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Boy, look at that. Okay. My mom is going through. You ready? Live from Bremerton. It's Monday night. We're in Ezekiel chapter seven at Rob and Vicky's home, and we've had a meal together, and we have some guests here. We've got Bernie and Terry here. We've Stan here. Benjie's all the way in Italy. Right? Yep. So, yeah, we're Robbie, Greg are down in Arkansas. Vicky will let us know who stays on and who jumps off when it gets tough. You know? They some come on, and then they jump off. But And it gets tough. But we're we're excited. Alright. So let's pray. Father, we thank you that we can meet here, that we can gather together in your name, Lord, and get out from all the crazy out there in the world and be with some like minded people, people that you've called out from the world, sanctified, set apart for you use, Lord. And tonight, we desire to fellowship. We desire to draw near to you as we study your word. We pray by the power of your Holy Spirit, you would reveal yourself unto us to a greater measure than we've ever known you. We pray for your peace that surpasses all understanding. Lord, we pray for your healing touch upon those who are sick, that you'd be with Brian. Thank you, Lord, for Brian Olson that we got to see him on Sunday as he came to church. Pray that, Lord, he'd stay away from shrimp. Just no more shrimp. And that he would do real well, that he would Mike Goodson, that he'd eat lots of shrimp and whatever it takes for him to gain weight. And, Lord, just all sorts of things going on, and we lay them at your in your feet. And Lord, you know how to deal with each one and that you're sovereign. And we just praise you and thank you that we can be here tonight. Bless our time as we worship you now. In Jesus' name, amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Water to my soul. Your word is a lamp unto my feet. Jesus, I love you. I love you. Amen. I'd rather be than in your Alright. Thank you, Rob. And Robbie, if she was here, she'd say, thank you, Rob. Thank you, Rob. Yeah. Alright. We're in Ezekiel. I can hear her now. She's saying it from Arkansas. Thank you, Rob. Ezekiel chapter seven. Book of Ezekiel. I have a grandson named Isaiah Ezekiel. Ezra Zion. Gideon Asher. Bible names. Alrighty. Father, we thank you for the sweet time of worship. Lord, we thank you for the meal and the setting here. Thank you for Rob, Mickey, and Brandon, and all the work that they do to prepare and get us all everything ready. And, Lord, we don't take it for granted. It's a sweet day. Sun's shining. Just a beautiful evening. And, Lord, we we consider it a privilege to be here tonight to study your word. We ask that you'd be our teacher, that you'd open the scriptures to our understanding, Lord, that we would get to know you better than we've ever known you, Lord. In Jesus' name, amen. He says, moreover, the word of the Lord came unto me, Ezekiel speaking, saying, also the son of man also thou son of man, thus saith the Lord God, unto the land of Israel. So the judgment is coming against the land of Israel. God speaking of what's gonna happen to the Israel proper. In July, God dealt with the 10 northern tribes. Now he's dealing with Judah and Jerusalem, and he says it's the end. Five times in verse three and four, he's going to talk about the end, the end, the end, the end. It's over. It's the end. How much time do you have? How many more ticks of your heart do you have? How much time do you personally have on this planet? Psalm 90 verse 12 says, teach us to number our days, o Lord, that we may apply ourselves to wisdom. How precious is time? How precious is the time that we get to spend with each other that we get to spend with our loved ones, our family and such? How precious has this era, this epoch of time that we've spent as Americans, in America here. Times are changing. Things are getting different. How much time do we have left here in America? America isn't even three hundred years old yet, right? Does it have another hundred years? Does it have a two hundred more years? How would you prepare for the future? So he says, an end, the end has come upon the four corners of the land. So the entire land, the entire geographical area. So we would say this is the end game. It's over. And the end has come. And Amos chapter eight verse two, Revelation twenty twelve and thirteen, the end. Who wants to read Amos eight verse two? Then Revelation twenty twelve and thirteen. Somebody else, first Peter four verse seven. Yeah. Amos eight two and then Revelation twenty twelve and thirteen. First Peter four seventeen. Okay. And then we're going to wind up in the book of Matthew 24. Well, I'll be showing you. My favorite. I'll be oh, you want your favorite? Okay. Then I'm gonna give you three verses. Matthew 24. Only one time I can tell you this. Matthew 24 verse six. Matthew 24 verse 13. Matthew 24 verse 14. We're looking at the end game. When's it the end? When's the when's the end of the age? When's the end that when will when will this present age come to an end in Jesus' return? When will the church age end? When will your life end? Teach us to number our days that we may apply ourselves to wisdom. Right? So if I'm living at the end of the age and I'm in Matthew 25 and there's a wedding taking place and the groom is going to come and fetch his bride at any moment, teach me to number my days that we may apply ourselves to wisdom, What would be the wisest thing I could do if I was living during that time? Oil in the lamp. Ready to go. So what's the oil symbolize? So to have the oil in the lamp means you're a believer. So you're gonna be ready as a believer at the end of the age when Jesus comes for his bride. Right? You don't know the day or the hour. He's gonna come in the fetching. Right? And it could happen at any moment. He's gonna take the bride back to his home, to his father's house. Right? He said, I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go to prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you onto myself that where I am, there you may be also. Location, location, location. Where is Jesus? In heaven. In heaven. Right? In heaven. The right hand of the father. And in his father's house are many mansions. And so but he's gonna come to the home of the bride, a time that only the father knows. Right? And so it's incumbent upon us to be ready. So as as a couple pastors have said, what problems do you have that the rapture wouldn't solve? Right? Right. Okay. So we're looking at this end game, Amos eight verse two. Daniel Amos? Alright. I have it. She's got a good reading voice, this Marlene Miller hair. This is Marlene Miller, those of you on Facebook. That's one. What? I'm not gonna believe you. And he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, a basket of summer fruit. Then said the Lord unto me, the end has come upon my people of Israel. I will not again pass by them anymore. Summer fruit, seven twenty two BC, the Assyrians destroyed the 10 northern tribes. Amos eight verse two, God said, it's over. It's over. They're done. The nation of Israel. Revelation twenty twelve and thirteen. Okay. And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God, and the books were opened. And another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books according to their works. And the sea gave up the dead which were in it, and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them, and they were judged every man So when's your end? When's your personal end? Bible says it's appointed unto all men once to die, and then the judgment. There's a day appointed for us to die, right, unless we're raptured. Right? And so but is that your end? If you're a believer, that's not your end. Oh, yeah. Right? So as an unbeliever as an unbeliever, Revelation twenty twelve to 13, there's your end. You're at the great white throne judgment. It's end. It's over. Now you're gonna spend all eternity in hell, the lake of fire for all eternity. And there's no pass go and collect $200. There's no coming back and reincarnation. There's no annihilation. There's no negotiation. It's appointed unto all men once to die and then the judgment. My sins have been judged at the cross of Calvary. There's no fearful looking to of judgment. Right? To be absent of the body is to be present with the Lord. For me to live as Christ, die is gain. For me as a Christian, when I die physically, I'm just moving. It's my moving day. I'm moving out of this body, this old body that can't can't service me anymore, and I get a new glorified body that's never going to fade away, that's never gonna get old, that's never gonna whine or cry or Betty, you crying? Are you crying right now? Okay. And and so eternal life rather than eternal death. Death is separation from God. Alright. First Peter four verse seven. But the end of all things is at hand. Be ye therefore sober and watch unto prayer. The end of all things is at hand. Be sober, be watching, be vigilant, submit yourself to God, resist the devil, he'll flee from you. The devil goes about like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour. The end of all things is at hand. Now he wrote that quite a while ago, but we're living in the last days. Do we wanna prepare? Do we wanna be prepared? Or do we want to be like those where the Lord comes as a thief in the night? In first Thessalonians chapter five, he comes as a thief in the night unto them that aren't watching, that aren't ready, that aren't looking. But to us, that day doesn't overtake us unaware because we're children of light. Right? And we because we're children of light, we see the prophetic picture, But those who are dead spiritually, the Lord is gonna come at a time where they think not. He's going to come. He's going to return at the end of the tribulation period, and they're they're not gonna have a clue. Right? But we we do. We we know that we presently are where we at prophetically presently? Pastor. What time is it? Church age. At what point of the church age? The beginning, the middle, or the end? The end. The end. How do you know you're at the end of the church age? When you see these things beginning to happen. The birth pangs. Birth I heard birth pangs. And what are the birth pangs? Anybody here ever had a baby? Anybody ever have a baby? I haven't. So I don't want to either. Okay. So birth pangs. Talk about that, ladies. Nine months of pregnancy, no birth pangs yet. Going to birth the baby, going to birth something new, right? Something new is coming. The Lord's going to birth His kingdom. His kingdom is coming, right? But before His kingdom comes, there's a there's a period of time where the Lord is going to deal with the nation of Israel, the time of Jacob's trouble, a seven year period of tribulation that God's gonna bring to purify a remnant. The messianic kingdom is gonna be birthed, but the birth pangs, the birthing of that kingdom is gonna come with a lot of pain, the time of Jacob's trouble. And so when you and I see the beast system developing, the one world government developing, the one world economic system developing, the one world religious system developing, then we know we're close. We know we're really and what else? No laws. Laws. Lawlessness. The lawless one. And so we're we know that we're getting close. Now, is there any solution? Can we vote somebody in that fixes it all so we can add some more time? Can we get some more time? Is there somebody that we can get in there that will give us some more time? Are you looking for more time? Looking Looking up. We're not giving up. We're not saying, hey, it's over. But based upon the prophetic picture, it looks like we're getting pretty close. So is that doom and gloom? Will that help the church to grow if we talk like this? It's not doom and gloom. It's glorious. If look at it as that blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and Savior, then it's glorious. It's a wonderful perspective. And as Rob said, when you see these things begin to come to pass, then look up knowing that your redemption draws nigh. And so, the end game of Matthew 24, Vicki Wiederich, she hosts a show, in case you don't know, called Be Not Deceived. And there's some really important guests she's had on there. Really important. And you should check it out. Matthew 24 verse six. And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars that see that you are not troubled for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. Are you hearing of wars and rumors of wars? Are we close to war? Is China gonna hit Taiwan? Is NATO and Putin and all of them gonna get into it? Right. Ukraine. Is anybody gonna strike The United States? What are the what is the devil? What are the globalists brewing? What are they trying to do under the cover of war? Jesus said, wars and rumors of wars, but the end is not yet. What's the last war? Armageddon. Armageddon. Where is it fought? Megiddo. Megiddo. The Valley Of Megiddo. Yeah. And where's that located? Isn't that in Mexico? No. Oh. Oh. Megiddo. Close. So Israel needs to be in the land. Right? 05/14/1948 in the land. And where's Jesus going to return when he comes back? Petra. Petra. Basra. Gonna go get go get that remnant. Alright. You guys have been well taught. Matthew 24 verse 13. Be but he who endures to the end shall be saved. So what's that mean? You gotta endure to be saved? Don't give up. What's the context there? It's a tribulation period. Those who endure to the end of the tribulation period, they're gonna be saved. Yeah. You're gonna have a you're gonna have a remnant of Gentiles in Matthew 25 judgment of sheep and goats, and some are gonna make it through the tribulation period without the mark of the beast. And Jesus is gonna judge as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats, and the Gentiles that come through are gonna be those that worked and acted favorably toward the nation of Israel. Israel. When Israel was thirsty, when Israel was hungry, when Israel was in prison in the hospital. And as much as you've done it under the least of these my brethren, you've done it under me. But you also have a one third remnant. In Zechariah thirteen eight and nine, you have two thirds of the nation of Israel being destroyed, but a one third remnant is going to be purified. And so those that endured to the end are gonna be saved out of the tribulation into the millennium, and they're going to come according to Jeremiah 31 into the unconditional covenant. They're gonna be born again. Right? And they gotta endure. Right? Don't take the mark of the beast. Endure. Fight it out. Don't compromise. Don't take the easy way out. Matthew 24 verse 14. So God's never without witness. Right? During the tribulation period, how is that gonna be accomplished that the gospel is gonna be preached to the entire world? The 144,000, 12,000 of each tribe are gonna be evangelistic. One angel, one angel flying overhead with the everlasting gospel. Two witnesses. There you go. That's a good one. Yeah. Boy, the people hate that. And do you think the technology will come into play? Not the angel overhead. That's that's gonna blow their minds. Right? They're gonna be hearing the angel overhead, flying overhead, everlasting gospel. 144,000, you know, going everywhere. Sharon? Can't touch me. No. A real angel. Like Clarence, you know. Real angel. Gets his wings. Real. Yeah. Alright. So flying over, the everlasting gospel. The two witnesses and then people themselves. You have an innumerable multitude of people in Revelation 12 verse four that lost their lives because refused the mark of the beast. They heard the gospel. They refused to compromise and make life a little bit easier for a few more moments because you can buy and sell if you get that mark. But you're eternally damned. There's no redemption for anybody that receives the mark of the beast in the right hand of their forehead. There's no plan b. There's no second chance. There's no pass go collect 200. There's nothing. Now do you guys know what that means, pass go and collect 200? Alright. There you go. What if I said, I had an e ticket ride. Do you know what that means? Wow. You guys are ancient. You guys are ancient. Alright. That's just a side thing. That's just a test. Alright. So we we have a difficult time in the time we're living in that in many cases, the apocalypse, the unveiling, the all the prophecies that are taking place. We want a date set. There's a desire to date set, to say, hey, the rapture, I think the rapture is gonna happen here, but we avoid that. We don't do that. So instead what we do is we look at the birth pangs, we look at the things leading up to it that Jesus said when you see these things begin to come to pass and look up. So we know we're at the end of the age. We know we're getting closer and closer. If you see the ashes of the red heifer being developed and grown in Texas and then taken to Israel And rabbis studying them and they're not able to they're unable to find even, you know, one little white hair or whatever, they're red. One of them was disqualified, but I guess three are still good. And then you're hearing a rumbling of rebuilding the temple, the Antichrist Temple. You know you're getting close because that temple is gonna be erected and used during the tribulation period because we know according to Daniel chapter nine and Matthew 24, when you see the abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel the prophet standing in the holy place. And so when you hear the nation of Israel and people around the world talking about this and Muslims knowing it to be true and wanting to stop it, you know, we're getting really, really close to the end of this present age. And so some have said, live like Jesus died yesterday, that he rose today, and that he's coming back tomorrow. You'll always be ready. We're gonna put you on record. You're gonna have so many people respond to this. I can hear them right now. Alright. Now David Mhmm. Her son, what did he say? He said the Muslims believe in the same god we do. But Yeah. The one thing that we believe that they don't believe is that Jesus Christ arose again on the third day. And where does religion stop for the Muslims? Okay. So you're you're mixing like three different things there. So start with the first one. The David said the Muslims believe in the same God. Now David was watching George Bush on television say we all worship the same God. Is that true or not true? Is or do all roads lead to heaven? Do right now, have DEI. What is DEI? Equity and inclusion. The the religions of the world, the people of the world want to include everybody. A pluralistic deity that we all worship the same God. What did Jesus say in John fourteen six? So that's what we call exclusivity, the exclusivity of Jesus. There's no other way to God the Father without going through the Son. So first of all, who is the God that we worship? Our God is identified as the creator of heaven and earth, right? God of creation, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Muslims could say, well, we worship, you know, the God of Abraham too. Right? And so the difference is the Islam started around June with with Mohammed, started religion. And in his religion, they worshiped the moon god. There's over 300 different gods that they worship, but you narrow it down to worshiping that of the moon. They believe they have a Mahdi. They have a Messiah that's going to come, but but he'll come according to a war. But what separates the men from the boys is the resurrection. So they don't believe in Jesus, means they don't believe in the true living God. They don't believe in Jesus and he's he's the gate. He's the door. Nobody gets the father through him and he proved to his enemies, destroy this temple in three days, I'll raise it up. So for us, when we look at John chapter one, we prove the deity of Christ that he's God. When we look at Colossians one, we prove the deity of Christ that he's God. When we look to Revelation chapter one, we prove the deity of Christ that he's God. And so in the beginning was the word, the word was with God, the word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him and without him was not anything made that was made. Nancy said he's the God of creation. He's the incarnate word of God. In verse 14, and the word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld his glory as the only begotten of the father, full of grace and of truth. So John chapter one clarifies that Jesus is the second person of the trinity, the son of man, the son of God, and Mohammed can't do that. Mohammed's dead. Buddha's dead. Confucius is dead. And Jesus is alive. Raised himself from the dead. So that's the difference. That's the difference. So when people ignorantly say, we all worship the same God, not true. Not true because God does not allow you that philosophical view because Jesus was crucified, buried, raised from the dead, proving that he's God and that he's the only way to God the father. They don't have a bible. They have a Koran and inconsistent, very everything comes down to the resurrection. Produce a body and you destroy Christianity. But because he raised himself from the dead, and and Peter said, and John talked about how they were eyewitnesses of him and they handled him on the Mount Of Transfiguration in Matthew 17. But then he goes on to say, a greater evidence than eyewitness testimony is handling Jesus is the more sure word of prophecy. Our prophecy has to be 100% accurate, and Jesus fulfilled over 300 prophecies in his first coming. He continues to fulfill. Prophecies continue to be fulfilled as we're speaking. So there is overwhelming evidence that the God that we believe in is the true living God because He's a God that's eternal and tells us ahead of time what's going to happen with 100% accuracy. The Koran cannot do that, does not do that, cannot give you prophecies ahead of time because it's not based upon the true living God. It's a false religious system. It's like Hinduism and any of the other religious systems, they lack the resurrection. They lack a savior that will be crucified, buried, and raised from the dead. Okay. So I hope that helps David if he's listening. You got it, Betty? Okay. And I'm sure on Facebook people will be adding more to that. Pretty basic. So the endgame, we'll judge thee according to thy ways. So God's going to judge us according to our ways. So in Revelation chapter 20 verse twelve and thirteen, how were they judged? Cheryl, according to their ways. The books were open and each and every person was judged according to their works. So you and I, there's no fearful looking to have judgment. We are never going to answer for the sins that we committed because there's no record of wrong. There's no record of sin. Because Jesus suffered. He that knew no sin became sin that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. So the father poured out his wrath upon his son, the lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world, and all the sins, past, present, and future were placed upon him. So salvation is a free gift. So in the ledger, in the ledger, his righteousness is imputed to us, an accounting term. So in the ledger, there's no debits, there's no sin, there's no record of wrong, justified just as if you've never sinned. You're righteous before God. For the unbeliever, they're still in their sin and when God asked them, why should I let you into my heaven? Well, how are they going to respond? When he asked them one question, what did you do with my son? When it's apparent that they rejected his son, now he has to judge them according to their works. In Luke chapter 12, there's interesting verse. Some are beaten with few stripes, some with many stripes. God doesn't grade on the curve. There's no grading on the curve. But there's a graduated punishment based upon knowledge bringing responsibility to much is given, much is required. Some in hell, some in the lake of fire are going to have a much greater punishment than others. The lamb's book of life? It's his book of life. Yep. Your name's written in the lamb's book of life. Not that big. Narrow is the way that leads to life eternal, and few there be that find it. If your name's in there, that's a good thing. The disciples came back, the 70 that came back, and they rejoiced that the demons were subject unto them. And Jesus said, don't rejoice that the demons are subject unto you, but rejoice in that your name is written in the book of lie. There's rejoicing in heaven among the angels when just one sinner repents. That's when a party's thrown at repentance, when somebody's saved. So God's not willing that any would perish, but that all would come to repentance. So he's long suffering. He's long suffering, and that's why the end hasn't come yet. Maybe your end hasn't come yet. Anybody here not right with God? Everybody okay? Everybody comfortable? Everybody at peace that if you died today, you'd spend all eternity in heaven? You're not living with a question mark over your life? You're not trusting in anything other than the finished work of Jesus Christ upon the cross of Calvary? Okay. Reaping and sowing. Whatsoever a man sows, that shall he also reap. And he'll reap according to your ways. All thine abominations and mine eye shall not spare thee, neither will I have pity, but I will recompense thy ways upon thee, and thine abominations shall be in the midst of thee, and ye shall know that I am the Lord. Now, you may not know who he is yet, but you're going to know that I am the Lord. And this word come here that he uses, it's found six times in these next few verses. When I come, he says, I'm the Lord. Thus saith the Lord God, an evil evil and only evil, behold, is come, an end is come, the end is come, it watches for thee, behold, it is come, So the destruction of Jerusalem has come. And now a hundred years before Jerusalem was destroyed, in Micah chapter three verse 12, Micah the prophet prophesied that this would happen. Somebody want to read Micah three verse 12 to demonstrate how God, one hundred years before Jerusalem was destroyed, God prophetically through the prophet Micah let them know this. And then we wanna look at the after that, the next verse concerning the time has come. The day of trouble. Micah three verse 12. Okay. Therefore, shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house of the high place of the forest. So written a hundred years before it happened, you think God's long suffering? Giving them plenty of time to repent, to turn from their sin. He sends Ezekiel, he sends Micah, he sends Hosea, he sends Jeremiah 40 of of preaching, telling them the truth. And Isaiah was saw in two for his for his work, you know. So he sent the prophets. Which of the prophets did not your fathers kill? Jesus asked his generation. He says, the morning has come unto thee, oh thou that dwells in the land. The time has come, the day of trouble is near, and not the joyful shouting upon the mountain. So the party is over. It's time for the judgment. Waited a hundred years from the time I spoke through Micah, well, it's here. The day is here. It's happening, This time of trouble. The time of Jacob's trouble. The tribulation period. Jesus said it was a time and that the world has never seen or would ever see again so horrific. So we're going to look at some verses. Luke 19 I'm having a hard time reading this but it looks like Luke nineteen fourteen, Zephaniah one fourteen. Do I have a taker? Okay. Zephaniah one fourteen. Jeremiah 30 verse seven. Okay. Luke twenty one twenty five through 26. Okay. Jeremiah 12. I think it's Jeremiah or John. Let's see. Forget it. Revelation six fifteen through 17. I had a better light. Let's see. No. This is great. Twelve one through three. Anyway, we'll go for it. Luke nineteen fourteen. I'll take a drink. Does the Bible teach the Bible? The time of the end, a day of trouble, the day of the Lord? I'm thinking. But his citizens hated him and sent a message after him saying, we will not have this man to reign over us. Sounds good. Zephaniah one fourteen. The great day of the Lord is near, it is near, and hasteth greatly even the voice of the day of the Lord. The mighty man shall cry there bitterly. Jeremiah 30 verse seven, the day of the Lord. Alas, for that day is great so that none is like it. It is even the time of Jacob's trouble, but he shall be saved out of it. The time of Jacob's trouble, the tribulation period, the seven year tribulation period, the seventieth seven of Daniel. And then Luke twenty one twenty five. There will be strange events in the skies, signs in in the sun, moon, and stars. And down on earth, the nations will be in turmoil, perplexed by the roaring seas and the strange ties. Okay. And then Revelation six fifteen through 17. I think I might have had this one. Joel Joel two Joel one through three. Go ahead. Alright. Revelation six fifteen through 17. And the kings of the earth, the great men, the rich men, the commanders, the mighty men, every slave and every free man hid themselves in the caves and the and in the rocks of the mountains and said to the mountains and the rocks, fall on us and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the lamb. Can you think of some rich men that are gonna be there in those bunkers? Bill Gates. Soros. If he makes it that long. Right? If they don't die before then, death would be too good. Blow the trumpet in Zion, Joel chapter two verse one. Blow the trumpet in Zion and sound an alarm in my holy mountain. Let all the inhabitants of their land tremble for the day of the Lord cometh for it is near at hand, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds in a thick darkness, like the morning spread upon the mountains, a great people and a strong. There has not been ever the like, neither shall anymore after it, even to the years of many generations. A fire devours before them and behind them, and a flame burns. And the land is like the Garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness, and nothing shall escape them. So that's the tribulation period. That's the day of the Lord, the seven year tribulation period that Jesus said the world's never seen. It's so perilous, nor will ever see again. He also said that men's hearts would fail them, seeing the things that are coming upon the earth. People having heart attacks, just the reality of what's coming. Seal And judgments. And then he says, now will I shortly pour out my fury upon thee, his wrath, and accomplish mine anger upon thee, And I will judge thee according again to thy ways, so God is fair. God's gonna be fair in how he judges, and will recompense thee for all thine abominations. So the judgment that he provides is going to fit the crime. And mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity. I will recompense thee, again, according to thy ways, and thine abominations that are in the midst of thee, and ye shall know that I am the Lord who smiteth. So they don't know him as the Lord that smiteth. Jehovah Jireh, So so you know him as as the Lord that provides. Right? I'll give you some verses. Genesis 22 verse 14. It means payback. Genesis twenty two fourteen, God will provide, Abraham told his son Isaac. Genesis 33 verse 20, that Jacob Jacob had a new name for the Lord, someone someone he didn't know the Lord as. Exodus seventeen fifteen. Who wants that? Alright. Judges six twenty four. Okay. And then Jeremiah 20 three:six. Okay. So the first one, so here's what he's saying, know that I am the Lord who smiteth. So there's a new name that you've never known me as. I'm the lord that smiteth thee. And he keeps saying here, that you might know who I am. You don't know me. Here's another side of my character, another side of my personality who I am as God. I'm a God that has to judge. I have to judge even my own. So Genesis twenty two fourteen, Isaiah had a question, where's the lamb? Who's gonna provide the lamb? And Abraham called the name of the place the Lord will provide. As it is said in that day, in the mount of the Lord, it shall be provided. And we call that Jehovah Jireh. Jireh. Jehovah Jireh. Alright. Genesis thirty three twenty. Genesis thirty three twenty. Okay. Basically, Genesis thirty three twenty is Jacob, his name's changed from Jacob to Israel, and he gets to know the Lord as as the God of Israel. Genesis thirty three twenty. Exodus seventeen fifteen. Oh, Kathy has it. Go ahead, Kath. It's on the tip. Yeah. And he erected there an altar and called it l l o, he Israel. That's all it says. Yeah. God is it God of Israel. El, God of Israel. Exodus seventeen fifteen, Jehovah Nissi. And Moses built an altar and called the name of it Jehovah Nissi. For he said, because the Lord hath sworn that the Lord will have war with the Amalek from generation to generation. So the nor the Lord our banner speaks of he's gonna fight for us. He's the army. Judges six twenty four. Then Gideon built an altar there unto the Lord and called it Jehovah Shalom. And what's that mean? Peace. Peace. The Lord our peace. Unto go ahead. Sorry. Unto this day, it is yet in Ophrah of the Abiurzurites. Great. Jeremiah twenty three six. In his days, Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely. And this is his name whereby he shall be called the Lord our righteousness. To sit canoe. Right? The Lord our righteousness. Who's your righteousness? The Lord my righteousness. He's my righteousness. Right? Righteous man. Righteous because of him because of him. I'm a sinful man, but I'm a new man in Christ Jesus. So he says he says, you're gonna know me as the Lord that smiteth. And there may be a whole new schooling that we have to go through of hard times if the Lord were to judge America. We don't know the Lord in that way. We think that God is an American. So behold the day behold the day, behold, it has come. The morning has gone forth. The rod has blossomed. Pride has budded. So God waits for to be ripened under judgment. The Lord always gives space for repentance. He's not so quick to judge, and he's given his own people plenty of time to consider what the prophets are saying and to turn from their wickedness and to wear sackcloth and ashes and come in repentance like the city of Nineveh only had forty days. Right? They And were gonna perish. God gave them a reprieve of over a hundred years. And so they're ripened under judgment. It's time to judge. Sodom and Gomorrah was ripened unto judgment. God sent two angels into the town, you know, to see for themselves. Right? And rescued and just Lot. And so he if there were 50 righteous, he wouldn't have done it. He wouldn't slay or kill the righteous with the wicked. So there's hope for you and I that when this judgment comes against this planet, the fury of God being poured out, His wrath being poured out upon a Christ rejecting world that embraces the Antichrist, that embraces the devil, that rejects the true living God, he's not going to pour out that wrath until he's raptured his church because we're not appointed under wrath. We're the bride of Christ, and so we understand that. Just as we learned with Sodom and Gomorrah, the fire and brimstone didn't fall until the Lord had rescued Lot and his family, his daughters, before he poured out the wrath. And Abraham was negotiating that way. If there'd be 50 righteous, if there's 45, and all the way down to 10, and there was less than 10, so God God waited. So you are a restraining influence. You are staving off judgment. You're you're holding back God's judgment upon this planet simply by being a Christian, simply by by worshiping the true living God. Your influence, your salt is preserving this culture, preserving the world. Your voice, you're standing for truth, you're proclaiming the gospel, you're loving one another, you're loving God, your worship of God is holding back the wrath that he's going to pour out once the restrainer is removed. What is the restrainer in two Thessalonians two? The Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit in the church, working through the church. When the church is raptured, all hell's gonna break loose. Right? And then the Verizon commercial from heaven, people don't know God, right? Then you'll know me. The Verizon commercial will be saying, can you hear me now? Can you hear me now? Right? And so, in John 14, this is a sad indictment against the disciples. Jesus let them know that I'm gonna be leaving you. Let not your heart be troubled. You believe in God, believe also me. My father has also many mansions. Weren't so I tell you. I go to prepare a place for you, and if I go to prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you unto myself that where I am, there you may be also. And Philip says, show us the father and that'll satisfy us. And what did Jesus say? Have I been such a long time with you, Philip, and you don't know me? He that has seen me has seen the father. So if I use the the name Emmanuel at Christmas time, the name what's that name? God with us. Right? Emmanuel is God with us. Jesus, what does his name mean? So Jesus, Yahweh or Jehovah is God of salvation. And so Jesus is the Greek form of the Hebrew Messiah, the anointed one, the Messiah, the savior of the world. Right? And so, Lord is his title, Jesus his name. In the Old Testament, it would be Joshua, God is salvation, like Yahweh. Y H V H, they pulled the vowels out and when they would write, the Masorets, when they'd write, they'd only use the consonants. We see Jehovah with a J, but it's Y H V H. Okay. So, behold the days, behold it has come and morning has gone forth. The rod has blossomed, pride has budded, so ripe for judgment. Violence has risen up into a rod of wickedness, so smitten with rods. Jesus was smitten with rods. Jesus was beaten with the soldiers' fist. They put a blindfold, a bag over his head and beat him and say, prophesy, who did hit you? In Isaiah chapter 50, his beard his beard was pulled out. So skin, skin went, portions of meat went. The cat of nine tails where Pilate had him examined with a cat of nine tails, which was a handle with strips of leather. And at the end of those strips of leather, several strips, would be pieces of bone, pieces of metal. And so when they would take the one that was being whipped, they would stretch his arms up and cause his back, the skin on the back and everything to be taut, to be tight. And then they would begin to bring forth the beating. For the Jew, God in his mercy would only allow a Jew to be whipped with 39 lashes. You get to 40 and then you're in trouble or you go beyond 40. So the Jews would stop at 39. But the lictors, those that were bringing forth this punishment against Jesus, didn't care about the Mosaic Law. So they could keep beating him as long as they wanted to. Now the reason for the beating would be to bring about a confession. And if the criminal, the thief or the robber, if he would confess his crime and other crimes he knew of, then the lictor would not whip as hard. Jesus says, the sheep before his shears is dumb, so he opened not his mouth. He had nothing to confess. He He had nothing to say. And so he was beaten beyond the recognition of a man. And John saw him in Revelation five as a lamb that had been slain. And so he was bruised for our iniquities. The chastisement of our peace was upon him and with his stripes, we are healed. We receive the salvation, the atonement. So being whipped with rods, being whipped with the cat of nine tails. Then the time has come, verse 12, the day draws near. Let not the buyer rejoice nor the seller mourn for wrath is upon all their multitudes. So you're doing a business deal, you finally close the house and you're so excited, you bought this house, got a great deal on it, nope. The buyer, there's no rejoicing, no more buying, no more selling. You have no more possessions, you have nothing. You will own nothing and be happy according to Klaus Schwab. And it's going to repeat itself. They're going to plunder. The globalists are plundering all assets and the economy is going to collapse. It's all lost. For the seller shall not return to that which is sold, although they were yet alive for the vision is touching their whole multitude which shall not return, neither shall any strengthen himself in the iniquity of his life. So in the Jewish culture, in the law, the Mosaic Law according to Leviticus 25 verse 10, you might go through a time of financial reversal. You might go through a time of of where Naomi went with Elimelech. They left the house of bread. They left Bethlehem because there was a famine in the land. So they went over to the area of the Moabites, the Philistines, and they began to live over there for about ten years. And during that period of time, Elimelech died, then Meilan and Chilion died. So Naomi is there with two daughter in laws, Ruth and Naomi. And Ruth and Orpa Orpa, excuse me. Naomi is the woman. Orpa, that's where Orpa came from. So Ruth and Orpa. And Ruth and Moabite said, your God will be my God, know, and the whole thing. And Naomi gave them the chance to go back to their own families and all, and Orpah did. But when they came back to the house of bread, there was what was called a rite of jubilee. Every fifty years, the land would revert back to the family, the year of jubilee. But there was also, within the law, the price of redemption. If there was a near kinsman, the kinsman redeemer. And so Boaz paid the Goel price to redeem Ruth and was able to provide all of the land that they'd lost to be restored to Naomi and to Ruth. And you know the story, Boaz and Ruth begot Obed. Obed begot Jesse. Jesse begot David, and David is the offspring of Jesus. So beautiful, provision within the law, the year of Jubilee. So your family might be without use of that land for thirty, forty years. And around the fiftieth year, grandpa might still be alive. You don't know, but that land would revert back. It would come back into the family fold. But God's saying, you guys are gonna be in captivity for seventy years. That's not gonna happen. No chance of that happening. So they have blown the trumpet even to make all ready, but none go to the battle for my wrath is upon all the multitude. So no soldiers response, none to save. So you can blow the trumpet all you want, but there's is no military that's going to, rally themselves to save you. They're all going to be destroyed. They're all starving to death. Nabi and his soldiers, the Chaldeans are gonna come in and wipe out everyone. The sword is without and the pestilence and the famine within. And so within the city walls, the people are getting weaker and weaker and weaker. We saw in Lamentations where they're resorting to cannibalism, eating the small little babies. And I saw an article about Sherry Tenpenny today, and she says, contrary to what all these nut jobs are saying, the vaccines did not raise the quality of life over the last hundred years. It wasn't the vaccines. You know what she said it was? Fresh water, organized sewage. You go to Africa, get the sewage away from the water you're drinking. And good food, irrigated good food, is what caused greater health. And so an erosion of health, the death rate increasing, people dying at a younger age is due to malnourishment, which leads to a compromised immune system, which leads to pestilence, which leads to disease. And so these guys are going to be diseased. And then the sword's gonna come in. The famine and the pestilence shall devour shall devour him. So death and destruction. And then verse 16, but they that escape of them shall escape and shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them mourning everyone for his iniquity. How many of you have doves that land on the lines outside your bedroom window each morning? You ever hear doves? What sound did the doves make in Huntington Beach, Kath? And doves mate for life. Right? They mate for life. And when we grew up, the doves were there, and you'd hear them doing that whole thing. Well, these doves are gonna gather and they're gonna be mourning. They've lost their loved one. They're not with their partner anymore. They mate for life. And they're gonna be sorrowful in mourning, you're gonna hear. All hands shall be feeble and all knees Cathy, do that dove sound again. That was that was really good. Get the microphone over there. Wow. Was just really blown away. That really remind me of home right there. All hands shall be feeble and all knees shall be weak like water, so you're gonna be very vulnerable. They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and whore shall cover them, and shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads. Well, don't get too personal. So it's just it's just too late. So in Daniel nine, three, and four, Daniel wore sackcloth. What was the purpose of wearing sackcloth? Why mourning? Pardon me? Repentance. Repentance? But why that particular kind of fabric, sackcloth? It's rough. It becomes scratchy. Rough. It's scratchy. It's not linen. It's not a silk suit or something, you know? It's it's the clothing of mourning. So Daniel nine, three and four, Daniel were put on sackcloth and began to pray, intercede on behalf of the nation of Israel. In the book of Jonah, when Jonah said forty days and you're gonna perish, from the king on down, everybody began to put on sackcloth. And then ashes, you take the ashes and you put it over over your head, a sign of humility, a sign of brokenness before God, you're appealing to God. In Matthew eleven twenty one, Jesus rebuked some cities that he did great works in. Woe unto thee, Bethsaida. Right? Woe unto thee. Woe, his woe. Woe unto thee, Chorazin. Woe unto thee, Capernaum. He said, if the mighty works had been done in Sodom and Gomorrah and Tyre and Sidon, They had repented in sackcloth and ashes, you know, long ago. And but you guys didn't put on sackcloth and ashes and repent. You didn't respond. And he did mighty, mighty, mighty works in those cities there, but the people were indifferent. He said, we played a funeral dirge music and you didn't mourn. We had a wedding festivity and you didn't rejoice. So basically saying, you're indifferent. There's one thing, When you and I share the gospel with somebody and they get angry, that's good. You got to them. And they're not gonna be able to sleep. Right? They're gonna be angry. That's good. There's something inside of them that led to being angry. But when you share the gospel with somebody and they're indifferent, oh, that's a bad place to be. They could take it or leave it. They're lukewarm. Right? Insip it. So that's not a good place to be. They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed. Their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the Lord. They shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their stomachs because it is the stumbling block of their iniquity. So money becomes worthless. You can't redeem your brother from his sin. We were redeemed with the precious blood of Jesus Christ and the precious, precious blood. And we weren't redeemed with corruptible things like silver and gold. So the silver and gold has become worthless to them. There's no way they can buy their way out of this. And I posted a video earlier of Whitney Webb because heard of Whitney Webb? And she's describing the new economic system that's on its way that BlackRock and the bankers, Blackstone and others have developed. And they're just waiting for the right crisis. They're waiting, as she says, for the next Bretton Woods event. The Bretton Woods event is the events that took place after World War two, where the world's global currency went to the dollar away from the British Sterling. And so the whole world would recognize that the dollar was the de facto global currency and was backed by gold. So the world was secure in knowing that it wasn't just paper, but it was a unit of storage of value. And we had the most prolific military as a result and production, industrialization and on and on and on. And then when we remove the gold standard, the world decide, wait a minute, want our gold back. When you can't get your gold back, Fort Knox is empty. Silver certificates? No. No more silver certificates. Guess what we'll do? We'll take and we'll create $19.73, the petro dollar and we'll back every barrel of oil can only be sold with a dollar. So that gave incentive for all the countries of the world to hold on to dollars because they needed them to be able to purchase energy, purchase oil and to sell oil. So that recently has ceased to exist. On June 12, Saudi Arabia no longer recognizes the petro dollar agreement with Saudi Arabia and these other countries. So we're in a place where Whitney Webb uses the term abstract. Everything that's in the abstract. What's the abstract? What is your four zero one k stored in? What is your retirement stored in? Imaginary accounts. Abstract. Abstract. Paper. Paper. Paper. So she's saying the abstract, China and everybody's getting away from the abstract. They want commodities. So what happens is America is not going to be able to produce and trade with people because we send all of our production over to China and other countries. So we're going have to retool to be able to produce if we're to survive because we can't use dollars anymore because people don't want dollars pretty soon. So what China is doing, because their economy is in turmoil, their whole country is in turmoil, they are taking as many dollars as they can presently and trying to purchase tangible assets before the dollar has no value. So they are purchasing farmland in America, tangible assets, along with Bill Gates and others. They're also invading the African continent because the African continent is rich with minerals and resources, but the African people have been held down, held back by the globalist. The globalist consider that continent as a land bank. The resources belong to the globalist. They don't want Qaddafi in Libya to be able to educate his people and to bring about farming and to bring about a self reliant African nation of prosperity with oil energy and all that. So, Gaddafi and Saddam Hussein decided that they were not going to trade oil, in the dollar, and the Rosh Chows don't like that. So they send, Desert Storm. They send Hillary, they invade Libya, they invade Iraq in that they were going to use the Goldiner, d I n a r, to trade oil and or the Euro. And America at the time was strong enough and still bad enough to invade them and force these nations into the Rothschild banking system. That system is over. They got a new system. So according to Whitney Webb, they just need a crisis. They need a big enough crisis like World War two to bring the world to the bargaining table to where they will everyone will, number one, get a new identification. Number two, people will along with that identification, a digital identification will also embrace that their assets be tied with a digital currency. And that's what's in the works just waiting for the it's already ready to grow, ready to roll, and they're waiting for that. And so, now nations are also buying gold and silver tangible assets. They're divesting themselves of dollars. They don't wanna be stuck with the dollars when the music stops. So they wanna be able to have a storage of wealth that can be traded and used, you know, in the future. And it gets far worse than this if you if you listen what's coming. They're gonna use a token system. So I don't need to go into it too far, but basically, token system is these nut jobs, the junk bond thing, that same sort of guy, the same guy that developed that junk bond thing. Let's say you go to Yosemite. These nut jobs will go to Yosemite and they'll put a value on Yosemite, upon a lake, upon a river, upon trees, anything tangible. And they'll tokenize it. They'll say, this is worth so much, you know, digital units. And those digital units can be trade traded, you know, at the stock market and stuff. So they're gonna digitize everything. So one of the things that struck me strange was you might have some land that you think you own, something tangible, but they're going to, based upon climate change, say that your land has certain carbon credits that we own. And in order for you to farm or use your land you see the abstract and the tangible? In order for you to use your land, you're gonna have to purchase some carbon credits that come from their carbon bank. So it's getting pretty sketchy, but getting pretty crazy. But in any event, these guys, they have land, they have homes, they have tangible assets. God's saying, none of it's going to do you any good. You're going to have nothing. Can't take it with you. The Jews that left Germany before 1938, they were able to liquidate what they could and take their diamonds, their gold, and put it into the inside of their jackets and go across to New York and start over with something to start over with. Others said, oh, it's never gonna happen. We have time. There's plenty of time. And then after 1938, they couldn't get out. And then the provocateurs came in and began to break all the glass on all the shops and all the businesses and began to put yellow stars on the jackets and on the arms of the Jews. And you know the story what happened after that. So as for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty, but they made the image of their abominations and their detestable things of it, therefore have I set it far from them. So they took their jewelry and they made idols out of their own jewelry is what they had done. And I will give it under the hands of the strangers for a prey and to those who walked of the earth for a spoil and they shall pollute it. So they're gonna plunder. They're gonna rape and pillage and plunder and take everything. The Jesus in his time, he said not one stone will remain upon another of the temple, a fire would break out and the Roman soldiers would plunder and that they would pry bar every single stone of the second temple period. In this case, May, same thing. Nebuchadnezzar and his his armies are gonna destroy Solomon's temple and take all of the golden stuff. In Daniel chapter five, you remember the plunder that Belteshazzar, the great grandson of Nebbe was partying with the bowls and the cups and getting drunk, and there was a finger that went on the wall. Remember? The finger of God? And what did the finger of God write upon the wall? The writing on the wall? And what does that mean? Interpreted? Divided from being given to the Medes and the Persians. Right? And what did Belshazzar do? He looked. I got some bad alcohol, man. What's what's up with that? No. He didn't. And Daniel interpreted it all. And that very night that very night, what happened, Jim? Yep. The the the Babylonians had seventy years of being dominant over the Jews and all. Daniel was still there. And but the Medes and the Persians, God named Cyrus. His surname them a hundred and ninety years before he was even born. You can read that in Isaiah chapter 44, forty three and forty four. God surnamed them. And rabbi tradition says that Daniel brought the scroll and showed Cyrus where his where he was named. And same thing happened later with Alexander the Great when he subdued the Medes and the Persians, that his name, that he was mentioned, and that's why they say that Alexander the Great left Jerusalem alone, didn't touch Jerusalem. So pretty pretty interesting. In the book of Daniel, where God described Alexander the Great, how swift he was with his with his armies to defeat the Medes and the Persians and such. And and then his kingdom, he died young age, about the same age as Jesus and in his early thirties, 33, I think. And his kingdom was divided to his four generals, Alexander the Great. Alright. And all this stuff is historical and it's prophetic. The Bible is just so cool to hang our hat on it, you know, to rely upon. There's a whole lot of confusion out there. A whole lot of speculation. A whole lot of I think so, YouTube prophet thinks so, and prognosticating and prophesying that Trump would be, you know, assassinated, and oh, it would hit his ear and it would break his eardrum, and, you know, and, oh, Michael, buy his wife. None of them are 100% accurate. It's all speculation. And if you know ahead of time that there's a SIOP plan, then guys like Alec Jones and Roger Stone and a whole lot of people can prognosticate and talk about an assassination attempt just a couple days before the RNC's gonna meet, you know. And now you got a martyr, you got a victim. Let me ask you this. Since this attempt on Trump's life, has anybody mentioned COVID or the millions of people that died from the jab that he ushered in mister Warp Speed? You can never mention that again. You can never mention anything except he's God's chosen. That's what they're all doing right now. They're erecting shrines to Donald Trump, and he's God's chosen man. So I posted on the website. I posted on Calvary Chapel Bremerton site where the NAR, we talked about this, the new apostolic reformation, the seven mountain mandate. They've got Donald there leading it. Go ahead and read the article because Donald, the evangelicals, the charismatics are jumping on board. They're gonna make America not only great, they're gonna all get wealthy. They're gonna be wealthy. That's the new one. And you know what else? I keep getting emails today that I can get a new hat. Don't give me a hat. And I don't want a coin of Donald Trump on one side saying he's Cyrus. I don't want it. I'd rather have a coin of Biden. No. I'm just kidding. Just kidding. No. Alright. So Well, then that's another thing. How can he have a bible? That's crazy. I think it has the declaration of independence in the back or something like that. Have I signed your bible yet? Alright. Here we go. Oh, you're so fun to tease. So they're gonna plunder everything. My face will I turn also from them, and they shall pollute my secret place. So they're gonna they're gonna go into the holy of holies. They're gonna totally desecrate the temple for the robbers shall enter into it and defile it. So the temple desecrated, the stuff taken back, as I said, to Babylon and Belteshazzar and them mocking God and using them in Daniel chapter five. Make a chain for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence. So you guys are gonna be carried by chains back to Babylon. Get a chain together, the chain gang. You can be hauled away, of you that survive. Wherefore I will bring the worst of the nations and the worst, the worst that's out there. I'm gonna bring the worst of the nations and they shall possess their houses. I will also make the pomp and the strong deceased, and their holy places shall be defiled. Part of what would take place, like we're watching in America here, is part of the way you would eradicate the identity of a nation is by hauling them away, and then immigration, you bring in Muslims all over Europe. And you ruin the identity of every little nation state, every little sovereign group, whether it be Italy, whether it be Sweden, Switzerland, whatever, you so infiltrate them with foreigners that one generation later, with the amount of women and people that are not having babies and co mingling, pretty soon you've eradicated the identity of of an entire nation. And they and the thing is is if you're gonna conquer them, you don't want the next generation or the third generation to rise up and fight against you. You wanna completely lose sight of America? What's America? What's an American? You reach a point where it's just a memory. And so that's why the Chinese and all sorts of foreign nations are presently buying up tangible assets in America because America is being what we call colonized. That's what's happening. And the Daigle report has America starting with $330,000,000 down to 90,000,000 by 2025. How close are we there? Yep, down to 90,000,000. Georgia Guidestones had the world from, say, 8,000,000,000 down to half a billion. The planet reduced. Population reduction, the eugenesis, that's their goal, destroy human beings. That's what happens when people reject God. So wherefore I'll bring the worst of the nations and they shall possess their houses, I'll also make the pomp of the strong deceased, and their holy places shall be defiled. Destruction cometh and they shall seek peace and there shall be none. No peace for the wicked, saith the Lord. There's no peace for the wicked. So the world's gonna reach a place of perplexity where there's no way out. The world's gonna reach a place with the wars that are coming, where they're gonna sign a peace treaty, a need for a peace treaty. And that's where the Antichrist comes and brokers in place of Jesus Christ, peace treaty for the nation of Israel. Because many believe that as we're watching proxy war take place with Iran and all the different terrorist groups and that at a certain point, Ezekiel thirty eight and thirty nine is gonna happen where a coalition of nations are gonna come against the nation of Israel, and they're gonna lose. Five out of every six of this invading force of Russia, of Turkey, of Iran, of The Sudan, Libya, these nations that come against Israel to take the spoil, what's the spoil? Leviathan. Few years ago, less than ten years ago, natural gas and oil is discovered off the area of Gaza. The largest enormous amount of natural gas and oil, you know, in that whole region ever discovered It belongs to Israel. Israel before that didn't have energy. They'd have to import all their energy and buy it from Muslims. Now, they can take and they can sell this energy as they develop it to the Europeans, to Europe. And there's going to be a point where Russia has a hook put in their jaw, the Bible describes, and they're drawn because Russia's economy has been revamped and rebooted from the time that the ruble crashed to being based upon energy production. They're prolific with producing energy and selling energy. Israel does real well with food and with technology. And so, these nations are gonna come in there, want to grab the spoil, God's gonna wipe them out. And after that, the world's gonna have to negotiate. They're gonna have to negotiate a peace treaty with the nation of Israel, and the nation of Israel is gonna be tricked into this. And and this peace broker, peace peace where there is no peace, right around a white horse. Right? And he's gonna help them rebuild their temple. At the midpoint, forty two months later, three and a half years later, twelve hundred and sixty days from signing that peace treaty, he's gonna go into the temple, declare himself to be God, and demand to be worshipped as God. That's the abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel the prophet. So no peace, saith the Lord to the wicked. Mischief shall come upon mischief, and rumor shall be upon rumor. If you've ever seen a demonic storm, if you've ever seen the dominoes begin to fall, you can't stop it. You have to wait till the dust settles. I had an attorney tell me when I was in the midst of it, Rick, it's almost over. It's almost over, Rick. Once the bankruptcy is final, then you can start over with your life. But that storm, those dominoes, once they start to fall, once this building doesn't sell and that building doesn't sell and that guy backs out and blah blah blah blah blah, then this person in your life dies and that person in your life dies and then four people die, five people die and no solution, no way to fix it, nothing will fix it. It's like a demonic storm and you just got to let it take its course, take its course. And then finally, there's a day like Job. That's what happened to Job, where one day one day, you're scraping yourself, you're with a potsherd, Naked came my end of the world. Naked, I'm gonna go. The Lord giveth, the Lord taketh away. Blessed be the name of the Lord. And then now now you're vying for purpose. You're vying for justification. And you've got Eliphaz, Bildad, Zophar. You've got miserable comforters to you who don't see behind the curtain. They don't see behind the curtain where Satan got permission to do this to you. Right? And they don't see it. They can't comprehend. They don't understand. Well, by the time you get to chapter 42, you hear the Lord describing Job as my servant Job. My servant Job. My servant Job. That's where you want to be. That's where you want to be where God brags on you that the devil. And at the end, the Lord the Lord takes a takes a recognition, differentiates between you and Eliphaz Bildad Zophar. Who are you guys? Pray and have my servant Job offer an offering for you guys because I don't even know who you guys are. And then Job is blessed at the end with twice as much as from the beginning. And and the Lord assoges. He comforts Job and his wife as they start they start over. So a picture of Jesus, a picture of the suffering that he went through. And when you suffer, it may seem like it's never gonna end. It's never going to end. But there's a verse people use to describe this. They says, and it came to pass. Right? It came to pass. Someday it's going to pass. Some of your prodigals, you've dealt with them for ten years. You dealt with them for fifteen years. It came to pass. Someday, someday this too will pass, right? And so no clue. False prophets, he says, seek a vision. He says, mischief shall come upon mission, rumor upon rumor. And you shall seek a vision from a prophet. So you're gonna go to the YouTube prophets, and you're gonna say, hey, give me a vision. Give me a prophecy. Tell me what's happening here. I can't make heads or tails. But the law shall perish from the priest and counsel from the from the ancients. No clue. No clue. The Pollyanna churches will have no clue when their false paradigm fails. When their itchy ears and their prophecy, their psychology and their feel good messages and therapeutic message. When reality strikes, they won't be able to deal with reality because they haven't been built up by faith. They don't know how to walk by faith. The king shall mourn and the prince shall be clothed with desolation and the hand of the people of the land shall be troubled. I will do unto them after their way and according to their desserts. So according to your way according to your way, I'm gonna do unto you. And I will judge them, and they shall know that I am the Lord. Right? They shall know I'm the Lord that striketh. Right? Who do you know him as? Who do you know who do you know the Lord as? Is he your judge or is he your savior? Is he your father? Is Jesus your brother? Are you are you a son, a child? Where do you fit in in the relationship? So in John 17, Jesus prayed for you and I. In John seventeen three, Jesus prayed that we would know him even as he and the father are known. He prayed that we would experience a oneness and intimacy that he and the father enjoy. And so that's where we want to be. And so that you might know in chapter six verse seven, that you might know chapter six verse 10, that you might know chapter six verse 14, that you might know chapter seven verse four and chapter seven verse 27. God wants you to know. Right? So every knee is gonna bow and every tongue confess one day that Jesus Christ is Lord. When we use the word know, we have or is a knowledge that you get through study. Is intuitive knowledge, experiential knowledge. You and I have the we have the experiential knowledge being in a relationship with God. The Gnostics had knowledge puffs up, but love edifies. They didn't have the intimacy. They didn't have the experiential knowledge of being a child of God. And so a lot of people go to church go to church their whole life. They're gonna appear before the Lord. They're gonna say, did we not prophesy in your name? Did we not cast out demons in your name? Did we not do many wonderful social justice works with Rick Warren in your name? And what's he going to say? And what's he going to say? And I never what? Never knew you. Never knew you. Paul's gist of Paul's life was the one thing if you narrowed it down to Paul's life in Philippians three ten. One thing that I might know him. That's it. Knowing God. That's it. That's all it's about. Get to know God. Best way to know God? Through the study of his word with the help of the Holy Spirit. This Bible, 66 books by 40 different authors, is God's love letter to you and I, God revealing himself to us through his word. The Apocalypse, the book of Revelation, is the unveiling of Jesus Christ. Kathy, tell me what you think about someone that says, I can't teach the book of Revelation as a pastor because I haven't studied it yet. I haven't been taught it. Because if you're gonna be a pastor, you need to teach the whole counsel of God. And the book itself, there's a blessing to be just reading it. Reading it. Right? In it. So Kathy and I, when we were going into the ministry, were already teaching Sunday school and home bible studies and all. And basically, we just read commentaries and listen to tapes and study and make sure that we're on track. And then there came a point in time where I needed to be able to learn how to study the Bible. I needed to learn how to break down the text and that of hermeneutics and homiletics. So hermeneutics would be the laws of observation, interpretation, application. Now, if you're 29, 30, 31, 32 years old, and you've worked ten years and been married ten years building a business, taking care of your family, how do you get to go back to school? You don't. If you leave your business, you leave the shipyard for two years, what happens if it doesn't work as a pastor? How are gonna go to school? So that's what I did. I went to school, and I ran my business while I was going to school, and my business suffered greatly. So coming to become a pastor, there's sacrifice. There's sacrifice that you gotta go through in order to learn and to be able to teach others. So anybody that's unwilling to sacrifice, to make the sacrifice to at least, you know, study to show yourself approved on the God, a workman that need not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word to truth, then what Paul is saying there is, you should be ashamed because you haven't studied, right? He says, study to show yourself approved, A workman that need not to be ashamed. So anyway, I like how the Calvary Chapels, these Christians in these churches that don't get taught, guess what they do? They listen to Chuck Missler, Calvary Chapel pastor. They listen to Jack Hibbs. They listen to Calvary Chapel pastors that teach things their pastors don't teach. But so strange, the people the people keep going to those churches. It's so strange to me and to Kathy. Why? Your pastor's not doing his job. He's not doing what he's supposed to do. So why are you there? My friends are there. Alright. That's my little rant. So, father, thank you so much. I hope it gets through. I hope it gets all over the place, Lord. Thank you for the privilege and the blessing of being able to meet with those who do draw to Little Calvary Bremerton. Continue to build your church. And, Lord, I know it's not for very many people, but for those that we do gather with, Lord, we're like minded. We're students of your word. We're in agreement. And so very, very exciting to watch Iron Sharpened Iron to strengthen, encourage us, and help us to connect the dots in the prophetic picture in these last days. And Lord, help us to continue to go with the everlasting gospel. And Lord, I do lift up Donald j Trump. I pray that you would save him, Lord. I pray that you would, by the power of your Holy Spirit, that you would truly, as my friend Dennis mentioned, that he would get saved. Truly saved. And, Lord, I pray for Joe Biden too, that he and his wife and his family, all them would get saved and Obama saved and sure make our job a lot easier, Lord. In Jesus' name, we pray. Amen. Amen.
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Calvary Chapel Bremerton - Home Bible Study
Listen to Rick Beaudry, Pastor of Calvary Chapel Bremerton, lead our home Bible Study session in worship and teaching the Word of God. Be edified and built up in your faith with solid Bible teaching. New episodes released on Tuesdays in the Pacific Standard Timezone.
