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Alright. Father, we come before you. And, we thank you for another Monday night that we could meet at Rob, Vicky, and Brandon's home. Thank you for all they do to set the stage. And, Lord, we ask that you be the celebrity tonight, Lord, that we all focus upon you and that you would pour out your holy Spirit upon us, that you bless mightily. Thank you for the meal. Lord, we lift up all those who are sick. We lift up Judy, Steve's sister, pray that she get the attention that she needs, the the healing and all. And I thank you that Nancy is here tonight feeling good. Lift up Alan that you continue to heal him and Sally and Cora and Mike Goodson. And thank you that Fred is doing better. Continue to be with him. We lift up Wayne Staggary. We pray you do miracles dealing with the cancer that he has. And Lord, we just lift up our prayer list. All those on the prayer list, you know each one by name. And Lord, we pray that you'd heal, that you do great things exceedingly, abundantly, above all we could ask or think according to Christ We're to that. Is in you, Lord, in you. It's in you. My life is in you, Lord. My strength is in you, Lord. My hope is in microphone's a little hot. We fall down Amen. Praise the lord. Holding me still, holding me here in your arms of war. Sing the simple song love to my savior, to my Jesus. I'm grateful for the things There's no place I'd rather be alone. My heart is glad that you call me your own. Change my heart, oh am the clan. Amen. Alright. Thank you, Rob. Alright. We miss Robbie. She's not here tonight. And Greg, they're moving to Arkansas. So they can when they get all settled, they'll be able to watch via Facebook and also Ronnie and Fred. We miss them. So praise the Lord for the time we got to spend with them. And so that we should give a shout out to them. Alright. We are in Ezekiel chapter one tonight. If you'd like to turn there. Written in the sixth century BC, the theme is judgment and glory. The name Ezekiel means God will strengthen or another aspect of that is harden. He's about 30 years of age. He's a priest, the son of Buzzy. Anybody got an uncle named Uncle Buzzi? B u z I. And anyway, he's a priest and he's like Jeremiah and Zechariah who were also priests and prophets. He was taken in the second deportation. The first deportation, Daniel was taken and Shadrach, Meshach, Abednego to Babylon. And in the second deportation with Jehoiachin, the king who agreed to surrender and was gonna, you know, be there in Babylon till his death and evil Myrtleiak treated him good because he surrendered to Babylon. But Zedekiah didn't and kept fighting. So in May, Jerusalem was destroyed. And so Ezekiel, he's gonna be talking about the first part about how, as a student of Jeremiah and all that Jerusalem will be destroyed. And then after it's destroyed, he's speaking future of a restoration and all. He's laying his book out chronologically, so we will be able to see him go from 30 years old up to 52 years of age, 22 of laying the south during the time of the seventy years that the Jews, the captivity, those in captivity in Babylon. And so, Father, we pray that you'd open the word to us, be our teacher, help us to understand tonight, and we ask this in Jesus' name, amen. So now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I was among the captivity by the River Chebar. So he's there's an arm off of the arm might be a bad word, but a channel off of the Euphrates River that breaks off and then comes back toward it that he's here with some people here along that riverbank. She borrowed that the heavens were opened and I saw visions of God. Any of you seen the heavens opened and seen visions of God? Anybody? Anybody been caught up to the third heaven like Paul and seen things that were unlawful to describe? So they're not on mushrooms. Okay. Alright, so any of you ever seen an angel? Oh, Vicki's seen an angel. Stephen's seen an angel. Seen something. Seen something. Who wants to read Hebrews thirteen:one? Sometimes we call them strangers. Ever met a stranger? Ever had a vision? Ever had a trance? Yes. Were you seen? An angel? No. Hebrews 13 verse one. Somebody want to read that? Go ahead, Steve. Continue. You gotta go further than that. That's verse one. Are you sure? Two says, be be not forgetful to entertain strangers for thereby There you go. Some have entertained angels unawares. There you go. Hebrews 13 verse two. So let brotherly love continue and then when a stranger comes into camp, there was a time in Genesis 18 where Abram saw two men walking into camp. The third one was the Lord Himself, three men. And two of them were angels. And the two angels went to Sodom and Gomorrah and relieved Lot and his family, got them out of Sodom and Gomorrah. But these angels that came into camp looked like men, right? Looked like human beings, taking on the form of a human being. And so maybe at some point, unbeknownst to us or known to us, the Lord has allowed us to meet somebody that we thought was a human being and they were angelic. They were in a different form. Or you're caught with a vision, looking up to heaven and the Apostle Paul said, I knew a man whether in his body or out of body caught up in the third heaven. So if you're Paul and you're preaching at Lystra and they stone you to death, you're laying there and your spirit goes up to the third heaven. And so we got the heavens of where we breathe. We have the heavens of, you know, where birds fly. We have the heavens of the space, you know, the moon and stars and all that. And then we have the third heaven, which is the God's throne is, right? And to be cast out of heaven, Lucifer, a cherub angel cast out of heaven. In Revelation 12, he's thrust down to earth, knows his time is short. Jesus said that he saw Satan fall from heaven and as lightning fall from the sky. So access to heaven before the throne of God. But Paul, if it is Paul, I knew a man in the body were out of the body, caught up with a third heaven and he saw things that would have been unlawful to even try and describe. The words are inadequate to try and describe what he's seen. So Ezekiel here has a vision of angels. And he's going to describe to us in chapter one, also in chapter 10 that of angels. And so, this is in May on July 31, where he starts this out, the fifth year of exile, and he saw a vision of God. So on the fifth day of the month, which was the fifth year of King Jehoiachin's captivity. So as I said, Jehoiachin came in the second deportation along with Ezekiel. The word of the Lord came expressly unto Ezekiel, notice the priest, and the heaven opened the heaven opened to John the Baptist and Jesus when Jesus was being baptized. The heavens opened and the Holy Spirit fell, you know, like a dove upon him. In Acts chapter seven verse 56, the Lord stood, he's seated at the right hand of his father, but the Lord stood as the heavens were opened and Stephen looked up into heaven and saw the Lord Jesus standing there, giving a standing ovation. In Acts chapter 10, Peter saw the heavens open when he was in a trance praying and don't call that common, which I've cleansed Peter, and rise, kill and eat and all that. And also, heavens open according to Malachi four, when we trust the Lord in giving Him the first of our increase. He says, He'll open the heavens and pour out a blessing upon us. Alright, and so, In the fifth year of King Jehoiachin's captivity, the word of the Lord came expressly unto Ezekiel, the priest, the son of Buzzi, and I like that Buzzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar. And the hand of the Lord there was upon him. You need the hand of the Lord upon you to serve the Lord, to what the Lord has called you to do. All of us are called to serve the Lord. All of us have at least one gift of the Holy Spirit. When we get to chapter twelve, thirteen, 14, Paul make it clear that the Holy Spirit has given gifts out severally, at least one gift to whom He will. And so those gifts are gifts of the spirit, and they're to be used to edify the body of Christ, to build the body of Christ up. But you need what Jesus said in Acts chapter one, you need to wait for the power. You need the Lord's hand to be upon you. The experience, the power of the Holy Spirit to enable, to empower you and I because we're fighting not against human enemies necessarily, according to Ephesians six, but against heavenly or spiritual beings. So we're no match for the one third of the angels that fell from heaven, the demons, right? We're no match for them with our natural abilities, our natural intellect. So we need the Holy Spirit for the Lord's hand to be upon us, empowering us. So greater is He that's in me than he that's in the world. The Lord has not left me comfortless. I have the Holy Spirit living and dwelling within me as a Christian, and I have the api experience of the Holy Spirit upon me. Jesus said, You'll be my witnesses, my martyrs in Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, to the uttermost parts of Bremerton. You're going to be my witnesses. And so he told them to wait for the promise of my Father when the Holy Spirit comes upon you. And he'd already breathed them the Holy Spirit to receive the Holy Spirit. And that's what it means to be born again, be a Christian, the Holy Spirit living and dwelling within. And so the work of the Holy Spirit, the preposition is within and upon. With, He comes alongside to convict. In, to be born again, you know, Nicodemus. And then the upon experience. So you're no longer body and soul, you're body, soul and spirit. The natural man isn't like that. He's body and soul and understands not the things of God neither can he know them because they're spiritually discerned. And then the Epi experience, the upon experience of Acts chapter two, where the Holy Spirit was poured out and came upon the church. And so we look at Ezekiel here, as great as he is, and he being a priest, he isn't a priest just in name only, nor of being born to Buzz Eye in the priestly line, but God's hand is upon him. And I don't ever want the Lord to take His hand off of me. I don't ever want to be like Samson and where he knew not that the Holy Spirit had departed. Now we have a promise. Jesus said he promised he'll never leave us nor forsake us. Right? So we don't need to pray like David prayed in Psalm 51, take not thy Holy Spirit from me because Jesus promised he's never going to leave us nor forsake us. So he plays for keeps. And I looked and behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, a storm, great cloud and a fire unfolding it, unfolding itself and brightness was about it. And out of the midst of it, like the color of amber out of the midst of the fire. So a glowing fire. We see this in verse 27 and we see it in chapter eight verse two, the same fire, glowing fire. Also out of the midst of it came the likeness of four living creatures And this was their appearance. They had the likeness of a man. Now, he's going to describe cherub angels. Cherubim is plural. So those little fat little babies you have up? No, not like that. So how many different ranks of angels are there? Of these creatures, these beings? Do you remember when we were in Acts chapter I mean, excuse me, Isaiah chapter six and Isaiah saw a similar vision? Saw the Lord high and lifted up and His train filled the temple? Remember the angels that were there? Who wants to read Isaiah six:one through seven? Who's got a good voice? Who's got the microphone? Who's going to waddle over there? Or throw them at? Isaiah six. Isaiah commissioned. In the year that the king Uzziah died, I saw also the lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. Above it stood the serpents. Each one had six wings. With twain, he covered his face. And with twain, he covered his feet. And with twain, he did fly. And one cried unto another and said, holy, holy is the lord of hosts. The whole earth is full of his glory. And the post of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke. I then said I, woe is me for I am undone because I am the man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of the of a people of unclean lips for mine eyes have seen the king and the lord of hosts. Then flew one of the serpents unto me, having a having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar. And he laid it upon my mouth and said, lo, this has touched thy lips and that iniquity is taken away and thy sin purged. And I heard a voice of the Lord saying, whom shall I send and who will go for us? Then said I, here am I, send me.' Alright. So, these are the Seraphim. Seraphim. And so, in our chapter here, we have cherubim. Him is plural. So a cherub angel, a seraph angel, exalted angels. We also have Colossians one sixteen describes thrones, dominions, virtues, powers, principalities. Then we have angels and we have archangels. So different ranks of angels. It would appear that the Seraph, if not the Cherub, are the exalted angels. The Seraphim have six wings, the Cherub have four, and Lucifer, the devil, was a cherub angel, an exalted angel until he became Satan. Lucifer, a demon, right? And onethree of the stars, onethree of those angels fell with Lucifer. And so that's the power of darkness that's working against us, that's working against God and rebellion to God. And you and I have guardian angels, right? All of us kids, angels surrounding us, watching us and scratching their heads concerning us. But so, Ezekiel is going to try and use words like John the Beloved in the book of Revelation to try and describe what Paul said there weren't adequate words to describe. And, but he's going to do his best to give us a picture of what it was like to see these living creatures. So Jesus was made a little bit lower. We were made a little bit lower than the angels and Jesus took on the form of a man. So they're a higher being than that of human beings, but Jesus did not come back as an angel to redeem mankind. He came back as the son of man, which we're going to see a description of Ezekiel all through son of man, son of man, son of man, which was the Lord's favorite description of himself in that he took on the form of a man rather than that of an angel. The angels that left their first estate, you know, in Genesis six, cohabitated with women and brought forth the Nephilim. And so God had repented God that He made man because the thought and intents of man's heart were only evil continually. And so the Lord destroyed the planet with a flood. And then we see that Noah, is perfect in his generation in that his DNA was not corrupted by angels cohabitating with him or his family. So there was a pure DNA there because in Genesis three fifteen, God's promise to Eve, God's promise to humanity in that our first Adam, our first federal head sinned. The last Adam, Jesus, is going to take on the form of a man be born of a virgin and He's the God man, fully God, fully man. So the seed of the woman, the virgin born son of God, His heel would be bruised by the serpent and that He'd go to the cross and be crucified And but then he would crush the serpent's head that he would destroy all of the works of darkness, all of the works of Satan and his minions. And so when we look at the Bill Gates' and the George Soles and the Klaus Schwab's, they're just little pawns that God's able to use to show men their own hearts, to show people whether they're going to walk by faith or not. And Revelation seventeen seventeen says that God is allowing these demonic men, demonically filled men, possessed men and women to set the stage for Armageddon, to set the stage for the return of Jesus Christ. And John the Beloved, he sees angel in Revelation one and also 19. And both times, he drops and gives him 40 when he sees the angel. And the angel says, no, don't worship an angel. So if you ever see an angel, you don't worship an angel. The angel will tell you, worship God. So we're not to worship angels. In Galatians one, Paul makes it real clear that if anybody comes along including an angel with a different gospel, let him be anathema. Now, the Mormon church is put together through the angel Moroni, right? And I don't know who saw the angel Moroni, I never heard the angel Moroni, but they come up with a false doctrine of something that Joseph Smith saw with a fallen angel, right? And and they have a false gospel, different gospel, they should have followed Paul's prescription there in that let him be anathema, let him be a curse if anybody comes with a different gospel. So if demons are coming along, and they're trying to deceive people, appearing as an angel of light, Satan himself can appear as an angel of light. And his ministers, as ministers of righteousness, if they come with a different gospel, if they come with a different Jesus, if they come what's the third one? A different Gospel, different Jesus, a different what? A different They come with a different spirit. They come with a different so you sense in the Holy Spirit. There's a check-in your spirit. Hey, there's something not right about this. There's a different spirit. It's a Holy Spirit. They come with a different Gospels, so you examine what they're saying like a Brienne. And if they come with a different Jesus. So the Mormons come with a different Jesus. Who is Jesus to the Mormons? Brother of Satan. Okay, so Satan is a fallen angel. And who is Jesus to the Jehovah's Witnesses? A God. A God. Rather than, in the beginning was the Word, the Word was with God, the Word was a god. And the a is not in there. Jesus is God. And so, we have to be aware of that, that there are times where in the spiritual realm, those who are gravitating toward the occult, gravitating witchcraft, people are trying for an occultic power working in that direction. Many chiropractors and health practitioners and people are postulating and telling people that they have an energy, that they have a magnetism, they have a power to do things and they're on very, very shaky ground when they delve in those areas. Be very careful of those that espouse that sort of thing. We don't want to have a different spirit working through us like the snake woman, you know. So everyone had four faces and everyone had four wings. So a member of the Seraphim had six wings. These Cherubim, plural, have four wings and their feet were straight feet and the sole of their feet was like the sole of a calf. So they didn't have feet like a human being, they looked like human being on the one end, on the one part of the face, but more like a calf and they sparkled. So very shiny, brass, like the color of burnished bronze. And so these feet, it speaks of these guys were stable. They were very stable. We many times have shaky feet. We're unstable. And the double minded man is unstable in all of his ways. Those that doubt God, those that don't have faith to trust God, Without faith, it's impossible to please God. For they that come to must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him. Now, cherubim angels, they're to guard the throne of God. They're around the throne of God. They're in the tabernacle, Solomon's temple. Also in Hebrews eight verse five, the tabernacle is simply replication, reproduction of the throne of God in the heaven. And so the blueprints that God's giving are blueprints from heaven for Moses to make, you know, tabernacle and all of the furnishings that were there and part of over the mercy seat were chair of angels with their wings stretched out. And so we get a picture of some of that. And they had the hands of a man, so feet like a calf, and they had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides, and they four had their faces and their wings. So think of Ezekiel trying to describe this. Think of John in the book of Revelation trying to describe what he saw as he's caught up. You know, when John went in a time machine up to heaven, you know, in chapter four verse one, right? And that he was caught up in the spirit on the Lord's day, and so he's seeing things because God's eternal and we're finite. We're looking at time. John's brought up in a time machine, Lord's showing them the future. Right? Showing them everything that's gonna come to pass prophetically. And they had the hands of a man with their wings and their four sides and four had their faces and their wings. Exodus 2five 17 through 22 and number seven, eight, nine. Somebody want to read that? Exodus 2five 17 through 22. Okay. And somebody went to one Chronicles 2eight 18. Like a chariot, described like a chariot. Exodus 2five 17 through 22. And number seven, looks like 89, can't be 89. Nine. Nine, seven, 9. I'll look it up. So we want to see where Moses was instructed. Who did you Exodus twenty five seventeen through 22. Exodus 25. Make an atonement cover of pure gold two and a half cubits long and a cubic cubit and a half wide and make two cherubim out of the hammered gold at the ends of the cover. Make one cherub on one end and the second cherub on the other. Make the cherubim of one piece with the cover and the two ends. The cherubim are to have their wings spread upward, overshadowing odors overshadowing the cover with them. The cherubim are to face each other looking toward the cover. Place the cover on top of the ark and put in the ark the tablets of the covenant law that I will give you. There above the cover between the two cherubim that are are over the ark of the covenant law. I will meet with you and give you all my commands for the Israelites. And they also put the cherubim on curtains in Exodus twenty six one through six. So these are pictures, if you will, made of the bronze and also in the curtains. But in reality go ahead. Number seven, it looks like 89, but I don't know. Numbers 89. And when Moses Seven. Seven. Sorry. 87. Seven. Sorry. There we go. Seven. Sorry. I'll get there. 89. Chapter seven eighty nine. And when Moses was gone into the tabernacle of the congregation to speak with him, then he heard the voice of one speaking unto him from off the mercy seat that was upon the ark of testimony from between the two cherubims, and he spake unto him. Alright. So for the mercy seat, God's throne there and the cherubim that are there and Moses hearing in that direction. Their wings were joined one to another, verse nine, they turned not when they went, they went everyone straight forward. So they didn't they moved in unity, a squared unity, and they went straight, walking a straight path. As for the likeness of their faces, now in Hebrews eight verse five, it talks about this in heaven is the actual, and then what Moses built, the tabernacle, is a reproduction. So as for the likeness of their faces, the forehead the face of a man, the face of a lion, on the right side, and the forehead, the face of an ox, on the left side, and the forehead also had the face of an eagle. And so, the face of a man speaks of his humanity. The face of a lion, lion of tribe of Judah, speaks of the Messiah, speaks of Jesus, of his being a king. And on the right side, on the right side, and then on the face of an ox speaks of servanthood. And then on the left side, also had the face of an eagle speaks of deity. So some commentators say that the gospels, the four gospels are divided in this way. In that Matthew would be the gospel pertaining to he's a king. And then let's see, Mark would be that of a servant, the ox. Luke, that of his humanity, and then John, that of his deity. The four Gospels, the emphasis. Thus were their faces, and their wings were stretched upward. Two wings of everyone were joined one to another and the two covered their bodies. So the Seraphim in Isaiah, they got six wings. These guys got four. So it speaks of the reverence in Isaiah six:one-three, the reverence, the humility of covering their faces and also covering their feet because God is holy. And they went everyone straight forward. Wherever the spirit was to go, they went. And they turned not when they went. And so another thing we can glean and learn from this is that they're spirit led. They went wherever the spirit led. We need to go where the Spirit leads us. And we don't go to the left or the right. We take a straight path to where God leads us. Narrows the way that leads to life eternal and few there be that find it. And so it speaks of walking in God's will. His hands are on you, walking in His will. And success in the ministry is not numbers or money or buildings. It's simply being obedient to what God's called you to do. Just obey the Lord, humble yourself, and walk in straight paths with Him. They went and they turned not when they went. As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire. So you have a campfire and you see the burning coal, the red, the amber, and like the appearance of lamps. So light. It went up and down with the living creatures and the fire was bright. So the light going up and down and out of the fire went forth lightning. So has the fire gone out in your intensity? Do you have the intensity of being on fire, an on fire Christian? Jesus said he'd rather you're hot or cold. If you're lukewarm, he'll spit you out of your mouth. So if you're lukewarm, if you're cold as a Christian, the frozen chosen, don't have a heart for the return of Christ, don't have a heart for the gospel getting out, people getting saved, How do you get that fire back? How do you get the fire back, you guys? Has the fire ever gone out in your life? Your walk with the Lord? Has fire ever gone out in your marriage? How do you get your marriage to be on fire again? You lose your first love? What's that? Amen. Amen. Self is the big enemy, isn't it? Self is the enemy. Obsessed with self. And we get our eyes on Jesus. We could be Mary and Martha. What's the lesson with Mary and Martha? Busy is good though. We need Martha's. Right? Balance it out. Kathy, tell us how we balance it out. Amen. And what did Jesus say? Mary has chosen the greater part, right? Both are necessary, but you have to first receive before you can give, before you can serve. So you've got to spend time with the Lord at His feet, worshiping the Lord, to be filled, overflowing, have that fire burning in your heart, and then you go serve in the power of the Holy Spirit. Right? And your life will be fruitful. Now, a lot of people in ministry, they'll tell you, Hey, I've been doing this twenty years. I've been doing this thirty years. I've been working in the shipyard thirty years. I've been working wherever it is you work, the hospital thirty years and I'm burned out. If you feel burned out, how do you get on fire again? Regain your enthusiasm? Pardon me? Part time. All of us have a calling. All of us. When Vicki's working at work there, the job's too big for her. She needs to help the Holy Spirit. Right? Rob needs to help the Holy Spirit. All of us. Being a mother, being a father, whatever you're doing, that's your calling God has upon your life. Right? There's no calling greater than your calling. Your calling is the greatest calling in your life. Right? Yeah. You and God's will. If it's your calling and you reach a place of burnout, sometimes what the Lord would do is He would go alone. He'd get away from the crowd and be refreshed. So sometimes you get away into the desert, away from people, and you take a time of refreshing. That time of refreshing frees up valuable time that was spent doing other things, busyness, and now you get to spend that time with Jesus, right? You get to spend that time with Him being refreshed so you're not burned out anymore. Vacation can be Vegas. Do you want to you think you're going to be refreshed going to Vegas? So when we talk vacation, yeah, physiologically, mentally, we need time away to be refreshed in that way. So for me, it's the beach. Beach is therapeutic. But spiritually, I can't neglect the spiritual part. So I have to make sure that time of refreshing is also a time spent, as Kathy said, in the Word, prayer, trying to hear from the Lord. Church and Bible if you can get people to come to church and Bible study, That's the whole point. You you sit at the Lord's feet and listen. Let the Lord and also He'll guide you with His peace. If you don't have peace about something, then you need to examine your heart and say, what's wrong here? Lord, what happened? Are you moving me on? Do you want me to make a change of jobs? You know, what's going on? And but first and foremost, as you evaluate what's going on, evaluate first the spiritual part of your life. Get in alignment spiritually first and foremost. And what happens is when you seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, all these other things are added. Everything else is fine. So in a marriage, for instance, you see a problem on the horizontal level. You see a problem at work on the horizontal level. It's people. It's him. It's her. Well, the real problem might be vertical. You're out of fellowship with the Lord. So husband and wife, seek Him, get right with Him. The horizontal won't seem so paramount. It won't seem so great, so like a game changer. God will give you the capacity to love a person that's the complete opposite of you. God will give you the capacity to love people at work that are just they're beasts. They're beasts, man. Yeah. But without the help of the Holy Spirit, you you can't get victory. And there's times where the Lord says, there's a beautiful time where the Lord says, you passed the test. You don't need to deal with these heathens anymore. I've got a new job for you, a new place to move, and a new place to live. But you have to stay in that place till you graduate, till you pass the test, till the Lord said, I release you. I release you from this responsibility. I'm still waiting for that. Pardon me? You go. Sell the tomatoes. Know your calling. First and foremost, you're called to just worship God. That's what you're first calling. Alright. You can do that. Alright. So these guys are on fire and they're not going to spend an eternity in the fires of hell, are they? Like Lucifer. And the living creatures ran and returned like the appearance of a flash of lightning. So they're very active. How active are you in your walk with the Lord? How active are you in serving the Lord? You guys say, Hey, I work five tens down at the yard. Well, you're very active in serving the Lord because you're serving the Lord in the yard. You're serving the Lord at the hospital. You're serving the Lord picking tomatoes. And you're especially serving the Lord when you're preparing really good food for me. That's really, really a good thing. Yeah. Those are rewards in heaven for anybody that does that. Alright. And the living creatures ran and returned like the appearance of a flash of lightning. Read that three times now. I like that. Now as I beheld the living creatures, behold one wheel upon the earth by the living creatures with its four faces. So a wheel within the wheel. Did any of you sing some spiritual songs? The wheel in the wheel, wheel in the skies are turning. Who did that song? I don't know. Journey. Okay. Was it a Christian song? Alright. Yeah. If you don't shut up, I will. So the appearance of the wheels and the work like the color of burl, which is a green color, and the forehead one likeness in their appearance and their work as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel. So what's a wheel within the wheel, you engineers? A That's right. Yeah. There you go. I like that. Can you show the camera that? There you go. Gyroscope. Isn't that awesome? Now how many of you have seen UFOs, flying saucers? I think so. So Thomas, what do you think they might have saw? What's explanation for the flying saucers that people claim to be seeing? Angels. Vicky says fallen angels. What else? So you got the glorious gospel, right? The devil wants to corrupt the gospel, right? Experimental aircraft. Experimental aircraft. The Hitler's base beneath the ice. General Byrd, Admiral Byrd went the Arctic and they have videos of these saucer like things the Germans made going up and down and could very well be. Never again. Okay. Love your Ackerman's. Never again. Stay angry. Let not the sun go down on your wrath. Okay. So, okay. Topic that they're bringing out right now, quite prevalent. Flying saucer, UFOs. Right? A lot of airplane pilots and people claim they saw something, blah blah blah. So the conjecture of people when they hear or see this is what? There's aliens, which is what? But it's a false gospel. Right? It's a false gospel. It's that there's other creatures out there on other planets, and when we waste this planet, we can fly to these other planets. Or if the Christians are all of a sudden not here anymore, the aliens took them. The aliens took them. Right? So the devil's modus operandi is always deception. So these fallen angels can do those through the sky. Right? And deceive people, right? And so that's what that's probably the best explanation that I would have for flying saucers and UFOs. Are number one, like you said, the government is able to make things that fly, even flying saucers to deceive people. Operation Blue Beam to holographically deceive people by beaming up in the sky things that people think are UFOs. And in the occult, you would have the fallen angels going. What about a holy angel? What if a holy angel wants a roll like that, gyroscope it, and comes across the sky, and God allows you to see it? It's not it's an unidentified flying object, but it doesn't mean it's a demon. It could be a holy angel rolling that way, flying that way. So how many of you are flat earthers? Flat earther? Okay. They think the Earth is flat. We're in a dome. We're in a dome. Alright. How many of you think that we went to the moon? I don't believe that. Okay. Alright. Alright. I don't know. I don't know. Never know. Oh, verse 17. You guys keep correcting her. Alright? I'll keep going. Her lips just keep moving. Alright. And they went, they went upon the four sides and turned not as they went, so straight. Wheel within the wheel and they went upon their four sides and they turned not when they went. And as for their rims, they were so high, they were dreadful and their rims were full of eyes round about them, them four. And so their ability, they turn not when they went, they're going straight, speaks of being, some say, being omnipresent. And for their rims, they were so high they were dreadful, speaks of the omnipotence of God, not of them, but of God, the power. And their time were full of eyes, speaks of the omniscience of God. The watchers, the holy angels, they're watching us right now. And God is omniscient. He sees everything. Everything is naked and open before the eyes with whom we have to do. Now Satan, Satan is not omnipresent. Satan is not an angel is not omniscient. An angel doesn't know everything. But this is a type of picturing who God is. And God is omnipresent. God is omnipotent. God is omniscient. So the beast system, the devil's desire, false counterfeit trinity where Satan wants to be as God in Isaiah 14, I'll be as the most high God. He's the counterfeit God the Father. His seed of the woman is the counterfeit Christ, and then the counterfeit Holy Spirit is the false prophet. And so part of what they're going try and do with the beast system with AI and all the technology now, a friend of mine today sent me an email, Mike Lenaerts, and he sent me an email showing the tremendous production of these chips that we use for they're sent for AI technology. But he was asking the question, is it really for the BEAST system to bring about the surveillance system? So apparently, the surveillance system is going into hyperspeed of the selling of these the chip technology. So they're being they're in high demand, the chip technology to develop what? Develop the five gs, six gs, seven the short atmospheric satellites from Elon Musk, Bill Gates and all, to have a complete surveillance grid so that the devil could have his counterfeit be an omniscient, seeing everything. Right? And one of the things that I was told old school technology that helped the Afghanistan people to not be detected from drones that have heat seeking. They look at the heat of the body is they covered themselves in wool rugs. And also, they get their hands on it, those space blankets that our guys carry, right, to shield the heat of their bodies. So what I'm getting at is there are gonna be a group of people that enter into the millennium that came through the tribulation period with all of the technology of the devil, all the technology of the antichrist, with all the drones. Drones freak me out. Drones are like swarms, swarms of drones, and millions and millions of drones, and watching everything. And so but somehow, someway, there's a whole group of people, Gentiles, that evade getting the mark of the beast on the right hand of their forehead. They're able to feed themselves. They're able to get water. They're able to find shelter and survive the tribulation period to enter into the millennium. That's fascinating. Well, there's innumerable multitude in six and seven who were killed for their faith as martyrs. These are other ones that survived it somehow, and that's amazing to survive the technology of the wicked one. And the only explanation is, it was a miracle. God shielded them. God moved and worked like in the book of Acts. He supernaturally preserved these people. And so, and when the living creatures went, the wheels went by them. And when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up. So they're flying saucers, man, they're flying gyros, and big balls flying super fast going across the sky and stuff. And so ever the spirit was to go, they went. So when the Holy Spirit leads, so when we're looking at Isaiah chapter six, one through seven, who will go for us? Who will go for us? God speaking, right? Who will go for us? Whom shall I send? Here am I, send me. So that these guys are going to go wherever the Holy Spirit leads them. I believe the Holy Spirit led Kathy Knight of Bremerton. And the Holy Spirit keeps us here. We knew that we were in God's will. We could have went to Bainbridge. Probably had a much better life, but I thought I'd hang with the lowlife people. Thank you. You. The people that invited us up here wanted us to go to Bainbridge. And I thought, you know, I fit in better with the lowlife, so I better go to I better go to Bremerton. Oh, Bremerton. Alright. Takes one to know one. Alright. So whenever the spirit was to go, they went there was their spirit to go, and the wheels were lifted up beside them for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels. Wheels in the sky, Journey. Yeah. George knows it. Yeah. And I think the guys in Journey are Christians, right? Okay. We're going to continue. You guys can keep talking. When those went, these went. And when those stood, these stood. And when those were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up besides them for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels. So God's with us. I wish I could travel like that. Now, how do you think we're gonna travel in our new glorified bodies? Fast. Fast? Fast. Like a gyro like a gyro angel? I think so. Better. Better. Maybe even better. Better. Like a handicapped guy in a Corvette. How about a handicapped woman at a Bible study? Yeah. So think about Jesus when he ascended to heaven, he didn't need a spacesuit, right? Didn't need a rocket ship. Right? And he also went through walls, right? Just right So through but touch me, you know, he's saying, I'm not a ghost. They're afraid he was a ghost. No. And he showed Thomas the scars and everything. But so that's kind of body we're going to have. We don't know all of its abilities. Some say, you know, oh wow, the speed of sound, the speed of light. Beyond that. Beyond that. What do you think, Steve? Thought? Speed of thought? Limited? Yeah. Some Yeah. I've heard say speed of thought like, I want to be there. Boom. You're there. Right? So eternity is way different than like you're describing, linear time. Like for instance, to be absent of the bodies to be present with the Lord. People die, they're with the Lord. Right? Now, are they there as a spirit? Or are they there in their new glorified body? That's a debate. We teach both. That's a debate, right? Because Paul says, who wants to be an unembodied spirit? Right? And so, but if you factor in time, eternity, it's already happened. Everything's already happened. It's a parade that's already taken place. Right? But we think it's hard to wrap. Yeah. That's speaking of the natural man. Yeah. But this super the super Jesus type, he's got flesh and he has bone. Right? And so he's not a ghost and filled with the spirit. Alright. So now, check this out. Check this out. In the likeness of the firmament so firmament like in Genesis one, six and seven, an expanse there. Upon the heads of the living creatures was like the color of the terrible crystal stretched forth over the heads above. So, who wants to read Revelation four verse six? A description of God's throne, like a sea of crystal, right? Ice crystal. Revelation four verse six. I wanna hear Betty read. Betty, can you read Revelation four verse six? I want your your grandkids to hear you read. Oh, that raspy voice. Yeah. Give a laugh for us. Laugh. Four what? Six. You are so sweet, Betty. Tell them about your granddaughter, the wrestler. In front of the throne was a shining sea of glass, sparkling like crystal. In the middle and around the throne were four living beings, each covered with eyes front and back. Oh, we did it. John sees the same thing that Ezekiel is seeing, right? Terrible crystal stretched forth over their heads above. The ice crystal. And under the ferment were their wings straight, the one toward the other. Everyone had two which covered on the side. Everyone had two which covered on that side their bodies. And when they went, I heard the noise of their wings like the noise of great waters, like the voice of the Almighty, the voice of speech, like the noise of a host when they stood and let down their wings. So what's it sound like when a jet goes over this house? What's it like when you work on the flight deck and the jets came in and that sound of the noise of jets, the noise of many waters. Let's look at some verses here. Psalm Psalm 1eighty one thirteen. There is no 181. Psalm eighteen thirteen. Job 30 seven:four-five. A thunderous voice. Army in battle. Psalm eighteen thirteen. Who chose it? Who gets there? Job 30 seven:four-five. Okay. Psalm eighteen thirteen. You've got a nice speaking voice, Victor. Yeah. I love speaking. Okay. Eighteen thirteen. The Lord the Lord thundered from heaven. The voice of the most high resounded. Thundered from heaven. Yeah. Job thirty seven four and five. Can you hear me now? Job thirty seven four and five. After it a voice ward, he thundered with the voice of his excellency, and he will not stay stay them when his voice is heard. God thundered marvelous marvelously with his voice. Great things doeth he which he cannot comprehend. The children of Israel were very frightened at the thundering voice of God and only wanted Moses to communicate to them. They were so afraid from his voice at Mount Sinai. And when they went, I heard the noise of their wings like the noise of great waters, like the voice of the Almighty, the voice of speech like the noise of a host. When they stood, they let down their wings. And there was a voice from the firmament that was over their heads when they stood and had let down their wings. And so they are wise enough to stop and to listen, to stop and listen to God's voice, to listen to His voice. When the Lord wants to speak, we willing to stop listen? Stop what we're doing? Could you please put your phone down and listen? These phones, when we're in the restaurant, everybody is distracted with phones everywhere and all that. And then communication, speaking to each other, looking in each other's eyes, listening, talking, listening, adding to the conversation, waiting for a chance to speak. You did? What did he tell you? Grandma. There was I think it was on a Friday night that Ray was in the field yet. And I don't know if I called him or yeah. It must have maybe cell phones were available then. But I called him and said if I'm not home when you get home, I'm in Hampton. And he goes, okay. And he knows my family lived there. And I went to Hampton with David. He was probably 12. I don't know. And I went to my mom and dad's home, and they weren't home. I went to my brother's, and they were walking. And one of their neighbors caught me and said I asked them where my brother was, and they said they're out walking. But do do you know that your grandma's sick? And I said, no. And so I went over to my grandma's house, and she was so sick, the poor lady. And then soon after that, my mom came in, and I said, mom, she needs to go to the hospital. And my mom says, how do you know? I said, I don't know that for sure, but she is thicker than a dog. And they said she needs to go. Well, then the nurse the person that told me grandma was sick was an RN. And I said, well, if you don't believe me, can we get her over? And maybe she could take her pulse because I could just see her heart jumping out of her chest. And David said, it's beyond my boy scout training. And she went to emergency that night and died the next night. Oh, wow. And if she wouldn't have, she wouldn't she died more comfortable way than she would have at home. Yeah. And it was just an act of God telling me there was something wrong, that I need to go there and take care of it, and Ray will testify that I did You heard from the Lord. Yeah. Yeah. That's awesome. Thank you for that testimony. So you heard from the Lord. Amen. Yeah. Get something. Will you be okay when I go get it? I don't know what she got. She said yes. She said she'd be just fine. When she came back, she was gone. Wow. Thank you. All right. And above the firmament that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, like the appearance of sapphire stone. And upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness of the appearance of a man above upon it. So now they're at the throne of God. Now they have a theophany of Jesus, the throne of God there. And Moses, when he wanted to, you know, see the Lord, the Lord said, you can't see my faith, you know, and live. In John one eighteen, no man has seen God, you know, in the fullness of his glory and and can live. These angels can see him. But in Exodus thirty three eighteen through 23, the Lord passed by. So Moses got what we call the afterglow at the burning bush, the afterglow of the Lord passing by. And and I saw like the color of amber, like the appearance of fire round about within it, from the appearance of its loins even upward and from the appearance of its loins even downward. I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and it had brightness round about, so the tremendous light. So who wants to read Daniel seven, nine, and 10? Who wants that? Rob, can I have one of those blankets too? I'm getting a little cold. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. Daniel seven, nine, and 10. And Revelation four verse three. Who's doing Daniel? Anybody? Daniel? They're searching. Daniel seven, nine and ten. Revelation four three. And Revelation one seventeen. Okay. We got George here with Daniel. Great. Strong voice here. He's a man. What? Eight and nine? 79, and 10. Daniel, 79, and 10. I kept looking. Woah. Until thrones were set up and the ancient of days took his seat. His vesture was like a white like white snow, and the hair on his head were like pure wool. His throne was ablaze with flames. Its wheels were burning with fire. A river of fire was flowing and coming out from before him. Thousands upon thousands were attending him. And mirage mirage mirage upon mirage were standing before him. The court sat and the books were open. Isn't that great? That's Daniel's vision of the Lord. Daniel look at Daniel's description, very similar to what we're seeing here. And John too, John the beloved, his vision in Revelation one of of Jesus. So who has the next one? Revelation four:three. Okay. Revelation four:three. Revelation one seventeen. Nancy has one. I have Revelation four three. Thank you very much. And he who was sitting was like a jasper stone and a sardius in appearance, and there was a rainbow around the throne like an emerald in appearance. Amen. And John eight verse 12. Who's that? John eight twelve. He's light. He's light. He's the light of the world. John eight verse 12. Okay. Isn't this exciting? Now who owns the rainbow? When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness but will have the light of life. He had brightness round about him in verse 27. Now verse 28, like the appearance of the bow that Nancy just read, the rainbow, that is the is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord. And when I saw him, I fell upon my face, and I heard a voice of one that spoke. So Ezekiel is checking this out. Just like John, who wants Revelation one seventeen? That's me. Alright. We also read this Tomato grower? Yeah. We also read this on Easter Sunday, 03/3124. And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead, and he laid his right hand upon me saying unto me, fear not. I am the first and the last. Amen. So the vision that John had of the Lord and two other times John fell, but he shouldn't have fallen because he fell at the feet of an angel. And they said, no, stand up, you know, worship God. So check this out. The rainbow speaks of what? A promise. A promise of what? What does it signify? It speaks of God's grace, right? God's grace and God's glory, right? In His face, God's grace and His glory. So what's the devil do? The devil takes everything that has great meaning, purpose, and significance, and beauty, love, and holiness, and the devil tries to co opt it. And the devil in two Corinthians 12, his ministers appear as ministers of righteousness. Satan appears as an angel of light, right? Counterfeit, always counterfeit. So when you and I are evaluating people and ideas, it's basically in the realm of ideas, information. We have to bring everything back to the obedience of Christ, every thought, every idea, because Satan's a liar. And we have to bring it back to the authority of God's word. And so with the rainbow, these guys are running around with their bows right now, the pride month and all. Number one, the devil. Oh my god. He fell. Oh my god. Thomas fell. Thomas fell. Oh my god. Lord, please help Thomas. Lord, help him. Good thing it wasn't the big steps. Well, we just talked about seeing the lord. He just saw the lord, and he fell at his feet. And Yeah. Think he's okay. Oh, okay. Oh, he's okay. Yay. Hey, Thomas. Alright. That's it. A righteous man falls seven times and gets back up again. I fall down with these flip flops. Same thing. Yep. Wow. No. No. Alright. So Thomas is here. Amen. Alright. So like the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of of rain, so is the appearance of the brightness roundabout. So the rainbow, the multi colors and the brightness of the light, the Shekinah glory of God around the throne, Ezekiel is describing. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord. And when I saw it, I felt like Thomas on my face. And I heard a voice, the voice of one that spoke. Did you hear the voice of one that spoke, Thomas? You have ears to hear? Peace. Shalom. Shalom. Alright. Any other comments or questions about Ezekiel one and this vision that Ezekiel has seen? Pretty intense? Yeah. Chapter Yeah. 10 too. Chapter 10, again, have cherubim angels. Pardon me? Yeah. We'll do that next week. See? Pardon me? I just can't what's that? To do the whole book? Yeah. I'm glad you're excited. I know what I'm doing. You're so excited. Praise the Lord. Every Monday night, you just come on out. Alright. Well cool out here. Is this nice? Yes. No mosquitoes either. You guys smell over there. You got the you got the smell the mosquitoes like. Do they have the little candles there for you? Candles? Alright. Alright. Well, as long as they're not the Bill Gates engineered ones, we're good to go. Alright. Well, let's pray. Who wants to close us in prayer? Nancy, you want to close us in prayer? She needs a microphone. Rob, don't trip. Don't fall, Rob. Thomas will be fine. Thomas is fine. Maybe he is. We all fall down. Yep. Bring around the roses. We'll hold down. Dear father, I give thanks to you for all of us tonight that are at this bible study that learned things that we may or may not have done or learned the scraps that are in the bible that hints and the clues that you put together throughout the word to form a picture so that we can see the things that you have promised for us. I as we close the night out, we just give thanks to you for the blessings of the word tonight. And for pastor Rick, for his studious study of the word to be able to instruct us in these things. In Jesus' name, I give thanks. Amen. Amen. Great job. Thank you, Nancy. Thank you.
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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.
