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K. Live. It's live. It's live. We're live. Alright. Monday night, Bremerton. Let's pray. Father, thank you that we get to study Ezekiel chapter five. Thank you that we get to worship you and have some food together and prayer, and we just commit this time into your hands and pray that you pour out your holy spirit upon us and minister unto us, Lord. Teach us, Lord. Help us to just enter into all that you have for us, Lord. In Jesus' name, amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Guys ready? Okay. Thanks, Rob. Alright. We've got, Della Marie needs a prayer. Della Marie. Yeah. Della Marie. K. They're running more festivals. Okay. And we're gonna pray for Alan. He needs prayer, and we need to pray for Mike Goodson. He needs prayer. He needs to gain some weight. We also have a we have a picnic on Sunday after church. That'll be July 7 after church. Anybody, Thomas, Steve, anybody that you know that wants to attend, they're welcome to attend. We're gonna have our baptismal trough ready. Anybody that wants to be baptized, There's going to be food. You can help by bringing some food. Rob's going to bring a barbecue, other barbecue. Let's see, games for the kids. We're gonna have a bounce house, and people love it's gonna be really hot like in the nineties. So Drink, sunscreen. Drinks. Yeah. Bring drinks. Bring food. Bring tables and ways to well, those things that feel that anyway, I can't even think of it. But but in any event, this is the one and only picnic that we're gonna have this year. Not two, not three. July 7. So those that can't make it, they can go next year. So we're not we're not going to do we're not going to do another one. That's it. And maybe other people will have picnics, and they'll have they'll have other stuff going on, and we can attend what they decide to do. So it's it's gonna be as good as people get excited about doing it and want to do it. So alright. So I hope and pray that people anyway, let's pray. Father, we come before you and we lift up Delmarie. And, Lord, we pray that the doctors come up and understand what's going on when they do some testing for her, COPD, whatever else is going on. And my goodness, Lord, help them to gain some weight, help the family to enjoy the celebration of of fourth of July and celebrating the freedom that we have here in America, Lord. Lord, we lift up Alan Goff. We pray that Alan would his doctors would figure out what's going on with his stomach and all that's going on with him and and get the treatment that he needs. Pray that you pour out your Holy Spirit, Lord, and bless little Calvary Bremerton. We pray that we could glorify you, Lord. And so blessed, we pray. In Jesus' name, amen. So, Thomas, you know that there's room for you, Thomas, if you'd like to attend. Alright. K. Blessed with the best, buddy. Alright. Ezekiel chapter five. And now son of man, take a sharp knife, take a barber's razor and cause it to pass upon thine head and upon thy beard and then take balance to weigh and divide the hair. So here we have another object lesson, a means of the Lord communicating in regard to four thirty days with a siege that's going to take place. Ezekiel's the Lord is speaking through Ezekiel on May. Lot of people don't believe what Ezekiel is stating and doing. God's trying to make it as simple as possible for people to understand what's going on. The false prophets are saying that Ezekiel is crazy. Jeremiah, during his time, they're crazy. The Egyptians are going to come and help us and we're not going to have a big siege. We're not going to have cannibalism. We're not going to have people dying. We're going to everything is going to continue as it always has, you know. Unfortunately, people are being deceived. And so he says, Son of man, take a sharp knife and take a barber's razor. And so I wanted to shave his head, shave all of his hair off of him. The word sword is found 83 times in Ezekiel. And so, according to Deuteronomy, or excuse me, Leviticus 21 verse five, being a priest, the priest was not to buzz his head, not to cut all your hair off. So when I was growing up, we were we had a lot of hippies and stuff. And if I didn't I used to get threatened that if I didn't do if I didn't behave myself, one of the things my dad threatened to do was to buzz my head. Buzz buzz my hair off. Cut your hair, be totally bald. And so it's a means of humility for a priest to cut his beard or to cut his hair off. Sometimes they would cut half of the beard off, leave half of it growing, have part of their buttocks halfway be shown. So it's a matter of humiliation. So three different things, one of mourning, one of humiliation and that of repentance. And so again, with Ezekiel being a priest, he wasn't supposed to, you know, do his head like that, cut all of his head down. But God wants to illustrate the humility that's the humbling of the people that's going to take place as a result of their disobedience. So take a sword, take a razor, shave your head and then grab hold of the hair and divide it into three different portions. And part of it has to do with divide the hair apart in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled, thou shall or it says, Thou shall burn with fire a third part in the midst of the city when the days of the siege are fulfilled, so the four thirty days fulfilled. And thou shalt take a third part and smite round about it with a sword. And the third part, thou shalt scatter in the wind, and I will draw out a sword after them. So you got three different portions divided into three different parts, divided into three different parts. One part is going to be a portion toward famine and pestilence. When your immune system becomes weak, then your body doesn't then what happens is you're going to suffer from pestilence. If your immune system is strong, then not going to have like if a famine takes place, if there's not enough food, it's not just that people are hungry, but as you're starving, it's going to be two parts of it, that of famine and that of pestilence as a result of not having enough food. So that's one third of what's happening. Another third is going to be that have been burned. And then the third part is going to be a means of throwing it out there with the wind to blow. And so the last third portion is an illustration of the people being spread all over the world is what's going to happen. So thou shalt also take of them few in number and bind them in their skirts. Not that anybody would want to wear or have a skirt going, but that's part of how they clothe themselves. So thou shalt take of them few in number and bind them in their skirts. And so you're going to take a little bit and you're going to grab a small portion of it. You're going to keep it and put it like I don't know what you call it, but you're going to keep a small portion of it for a small remnant of people. What's that? Yeah, like in a like, I don't know what they have, a way of holding on to a portion of it. So thou shall also take of them a few number and bind them in their skirts. So a small remnant is what's being represented there. And the book of Amos nine:two-three, somebody want to read that? And then Luke thirteen twenty three, somebody want to read there? And one Peter four eighteen, somebody can read that. So Amos, nine, two and three. Okay. And Luke thirteen twenty three. Okay. And first Peter four verse 18. Yeah. I'm ready. Are you ready now? Okay. Yes, please. Though they dig into hell, then shall mine hand take them. Though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down. And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the serpent and he shall bite them. So there's no escape. There's no way that you're gonna be able to escape from this sort of a judgment that God's gonna bring, you know, against them. And in Matthew 10 verse 30, it talks about God counting or knowing how many much hair you have, you know, a number of how much hair. And so God keeps a very, very firm and real, you know, number thereof. First Peter or Luke thirteen twenty three. Someone asked him, Lord, are there only a few people going to be saved? And so we're we're talking we're talking in terms of narrow is the way that leads to life eternal and few there be that find it. And, broad is the way that leads to destruction and many go in there at. So there's gonna be a very small group of people that escape that means of judgment. So there's going to be a small little remnant of people as the rest of them go through a horrific time of judgment. And first Peter four verse 18. And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinners appear? And so the judgment that's coming against those who reject the Lord, judgment begins at the house of of the Lord. And there's there's a small group of people in regard to the righteous, but there's a huge group of people that that are gonna be judged. And so there we go. Alright. So, verse five, Thus saith the Lord God. And wait a minute, verse four, Then take of them again and cast them into the midst of the fire and burn them in the fire, for from them shall a fire come forth in all the house of Israel. So there's going to be great oppression that comes against them. The people are going be put in a place of captivity. Some of them are some of them, one third of them are going to be able to be taken to Babylon, being taken captive. And others of them are gonna be wandering, and they're gonna be spread out among all the other nations. Two thirds of them are gonna be wiped out. Thus saith the Lord God, this is Jerusalem. I have set her in the midst of the nations and countries that are round about her. And she has changed mine ordinances under wickedness more than the nations, and my statutes more than the the countries that are round about her. They refused mine ordinances and my statutes. They have not walked in them. And so because of the rebellion, in the midst of Jerusalem, Jerusalem being a central place geographically, other nations around them, but it's like a central place, if you will. This is Jerusalem. I have set her in the midst of the nations and countries that are round about her. Psalm 48 verse two, Jeremiah three seventeen, Psalm sixty seven one, Psalm 48 verse two. Okay. Jeremiah three seventeen. Okay. Psalm sixty seven one one through seven. Isaiah two verse two. Zechariah twelve two through two through 10. So we're going to look at Psalm 48 verse two. What's that? Thus saith the Lord God, this is Jerusalem. I have set her in the midst of the nations and the countries that are round about her. So the center the center is is the nation of is the city of Jerusalem. Psalm 48 verse two. Beautiful for beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth is Mount Zion on the sides of the North, the city of the great king. Jeremiah three seventeen. Meenie. Eenie meenie? At that time, they will call Jerusalem the throne of the Lord, and all nations will gather in Jerusalem to honor the name of the Lord. No longer will they follow the stubbornness of their evil hearts. Psalm sixty seven one through seven. You do? Mhmm. God be merciful unto us and shine upon us. Selah, that that thy way be known upon earth, thy saving health among the nations. Let the people praise thee, o God. Let all the people praise thee. Oh, let the nations be glad and sing for joy that thou shalt judge the people righteously and govern the nations upon the earth. Let the people praise thee, oh God, and let the people praise thee. Then thy shall the earth yield her increase, and God, even our own God, shall bless us. Very good. Isaiah two verse two. And it shall come to pass in the last days that the mountain of the Lord's house shall be established in the top of the mountains and shall be exalted above the hills, and all nations shall flow unto it. In Zechariah twelve two through 10. Anybody have that? Twelve two through 10. Yeah. Twelve two through 10. Behold, I am going to make Jerusalem a cup that causes reeling to all the peoples around. And when the siege is against Jerusalem, it will also be against Judea Judah, excuse me. And it will come about in that day that I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the peoples. All who left it will be severely injured, and all the nation of the earth will be gathered against it. In that day, declares the Lord, I will strike every horse with bewilderment and his rider with madness. I will watch over the house of Judah while I strike every horse of the peoples with blindness. Then the clans of Judah will say in their heart, a strong support for us are the inhabitants of Jerusalem through the Lord of hosts their God. In that day, I will make the clans of Judah like a fire pot among pieces of wood and a flaming torch among sheaves So they will consume on the right hand and on the left all the surrounding peoples while the inhabitants of Jerusalem again dwell on their own sites in Jerusalem. The Lord also will save the tents of Judah first in order that the glory of the house of David and the glory of inhabitants of Jerusalem may not be magnified above Judah. In that day, the Lord will defend inhabitants of Jerusalem, And the one who is feeble among them in that day will be like David, and the house of David will be like God, like the angel of the Lord before them. And it will come about in that day that I will set about to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem. So in the book of Deuteronomy chapter 23, the Lord let the children of Israel know what would happen if they rebelled against him. His intention was that the nation of Israel would be a light unto the Gentiles of the Gentile nations. But what's happening is they are sinning and sinning even greater than the pagan nations around them. But the Lord is saying that still the nation of Israel is central and everything revolves around the nation of Israel. And geographically speaking, but also spiritually speaking, and we look today at Israel as being God's time clock. God's time clock in the sense of the second coming of Christ, the restoration of the nation of Israel on 05/14/1948 in the land. So there's no point of a replacement theology like God is done with them. Instead, it's centralized. This is the very heart of God's intention is that I'm going to judge them, I'm going to deal with them, but I'm going to restore them and bring them back into the land. And so, in this case here, for the very first time, God is going to cause judgment from the Babylonians to destroy the temple, Solomon's temple and wipe out the nation, a one third remnant is going to be scattered around the world. A small little tiny remnant is going to be preserved. Gedaliah, we'll see who is part of that small remnant that's able to be in Jerusalem and Jeremiah also. But remember Ishmael in chapter 41 of Jeremiah that Ishmael tricked Gadalaiah and executed him, killed him and all. And Nebuchadnezzar, the Egyptians didn't come and they weren't able to preserve. They did come and they destroyed just as Ezekiel's letting them know, just as Jeremiah let them know. But yet, there's no such thing as a replacement theology. God's saying Israel is going to be the very central, the center of all the other nations. And Jesus is going to rule and reign from Zion. All the nations of the earth during the millennium are going to make their move in such a way where they have to come year by year and they have to worship the Lord during the thousand year rule and reign of Jesus, you and I rule and reign with them, and David as a prince. And so, the very center of the world, if you will, in His glory and His love. And she has changed mine ordinances under wickedness more than the nations and my statutes more than the countries that are round about her, for they have refused mine ordinances and they and my statutes, and they have not walked in them. And so the rebellion of the nation of Israel is even greater than the pagan nations around them. The nations around them, the little g gods of this world, is one thing, but these guys are rejecting the true living God and they have the true living God, but they're bringing their paganism even to the point of the temple, and reducing and defiling what God had intended for them to be. And they're following the little g gods. So therefore, thus saith the Lord God, because ye multiplied more than the nations that are round about you, and have not walked in my statutes, neither have kept mine ordinances, neither have done according under the ordinances of the nations round about you. So they haven't kept God's word. They've rebelled against God. They continue to rebel against God. And judgment begins at the house of God, we're told. In Matthew five thirteen, talk about how we're the light of the world, we're a city set upon a hill, but if the salt has lost its savor, then it's good for nothing but to be trodden under the foot of men. And so you go from being a means of trying to draw people under the Lord, and when you sin against the Lord and turn your back upon the Lord, then you're good for nothing but to be trodden under the foot of men. So you lose that place of influence, being influencers, being a blessing, and then you're acting out becoming a curse, the judgment that's coming against you. Fearful thing to fall in the hands of the living God, and so you're seeing the means of judgment that's coming against them. And so therefore, thus saith the Lord, verse eight, the Lord God, behold, I, even I, am against thee, and will execute judgment in the midst of thee in the sight of the nations. So the Lord's saying enough is enough. I'm gonna discipline you. I'm gonna discipline you in the the eyes of the nations. The nations are gonna look on and they're gonna see, you know, too much is given, much is required. And when you, don't value what the Lord's doing, you're you're ripening yourself on the judgment. So then later, when they spend seventy years, something's wrong with with how I'm hearing this. When they're going to spend seventy years of of judgment, four hundred and four ninety years of not, we're going to see in chapter six, four ninety years of not allowing the ground Sabbath to rest. And so seventy years, they're in captivity among the among the Babylonians. And then when Cyrus comes, they're going to have a remnant that's able to go back, you know, with with Nehemiah and Ezra, second temple period to rebuild the temple. And then you're going to see in the time of Christ, the second temple period with King Herod the Great. And again, they have another chance where the Lord Jesus comes and He's 33 years old and He's coming as the Messiah and He's allowing nation of Israel to once again make a choice of whether they're going to follow the Lord or not. And the Lord Jesus is rejected according to Psalm 22 and Isaiah 53. And in that rejecting, again, you have within forty years, the Lord Jesus weeping over the city often I would have gathered you as a mother hen has gathered the brood under his wings, but you would not. And so Titus is going to surround the city once again, just as the Babylonians destroy the temple. And then that second temple, the second temple period, not one stone is going to remain upon another. And so now the third temple period would be the Antichrist Temple. The fourth temple period would be the temple of the millennium. Ezekiel's Temple, Ezekiel forty-forty eight. And so presently here, this is going to be the first time that it's ever happened that God allows the Babylonians or a nation, one of the nations to bring about such a means of judgment. But it's something that's going to happen again and happen again a third time when the Antichrist and the fourth time around when the temple is rebuilt, no longer are they in rebellion against the Lord. So they finally come to the place where they cry out, Blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord. But until then, you have a very, very rebellious group of people. And that's that's that's the judgment. The means of judgment is what's happening here. So you had us something to say? Oh, to turn it up? Okay. What's that? Jeremiah and Ezekiel. Pardon me? Jeremiah and Ezekiel? No. Pardon me? No. This is Ezekiel. Ezekiel is be able to the destruction of we're the world. World. Destroying, you know, the city of Jerusalem. And then after it's destroyed, and he describes it, remember in Lamentations when and he sees the cannibalism and all that. What we're reading here in Ezekiel hasn't happened yet, but it's a warning of it happening. You remember? You remember how in Lamentations chapter four and Lamentations chapter two, the cannibalism that's taking place? In verse 10 here, it talks about the father are gonna and the and the sons are gonna be eating each other out of cannibalism. So Ezekiel, chronologically, it isn't at that point of May yet. So that which he's promising, which he's professing prophetically is May and fulfilled in May. So there we go. Yeah. Alright. So verse nine, and I will do in thee that which I have not done, and the like of which which you do anymore because of all the abominations. So the Lord is saying, haven't I haven't brought this sort of judgment, never brought this sort of judgment against you, but that's what I'm going to do. And the reason being be is because of the abomination that's taken place. And so Jesus warned in Matthew 24 in regard to Daniel chapter nine, the abomination of desolation spoken by Daniel the prophet. So in the future, again, once again, the Antichrist goes into the temple, declares himself to be God, demands to be worshipped as God, but the Lord is saying, so prior to this, the very first time that he's using the Babylonians to destroy the temple, again, is because of an abomination. The rejection of God, the worshiping of idols to a great degree and doing things that even the pagan worship system doesn't even do. These guys are far worse than the nations around them. And so, therefore, the father shall eat the sons in the midst of these. So you've reached the end of the end of the end. What could be worse than living during the time where the famine and the pestilence is so great that the culture is reduced to cannibalism. Fathers eating their sons, sons eating their fathers. And you remember in Lamentations two and four, even mothers boiling their children and eating their own children, eating their own babies. So you're talking about incredible decadence and such horrific demonic judgment that's taking place. And notice in verse two, he says, I will. Verse five, I have set her. Verse eight, I even I. Verse nine, I will. Verse 10, I will. Verse 11, as I live. So the personal pronouns, this is God saying He's going to do it. Verse 11, I also. And then He also says, I have. So 27 times, God is declaring, I, I, I, I, I'm going to do this. Verse 12, I, again, I will draw. Verse 13, I will cause. I will come I'll be comforted that I, the Lord, have spoken in my zeal. I have. I will. I shall. I, the Lord, have spoken. I will send. I will send to destroy. So will I send upon. I will. I mean, how many times God have said? 27 times he's letting you know what he's going to do and you can't get people to listen. I get frustrated with the enormous amount of lies in the time in which we live in. It's just mind boggling to me, the propaganda and the lies, and you bring forth the word of God and people just blow it off and act like, oh, well, everything's going to continue as it always has, and hard to get people to listen. So once it does happen, then it's it's like I told you so. Can you hear me now? But it's very, very tragic at the times in which we're living that people are more inclined to listen to the lies. Something's wrong. My my ears are like, do you anybody notice I'm having a hard time? Yeah. And I'm having a hard time because of this. Okay? Oh. I think messing with you. No. I think there's something going on with my ears, man. Well, my ears aren't right. It's like I got bunch of stuff going on, man. Alright. I'm tough. I'll get through it. Pardon me? I ain't taking any more drugs ever again. What's that? Hard to concentrate. Something's going on. It's like it's like I feel like I've got ear things in my ears. When I'm looking for them, there's nothing there. So where the speaker is? Kenneth. I don't know. I'm being distracted. Alright. So, father, help me to concentrate. Help me to to catch the groove that you're in, Lord, and just be able to concentrate. And Kathy says she drugged me. I don't know. I don't what the sound. I don't know what's going on, but but I don't like it, Lord. So please help me, I pray. Help everything to just flow. In Jesus' name, amen. Open the ears of my heart, Lord. There you go. So you guys scared? List trying to meet man, truck struggling. Yeah. I know. What if you stop somewhere else? What's that? Well, I turned the audio down far enough that they couldn't even hear out there. So Alright. Right. So therefore, the father shall eat the sons in the midst of thee, and the sons shall eat their fathers. And I'll I will exercise judgments in thee, and the whole remnant of thee will I scatter unto all the wind. So you've got one third of remnant that's going to die by pestilence and famine. You got another third that's going to die by the sword. You got a third group that's going to be scattered like the wind all over the all over, you know, the wandering Jew, if you will. Wherefore, as I live, saith the Lord God, surely because thou has defiled my sanctuary with all thy detestable things, and with all thine abominations, therefore, will I also diminish thee, neither shall mine eye spare, neither will I have any pity. So the way that you've diminished me, God's saying, the way that you've allowed this abomination and this stuff going on inside of the temple, desecrating the temple, I'm going to cause you to be diminished. I'm going to cause you to be humbled because of what you've done. And so I have any so I'm going to humble you and he says, verse 12, And the third part of thee shall die with the pestilence and with the famine, and shall be consumed in the midst of thee. And the third part shall fall by the sword, and shall round about thee. And I will scatter a third part in all the winds, and I'll draw out a sword against them. So again, the Lord is describing, Ezekiel with his hair, he's got it in three different parts and we remember that, you you weighed in the balance and found wanting just as Belteshazzar was weighed with the finger of God. Many, many Tekhuyufarsen and so when Belteshazzar saw the finger of God handwriting upon the wall, the issue was you weighed in the balance and found wanting and that the kingdom's taken from you, divided and given to the Medes and the Persians later on. And so the same thing here, he's weighing out the hair divided into three portions and as an illustration, whereas before in chapter four, the illustration was that of the dung, the dung bread, the Ezekiel bread and him laying on the left hand and the right hand. And so he's showing the defilement that took place. So thus shall my anger be and accomplished, I will cause my fury to rest upon them, and I will be comforted, and they shall know that I, the Lord, have spoken it in my zeal when I have accomplished my fury in them. And so, God's going to pour out His wrath, He's going to pour out His fury upon His own people. The nations around them one day are going to suffer also, but presently the focus is judgment upon the house of God, judgment upon the nation of Israel and Judah. And I'm gonna my anger shall be accomplished. So, upon the cross of Calvary, God allowed his wrath to be poured out upon his only son. Jesus said, father, if you're willing, remove this cup from me, but nevertheless not as I will, but thy will be done. But in this case here, the same sort of a picture is I'm going to pour out my my fury upon my own people. I'm gonna satisfy justice. I've gotta I've gotta judge you according to the law. I'm gonna accomplish this And we remember that Jesus said, It is finished, to tell that I paid in full, once He took the punishment that was due us upon Himself, the blood of Jesus God's son continually cleansed a man of all sin. So when Jesus said, It is finished, the talus died paid in full, and that His blood was shed to pay for all of our sins, past, present, and future. So moreover, I will make waste and reproach among the nations that are round about thee in the sight of all that pass by. So I'm going to make you approach. You're going to be humiliated and let's look at some verses again. Isaiah 6six fifteen-sixteen. Somebody want that one? Two Peter three ten through 12. Okay. So you got two Peter three ten and twelve, Isaiah 6six fifteen and sixteen. And who wants Zechariah thirteen:eight and nine? Okay. How about Deuteronomy four:two? Somebody want that? Okay. And did I already give somebody second Peter three ten and twelve? Okay. Alright. And Lamentations three twelve, somebody want that? And then Deuteronomy thirty two twenty three through 25. You guys want that? Anybody? Yeah. Okay, George. And that should do it. So moreover, I will make the waste in a reproach among the nations. Isaiah sixty six fifteen through 16. For behold, the Lord will come with fire and with his chariots like a whirlwind to render his anger with fury and his rebuke with flames of fire. For by fire and by his word, the Lord will judge all flesh, and the slain of the Lord shall be many. Alright. Second Peter three ten through 12. But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in the which the the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat. The earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversations and godliness. Looking forth and hasting unto the com coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved and the elements shall melt with fervent heat. So we see the the rebellion of the nation of Israel in that in that God has given them space to repent and they elect to continue to fight against the Lord. So, He uses the Babylonians to discipline them and to wipe out the temple and all. And then the Lord allows them to be regathered, but they're subservient to the Romans. And the Lord Jesus Himself returns, so they have the opportunity to receive the Messiah, but they reject Jesus. So then the Lord uses the Romans to destroy the temple, not one stone will remain upon another. And then they're dispersed all over the world. And then you have a regathering according to Ezekiel chapter thirty six and thirty seven where God would cause a valley of dry bones for the nation of Israel to be regathered, the wandering Jew all over the world. And so they're regathered 05/14/1948 in the land and we're watching that presently. And yet, they've been re gathered in unbelief. There's a small little remnant that actually even believes in the Lord, very, very small. So blindness in part has happened unto Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles come in. So when we're talking about the Day of the Lord, the day of the Lord, he's purified a remnant. They've gone through the fire according to Zechariah, a one third remnant. Zechariah thirteen, eight, nine. And it shall come to pass that in the all the land, saith the Lord, two parts therein shall be cut off and die, but the third shall be left therein. And I will bring the third part through the fire and will refine them as silver is refined and will try them as gold is tried. They shall call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say, it is my people, and they shall say, the Lord is my God. And so presently, divide your hair into three parts. The first part is the famine and the pestilence. Second part, that those who are destroyed by the sword. The third part are gonna be the wandering Jews. And there's gonna be a small little remnant as you tuck it in your in your skirt as a picture of those who are gonna be at Jerusalem with Gadeliah and Jeremiah and that small little group there that are free. Ishmael, a guy named Ishmael is gonna come along, gonna trick and kill Gedaliah, small little remnants gonna flee to Egypt and tradition has it that Jeremiah died while he was in Egypt. And so there's no escape and Zedekiah, they tried to they tried to escape, but again, the Babylonians, the Chaldeans grab hold of him, kill all of his sons, that of Zedekiah, King Zedekiah, and cause them to be blind and then bring them, you know, to Babylon. Alright. So, and then future, looking beyond that, again, once again, the nation of Israel regathered, two thirds go through the tribulation period and wiped out, a one third remnant is preserved. And so that's what we have going on. Lamentations three verse 12. He hath bent his bow and set me as a mark for his for the arrow. And so here it talks about in verse 16, wherefore shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine, which shall be for their destruction, which I will send to destroy you. And I will increase the famine upon you, and will break your staff of bread. And so, poisonous arrows, the Lord's going to send these arrows, you know, upon them. And then Deuteronomy thirty two twenty three through 25. And I will heap misfortune on them, and they will use my arrows on them. And they shall be wasted by famine and consumed by plague and bitter destruction. And the teeth of the beast, will send upon them with the venom of crawling fangs of the dust. Outside the sword shall be reeve and inside terror, and it shall destroy both young man and virgin. They're nursing they're nursing with the man of gray hairs. So so Deuteronomy, God through Moses is letting them know in Deuteronomy 32 of what's gonna happen if you turn toward pagans, if you turn toward false religious system and all. There's a cursing and a blessing in Deuteronomy 32. If you follow and obey, you're going to be blessed. The world's going to watch you being blessed. If you disobey and you turn your back upon me, then the world's going to watch you being disciplined. They're going to see my hand upon you. And let's see. Who else did we have here? What's that? Okay. Deuteronomy four two. Hold on. Hold on. Now I like that Deuteronomy four verse two. Okay. Do not add or subtract from these commands I am giving you from the Lord your God. Just obey him. So let's talk about that. You know, you hear the apostle Paul, the apostle Paul talking in Acts chapter 20 about giving the full counsel of God. Deuteronomy four two, don't add or take away from the word of God. So people add to the word of God their opinions, whatever they want, you know. And others take away from the word of God like the word of God doesn't have the authority that it should. So the Lord's warning, don't add or take away from the word. Make sure that you stay with the word of God and it'll go well with you. How much of the word of God today do we ascribe to? Do we follow? Yeah, if you don't teach prophecy, then one third of the Bible you've taken away, right? One third of the Bible. If you're not teaching prophecy today, then you've taken away one third of the Word of God. So, alright, so now you've got 70% or two thirds supposedly. But then if you listen to Andy Stanley and these guys, you don't need be teaching the Old Testament. Now you're in the New Testament, 27 different books. And if you're cherry picking and only teaching what you want to teach topically and all, you're reducing the Bible down to just simply whatever people have itchy ears for. Paul said that they will not endure sound doctrine, right? They're not going to endure sound doctrine. They'll heap themselves teachers having itching ears and only wanting to hear what they want to hear. And so the pastors will just take the word of God and only use a small portion of it. And then fables and doctrines of demons and such. And so the people are not being fed. Peter, if you love me, feed my sheep, tend my lambs. And so for you and I, we're asking the Lord to be our teacher. We're asking the Lord to instruct and teach us the way we should go, to guide us with His eye, and not just go through the motions. So he's going to give him a furious rebuke, I, the Lord, have spoken, verse 15, a reproach and a taunt. They're going to be humiliated. And when I shall send upon them the evil arrow of famine, which shall be for their destruction, in which I will send to destroy you and I will increase the famine upon you, and will break your staff of bread. So Ezekiel is being instructed of the Lord that the Lord is going to use this in means of judgment. There's no repentance. There's no change in their mind. There's no calling upon the Lord. So when Jonah was instructed to go to Nineveh and let the people know that forty days and you're going to perish, at least the people listened to Jonah and from the king on down, they repented. Did they not? They appealed to the Lord and they put sackcloth and ashes and the Lord gave them a reprieve and didn't follow through with that. In this case, these are the children of Israel, those of Judah. They're getting plenty of warning from the prophets, from Jeremiah, from Ezekiel, from Isaiah, but the people's hearts are hardening more and more and more. For forty years, Jeremiah has been speaking. Now the Lord is saying through Ezekiel, as Ezekiel has been taken captive and Ezekiel is in the area of the Chaldean in Babylon, and the Lord still is giving them space to repent. In the book of Revelation, the Lord gives space of repentance. He warns, but He always gives space for repentance. And once you've hardened your heart and God's exhausted that space of repentance, there's a fearful looking to of judgment. But God's long suffering, not willing that any would perish, but that all would come to repentance. So He's very, very long suffering, but at this point, they've crossed the line and he's saying, this is what I'm going to do and nobody's going to stop it. So will I send upon you famine and evil beasts. So if we look at chapter 14, there's of Ezekiel fourteen twenty one. There's three means of judgment here that God uses to judge his people. What are the three areas of judgment? Famine, sword, pestilence, and fourteen twenty one adds the fourth one. What's that? And Wild that's according to also in Deuteronomy 3two 23, where the Lord says there's going to be the teeth of wild beasts that are actually going to that are also going to come. And so famine, pestilence, And so the famine that we see, globalists trying to bring about a famine, as people don't have good food to eat, their immune system will be compromised and so they're not going to be able to combat the pestilence. So you and I, if we've got a strong immune system, we're eating well, then we're able to stave off the cancer and stave off all the different ways that people succumb to pestilence. When you're young and you're getting vaccinated and you're eating the Rockefeller type food, they're waiting for you to reach in your 60s, your 70s, your 80s for your immune system compromise. And when your immune system compromises in the later stages of your life, that's when you start to get cancer. And it's by design of these demons of the Rockefellers and these guys as they control food and such. And so, I don't know how many people are going to succumb to, the bird flu or whatever other sorts of things that they pose against us, that of pneumonia. But when we're healthy, when we're eating, we get good sleep and we exercise, we over come a lot of the different types of pestilence that would come at us. And so we want to make sure that we're eating well. But if our food is poisoned, if we're not able to build our immune system up, then they succumb to famine, succumb to pestilence. And then they succumb is when the siege happens and you're cannibalistic and now you're eating family members. Once the Babylonians break through the walls, break through the gate, now there's another third of the people. You've already had a third of them die from the famine and the pestilence. Now you've got a third that are going to die from the sword and wild beasts and you've got another third that he's saying that he's going to scatter throughout the world, the wandering Jew. And that's the and when He weighs according to Matthew 10 verse 30, there's not one hair of your head that He doesn't know about. So His evaluation is right down to one little hair of your head. He keeps really good records of everything. So I will send upon you famine and evil beasts and they shall be what's that word there? Thee and pestilence and blood shall pass through thee, and I will bring the sword upon thee, and the Lord has spoken. So it's not Christmas. He's not going to gift you. He's not going to be easy on you. It's not a fun time. It's a time of judgment. And so any other questions or comments or whatever about this? Psalm 90 Psalm 91? Okay. There you go. So how much are we gonna be protected from all this? Right? A bunch. So God's pouring out His wrath here in verse 13, mine anger be accomplished. So He's pouring out His wrath, but you and I as the church, we're not subject under God's wrath. And His wrath was already dealt with at the cross Of Calvary. But his own people here, they're going they're going to be God's gonna pour out his anger, his his anger upon them. And there's no fearful looking to of judgment for you and I. Praise the Lord. Anything else? Steve? You would? Well, I think that's probably true of a lot of us. We'd rather die than eat our children or cannibalize or but you just never know. Wouldn't eat your dog? Yes, Yeah. No. Tell them what we did for putting this situation. Bugs. Bugs? Would you eat bugs? Would you eat what what would you do? We don't know. We don't know. I mean, haven't been we don't have a clue. We haven't been tested like this. We haven't we haven't suffered like this. We're already forgiven. The instinct of self preservation is one of the strongest instincts we have. So to preserve. We don't know what America's gonna be like when all hell breaks loose and it's every man for himself. So people are gonna go crazy and it's just human nature. It's just part of a fallen human nature of every man for himself. The chaos, the anarchy, the going nuts. Manna? Well, America is not under judgment yet. The nation of Israel is more and more being hated by the world, the anti Semitism that's spreading. They're going to reach a point in Zechariah where the whole world is going to turn on them, Zechariah 12, a cup of trembling. And as that happens, in Revelation chapter 12, the Antichrist is gonna go against the woman, that of the nation of Israel, and try to wipe them out, try to destroy them, but God's gonna preserve them. A one third remnant is gonna be preserved. So What we saw in Lamentations two, we saw Lamentations four that women were boiling their children and eating their children. Swore I read somewhere that they didn't use to have kids because That's probably taking place too. Yeah. Yeah. So I don't know that we have an even ability to comprehend this sort of a end of a of an era. I I I don't know. We'll be raptured. Right? I'm reading on Steve Quail that this time three years ago, he'll have a list of food and things that we would purchase and it's gone up $1,100 $1,100 increase from three years ago for you and I what we purchased. Three years ago, it was $1,100 less. Now it's $1,100 more for the main staples. Yeah. It's it's, like, it's double. Yeah. It is $4.04 times. It is literally four times. It's crazy to say that the same groceries for only a $100 or a $120. I was just like, okay. So I I read today where the oil companies, their profits have increased threefold under Biden. So the price of fuel has tripled, but the reason oil companies like Biden is because their profits have tripled. Triple profits. Even though they're not like Trump supposedly, you know, doing oil here, they're still able to to make a threefold profit, you know, sell sell to somebody else, I guess. But BlackRock apparently is supporting Biden and Blackstone is supporting and I posted this on Facebook supporting Trump. And so basically, the article points out that it's Wall Street that's in control. It's Wall Street that's advancing and we, the people, are just being played. All right. Well, any other comments or questions or anything? Well, let's pray. You got one? The second Thessalonians two, yeah, strong delusion that they would believe a lie. COVID. COVID? Yeah. COVID is a huge lie, and nobody wants to talk about it or wake up about it or deal with it. There's threatenings that they're gonna come forth with the bird flu. Alright. Okay. Well, let's pray. Father, thank you for tonight. Thank you that we could have a nice meal together and fellowship and study your word. And, Lord, help us to glean and to learn from past mistakes of the nation of Israel and, the things they went through. And if you're gonna judge your own people in this way, Lord, how much more, the ungodly, Lord, if the righteous scarcely be saved, what's gonna happen to, the wicked? And, Lord, a fearful fearful thing to fall in the hands of the living God, and vengeance is mine, our pay, saith the Lord. So, Father, we thank you that our sins, past, present, and future have been dealt with. And, Lord, we thank you that we're not subject under your wrath, that we're not gonna go through the tribulation period. But, Lord, the nation of Israel is gonna face a time that except those days be shortened, no flesh should be saved. And Lord, we thank you that as the nation of Israel goes through the tribulation period, Lord, your intervention to preserve that one third remnant as they go through the fire to be purified, to reach a place of saving faith in you and they cry out, blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord. And Lord, all the kingdoms of the earth, all the people upon the planet, all the antichrist maneuvering of the globalists and such are brought to a place of destruction. The blood is as high as the horse's bridle. Lord, billions and billions, over half the population wiped out in a very short period of time. And Lord, we thank you for the 01/4000 remnant who are saved Lord, who are sealed and saved and that make it through the tribulation period. We're thankful for the one third remnant that make it through the tribulation period that are those who were come to a saving faith in Jesus and enter into the millennium. And Lord, we thank you for the Gentiles that believe that enter into the millennium. And we thank you, Lord, that we return with you as the bride of Christ, the church, and that we get to rule and reign with you for a thousand years, Lord. You're gonna make it alright. In Jesus' name, we pray. 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.
