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Live from Bremerton. It's Monday night. Welcome to our bible study at Rob, and Brandon's home here in Bremerton. We're in Ezekiel chapter nine tonight, and we're gonna open with a word of prayer. Father, we come before you, Lord, and we just thank you for this Monday night that we can gather for a meal, for fellowship, for prayer, for the study of your word. And, Lord, we ask that you bless and pour your holy spirit upon us. Lord, we thank you for the hope that is ours, of the soon return of our lord and savior Jesus. And, Lord, we pray that you bless mightily, comfort our hearts, give us your peace that surpasses all understanding that it guards our hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. We ask this in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Amen. Change my Alright. Thanks, Rob. Alright. We are in Ezekiel chapter nine. And let's see announcements. Any announcements? His Facebook friends? Anything going on? Stan's going home. Say good hi to Vangie. Hello. Glad she's feeling better. Who's going home? He's going back to Italy. So we're gonna pray for Stan tonight. I know. We're gonna miss you. For how long? Two years. What? Yeah. He's he rides in the popemobile. He helps the pope out. Yeah. He helps the what? Helps the pope out. He rides the popemobile, Stan. I told him he could kiss my ring if he wanted to. So he he he said, no. He's he's got the pope. He's got the pope. Got the big guy. He's got the big guy. Do they look at What's that? Here. Betty's anniversary is tomorrow. Oh, wow. Happy anniversary, Betty. Where's Ray taking you? I know. Where's Ray taking you? I bet. Guess where? Praise the lord. Alright. We're in Ezekiel chapter nine, and now Ezekiel's gonna have a vision of the slaughter that's gonna take place in Jerusalem. So we're we saw last week that we're at May date wise, and so they have till May when Nebuchadnezzar's gonna his army is gonna totally wipe it out. But Ezekiel's got a vision over Jerusalem, and the Lord shown them what's gonna happen. And so let's pray. Father, Lord, please bless your word as we study, Lord. Be our teacher, we ask. Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. So he cried also in mine ears. You ever had people crying in your ears? And if it's the Lord crying in your ears, listen up. How many ears did God give you, Cheryl? Two. Okay. And how many mouths? One. Alright. So what did Jesus say to the seven churches? He that has an ear to hear, let him hear. And what did the Verizon guy say that Can you hear me now? There you go. Alright. Sometimes we have selective hearing. We we don't want to hear. Men? Uh-huh. Oh, teach me about this. Words. You guys have selective hearing. Selective hearing? I do. I know. Oh, you do too? I hear every word Kathy says. I even I even write it down. I even write it down. Buddy. I write it down. I say, honey, wait. Wait. I'm writing that down, honey. I'm writing that down. I think we need to ask miss Kathy about that one. I know. Oh, she knows I listen. She knows. She knows. So no one can read it. That's So he cried also in my ears with a loud voice. Maybe an Egyptian. Saying cause cause them that have the charge over the city to draw near even every man with his destroying weapon in his hand. So who has charge of the city? Who has the charge of the nation? You got Jerusalem. Who has charge over the city of Jerusalem, Nancy? The king. The king. The king's in captivity. But that's good. So what Nancy is saying is, who has charge of the city, who has charge of The United States is your government. Right? They've been entrusted by God, Romans 13, and they don't bear the sword in vain. And they're appointed by God for the preservation of good. If they cease to be good and preserve good, then what happens in Venezuela? What happens in Venezuela? They should be taken care of. Right? And so that's part of the whole second amendment is that if they if they don't preserve good so so whose job is it to preserve good? Whose job is it to keep our food clean, our water clean? How could you allow globalists like Bill Gates to poison our food? I keep harping on that, but that's so incredibly important. And the vaccines, the turbo cancers, and all the folks that are dying now, and people trusted their governments. The young global leaders all got together. And in harmony, they shut the world down concerning COVID and began to jab everybody. Now we have, millions and millions of people that have died. And so whose responsibility? So when we vote for Donald Trump, it's a vote for, hey. We're entrusting to you to guard the city, to guard the country, to keep us from being, you know, wiped out. And so in this case, it goes beyond that. It goes toward the angels. We have guardian angels that watch over us and watch over nations. Do you understand that? And we also have fallen angels according to Ephesians chapter six that have also are watching over various cities and nations. Case in point, turn to Daniel chapter 10. Daniel 10. In the third year of Cyrus, king of Persia so where's Persia? Iran. Iran. I did too. And the thing was revealed under Daniel whose name was called Belteshazzar. And the thing was true, but the time appointed was long and he understood the thing and had the understanding of the vision. And in those days, I, Daniel, was mourning three full weeks. Pastor Jack Kibbs called the Christians to pray for a month. Right? Mourning over the nation. Praying over the nation. When was that? It's it's still taking place. It's still happening. So I ate no pleasant bread. So fasting, you know, no donuts. No donuts from Slice. No donuts from from Safeway. I ate no pleasant bread, neither came flesh nor wine in my mouth, neither did I anoint myself at all till three whole weeks were fulfilled. So this is a fasting and prayer. Right? And in the April of the first month, as I was by the side of the great river which is Hethakel, the Tigris, Then I lifted up mine eyes and I looked and behold a certain man clothed in in linen whose loins were girded with fine gold of Euphaz. His body was also like the burl and his face like the appearance of lightning and his eyes like lamps and a fire, and his arms and his feet in color like the polished bronze, and the voice of the words like the voice of a multitude. Could be Jesus in Revelation one twelve through 18, very similar description. And I, Daniel, alone saw the vision for the men that were with me saw not the vision, kinda like Saul of Tarsus on the road to Damascus. He saw the vision. He saw the Shekinah glory of God and he could hear what Jesus was saying, but the men that were with him just heard noise but didn't understand what was being said. But a great quaking fell upon them. How many earthquakes hit Texas today? A great quaking going on. Boy, I'd hate to live in Texas. You know? There's been a lot. Anybody else wanna move to Texas? Yes. Actually, I'm considering Oh, okay. They keep their culture. Matter what the government is. You know, they protect their family and property. Yeah. They're sure getting hit by the place to be in. By the weather wars. I know. So a quaking fell upon them so that they fled to the fled to hide themselves. Therefore, I was left alone and saw the great vision and there remain no strength in me for my commonness was turned in me into corruption and I retain no strength. So he's down on the ground. Yet heard I the voice of his words and when I heard the voice of his words, then I was in a deep sleep on my face and my face toward the ground. That's what happens to me when I try to pray and fast. I fall asleep and it's really frustrating. The spirit's willing, but the flesh is weak. And he beheld a hand touched me. He touched me, which set me upon my knees and upon the palms of my hands. So he's face down. Now he's on his knees and the palms of his hands. And he said unto me, Daniel, a man greatly beloved, understand the words that I speak unto thee and stand upright for unto thee am I now sent. And when he had spoken this word unto me, I stood trembling. Now, could be Gabriel, right? Could be Jesus, could be Gabriel, the angel Gabriel. Then said he unto me, fear not. Fear not Daniel, how often does God have to say fear not? 63 times in the Bible, fear not or be not afraid. Right? If you're told to fear not, that means you're afraid. Right? Daniel's afraid and God hasn't given us the spirit of fear, but a power of love and a sound mind. Fear is the opposite of faith. We gotta have faith, but we recognize all of us at times are overwhelmed with fear. You just don't wanna stay there, do you? So Daniel's told to fear not, which is encouraging. When the Lord Jesus appeared to the apostle Paul when he was in Corinth in Acts chapter 18, that's what he said to him, fear not. I have many people in this city, Paul, you know, and that I'm gonna give you. And eighteen months, Paul preached in Corinth and planted the church there, but Paul was still kind of reeling from when he was there in Lystra and he got stoned to death and he's looking at Corinth and he's thinking not again, you know, not again. But the Lord says, no, no man's gonna put a hand on you to touch you in this city. I have many people. So where sin abounds, grace does much more abound. Then said he unto me, fear not Daniel, for from the first day that thou did set thine heart to understand and to chasten thyself before thy God, thy words were heard and I am come forth, come for thy words. So you're praying and you're wanting to hear and you're waiting for an answer and you're praying, you're praying, you're praying, you're praying and you don't hear anything. And in the spiritual realm, people don't see Shadrach, Meshach, Abednego or Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar in the book of Job. They don't see behind the curtain of what's really happening when Satan's there and God's asking Satan, where have you been? Oh, I'm going to and fro on the earth and and I'm walking up and down on the earth and Peter tells us that Satan walks around like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour. Daniel can't see in the spiritual realm the battle between the holy angels and the ungodly angels. He doesn't see that. But from the very first moment he prayed, his prayers were being heard. And so the effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much. You continue to pray. Jesus said, ask, seek, knock. So intercessors know that you continue to do battle. Prayer is a battle. It's part of the battle. It's part of the spiritual armament that you have. If you look at Ephesians six and praying is a part of our our weaponry. We're told in first Thessalonians to pray without ceasing. And so prayer is a great battle. One of the sins that we're gonna be guilty of is when we go to heaven is the angels are gonna say, why didn't you pray more? How come you guys didn't pray more? And what do you mean? And so Jesus spoke concerning a widow that came in the middle of the night and kept banging banging banging on the judge's door and wouldn't stop. And he's gonna get up out of bed and he's gonna open the door simply because of, you know, her unwillingness to stop. So keep asking, keep seeking, keep knocking, and that's part of the battle. That's part of what happens. So his prayers were heard and your words were heard and I am come for thy words. But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me. So we fight not against flesh and blood, but against spirits and principalities. Right? And so the prince that's over Iran was resisting me. And you remember we were talking about Cyrus. So Cyrus is is the Medes and the Persians. Cyrus is the king that overtook Nebuchadnezzar. So Daniel's under the authority of the of the Persians at this point in time. And so the prince of Persia was resisting me, he's saying, the kingdom Persia, withstood me one and twenty days. So for twenty one days this battle is going on. But lo Michael, so now you got a name of another angel. Right? Michael, Gabriel, you've got Lucifer, and you've got Clarence. Right? So one of the chief priests came to help me and I remained there with the saints. So he's he's battling, he's battling, he's battling. Now in second Thessalonians chapter one verse seven, it says, and to you who are troubled, rest with us. You're in trouble? Rest with us. When the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire, taking vengeance on them that know not God and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. So when the Lord Jesus returns, he's gonna return him with 10 thousands and thousands of the saint with you and I the bride, but also with fiery angels, the angels that are coming coming with him. And and I've got a question for my guardian angel when I get there. Where were you when? You know? How how could how could that happen? You know? You can you answer me this? Where were you? And I'm sure I'm gonna be so afraid I won't say a word. He don't wanna hear his answer. Yeah. That's right. That's right. One of the chief priests came on to help me and I remained there with the kings of Persia. Now I am come to make thee understand what thou shalt befall the people in the latter days, yet for the vision is for many days. And when he had spoken such words unto me, I set my face toward the ground and I became dumb. And behold, one like the similitude of the sons of men touched my lips. Then I opened my mouth and spoke and said unto him who stood before me, oh my Lord, by the visions my sorrows have turned upon me and I've retained no strength. For how can the servant of this my Lord talk with this my Lord? For as for me straightway there remain no strength in me, is there breath left to me. So remember John the beloved in the book of Revelation twice he bowed down to worship the angel, and the angel told him, no, stand up, worship God. You only worship God. You don't worship anyone or anything, any part of creation. And what does Lucifer want? A fallen angel? He wants worship. He wants people to worship him. Then there came again and touched me one like the appearance of a man and strengthened me and said, oh man greatly beloved, fear not, peace be under thee, be strong, yea be strong. And when he had spoken, so fear not, be strong, be strong, keeps telling us to be strong, right? And what's Kathy's favorite verse? Name? Name one seven? Right. What's that verse? The Lord is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble, and he knows those who trust in him. So you run toward him. There's your stronghold. That's how you're strong is you abide in him. He's your strong tower that you run into. Whenever you're in trouble, you dial 911. Right? 911? Psalm 911? Psalm ninety one one. 911. He's our refuge and strength. And when he had spoken unto me, I was strengthened and said, Lord, speak for thou has strengthened me. Then said he knowest thou why I come unto thee and now will I return to fight with the prince of Persia. So they're gonna go back. These holy angels are going back and continue to fight with the prince of Persia, and notice there's another angel. And when I am gone forth, lo, the prince of Greece shall come. So you got one over Greece. You got angels over Persia, and when you're looking at Isaiah chapter 14, who is it in Isaiah 14 that's over Babylon? Another angel. Clarence. Clarence. Isaiah 14. Obey. I don't hear any bells ringing, it's not Clarence. Isaiah 14. Lucifer. Oh. Man. Lucifer. Right? I don't like Lucifer. You don't like Lucie? Lucky Lucie? Alright. And so I will show thee which is noted in the scripture of truth, there is none that holds with me in those things but Michael your prince. And so you got Michael the prince. Michael's gonna be, you know, know, use of the Lord to grab hold of these ungodly angels and and, you know, bind them, Michael the archangel to bind Satan for a thousand years and an angel grab hold of the dragon Lucifer and throw him into the lake of fire where the beast and the false prophet are, you know. And so angels are powerful beings. The mistake that we make is we think that Lucifer the devil, Satan is the opposite of God. He's not the opposite of God, he is what? And his power is what? His greatest power is what? Deception. Deception. Jesus said in John eight, he's a murderer and a deceiver, you know, from the beginning. And so our greatest strength is to know the truth and the truth keeps us free. Right? So he hates you because you know the truth and he wants to silence you. He wants you to believe lies. So Jesus said in Matthew twenty four four times, take heed that no man deceive you. Right? Don't be deceived. We're living in a time of great great deception and you cannot rely upon the mainstream media for your truth. Right? You have to vet everything. And and so Daniel's going straight to the Lord. He's praying. And now let's go back to chapter nine of Ezekiel. And and so behold, six men came from the way of the High Gate, lies toward the North, and every man which lies toward the North and every man with his slaughter weapon or his battle axe. My grandkids, they have lots of these. They have battle axes. They have Ezra has a samurai sword that's probably four feet long, the blade. And they got wood ones, they got metal ones, they got darts, they got you know, their dad's preparing them to be warriors, you know? And they they've drawn blood on me many times. And so Judah, when he was a little guy, he took a pirate pistol and he held on to the barrel and he hit me in the forehead with the with the butt of it. And he's just a little guy. He didn't know what he did, but it's right up here by my hairline. And blood started coming down my forehead, and he's just looking like, am I in trouble? Am I in trouble? And so now Kathy and I, when we see him running all over the yard with axes and knives and all that, we're just so afraid like when we saw the where the red fern grows that one of them is gonna fall and one of those axe is gonna so but that's what it's like being a grandparent. So these guys got their battle axes and some people have been known to call their mother in laws a battle axe, but but I I wouldn't say that. I wouldn't say that. So they got their battle axes and that's a pretty funny joke, but I'm surrounded by women. That's a pretty funny joke. And my mother-in-law is in heaven, so I'm okay. And in his hand, among them was clothed with linen. So there's six of them and these are angels. Remember the two that walked into Abraham's camp and the third one was the Lord himself, a Christophany. So some read this as there's a seventh one and that seventh one could be Jesus wearing the linen. Others say that no, there's six of them and one of the six of them is an angel who is the scribe and this scribe, this angel has a holster. So the other ones have the battle axe. How's your bible read? How many of them are there? And before their six men came from the way of the hired gate. And then what's it say after that? Which leadeth toward the North and every man a slaughter weapon in his hand and one man among them. Among them. So one among the six? Both with Lenin. One among the six? Yeah. In agreement? Okay. One man Kylan Dalich, who are Hebrew scholars, think that there's a seventh one with the way it's worded, but we'll go we'll go like this with six. So anyway, one of them is like a cowboy. He's got a holster on his side and in that holster he's got a reed pen with an ink with an ink well and he's able to do the the writing, if you will. And so I know a pastor. I know a pastor, one of the Calvary pastors actually had a holster made that goes on his belt and his bible goes into the holster. And I there's his sword. Right? Got his sword there, armed with his sword. The sword of the Lord which is the word of God. And a slaughter weapon in his hand and one man among them was clothed with linen. Linen is the garment for a priest, right? And when you want to go into prayer and fasting, you wear sackcloth. He wears things that prick you and and make you uncomfortable. Now the linen representing the priest, Zechariah chapter four verse six, it's not by might nor by power, but by my spirit saith the Lord of hosts, and we don't war in the spiritual realm in the arm of the flesh. So the picture there of linen is is it's a spiritual battle. The weapons of our warfare not carnal, but mighty of God to the pulling down the strongholds. So we're fighting not against flesh and blood, but against spirits and principalities of the air, and it's a spiritual battle. So the servant of the Lord must not strive in the flesh. We can't fight against spiritual beings who are fallen angels. Right? We cannot defeat them in the arm of the flesh. We need to war with the weapons of our warfare with the spiritual weapons. Right? And so Paul is chained to a Roman soldier and he's writing to the church of Ephesus and he's emphasizing in chapter six to be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might. Right? Be steadfast, you know. And and then he begins to describe the armor of the Roman soldier and he does a metaphor symbolic of, you know, a be shot with a let your head have a helmet of salvation. Right? So he's got the you're guarding your mind, the devil's trying to condemn you that you're going to hell, but you have your helmet of salvation on reminding yourself that because remember the devil's a liar that there's now therefore no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus who walked not after the flesh but after the spirit. And you're you're feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace. Right? So you can be ready to fight the enemy, you're gonna defeat the enemy by being ready to bring forth the gospel. Right? Your loins gird about with what? Belt of truth. Sword, what? Spirit. Sword of the spirit, which is the word of God. Breastplate of what? Righteousness. Righteousness. Now and what's the breastplate gonna be able to do? And the and your shield of what? Shield of faith to to quench all the fiery darts? Fiery darts of the wicked one? So the devil is a liar, and he's throwing fiery darts at you, and you're gonna catch those. Now why isn't there any armor on the backside of the soldier? Because you're supposed to keep one running. You're supposed to be Attack. Offensive. Yeah. So when Jesus said That's a big handful. When Jesus said, upon this rock, massive rock himself, I will build my church and the gates of hell will not prevail against it. Amen. What what's the picture there in light of what we just learned in Ephesians six? The picture is we move forward like Thomas says. We don't retreat. We move forward storming the gates of hell. Hell should be fearing you. The all of these governments and all these people that think they're Klaus Schwab's, they should fear you. They should fear the church. But in the time of Adolf Hitler, the church was so corrupted, He said the church is like a corrupted wall that I can use presently, but I can push over anytime I want. Right? He didn't fear the church because the corruption of the church at the time of of his reign. And so when the church is corrupt, when you cease to be salt and light, then you're good for nothing but to be trodden in the foot of men. And so in that case, what happens is we get leaders after our own hearts. The Lord gives us leaders that reflect who we are. And, you know, that's why I'm so tickled that we got Kamala now. That just really really blesses me. And Rick, know what? The churches that did stay open through COVID are Friday. The ones that closed down the ones that closed down, a lot of them are just here. Really? Yeah. Because, really, they are saving souls. You know? So do think we're thriving? In debt. Do you think Calvary Bremerton's thriving? I think it is thriving. We stayed open. Are we thriving? I think it's fabulous. And you gained a lot of people because of that. Like, year, we're thriving. We're thriving from a standpoint of of in our lives, we're thriving. We're growing. Not numerically, but we're growing spiritually because we we put the Lord first and he's and he's he's he's stimulating our faith and faith comes by hearing, hearing by the word of God and and so we're not a stagnant church. We're not a dead church. We're not grieving or quenching the Holy Spirit. Each week, we seek to be a spirit filled body of believers week by week. Right? Hey, you gave me. And we did. And boy, I just thank the Lord for that. Yeah. I bet you do. You sing so well. And I got my first batch of of beef jerky, and you got saved a year ago. Right? Yeah. We baptized you. Yeah. Praise the lord. I've been coming here for a year now. A year? Praise the lord. Isn't that crazy? It's so exciting to see new babies born. I'm a baby. It helps all of us old old Christians. At least we're not who you were. Right? Oh, lordy lordy. No. It's it's a truly a blessing to watch the lord, you know, save people. You are a blessing. You're a blessing. And so some people try to move away, but they they come back. Right, Cindy? Alright. So the really going to Italy? Yeah. Yeah. He lives in Italy. Wow. And so in Genesis, you remember there was an angel with a flaming sword that kept Adam and Eve from what? From what? Reentering the garden. Why couldn't they reenter the garden? So the tree of life. Yeah. Yeah. So kept them from the tree of life. Good, Rob. So, yeah, what if they would have eaten the tree of life in their sinful condition? Would you wanna live forever? Would you wanna piece together chips and shave your head and take somebody else's blood and put a computer up to you and try and cut your head off cryogenics and put it on somebody else's body. Would you wanna do that, try to live forever? How did you get that? Did you just make that all up? Where did you get that? You pictured it in your head as you That oh, that's what Klaus Schwab Noah Yuval Harari, if you listen to him lately that guy. He's got three ways that he he proposes that people are gonna live forever. Three different aspects of it. Computer And it has to do with transhumanism, merging technology with humans. Kinda like watch Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Terminator, that sort of thing. Don't think I don't wanna live in my eighties. You don't wanna live in your eighties? No. Well Well, that's what God has for you. Moses did his only have six more here. Moses did his best work in his eighties. Well, I'm not going to. You never know. I'm not hungry. Well, you know what? I I don't identify But I do have a question. Okay. Which is okay. So about his sword. Flaming sword. The flaming sword in the beginning of the Garden Of Eden. Now we have people all over the world now. So how has God hidden the Garden of Eden from the masses? I wrote a book about it, but I can't I can't release it yet. He always He always The garden of Eden, some speculate, is where Iraq is, and it's former Iraq. We don't know exactly where where the Garden of Eden is at. But one day in the millennium, the world is gonna blossom and grow like the Garden of Eden of old. God's gonna reverse the curse. So yeah. Yeah. So do you so do you think that God made it so that Eden, like, died? Covered. Covered up. So after the flood, all the sediment and residue and everything just moved about, and the the plates of the earth moved and the oceans and everything moved after the flood. So totally different topographical earth. Okay. The mountains pushed up, you know, from the plates hitting, pushing up, everything. So everything's different. Okay. Some say in Antarctica, there's, like, lush vegetation underneath the ice and syrup. So I don't know. But I'm still stuck on whether Adam and Eve had belly buttons. Yeah. I don't cheat anywhere. I I wrote I wrote a book about that too. So And you're gonna have to preorder it. They Yeah. $59.99, but if it's signed, it's a thousand dollars. Okay. You probably don't. That's funny. Does it have a map in the back? I'm I'm pretty sure it was 399. 399? 3 99. $3.99. $93.99. It's getting cheaper all the time. So behold, six men came from the way of the High Gate, north side, which lies toward the north and every man with his slaughter weapon in his hand, and one man among them was clothed with linen and a writer's inkhorn by his side, and they went in and stood besides the bronze altar. Brazen, bronze, Yep. And the glory of the of God of Israel was gone up from the cherub. Remember the angels we talked about in verse in chapter 10 here, the next chapter, we're gonna see these cherub angels, upon which he was to threat at the threshold of the house and he was called to the man clothed with linen who had the writer's inkhorn by his side. And the Lord said unto him, go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all of the abominations that are done in the midst of it. And so the glory of the Lord is still in the city, the glory of the Lord is in the process of departing, so the glory of the Lord is rising up in the next chapter we'll see further and so gone up from them And he's he's wanting to to mark each person that is sighing and crying for what's happening. So those who are mourning, those who have a heart for the lost, a heart for what's going on. Other people would just be indifferent, other people being in denial, but what he's saying is those who are moved by this destruction, those who are saddened by the destruction of the culture, destruction of the nation of Israel that recognize good and evil, and they know that evil is encroaching and coming upon everybody. So for the intercessors, for those who intercede through prayer, for those who are appealing and crying out to God for God to save, he's saying go through there now with your acorn and put a mark upon each of them. And Psalm a hundred nineteen one thirty six says, rivers of water crying, they that sow in tears shall reap in joy. Right? So if you can if you can watch the destruction around you and have a hatred toward those who are evil, Jim talks about an impregnatory prayer and it's a prayer of get even with my enemies, Lord. Get even, you know. Sometimes people pray that way. But we see Jesus interceding and praying how upon the cross. In Luke's gospel, how did Jesus pray? Forgive them they know how. Father, forgive them for they know not what they do. Right? Pardon me? Sometimes some of them did. I know what they're doing. That's true. Some of them did. Didn't know what they were doing. Yeah. Somebody did know they were Right. But in But in general. Okay. And we saw that Moses interceded on behalf of the Israelites when the Lord said, Moses, I'm sick and tired of these people. I'm gonna raise up in in Exodus chapter 32 verse 11. He goes, I can raise up a people from you. I just wanna wipe these people out. And Moses interceded on behalf of the nation of Israel, and that was a test for Moses to see if he had a pastor's heart, and and that's that's the description of a pastor's heart that is interceding, a shepherd's heart interceding on behalf of the sheep, and and that's how Moses was. The apostle Paul, he said that he'd be willing to have his name blotted out just like Moses said, if he could save the nation of Israel. If there was a way to save them, he'd be willing to lose his salvation, but yet we don't have to do that. Right? Moses didn't need to do that either. Why? Because it's God's son that gave up his life. Nowhere does the Lord ask us to give up our lives to redeem. We can't redeem our own brother. We can't redeem our own children. We can't it's only the blood of Jesus. It's only Jesus that can redeem people and save people. Now greater love is no man than this, a man laid down his life for his friends. We might give our lives to save somebody in the physical realm. Many of you soldiers and people that that jeopardized your life for the sake of people, you know, in your country, your family and such. And so they're all gonna get a mark upon their foreheads of men that sigh and cry for all the abominations that are done in the midst of it. So basically a seal is gonna be put upon the people and with that seal, these are the people that are gonna be spared. They're gonna be spared the fury of God that's coming out. So if we look at Revelation chapter seven, we see that the 144,000, Revelation chapter seven, a hundred and forty four thousand seven three and four, and Revelation chapter nine verse four, that a 144,000 are sealed, they have a mark upon them, and that mark upon them keeps them so that during the the plagues and during all the things that come against the earth dwellers, they are preserved, they're protected. So the saying hurt hurt not the earth, neither the sea nor the trees till we have sealed thy servants of our God on their foreheads. And I heard the number of them which were sealed and those that were sealed were a 144,000 of all the tribes of the children of Israel. So 12,000 from each tribe, no matter what the Antichrist, no matter what any of them try and do, these 144,000 are sealed in that they're protected from from them. And then in chapter nine, brutal thing happens, and the fifth angel sounded and I saw a star fall from heaven under the earth and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit. So again, an angel involved in God's judgment and he opened the bottomless pit and there arose out of the pit like the smoke of a great furnace and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit. And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth and under them was given power as the scorpions of the earth have power. And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree, but only those men who have not the seal of God in their foreheads. And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months and their torment was like the torment of a scorpion. So there are demons who are being held back. They're being held from the time of the flood. God's holding them back and God's waiting until the time of the tribulation period in Revelation nine there where he's gonna release these demons who are gonna come out like locusts and they're going to be stinging people like the stinging of a scorpion and the people are gonna want to die, but they won't be able to die. The only people that aren't gonna be stung are the people like the 144,000 who receive that seal, that mark if you will. And and so it speaks of ownership. Now you and I are marked, we're sealed by the Holy Spirit in the same way we're protected from the judgment that's coming. Turn to Ephesians chapter one. Ephesians chapter one. Now the first 14 verses of Ephesians in the Greek is one sentence. One sentence in the Greek. So Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God to the saints who are at Ephesus and to the faithful in Christ Jesus. In Christ Jesus is a key phrase in the book of Ephesians. If you're not in Christ, you're outside of Christ and you're not saved. So grace be to you and peace from God. So the Siamese twins, grace and peace, charis and shalom of our father and from the Lord Jesus Christ. Blessed be the God and father of our Lord Jesus Christ who has blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ. So you may not be a plutocrat now, but this word riches is a keyword that's used in the book of Ephesians speaking of of our riches as plutocrats. It's the Greek word plutos and where we get where we translate as plutocrats. And so we have part of the blessing broke down in three parts by the triunity of the Godhead. The first part is you've been purchased or excuse me, you've been predestined by the father. Secondly, you've been purchased by the son. And thirdly, you're preserved by the Holy Spirit. And that being preserved has to do with what we just saw. You have the seal of the Holy Spirit upon you. You have the mark of the Holy Spirit upon you. Have the earnest down payment of the Holy Spirit upon you. Can you repeat those three things? Yeah. You've been predestined by the father, purchased by the son, and preserved by the Holy Spirit. You are being preserved by the Holy Spirit. So according as he has chosen us in him, speaking of the God the Father, before the foundation of the world that we should be holy and without blame before him in love. So before he even made the world, in the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. Before that beginning in eternity past, God predestined you. Jesus is a lamb slain before the foundation of the earth. When God made Adam, he knew that Adam would transgress. When God made Eve, he knew that Eve would be beguiled by the serpent and sin. Right? It was no surprise to God. God had a plan of redemption in place. Jesus, a lamb slain before the foundation of the earth. You predestined. God knew you. He predestined you before he even made before the foundation of the world. Does he He he predestined you as a believer, those that are in Christ, absolutely, to be saved. He says all. He wants all to be saved. Only the the hell for the demons and the devil. He wants to know He's not willing that anyone perished, but all would come to repentance. But in his foreknowledge, he predestined you knowing that you are gonna be saved. He gave an opportunity for every single person on the planet to be saved. But in his foreknowledge, in his doctrine of predestination or election, he's saying you were elected. You were predestined and saved before the foundation of the earth. He said, yo, Cheryl. They don't believe in Calvin. It's your time. According the Bible teaches both. It teaches election and the free moral agency of man. So this is one of the beautiful passages that speak of our predestination. According as as he has chosen us in him before the foundation of the world that we should be holy. So he predestined you not that you would be sinful, not that you would be filthy, not that you'd be corrupt, but his objective is to make you holy. Holy means set apart and without blame. So no blame, no sin before him in love. Having predestined us unto the adoption of sons. So adoption of sons speaks of your inheritance. You've been adopted into the beloved by Jesus Christ to himself according to the good pleasure of his will, to the praise of the glory of his grace through which he has made us accepted in the beloved. In whom we have redemption, so now you're purchased by the son. Goel price, the price of his blood. In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins according to the riches of his grace. It's all grace. In which he has abounded towards us in wisdom and prudence having made known unto us the mystery of his will according to the good pleasure which he has purposed in himself. That in the dispensation, the which is the administration or the fullness of times, he might gather together into one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven and which are on earth, even in him. In whom also we have obtained an inheritance being predestinated according to the purpose of him who works all things after the counsel of his own will. And so God's predestined us to be a part of adopted into the family, to be a part of as joint heirs with Jesus Christ, that we should be to the praise of the glory of his glory who first trusted in Christ. So now we come to the being preserved by the Holy Spirit. So you'd be predestined by the father, purchased by the son, and now preserved by the Holy Spirit. In whom you also trusted after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation. So this is what Cindy is talking about. So you you actuated what God already knew. You receive salvation when you responded, when you trusted. In whom you also trusted after you heard the word of truth. So for me, I was not planning on being a Christian. I did not know that I was selected. I did not know I was elected. I didn't know I was predestined. I didn't know that Jesus even died for my sins. I knew nothing. I was like sergeant Schultz and and whatever that thing is. I know nothing. I didn't know nothing. Right? Hogan's here. Was there. So I know nothing. I didn't know anything. You guys are as sick as I am. Alright. In you, you have trusted after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation. Gospel is good news of your salvation, soteri, which speaks of deliverance and healing, delivered from the past penalty of sin, the present power of sin, and the future very presence of sin, in whom also after you believed, you were sealed. So simultaneously when you believe, God put a mark upon you. God marked you. He sealed you. He put his stamp of ownership upon you to preserve you under his heavenly kingdom. The devil can't come in there and snatch you away. No man's gonna be able to snatch you out of the Lord's hand. Right? You've been sealed with the holy spirit of promise who who is the earnest. So the holy spirit is the earnest in God's plan of redemption for for you and that you were purchased by the son. Jesus hasn't taken possession of you yet, but he's coming for you. So you go and look at a car that you're gonna buy and you give a down payment. That's the earnest down payment showing your intention of coming back and paying the rest and that you're gonna you're gonna take possession of that. So he paid for you when he said it is finished, to Talasdai paid in full. It paid in full. Everything's paid for, but he hasn't come for that purchased possession. And when he does come, he knows those that are his. Right? And all the graves are gonna be opened. Right? And the graves of those who are in Christ. So the dead in Christ shall rise first. Those who died during the church age, not the Old Testament saints, those in Christ is a picture of those during the church age. And so different phases of the resurrection. So the dead in Christ rise first, then we at your live remain shall be caught up together with him in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air so shall ever be with the Lord. So who's the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession? So Jesus is coming again to take possession of that which he purchased under the praise of his glory. So you are sealed. So you and I, there's no fearful looking to have judgment. There's no fearful looking to have been in the tribulation period and and having the fury, the wrath of God come upon you as a as the bride of Christ because you've been sealed and you've been sealed by the Holy Spirit. So now we're back in chapter nine here. And to the others he said, in thine hearing, go after him through the city and smite, let not your eyes spare neither have pity. So they have in their hand tools of smiting and they're gonna go through their six gates, but nobody's nobody's gonna be able to escape when Nebbe comes. It's a picture of Nebbe and his army coming with their battle axes and all their implements of warfare. They're going to wipe the people out. They're gonna be wiped out through famine, through pestilence, and from the sword. Right? And so there's a picture here of the sword. So don't have pity on the children. Don't have pity on the elderly. Don't have pity on any of them. Slay utterly old and young, both maids and little children and women, but come not near any man upon whom is the mark. The devil can't touch one hair of your head. Right? Now Jesus said, don't fear him that can kill your body. So we know they can kill our body. Right? If God wants me to be killed by the government or communists or whatever, but the devil needs permission. Right? Needs permission. You're invincible, untouchable until the Lord releases you. Now he can release you. Paul knew the time of his departure was at hand, that Nero was gonna be able to send the executioner and cut off Paul's head. John the Baptist didn't have a clue. Are you the one or do we look for another? You know, was a big surprise to him. But he lost his head for a party favor. Right? But he was the greatest of all the Old Testament prophets and you're even greater than than John the Baptist. And so, what it's speaking of here is that Jesus is going to get you and I in our new glorified bodies into heaven. No nothing's gonna be able to stop your redemption, his possession of you. But it may be that he transfers you to be asked from the body, be present with the Lord, that he transfers you through physical death. Death is separation. Physical death is your mind, will, emotions, your the center of your your soul, your awareness being separated from your physical body. And so but spiritually speaking, you're never going to die spiritually. To be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord. So don't fear him that can kill your body, but fear him who can not only kill your body but cast your soul into hell. You're never gonna have to fear going to hell because you've been sealed with the holy spirit. So come not near any man upon whom the mark begin at my sanctuary. So begin at the sanctuary. Why the sanctuary? Because as Peter said, judgment begins where in first Peter four verse seven? House the House of the lord. The problem with America is not the politicians. The problem with America is the pulpits. Well, people voted in too. It's the problem with this effect. It's not the politicians. It's the pulpits. Oh, sure. More so. Yeah. Judgment begins at the house of God. If the church was awake, if the church would teach the word of God, if the pastors in the pulpits would teach the word of God, then the people would have more salt. And what salt used for? Preservation. Preservation. Stave off corruption. But we're so incredibly corrupt, Church can't stop it, can we? And light. Sure. Can. Salt and light. No. We can't. Well, we can do it. We can't stop it. You can't stop it. We can do a lot, though. Just You can't stop anything. It's not all. It's corrupting. It's over. It's over. It's always hope. God is always if there's life is Mhmm. The reason we're in the condition we are, the reason these guys are in the condition they are is God sent prophets. He sent Isaiah. Isaiah got sown into. Sent Jeremiah. He spent forty years appealing to the people. They're what's called ripened under judgment. Now even at the eleventh hour, like Cindy is trying to say, Jonah came to the city of Nineveh and said, you got forty days and you're gonna perish. You could be in your last forty days. There's still hope in the sense if the entire nation would put on sackcloth and ashes and repent, God might repent of the evil that he's gonna bring upon them. Right? But they would not repent. So what he's saying is the shelf life is over. The next phase is judgment. Judgment's coming. And in our case in our case, the reason we've become so corrupt, the reason are have you seen the encroaching darkness that's enveloping? It's because we're not salt, that's why we're corrupt, and because we're not light, that's why the darkness is encroaching. All you need to do is flip the switch, the light goes on, the darkness flees, but there isn't enough light in the church to dispel the darkness. There's too many lies in the church. There's too much darkness in the church. There's not enough truth. And the problem is the word of God is not being taught. There's a famine in the land for the word of God, and it's gone on for a couple decades, if not longer, where we went from being a Bible teaching churches to therapy, feel good messages, therapeutic messages, and it's about me and it's about me feeling good. And so you little sermonettes for Christianettes, easy believism, and the people are not prepared to be salt light, to resist evil, to stand for righteousness. And and so it's come near any man upon whom the mark begin at the sanctuary, then they began with the ancient men who were before the house. So do you know who they began with, the ancient men? Chapter eight verse 16, do you know who those guys were? Those were the guys that were on AARP. Those were the the seniors. They were the ones with who were old. Yeah. Are you calling any old? And they were the priests. He starts with the priest, the old priests who they start with. The ones that had the responsibility of passing on the word of God that the people be you know, the the greatest protection, the greatest safety you have within society is that we would be worshipers of Jesus. Then your home, your family, your marriage, your schools, it affects everything, you know. But if you take prayer and the Bible out of school and you take the word of God out of the church, I mean, we get angry that prayer and the Bible were taken out of school in 6163, but the word of God's been taken out of the church. These little fifteen minute little sermonettes where they jump off a verse and then talk about their golf game, little stories, feel good messages. It's all about you. It's not about Jesus. When you take the word repentance out, sin out, when you try to bring in the wokeism and you can't identify between good and evil, when you can't define what marriage is anymore, when you can't define what a man is, what a woman is, what a child, you know, role of children, role of a man, role of a woman, it's over. It's confusion. Lack Lack of being grateful. Yeah. I agree. That's why I divorced my husband. You did? Yeah. He just couldn't say anything. In gratitude? Twenty one years, and he couldn't say thank you? Kathy, thank you, honey. He even had cancer. Well, you have to look at him as an unbeliever. How do unbelievers act? What do you expect out of an unbeliever? Self. You got saved through it. Are you grateful? Yes. Okay. You can need to happy day. You need to continue to pray for him. Right? I I do. He's going to hell. I don't I don't know. Does your heart break? Do have sorrow? Are you one of those that's praying? Do you want the mark on you? I forgive him. I'm sad for him. Yeah. That's good. Because it's your freedom. Can two walk together except they be agreed? Amos three verse two. God can't walk with these people because they don't agree with him. They're fighting with him. They're fighting with Jeremiah, fighting with the truth. So I've seen people who are divorced and be remarried after after they come to Christ. So I don't know. I don't understand how a marriage can work without Jesus being at the center. But if someone has an affair leaves you, you remarry later. Pardon me? It's not the person that left the marriage that remarries usually. It's the one that had the affair that doesn't have to marry again, really. So it sounds like you're saying someone who was married as a Christian and someone left them and remarried. They're wrong. You're saying they're What what I'm saying is what I'm saying is divorcing somebody because they didn't say they're thankful, I don't see that in our marital vows. Right. I don't I hear it's for better, for worse, for richer, poorer, except it be for adultery, you become an adulterer. Right? But our our what we impose upon people in marriage, what do you expect out of an unbeliever? Unbelievers were selfish. The the death of of marriage is selfishness. He's selfish. And so she hung in there twenty one years, couldn't handle it anymore. We understand that. He filed. But for for we as Christians for we as Christians I'm trying to address Christians. For we as Christians, it's till death do we part. And even if even if somebody in the marriage commits adultery, it's unrepentant adultery. We still have the capacity to forgive. God has given us an out in the law because murder is worse than divorce. He said because the hardness of your heart, Moses gave you a writing of divorcement. So what that means is you feel violated, you don't have the capacity to forgive that spouse of yours that cheated on you. As a Christian, you you just can't do it. I I can't do it. And so the Lord says, alright. You're not forced to stay in that marriage. I don't wanna force you because if I forced you to stay in the marriage, you'd kill him. You'd you'd poison his food. Right? You'd poison his food. So it gives you your side. Yeah. So marriage isn't a prison sentence. So it You can't move the dishwasher however you want. That's enough. That's enough for the divorce. I I I could never You know what? You never have to worry about the toilet seat being left up now. You never did. The way you look at it. Alright. So the apostate priests. Apostate apostate husbands. And he said unto them, defile the house and fill the court. So he's saying, get rid of the priests, start at the sanctuary, and now defile it. Take the dead bodies and put them inside the sanctuary that it would be defiled. So Jesus said, when you see the abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel the prophet. Right? There's gonna be come a point in time in the third temple period. The third temple is what temple? The antichrist temple in the tribulation period, the one they're wanting to rebuild right now. Right? The one Trump's gonna help rebuild. Right? That temple at the midpoint, twelve hundred and sixty days after the signing of the peace treaty, the antichrist is gonna go into that temple, declare himself to be God, and demand to be worshiped as God. Jesus said, as Daniel described as the abomination of desolation, desecrating the temple. And he's gonna declare himself to be God, demand to be worshiped as God, and the world is gonna give themselves over to a luciferian religious system, gonna show their allegiance to the antichrist by having a mark on the right hand of their forehead. Right? That's what's gonna happen. The same Satan's a counterfeit. God sealed you and marked you. Satan wants to mark his. He wants to seal and mark his identifiers. So will the antichrist have holes in his hands? Pardon me? Will the antichrist have scars in his hands? Doubt it. Right. Because that's why he's he will know of Christ because of the holes in the you know? Holes in his hands? Right. Right. Doesn't it say the There's a false prophet that these are the wounds I received in the house of my friend. Doesn't the antichrist have a head injury to come back or die and come back to life? A fake a fake death and resurrection. I have a head injury. What's that? I have a head injury. Yeah. There's a head injury. Alright. What nationality will he be? Will he be doing We don't know all that yet, Thomas. I'm writing a book about it. I'll let you know. It'll be free 99. Is he right? It's coming out soon. Alright. Here we go. Yes. And he said unto them, defile the house and fill the courts with the slain. Go forth. And they went forth and slew in the city. So they're they're wiping the people out. They're putting the dead bodies into the sanctuary. And when king Saul was supposed to kill all the Amalekites and he didn't, he saved part of the spoil and he brought it back. And Samuel says, what's the believing that I hear of the sheep that I hear in my ears and all? And Saul was like Aaron, the brother of Moses. Moses, as Kathy and I were talking about, he only went up in the mount for forty days and within forty days, the people are ready to fashion a golden calf and worship a calf that they learned to worship back when they were in Egypt that quickly, you know. And and so too with king Saul, he wasn't a a man after God's own heart, and so he spared the best of the sheep and king Agag. And he came back and he tried to make excuses that it was the people, the people, and that's what that's what Aaron was saying. It's the people. It's the people. I just they just put the gold down there and this this this calf popped out. I don't know how that happened. You know? It's artificial intelligence. And and so Samuel said obedience is better than sacrifice, and Samuel went over to the prophet and he cut Agag, cut him up, little pieces just hacked him with his battle axe, just obedience is better than sacrifice. So verse eight, and it came to pass while they were slaying them and I was left that I fell upon my face and I cried. So there isn't the gloating. There's the father forgive them for they know not what they do as Jesus upon the cross. There's the heart of Abraham where the two angels are gonna go down in Sodom and Gomorrah and gonna destroy the city. And what where was Abraham's heart in regard to the judgment against Sodom and Gomorrah? What did Abraham begin to do? Intercede. Intercede. Now remember back here over in verse four, put a mark upon them, the men that sigh and cry, sigh and cry, and that's what Abraham did. Abraham became an intercessor, and so he negotiated with God. If there are 50 righteous, if there's 40 righteous, you're a God that's holy. You're a God that's righteous and just. Is it righteous and just to to kill the righteous with the wicked? Now there's a very good argument in there for the rapture, the preacher of rapture. Very good argument. What's the argument there? We're not gonna be punished. God's not gonna destroy the righteous with the wicked. Right? And so we're not subject under the wrath of God. Right? Right. And so first Thessalonians five verse nine, and we're not subject under the under the wrath of God. And so Abraham came all the way down to 10. If there's 10 righteous and God says, if there's 10 righteous in that city, I won't judge that city. Right? And and so Ezekiel, same sort of thing here, he fell upon his face, and that proves that Ezekiel has a pastor's heart and a heart for the people. Jesus looked upon the people. He looked upon the people and he saw them as sheep having no shepherd. The religious leaders from the time that Christ was ministering in the Galilee area didn't care for the people. They they saw them as merchandise. They were just praying upon them and using them. And but we see here with Ezekiel, he cried and he said, our Lord God, wilt thou destroy the residue of Israel in thy in thy pouring out of thy fury upon Jerusalem? And and the answer is God's gonna spare those that are marked. He's gonna spare the remnant. He's gonna spare his people. So when we're thinking in terms of the nation of Israel in the tribulation period, two thirds according to Zechariah thirteen eight nine are gonna die during the tribulation period. The true Israel of God are not those regathered in unbelief. The true Israel of God in Isaac shall they seed be called. The true Israel of God are the Jews that believe in Jesus Christ. So in Jeremiah 31, there's a new covenant that God's offering to the nation of Israel during the tribulation period and that's a unconditional covenant of salvation. And so he's gonna purify a one third remnant. They're gonna go through the tribulation period like a picture of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego going through the fiery furnace and being unscathed. That's the one third remnant. That's a Jewish picture of the Jewish remnant going through the tribulation period. Daniel isn't there. Daniel's a picture of the church that's already, you know, been raptured. And so let's look at some verses now that speak of this this wonderful blessing of being sealed, of being preserved. Who wants Malachi three sixteen? Me. Okay. You got it, girl. And I just wanna thank you. I just wanna thank you. Second Timothy two nineteen. I'll take it. K. Psalm ninety one seven and eight. I'll take that. Okay. Ephesians four verse 30. Okay. Second Corinthians one twenty two. I'll take it. Okay. Jeremiah fifteen eleven. Jeremiah fifteen eleven. K. Thomas, do you want it? No? I don't have my bible with me. You got it memorized though. What what? 1511. It's okay, Thomas. We got it covered, buddy. What what? The reference? I got it. What's the reference? We forgot. The Lord said verily. You got it from there? Verily, verily, I say unto thee. I got it. Okay. You know it, Thomas. Okay. Exodus 12 verse seven. Who wants that one? Okay. I hear them out there, Steven. Praise the lord. Alright. We're looking at Malachi three sixteen. Let's see. Then they feared the Lord spake often one to another, and the Lord hearkened and heard it. And the book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord and that thought upon his name. The Lord knows those who are his. Right? Amen. He also has a bottle that he collects your tears. Right? He collects your tears in a bottle and he has a book of remembrance. When we talk about Jesus, the Lord has a book of remembrance in Malachi three verse two where he writes it down. And the angels are here listening listening in on the holy angels of what we're talking about as we're talking about the Lord. The angels are also looking in on and learning concerning God's plan of redemption of human beings because when the angels left their first and say, when the angels sinned, there was no plan of redemption and they did not see, the angels didn't see the church. The church was a mystery once hid, now revealed. So the church is revealing part of the character of who God is, the manifold wisdom of God, multifaceted like a diamond, many different sides of his love and his character as he's revealing himself. Okay. So second Timothy two nineteen? Second Timothy two nineteen. Nevertheless, the solid foundation of God stands having this seal. The Lord knows those who are his, and let everyone who names the name of Christ depart from iniquity. Amen. So is rejected. You might have been divorced and thrown aside as a piece of trash, but the Lord will never divorce you. He'll never leave you nor forsake you. And he's going to complete that work that he's begun, you know, in our lives. But we don't wanna put that to the test. Right. You don't you wanna abide. You wanna stay close. You wanna stay close. You wanna stay close. Psalm ninety one seven and eight. I like how you're thinking. Psalm ninety one seven and eight. This is Lindsay. She's new here. Been here about a couple months. Her life is changing, transformed, changed. Psalm ours is too. Psalm ninety one seven and eight. Oh, thank you. A thousand shall fall at thy side and 10,000 at thy right hand, but it shall not come nigh the come nigh to thee. Only with thine eyes shalt thy behold and see the reward of the wicked. And so there's the invincibility as a child of God. We're gonna die right on time. All of us are gonna die right on time. There's a it's pointed to all men once to die and then the judgment. We're not gonna die two minutes before it right on time. So there's an invincibility in this battle until that point in time the Lord says, you're coming home. Alright. And then we got Ephesians four verse 30. And grieve not the holy spirit of god, whereby ye are sealed under the day of redemption. So you're sealed by the holy spirit. So don't grieve and don't quench the holy spirit. You're sealed under that day of redemption. Philippians one six, being confident of this very thing that he that has begun a good work in you, that he will perform it. There you go. Thomas got the bible memorized. I'm telling you. Jeremiah fifteen eleven. That's me. K. The lord said, verily, it shall be well with thy remnant. Verily, I will cause the enemy to entreat thee in the time of evil and in the time of affliction. God always has a believing remnant. What did the Lord say to Elijah when he thought he was the only one left? Got 7,000. What are talking about? Got 7,000. Have them bowed their knee to the prophet Baal. Right? There's times as a Christian, don't sometimes you feel like you're alone, like you're the only one left? And then the purpose of coming to fellowship is we realize, hey, we're not the only one left. We got there's lots of believers. The devil would love to isolate you. The devil used Jezebel to threaten Elijah, and Elijah just ministered really heavy like I do on Sundays, killed 450 prophets of Baal. And then Monday, Jezebel's after you. You know, she's threatening that she's gonna come kill you, you know. And so he's running away from Jezebel, physiologically he's tired. He's tired emotionally and everything. And and the Lord begins to minister to him, but letting him sleep, and then bringing a raven to feed him some some meat and some some water and everything, builds him up, and and then encourages them, lets them know that I've got 7,000 haven't bowed their knee to the prophet Baal. So the huge encouragement. So one of the things that's been encouraging me is that the Lord surrounded me at Calvary Bremerton with a group of like minded people who see through the deception in the times in which we're living. I'd much rather be around a group of people that are awake and in tune and understand what's going on, the times that we're living in, than to be the pastor of a church of people that don't have a clue. So so I'm very thankful for that. And then from a standpoint of fellowship with pastors, it's you just gotta kinda keep your mouth shut, you just gotta kinda let them do what they wanna do, and one guy on Facebook mocked me and then blocked me, you know, got rid of me, which is fine. I was listening to JD Frog last night on his Sunday one, and one of the dividing issues that we're facing today in America and in the church is if you don't believe in Donald Trump, you're gonna make a whole lot of people within the church very, very angry. And we had people here on Monday nights just go crazy and and dignity, you know, and the whole thing about them. But one thing that happened last night is JD Frog, after he read an article by a rabbi in Jerusalem who are looking at Donald Trump as the new Gentile Messiah, and that he's going to bring the United Nations to Jerusalem and change everything and make not just America great, but the whole world great. What JD said, and I love to hear it, is he said Donald Trump is a deceiver. K? Came right out and said it. So that's only the second guy that I've heard say that. Last week when I listened to the video, the Trump card, the guy there did it. And and then tonight, Jim told me there's a couple other guys that are now saying it. So some people are not buying into the idea that he's the Messiah, that he's the one that's gonna save Americans, save the world, and the whole thing. Now if you wanna be successful, you you've got to be pragmatic, and you've gotta pay the play the percentages. You've got to recognize your audience and recognize where the people are. So really as a pastor, if you really wanna be connect with people in the church, you need to watch the mainstream media. Every night of the week, you need to get your ideas from the mainstream media because all the people in your church are watching the mainstream media. So so some of them have learned not to watch CNN, watch Fox. Now as a pastor, you need to watch Fox and Newsmax and those ones. And then if you mimic everything you hear on those newscasts, you will connect with the people in your church. So if you're a wackadoodle like me, you cause people to hit the doors, but those that are left through that sifting, they're a group of people that it's very comforting to understand that they're a believing remnant. That they're remnant of believers that are focused not upon Donald Trump or left or right, Republican, Democrat, but they're focused on Jesus and the blessed hope has soon returned. And that's where that's where we wanna keep pointing people in this time in which we're living that Jesus is coming back, that his coming is at the very door. And so were just women. I don't know. We're just I am women. Oh. Well, I can identify as a woman. That's fine. Exodus 12 verse seven. You cannot. Oh, okay. Because then you can Exodus 12 verse seven, the Passover. The angel what did the angel do? Or what did the angel tell him? The lord told house wherein they shall eat it. Praise the lord. So they're gonna take blood and they're gonna seal their house in the shape of a cross on their doorway. And that seal, that symbol of the cross upon their doorway, when the angel of death comes over, he would pass over their house. Right? Now here's another interesting little tidbit. The last letter of the Hebrew alphabet in this passage here for the word mark, there's not a word for the word mark, it's just one letter, tov. And the word tov is in is shaped like the cross. So the mark that's being put upon these people is in the shape of a cross. Do you understand that? That's a little tidbit. Now differentiate the mark that the Lord put upon Abel. Cain slew Abel. Right? Or excuse me, Cain. Cain left with a mark on his head. It's a different Hebrew word. It wasn't the same kind of mark that was put on him. And so these with the t? It's tov. It's just the last Hebrew letter, and it's it's the tov letter. And in the time of this writing, it was in the shape of a cross. So people get the mark on Palm Sunday? Why do they get the mark on Palm Sunday? Yeah. The little cross on the To sacrifice something? Just. Oh, like ashes? Yeah. Yeah. Oh, Ash Sunday? I don't know. Well, they gave up something. They're saying they gave up something. Yeah. Like, not, like TV. Fasting or whatever. Yeah. It's a Wednesday. That's a That's a That's That's wonderful. Night. One night. It's not in the bible. Dishes every Friday. You cannot Not in the bible. Excellent. All those man made rules. So he says saying then I was left that I that I fell upon my face and I cried and said, our lord god, wilt thou destroy all the residue of Israel in the pouring out of thy fury upon Jerusalem. So there's seven angels in Revelation sixteen one through seven that open up the vials and God's wrath being poured out upon Six or seven? Revelation 16, there's seven angels. Seven. And I heard great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, go your way and pour out the bowls of the wrath of God upon the earth. And the first went and poured out his bow upon the earth and there fell a foul and painful sore upon the men who had not, who had the mark of the beast and upon them who worshiped his image, a grievous sore. And the second angel poured out his bowl upon the sea and it became like blood of a dead man and every living soul died in the sea. And the third angel poured out his bowl upon the rivers and the fountains of the waters and they became blood. And I heard the angel of the water say, thou art righteous, oh Lord, who art and was and shall be because thou has judged us judged us who is who was who is to come. For they have shed the blood of the saints, so these people have been shedding the blood of the saints and now the Lord's turning everything like he did with the plague in Egypt, turning the Nile into blood. And the prophets, they killed the saints and the prophets and thou has given them blood to drink for they are worthy. So the reaping of what they sow, you guys have been bloody, you filled the earth with blood, I'm gonna turn the water to blood, that's what you're gonna drink. And I heard another out of the altar say, even so Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments. So God is true, he's righteous, his judgments are right. And verse nine, then said he unto me, the iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is accordingly great. The land is full of blood and the city full of perverseness. For they say, the Lord has forsaken the earth and the Lord see it not. So the philosophy that these people are living by is that of like an atheist. The Lord doesn't see. The Lord's forsaken us. We can do whatever we want. And so that's the whole point of psychology. That's why the churches are filled with psychology is because we're dealing with guilt from our sin. And the Bible's given us a way to alleviate guilt, and how do we as Christians alleviate guilt? Repent. We confess our sin. We confess and repent. We turn from our sin, but we confess our sin. So if we confess our sin, he's faithful and just to forgive us of our sin and to cleanse us of all unrighteous. Now another way that we deal with guilt or wrongs is forgiveness. If we're wronged by somebody, we're instructed to forgive them. And when we forgive them, we free them up and we free ourselves up because if we don't forgive them, according to Matthew 18, then we're given over to the tormentors. Right? And so the Lord gives us the capacity to forgive, the Lord gives us the ability to confess. But what people in the world do is they try to say there is no God. And if there is no God, then I'm not accountable to anybody. I can do whatever I want. Right? And so what do you do with the guilt? Well, you reach a place where you continually sin, and then your conscience is severed with a hot iron. Even if you're not a believer, God's given you a conscience. You know that murder's wrong. You know that lying's wrong. You know that stealing's wrong, but you try to justify or rationalize your actions by saying, well, you know, there's no God, there's no hell, there's no day of judgment. Well, what happens when you die? Oh, we just cease to exist. Those are philosophies of the world, philosophies of the devil to try and convince people that, you know, there's no accountability, there's no day of judgment coming. Then said he unto me, the iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is so great and the land is full of blood and the city full of perverseness. For they say they say, who's they? Who's they? The YouTube prophets say, they say, the Lord has forsaken the earth. He hasn't forsaken the earth. And the Lord see it not. He sees this whole surveillance system that the devil's developing is because the devil's only an angel. The devil can only be in one place at one time. The devil can only see in the immediate vicinity. Right? But everything is naked and open before the Hebrews four thirteen. Right? Everything is naked and open for the eyes with whom we have to do. The Lord sees everything. The Lord is omniscient. He knows everything. The Lord is omnipresent. He's everywhere. Right? The Lord is omnipotent. He's all powerful. Those are attributes, characteristics of the true living God and the devil does not have that ability. So the devil in his beast system is using the technocrats to develop a surveillance system of cameras and microphones and means of And AI. And AI of tracking and tracing and trying to mimic a counterfeit system that mimics who God is. And and so and as for me also, mine eye shall not spare neither will I have pity, but I'll recompense their way upon their heads. And so this is gonna happen for God's glory. God saves people for his glory, and God judges people for his glory. He's glorified when he judges. The people are so finally thankful when he judges a tyrant, when he judges the wicked, when he judges the evil. Heaven's not heaven if we still have to deal with Satan. The millennium is not the millennium of the kingdom age and the glorious where Jesus rule and reigning with the rod of righteousness if we still have to deal with all the criminals. Right? You and I are in our new glorified bodies, we're perfected in him, and we're no longer sinning. And we're we're throw off this old nature, this old carcass that just loves to sin. The battle is over. We've won. And behold, the man clothed with linen who had the inkhorn by his side reported the matter saying, I have done as thou hast commanded me. So the Lord is also glorified in obedience when we obey him. In the obedience, Jesus said, I do always those things that please the father. Right? Came not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me. What's God's will for your life? How can you glorify the Lord? How are you glorifying the Lord? In everything, give thanks. In everything, give thanks. For this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. There's the will of God right there. Give thanks. Amen. And if they don't say thank you, you can say, I forgive you. And they'll get tired of that, and they'll learn how to say thank you. They'll just trust and thank the Lord. So who's gonna be the first to change in a marriage? God made you so that you would feel loved supremely. Husbands, love your wives like Christ loved the church. God made him that he would feel respected. Who's gonna be the first? Battle going on. Battle. Battle. Battle. Alright. So don't know. I'm not Guys, wanna sing a song? Yeah. I do. Do you have a Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. What's the question? Okay. Does the person in power that gets this peace through, you know, in our country or the world, whatever, is that the one that's gonna be the antichrist? Yes. That's the antichrist. He's the one, Daniel nine '27, that signs a peace treaty. So the tribulation period does not start with the rapture. The rapture could come at any moment. Right. Right? And I'm writing a book on that when it's gonna happen. But but the Six years. But the tribulation period, we know when that starts. That starts with the signing of the peace treaty. Oh, okay. So order. Yeah. You guys ready? So we're gonna sing the our father prayer. Do you guys know that prayer? Our father art in heaven? Do you guys know that? Our father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but A lot of firsts in this place right here. Maybe I should have. Yeah. Just want to Yeah. Probably. That was pretty bad. Do the happy one. I cannot do Some people have their strengths and other people's don't. So what did the prophet Clint Eastwood say? Oh, yeah. Man's gotta know his limitations. That's right. And you have to limitations. But the bible says, make a joyful noise. Yep. That was joyful. That was joyful. Noise. I don't know. That was a joyful noise. You were all laughing. The whole time. Not at me either. No. It was entertaining. Make a joyful noise. I saw Nancy over there laughing, but then I heard people over there singing even harder, singing even more. We're trying. Right? Nancy remembers pastor Chuck finishing the service singing that. Right? Right? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Alright. Anybody need prayer? I hear Stan needs hands laid on him and prayer for Stan is what I hear. Do you guys wanna pray for Stan? Yeah. Traveling Mercies? Yeah. How are you gonna do? Oh. Gonna leave, but you have my jar. So you stand right here. Just stand right here. And turn there you go. Now the holiest ones are gonna lay hands on her. Keep turning. Keep your keep your up. I'm gonna have you here. Who wants to open in prayer? You do. Touch his feet. You do? No. You do. You do. Well, I I dominate, so so we'll open. I know. Thomas, you wanna open in prayer? Yeah. Thomas. Thomas. The Lord hears Thomas' prayers. Hallelujah. We just rejoice, Lord. Rejoice in the Lord always. I ask you, Lord, that just just ask you, Lord, that you might heal, stand spiritually, naturally, psychological in every way, Lord. Ask you, Lord, that he may just wake up and singing your your your praise and your glory. Ask you, Lord, that you might be with his family. Ask you, Lord Jesus Christ, that you might be with everybody that he comes in contact, and that they might take knowledge that he has been with Jesus. I just ask you, Lord, I rebuke the power of the devil that would hinder him from being blessed in Jesus' name. Just thank you, Father, for all these things and bless everyone here that have not mentioned requests. Maybe they they they have a headache or whatever, Lord. But ask you, Lord, that you might heal the whatever. In Jesus' name, amen. Amen. Lord, we lift up Stan and Benjie. We think of that Benjie's pastor of Kidney Stone. Yes. And lord, she's holding down the Fort at home there. Thank you for the new renters. Yes, god. And Stan and Benjie's home here. We pray that they take real good care of it. Thank you for the time that we got to visit with Stan and so sweet and lord, we just pray you give him travel and mercies and use them as missionaries there in Italy. Give them divine appointments of people they can share the glorious good news, Lord, of your coming kingdom, Lord. We know it's no accident that they're there. And preserve their children, their grandchildren, their family members, Lord. Watch over and protect each one. And just thank you for staying, Lord and Banshee, in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Lord, thank you for the brothers and sisters.

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Calvary Chapel Bremerton - Home Bible Study

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

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