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Alright. Live from Bremerton. It's Monday night. Welcome to our Monday night bible study. Ezekiel chapter 11 tonight, and we have all the way from Georgia. We've got Donald Laylor here. And Rob, they're they're buddies from the army. And Donald's got some great pictures of Rob to show you all. You just can't wait. Good. It is just you just don't go home till you see. Alright. Well, let's pray. Father, we come before you. We thank you for the friendship that Don and and Robin have had for so many years, a genuine Christian fellowship. And I just pray that you bless and pray you bring your healing touch upon Don and pour out your holy spirit upon us tonight and help Thomas Poole and help us all as we worship you. Thank you for the meal we just had, and thank you for the sweetness of the love of the saints here tonight. And we ask that you bless tonight, Lord. In Jesus' name, amen. Amen. Can you all get my green light for him, please? Okay. But that's it? You you wanna you wanna let Donald sing? Can he do a special song? Donald, they never give me the mic either. They tap me on the shoulder, and they say, could you not sing? Then they shut the mic off. So show them what they're missing, buddy. This is a man that's a worship leader, and he's got stage four prostate cancer, not pancreatic, and he's overcoming it. And Rob and him have been friends for how long? Thirty three years. Thirty three years. Let's see. Hang on a second. Yeah. That is too much feedback there. Musicians. Here. I'll start over. Thousand generations falling down in worship to sing the song of rages to the land. And all have gone before us and all Alright. Thank you very much. And we were Thank you, Rob and Donald. That was sweet. We're in Ezekiel chapter 11. I guess that's the best way to get to know Donald. He, this is that's who he is, who God made him, and Rob too. Alright. Chapter 10, we were talking about the angels, the cherubim. And so the song was so sweet, the picture of the angels crying out holy. We're in chapter 11 now, and the Shekinah glory of the Lord is departing the nation the temple. And so the Shekinah glory of the Lord is in the Holy of Holies, and then comes into the Holy Place, and then out of the Holy Place into the far wall of the Gentile Court. And then, tonight, we're gonna see that the Holy Spirit, the Shekinah glory moves to the Mount Of Olives. And, so it's Ichabod, the glory of the Lord is departing from the nation of Israel because they have embraced the worshiping of Tammuz, the worshiping of pagan gods, and just to return to paganism being like the nations around them. And God made them with a distinct purpose. And and he warned them in Deuteronomy that if you if you disobey me, then I'm gonna scatter you all over the earth. And so turn to Deuteronomy chapter 30. Now the false prophets, they keep telling everybody that the temple is like a lucky charm, that it's we've got the temple, and because we have God's temple and God's in that temple, nothing nothing that Jeremiah or Isaiah or Ezekiel is saying is ever gonna happen to us. And, they're giving the people a false hope. God's gonna take Ezekiel, and he's gonna take him up by the spirit just like he did John the beloved, and he's going to take him from the area of the Chaldee by Babylon and take him to Jerusalem and show him 25 civic rulers, 25 elders, if you will. But these are civic secular rulers that are advising the people and speaking lies and, resisting, the Holy Spirit. So in Deuteronomy chapter 29, notice verse 25, then men shall say, because they have forsaken the covenant of the Lord God their fathers, which he made unto them, he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt for they went and they served other gods and worshiped them gods whom they knew not and whom he had not given them. And the anger of the Lord was kindled against this land to bring upon it all the curses that are written in the book. And the Lord rooted them out of their land in anger and wrath and great indignation, and cast them into other land, as it is this day. The secret things I like this. The secret things belong under the Lord our God. But those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law. So it's not ambiguous. It's not a mystery of what God is asking of his people, demanding of his people. It's not a mystery of what God's asking of us. And yet, the secular humanism is such that we elevate man above God, and we impose upon others, feelings of what we feel. We feel this is right. So every man doing that which is right in his own eyes. But they have a clear mandate from the Lord, very clear what he's saying to him. So in chapter 31 through 10, and it shall come to pass when all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse which I have set before thee, And thou shalt call them to mind among all nations to which the Lord thy God has driven thee, and shall return unto the Lord thy God, and shall obey his voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, and all thine heart, with all thine heart, with all thy soul, that then the Lord thy God will turn thy captivity and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the nations wherewith the Lord thy God has scattered thee. If any of thine be driven out onto the outmost parts of heaven, from there will the Lord thy God gather thee, and from there will he fetch thee. And, and the Lord thy God will bring thee into the land which thy fathers possessed, and thou shalt possess it, and he will do thee good and multiply thee above thy fathers. And the Lord thy God will circumcise thine heart and the heart of thy seed to love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, with all thy soul, with all so that thou mayest live. And the Lord thy God will put all these curses upon thine enemies, and on them who hate thee, who persecuted thee. And thou shall return and obey the voice of the Lord, and do all of his commandments which I command you this day. And the Lord thy God will make thee plenteous in every work of thine hand, in the fruit of thy body, and in the, fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy land for good. For the Lord will again rejoice over thee for good as he rejoiced over thy fathers. Verse 10, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God to keep his commandments and the statutes which are written in this book of the law, and if thou turn unto the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul For this commandment, which I command thee this day, is not hidden from thee, neither is it far off. So it's not a mystery. It's God's made it real clear. And let's pray. Father, thank you for the sweet time of worship and food and and fellowship and prayer. And now we lift up Jim Miller, and we pray for his healing, Lord. We lift up Thomas. You help him heal better. We pray for miracle of healing on Gary, Wayne's dad, Gary Decord, and upon, Donald, Lord. And anybody else that's sick, Lord, we pray for your healing touch, and we ask that you anoint and bless and open the scriptures to our understanding that, Lord, we can see a parallel in our individual walk with the Lord and also corporately as a nation, the nation of America and ways, Lord, that you're trying to get our attention that we'd walk in that obedience unto you. So bless, we pray now in Jesus' name, amen. Amen. Alright. So the nation of Israel is unique. God has given them this land, and, and he says the only way you're gonna blow it is is if you disobey me. If you go and and, worship other gods and turn your backs upon me, then part of my judgment against you is I'm gonna cast you out of the land, and I'm gonna bring in your enemies. Your enemies are gonna destroy you. And so there's three moves, three waves of deportation that Nebuchadnezzar is implementing. He's in a city called Riblah, and he's not there right at Jerusalem but at Riblah. And this is the area where Zedekiah and some of these nobles, these guys are gonna try and flee, and they're gonna get to Jericho in the night when the city is finally gonna fall. But the soldiers of Nebuchadnezzar is gonna grab hold of them and bring Zedekiah and his sons all there to the city of Riblah. And so in June, there were some that were deported. May, 10,000 refugees deported. And then in May, Jerusalem is finally, destroyed. The 25 men, these these civic leaders, if you will, they're not having it. And mixed with the false prophets are encouraging them that, hey, we've got the temple. Temple belongs to God. We have God's presence here. God's in this temple. And, he's never gonna allow a foreign entity to destroy us and all. But God's plan is, God in knowing, what they were gonna do is he's gonna scatter them. They're gonna be scattered for, seventy years. Cyrus is gonna come and allow a group to go back. They're gonna build Zerubbabel's temple, second temple period eventually. Jesus is gonna come on the scene in his first coming, and the babe of Bethlehem, and he's going to be despised and rejected of men. He's going to, the people are gonna shout out, crucify him, crucify him. He's gonna weep over the city, and he's gonna say, often, I would have gathered you as mother hen has gathered brood under wings, but you would not. Your city has left you desolate. So this prophecy is here telescoping to the point in time in which we live in that, after seventy AD when Titus, the Roman general, surrounded the city of Jerusalem in the second temple period, desecrated the decimated the temple, wiped it all out, not one stone remained upon another. A fire broke out, the gold melted into the cracks of the of the stones, and the Roman soldiers pride barred every single stone, not one stone remained upon another. And this was Diaspora, the Jews. There are 16,000,000 Jews today, but they went all over the world. And so wherever they went, they were, you know, a New York Jew, an Ethiopian Jew, wherever they went, a German Jew. They were always, held on to their ethnicity, and that's a unique aspect of this because the Romans, the land itself, in a derogatory way, the Romans named the land, Palestine in the Latin. And, and that was a derogatory term saying that the land belonged to the Philistines. The Philistines weren't indigenous to the area. They were, mariners, and they came from, Phoenicia and or the island of Cyprus area. But, they were arch enemies with the nation of Israel, you know, historically. And, and so the Romans, to want to remove complete identity of the Jews in that land, tried to even change the name thereof. Part of what happens when you're being conquered by a foreign entity, an enemy, one of the things they do is they send some of you out, and then they bring in, they deport many of other ethnicities in so that over the course of time of interbreeding, like in Europe today with the Muslims coming in, and the interbreeding of all the, native, people, whether it's the Scots or the Irish or the Swedes or French, Spanish, there'll be Germans, they're being so infiltrated that a couple generations later, they'll lose their identity. Well, that's what the Assyrians did, to the 10 northern tribes in July. And it's what happened with the Jews as they're spread out all over the world. But God knows each one. He knows their DNA. He knows where each one is. And in the last days, the Lord's promise is that he's going to regather, the nation of Israel. But in Romans nine, it says that, not all they that are Israel are of Israel, but in Isaac shall thy seed be called. So it's only the remnant. It's only the Jews that believe. So on 05/14/1948, Israel is regathered in the land. That's gonna be a fulfillment as we study further of Ezekiel thirty six and thirty seven where a nation's gonna be reborn. But they're regathered in unbelief. So blindness in part has happened unto Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles come in as part of that secret thing of God, the mystery once hid now revealed, which is the church. The church is distinctly different than the nation of Israel. The church is Jewish and Gentile, starts out Jewish, and the the priority is to the Jew first and then to the Gentile. And so, the early churches we see in the book of Acts up until chapter eight where Philip goes with the Samaritans who were half breeds. The half breeds because there was interbreeding in the time of the Samaritans. The Samaritans were interbreeding with Jews, and that's what you call the hated Samaritans. Right? But Jesus purposely made the good Samaritan and what does it mean to love your brother? Alright. So then, you see you see chapter eight. Then chapter 10, the house of Cornelius, where the holy spirit came out upon, the church. And so it's a Jewish, gentile, male, female, barbarian, nor free, and that's the church age. So the church age continues until Romans 11 verse 25, until the fullness of the Gentiles come in, which is that last Christian, that last believer during the church age. Once that happens, that's the rapture of the church. There could be a measure of time. And in that measure of time, there's the seventieth seventh of Daniel, Daniel nine twenty seven, where the signing of the peace treaty by the Antichrist is gonna come. In the nation of Israel, Jesus said in John chapter five, that I come in my father's name and you receive me not. Another shall come in his own name, him you will receive. So the nation of Israel presently, 16,000,000 Jews, are gonna come under what's called the time of Jacob's trouble, the time of purifying, cleansing, and all. And and they're not gonna see the face of the Lord until they say blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord. The rapture doesn't need anything to happen, but the second coming of Christ, his second coming, there are many things that have to take place before he comes and sets foot where? Basra. You guys are good. Because we're gonna see the holy ghost. I mean, the Shekinah glory of god. The cloud is gonna be there at the Mount Of Olives, and we're gonna see that at the end of chapter 11. But Jesus is gonna make his victory ascent. According to acts chapter one verse nine and ten, the same Jesus that you've seen going is gonna come in like manner. Doesn't mean he's gonna come to that location, but he's going to come according to Luke 21 where it says, every eye will see him. Everyone in the whole world is gonna see when Jesus returns. And and so but that's different than the rapture. The rapture, nobody's gonna anticipate or see, don't need anything to happen. But one thing we need to see happen is to fulfill these prophecies' future is number one, Israel needs to be in the land. They're in the land. Right? And number two, they are going to be in several different wars. But number two is they're gonna have a need of a peace treaty, a seven year peace agreement. And that might possibly be from Ezekiel 3839 when a coalition of nations come in there to take the spoil. We know what the spoil is now, which is the the natural gas and oil that's been discovered in Israel. So Russia, Turkey, Persia, which is Iran, Libya, Sudan, Germany, this coalition of nations is gonna come in when they think that Israel's vulnerable, and, God's gonna kill five out of every six of that invading force. The world's gonna have to come back to the UN bargaining table, and they're gonna need somebody that can negotiate a peace treaty. That peace treaty is the seven year tribulation period. And, at the midst of that peace treaty, Revelation chapter 12, the devil knows that his time is short, and he wants to go after the seed of the woman, the woman. And, and that's the nation of Israel. And so in chapter 12, the Antichrist with his armies, try to, you know, destroy two thirds according to Zechariah thirteen eight nine. Two thirds of the Jews are wiped out of 16,000,000. Two thirds are wiped out during the tribulation period. A one third remnant is preserved, and that one third remnant is going to have their born again experience. They're gonna have their Jesus moment. And not until they have their Jesus moment, Jesus isn't coming. He's not coming back till there's a national regeneration conversion of the remnant that is has fled to Petra, to Basra. And when they cry out, blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord, and they recognize that they crucified their Messiah, that's when the Lord Jesus comes back, and he comes back with you and I, the bride of Christ, the 10 thousands and thousands of his saints. So that's kind of a backdrop of what's happening or where it's gonna go. So verse one, moreover, the spirit lifted me and brought me under the east gate of the Lord's house, which looks eastward. And behold, at the door of the gate, five and twenty men, among whom I saw Jazaniah, the son of Azur, and Pelletiah, the son of Benaiah, princes of the people. And so, remember Hananiah, the false prophet, and Jeremiah? This, Azur, the son of Azur, Jazaniah is the brother of Hananiah. And then said he unto me, son of man. So so whereas John the beloved was taken like in a time machine and, for lack of a better term, taken into the spirit in the spirit realm. We're in the physical realm. He's taken into the spiritual realm, and he's able to see eternity chronologically at time time, but he's able to see the future of what's going to happen, you know, up ahead, John the beloved. Ezekiel's taken up into spiritual realm, and God's showing him and explaining to him all that's going to happen with the nation of Israel. And then he's gonna so he's gonna go to Jerusalem. He's in Babylon. He's part of the captivity. He's gonna be lifted up and carried in a vision to Jerusalem and see what's going on there with these 25 men in the temple and all that. And then he's gonna he's going to absorb. He's gonna learn all that God's wanting him to learn. And at the end of this chapter, the Lord's gonna take him back to the captivity in Babylon, and he's going to teach the remnant of of what's of what the future holds for them. And, so then said he unto the son of man, these are the men that plot. Now what did the secret service what did, excuse me, the CIA do after John Fitzgerald Kennedy was killed? And anybody that questioned the official narrative, how did they mock and silence the American people? They began to call you a conspiracy theorist. When Jesus, raised Lazarus from the dead, who is it that conspired, that plotted that word plotted is devices. We're not ignorant of the enemy's devices, his strategies. The enemy strategizes, and these globalists strategize of how they can implement their devices, their their their whatever. And so they plotted, they strategized as Caiaphas, the high priest that year, said that it's expedient that one should die for the nation. So they were basically putting a hit on Jesus. They're gonna assassinate Jesus. They're the very conspiracy. They're conspiring. We're not theorists when we say this. It's not a theory. It's fact. So I would call you and I truthers. We're looking for the truth. And we're not gonna be shouted down or muddled or wishful thought thinking or emotional thinking like it's not happening around us. It is happening. And if we continue to be students and wanna know what the truth is, God will give us discernment. We'll be able to discern between good and evil and right and wrong and these kind of candidates. These are 25 civic leaders. 25. So look at DC. How many are there there? We should be able we should be able to discern if there's anybody that's not a liar that will do what he promises to do. So it's it's it's not that hard. It's really not that hard. But we've been taught in our country that if the CIA calls you a conspiracy theorist, and then the schools teach the official narrative to all of us as kids, and then the media, Walter Cronkite and everybody, teach us and shout us down and tell us that Kamala's winning or whatever. Pretty soon, you're the nut job if you challenge the official narrative. You're in a small, very small group of people. But, all you need to concern yourself with is, are you on the side of truth? Cathy and I driving home from California, we know that we know that we know that we are on the side of truth. There's no fear. Nothing to fear if you're on the side of truth. Now, doesn't mean that I know all truth. It doesn't mean that some lies haven't come in there and there's some things that I think that are true that aren't true. But, as much as as much as I can, the the biggies, the real biggie, the big lies that they're that they're fostering, they're easy to spot. It's real easy to spot, you know? And, we're being proven right about Donald Donald j Trump. We're being proven right. And I know people don't wanna hear it, but we are being proven right. He's moving to the left concerning abortion. Amendment four. Anybody check out amendment four that I told you about yesterday? Nobody even knows about amendment four. But George Soros is funding it, and it's going through the house and the senate. And it's basically gonna be, women can have abortion on demand, whatever they want, and the government will fund it. So any so called red state is gonna be a blue state, and there's nothing anybody can do about it. And Donald j Trump and JD Vance are in favor of a woman's right concerning reproductive, her reproductive rights. So it's mind boggling that he would attempt that this close to the election and say to you evangelicals, I don't fear you. What are you gonna do about it? Who else do you have to vote for? You know? It's mind boggling. So anyway, it it's comforting to not be sucked in to this lie that these guys have with the false prophets saying the Babylonians are never gonna destroy the city. How would you like to be on that side? How would you like to be caught off guard? How would you like to be in first Thessalonians chapter five where the coming of Jesus surprises you? How would you like to be the people that are in darkness and the second coming of Christ surprises you? And you look at the pronouns in first Thessalonians five, you're children of light that that day shouldn't overtake you unaware. You're on the side of truth. Your eyes are open. You're aware. For the unbeliever, the second coming of Christ is gonna be like a thief in the night. Gonna surprise them. Right? And so they're gonna believe the lies. They're gonna be caught up in the seduction, the sorcery, and all. So they they these plots, these men that plot, and we see in Revelation seventeen seventeen that God has put in the hearts of these globalists as they're plotting and scheming and planning and trying to build the beast system. It's the Lord that's setting the stage. These devices mischief and give wicked counsel in this city. So the false prophets, empty promises, verse three, who say, it is not near. Let us build houses. So Peter talks about that. Right? Where is the promise of the coming of the Lord? Everything continues as it always has. But what'd Peter say? They're willingly ignorant, not discerning that God's delay the reason he delays coming is because he's not willing that any would perish, but that all would come to repentance. So that's the church age. It's God's grace and mercy that he's holding off for these two thousand years before he comes back because he saw Rick and Kathy. He saw each of us on in the future there, and he says, you know what? I wanna hold off. I got a few more I wanna bring in. And how much longer do we want him to wait? Anybody in your life, in your sphere of influence that, hey, Lord. Hold off. Hold off. They're not saved yet. They're not saved yet. How long are you willing to wait? Six years. Six years? What? Six. That's a good number. Now I know when the raptures happen. That six I don't know. I'm writing eight. I'm gonna I'm gonna buy it. Yeah. They love to mock, but they don't study. They don't they don't have anything to counteract your argument. They have no ability to reason with facts. They just want to censor right now. They wanna arrest the founder of Telegram. They wanna shut them up. They wanna shut up Julian Assange. They wanna take people on Facebook comments and shut them up. Their greatest fear, the globalist, is information, is the truth getting out. Their greatest weapon is what the devil has, which is deception. So you're a truther. You're putting the truth out there. The most important truth is prophetic truth that Jesus is coming again. And so who say it is not near? Let us build houses. This city is the cauldron, and we are the flesh. So a cauldron is a very, very thick pot. Like, Vicky made soup today. So there'd be a pot, a cauldron. But the cauldron's so thick that in the boiling, the meat is safe from being burned, from being destroyed. So we Jerusalem's the cauldron, and we're the flesh in there. We're the meat in there. We're safe. It might get hot outside and everything, but we're in the middle here, and the Lord says, there's no way the Lord's gonna ever let any evil happen to America because we're a Christian nation. And it just can't happen. And we are founded on Christian principles. Alright. So try that for some also. So therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, o son of man. And the spirit of the Lord fell upon me. Don't you love that when the spirit of the Lord comes upon you? Jesus promised in Acts chapter one verse eight that the Holy Spirit would come upon you. The api, the preposition is api. So we have the Holy Spirit within each of us. If you don't have the Holy Spirit within, then you're not born again, and you're none of his. Right? But all of us that are born again, the holy spirit lives and dwells within us. But Jesus also said that he would send the comforter, the holy spirit, come upon us, and ye shall receive power, and the holy ghost comes upon you. You'll be my witnesses in Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, and the uttermost. And so in the power of the Holy Spirit, we're able to a witness is not something you do necessarily. A witness is someone you are. You're a witness of Jesus Christ. And, he has his witnesses everywhere. And it's in the power of the holy spirit. The world is infatuated with power. They want intellectual power. They want occultic power. They want any kind of power they can get a hold of. But you and I have the power of the Holy Spirit. Greater is he that's in us than he that's in the world. Since God's for us, who can be against us? And, in the power of the Holy Spirit, that's how we operate. We don't operate in arm of the flesh to do the work that God's given us to do. We operate in the power of the holy spirit. Now, Ezekiel doesn't have the indwelling of the holy spirit yet. Why? Because Jesus isn't crucified yet, buried and raised from the dead. So whether it's Samson, Samson came to a point where he knew not that the holy spirit had departed. The holy spirit would come upon Samson, come upon David, and that was enduement with power, dunamis dynamic power that they could go do the killing of the Philistines or whatever it is God was calling them to do. But there came a day where Samson dabbling, playing around, where he knew not that the Holy Spirit had departed, and he was as weak as any other man, wasn't he? So the secret of our strength is Jesus. It's the Holy Spirit, the person of the Holy Spirit. So Ezekiel, he has the power of the Holy Spirit. Prophesy against, oh, son of man. And the spirit of the Lord fell upon me and said unto me, speak thus saith the Lord. Thus have ye said, oh, house of Israel, for I know the things that come into your mind, every one of them. Man, that could be scary. Your thought life. In Genesis six:five, the Lord knew the thought of every single person on the planet that it was only evil continually. Right? And it grieved God that he made man. But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord. Have you found grace in the eyes of the Lord? And so God told Noah to prepare a ark, prepare a boat, and God's gonna bring judgment upon the entire planet. The animals were smart enough to get into the ark. Right? Get into Christ. Christ is the ark. Get into Christ, and you'll be safe from judgment. And, so at least Noah and his family got into the ark and were saved from the judgment that that came. But God knew the heart of man, and it grieved God in his heart that he made man because man had accelerated in his ability to sin, in his ability to create evil. And the sons of God, the fallen angels, one third of the stars that fell with Lucifer, were cohabitating with women, and they were polluting the gene pool because Satan heard in Genesis three fifteen the curse. Satan heard, he knew that the seed of the woman, the virgin born son of God, will one day crush the serpent's head, the devil's head, but that, and that he'd be a Jew, so, born of a virgin. So Satan's been after the nation of Israel. He's been after a way to destroy the nation of Israel knowing that Jesus is gonna be a Jew. And he's tried to destroy the genetic code so that human beings he knew that the Messiah was not gonna be an angel, that the Messiah, the savior of the world, that God would take on the form of a man, the God man, the son of man, and that he would be born of a virgin, that he'd be the last Adam. And so Satan sought a way to pollute the gene pool. And what are they doing today to pollute the gene pool? To reverse that of exclusivity of being a human being, the transgenderism, the transhumanism, merging human beings with machines, changing the DNA with the mRNA vaccines and stuff, trying to change the genetic codes to connect them with computer codes and such, and trying to read people's minds with chips in their head. Right? Elon Musk and all. But God says, hey. I'm the one that's omniscient. I'm the one that knows all things. I'm the one that sees all things. In Hebrews four, everything is naked and open before the eyes with whom we have to do. God sees everything, and he knows everything. And in Psalm a 139 what's it say in Psalm a 139 about God's omniscience and his thoughts toward you and I? Pardon me? Well, that's a good one. Psalm a 139. Oh, Lord, thou hast searched me and known me. Thou knows my downcity and mine uprising. Thou understands my thoughts afar off. Do you understand your thoughts afar off? You don't know what you're even doing tomorrow. I try not. James tell James teaches us, hey. Say, if the Lord will, I'll do this or that. How do you know what one day is gonna bring? Right? Man's heart plans his way, but the Lord directs his steps. Thank God that he intervenes. Thank God that God has said no to so many of my prayers. I look at some of the girls I asked the Lord if I could marry, and you see them now. Oh, Lord, thank you. Thank you. Woah. Ruff. Roof. God intervene. God intervene. Look. Look. God intervene. Nobody cares. Nobody listens to me. Alright. And I'm just choking you sweethearts out there. Alright. I have one sweetheart. Alright. Oh, yay. Oh, my heart. Alright. Well, you go to your you go to your high school reunion, and there's a old boyfriend girlfriend there. Don't you go away from there going, oh, thank god. Thank god you said no to that prayer. You had something so much better. Alright. There you go. So thou compass my path and my lying down and art acquainted with all my ways. For there is not a word in my tongue, but, oh lord, thou knowest it altogether. Thou has beset me behind and before and laid thine hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me. It is high. I cannot attain it. Whether shall I go from thy spirit or whether shall I flee from thy presence? If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there. If I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there. I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea. Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me. So when when Fred was on that submarine, he went into the sea, and they went down, and they lost their ballast and all. They were sinking. It was starting to crack. The Lord was there. The Lord answered Fred's prayer. He said, Lord, you help me save this ship, and I'll give my heart to you and serve you the rest of my life. God heard that prayer. And God gave him and others the knowledge to, reverse that curse of that sinking submarine and got it to surface. And, Fred kept his promise, and God keeps his promises unto us. So whether shall I go from thy spirit or whether shall I free from thy presence? Even there shall thy hand lead me and thy right hand shall hold me. If I say, surely, the darkness shall cover me, even the night shall be light upon me. The globalists are building billion dollar bunkers to get underground when the apocalypse happens. The apocalypse that, in many ways, they're engineering to happen to kill all the useless cedars on the surface of the earth. But what's gonna happen during the tribulation period in Revelation chapter six, what's gonna happen, Viggy? The devil is gonna They're hiding themselves from the wrath of the lamb. Yeah. There's no place to hide. No escape. Wherever you go, billion dollar bunkers, swimming pools, grow lights, all that stuff. Really? There's no yeah. They grow marijuana like you do. They just like you. They make gummies. They make gummies. I know. That's word knowledge. Word knowledge. Alright. Yay. The darkness hides thee not. Alright. So come on back. Come on back. Happy tea. Alright. It's just an herb. Alright. So It's illegal at my word. Verse four, therefore, prophesy against him, prophesy, oh, son of man, and the spirit of the Lord shall be upon thee, and unto me, speak, thus saith the Lord, thus have ye said, oh house of Israel, for I know the things that come into your mind, every one of them. And, again, what's the most deceitful thing in life? Your heart. Your heart. Jeremiah seventeen nine. So if Oprah says, hey. Follow your heart. Follow that if a Mormon say, follow that burning in your bosom. Yeah. I got antacid from the pizza last night. Yeah. The burning in my bosom. Right? Heartburn. Follow Oprah's follow Oprah right to hell. And so the heart's deceitfully wicked above all things, and who can know it? You know? God knows it. Therefore, thus saith the Lord God. Verse six. You have multiplied your slain. I know the things that come into your mind, every one of them. You have multiplied your slain in this city and have filled its streets with the slain. So these guys are murderous. They're murderous as in Genesis six. They were murderers, killing everybody. The rule of law was was failing. And, how many millions and millions and millions of people have died and are dying from the globalist desire at depopulation with the jab, with the kill shot, with the clot shot, wars, poison in your food. The devil is working through your leaders, our leaders, to reduce the population to half a billion people. The Georgia Guidestorms aren't there anymore. They pulled them down. But the objective was just to take this planet from 8,000,000,000 people down to half a 500,000,000, and that would be the proper amount of people to protect the planet and to have enough servants for this automated artificial intelligence society that they're trying to create. When Kathy went to when we went to a baseball game last year at Safeco Field, she went up with Britney to go get some snacks, peanuts, popcorn, whatever. Anyway, they went to this little store that's an Amazon AI store. So all you do when you first walk in there is take your card and let them see your card. Right? Scan the card. And then you go in there and grab whatever you want. And then when you leave when you leave there, what happened? You just walk out. Oh, and they don't slap you or not? No. Alright. Walk out. So you just walk out. Now what's interesting is the AI has not reached the place where they actually can do that, all automated. There are actually cameras in there, people watching in India watching you, and they're actually, they got your card number when you go through there, and they're actually the ones making sure the dollar amount to you and all that. It's not just the AI that's able to do it, but that's where they wanna get. They're still using men. So even the 500,000,000 people, they recognize they need some people to, you know, get the ski slopes ready. You know? They they wanna go skiing. They need someone to get the ski slopes ready, someone to cook the food, someone to clean, somebody to do all the menial work and all that. They don't want everyone to be dead. So but anyway, that's the objective of the devil. Jesus said in John 10, the thieves come not but to steal, to kill, and to destroy. So you wanna know Satan's strategy is to steal, kill, and destroy. That's his strategy. And he works that strategy, that hatred, in these civic leaders. These people that, we would call them reprobates. Today, they call them psychopaths. But basically, they're people that controlled and inspired, by the devil, the little g god of this world, the prince of the power of the air. We don't fear. God hasn't given us the spirit of fear, but the power of love of sound mind because we know that God rules over the affairs of man, that he's sovereign. King Nebuchadnezzar, he found that out and ate straw, ate grass for seven seasons. Alright. So so they filled the streets with the slain. Verse seven. Therefore, thus saith the Lord God, your slain whom you have laid in the in the midst of it, they are the flesh, and this city is the cauldron, but I will bring you forth out of the midst of it. So you guys try to give a false hope to everybody, a false hope that you're broadcasting to people that, hey, don't worry. The economy is doing great. You know? Nobody's gonna lose anything. You know? Everything's gonna continue as it always has. And meanwhile, they've engineered the collapse of the dollar, the collapse of the present economic system. But, doesn't seem to be any alarm bells going off, right, from these so called government people we've, elected. And the same is true with these guys. They don't want the people to panic, but it's a false hope. So now he comes with a negative truth. Therefore, thus saith the lord god, your slain whom you have laid in the midst of it, they are the flesh, and this city is the cauldron, but I will bring you forth out of the midst of it. So you're not gonna be able to stay here. You're going to there's no safety. There's no escape. You're going to rest with the wicked. You're going to be judged. Sometimes as a pastor, there's so much negative truth that people get overwhelmed. Tell me smooth things. Tell me positive things. I don't want you teaching prophecy. That's that's negative truth. It's doom and gloom. I would rather find a teacher because I've got itchy ears that will scratch me where I itch. I would rather hear doctrines of demons and fables than the truth. The truth is too hard. Too hard. It's a bitter pill to swallow, you know. But it's bitter going in because it's the end of what we know. But it's sweet because Jesus is coming again. Amen. You see? There's a bitterness. Yes. Oh. But the sweetness is my grandkids won't have to suffer. My grandkids will be with Jesus. I don't want my grandkids to be around these nut jobs, the stuff they have planned for my grandkids. You know? How much longer can we hold them at bay? You know? How much longer before they just seize them? You know? Grab hold of them. So we we thank the Lord for the hedge of protection presently, but we recognize that there's no secular person or human being that we can put our hope and trust in that's gonna fix everything. You guys are wearing the shirts. Normal's not coming back. Right? Okay. There you go. He's coming. And we've crossed the Rubicon, and no going back now. So it's a negative truth. Doesn't sell. It's not gonna cause the church to grow to talk like this, but it's reality. You have feared the sword, and I will bring a sword upon you, saith the Lord God. So the armies your armies can't save you. Your armies are too feeble. You're not gonna be able to, withstand what's coming. So the present administration brought in 30,000,000 people, 30,000,000 military age, over 30,000,000. The Michael Yon has chronicled the what's that? Darien Darien Pass at in Panama. And Blinken, with his black helicopters and all there, coordinating, funding, also through subcontractors, the ability to get these military age men into America, 30 to 40,000,000 of them. And just this week, we saw where a mother on a school bus, like, of them tried to get on a school bus. How many? 20. Twenty Twenty of them tried to get on a school bus. So now in Israel, when I went to Israel, nineteen ninety one, ninety three, check it out. When you're in Israel, the moms carry an Uzi. They walk their kids to school, and they've got an Uzi, a purse here, an Uzi there, and they're taking their kids. That's how it's done because they they wanna protect their children. So that's where we're headed. We're headed to where we're gonna have to protect ourselves because once George Soros and these guys say it's game on, we're gonna see Black Lives Matters. We're gonna see the Antifa. We're gonna see these groups that are paid on on on a Craigslist. They're getting $15 an hour, 20 an hour to go into these communities and break glass and all that sort of stuff. They're called provocateurs. They're there to try and, and the and the the police officer told to stand down so you're not allowed to arrest them at all, but it creates a crisis reaction solution. And the solution is UN troops, martial law. They want the present rule of law to fail purposely, get enough agitators and people angry at each other, to create enough of a crisis to bring about a civil war and or martial law, and that's the way they're gonna get rid of weapons in America. They're gonna go to martial law, and you don't have your protection of of your second amendment. So it's coming. It's getting more and more evil. We're in the calm before the storm. It's building momentum. It's building. Klaus Schwab recently said we need some real good shock events to shock people in the new world order. And so but the churches are silent. Pastors are silent. Nobody wants to talk about it. And I love JD Frog. He goes for it. Like minded with JD. There's some others that I can listen to and glean a few things here and there. But I have to say, there's secular people who know more about what's going on than there are Christian people. They're wiser than the Christians. The Christians have been fed materialism and prosperity and a pleasant, blessed life and can't deal with anything other than that. And so the ones that are warning, the watchmen that are warning are people like Whitney Webb and others like her. Mark Dinsmore has introduced me to Shannon Joy. I think she might be a Christian. And some others that are investigating. They're producing the documents. They're producing out of their own mouths. This is what they're saying. So it's not speculation. And yet, the churches are silent and don't want to talk about it. Now, the church in Germany, when Hitler was in power, did the church speak up? Silent. Why? Why were they silent? Why why would they allow trainloads of Jews to be sent to concentration camps and the pastors tell the people to sing louder to drown out the screaming of the Jews on those trains? Why would a so called Christian ever give into something like that? So you got 700 pastors out of over 3,000, 4,000. I forget how many. But only 700 that resisted Hitler, and many died because of it. Right? So we we don't want that on our epitaph. You know? We wanna make sure that if if, we're gonna go out, that we go out standing on the truth. And Red Rider. Little Red Rider BB gun? I did. That's cool. Yeah. Good to practice with. My grandkids, when I got home, told me that they killed a raccoon. It's not protected species, is it? No. Uh-oh. It wasn't a parrot. It wasn't it wasn't a woodpecker or an eagle. Thirty thirty shots with a Red Rider pellet gun, I think. Then it finally dropped to the ground. And then, Ezra went over there and buttstocked at papa. He buttstocked it and broke its head. I've never done something like that in my entire life. These guys are warriors, man. They're warriors. Nobody's gonna mess with us. And you got your Red Rider. Okay. And our ladies in the church, they all go shooting every Tuesday night, so we're we're ready. And we got people that know how to make their own bullets. Beans and bullets, baby. That's how we roll. Alright. So so carnal. I lost my train of thought now. Golly. Therefore, thus saith the lord god, your slain whom you have laid in the midst now we already did that. No escape. You feared the sword. The armies are gonna come after you. And I'll bring you out of the midst of of it and deliver you into the hands of the foreigners. We got them here. And will execute judgment among you. Now I wanna throw something out. I'm gonna speculate. I don't know if it's true. You're gonna have to research it. But years and years of driving down to California, we would along the five freeway, we would notice that farms were going out of business, that they were they weren't getting water. Newsome and the guys were causing the water, fine signing them to just go into the ocean, and then claiming that there wasn't any water, that we're in a drought. So a lot of the small farmers lost their farms. And Feinstein's husband and Pelosi's husbands are in real estate, and word is that they began to broker those farms to the Chinese and other foreigners to buy up all this farm. Now guess what? Water's reappeared, And there's water towers that are painted, as Kathy would say, with the Chinese symbolism there. Okay? Now, here's the kicker. Here's the kicker. Now we're noticing and now this might this might have been there all the time and we just didn't notice it. But it seems like we're noticing oil wells going up. All over those fields now. Yeah. In the farmland. Weren't oil wells. I didn't think there were. Now the Chinese get to pump oil. Put down high five so much. Uh-uh. Isn't that mind blowing? It's just mind blowing if it's true. It's like Kathy and I are like, there's oil wells. Who lets them do oil? I thought they shut down oil production in America. They won't let them, you know, do it right now. Alright. Mind blowing. And alright. And I will bring you out of the midst of it and deliver you into the hands of the foreigners and will execute judgment among you. So again, when we were down there, there was an enormous amount of Taiwanese people, Asians, Chinese, Taiwanese, just over flooding Orange County, Southern California, just everywhere. And one of the guys told me and and all the other different nationalities, just a melting pot of just everybody there buying up houses and trying to come into a place that's still a good place to be. Very wealthy people. But one of the guys told me it's because the Taiwanese know that China is going to invade Taiwan. So many of them that are wealthy are fleeing just as many of the wealthy fled Germany, before 1938, before it got locked down. Alright. So foreigners, ye shall fall by the sword. I will judge you in the border of Israel, and ye shall know that I am the Lord. So it's not gonna be a party. You're gonna be judged. In first Kings twenty five fifteen through 21, there's a description there. And so you're you're not gonna be there. I'm gonna take you out of there. And then here's where verse 11 where ribla comes in. This city shall not be your cauldron, neither shall ye be flesh be in the midst of it, but I will judge you in the border of Israel. So you're gonna be dragged out. They're gonna be bunker busting. Saddam Hussein's not gonna be able to hide in a hole. Qaddafi is gonna be chased. The rats, the sewer, they're all gonna be flushed, and nobody's gonna be able to escape. And Zedekiah and many of the nobles, tried to escape, come out the back way. And in second Kings 25, turn there also in Jeremiah 52, there's a picture of what happened. But Jeremiah fifty two eight and eleven, and then second Kings twenty five fifteen through 21. And let's see what happened. Let's see if God's prophecy came true. Wait a minute. This was written after the fact. It's so accurate that they must have wrote this after the fall. Second Kings twenty five eighteen. Zedekiah's eyes got plucked out after his sons were killed. That was the last thing he was gonna see in Ribla. And the captain of the guard, took Siri, the chief priest, and Zephaniah, the second priest, and the three keepers of the door. And out of the city, he took the officer who was set over the men of the war, and five men of them were in the king's presence who were found in the city. And the principal scribe of the host mustered the people of the land, and threescore men, 60 men, of the people of the land who were found in the city. And Nebuchadne, captain of the guard, took these and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah. And the king of Babylon smote them and slew them in Riblah in the hand of Hamath. So Judah was carried away out of their land and remained in the land of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had left, even over them he made Gedaliah the son of Ahiakim, the son of Shaphan governor. And when all the captains of the armies and they of their men, and the great men of Babylon made Gedaliah governor, there came to Gedaliah at mitzvah, even Ishmael, and we read about this in Jeremiah, and Ishmael killed him, an assassin. Alright. So back to chapter 11. Verse 11. The city shall not be your your cauldron, so it's not gonna protect you, and neither shall ye be the flesh in the midst of that. I will judge you in the border of Israel. And ye shall know that I am the Lord, for he have not walked in my statues, executed my ordinance, but have done after the manner of the nations that are round about you. So you're involved in humanism. You're not exalting God and keeping him on the throne of your life and as a nation. You're not a Christian nation. You're not a Jewish nation anymore. You're a pagan nation. And pastor Jack Hibbs was talking about that, how he was studying some of the paganism and how the democratic party, all the parties, all the pagans, all the Beyonce, all the performances that, you know, the a lot of the the Olympics and stuff is pagan. Whole world's moving in the direction of paganism. And now God intended that in Isaiah forty three ten through 12 that Israel would be a light unto the nations, that they'd be a light, a beacon to draw people under the Lord, the true and living God. But instead, they wind up being like the people around them. That's called peer pressure. That's you're you're you're, you've got such a high purpose that God's given you, but instead, you're a Christian kid growing up in a Christian home, and you're seduced by the world. You wanna be like the world. That's a powerful, powerful seduction for our Christian children. But even us as adults, we wanna be, like the world. So love not the world neither the things that are in the world, all that's in the world, lust of lust, lust of the eye, pride of life not of the father, but the world And the world perishes and lust thereof, but he that doeth the will of God abides forever. Amen. Yeah. You're a friend of the world. You're an enemy of God. So it came to pass when I prophesied that Paltiah, the son of Benaiah, died. Oh, there you go. I wish I could pull some of that off. Alright. This is what God says. Boom. Someone drops dead. Ananias and Sapphira. Boom. And fear filled the church. Everybody's filled with fear after that, you know. Well, they they just lied. That's all they did was lie. Boom. You know? So the Lord gives a confirmation. Here's a little here's a little taste of what's gonna happen to multitudes of people. So one of the guys, one of the nobles died, then fell down upon my face and cried with a loud voice, don't and said, oh, Lord God, wilt thou make a full end of the remnant of Israel? And so so he's kind of interceding like in Genesis chapter 18 like Abraham did. When God let Abraham know that he was gonna destroy Sodom and Gomorrah, Abraham had a nephew named Lot in Sodom and Gomorrah. So Abraham begins to negotiate with God. God, are you gonna kill the righteous with the wicked? You're gonna is is it just? Is it just for a just God, a holy God to kill the righteous with the wicked? If there be 50 righteous, will you relent? Will you not destroy the entire city? Yeah. If there's 45. If there's 40. If there's 35. If there's 30. If you can find 10, I'll hold back. Couldn't find 10. Right? And Jesus said, remember Lot's wife. Why did he say that? Why would that mean something to us? Remember Lot's wife. So no man putting his hand to the plow, you're moving forward serving the Lord. He's coming for you. You're going home. He's gonna deliver you from judgment. And what did Lot ask his wife? Is that light on, honey? He asked her, did you remember to turn the porch light off? And she turned around. Good lord. What a hardcore dude, you know? He wanted some. That's right. So salt is a preserving influence. So he brings up the remnant. Are we the remnant church? Jim Raquel likes to call us the remnant church. People that study prophecy, people that know the truth. And and, so we negotiate. We negotiate like Ezekiel. We negotiate like Abraham. We are intercessors, and we intercede on behalf of the pagans around us, on behalf of people that are perishing. Because God takes no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from their wickedness. Right? So we are who God's entrusted with being intercessors to pray for people that are perishing. And, I heard Tom Hughes say, a good thing the other day, impregnatory prayers. Jim always helps me with that. Sometimes you read in the Psalms like Psalm 83, Impectatory Prayer, where you're asking God to get your enemies. Get these enemies. Deal with them, you know? And Tom says, you know, sometimes you hear pastors say, oh, we gotta pray for this guy, you know. Name him, Soros or whatever. He goes, I don't. They're evil men. Evil men. I pray for God to stop them. And so you gotta balance that out when the Lord is is putting upon your heart to pray for a Manasseh, the most wicked king in the nation of Israel Judah ever ever ever had. He sacrificed his own children. His wickedness was so great that even though later with Josiah, he brought in reforms to bring the people away from the Sodomites and away from the idols and all that, still the they were ripe for judgment simply because of the wickedness for over fifty years that Manasseh, had done. Alright. So verse 14. Again, the word of the lord came unto me. Don't you love it? The lord wants to keep talking to you. God has something to say. Are we listening? Here's your servant, Lord. Eli told Samuel, next time you hear that voice, you go in there. Here here's your servant, Lord. Your servant's listening. Are you his servant? Are you listening? The eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth to show himself strong on behalf of a man whose heart is half hearted toward him. Perfect toward him. Right? He doesn't want us to be a a divided heart. So again, the word of the lord came unto me saying, son of man, your brethren, even your brethren and the men of your kindred and all the house of Israel, holy, are they unto whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, get you far from the lord unto this land given in possession. So he's talking like somehow they're going to be able to stay there and they're not going to have to leave. And you guys want it, you're gonna have to take it because we're staying here. We're not we're not gonna give it up. And but that's not the case. He says, therefore, say, thus saith the Lord God, although I have cast them far off among the nations, and though I have scattered them among the countries, yet will I be to them a little sanctuary in the countries where they shall come. Isn't that sweet? The Lord's your sanctuary? You're losing your temple. You're losing your home. You're losing your country. You're gonna go into prison, but I'm gonna be there with you. I'm gonna be your sanctuary. I'm gonna be the place of escape. I'm gonna be your place of refuge. Right? Therefore, say, thus saith the Lord God, I even I gather you from the people and assemble you out of the countries where you have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel. So that's where we see Ezekiel, 3637, the 05/14/1948, the rebirth of, Israel. And, over two thousand years of being, scattered all over the globe. 16,000,000 Jews today, Hitler tried to wipe out. We saw Haman who hung from his own gallows. The devil's had plots throughout history. If he can't, pollute the gene pool and, ruin because Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord. Noah was perfect. And that perfect wasn't morally perfect. It was perfect in that his genes were not polluted by Nephilim. And so God was able to take Noah and preserve a pure gene pool and then be able to repopulate the planet thereafter. So Satan went to the next tier. Well, if I can't pollute the Messiah as being human, so he can't come as a human, then I'm going to destroy the nation that's going to birth him. So the Jews are that nation, the lion of the tribe of Judah. So we know the tribe too. And, so throughout history, the devil's tried to destroy the nation of Israel because if there's no Israel at the end of the age, then there's no messiah that can be born through Mary the virgin. Right? So two thousand years after seventy AD, when the temple was destroyed, two thousand years gone by and, close to two thousand, and, we see 05/14/1948, a miracle regathering and such a blessing there. Now let's look at some verses. We got time. That speak of the Lord as being our sanctuary, of being our refuge. Okay? So I got a few verses. You guys ready? Alright. Here we go. Rob's got a microphone. He didn't give Donald one, but he's giving you guys one. Alright. Psalm sixty two seven and eight. Okay. Okay. Psalm five Psalm 57. Wait. Five fifty seven. Psalm fifty seven one. Fifty seven one. I got it. Okay. Psalm forty six one and seven. Forty six one and seven. Psalm 14 verse six. I'll take it. Psalm nine verse nine. Proverbs eighteen ten. Okay. Now here's one. If you're in trouble, what do you dial? Psalm ninety one one through three. That should do it. Alright. We're coming up to the top here. And we're going with Psalm sixty two seven and eight. Psalm sixty two seven and eight. In God is my salvation and my glory. The rock of my strength and my refuge is in God. Eight, trust in him at all times, ye people. Pour out your heart before him. God is a refuge for us, Selah. So when a crisis comes, we learn Who's next? Who or what we're trusting in. When there's a crisis of government and you can't put your faith and trust in your elected leaders, now you now you have to transition. Alright. Who who can I trust? What am I gonna trust in? Economic collapse. What am I gonna trust in? I've been trusting in my my wealth, my savings account, all those sort of things. When danger comes, well, I've been trusting that our military, some trust in horses, some in chariots, but we're gonna trust in the living God. So it compels us and helps us to live like a child by faith that the Lord's our sanctuary, that he's our refuge. He's the one I'm gonna flee to. He's the one, even though I don't understand anything what's going on, but he's the one that's going to take care of me. So I like Philippians one six, being confident in this very thing that he that has begun a good work in you, that he will perform it unto the day of Jesus Christ. God's gonna complete the work that he's begun in our lives as long as we trust him. Psalm fifty seven one, like Paul. Be merciful unto me, oh God. Be merciful unto me for, what, the kinda hard to see. My soul trusteth. My soul trusteth in thee. I'll have Robert. Yea. Yea. In the shadow In the shadow of thy wings. Will I make Will I make my refuge. So when Jesus when Jesus is saying how often I would gather you as a mother hen does gather her brood under her wings, that's the picture there, is that protection of the mother hen with her little chicks. So you're gonna run, and the Lord's gonna put his wings over you and protect you. Psalm forty six one and verse seven. That's you. Oh, where? Let's get over there. Bingo. Oh, winner. Winner. God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. The Lord of hosts is with us. The God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah. Amen. Psalm, 14 verse six. Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor because the Lord is his refuge. The Lord is the poor's refuge. That's where we flee. Psalm nine verse nine. The Lord also will be refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble. Thank you. Those that are oppressed. The powerful are pushing down on you. Proverbs eighteen ten. That's me. The name of the Lord is a strong tower. The righteous runneth into it and is safe. So some you we don't wanna trust in men. We wanna trust in the Lord. Let's see here. Psalm ninety one one through three. He that dwelleth in the secret place of the, the most high shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the say of the Lord, he is my refuge and my fortress. My God in him will I trust. Surely, he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler and from the noisome pestilence. Good. Alright. So thank you. He's our refuge. He's a I'll be a little sanctuary for you. In John 14, Jesus said, if you love me, you'll keep my word, and my father and I will come and make our abode in thee. So the blessing is is that the holy spirit, we're the vessel, we're the jar of clay, that the temple we are the temple of the holy spirit where God dwells, the dwelling place. So you have a temple that man built, Solomon's temple or Zerubbabel's temple, and it's destroyed, not one stone upon another. And the Shekinah glory leaving the area Ichabod, the glory of the lord has departed. But God dwells within each of us. So we individually are the temple of the Lord. And then the that's in the singular, but we're also told that we're the temple, of the Holy Spirit collectively, corporately, as a church, God dwells in our midst. And so that's a and we can quench the holy spirit. We can grieve the holy spirit, and we can certainly Abuse. Abuse that privilege. Yeah. And we don't wanna do that. We don't want the church to become sick and stale and unloving, unkind, and a place where the Laodicean church kicked Jesus out of the church. He's on the outside knocking on the door because he's been kicked out. We don't wanna be like that. I love you guys. Don't leave your first love. Alright. So he said, therefore, saith the Lord God, I will even gather you from the from the people and assemble you out of the countries where you have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel. So people hate these kind of verses because number one, they're not gonna be able to exterminate you. You're gonna be scattered all over the world, but I'm gonna regather you. And I'm not only gonna regather you, but I'm gonna give you your land that I that I promised to you. And nobody's gonna be able to keep or, you know, keep you out of your land. And so we see the struggle presently in Israel with the war that's taking place where, Israel's trying to clean the area of Gaza. And, remember, those that are in charge are not godly people yet. They don't believe in Jesus. So they'll do a lot of wicked evil things to accomplish their ends. But, regardless, God is saying you're gonna have the land. And they shall come there, and they shall take away all of its detestable things and all of its abominations from there. And so when the nation of Israel is regathered and they come in, there's gonna be a cleansing of the land. According to Zechariah thirteen two, there's gonna be a cleansing of getting rid of all the things that defile all the detestable things. So picture the antichrist going into the temple at the midpoint of the tribulation period and declare himself to be god, demand to be worshiped as god. Jesus described this as the abomination of desolation. So in the second coming, when Jesus comes, because the last three and a half years of the tribulation period, it it reverts or it changes from an apostate Christianity, one world global religious system, to the worshiping of Lucifer, the worshiping of the devil. So at the end of and the image of the beast. So at the end of the tribulation period, Jesus comes back. And when he comes back, there's a seventy five day interval there before the start of the millennium. Blessed is he that comes at thirteen hundred and thirty fifth day. Right? So twelve sixty days after the midpoint, twelve sixty days after signing is the midpoint, twelve sixty at the midpoint is the end. So you you could know when Jesus is coming. You don't know the rapture. But if you're a student of prophecy at the time, you would know. And then seventy five day interval, the cleansing of the planet. Think of the condition of the planet. He doesn't need seventy five days. The sheep and goat judgments of Matthew 25 take place, and the Gentiles that believed during the tribulation period going in. And, you've got the resurrection of the tribulation saints, the resurrection of Old Testament saints. You have the church in its new glorified body. And now you have a remnant of Israel. The true Israel of God are those who believe. They're the wife of Jehovah. We're the bride of Christ. We're gonna go into the millennium, and according to, like, Isaiah 11, the curse is reversed, and everything's been put back as close to an Edenic condition. Not all the way. There's still gonna be sin during the millennium. Gonna be Gentiles that sin. And but part of that is the cleansing of all the defilement, all of the occultic statues and things that mankind did. The earth dwellers is the way the book of Revelation calls them, how they defiled the planet. And so that's what he says here according to Zechariah thirteen two, the detestable things. And and notice what he says, And I will give them one heart. So this is Jeremiah 31 right here. We read about this when we studied Jeremiah. And I will I will give them one heart, and I'll put a new spirit within you. So you guys want me to sing it? Psalm fifty one ten. We sang it tonight. Create in me a clean heart, oh God, and renew a right spirit within me. That's David in his prayer of repentance for being a murderer of Uriah in an adulter with Bathsheba. Psalm 32, Psalm 38, Psalm 51 are David's cry out to God in repentance because Nathan said, David, you're the man. And David not that man. That man. And, David came to that place of repentance. So God's gonna give the nation of Israel a new heart. There's no reforming the heart of man. There's no way you can go to prison and see a psychiatrist and have your heart be reformed, changed. The heart's deceitfully wicked above all things. There's no there's no way to change the heart. Only God can change a heart. And second Corinthians five seventeen, if any man be in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things are passed away. Right. Ephesians two verse 10, for we are his workmanship, his created in Christ Jesus on the good works which God has before ordained that we should walk in them. So we need to be born again. We can't be body and soul and fulfill the calling that God has upon our life. We have to be body, soul, and spirit. We need a new man, a new heart. My heart is endemic in nature. My heart is a fallen heart. I need a new heart, and I need the power of the Holy Spirit to enable me, to live the Christian life. If any man says he has no sin, he's a liar, and the truth isn't in him. So it doesn't mean I'm gonna reach a place of sinless perfection prior to having my new glorified body. But according to Romans six, I don't practice sin. Sin will not have dominion over me. So I can choose with the help of the Holy Spirit to not continue being a murderer, not continue to be a liar, not continue being an adulterer, not continue whatever sin you know, I have a real difficulty with chocolate, but I'm trying so hard. You know? One day, I'll know even as I am known. You know? And yeah. Get thee behind me, Satan. Alright. And I will give them one heart, and I'll put a new spirit within you. And I will take the stony heart. So your heart remember the sower, the seed of the sower? He's broadcasting the the seed. Remember? Yeah. Now the farmer is preparing the soil. Right? The Lord, the Holy Spirit is preparing the soil of your heart. And you and I are broadcasting the gospel. But we can't control where that gospel hits or or whatever, the type of soil of the heart. So the one kind of soil is the wayward soil. Right? It's the stony heart. The soil hits the pathway where people are walking between the farmer's furrows, and that's the walkway, and it's hard soil. And then the demons, the devil, the birds come and take that seed, call it away. So you share the gospel with somebody, it hits their heart, doesn't penetrate, and a devil comes along and lies to them, takes it away. Another kind of soil is the rocky soil. Just beneath the surface of soil that looks good, there's a ledge of rock. Not rocks, ledge of rock. And so same sort of thing, the seed's able to germinate, the roots can't get deep root system. They hit that ledge of rock. And so, I love Jesus and singing the whole thing and you're filled with joy and all that, seeming conversion. But as soon as trials come, you wilt. The sun beats down, proves there's no roots into Jesus. So you wilt. Bears no fruit. The third type is the one you and I need to be careful of, the weedy soil. And what did Jesus say the weedy soil was? In my front yard. The cares of this life and the deceitfulness of riches choke off that seed and you don't bear fruit because you're too in love with the world. That's where we are as Americans. So we got to make a decision. We got to let go of the rice that's in the tree or that hunter's gonna come and club us in the head because we're too stupid as a monkey to just simply let go of the the rice. Right? Remember how we catch a monkey? They're threatening you, you're gonna lose your job. Threatening you, threatening you, threatening you, threatening you. And you're like, I can't lose my job. I can't lose my house. I can't lose this. You're not letting go. It's time to walk by faith. The cares of its life and the deceitfulness of riches. Now you gotta let go. You let go, now you're to grow by faith. God gets you a new job. You find out you got a religious exemption. You find all all these different ways that they were lying to you, but it required faith. It required a step of faith. And so even more so, we're gonna have to continue to be like that. The fourth type of soil? The good soil. God's preparing their heart through adversity, through the adversity of the tribulation period. God is purifying a remnant. It's gonna be hell on earth for those that are Jews. They're gonna be at their wits' end. They're gonna be backed into a corner called Petra. They're finally gonna realize they crucified Jesus. And they're gonna cry out, blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord. And God's gonna give them a new heart. Then Jesus is coming. So this happens before the second coming. He's not coming. You're not gonna see my face again and tell you and I in the church, that's not true. You and I, he could come at any moment because it's the rapture of the church. So there's an internal change. We in prison, we can go through 12 steps. We can go through reform. We can see a psychiatrist. We can make external changes. But we can't change the heart. But God God can. And my mom went twenty years sober not drinking alcohol, and it was a good support system to keep her sober. But she was still what they call a dry drunk. You know, she still crayed and smoked them cigarettes. Know? So she had no rest in her heart. Never found that rest. So Jeremiah thirty one thirty one, it's an unconditional covenant. Notice, I will. I will. Not you guys. I will do this. And and so we we cry out, Lord, change my heart, oh God. Make it ever new. Change my heart, oh God. All right. So they that may, that they may walk in my statutes and keep mine ordinances and do them, and they shall be my people, and I will be their god. And so they're gonna have the ability to walk in obedience unto him. They're not gonna, worship anymore the pagan, false gods that the devil promotes, and they're gonna enter into a new covenant. You and I've entered into a new covenant. The bread and the wine symbolize, the grape juice symbolize. This is a new testament in my blood. Right? This do as often as you eat it, as you drink it in remembrance of me. Right? But all it. It. Drink it all, baby. Alright. So a new servant, a new relationship. Romans eleven twenty six, not all Israel, you know, is gonna be saved, but a remnant's gonna be saved. Blindness in part in part has happened unto Israel in the church age. In part, there's Jews getting saved. Blindness in part has happened unto Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles come in. And then then a remnant is gonna be saved. In Isaac, Romans nine seven, not all they that are Israel are really of Israel, but in Isaac shall they see be called. So that means that Abraham had children, that came forth that were Jews, but it wasn't mixed with faith. So those are the true Israel of God or those mixed with faith. Jesus said that in John eight to the religious leaders, that their father was the devil. And they said they prided themselves, we're Abraham's children. No. Abraham rejoiced to see my day and he saw it and he was glad. You guys, your father is a devil. He's a murderer and a liar from the beginning. So they weren't the true Israel of God because it wasn't mixed with faith. They didn't even they didn't even know the Messiah. They couldn't recognize him. They were blinded. And, Romans nine twenty seven says, only a remnant shall be saved. And so narrow is the way that leads to life eternal, and few there be that find it. Broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many go in there at. So you're in a very small group, a select group of people that God's decided he wants to spend all eternity with you. He wants to be your sanctuary. He wants to be your place of refuge. He wants fellowship with you. He wants you to know him, and he wants to know you, and he wants to change your heart to transform you. See, those are his words, transformation. Not transhumanism, not transgender, a transformation, a metamorphosis where you go from being body and soul to body, soul, and spirit where God changes you and I from within. And we're being changed at work of sanctification. We're being changed from glory to glory into the image of Christ. So this work has begun, and we continue to change as we yield to the Holy Spirit, and we become more, like our Jesus. Doesn't mean you're gonna be a god. You'll never be a god. It just means that you're made in the image of god, and fellowship's restored, and you're not gonna have that stony heart anymore. You're gonna have a new heart. And he talks about circumcising the foreskin of your heart, that you gotta get rid of that fleshly heart, and you need a spiritual heart. You need a new heart that craves and loves the things of the spirit rather than being controlled by the desires of the flesh. There's a battle in Galatians five, the flesh against the spirit, spirit against the flesh. That's gonna take place until we die or the rapture. But we can if we walk in the spirit, we don't fulfill the lust of the flesh, the warring. So the way that we win that battle is feeding the spirit, living after the spirit. We gotta starve the flesh. There's no reform, reformation for the flesh. God's gonna make a new creation, not the old, a new creation in Christ Jesus. So you crucify the flesh, speaks of death. You mortify the deeds of the flesh. A mortician, death to the flesh, death to the flesh. So because I was so loving and kind when Kathy and I first got married, we were just adjusting to being brand new Christians and brand new married couples. And one of my classic phrases to Kathy was, Kathy, you gotta die. You gotta die, man. That's what the Bible says. We gotta die. Gotta die, baby. Gotta die to the flesh. And look look who she's become now. Look at look at this. We still have to die. Yeah. We're still learning that lesson, death to self. That's what Every day. Oh, every day. Day. We've got mortify the deeds of the flesh. We got crucify. I'm crucified with Christ. Nevertheless, I live. Yet not I, but Christ liveth in me. We've also got reckon the old man dead. Reckon the old man dead. So you gotta you you gotta count that old man's dead, that old Rick's dead, that old Rick's crucified. He's not even alive anymore. It's Christ through me. It's Christ living through me. And that's the life of the spirit. That's the life of victory. And so Jesus demonstrated, father, if you're willing, remove this cup from me, but nevertheless, not as I will, but thy will be done. Right? So we pray that, Lord, your will be done. And in a minute here, I'm gonna sing the our father prayer, and you'll you'll hear it in there too. You'll hear it. Are we gonna sing in there? Oh, we're I don't know. Maybe Donald will sing it for us or or Rob. Okay. I have a question. No. Not right now. I have to wait. And, is it about ice cream? No. Oh, okay. Is it a serious question? Then are you supposed to make him laugh at the Lord? Don't know. That's that's above my how how am I gonna make him laugh? Yeah. I see God laughing in Psalm two. Yep. Oh, how the heathen rage and imagine a vain thing against the Lord and against his anointed. God, from heaven, stands them in derision. He laughs at the plans of the globalists. He laughs. It says that in there? Yeah. Yeah. He grew up to laugh a laugh about that. Right? But he's gonna sing over you and Zephaniah. He's gonna sing over you. You're his bride. Wedding song. So recompense their way upon their own heads, saith the Lord God. So the unbelievers are going to have that recompense. They're gonna reap what they've sown upon their own heads. And whose heart walk after their heart. So it says, they walk in the the statutes and keep the ordinances so the life of obedience. But as for them, whose heart walk after the heart of the detestable things and their abominations, I will recompense their way upon their own heads, saith the Lord God. So when Jesus comes back, the blood is going to be as high as the horse's bridle. The armies of the Antichrist are gonna come and try and destroy the nation of Israel, but they're also because Satan's a student of prophecy, they're also going to try to keep Jesus from returning and taking possession of the planet. That's how insane they are. Right? With all their technology and all their stuff. And, and that's where Psalm two, God laughs. God laughs at those plans. So when he comes, how does he destroy the armies of the antichrist? How does he destroy the antichrist? So the Shekinah glory the Shekinah glory. Right? The brightness destroy and the sword of his mouth, which he just speaks it. And the blood is four and a half feet high. Revelation 14, as high as the horse's bridle over the Battlefield Of Armageddon from a 200 furlong area, which is from Basra all the way up to the Mount Of Olives, the Valley Of Jezreel, Armageddon, Valley Of Jehoshaphat, different names for this battlefield, but the blood is going to be as high as the horse's bridle. So, now the Antichrist, he's a man, and he just drops dead right in the field, right there in the field, you know, in the battlefield. And the false prophet, he too. And angels come and grab hold of them, and they take them immediately to the Lake of fire. The devil is grabbed hold of, right, by an angel that takes him to the abyss, and the abyss where he's going to be held prisoner for a thousand years. Right? And then at the end of that thousand years, he's loosed. That's another war. It'd be a war at the end of the millennium. He's gonna be loosed for a season, and he's going to tempt the gentiles, the unbelievers, into warring against God again, and the fire comes out and snuffs them out, and then the devil's taken. And he meets up with the beast, the false prophet, and all the wicked dead after the great white throne judgment, and they're in the lake of fire. Where the worm dieth not, and the fires never quenched. It's not in the abstract. Literal. It's a literal place with literal punishment. Another description is that of outer darkness. God is light far away from where God is, and His presence, and where the worm dieth not, the fire is never quenched. Alright. So then did the cherubim lift up their wings and the wheels, and Donald sang a song about that. Holy, holy, holy. Then did the cherubim lift up their wings and the wheels beside them, and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above. And the glory of the Lord went up from the midst of the city, and stood upon the mountain, which is on the East side of the city. So let's backtrack. The glory of the Lord's in the holy of holies. The glory of the Lord departs the holy of holies within the holy place. Then the glory of the Lord is on the east wall by the, Gentile court, the city there. And then now the glory of the Lord, the Shekinah glory of God has moved outside the city, to the Mount of East side of the city to the Mount Of Olives. This is the location that Jesus ascended from. Right? The ascension. The power of the resurrection, you got the power of the ascension. And angels came, why stand ye gazing? The same Jesus which you see, you're gonna see again, he's gonna come in like manner. And the glory of the Lord's kind of glory going on up into heaven. He was with the disciples for forty days upon the earth, told them to tarry for ten days. Pentecost hits, but on that fortieth day, he goes up from the Mount Of Olives. Now, according to Arnold Fruckebaum, the Jewish rabbis claim that the glory of the Lord that's not in the Bible, tradition, Jewish tradition, that the glory of the Lord stayed above the Mount Of Olives for three and a half years. Why do you laugh at that? God's heart breaks. His heart breaks for Israel. And it's just it's it's speculation. It's not in the bible, but that's what they say. Yeah. Yep. Three and a half years. Forty two months. Afterwards, the spirit afterwards, the spirit took me up. Wouldn't that be great for the Lord to do that to you and I? That drive to California, 3,200 miles. Takes me two days. Takes me eighteen hours. And man, it's brutal. It's just brutal. Wouldn't it be great to just like, Lord, beat me up, Scotty. You know? Man, I could go down there all week. You know? You guys wouldn't know I was gone. I'd ride my bike everywhere. But anyway, I'm thankful for the car to work good and no accident, no tickets, plenty of food. But afterwards, the spirit took me up and brought me in a vision by the spirit of God under the Chaldeans. So he was with the Chaldeans. He was in Babylon. That's where the Lord grabbed hold of him, took him to Jerusalem, and, let him see all this vision and everything there in Jerusalem. Now he brings him back, and, he comes back to the captivity. So the vision that I had seen that went up from me. Now if you were Ezekiel, while you're with the Lord there seeing that vision in Jerusalem, would you say, you know, Lord, is there any way you could not send me back to Babylon? You know, I I got a better place in mind. You know, how about how about Hawaii? You know? You know? Why send me back with those people? You know? But but, you know, when you're in God's will, they could wherever the Lord has you, that's the place you're supposed to be. And Kathy and I couldn't wait to get back here with you guys. We don't want you suffering alone. We wanna suffer with you. And city and the people then? What's that? Is Caldea a city and the people? It's Babylon. Yeah. It's Babylon. So it's a section of the area of Babylon. Chaldeans are also like a priesthood Babylonian. So the vision that I had seen went up from me. Then I spoke unto them of the captivity, all the things that the Lord had shown me. That's why Ezekiel wanted to come back. It's so fun to teach God's word. It's so exciting to be with the remnant to be with the remnant and to be taught by the Holy Spirit. You don't give them your wisdom or what you think. You just learn from the Lord and you just pass it on. You give them the word of God. And Ezekiel is a faithful prophet, and he came and he think of how excited the remnant would be. Hey, guys. We're not in Jerusalem. It's gonna be destroyed. We're obedient to the Lord. We did what he told us. Nebuchadnezzar took June, deported some. May, deported 10,000. Now in May, he's gonna destroy it. But we're here in obedience. This is God's will for our life. Now do you guys wanna know the future? Guess what happens? And so now you're able to let them know that, hey, we're gonna be scattered all over the world. Our ancestors, people that go, but in the last days oh, no. We don't wanna hear any prophecy. Don't tell us any prophecy. You know? But in the last days, the Messiah is gonna come, and he's gonna come to a remnant that's in Basra, Isaiah 63. And there's gonna be blood all over his outer garment. He's gonna be threshing out the vintage, the grapes of wrath are stored, you know. And the blood's gonna be as high as the horse's bridle, and he's gonna come and he's gonna he's going to rescue us, us as a remnant. And we're gonna cry out, blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord, and he's gonna give us a new heart, a brand new heart. And, isn't that exciting? The truth of the truth of prophecy? Right up to the very end, they will. Right up to the very end of America collapsing, there's gonna be people that laugh and scoff at us. To the very end. They will never believe. Yeah. But it's human nature throughout all all history. An unbeliever is an unbeliever. An unbeliever is an unbeliever. You can't you can't change their heart. And the sad thing is many of them are in the church. So you have a mixed multitude that Moses had to deal with that were always going against the word of God, and he had to deal with them for forty years. Going in circles. More people here. More people, Lord. So but God loves them like he loves us. Alright. Well, let's pray. Father, we come before you. Lord, we just thank you for the night. Thank you that we have a beautiful place to gather, a wonderful place, and great food and fellowship and people here, and we just lift up each one. We lift up Lindsay, Lord. We miss her. We pray that she's doing okay. We pray that you help her with her. Oh, she's on vacation. Praise the Lord. She's yeah. Thanks for answering prayers so quick, Lord. You know? She was caught up to vacation. Thank you. And anybody else that you guys know about that I pray for, just let me know. Alright. And just bless bless this night this week, and we just thank you, Lord. We love you so much. In Jesus' name, amen.

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Calvary Chapel Bremerton - Home Bible Study

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

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