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Live from Bremerton. It's Monday night. We are gonna study Ezekiel chapter 10 tonight. Worship the Lord now. Welcome those of you that are tuning in on Facebook. We just thank the Lord for you, and we're gonna pray and commit this time unto the Lord. Father, thank you for a wonderful afternoon, early evening that we're able to meet here at Rob and Vicky's home, and to have this bible study, to worship you in song, to have a meal together. Thank you for all the the great food that we're able to share and fellowship and time of prayer. And, Lord, we commit this time into your hands, and we ask for your anointing, your blessing, that your outpouring of your holy spirit upon us, Lord, that we'd be refreshed and strengthened and lead and guide us into all truth. We ask in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. I'm gonna sing, sing, sing. I'm gonna shout, shout, shout. I'm gonna sing. I'm gonna shout and praise the Lord. When the gates are open wide, I'm gonna sit in Jesus' side. I'm gonna sing. I'm gonna shout. Praise the Lord. I'm gonna sing. Sing. Sing. I'm gonna shout. Shout, shout. I'm gonna sing. I'm gonna shout and praise the Lord. When the gates are open wide, I'm gonna sit in Jesus' side. I'm gonna sing. I'm gonna shout and praise the Lord. This is the this is the that the Lord had made that the Lord had made. I will rejoice. I will rejoice and be glad in it. This is the day that the Lord has made. I will rejoice and be glad in it. This is the day When the gates are open wide, I'm gonna sing. I'm gonna shout praise the lord. I'm gonna shout, shout, I'm gonna shout, praise the lord. When the gates are open wide, I'm gonna see the Jesus sign. I'm gonna sing. I'm gonna shout, praise the lord. Jesus Christ his son. And now let the weak say I am strong, the lord has done for us. Give thanks. Woah. Give thanks to the grateful heart. Give thanks to the holy one give thanks because he's given Jesus Christ his son. And now let the weak say I am strong, Praise the Lord. Alright. Ezekiel chapter 10. Alright. Let's pray. Father, we come before you, Lord. We ask that you would bless this time. Be our teacher. Open the scriptures to understanding. Help us to Lord, give us give us a glimpse of the chair of angels with the wheels within the wheels and and how all that works, Lord. And we have so much to learn when the apostle Paul was caught up in the third heaven, the things that he saw, words were inadequate. And John did the best he could as a revelator of what he saw as he was taken up also. And, Lord, I pray that we would, get a glimpse that you'd open our hearts and minds and and, teach these things unto us, Lord. In Jesus' name, amen. Alright. The glory of the Lord is departing. The word is Ichabod. Back in the time of Eli, Hophni, and Phineas, and the Ark of the Covenant was stolen. First Samuel four twenty one and twenty two, the, one of the wives of, one of Eli's sons, when she heard that, the ark had departed, two boys had died, And Eli, when he heard about the ark being taken by the Philistines, he fell over backward being a heavy guy. I don't know what that means. And he fell back and broke his neck, and then her words were, Ichabod, the glory of the lord had departed. We we see where when when later on when Solomon king Solomon, first Kings chapter eight, when he built the temple, the glory of the Lord entered into the new temple and the Shekinah glory of God. We saw when Moses was leading the children of Israel that the Shekinah glory of God would be a pillar of fire at night and a cloud in the form of a cloud by day to not only guide them, but also to shield them from the heavy heat of the sun. And we see the burning bush, another appearance of the Shekinah glory of God when God met with Moses. When the Lord Jesus returns, he's going to destroy the antichrist with the brightness of his coming. That's the Shekinah glory of God to destroy. At this point, the temple is defiled. The city of Jerusalem is defiled. The nation has so incredibly defiled everything with their idolatry that all that's left is for the Lord to depart and for the savagery to take place of God's judgment. The Babylonians are gonna come in in May. They're going to destroy the temple and burn the temple down. And so what we see in Israel today is or in the time, excuse me, in the time when we're reading the bible and Jesus is going into the temple. That's what's known as the second temple period of Zerubbabel's temple, the rebuilding when the when the after the seventy years when the remnant goes back to Jerusalem led by Ezra the priest and Nehemiah, a lot of them didn't wanna go back. Nehemiah began to rebuild the walls and Ezra the priest went in with help to try and rebuild the temple. The people really weren't that interested and God rebuked them through the prophet. I think it's Jose or Habakkuk, it starts with an h. But rebuked them because you guys are building your cedar lined houses and you guys are building your houses and getting your life altogether, but you're leaving my house, you know, without it being rebuilt. So the people didn't really have have the real desire to do that. And then at the time of Zerubbabel, you know, it's not by might nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the lord of hosts. And so, god by his spirit, them start, And then we have the time between, the testament between the old test end of the Old Testament period and the, New Testament, four hundred years in there. And we have a guy named Antiochus Epiphanes that went into the temple and desecrated it, defiled it with pig's blood, with a pig being put in there and all. And so that's where you have the Maccabean. If you heard of the Maccabean revolt, that's where the Joseph Maccabees and his boys, they began to rebel against Ataeus, Epiphanes, and and defeated them and tried to reestablish the worship there at the temple. And that's where one of the one of the festival of lights, the menorah, that it can't go out. So they wanted to get the light of the menorah that perpetually continued to shine, and that's the feast of candles or the feast of lights that we see in John's gospel that even Jesus, you know, participated in. Alright. So here we go. Light. You're the light of the world. Right? The light's gonna leave. Jesus promised he's never gonna leave you and I nor forsake us. In first Samuel chapter 28, king Saul, the kingdom was stripped from him, and king Saul was desperate to hear from God. So he went and he tried to bring Samuel back from the dead. Samuel was his adviser. And Samuel, through the witch of Indor, is how how king Saul was doing that. And God allowed Samuel to appear to king Saul, and he's like rebuking, what are you doing? Why are you bothering me? No. No. He's not doing that. And but basically, what king Saul was saying to Samuel is, the lord has departed from me. The lord's departed. And Ichabod Ichabod. You and I, will the lord ever depart you and I? Do you ever need to fear that you're gonna hear Ichabod, the lord's departed? So Rob's saying he'll never leave us nor forsake us. Now in I in Psalm 51, David sinned with Bathsheba, and David prayed a prayer, take not thy holy spirit from me. Right? Restore to me the joy of my salvation and take not your holy spirit from me. So there was in the old testament dispensation, there was where the holy spirit would be upon a person. Do You remember what do you remember Samson when he allowed Delilah? And it says very tragically, what what did it say concerning the holy spirit in Samson's life? He knew not that the holy spirit had departed. He thought that he could go to the well like he had so many other times, being anointed of God, and but he did not value his relationship with God. And finally, after having drank wine, he wasn't supposed to as a Nazarite, and round corrupting body, the the sweet sweet within the eater, the lion, the dead lion, and the ox goad that he killed a thousand Philistines with, you know, the corruption of dead body and stuff. But he still didn't lose his strength, and it was his curly hair, wasn't it? It was his curly hair. No. It wasn't the hair. It wasn't the hair. It was his relationship with God. The hair symbolized his relationship with God, but wasn't the hair. It was simply his relationship with God. And so when when he let Delilah know after all that crying Anyway, the holy spirit had departed. You and I don't need to worry about that. No matter how much we might sin, Jesus is a greater savior, and, he's not gonna take the holy spirit from us. Now our fellowship with him can be hindered. We can feel, he may not leave us, but we can leave him. Right? We can wander. The church of Ephesus left their first love. The church of Laodicea kicked Jesus out of the church, put him outside. And so we as Christians, could and interesting with the church of Laodicea, Jesus never gave up on them. He's knocking on the door, and he's asking them to open the door and let them in. He he's a gentleman. He's not gonna force it and beat the door down, but he's asking them. He's knocking. If you'll open the door, I'll come in and sup with you and you with me and all. And even Judas, when Judas betrayed the Lord, Jesus addressed him as friend. Betrayest thou the son of man with a kiss? And when Peter denied the Lord three times, the lord gave him a look like Peter had told you, but it wasn't a look of condemnation, was it? It's a look of, I'm gonna restore you. I'm gonna restore you. So in this case, these guys have crossed the line. Has America crossed the line yet? Is there hope for America? There's hope for America. Always hope. Right? Always hope. If God could if God could give Nineveh some reprieve, he could certainly give America reprieve. Alright. So then I looked and behold, in the firmament that was above the head of the cherubim cherubim, plural, there appeared over them as it were a sapphire stone like the appearance of the of the likeness of of a of a throne. And so in verse chapter one verse 26, a chariot throne, and and so he's seeing the throne of God on a chariot. And he, speaking of Jehovah, spoke unto the man clothed with linen. Who's the man clothed in linen, you think? Linen is is representative of a priest. Right? Ezekiel's a priest, the one that's writing this book. Wearing linen is the is the clothing of a priest. And so is this a theophany, a Christophany? Is it Jesus, our great high priest that's here, or could it be representative of the holy spirit? Holy man. Yeah. Maybe both. Good idea. And so, clothed with linen and said, go in between the wheels, even under the cherub, and fill thine hand with coals of fire from between the cherubim and scattered them over the city, and he went in and he went in my sight. And so I remember in the chariot race of Ben Hur that that Judah Ben Hur was moving along pretty good with those wheels. Right? And Marcellus had these wicked things that would go and break the wheels, the inside of the wheels. Right? And, try and carve them out. And so there's no flat wheels here. These wheels are propulsion. Propulsion wheels within wheels. Now this Hebrew word here for wheel is gal gal, g a l g a l. And this particular wheel, we're gonna see the wheels further. The definition means quick revolution. So a quick revolution. There's another word for Hebrew word for wheel, it's ofan, and it's just a mere rotation, just a mere revolution. Nothing fancy. But this is a fancy one. This is an accelerating propulsion that's providing the power to move the this chariot throne of God. I asked God that and he didn't tell me. I I don't know, but I'm waiting to hear back. You could probably go on YouTube and those guys will tell you God told them. So I just don't have that tighter relationship with God that he tells me all these things. But I'm waiting to hear. And he told me when the rapture's gonna happen, but I can't tell you guys because you're not supposed to know. And he also told me my name, my new name that nobody knows. And he did tell me though, he's real pleased that I'm starting to sing. He likes that. He he's really really happy about that. Sometimes I hear, sometimes I don't. You know? Alright. So If that's the case, then he would give us No. That's just that's just wicked. That's just not right. He says, make a joyful noise. It's a noise. Joyful noise. That's right, baby. Alright. So verse two, and he and he spoke unto the man clothed with linen and said, go in between the wheels, even under the cherub, and fill thine hand with coals of fire. What's what's the purpose of the coals of fire? We saw the coals of fire in chapter six of, Isaiah. Remember? Remember when Isaiah, in the year that king Uzziah died, the Lord's train filled the temple. He saw a vision of Jesus in Isaiah six, and he said, I'm a man of unclean lips among a people of unclean lips, and he saw angels there that are rank wise that are called seraphim. What's the difference of a seraph angel and a cherub angel or just a mere angel? Yeah. Me too. Me too. Anyway, these were seraphim angels, plural, in Isaiah six. And one of them took the tongs and grabbed ahold of one of the coals and brought it over to the to Isaiah to his tongue. And basically, the fire what's the fire for? Cleansing. Cleansing. To bring about purity. So Job Job said, when he's tried me, I'm gonna come forth as gold. Right? And he knows the way that I take, and when he's tried me, I'm gonna come forth as gold. Job twenty three ten. And in first Peter chapter one verse two, he talks about our fiery trials. The fiery trials we go through are used of the Lord to purify us. From the bonds of the heart, the mouth speaks. And we our heart's desperately wicked above all things. Right? We don't even know our own heart. But when the Lord allows you to stub your toe, that word that comes out of your mouth proves that your heart is wicked. It's a wicked heart. Right? God wants to change your heart. Right? Purify your heart. I mean, when I hit my thumb with a hammer or something happens like that, immediately, it's praise the lord. Praise the lord comes out. Because he's worked on me longer than you guys. Fire's gonna hit me right now. We cooked here. Alright. Sometimes people get hit by lightning. Right? Hey. Somebody told me a guy died. The guy that did the Paris, you guys told me this. The guy that did organize the Paris opening of the Olympics died by getting hit by lightning. Is that true? Is that true? Someone came up to me Sunday and told me that. So you guys could Google that. But that's pretty quick judgment. That's like Ananias and Sapphira. That's pretty quick. Yeah. A stroke. That's true. Yeah. Yeah. Stroke's bad news. Oh, wow. Jim Caviezel got beat up horribly in that whole thing. So the devil was fighting against that one. Right? So we're talking about purity. We're talking about purging. The temple is filthy. How is God going to purge the earth? Fire. Fire, baby. Fire. Gonna just burn it. And when the Lord when the Lord comes back and the planet is just defiled with idolatry, seven years with the antichrist, and all of the people worshiping, you know, the devil, and the blood is high as the horse's bridle, Before we go into the millennium, there's a seventy five day interval. Right? Bless is he that comes to the twelve hundred and thirty fifth day in Daniel chapter 12. So twelve hundred and sixty days from the abomination of desolation is the return of Jesus Christ. So the midpoint of the tribulation period is twelve hundred and sixty days in from the signing of the Daniel 09/27 peace treaty. Right? At the midpoint point is the abomination of desolation where the antichrist goes in, declares himself to be god, demands to be worshiped as god. And he's desecrating the temple, the antichrist temple, the temple that he brokered with the Jews to rebuild. Right? God didn't ask him to rebuild that temple, but there's another temple, a fourth temple that's going to be built in we're gonna see this in chapter 40 through 48 in Ezekiel here. It's Ezekiel's temple, the millennial temple. But before we go into the millennium and we get a picture of the millennium in Isaiah 11, we get a picture of the reverse of the curse, the lion and the lamb and the little child, you know, leading them and everything, and the planet brought back to an endemic condition, the curse being reversed. So how's the lord going to purify the earth after that devastation of all the seals and the trumpet and the bold judgments that are coming to destroy all the plant life and the water and everything's just wasted. Right? Do you think during that seventy five day interval, he's gonna not that he needs seventy five days because when he created it, he'd created in six days. Not that he even needed six days, but in a moment, in twinkling of an eye, he could have it all done. Right? But there's a period of time there where he's gonna do the sheep, the goat judgment of all the Gentiles determining which get to go into the millennium. Four types of saints. Right? Four types of saints, Old Testament saints, New Testament saints, are Christians, tribulation saints, and then there's millennial saints. Right? As J. Vernon McGee says, you're either a saint or an ape. Right? So the saints that go into the millennium are gonna go into a edenic type condition. The Lord is bringing the coals of fire, removing them, gonna bring fire to purify, gonna drop the fire. In chapter 11, the coals are gonna be dropped down on Jerusalem as a means of judgment, gonna burn it. So the cherubim and scattered them over the city. So we see that here, scattered them over the city and burning of the city. And he went in my sight. Now the cherubim stood on the right side of the house when the man went in, and the cloud filled the inner court. So the cloud is the Shekinah glory of God. God's moving now. God's moving. And as we said in Exodus thirty three nine and ten, the cloud would cover the children of Israel by day. And then as we said in first Kings eight ten and eleven, the Shekinah glory of God filled the temple in Solomon's day, in Solomon's temple. Let's see here. Then the glory of the Lord went up from the cherub and stood over the threshold of the house. And the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was full of the brightness of the Lord's glory. This is the Shekinah glory of God. It's a great study in the Bible to trace all the instances of the Shekinah glory of God, different times. When Peter, Peter James and John were invited to go camping with Jesus, and in Matthew 17, he took them camping up on this mountain. Right? Great high mountain. It's called the Mount Of Transfiguration. And on that mountain, there was Moses and Elijah there. Right? And the brightness the brightness of Jesus, they saw Jesus transfigured before them. Right? And he's brighter than any fuller soap, any soap or anything can do to make him so white and bright. Right? And they've seen him, you know, that glory there. And Peter says, hey, we'd like to camp out here. Let us make three booths, you know. And and God's saying, be quiet, Peter. That's right. Listen to my son. Hear my son. And but they got to see. And then later, Peter said first Peter, he said, we were eyewitnesses of his majesty. Eyewitnesses. We saw him as he's transfigured before us. Not only that, but we hung out with him for three and a half years. We touched him. We handled him. We have eyewitness testimony of the crucifixion, his burial, his resurrection, and him walking the planet for forty more days. We are witnesses of him, but we have what? That's even greater witness. The more sure word of prophecy. 27% of the Bible's prophecy. To the churches. When I tell you at church on Sunday, and I say it even now that, you know, I don't hear God speaking to me like these YouTube prophet people all the time, I do hear God speak to me often. But it's it's in the quietness of my heart. And a lot of times, I don't even recognize it's the Lord speaking to me. And but it can be so natural and the supernatural for God to speak to us throughout our day. But very seldom has the Lord given me a big, Thus saith the Lord to Rick. I want you to tell everybody this. That's not the way it happens. Not for me. It's more of discernment. He's showing me the lies. He's showing me stuff going on. I look at God's word, and then he speaks to my heart. And he speaks to Kathy's heart. This guy's a liar. This is a lie. That's the Lord speaking to you. That's discernment. The Holy Spirit speaking to you, letting you know, hey, don't fall for it. We're living in a time of great, great deception, and we need to test the spirits. We need prove all things. Hold fast that which is good. So I go to his word, and when I go to prayer, I wanna hear from the Lord, and he puts his peace in my heart to guide me. If I'm conflicted, if I'm I'm uneasy, I may not heard him say audibly something. Some people, the Lord speaks to them audibly. I've never heard the Lord speak to me audibly. I have friends where they say the Lord spoke to them audibly, and I believe them. But communication with the Lord through prayer isn't just us talking, it's the Lord speaking to us. The primary way the Lord speaks to us is through his word, by his spirit. Right? But also, you and I can, mature and grow in the discipline of waiting upon the Lord, waiting waiting upon him in prayer, and saying, like Eli told young little Samuel when the Lord was speaking to Samuel, Speak, Lord, your servant is listening. Right? And, Kathy and I used to spend hours and hours and hours, in prayer asking questions to God and trying to discern answers and stuff. And, we'd we'd go down to the coast, and there'd be big storms, and and we'd go down there just just for the purpose of getting away from everybody and everything. We had big decisions we had to make with the church and all, and we'd go down there and we'd spend hours, in prayer, listening, asking specific questions, trying to hear from the Lord. And I'd have to say that I don't think we heard from the Lord because we thought he was gonna do great, great things. And I'd have to say it's more like Habakkuk Habakkuk, I'm gonna do a work in your day that if I told you, you wouldn't even believe me. And it wasn't positive. That was a negative work. That was, I'm gonna kick some booty, man. I'm gonna I'm gonna judge the nation of Israel. That's what Habakkuk And he let Habakkuk know, Habakkuk, I'm gonna use the Babylonians to do it. And Habakkuk was just, they're so evil. How could you and then he told them, Habakkuk, the just shall live by faith. So even though the Lord didn't tell Kathy and I everything, and where I could map it out and let everybody know, thus saith Lord, this this this is gonna happen. Our whole world was rocked. And the Lord says, I want you to walk by faith. Day by day, I want you to walk by faith. And that's how we walk, all of us, day by day. Right? We don't always hear from the Lord. He doesn't tell us the next 10 steps. He might say to Philip, Philip, I want you to leave the revival. I want you to leave the Southern California beat scene, big church scene, the crusades and the baptism. I want you to leave it here, man. And I want you to go to Bremerton, which is desert. It's a spiritual desert. Go down to Gaza, which is desert. And why would he want to do something like that? Why wouldn't he sit there and say, God, I'm sorry, but I got a few questions before I go. I got to evaluate the risk, the risk involved. How is this gonna benefit me? How's this how's this gonna, you know, help me as a as a prophet or as a deacon, you know? I got a good job here in, Jerusalem. I'm one of the deacons, man. I'm deacon good. And, you send me over there, and I got I got four daughters, prophetesses. What kind of risk is it gonna be on their life? And and I got a wife and a family and a home. And why would I do that? You gotta let me know, man. Let me know. What what what are you doing? What did he do? It's called progressive revelation. Progressive revelation. Do the first thing he's telling you to do. What's he telling you to do? What's god what's god speaking to you wanting you to do? I want you to go to that person and I want you to ask for forgiveness. Oh, no. Oh no. No. No. No. I want you to call that person up and ask them out for lunch. No. No. No. No. No. I'm not making the first move. No way. So Philip goes down to Gaza, which is desert, and what happens? There's an Ethiopian eunuch all the way from Africa who had been to Jerusalem wanting to meet God. And he went away empty, having not met God. He didn't hear from God. Nobody let him. Nobody shared the gospel with him. But he bought a scroll, the scroll of Isaiah. And he's there on his camel, and Philip hears the holy spirit give him step number two. Go near to him. And he goes near to him in obedience, and he asks he comes to the guy, and the guy's like, reading the what are you reading there? Oh, I'm reading the book of Isaiah, and I don't understand what I'm gonna say. You know, who's he talking about? And then it says that Philip went up there and preached Christ unto him. The guy got saved. Then the guy says, hey, here's some water. What's hindering us from being baptized? Baptize the guy. Now that guy is gonna go back to Africa, a saved person with the gospel with the book of Isaiah. Right? He's gonna spread the word all over Africa. Right? Because Philip, the deacon, was obedient like Stephen, the deacon, was obedient. Right? And then Philip, he got to be transported What from was that word? Raptured. What was that word? Raptured. Raptured. He got to be caught up to Azotis. I mean, what an amazing blessing Philip experienced simply because of humble obedience under God. And if we stand back and we say, Lord, I've got to hear the next 10 steps. You know, I've got to be a YouTube prophet. I wanna hear a big one. Tell me the big one, you know? Even right now with the economy teetering, the economy, the dominoes hitting, I told you guys that Sunday. I said the first one they're projecting is that Japan. And then last night, Japan stock went down. And so now, you want people to prognosticate and tell you, well, what's the next step? Who's next? And how's this gonna play out? But you can't do that. The experts, all of them are like, this could be, could be, it could be. Gerald Celenti and the guys back in 2008, they thought it was close to the end. But these these bankers always have tricks up their sleeve, and, they can they can do what's called kick the can down the road. So it's hard to prognosticate what's happening, but we know ultimately, eventually, in God's timing, the whole thing's gonna collapse. All of it's gonna collapse. It's collapsing right now. We just don't know the timing thereof. And a lot of times, we wanna be perceived as being really intelligent, so we jump up ahead of God and we tell people, you know, I think this is it. It's going happen now. It's going to happen right now. But you got to be cautious in there, don't you? Be very cautious. And here's another thing. Don't ever say, thus saith the Lord. Don't do that. Don't speak in the first person like you heard from God, thus saith the Lord, you know. Say, if you've got a word of knowledge or word of prophecy or something that the Lord's speaking to your heart, you know, preface it by saying something along the lines of, you know, I believe the Lord's been speaking to me, and if I heard him clearly, this is what I think he's saying. And let everybody test it. Let them be Bereans and test it scripturally. And then the further test is, let's see if it comes to pass. Right? And sometimes you'll discover that your wife or your husband's a prophet because it comes to pass. It happens. And you're like, woah, how did you know that? Well, God told me. You never believed me but God told me. Alright. Alright. So the wheels and the voice of the almighty, his voice when he speaketh. The voice of God. God speaking to us. Abraham obeyed the voice of God. God appeared to Abraham, spoke to Abraham directly, and he obeyed the voice of God. So when he speaketh, and it came to pass that when he had commanded the man clothed with linen, here we have our our great high priest again, saying, take fire from between the wheels, from between the cherubim, plural. And these are the ones that, in chapter one that he'd saw at the River Chibar. Then he went in and stood beside the wheels. I would love to have a picture of those wheels, the wheels within the wheels. And, that would be that would be very, yeah. Very exciting. In Hebrews chapter 10 verse seven, we read, then said, I, lo, I come in the volume of the book it is written of me to do thy will, o God. And so we see here that he's gonna do exactly what he's told to do. So he went in. Are you doing what the Lord's telling you to do? He heard. Jesus said, I do always those things that please the father. So he's told to go, and he went in and stood beside the wheels. The volume of the book is written of me, Jesus said. The whole thing's about Jesus, to do thy will, oh God. And one cherub stretched forth his hand from between the cherubim under the fire that was between the cherubim and took some of it and put it under the but maybe they found a church that communicates to them better and a place that they needed to be. But my confidence is in the word of God. When I give the little prelude and I'm talking about Trump and the selection and all that, that's more of a discernment of a prophetic time of trying to help people sort through the lies that we're facing and try and challenge people to do research, to dig in, to find out, you know, on their own what's happening. And I I can't emphasize that enough to do their due diligence, to dig in and to not be lied to, to not follow lies, to not be deceived by the mainstream media and Trump and Biden and Harris and all that stuff. And so I try to tie it in with, the prophetic picture. I try to present the prophetic picture of a one world government, a one world monetary system, a one world religious system, and try to show the tech giants and all the things that are that are happening, how it's tying in with bible prophecy. I try to open people's eyes that they might see, you know, what's happening, and come to a week by week, try to see the scheduling of it. What's happened this week? What are the things we noticed? What what are they talking about now? And and then I post it, and many of you are doing the same thing. And we want to be we want to be those that are, watchmen on the wall. We want to be those that understand our times, the times in which we're living. And a big part of that's the word of God. The confidence that the word of God's going out, that the prophecies that God's put out there, that they're directed prophecies, they're gonna be fulfilled, and they're they're it's happening right now. And so there's a there's there's a purpose in what's taking place here. And their whole body and their backs and their hands and their wings and their wheels were full of eyes. Now what's that represent? The eyes have it? Nay. Nay. Aye. Nay. Aye. Did I just hear that? They can see everything? There it is. What do we call that? A characteristic of God. Omniscience. Omniscience, all knowing, all seeing. So if we were to go to Hebrews chapter four, everything's naked and open before the eyes of whom we have to do. Right? God sees everything. He's he's seeing the beginning and the end. Right? He's eternal. There's no surprises. And one thing God never says is, oops. He never makes a mistake. You're not an oops. You're not an oops. God has a plan and a purpose for your life. He sees everything. He saw everything you were ever gonna go through before you were even born. Right? And he's causing all things to what? Work together. Work together. Now now, pastor Chuck's son, Chuck Junior, had a cute story where, you know, how children do things that are secretive. And and his dad said to him, now, son, you know, you make sure you behave yourself because God's watching you and he sees everything you're doing. And the son says, does he see everything? Everything I'm doing? Yeah. He sees everything you're doing, and and the emphasis that he brought forth to his son was, and he loves you. Sees everything, and he loves you. He loves you so much he can't take his eyes off of you. Right? Mhmm. So it doesn't need to be a condemnation thing. He sees everything we're doing. You're the apple of his eye. He knows the very number of hairs on your head. Not one hair of your head falls to the ground that he doesn't know it. The little sparrows that fall to the ground, he knows, and he loves us. And his good thoughts, God's thoughts concerning you are what? Numbered more? Sand. So how many stars are there? How many granules of sand are there? So infinite. His thoughts concerning you. Now you're thinking, wait a minute. There's 8,000,000,000 people on the planet. How can God be thinking about all of us at the same time? How big is your God? God. Big brain. Right? He's omniscient. He's all seeing eyes. The all seeing eyes of God. Now, if you open up your dollar and pull your dollar out, there's a pyramid, and at the top of it is what? The I see And that's a corruption. That's a counterfeit of the Masons. Right? Masonry? The all C and I, the in whole temple, the whole thing. So the devil tries to counterfeit the attributes of God. And these angels can only be in one place at one time. Right? They can only be in one place. And yet, our God is omnipresent. He's everywhere. Our God's omnipotent. He's all powerful. But the power of Lucifer, the power of the angels, is a limited power. Our politicians are acting like they're all powerful. Right? That they can do anything they want. But our constitutional republic limits their power being chained to the constitution. Right? Very hard concept for fallen angels and for fallen men to understand who have a god complex. So Lindsay mentioned another thing, a counterfeit of the devil, is he's going to have the artificial intelligence. Right? The devil's developing, with the help of all the tech giants, a surveillance system. Right? Do you understand what's going on? The lamppost, the lamp, the lights, the cameras everywhere, in China and everywhere. So our God sees everything, but the devil is only a counterfeit, and he's gonna try and duplicate what God's able to do. And so he's the antichrist in place of Jesus Christ, and and his job is to deceive humanity, to deceive people, to keep them out of heaven, to send them to hell. So in second Chronicles sixteen nine, I'm gonna give you some verses. I don't even think I can read my verses. Well, Proverbs fifteen three maybe. Might be Zechariah four twenty. What do I know? Lord, which one is it? Proverbs six second Chronicles sixteen nine. The eyes of the Lord. The eyes of the Lord. Run to and fro throughout the whole earth to show himself strong in behalf of them whose heart is perfect for him. Herein thou hast done foolishly, therefore, henceforth thou shalt have wars. So, yeah. King Ahaz, he did well with the lord when he was small in his sight, but he got all puffed up. So the eyes of the lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth looking for men and women to use, to fill and use, to show himself strong on behalf of those whose hearts are perfect toward God. God's looking. God's looking for people. Proverbs fifteen three. Proverbs fifteen three. I'll get it. Get it, buddy. And it might be it might be Zechariah four. Ready? For what? Jeremiah four twenty. Jeremiah four twenty. And then Revelation four six through eight. Who wants that? Four six through eight. There you go. And the other one's got to be. I won't even worry about it. I'll just go like this. Ready? What's this? Yeah. There it is. Wow. Wow. It's a miracle. Zechariah I did Zechariah four six. I'm I'm not gonna look. Wow. There is a God. Then he answered and spoke unto me saying, this is the word of the Lord unto Zechariah, saying not by might nor by power, but by my spirit, sayeth the Lord his host. Who art thou, O great mountain before Zerubbabel? Thou shall become a plain and shall bring forth the headstone of it with shoutings, crying, grace, grace, unto it. Wow. Heavy duty. Lord, do you want me to go to Hawaii? And Judas went out and hung himself. Go and go and do likewise. Dangerous doing that. Alright. Go ahead. Whatsoever you do, do it quickly. That's it. Thomas is a jokester, man. I can't wait to sing tonight. Go ahead, buddy. Proverbs fifteen three. Yeah. The eyes of the Lord are in every place, beholding the evil and the good. Oh, praise the Lord. Nobody gets away with nothing. Nothing. It's all recorded. And you know what the great white throne judgment? All the wicked dead are bodily raised from the dead and they stand before God in judgment, and the books are open. God keeps great records. He sees everything. Now, you and I, there's no record of wrong. Jesus said, it is finished. The talsa are paid in full. There's no record of wrong. There's no you know, he takes our sins. He casts from the East, the West, remembers them no more. No record of wrong. Don't you love that? So if you're around people that are always condemning and accusing, that's not God's spirit. Revelation 12 says, the devil's the accuser of the brethren, accusing and condemning. That's not the holy spirit. Alright. Revelation four six through eight. Me. And before the throne, there was a sea of glass like onto crystal. And in the midst of the throne and round about the throne, there were four beasts full of eyes before and behind. And the first beast was like a lion, and the second beast like a calf, and the third beast had a face as a man, and the fourth beast was like a flying eagle. And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him, and there were full of eyes within. And they rest not day and night saying, holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was and is and is to come. Ain't that gonna be great? We're there in chapter four. We we're up in heaven with the four and twenty elders, and we get to see that whole picture, that whole scene there. The church is not in the tribulation period, which starts in chapter six. The church is in heaven chapter four and five after the church age ends at the end of chapter three of the book of Revelation. Right? Okay. Glad you got that metatalfa come up here. Alright. So praise the lord. These eyes, all seeing. And Now, here's another thing. When we're talking about the faces of angels, how they're looking and all that, I got another movie for you to watch. One phrase triggered it. Have you ever seen the elephant man? Yeah. Okay. I got one. Yes. Anybody else? Is that in black and white? It can be. Yeah. I think it is. There's a couple variations of it. Anybody ever seen it? I remember that was here. I saw it. No. No. Different one. Anyway, it's a very, very good movie. John Merrick, it's a true story. He had a condition that was disfiguring. People thought he was a know, he got caught up in this whole circus and all that. They began to realize he wasn't mentally incapacitated, And so they began to care for him, and and some of the royalty and people began to watch him and everything. And he would do these little things that he make out of paper and little stuff. But I remember this woman came to him that treated him very nice and began to ask him about this picture that he that he held with him of his mother. And his words were, she had the face of an angel. Beautiful angel. And I highly recommend that movie for the place in the movie where he quotes Psalm 23. Because they're thinking he's incapacitated mentally, and he starts quoting Psalm 23. How did he learn Psalm 23 from his mother as a child before whatever happened to her and he got put into the circus? It's a powerful, powerful, powerful Christian testimony. The Elephant Man. And Anthony Hopkins plays in one of the one of them. One in one of the versions. There's more than one version. But, yeah, that's a good one. Alright. So the face of an angel. Kathy's got the face of an angel. My daughters have faces of an angel. Ruthie's got a face of an angel, Evie. Right? And not a fallen angel. Not a fallen angel. Beautiful angel. Alright. Now that's another thing. Kathy should correct me on that because angels only have one gender. None of you caught that. See? None of you caught that. Because men are superior. No. You get a new glorified body. Is that because when we get a new body, will this body Well, angels are not made as beautiful as women. Women is God's most beautiful creation. See? Alright. There you go. There. Okay. So here we go. Men are hairy and smelly and then Yeah. Ugh. Oh. Oh, no. Not that guy again. Not that guy again. Not the guy that was in the kitchen, I hope. No. No. Of course. Okay. So as for the wheels, cried unto unto them in the in the hearing of a wheel, and everyone had four faces, and the face of the was the face, we just read that in Revelation, of a cherub. So, in chapter one verse 10, the first one had the face of an ox, which speaks of servanthood. And we talked about the four gospels. And the second, the face the face of a man is humanity. And the third, the face of a lion, Jesus as king. Right? And the fourth, the face of an eagle. What's that represent? America. Make America great. It's here in the Bible. Deity. Deity. Deity. Yeah. Somebody some of you two prophets are gonna say, hey, that's Mega. That's Mega right there. That's Mega. God told me. And the cherubim were lifted up. This is the living creature that I saw by the River Of Chebar. So he tells us that these were different than the the six that were going out there killing everybody. Chapter one verse five. And when the cherubim went, the wheels went beside them. And when the cherubim lifted up their wings to mount up from the earth, the same wheels also turned not from beside them. So somehow propulsion, this is a whirling, very fast, quick rebuttal. Remember the Hebrew word gal gal? So it's very fast spinning and providing some propulsion. Now, God's starting to leave the temple. God's starting to leave going up in that chariot with these angels, lifting up from Jerusalem. Turn not from them. And so when the cherubim went, the wheels went beside them, and when the cherubim lifted up their wings to mount up from the earth, the same wheels also turned not from beside them. When they stood, these stood, and when they were lifted up, these lifted up themselves also, for the spirit of the living creature was in them. And so, like in Revelation eleven eleven, the two witnesses the spirit of God within them. Then the glory of the Lord departed. There's your word, Ichabod. The glory of the Lord departing. So God's glory is departing from the temple. God's glory is departing from Jerusalem. The reason being the defilement, the sinfulness of the people. They reached the point where God said, it's time to judge. God's gonna be glorified now in judging, their rebellion. Departed from the threshold of the house and stood over the cherubim. So the glory of the Lord standing over the cherubim. Jesus wept over the city of Jerusalem and wept saying, your city is left unto you desolate. How often I would have gathered you as a mother hen does gather a brood under her wings, but you would not. And so and the cherubim lifted up their wings and mounted up from the earth in my sight. So Ezekiel the priest is watching this, and I've never seen a vision of angels doing that. I've never seen anything like that. People today are seeing, like we said earlier, UFOs, fallen angels are appearing, and they have sorcerer type shapes and all sorts of whirling things going on, you know. So the fallen angels have they have a they have a green light by the lord as they're making themselves seen more and more. Part of it has to do with the great deception. Right? Greater and greater people are gonna trust in aliens, and the Christians were taken away to a different planet and things like that. People are gonna have a false gospel and looking to these fallen angels for direction and advice. Hitler did that looking to the occult for technological advancement and such. And the Tower Of Babel, the effort to reach out to God, to find God, their worshiping on top and all, looking to the occult. So the cherubim lifted up their wings and mounted up from the earth in my sight. And when they went out, the wheels also were beside them, and everyone stood at the door of the east gate of the Lord's house. And so the Shekinah glory is gonna return at the millennium in chapter forty three two through four and gonna return. And Jesus on the outside of his church, Revelation three twenty, outside the gate, knocking on the door, let me back in. Now, the Greek word is angelos, for angels. The definition is messengers sent by God. The Hebrew is Mabak. And over 200 times in the Bible do we see reference to angels. 200 times, angels. Angels in the outfield. Do you remember that? Do you think that? I hope not. I hope I hope that we as Christians don't have to see the demonic world or realm. You know, I'm glad that the Lord in that dimension keeps them away. If you dabble in it and you play around with it, you're gonna have you're inviting. They need permission. Right? We as Christians, greater is he that's in me than he that's in the world. Demons can oppress and bother you, but we can have the victory in walking in the power of the Holy Spirit, rebuke the devil. You know, I don't like talking to the devil. I don't talk to demons and all that. But to answer your question, I'm very thankful that he doesn't allow me to see that that kind of stuff. There may be a day where the Lord gives you a bad dream, not from the Lord, but, know, the enemy is trying to give you a bad dream, bad thoughts, bad pictures, bad stuff. I do know of people saying that, there's a story of Martin Luther. The devil was hounding him, bothering him, and he would see the devil at the foot of his bed when he'd be sleeping and all. And, he took an ink blotter and threw it at the devil. You know, was a demon, obviously, appearing in this room. And, threw an ink blotter, you know, Adam. And then, when he called upon the name of the Lord and mentioned the blood of Jesus, they fled. And so that's something I've always remembered is that when you call upon the name of the Lord, and be gone, Satan. It mentioned the blood of the lamb. Devil devil flees. Devil doesn't wanna be around that. Man. It was a man. It was a man that was dropping off a a package to one of his normal people. And he the guy was just in his garage working on his car and he said, oh, was expecting that. And the guy the FedEx driver was actually taken aback because the guy's eyes were black and he he could actually see the eyes were like black. And he was a Christian and he he totally thought or he felt like it was like a demonic presence and so he like dropped the package and just left. And so it was just one of those things where I was I was just wondering if it was, like, something where it was, like, are we gonna start seeing things like that as we were getting closer to the So the devil's a liar. And what happened in that instance let me tell you what happened. The person that he delivered to, obviously, or could have been, you know, demonic, following the devil and all that. When he says stuff like, I was expecting that, what he didn't tell you is his phone went off and said, your package has arrived. And then he tried to make the guy think that he has clairvoyant powers of knowing the future. The devil doesn't know the future. The devil only knows the future when he reads the Bible prophetically, but the devil doesn't know up ahead. The demons don't know up ahead. They they can't predict the future. Only god has that ability. Yeah. So he can't there that guy can't sit there and say, oh, I was expecting that. Well, of course, you're expecting it. They sent you an email and said that it was gonna arrive, you know, today. You know? It wasn't the fact that he was expecting the packaging with the fact that his eyes were black. Well, yeah, the the eye the eye black thing or sometimes they sometimes they interview what's that guy? That false prophet guy they interviewed, and they said he had lizard eyes or whatever? Yeah. And Like Biden. But in any event, I I I do think the the eyes are the, you know, the gateway to the soul. So peep people's eyes could peep people's eyes could turn black, definitely. But I just I mean, I was just wondering. Just something that I don't I don't watch the Omen or any of those satanic movies. I don't I've never watched any of them. I've delivered to people before and they freaked me out. Well, they definitely freak you out. There's definitely demonic people. There's definitely people demon possessed. People that can talk to you in two different voices, you know. I've had them in church. We've had people in church shrieking out and stuff. And never ever ever have I been afraid afraid though because greater is he that's in me than he that's in the world. And so we we we have the privilege and the blessing of watching a woman that was started out being deemed possessed at the church coming to Christ, and a beautiful transformation, and a time where she ministered there at the church, and then she got cancer. And we watched her go through that, and we able to do her funeral and but just she used on Wednesday nights, when I teach Wednesday nights, she would shriek. She would, like, speak in a, like, a demonic whatever, and it didn't bother me. I mean, apparently, we go to India and we go to some other countries for missionary purposes, you see a lot more demonic activity. The demonic activity, the absence of Christianity in many of these nations opens the door to a lot more demonic activity. We being salt and light in the church in America, as weak as we are, we're still able to hold it back. But you'll notice that Hollywood, media, the Paris Olympics, everybody's wanting to delve into the occult. They're wanting to delve in demonic topics and themes and introduce them to children and all. That's gateways. Those are gateways. Those are are ways to repaganize a culture to try and bring it back in. And, we don't need to tolerate it. We don't need it in our homes. When you walk home, you don't want your home to be a defiled home. You want your home, when you walk through the door, to be a sanctuary, to a place where you sense God's peace, where you sense his presence. And if there's a battle that ensues in the spiritual realm, we've had problems with, you know, on our home, like, say, our children, not walking with the Lord. Kathy would do great battle in prayer and go into the room at night and pray over my daughter. She'd sense a very powerful demonic presence trying to destroy our daughter. But our job is to pray. Our job is to come against those principalities and powers with the armor that the Lord's given us. And so I'd like the idea I I move in in a direction more of, they should fear us, not me fear them. And and they don't like us. They don't like when we come around because they know the demoniac, case in point, at Gadara. They were so demon possessed that nobody could handle them, and so they chained them and they break the chains. And they were in the grave area, the tomb area, two of them, two men. And when Jesus was coming there, they said, we know who you are, Jesus. Have you the demons are speaking through him. Have you come to torment us before our time? So they know their destiny. They're gonna spend all eternity in hell, but they're possessing these men, and Jesus asked them, what's your name? Demons have names. Right? Well, we're legion for we're many. So these guys are, you know, many of them. Now, how many demons were cast out of Mary Magdalene? Seven demons. Right? So, I mean, that's a radical transformation. Right? Seven demons. So today, call that maybe schizophrenia, or we call it multiple personalities. People speaking in different tonal, you know, voices and stuff, the psychiatrists are looking at. The bible might call that demonic possession. Right? And so anyway, we're legion for many, and they didn't wanna be unembodied spirits. So they asked for permission to go into the pigs, the swine that were feeding in the area there at Gadara. So Jesus allowed them to, and then they suicided the pigs. They it's the first case in the bible of deviled ham and they They ran over a cliff and they drowned themselves. Right? Alright. I got I got a lot more of them. Talking about that at church and you don't say that, I'm gonna start laughing out loud. You're gonna think I'm demon possessed because I'm in the back laughing because I know the story. You'll hear it again. I repeat my jokes. I don't have enough of them. But That was when I left the church now. Oh, distinct laugh. Betty has a distinct laugh. Oh, boy. I love hearing Betty laugh before the service. She's laughing, laughing, having fun. Does she ever say that? Yeah. Alright. So the glory of God of Israel was over them above and left of the building, or left the building. So sometimes people say that he's in the house. No, he's not in the house anymore. He's gone. So this is the living creature that I saw under the God of Israel by the River Of Chebar. So in chapter one, Chebar. And I knew that they were the cherubim. And so he chapter one verse five, when he first saw them. Hebrews thirteen two tells us that we're to entertain strangers for some have entertained angels unaware. When I first met Thomas, thought he was an angel. Oh, no. It's the beard. My phone is, some people know that I have a good report, but they're not with me 24. There you go. So I have met people that fit the bill. They're so strange. And I remember in California when I first was saved, met these two people. And I let them come home and stay where I was or I had a house with a bunch of guys and stuff. Everybody's a little nervous, but but it just occurred to me, you know, are these angels? Because, again, everything I learn in the Bible, I take literally. When I lay hands on pray for a dead man, every I believe the bible. I believe this. So anyway, I met these people, and they were so strange, so different, so unorthodox, and brought them home, we were eating, and then they disappeared. No. Just kidding. Just kidding. Just kidding. But there are times where I've met people that I've that I thought, you know, maybe that was an angel. Have you ever broke down in your car and you're alongside a road? Or you hear stories all the time of people showing up and helping and all that. Then What happened to my uncle? And then they're gone. You know? And and I those are credible stories. Those are real stories. I knew that was coming. I knew that was coming. No footprints in the snow. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. Missionaries have lots of wonderful stories in the mission field of angels appearing and protecting and sorts of miracles still to this day that God does. So this is a living creature that I saw under God of Israel by the Chebar, and I knew that they were the cherubim. Everyone had four faces apiece, and everyone four wings, and the likeness of the hands of a man was under their wings. So when we're looking at the Seraphim in Isaiah chapter six verse two, there's there's six wings. A little different, right? A little different variation of the angels. And Clarence was trying to get his wings, and so I don't know how many wings he was hoping for, but seven. 47. Okay. Every time a bell rings, yeah, the angel gets his wings. So everyone had four faces apiece, and everyone four wings, and the likeness of the hands of a man was under their under their wings. And as for the likeness of their faces, they were the same faces which I saw by the river Chibar. Their appearances and themselves, they went everyone straight forward. Everyone straight forward. Alright. Praise the Lord. What does that mean? All four are facing forward? They move forward in unison. They're getting to the goal. They're going where they're supposed to go. They're not turning. They're not quitting. They're not wigging out. And then, they sang a song, and the song was Our Father, who art in heaven. You guys ready? You guys ready? So Lord, we just thank you for this night. Lord, we know there's so much more to learn, and we thank you that's how the Bible is. Lord, we barely scratched the surface in many cases. And but Lord, it stirs our heart to study more, to dig in. And the study of angelology, Lord, the study of angels. Over 200 times, you mentioned them in the Bible. And the angels that left their first estate, Lord, they're they're gone. They're they're gonna spend eternity in hell. But, we thank you that there's two thirds of the angels, the good angels still around. One third of the stars fell with Lucifer. So weird that he could get them to do that, Lord. But looking forward to the day where we see, where we meet the angels in heaven, where they're around the throne in Revelation four and five there. And, Lord, we're in our new spiritual glorified bodies, and I bet they have a lot of questions for us and us for them. And so we thank you, Lord, that they're ministering spirits sent to minister unto us to to protect our grandkids, the guardian angels, to protect our wives and our families, and and keeping that hedge about us, Lord, the hedge of protection. So we thank you, Lord. We thank you so much for the work of, your servants, the angels, Lord. So blessed now we pray as we, finish up in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. You ready? Who wants to help me? Oh, that's the one we're singing? Is that the wrong one? No. That's a good one. Our father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom Yeah. You didn't like that? I felt like it was in a black and white That was better. I've been practicing. Good. I've been practicing. In the shower. I look in the mirror. I go in the shower where the acoustics are better. Wow. Plays in the practice. That's awesome.
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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.
