't that what churches are supposed to do? Pastors are supposed to do? Go and make disciples? Become learners? Learn God's word. Learn of me. So if you don't learn, if the last twenty years you haven't been taught the word of God in these churches, because Rick Warren said it's deeds, not creeds, creed is teaching, creed is learning. So he takes and he sets aside prophecy, he sets aside bible study, and it becomes a social gospel of going out and doing good deeds in the community, which the church should do, but not at the expense thereof, the word of God. And in your evangelism, it you're looking for what you've termed seekers, but you don't wanna offend seekers, so you move words like repentance and sin. Now you have churches filled with people who are not saved. And when things when they don't get their best life now and the therapy session's not working, they're melting down. Their fear is overwhelming their hearts and minds, and it's real simple. They don't know Jesus. They don't know him because they haven't been in the word reading his love letter, getting to know him. Rob read Rob read Isaiah 55 last night. The Lord spoke to him. He's stoked. He's excited because the Lord spoke to him through Isaiah 55. What do you wanna say about Isaiah 55, Rob? It's it's a God basically, in short order, is telling us to repent, that his ways are not our ways, and that his thoughts are not our thoughts, but his word will not return unto him void because it accomplishes what he wants. And what he wants is he wants us to be saved, and the result of that is eternal life with him. So he basically lays it out very clear and clean that that he loves us so much that he sought me and his word was fulfilled when I accepted Jesus Christ and has accomplished what he set it out to do. And what he set out to do is to save me. So, again, in Matthew eleven twenty eight to 30, so take my yoke upon you and learn of me for my yoke is easy, which means kind, and my burden is what? Light. Right? So he doesn't want you to carry that big old burden. He you And he says, I'm meek and lowly at heart. What's that mean? It means you have access to him. He's accessible. He's not like the religious leaders that have nothing to do with the peons. You know? Mhmm. I'm meek and lowly at heart. So he's the second person of the Trinity. He takes on the form of a man. He's the babe of Bethlehem, but he's the son of man. He's a servant. He didn't come to be ministered unto, but to minister and to give his life a ransom for many. So he's letting the people know, you have access to me. You have access. Come. Here's the invitation. Come. And meekness does not mean weakness. No. It doesn't. It doesn't. It's the picture of a horse under control of its master. And so you you recognize that. Alright. So my yoke is easy and my burden is light. So kind, light, and God doesn't want you to be overwhelmed with fear. If you're feeling the fear come on and overwhelm your mind, then seek the Lord right there. Just drop what you're doing and begin to worship the Lord, get into his word, read through the Psalms, read through the New Testament, the gospel of John, spend time with the Lord, and do some word studies. How many times did he say, fear not? How many times did say, be not afraid? Paul told Timothy, Timothy was a little timid. Timothy was afraid as a young pastor. And Paul told Timothy, God hasn't given us the spirit of fear. Power of love and a power of the sound mind. Power of love and a putrid sound mind. Right? And that means healthy, a healthy mind. People are melting down. Why? Because they are unhealthy spiritually. Right? And you cannot you cannot point them toward psychology to fix what's broke. Only Jesus. Jesus can fix us. Right? Amen. In the power of his holy spirit through the study of his word. And so come as a child. If you're in that situation, come as a child. Just come as a child, start to read your bible. That's that's where you start, and you'll you'll overcome. You'll be overcomers. So so all that found them have devoured them. And their adversaries said, we offend not because they have sinned against the Lord. And so what they're saying is, we're not guilty. They offended the Lord. The unbelievers know the unbelievers know that the nation of Israel was in rebellion to God. So we haven't done anything wrong. Why are why are we being held accountable? They were in rebellion to God. God used us as the hammer to hammer them. Right? True. They have they're against the Lord, the the habitation of justice, even the lord, the hope of their fathers. And so, you know, why are why are we being called to account now? Well, the lord's saying, you enjoyed it a little too much. You were you were burning my house. You burned my house down, the temple, and you stole all the gold, and you stole all the the treasures and such, and you were glad while you were doing it. There's a little bit too much hatred there. So flee out of the midst of Babylon and go forth out of the land of the Chaldeans and be as the he goats before the flocks. And so, you know, get out of there. Get out of this area. The he goats would be the ones that that lead the sheep. They're the ones more aggressive kinda leading the way. And I look at Trump as a as a he goat. He's leading the evangelicals to the slaughter, and people don't see it. But it's gonna empty our church out, I'm sure, continue to. But if we wanted to grow right now, it's not that I'm stupid. It's that I just can't lie. I I I just will not lie. My heart would be so incredibly convicted if I allowed people to hope in the warp speed jab guy, especially since so many people continue to die on my watch. So there's no way I'm gonna do it, but I know the formula. The formula is as people are losing hope, as people are melting down, they're looking for their government. They're looking for a solution to fix what's broke. And so they're looking for a human instrument, a Republican leader named Trump, that'll lead the evangelicals to the point of taking over these seven hills and usher in, you know, the return of Jesus Christ. And it's not gonna happen, but that's the that's the heresy, and that's the that's the endeavor is to to follow Trump to get our country back, and and it's not gonna happen. It's just not it's it's it's it's it's done. It's cooked. It's it's over. But sadly, there's gonna be a whole we may not even get to the election. But, anyway, I look at Donald Trump as what's called a Judas goat, and the goat would be the one that leads the sheep, unsuspecting sheep to the slaughter. And that's how I that's how I view them. Okay. So for low, I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon an assembly of great nations from, from the North country, and they shall set themselves an area against her. From there shall be taken their arrows and shall be as a mighty expert, and none shall return in vain. So Jeremiah kept telling, kept telling, kept telling the people that judgment was coming. Hananiah, the false prophet, saying he's crazy. He's crazy. He's crazy. So, again, back to the Trumpsters. If we wanted to gain a little bit more flow of people coming to our church, we would jump on the Trump bandwagon and give people false hope that we really need to get voters out there and vote for Donald Trump. If we can get Trump back into office, we have a chance of turning this thing around. I'm not gonna do that. Right? Can't do that. So instead, Jeremiah has to let them know judgment's coming. And I don't know what God's gonna do. If God wants to raise up another person, that's fine with me. I just when I was when I was raised in the home that I was raised in, one of the things that came out of my mom being married seven times and alcoholics and all that is I knew what didn't work. Right. All I knew is what didn't work. And I know this present system, the way it is, is not working. Now when I became a Christian, then I began to discover what it means to be a husband and a father and began to try and model, you know, God's model. But when I know that there's something that doesn't work, I'm not gonna go to it looking for a new result. You know, there's it's a dead end. And once you know something's a dead end, then it forces the people to look for something that might work, but they keep being pulled into that dog and pony show Yeah. That that cannot work because there's too much corruption. It's too corrupt. Alright. So here we go. Turn to so he's gonna raise up these nations, and the nations he's raising up are the Medes, the Persians, the Caduceans, the Sesse, and the Armenians. And they're led by Cyrus, Persian, and Darius, the Mede. Now turn to this is one of the best prophecies in the Bible, hundred ninety years before Cyrus walked into Daniel chapter five, God prophesied what he would do and called him his servant. So turn to Isaiah chapter 44. Yes. You heard right. 44. Verse 28. The last verse of Jeremiah 44. Got it. You got it? Yep. Now if you want to prove to people the bible is written by god, it's because of prophecy. You use prophecy to prove to them a god who stands out of time, who's eternal, actually named the Persian general, Cyrus. Cyrus the Persian, Darius the Mede, Medes and the Persians, these nations, coalition of nations that God's gonna use to wipe out Babylon. And and he he does it a hundred and ninety years before he even comes on the scene. So who saith of Cyrus, he is my shepherd? This is a this is a foreigner. He is my shepherd and shall perform all thy pleasure even saying to Jerusalem, thou shall be built and to the temple, the foundation shall be laid. So in May, God used the Babylonians to wipe out Jerusalem, to wipe out his people, to send them to Babylon, a certain some of them in captivity, others were scattered. And so May, God's gonna bring in Cyrus, and he's going to be used of God to wipe out the Babylonians. Later, God's going to use Alexander the Great, excuse me, to wipe out the Medes and the Persians. God later is going to use the Romans to wipe out the Greeks and the Rome Alexander the Great and such. And so the the Romans will take over after after a period of time where Alexander the Great breaks down and divides the empire onto his generals, and then the Romans come along, and that's the fourth world empire. When we talk about the rebirth of the Roman Empire, the rebirth of the Roman Empire is empirical. The last beast system's gonna be an empire type system called the rebirth of the Roman Empire. Alright. So there's a history and prophecy right there. So thy foundation shall be laid. So God's gonna allow Cyrus to be the one that allows the Jews to go back to Jerusalem and begin to lay the foundation once again to rebuild what's called the second temple period, great Herod the great, Zerubbabel's temple. And he says here, thus saith the Lord to his anointed to Cyrus whose right hand I have held to subdue nations before him, and I will lose the loins of kings to open before him the two levied gates, and the gates shall not be shut. Okay. Here's the deal. Babylon's walls were 350 feet high, 80 feet thick, 270 towers. They had 20 you talk about preppers. They had twenty years of food stored up, and they had a water source called the Euphrates River that flowed under these metal gates into the city. So the you the the strategy of war in the day was a siege. You'd put your soldiers all around, 200,000 soldiers, you know, whatever, millions of soldiers around the city, and you don't allow anything to come in or out, and you starve them to death. And that's what happened to Jerusalem when the Babylonians surrounded Jerusalem. And so what happened, though, is the Lord saying here, I'm gonna cause you guys to to realize that the levied gates are open. They're not shut. So Daniel chapter five, Belteshazzar, great grandson of Nebuchadnezzar, throwing a party, huge party. And the party's going on for days, even weeks. And they don't care about the Medes and the Persians outside because it's 350 feet high. The walls, they have chariot races. I can bend her on top of this thing. And they're 80 feet thick. There's no way you're gonna penetrate that, you guys. They got 270 towers where they can shoot arrows at anybody that's out there. Well, here's what happened. God put it in the mind and the heart of Cyrus, Darius, to to shift the water in the in the Euphrates, to cause the water to be diverted away from the city of Babylon, the canals that they used and everything. And so the soldiers at the time of Daniel five when Belteshazzar is having this party, Belteshazzar got some really he's kinda like George from a wonderful life, George Bailei. And George got some I don't know about that. George got some really bad liquor. And Clarence he's, Clarence, what's going on? What's going on? So Bel de Chazza got some really bad liquor, and he sees a hand, a finger. And you guys been drunk that bad? Do you see a finger on the wall? Saw the handwriting on the wall? What what's the definition of drunk? I don't know. But anyway, if you ever see a finger on the wall, just a finger there writing, and it's writing many, many tekko, you farson, you know, did you really see that? What was that? Anyway, Belteshazzar didn't know if he's drunk or what's he seen or whatever. And and so you've been waiting the balance and found one, and your kingdom is taken from you and divided to the Medes and the Persians. And in that very day, Cyrus comes his soldiers come through with nobody stopping them underneath those gates. Those gates were open. So you got the bars that go down deep in the water, and so people soldiers can't get down in and up in there. But if you divert the water, they come through the riverbed, and they just come right on in. And nobody's guarding anything because everybody's partying. So they have a sense of invincibility, and and that's what happened in Daniel five verse six. And his his knees are knocking. He's so afraid. The gates will not be shut. I will go before thee and make the crooked places straight. I'll break in pieces the gates of bronze and cut in sundry the bars of iron. And I will give thee the treasures of darkness and hidden riches of secret places. So as empires conquer other nations, they take the booty. They take the spoil. They take everything from the from, you know, who they conquered. So when they conquered Jerusalem, they took a lot of the wealth that Solomon had built up, a lot of the wealth that had come before and the gold and the the saucers and the the things used in the temple. And that's what Belteshazzar was drinking out of as many of those implement those implements. And so the hidden riches secret places that thou mayest know that I, the Lord who called thee by thy name and the God of Israel. For Jacob, my servant's sake and Israel mine elect, I have even called thee by thy name. I have surnamed thee though thou knowest not, has not known me. So God named Cyrus. I am the Lord and there is none else. There is no God besides me. I girded thee, though thou has not known me. What's beautiful is we know the Lord, and we know him because he first loved us. Right? So Josephus tells us historically that when Cyrus came in to the to Babylon, Daniel was still alive. And Daniel took this section of Isaiah and showed Cyrus the king hundred ninety years before Isaiah had written this, that one day you would come here and you would subdue Babylon. So Cyrus was so blown away by it that he was very, accommodating to fulfill what it says here, and that is allowing the remnant of people there to head back to Jerusalem. And so that's the occasion. Let's turn back to our text. Don't you guys love those prophecies? Now historians, the secular critics, they like to say that these passages in the bible were written after the fact. You know? So they they challenged the dating of the writing of Isaiah. They challenged the dating of, Daniel because how could Daniel be so accurate concerning these these world empires? You know? The answer is god who stands outside of time. Let him know what's, you know, what's up ahead. And In '49, it was sixty five years before it happened. Hundred ninety. Oh. Hundred ninety almost two hundred years before. That pastor Chuck tape you listened to said two hundred. Remember? I wrote sixty five years. Well, that's wrong. You could write eighty five and it'd be wrong. It was almost February. '85 is nowhere near February. We're in '49. Pastor Chuck was comfy. No. He's I heard him say February. You you didn't write it down right. Okay. How as long as do you wanna argue about it? No. You are correct. I'm just the lady. You ever heard anybody talk to her like that? I wouldn't care. You know I'm teasing. Right? I'm just teasing. Yeah. I'm teasing. Okay. I'm teasing. I'm a real nice guy. Flee out of the midst of Babylon and go forth out of the land of the Chaldeans and be as the he goes before the flocks. For Loi, I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon an assembly of great nations from the north country, and they shall set themselves an area against her. From there, she shall be taken their arrows and shall be a mighty expert man. None shall return in vain. And so so their weaponry, some would say laser guided missiles and all. Another facet of this is sometimes the commentators will try and say that NATO, that desert storm, that some of the, activity that we have, the two different wars that we had with Iraq, that it was part of the tearing down of this. They also look at future from the North. You know, some armies, some nations will come in and wipe out Babylon. Now it is true during the tribulation period that three nations fight against the Antichrist and they lose. And so the seven kings wind up giving their sovereignty over to the antichrist, and he becomes the eighth. So he becomes a total dictator, the second part of the tribulation period. But there it's important to understand that three of them toward the end of the tribulation period tried to overthrow the antichrist, even an assassination attempt. Some think that that he dies and that he comes back to life, but it's probably just a resuscitation. Or if God wanted to have a counterfeit resurrection there to get people to test their hearts to see what they wanna do, that's perfectly fine. And Chaldean shall be a prey, all the spoil, her shall be a satisfied, saith the Lord. So enormous amount of spoil, enormous amount of treasures taken. And later when Alexander the Great comes along, he gets to take all the the plunder that the Medes and the Persians had amassed. And and he didn't care historically. It said that that Alexander the Great didn't care so much for all the riches. They had so many riches and all. And so the destruction of the destruction of Babylon by the Medes and the Persians, they get the spoil. And when God brought his own people in Deuteronomy four verse 20, when he brought his own people out of Egypt, they despoiled the Egyptians, and the Egyptians were wasted with all the plagues and everything that came against them. Because you were glad so God didn't like these people laughing. Remember when nine eleven happened? Remember the pictures of of people jumping up and down and celebrating, you know, some of our enemies? Mhmm. And so God doesn't really appreciate that, that sort of thing. Because you were glad because ye rejoiced, oh, ye destroyers of mine heritage, because ye grown fat like a now don't anybody be offended here. Like you grown fat like the heifer had grass and bellow like bulls. So, you know, Solomon Sampson said, you know, you guys wouldn't have learned the riddle had you not been plowing with my heifer. So kind of a vernacular for a female ox. A big one. Real big one. It was long time ago. It was. We us I we're way smarter than that, us guys. We don't use the f word. You don't ever use fat to describe a heifer. You know? So we are way smarter than that. We are so smart that we never come up to a woman and ask her if she's pregnant because Oh, no. I think they will say they will say, I'm not pregnant. Or we never say, or we might only say it one time, when's your baby due? Yeah. You don't do that. You don't do that. They they kick you aside the face. Alright. So you remember how when you guys take me out to out to eat and I say, hey. You're not to muzzle the ox while he's treading out the grain. Right? What's happening here is these heifers were according to the law, you couldn't muzzle them. So they're going around in a circle and they're grinding the grain, grinding, grinding, grinding, but they're eating. And so they're eating the whole time and they're getting hefty. They're getting real hefty. So which is good. It's okay. Fat is good. Be fat in the Lord. So they grow fat like a heifer at grass and bellow like like bulls. So the Babylonians were fat. They were prosperous. They were doing really well. And so now that treasure, that bounty is gonna be taken by the Medes and the Persians. Your mother shall be completely confounded because you gained so much weight. No. Because of what's happening. She that bore you shall be ashamed. Behold, the hinder most of the nations shall, shall be a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert. So that's much like Babylon is today. But after Cyrus dealt with it, it wasn't quite like that. It took years, decades, for the, for this to take place. Alright. And, because of the wrath of the Lord, it shall not be inhabited, but it shall be wholly desolate. Everyone that goeth by Babylon shall be appalled and hiss at her plagues. So in the future, that's what's gonna happen again, Revelation seventeen and eighteen. But at the time frame of this, it wasn't completely done by Cyrus. The towers and the the structure of the of the city itself took over a year for them to dismantle and take down, with with 200,000 soldiers doing that. So the the surrounding area took it took decades for it to be a place, uninhabitable. And and so interesting in Lamentations two fifteen, the very thing that God's saying is gonna happen to the city of Babylon happened to the city of Jerusalem where people walked by and were appalled. They were hissing at the destruction that the Babylonians brought against the city of Jerusalem. So put yourselves in area against Babylon round about all ye that bend the bow, shoot at her, spare no arrows for she has sinned against the Lord. And so a personal affront against the Lord, our desert storms and all that we did there, you know, trillions being spent supposedly, well, we won't go into all that looking for weapons of mass destruction and all that. And weren't any, but but we sure lost our rights, didn't we? We lost our freedoms with the whole sigh out. The Patriot Act came out of all the lion. Shout against her roundabout. She has given her hand. Her her found her foundations are fallen. Her walls are thrown down for it is the vengeance of the Lord take vengeance upon her as she has done, do unto her. So you're going to reap what you sow. This is what you did to Jerusalem. You're going to take the whole city down. And again, it took a little time for this to happen. And Revelation eighteen:two, Babylon has fallen, has fallen is the word that goes out. Babylon has fallen during the end of the tribulation period. Cut off the sower from Babylon and him that handles the sickle in the time of harvest for fear of the oppressing sword, they shall turn everyone to his people and they shall flee everyone to his own land. So the area of Babylon, the surrounding area was extremely fertile. 200 to one, you plant one seed, you have a yield of 200 seeds that come from it, kernels coming from it. But later with the removal of the water and and there's gonna be a huge drought. It's gonna be totally wiped out from the standpoint of agriculture. So wiped out. And so people are gonna flee, cut off the sower, cut them all off so people of the surrounding area are all gonna see out flee out of the area, and they're all gonna take off to go to their own land. Israel is a scattered sheep. So now we come to the topic of Israel and the lost sheep of the house of Israel. And verse six, my people have been lost sheep. So they described it as lost sheep. Now they're scattered sheep. When the shepherds smitten, the sheep scatter, and in the case of the time of Christ. So now we look at the restoration of Israel. Israel is a scattered sheep. The lions have driven him away. So the Babylonians who describe Nebuchadnezzar as a lion have driven them away. First, the king of Assyria has devoured him. So in July, the 10 northern tribes were devoured by the Assyrians. The Assyrians tried to devour Judah, but were unsuccessful and has devoured him. And last, this Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon has broken his bones. So in May, Nebuchadnezzar ultimately defeated Judah. And so Israel and Judah being being destroyed. Therefore, thus saith the lord of hosts, the god of Israel, behold, I will punish the king of Babylon and his land as I have punished the king of Assyria. So May, Cyrus comes in as we just saw, and I'll bring Israel again to the habitation. So no restoration of Assyria, no restoration of Babylon, but I will restore my people Israel. So the hope comes there, the promise comes there. And when was this ultimately fulfilled? 05/14/1948. Right? So I'll bring Israel again to his habitation, and he shall feed on Carmel and Bashan, and his soul shall be satisfied about Mount Ephraim and Gilead. So the the remnant that returned to Jerusalem began to rebuild in a period of time of of fighting with the Syrians and stuff with Artaxerxes, Legionnaes, and there's a period of time there where as a nation of Israel is rebuilt and the time of Christ comes along and Jesus is born, the nation's in the land, but they're subservient to the Romans at that point. But they are in the land. They're able to experience the area of Galilee where Jesus comes out of that Abashon. But ultimately, they're gonna be the Diaspora seventy ADs, Titus, the general, the Roman general is gonna, again, destroy Jerusalem. Not one stone's gonna remain upon another. A fire breaks out and all the gold melts goes down into the cracks, and the pride bars are used by the Romans to get at the gold. And so not one stone will remain upon another, Jesus said, which came to fruition, and he weeps over the city knowing what was the destruction that was coming. So about forty years later after he prophesied that in in seventy AD, general Titus accomplished that. So you see the Jews scattered throughout all over the world, the nation, renamed by the by the Romans as Palestine, which is a Latin term, a derogatory term, and, and so the miracle of Ezekiel thirty six and thirty seven, the valley of dry bones and the coming to life of Israel. So in those days and in that time, saith the Lord, the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for and there shall be none and the sins of Judah and they shall not be found for I will pardon them whom I receive. What's that mean? When Israel comes back into the land, when the Lord Jesus, when they cry out, blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord, there's a national born again according to Jeremiah 31. God's not gonna hold any sin against Israel. There's nothing being held against them. He's gonna pardon them for everything they've ever done, and they're gonna come into a rich, vital relationship with the Lord. So he says, go up against the land of Meri Merihem. So now we come back to the topic of Babylon. So the little little brief little look at Israel, what God's gonna do, the hope there, and now he comes to the outlying areas of, Babylon. So Southern Babylon is Marathaim, even against it and against the inhabitants of Peacock. So there's a play here. If you look at Hebrew, the Hebrew words here, there's a play where Marathaim means a double rebellion, and Peacock means punish. So it's gonna be waste and utterly destroy after them, saith the lord, and do according to the all that I have commanded thee. And so so the eastern bank of the Tigris River is the outlying area of Babylon. A sound of battle is in the land of great destruction. How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder? The hammer of the whole earth was Babylon. They were able to subdue all these nations around them. They were so mighty and so powerful. So today, we would say that America has once been the hammer since World War two, the muscle for the globalists that go anywhere around the world and change, regime change, change out anybody that's disobeying the bankers, America would invade. But first of all, you have to demonize the leader. You have to demonize on the media. They have to demonize Saddam Hussein or Qaddafi or whoever they're gonna go invade. And, they gotta say that Iran has nukes and all that other sort of thing, and they hate you. And the one that's laughable right now is the way they demonize have been demonizing Russia over the years. If ever there's a country that's been patient with America, it's gotta be Russia. With all of the stuff we've done in Ukraine and all over the world under them, Syria, all of it, it's just mind boggling to me the enormous amount of restraint, because it looks like America the government in play here would love for war to break out to cover their sins, all the stuff they're doing. If war breaks out, nobody ever gets to the root of all all that they've been doing, all the money laundering and all that. All those records, everything just go bye bye. Just like with 09:11, the buildings housed, massive computer and and put bets and different aspects of finance, and these guys became enormously wealthy, the architects of nine eleven, based upon, the electronics, the transfer of money, around that time of chaos. And so the hammer of the whole world cut asunder and broken. How has Babylon become a desolation among the nations? And so if we look at Revelation seventeen and eighteen, you know, the whole world is howling, looking on the merchants, all the economy, and the merchants that were made wealthy from Babylon are weeping. You know, the the shipmasters and all the goods, the transfer, and all that, they're looking on. I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, o Babylon. Thou was not aware. Thou art found and also caught because thou has striven against the Lord. So you're you're fighting against the Lord. If you're ever fighting against the lord, striving against the lord, you need to know something. You're gonna lose. Right? So look at look at the globalists right now. Name some of them off, how bold they are, how boisterous, how proud. Which one? Rothschilds. Rothschilds? They're they're kinda quiet, but, yeah, they're they're definitely at the top. They're the head of the snake. So who's who's vocal? Gates. Well, man, that guy is so vocal. Noah Noah Yuval Harari. He just the article I told you guys about, he's he's saying that we're building an ark, and we're the elites. And we're gonna get on our ark, and all of you are gonna drown in the fire. Right? Right? And Klaus Schwab, you're gonna own nothing and be happy. Right? And now they're pushing all over The UK, everywhere pushing the bugs. They're demonizing beef. They're demonizing lamb. They're demonizing protein that would keep us strong enough to ever resist them. Right? So they want sicker and sicker and sicker people. And that's the chemtrailing and the microwaving, the towers of our cell phones, and the HARP technology, just enormous amounts of effort of spraying our food, the food that we're eating, the vegetables, the fruits, injecting the mRNA vaccine into the pigs already, selling all your pig production to the Chinese before you do that, selling your Tyson food production to the Chinese. You know? BlackRock is forcing all of these companies that are still, you know, operating to turn against people. It's people. They call us useful eaters. Hillary calls us the deplorables. You know? So they're intoxicated with their importance. Now, Psalm two describes them. Oh, the heathen rage and imagine a vain thing against the lord and against his anointed. And what's god do? He laughs from heaven. He laughs at man's plans striving against the Lord. Now you and I as as, his children, the servant of the Lord must not strive. Striving means you're in the flesh. You're trying to do God's work in the flesh. You're trying to serve God in the flesh. Don't strive against the Lord. Serve the Lord in the power of the Holy Spirit, in fellowship with the Lord, in harmony with the Lord, in the flow of the Holy Spirit. Try to discover the flow of where God's going, of what he's doing, and just get in the flow. So we that surf, we would say just ride the wave of the Holy Spirit. Ride the wave. Don't strive. Don't fight. Don't kick against the goads like the apostle Paul was striving against Jesus. He was consenting to the death of Stephen and going to Damascus to get more. And Jesus intervened and said, Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? Who art thou Lord? I'm Jesus whom you're persecuting. He said, can you continue to kick against the goads? A goad was a prick, a stick at the flank of the ox, the plowing. And if the ox tried to rebel against the master and kick with his back back feet, there'd be a poker there. And Jesus saying, you're kicking against the goads. You're striving against me. You're going against the grain. And so we don't wanna go against the Lord. And we definitely don't wanna go with the flow of the world. We don't wanna be in that flow. We wanna be in the flow of the Holy Spirit, which in many cases is directly against the flow of the world. Alright. So snare for thee, and thou art also taken, o Babylon, thou was not aware that thou are found and caught because thou has striven against the Lord. You guys are losers. The Lord has opened l seven, l seven weenies. So the lord has opened his armory and has brought forth the weapons of his indignation, for this is the work of the lord god of hosts in the land of the Chaldeans. So this is god's doing. God's the one that's doing this. Come against her from the uttermost border, open her storehouses, cast her up as heap and destroy her utterly. Let nothing of her be left. So all the spoil take all the spoil out, Medes and Persians. Take everything. Slay all her bullocks. Let them go down to the slaughter. Woe unto them for their day has come, their time of their judgment. So the bullocks, the young bucks, the young soldiers, kill all of her soldiers. Also, any bullocks, if you wanna take it literally, any of the bulls that are there for sacrificial reasons, kill them all. Kill them all. Don't have any stored up. And, this has become the day of the slaughter. When Armageddon happens, it's a time of slaughter of kings and rulers over the earth. The lord brings the carnivorous birds to come and to feast upon the bodies of all these nations that try to stop him from returning and that try to stop try to destroy Israel, the nation of Israel. The voice of them that flee and escape out of the land of Babylon to declare in Zion the vengeance of the Lord our God, the vengeance of his temple. So witnesses that are gonna be there describing the the destruction of Babylon and the knee knocker, the knee knocking that took place with Belteshazzar. And chapter 52 verse 13, it says, and burn the house of the lord and the king's house and all the house of Jerusalem and all the house of the great men burned he with fire. So the Babylonians burned the house of the lord. They burned everything. And the lord's saying, here, I'm taking vengeance. I'm gonna burn it all down. Gonna burn them down. Call together the archers against Babylon and all that bend the bow, camp against it round about. Let none escape. Recompense. So use your archers to try and get out all the people that are fleeing. Recompense her according to her work, according to all that she has done, do unto her for she has been Proud. Proud. How is Nebuchadnezzar proud? Oh, what? Look at this great thing that I I have made. Yeah. Is this not great Babylon in Daniel four, which I have built? And it's barely out of his mouth, and he's led out to eat grass for seven years. Yeah. Lost his faculties. Right? Because of pride against the lord and against the holy one of Israel. Therefore shall her young men fall in the streets and all her men of war shall be cut off in the in the in that day, sayeth the lord. And behold, I am against thee, oh, thou most proud, say it the lord god of hosts. For thy day has come. The day has come. You know, when's Bill Gates' day gonna come? Not soon. When when are these guys gonna finally be dealt with? In Hebrews chapter nine, it says appointed unto all men once to die and then the judgment. There's a day of judgment coming. Yeah. And they know it. They know it. They know it. They know it. And you know what's fun? What's exciting is when we're raptured, right after the rapture, somewhere in there, may could be a gap, somewhat of a gap, but still very very soon after the rapture, when the restrainer is removed from this world, the holy spirit working through us, according to the second Thessalonians chapter two, all hell's gonna break loose upon this planet, and God's judgment is coming against Bill Gates and Bezo and all these guys that have built their bunkers and think that they're all safe. Revelation six, they're trying to hide from the wrath of the lamb. God's wrath I mean, they can't even die. In Revelation nine, God doesn't even let them die. He wants them to feel the brunt of his wrath against them. And then when they die, he sends them to hell, and then he resurrects them in Revelation 20 after the millennium, and they stand before the great white throne judgment. And they're going to give an account of all that they did while they're in these bodies, whether good or bad. And and their punishment, according to Luke 12, is a graduated punishment, knowledge bringing responsibility. And some are beaten with few stripes, some many stripes, but the bottom line is the devil, the antichrist, the false prophet, and all the wicked dead are in a place called the Lake Of Fire, where the worm dieth not and the fire is never quenched, where there's weeping and gnashing of teeth for all eternity. So sometimes we make the mistake of being jealous of their money and their power and all that they have, their houses, their boats, all that, but their life is but a vapor. It's soon over. And, and you and I, no matter what we go through, Paul describes this as a light affliction, which is but for a moment in comparison. And it's working for us, not against us, working for us, a formal eternal weight of glory while we look not at the things which are seen, this, the temporal, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal, things which are not seen are eternal. So the unsearchable riches of Christ were joint heirs with Jesus, but these guys are so proud. Pride in Luke four Isaiah 14 is what wiped out Lucifer. Beautiful, beautiful angel, Ezekiel 28. It was pride that brought him down. And it's pride that brought Nebuchadnezzar and the nation of Babylon down. And I would say what's taking the church in America down is pride. And I can prove that because the church of Laodicea is the last day's church. And I'm rich, I'm increased with goods, and I'm need of nothing. And they kicked Jesus out of the church. In Revelation chapter three verse 20, he's outside of his church knocking on the door saying, you guys kicked me out, but I still love you. If you open the door, I'll come in and have fellowship with you. But they say, we don't need you. We're rich. We're prosperous. We're filled with pride. And he he told them, you don't know. You're naked, poor, blind, and miserable as who you really are. Without me, without Jesus, you can do nothing. So the most and the most proud shall stumble and fall and none shall raise him up and I will kindle a fire. Now in Lamentations four eleven, there was a fire that broke out, you know, in Jerusalem. I'll kindle a fire in his cities and it shall devour all around about him. And so God destroyed the earth the first time with water, flood, second time by fire. Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the children of Israel and the children of Judah were oppressed together, and all who took them captive held them fast, and they refused to let them go. So, well, while they're in Babylon, the those in captivity weren't allowed to go. They were oppressed by the nations around them and until Cyrus came. When Cyrus came and overthrew, the Babylonians, he allowed the Jews that were there, to go back just as God promised or God prophesied in Isaiah chapter 44 verse 28, Isaiah 45, the first four verses about Cyrus, how he would let them go. But who's behind it? A kinsman redeemer, a near kinsman redeemer named Jesus. Their redeemer is strong, the Lord of hosts is his name, and he shall thoroughly plead their cause that he may give rest to the land and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon. So the Lord is the one that intervenes, their kinsman redeemer Jesus like Boaz with Ruth. And and so we we see that Jesus is our kinsman redeemer. He's paid the Goel prize, the blood that he paid for our redemption, so great a price of redemption to set the captives free. And and he says, now from verse 35, there's various sections. Five times he uses the word sword and then also a drought to describe the judgment that's coming against the Babylonians. He says, verse 35, a sword is upon the Chaldeans, saith the Lord, and upon the inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her princes, and upon her wise men. So God's using the sword against the religious leaders, first of all, there in verse 35. And and he says, and the politicians, and a sword is upon the liars. Oh my lord. What a blessing. Now we've we've learned since COVID, maybe before that, a lot of us, that if any of the politicians, if their lips are moving, we know they're lying. And if we want direction, if we wanna know the truth, the truth is the exact opposite of what they're saying. That's how you know what the truth is. So a sword is upon the liars. Lying is the greatest weapon of the devil, deception. Jesus said, be not deceived. Right? You see that there? Be not deceived. Take heed that no man deceive you. Four times in the book in Matthew 24. So presently, we're living in a time, a psyop, a psychological operation against us, which is just enormous amount of what we would call propaganda or lying. Jesus said, if you know the truth, the truth will set you free. So if you know the truth, if you research and you see what's really happening, you're going to have a great greater sense of reality and discernment to discern between good and evil. The most important truth is to know God's word. And Sunday, I was trying to remember, you know, what the Paul said. First Timothy four, the spirit speaks expressly that latter days men shall depart from the faith giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons, and they will speak lies and hypocrisy, speaking lies and hypocrisy, their conscience being severed with a with a, you know, hot iron, so unconscionable, forbidding to marry. Right? And also commanding that people abstain from the eating of meat which god has created and and has and, you know, given to us, that we're to receive through prayer, you know, and thanksgiving, thanking the lord for thanking the lord for our food. You know? And so it's lies. The spirit speaks expressly that in the latter days, some shall depart from the faith giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons. That means deception. That means in the last days, the apostasy in the church is gonna be driven by the devil. Jesus said the devil is a murderer and a liar from the beginning. It's very tragic when people don't know the truth and they're being seduced by doctrines of demons. I I can just imagine how many churches are gonna start selling crickets and and bugs and mealworms, and they're gonna say, we're saving the climate. Climate change is a bold faced lie. No science, no proof, no nothing. But if they keep saying it enough, there'll be people that believe it. And you ever seen how skinny a vegan is? How frail? How how, like, emaciated these vegans are? You know? Wait till they start eating bugs. Holy smokes. When I went up to Canada there for Kathy's birthday, I was in the gym with, you know, finally with people my age and a little bit older, and and I was like King Kong in there, man. It was, like, unreal. But they're they're my son-in-law said it's because they do a vegan diet. Most of them are do do a vegan diet. So when I was ordering at a restaurant, they're a really cool restaurant, the the waiter says, you need a salad. I'm I'm giving you a salad. I said I said, well, okay. Alright. I'll take it. I'll take it. Does it go with Amber? But but, you know, my the cows I eat, they eat grass. I that's where I get my salad. But but, you know, the enormous amount of lying. The biggest lie today is the climate change. The glow used to be global warming with Al Gore. There's no such thing that hydrocarbons, you and I breathing, or cows flatulating affects the climate. But these idiots these idiots keep saying it no matter what no matter what rebuttal. They're destroying farmers, destroying farms, removing the nitrogen in the fertilizer. It's it's clear that they're trying to poison us and famine. They're introducing famine. And here's here's here's a picture I had in my head of all those globalist, World Economic Forum people, sitting there, these pedophiles, and they're smoking the best pot you can get, and they're laughing. We're gonna get them we're gonna get them eating mealworms. You know? And they're laughing. They're laughing about what they're having us do. That is you can hear the devil laughing. These people are so prideful with the god complex. You know? Hallucinogenic. You know? Let's get them eating crickets. Yeah. Alright. Which verse says liars? Because mine has got a different version, so I don't Oh, it does? Nearly inspired version? Verse 36, a sword is upon the liars, and they shall become fools. So this is the Mine says oracle priests. Mine says Well, the religious leaders and the politicians. That's the politicians I got here. A sword is upon the liars and they shall become fools. A sword is upon the mighty men and they shall be dismayed. So, I took it as the religious leaders, verse 35, the Chaldeans saith the Lord upon the inhabitants of Babylon and upon her princes and upon her wise men. So you've got the religious leaders, you've got the politicians who are the liars, and the religious and the politicians are all liars. Is the lie is the key weapon of the wicked one. The sword is upon the mighty men, so your military shall be dismayed. The sword is upon their horses and upon their chariots and upon all the mixed people. So for me, I put the the mixed people, the multicultural people, the mercenaries that are, hired by these guys to continue with war. And then I put the PC guys. Who are the PC guys? The political correct gay people, upon all the mixed people, nay that are midst of her, and they shall become like a woman like a woman in in travail, having a baby. So there you have your effeminate, wussy, low t guys. They're all affected, upon her treasuries, and they shall be robber they shall be robbed. So their economy is gonna be wiped out. Everything's gonna be taken. And then to top all that off, the sword that's come with the Medes and Persians is wiping that out, and now you have a drought. A drought is upon her waters, and they show you got the Euphrates River. You got canals, a huge canal system, just like California. California had, like, seven reservoirs built, huge reservoirs and also, you know, the Hoover Dam and all that, to provide water, and they can withstand seven years of drought. But you know what the nut jobs do? They don't use it. They open up the dams and let the water go into the Pacific Ocean. They claim it's to save a little guppy. They're denying water to the farmers. The farmers go out of business, and then the the husband, I I think it was two of them together. One was Pelosi's husband and Dianne Feinstein's husband, brokered these lands to the Chinese to purchase from farmers that don't get water anymore. You go broke. You know? But they let the water go out, and then they tell everybody, we we're in a drought season. We're in a drought season. Then the other one, if you listen to Dane Whittington from geoengineering.com, he'll he'll show you and and demonstrate the science of how they push the storms that are coming off the Pacific Ocean to come bring the rain. They push them with their HARP technology and their chemtrailing, and they're they're they're able to push the storm front to the East Coast, and then the East Coast gets you know, then they they have what's called flooding. Right? Alright. So now the irony I was thinking today is the globalist claim that we're the ones ruining the climate because we're breathing c o two. The c o two causes the trees and and all the plant life feeds on the c o two. The plant life gives us oxygen. But in actuality, their lie is such that with their chemtrailing and their HARP technology and all the the other things they use, they're the ones causing the weapon the weather wars. They're causing the weather patterns to change and such and and creating, droughts around the world. So a drought is upon the waters, and they shall be dried up for it is a land of carved images, and they are mad over their idols. So they're crazy. They're absolutely crazy. They're gonna be empty, get rid of all their idols. They're gonna be poor. They're gonna be unproductive. Jesus said that we're gonna bear fruit. Right? I I like the idea that you and I are productive, that our lives produce fruit. And the way that we produce fruit is that we abide in him and his life flows through us and our lives bear fruit. Therefore, the wild beasts of the desert with the wild beasts of the coast shall dwell there, and the ostriches dwell there, and it shall be nowhere inhabited forever, neither shall it dwell in the generation to generation. So it's gonna be a wasteland. Nobody's gonna ever dwell there again. And so, again, the revelation seventeen and eighteen, it looks like it's gonna be rebuilt and destroyed. But in this time frame here, gonna be a a place where demons, where evil spirits gather. So as god overthrew Sodom so here's your example of Sodom and Gomorrah, just as we saw in chapter 49 verse 18. As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighboring cities, saith the Lord, so shall no man abide there, neither shall any son of man dwell in her. This is gonna So be the fire and the brimstone that's gonna come upon them and wipe them out. Behold, the people shall come from the North, the Medes, Northeast, and a great nation and many kings and shall be raised up from the borders of the earth. They shall hold the bow and the lance. They are cruel and will not show mercy. Their voice shall roar like the sea and they shall ride upon horses and everyone, put in area like a man to the battle against thee, oh daughter of Babylon. The king of Babylon has heard the report of them and his hands became feeble. Anguish took hold of him, pangs of a woman in travail. So you picture in Daniel five, Belteshazzar. His says his knees were smiting against each other when he saw the handwriting upon the wall. Probably needed to change his depends about that time. So fear and trembling and, just anguish, feeble. You can picture Obama and Biden doing that when the god's wrath is poured out upon them. You know, just just totally melting down. Behold, he shall come up like a lion. Who's this this time? Last time it was Nebuchadnezzar. This time it's Cyrus. Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of the Jordan under the habitation of the strong, but I will make them suddenly run away. So as in a moment and and from her, and who is a chosen man? Who is a chosen man? Jesus. Jesus, a chosen man. That I may appoint over her. For who is like me? Jesus. And who will appoint me the time? And who is, that shepherd that shall stand before me? Jesus. Right? So here's some verses. Let's give you some verses. Who wants, John ten eleven? Me. Who wants Psalm 23 verse one? One and two. 23. I got it. Okay. Who wants, first Peter five four? Five four under Who wants Hebrews thirteen twenty? I'll do it. Who wants Isaiah forty eleven? Isaiah forty eleven. I'll pick it. Alright. Who wants Ezekiel thirty four twenty three? Ezekiel twenty four Thirty four twenty three. 34. 23. I'll do that. 23. K. 3724. Alright. Psalm 23. Wait a second here. Wait a second. Who will appoint me the time, and who is that shepherd that will stand before me? Psalm twenty three one and two. The lord is my shepherd. I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures. He restores my soul. Although I walk through You're there. You're there. Alright. The lord is my, the pronouns, my shepherd. The lord. Who are we talking about? Who is that shepherd? The lord. The lord. It's my shepherd. Right? Okay. And who is the lord? John ten eleven. That's me. K. I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep. So who's that shepherd? The lord. Jesus. Oh, Jesus. Jesus. I am the good shepherd. Jesus is the good shepherd. Jesus is first Peter five verse four. Do you have a red letter edition? I do. The great I am. I am. First Peter five four. He is the good shepherd. He is the I'm getting to it. I have shepherd the great shepherd. Great shepherd. First Peter five verse four. I'm getting there. I didn't want I was getting the other scripture. Jason's as immature as I am, isn't he? He gets all my jokes. He gets all my jokes. No. He's Oh, yes. I do. Way Yeah. Way more immature Really? Than you could ever imagine. He was screaming yesterday during church. He was laughing so hard. He that was the worst sometimes too. Yeah. Alright. The chief shepherd. 54. First Peter 54. It. Time's up. No. Let me get it. Thumb thyself. First Peter five four. Done. And when the chief shepherd shall appear, he shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away. Amen. Hallelujah. A crown of glory from the chief shepherd. So you got shepherds out there, but you got one that's the chief shepherd. Right? We're under shepherds, under shepherds. A shepherd is a pastor, the one that feeds the sheep, tends the sheep. Hebrews thirteen twenty. Oh, that's me. Now the god of peace who brought up from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep through the blood of the eternal covenant, even Jesus our lord. Don't you love that? Oh, that's a pregnant verse. Oh, so much there. Let's parse it. I mean, let's let's expositor, exegete it. Alright. Isaiah forty eleven. Isaiah forty eleven. He shall feed his flock like a shepherd. He shall gather the lambs with his arms and carry them in his bosom and shall gently lead those that are with young. Alright. Let's let's sing it. He shall feed his flock like a no. We used to sing that. I don't know. Alright. Ezekiel thirty four twenty three. Thirty four twenty three. I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them. Even my servant David, he shall feed them and he shall be their shepherd. David's a shepherd. Jesus, the root and offspring of David, king of kings, lord of lords, David is prince and going to oversee the nation of Israel during the millennium. Praise the lord. Feed them. And alright. Is that shepherd that will stand before me. Therefore, hear ye, the counsel of the lord that he has taken against Babylon and his purpose that he has purposed against the land of the Chaldeans, surely the least of the flock shall draw them out. Surely he shall make their habitation desolate with them. And so you and I, no matter what goes on, we know that all things are working together for good for those who love God and are called according to his purpose. God has a plan. He has a purpose. Even what's happening right now, the chaos that's happening right now, Revelation seventeen seventeen says that God's putting into the hearts of the Bill Gateses and all those guys to accomplish his will. They are putting into place the beast system so that Jesus can dominate the dominator, the revelator. He's going to he's going to, subdue all of his enemies, destroy the antichrist, their champion, with the brightness of his coming and the sword of his mouth, and, it's no contest. It's just a no contest, but the stage is being set for god to pour out his wrath upon these Christ rejecters. Mhmm. And you and I are not subject unto his wrath. We're not appointed to wrath. We're gonna be raptured. We're gonna be caught up, harpazoed out of here, and that's what we're looking at here. That's his purpose. Right? Thank god. Surely, the least of the flock shall draw them out so the weak are gonna be made strong. Draw them out. At the noise of the taking of Babylon, the earth is moved, and the city is heard among the nations. Now that's that's described in Revelation seventeen and eighteen. That's where the whole world the smoke is billowing up out of Babylon, and the whole world is looking on and just like, what just happened? You know? And that's why some of the prognosticators, the prophets, the the the guys say nuked, destroyed as in a moment, like a big nuke came there and just nuked them out out of Babylon. Alright. So we don't know, but we do know that God's gonna destroy. Now one thing we didn't mention is Babylon originates where? In Genesis chapter ten eleven with Nimrod. So it telescopes forward all throughout history as the the birthplace of of idolatry, an idolatrous system. Also, Nimrod was the first, like, global leader, first religious system, global religious system with their their attempt with the Tower Of Babel to reach, you know, their idols that they were that they were worshiping and all. And and and God confounded the languages, and God made what's called nation states, ethnic groups, which with borders. And God didn't intend for the world to be drawn together as one, you know, at that time, as one against God. You know? They were coming together to be against God. And that's the beast system. It's Satan's attempt once again to put together a global government, a global religious system, a global economic system with the intent of worshiping Lucifer, worshiping the devil. So, that's where Nimrod was. That's where Babylon was. And, and so God is God is gonna judge him. Alright. Let's pray. Father, thank you for, clarity. Thank you for light. Thank you for your teaching. Thank you that we don't need to fear what man's gonna do unto us or attempting or trying to do and and plotting to do. Lord, our life is in your palm of your hand. No man can ever pluck us out of your hand. Our very breath, Lord, is in your hand. And, Lord, you you you've got a date set where we're gonna be with you. And, you're the one that controls everything all by you. All things consist. Nothing can happen without your approval. So, we trust you completely, your plan, your purposes for our lives. Lord, our desire is to glorify you, to enjoy you, to worship you, to tell people about you, to see you save people in these last days. And Lord, we do pray for a great harvest of souls, a great harvest of people that we can point toward you when their life begins to break down, when all that their life is built upon, they realize is sand. And Lord, with that, they can come to the rock, that they can come to you, Lord. And Lord, you said, except a person comes to that rock and falls upon it and be broken, which speaks of salvation, which speaks of repentance, which speaks of we come to Jesus and we're broken, that one day, Lord, you're gonna come in judgment, and you're that rock that's gonna pounce upon them and grind them to powder. So, Lord, let us point people to you that they've come before you and be broken before you in repentance, that you'd fill and use and put their lives back together, that, Lord, you would write their names on the lamb's book of life that many would be saved, Lord. All that the devil means for evil to destroy so many people and take them to hell, Lord. We pray that you'd save many. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Amen. Something that three things on my a one c, this diabetes thing. It was I think it was six point four, which is also told me pretty good. Anyway and I was sleeping on my I was moved back into my apartment, I so was sleeping on the floor with my sleeping bag. So I was eating down, you know, against the wall. Finally and all my right foot slipped and banged my knee. And I had to go to the image, and they said there was no fracture. You know? But, you know, and there's a lot of swelling there. So I'd like to have that prayer pray tonight. And and one more thing. God's sheep are not cheap. God's sheep are not cheap. They're valuable. Right? They're not cheap. Oh, not cheap. Right. Right. Right. Right. Blood bought. Blood bought. So you can pray Blood bought. Right? Yeah. Amen. Amen. Can you pray pray for my A one c? Yeah. And your knee? Yeah. Well, yeah, I'm a I'll I'll I'll accept that. Right. Okay. God knows. Alright. Okay. Robbie, you wanna pray for him? I don't know what an a one c is. Okay. Rob, you wanna a one c? I'll pray. I'll pray. We have an a one c. I have an a one my apartment, I'll be able to I feel really pressured regarding the management and that kind of thing that there'd be I I feel like I'm being harassed there. So pray that the Lord gives me victory on that. You're gonna be able to have a bible study there? Possibly. Alrighty. Alright, buddy. Play that guitar. Play that guitar. Do. Sing to Lord. Community church. Play it at home too. Let the neighbors know. Right. They know. They know. Alright. Father, we come before you. We lift up Thomas Poole. Thank you for him, lord. His consistency, lord, his love for you over the years that I've known him. Lord, he just loves to praise you wherever he goes. I I thank you for his ministry. We pray for his health, Lord. You know all the particulars, even if we forget to say one of them. But the a one c, I remember, and the knee that he that he bumped and that needs prayer. And, anything else that's going on within his body, we thank you for doctor Richard and others that are attending unto him. And we pray, Lord, you'd heal him totally and completely that he'd have a renewed sense of vitality and mobility. Bless his new apartment. Let him be, making friends there, Lord, and, divine appointments where he can share, your love with folks there, Lord. And, Lord, just bless Thomas. Thank you for him. In Jesus' name, amen.

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Calvary Chapel Bremerton - Home Bible Study

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

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