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Alright. Live from Bremerton. It's Monday night. We're in Ezekiel 17 tonight. Sorry we didn't make it last week. This cold that's going around is affecting a lot of us. And be in prayer for Vicky and Rob and Brandon. This is their home, and they're all dealing with the cold that's going around the upper respiratory and then a bunch of other people in the church. So we're all back together tonight, not all of us, but those that could be here. And so we're gonna pray and commit this time unto the Lord. Father, we come before you, and Lord, we pray for America. We pray, Lord, your perfect will be done in this upcoming election. We thank you that you're sovereign. You're on the throne. You're in control. And Lord, we just ask that you bless this bible study as we, study Ezekiel 17 and as we open with worshiping you and thank you for the meal that everybody pitched in. And, just bless this time, Lord. Help us to spend time at your feet focused upon you, cause all the distractions and the competition of the world wanting to, grab hold of our hearts and minds, Lord. And and, Lord, fill us with yourself. Fill us with you. We ask this in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Amen. Change my heart, oh god. Make it ever true. Change my heart, oh god. May I be like you. Change my heart, oh You ready? Okay. Thank you, Rob. Okay. So we are in Ezekiel chapter 17. Ezekiel 17. Let's pray. Father, thank you for the time that we've spent together. And now as we look at Ezekiel 17, we pray that you'd be our teacher, that, Lord, as we stay in your word, Lord, you would build and strengthen us up and speak to our hearts and, help us, Lord, to prepare, for your soon return, Lord, of your dear son. And as we're looking up, knowing our redemption draws nigh, Lord, help us to glean and see parallels, Lord, of the times in which Judah was living in and Nebuchadnezzar, the Babylonians, and the judgment that was coming against him, Lord. Help us to learn. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Amen. Alright. A parable. We've got a parable here of two eagles, and he's gonna describe Babylon as one of the eagles and then Egypt as another eagle. And then there's also a vine mentioned and that of Zedekiah. And so Zedekiah is gonna be left in Judea, and he's gonna be allowed to be there with a group of Jews. And Daniel and a lot of the Jews have already been taken to Babylon, and and the the condition is that they stay subservient to Nebuchadnezzar, that they not rebel against him. But instead of listening to him, they rebel and they seek the support of the Egyptians. They want Egypt to come and be able to alleviate the pressure that's that the Babylonians with their siege are placing upon them. And so you can see that in Jeremiah 42. Let's see here. I think it's 42. So let's see here. 43. So they came into the land of Egypt for they obeyed not the voice of the lord, thus, came they even to Tophanes. And so they're fleeing. They're running over to Egypt. They're asking Egypt for help, and we'll go into the land of Egypt where we shall see no war and hear the sound of the trumpet and have no no difficulty with hunger and bread and all that. And so in chapter 42, they try to develop an alliance with with Egypt, and then they're fleeing from Jerusalem to Egypt. They're not supposed to do that. And so Nebuchadnezzar is gonna have to stop part of the siege, and they think that, oh, look, the false prophets are right, but he's actually putting his armies toward Egypt to stop Egypt from what they're doing. Then he comes back, and he brings a greater severity to what was happening there. And May, he destroys Jerusalem. So and the word of the Lord came unto me saying, son of man, put forth a riddle and speak a parable under the house of Israel. And you see that God uses allegories. Jesus spoke with parables, a riddle typology. Hosea twelve ten, the Lord indicates that he spoke through the prophets to the children of Israel, and he through spoke through types, different typology. And so what is the archetype of? Christ. Type of Christ. In which way? He's our of salvation. He's our Key key phrase in Ephesians is in Christ. In Christ. In Christ. In Christ. Get in the boat. Get in Christ. Right? Right. That's another one. A tower. A strong tower. Psalm 91. So what are some other pictures of Christ in the Bible? Parables, pictures, types of Christ? So in John 10, the door, he said, I am the door. So what does that typify? What does it what how's that communicate? He's the only way. Only way in. And you can't go through any other way. You gotta go through that door. Jesus is the door. So today, when they're teaching d e a what is it? D e I? I. D I? What is that? Explain that. Diversity. Diversity. Inclusion. Inclusion. And inclusion. Know what that is? DEI. Diversity, equity, inclusion. That explains why that lady was wearing a mask in her own car today. Double masked? I know her. It was a huge one. I know her. I know her. So DEI. Now they try to Christianize that, right, by saying it's loving. It's loving to God loves everybody, and everybody's a child of God. Right? Jesus comes along and he says, I am the way, the truth, the life. No man comes to the father but through me, John fourteen six. So he's just blown away the whole DEI, the inclusion. Right? It's exclusively Jesus. So we have an e. Exclusively Jesus. Right? So tell me another type. You can use his I am statements. Bread. So how is Jesus I'm the bread of life. How is he the bread of life? What's the bread signify? Nourishment. Rob says nourishment is body. Life source. Living water I hear out there. That must have been Marlene Miller. So how is Jesus a type of the type of living water? How does he do that? John four, the woman at the well, she's thirsty. If you drink of the water that I have, what's the water he's speaking of? The water of the spirit. Right? As the deer pants after the water brook, so pants my soul after thee, oh God. We're thirsty. And the only thing that can fill that thirst is what? Jesus. Right? The holy spirit. What's another one? The cross? Cross? Yeah. The cross signify. Picture a type. What's the cross symbolize? It's a symbol symbol of what? It's a symbol of death. Death. He had to die. Not just any kind of death, even the death of the cross. Any other ones you wanna vine. John fifteen. He's the vine, and we're the branches. So what's the vine symbolize? The person that said the vine. The branches get their life from the vine. They get their life from the vine. Is that miss Kathy? Yeah. She's really Kathy. Sorry. Anybody else? A symbol? The rainbow? That's a good one. What's that symbolize? Amen. So why did all the LBGT steal it? To corrupt it. I don't know. But I got to tell my little neighbor boy, Noah, about That's a good name. Rainbow today. You did? That's cool. Yeah. He's Noah, just Josiah. Noah Josiah. Yeah. Nice. Yeah. Could be a Sunday school teacher. Okay. So a parable of the eagle here. In, Isaiah forty eight forty eight forty, Isaiah forty nine twenty two, and Daniel seven four, Babylon is described as an eagle. So we have a reference to that beforehand. And the other thing I need to point out here is when we're interpreting the Bible and we're trying to teach people concerning the book of Revelation, any book in the Bible, but especially it seems in the book of Revelation, there's a huge bent toward allegorizing the book of Revelation. And so things that are literal, that are tangible and real, many interpreters Origen was one of them that would interpret it in allegorical form. So it's it's it's more of symbolic. It's not real. And in Revelation nine, when it describes these beasts coming out of the ground and they're flying around with scorpion tails and like a dragon head. You know? We interpret that as demons. Demons who are presently incarcerated are gonna be allowed to flood the earth and torment humanity. And people are gonna be wanting to die, and they won't be able to die, and they're gonna be afflicted by these by these demons. And it's not a pretty picture. You know? The dragon represents the devil. The woman in Revelation 12 represents Israel. The false prophet represents a counterfeit holy spirit. The antichrist is in place of Jesus Christ, so counterfeit messiah, counterfeit Christ. And as we said, Lucifer, the devil, a fallen angel, desires to be worshiped as God. So through the book of of Revelation, there are symbols. There are types, if you will. And in many cases, we're able to interpret them. But that which is literal, we teach literal. And that which is symbolic, we interpret, you know, as being symbolic. But we don't take the whole book and say it's all symbolic of seventy AD when Titus surrounded Jerusalem and destroyed it. And so we don't we don't interpret it in the historical as a, you know, a Preterist event that happened in the past. We take it literally that when we get to Ezekiel thirty six and thirty seven, we're gonna see the rebirth of the of Israel. And we're gonna take the Valley Of Dry Bones, and we're gonna see and we're gonna interpret it that symbolism as God bringing forth a nation in one day. And that nation is the nation of Israel. So presently, as we look back to 05/14/1948, Israel is is in the land, regathered in unbelief, and so we we we take it literal. When we get to Ezekiel thirty six and thirty seven, we're gonna look at it as in a literal fashion. God's going to reassemble his people who are scattered all over the world and and bring them back into the land, and they're gonna go through a period of time of unbelief. Blindness in part has happened unto Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles be come in. And and so we're not gonna we're not gonna interpret that as just oh, it's just symbolic. God didn't really mean that he's gonna regather and put them back in the land and all. The church takes their place. Nowhere does and the Bible say the church take the place of Israel. Church is a distinctly different dispensation than the nation of Israel, and that's a huge, huge difficulty for people interpreting like Matthew 24 and interpreting throughout the bible, but also in the book of Revelation of who is God speaking to. So if we take the word saints, we got four different kind of saints. But if you take and lump all the saints together as being the church, then you miss out on understanding John the Baptist was the greatest of the Old Testament saints. Right? He's the last of the Old Testament saints. So you carry over in the New Testament, you have New Testament saints. You go into the tribulation period, you have tribulation saints. What is a saint? A saint is one that's set apart. A saint is a believer. Then you go in the millennium, you have saints in the millennium. Four different categories of saints. But if you, well, you know, lay them together or don't interpret it properly, then you could misquote or misteach the bible in the book of Revelation as look, the saints. The saints are in the, you know, in the book, and look, they lost their heads. And so in revelation six and seven, there's innumerable multitude of saints beneath the throne of God who give up their heads according to Revelation 20 verse four because they refused the mark of the beast. Those are the tribulation saints. And if we don't rightly divide the word of God and understand that, then you can symbolize it and you could just make anything dance and do what you want it to do. Alright. So it's clear here. He's gonna identify and let us know that this eagle so great eagle with great wings, long wing, full of feathers, which had various colors, came on to Lebanon and took the highest branch of the cedar. So, again, speaking of of Nebuchadnezzar, speaking of Babylon, and came on to Lebanon. Now if I wanna interpret Lebanon, what is referred to as Lebanon? What's what's it mean here? He came to Lebanon and took to the highest branch. So you got this eagle, and he's gonna go to the highest branch. What's Lebanon represent? Notice verse 12. The king of Babylon has come to Jerusalem. So why would Jerusalem be alluded to as a cedar, a tall cedar of Lebanon? Where did Solomon get the cedar from? From king Hiram of Lebanon. And where is the where is the cedar? It's in the temple. What's gonna be burned to the ground? The temple. Right? And he's coming for the highest one in that city, which is the king, which would be Jehoiachin or Jeconiah later. And he's gonna take Jehoiachin, the highest highest of them, and bring him back to Babylon and, you know, in his deportation, gonna deport him. And then in the place of Jehoiachin or Jechaniah, Koniah, who's in the Davidic line, who's cursed, he was cursed in Jeremiah twenty two twenty four through 30 in that he wouldn't be in the royal line. He wouldn't be a part of the lineage of David. But at the point in time, he's the highest in that he's the king, and he's gonna be deported and taken to Babylon. And in his place would be Zedekiah. And Zedekiah, which would actually be his nephew, is gonna be left to Jerusalem to handle this the poor of the people, the nobility and Daniel and the and the princes and all them were taken with the king, deported, brought to Babylon. And and so it's a it's a picture here. Various colors came onto Lebanon and took the highest branch of the cedar. So the highest branch of the cedar would be the royal Davidic line, and then that royal Davidic line is a character named Jeconiah. He's got three different names. We know him in the Bible. One is Jehoiachin, and another one is Koniah or Jeconiah, and a curse comes upon him. God curses him and says, your mom, nor you, nor any of your offspring are ever gonna be have the privilege of being in the Davidic line of the Messiah. So how does God do that? If I go to Matthew one and I see Jechaniah or Koniah in the lineage of Joseph, the stepfather of Jesus, then I have what's called the royal legal line. And male Jews would understand that. But I know because of this curse that God's going to go through somebody other than Solomon. David had other sons beside Solomon, whom Jeconiah is an offspring of Solomon. So if I go to the lineage in Luke chapter three of Mary, now I see a name in their name, Nathan. And so I see the Messiah came through the lineage of Nathan under Mary and Jesus being the virgin born son of Mary. So so he took the highest highest one here, but but gonna cut them off. Gonna be cut off. Not gonna not gonna have that that blessing of being a part of that royal line. So he cropped off the top of it, its young twigs, and carried into a land of of trade. What's the land of trade? What's happening in Revelation 18? Babylon. The Jews who were deported and taken to Babylon enjoyed learning commerce. Jews are really good with money. They're really good in business. They're really good with tech they're good with anything. They're brilliant. And and they became fascinated and enjoyed the enterprise that they learned and and saw being conducted in Babylon. So when it came time after seventy years to go back to Judah and to rebuild the temple and rebuild the walls and all, God was having a hard time, and I say that loosely loosely. God never has a hard time getting people interested in going back. They fell so in love with the world. They fell so in love with their businesses and everything, and they didn't they they didn't have a heart for God, not the things of God. So through Hosea, God says through Hosea, you know, you guys are building your houses with cedar shingles and cedar lined walls and stuff, and you're building all your stuff, the the those that did come back. But Ezra was having a hard time getting enough people willing to contribute and help and and labor to help rebuild, you know, the second temple period, which was through Zerubbabel with with Ezra the priest and because they came so in love with with commerce. And then later in the tribulation period, the whole world stands back as God allows Babylon, which is being literally rebuilt right now. Babylon is literally being rebuilt as a major port city that's going to develop such that so much commerce is gonna go through that city. The ships, the huge ships and everything that when God allows it to be destroyed, and it it could be the Antichrist has enemies, and part of his enemies take out Babylon. And the merchants and the ships, the mariners are offshore watching the billowing smoke as Babylon's taken down in a moment. And how do they cry? They cry out that that's where we bought all of our stuff. That's the Chinese overland. You know? What what's Costco, the acronym for Costco? Chinese overland China oversees overseas. China oversees Trading. Trading company. That's it. So they're all looking at that. They're looking at they're looking at Babylon as just that, that it's this focal point, this this center. Now another aspect of that is with Israel cleansing the area of the Gaza area and cleaning that whole area out. There's evidence with Leviathan, the the natural gas that they have, enormous amount of oil and energy that they have, that that that's gonna become quite possibly one of the wealthiest places in the world as it's developed by the globalists. And some some are saying, speculating that it'll be even a greater destination point than that of Dubai. So that's gonna be very interesting to watch the development of that whole region when the West is no longer the focal point of the earth, and then it shifts over to the East in the time of tribulation period, that's gonna be very, very fascinating. So Babylon, back in chapter 10 of Genesis and 11, Nimrod and the religious system, Revelation 17, the political and economic system, chapter 18 of book of Revelation, we see here that Babylon's been around for quite a while. Damascus, Isaiah 17, has never been destroyed completely and made a ruinous heap. So that's another prophecy that that you can look at. And so God caused those in Babel that were wanting to have a one world government, a one world language, a one world economic system. He confounded the languages of of the people there, and and he made nation states with borders and distinct languages. It's God's idea. And with the technology today, the devil's trying to get past the language barriers. You could have a cell phone, and apparently, your cell phone, somebody could talk and interpret Chinese, Mandarin Chinese right to you. Right? So the world's coming back to one language and coming back to a one world governmental system, which is the devil's dream. And and a one world economic and religious system. And it it originates there in Babylon. So he cropped up the top of his young twigs and carried it into a land of trade. He set it in a city of merchants. And so so he's taken Jehoiachin captive with some of the nobility with Daniel and Shadrach, Meshach, Abednego and brought them to Babylon. And then he deals with those left behind in verse five. He says he took also of the seed of the land and planted it in a fruitful field. He placed it by green waters and set it like a willow tree. So one of the seeds of Jehoiachin related to him is Zedekiah. And so he takes Zedekiah, and he puts Zedekiah like a willow tree in Jerusalem to look after the poor people and continue to be, you know, a city, a nation, but under the submission of Nebuchadnezzar. Nebuchadnezzar like when the Romans would conquer conquer nations, the nations could still be there. A lot of them be moved around, but they could still just like the Jews, the Jews could operate, but they were subservient to the Romans. Right? And so Zedekiah could be there in Jerusalem and still operate and take care of the people. They could regrow and get a willow tree that provides some shade, and he could be that willow tree that provides some shade and and care for the people if he's if he's operating in submission to the agreement that Nebuchadnezzar made made with him. So when it grew and it became a spreading vine of low stature. So it's it's humble. He's gotta humble himself. He's a conquered king, and sometimes conquered king don't like being low. Whose branches turned toward him and its roots were made under him, so it became a vine and brought forth branches and forth springs. And so you're still alive. You're not as big as as you once were. You're lower than Nebuchadnezzar. You've got Nebuchadnezzar over you, but you you you just need to be who God has made you to be. And how many of us are discontent with who we are and wanna be somebody else? Right? And so you find the secret of contentment is growing where you're planted in the body of Christ. Wherever he has you as a little seed, you just grow right where you're planted and stay connected to him and your life will bear fruit, and there'll be a sense of fulfillment. I do not pastor a megachurch. I pastor a micro church. Right? And but I'm very, very content being who I am, pastoring this church. And if I aspired in my mind an ambition that, hey. I need to be a pastor of a church of 2,000 every day of my life, I'm a be disappointed, aren't I? I'll be discontented. And but if I accept who God's made me and where he sent me, and I focus on him serving him, then I don't have to try and be somebody I'm not. So there's great joy in in submission to whom to who God has called you to be. And the other thing is when Charles Spurgeon was flourishing around 10,000 people in London, he had a school of ministry and he'd have these other pastors come and visit, try and figure out the secret of his strength, you know, like Sampson, you know, how can I get a bigger church? More people. And what Spurgeon would say to these students, these pastors, these people coming there to check things out, He said, well, if you've got 50 people, 50 people is a lot of people to give account for before God on the day of judgment. Because pastors are gonna give an account of the people that they've been entrusted. So in acts chapter 20, Paul said, take heed over the flock wherewith the Lord's made you an overseer. Right? Because they're blood purchased, they're blood bought, which he has purchased with his own blood. And so take heed, you know, be beware and make sure that that they're loved and fed. They're gonna have wolves come in, wolves from within, wolves from without. And you guys are the overseers. You guys are the pastors, and take eat over the flock wherewith he has made you, you know, an overseer. So you might be working at a job and you wanna be the boss, and you're tired of being, you know, low man on the totem pole. Be faithful in the season of small things. Be faithful right where the Lord planted you. Learn everything you can. Do what you do like Daniel would do, like Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego would do, like Nehemiah would do. Be faithful like Joseph when Joseph was a lowly slave, you know, with Potiphar, Potiphar's wife and the whole thing, thrown into prison. You might go from the prison to the palace if you're faithful. If you're unfaithful, and that's the main thing, the main thing in serving the Lord is being faithful. A servant must be faithful. So you really whatsoever you do, do it heartily as unto the Lord and not unto men. Who you serve in Bremerton who I serve in Bremerton is the Lord Jesus. And I serve his flock that's here that shows up, but but I'm not trying to make merchandise of the flock or manipulate the flock or make the flock a stepping stone to fleece the flock, to market and get a bigger flock. You know? You just serve the Lord and be faithful to what he's called you to do. And he told Peter, do you love me? Feed my sheep. Tend my lambs. And that's the function. That's the job description of the shepherd is to feed and tend the flock no matter matter what the size is. And and so it's faithfulness. All of us need to be faithful. Be faithful as a wife. Be faithful as a husband. Be faithful as a grandma and grandpa. Be faithful as a son or daughter. And Zedekiah had a problem in that he was dissatisfied with being lowly. Bible says humble yourself in the sight of the Lord, and he will lift you up. The Bible says that God resists the proud, but he gives grace unto the humble. Right? And D. L. Moody was a lowly shoe salesman, overweight, and not great looking from the outside. He was a lowly Sunday school teacher, and God made him one of America's greatest evangelists. He would go across to Europe, to England, and, you know, preach the gospel and all out of Chicago. And he said, you can never be too small for God to use, only too big. God will pass over people who think they're, you know, so great. He delights in using the foolish things of the world to confound the wise, the things that are based, the things that are not, and to confound those folks that are watching going, that Rick, how could he possibly be a pastor? You know, there's just no way. You know? He's crazy. He's crazy as, oh, get out. You know? And it just confounds him. They think for the Lord. Oh, crazy. Okay. That's a good thing. Yeah. Yeah. That was a good comeback there because I was gonna hold that against you. Oh. I'm just I'm just kidding. But in any event, Jesus came for fishermen. He didn't he didn't come for very many of the nobility. You got Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus who are wealthy that helped out with the burial. You've got the apostle Paul that came later. Brilliant, brilliant guy. But for the most part, tax collector like Matthew and, you know, later Luke, a physician, a doctor, educated guy helping out the apostle Paul in his missionary journeys. But seven of them are fishermen, just common people, fishermen. They became his disciples. Right? And Jesus, foxes have holes, birds there have nests, but the son of man is nowhere to lay his head. He was lowly. Jesus was lowly. And so he came not to be ministered unto, but to minister and to give his life a ransom for many. Zedekiah should have been content. He should have recognized what a privilege and a blessing it was to be alive and to be entrusted with this little flock of people that are still there at Jerusalem. And he should have taken the grace that was extended toward him and sought to feed them and clothe them and help them and not put them in a situation where they'd be vulnerable to never having to come back and wipe everybody out. And that's that's the sad plight. Now Zedekiah it's so bad for Zedekiah that when we look at him, you remember when he tried to escape? The siege is upon the city, and he tries to sneak out of the city. And king Nebuchadnezzar is over at a place called Riblah over near Jericho, and his army is squeezing, you know, upon the city. And Nebuchadnezzar realizes it's close. It's close for for the end. So he sneaks out rather than surrendering, and he'd been implored to surrender, surrender, surrender. He sneaks out. And the Chaldeans, the army grabs hold of him, brings him back. And then before his eyes, they pluck out the eyes of every single one of his sons, over 20 sons. Excuse me. They kill each one. And then the last thing they do is pluck out the eyes of Zedekiah. The last thing he saw was his own sons being executed before his eyes. And then he's taken back to Babylon, and he perishes. He dies while in Babylon. So I sometimes I just don't understand people that are given so much. Imagine being born into a royal family. You're given so much. I mean, so many opportunities. And then they just take and blow it, you know, just blow it. Hard hard to fathom. So and he grew and became a spreading vine of low stature. His branches turned toward him, and his roots were under him. So it became a a vine and brought forth branches and and shot forth sprigs. So he's still alive, but it was all about him. Everything was about him. There was also another great eagle. This is Egypt. And if you look over at verse 13, but he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt. So this is the the next eagle. So there's also another great eagle with great wings and many feathers. And behold, this vine did bend its roots toward him and shot forth its branches toward him that he might water it by the furrows of its plantation. So Zedekiah's alliance, with Egypt in Jeremiah 37 somebody wanna read Jeremiah thirty seven five through seven? And somebody else can read well, that's good. Jeremiah thirty seven five through seven. Okay. Go ahead, George. Yep. Didn't work, this alliance. Sometimes we can make alliances with the world, things in the world, rather than ask the Lord for help or taking our medicine, the discipline that he brings, you know, upon us. We in rebellion seek alliances. We seek alliance with with others that that might tell us be telling us what we wanna hear, even though it may be going against God's word and what he's already spoken unto us. So in this rebellion, he's trying to make an alliance, with Egypt. We would say in the New Testament, we'd say that we're not to be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. Right? Amen. So we don't wanna make alliance with the world with unbelievers as Christians. We wanna be separate in the world but not of the world. So you wouldn't wanna marry an unbeliever. You wouldn't wanna start a business, an alliance with unbelievers. Because what does light have in common with darkness? So can two walk together except they be agreed? So we must be agreed on the things that are of utmost importance, and that is that Jesus is Lord and that he's the head. He's the one, you know, making the decisions. And so verse eight, and it was planted in a good soil by great waters that it might bring forth branches that it might bear fruit, that it might be a well favored vine. So Nebbe was gracious to Zedekiah. If you're obedient, you get to stay there and you're gonna be all provided for there in Jerusalem. Say thou, thus saith the Lord, God, shall it prosper? Shall he not pull up roots and cut off its fruit that it wither? So if you're in a rebellion, isn't God gonna pull you up by the roots? You're able to put down roots. You're able to stay here. You're able to, you know, live there in Jerusalem after this, but gonna be pulled out. You're like a branch, a vine. Everything's gonna be uprooted. And it'll wither in the leaves of the spring, even without great power, many people to pluck it up by its roots. So you're gonna be dethroned. You're gonna be made a captive, Zedekiah. Yea. Behold, being planted, shall it prosper? Shall it not utterly wither when the east wind touches it? It shall wither in the furrows where it grew. And so the rebellion will fail. You will fail, Zedekiah. And as I said in Jeremiah fifty two eight, he dies in he dies in Babylon later on. And Ezekiel does? Pardon me? Who dies in Babel? Zedekiah. Oh. Let's turn to well, we can turn to second Kings chapter 24. Let's go to second Kings chapter 24. 24. K. So I know that you girls are dying to talk, so it's been really hard on you tonight. So who wants to read Lindsay, we'll have you read verse one through four. And then, Cheryl, five through nine, and then Shannon, verse 10 unto 16. Now, you know, in the book of Revelation chapter eight listen this listen this. In the book of Revelation chapter eight, there was silence in heaven for the space of a half hour. You know what that means? There were no women in heaven. That's it. Okay. Alright. Okay. Who who wants who wants 17 to 20? 17 to 20? Somebody wanna read that? 24. Cynthia will. 17 to 20. Are we in chapter 24? Yeah. Now we're gonna go into chapter 25, the first 10 verses. So Bernie I'll have Bernie read the last jump 25, the 10 verses. Second Kings 25 when we get there. Alright. So we're gonna get the narrative here, the story of what's taking place. Now remember, you're gonna be on Facebook. People are gonna be wondering who's who's reading so eloquently. So fine in your bible. It's in your bible. It's six fourteen in mine. Second Kings. Second Kings. It's just after first Kings. I know. Except I I can't find my glasses in here. Someone took them. Oh. Do these work? And they're so pretty, those glasses. I know. Those glasses, the pink and black ones. I I can't find them. I brought them in here. In here today? Yeah. Right there. Right there. Can't see him. Right there. Oh my goodness. Oh my gosh. Let there be light. I was blind, and now I see. Oh. Hallelujah. Thank you. Because you have glasses. That's why. God of miracles. That's right. You on Facebook that have fallen asleep, we're still gonna do this. We're still there's four verses. Okay. Second Kings 24. 24. One through four. Alright. In the days of Nebuchadnezzar, King of Ambon came up and I can't Jehoiakim. Kim. Jehoiakim became his servant three years. Then he turned and rebelled against him. And the Lord sent him against him bands of Chaldees and bands of Syrians and bands of Moabites. And bands of children of Ammon and sent them against Judah to destroy it and according to the word of the Lord, which he spake to his servants, the prophets. Surely at the commandments of the Lord came this upon Judah to remove them out of the sight of his sins of the Messiah according Manasseh. Manasseh. Manasseh was a prior king that was really wicked. Oh, okay. So now judgment's come. Okay. Complete opposite of Messiah. Yes. Sorry. It's okay. Manasseh, according to all that he did and also for the innocent blood that he shed for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, which the Lord would not pardon. So Manasseh was guilty of gross abortions, offering of babies under Baal. So much blood filled Jerusalem that even later when Josiah made reform, God says, no. The the city is ripe for judgment. I'm gonna judge. Okay. Verse five. Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim and all that he did, are are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers, and Jehoiakim, his son, reigned in his stead. So a distinction here, Jehoiakim is dead, and his son, Jehoiakim, which we saw as Jekoniah or Koniah. He's known by three names. He's the one that's gonna be cursed that we talked about. Okay. Go ahead. And the king of Egypt came not again anymore out of his land for the king of Babylon had taken from the River Of Egypt onto the River Euphrates all that pertained to the king of Egypt. I think it's a oh, just Joachim. Joachim was 18 years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. And his mother name mother's name was miss Nehushta. Nehushta. The the daughter of El Elenathan? Elen Elen Elenathan. Elenathan and Jerusalem or of Jerusalem. And if you don't know how to pronounce one of these fancy names, just Just wait for you to say it? No. No. Just just just wing it. Just wing it. Nobody will know. Nobody will know. And he did that which was evil in the sight of the lord according to all that his father had done. Good job. So Jehoia Chin is doing evil. At that time, the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against Jerusalem, and the city was besieged. And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against the city, and his servants did besiege it. And Jehoiachin, the king of Judah, went out to the king of Babylon. He and his mother and his servants and his princes and his officers and the king of Babylon took him in the eighth year of his reign. And he carried out thence all the treasures of the house of the Lord and the treasures of the king's house and cut it cut in pieces all of the vessels of gold which Solomon, king of Israel, had made in the temple of the Lord, as the Lord had said. And he carried away all Jerusalem and all of the princes and all of the mighty men of valor, even 10,000 captives. And all the craftsmen and smiths, none remained, save the poorest sort of the people for of the land. And he carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon and the king's mother and the king's wives and his officers and the mighty of the land. Those carried he into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon. And all of the men of might, even 7,000, and craftsmen and smith a thousand, all that were strong and apt for war, even them the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon. So the and Ezekiel one one through three, these 10,000 are there, Ezekiel alludes to. So he's taking the poor, and he's leaving the poor behind. And who's going to rule over the poor there? Zedekiah. Jehoiachin, Koniah, he's with his mom and them, they they go to Babylon. So you got Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach, Abednego, the nobility, They're they're taken back to into captivity. How long are they gonna remain in captivity? Seventy years. Seventy years. Okay. Verse 17. Brother, king in his steed and changed his name to Jeddakiah. Jeddakiah was 20 one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Hamuthal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Lydna. And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord according to all that Jehoiakim had done. For through the anger of the Lord, it came to pass in Jerusalem and Judah until he had cast them out from his presence That Jedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon. And now we got Bernie the last 10 verses. Now it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign in the ninth tenth month. On the tenth day of the month that Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, and all his army came against Jerusalem and encamped against it. And they built a siege wall against it all around. So the city was besieged until the eleventh year of king Zedekiah. By the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine had become so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land. Then the city wall was broken through, and all the men of war fled at night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was the king's garden even though the Chaldeans were still in camp all around against the city. And the king went by way of the of the plain, but by but the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king, and they overtook him in the plains of Jericho. All his army was scattered for him. So they took the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at the Ribla, and they pronounced judgment on him. Then they killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes. Put out the eyes of Zedekiah, bound him with bronze feathers, and took him to Babylon. And then the fifth month on the seventh day of the month, which was the nineteenth year of king king Nebuchadnezzar's king of Babylon. Neb Nebuchadnezzaradan, the captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem. He burned the house of the Lord and the king's house, all the houses of Jerusalem, that is all the houses of the great, he burned with fire. And all the army of the Chaldeans who were with the captain of the guard broke down the walls of Jerusalem all around. Here we go. So some of the poor are able to stay behind again, but that's chapter seventeen's prophetic of what we read about what happened in the past tense happened recorded in second Kings. And so now we're on verse 11. Moreover, word of the Lord back in Ezekiel 17. Moreover, the word of the Lord came unto me saying, say now to the rebellious house, know ye not that these things mean? So he's saying so Ezekiel's asking the question, do you know what this parable means? You know what these things mean? And tell them, behold, the king of Babylon has come to Jerusalem and has taken her king and her princes and led them, with him to Babylon in, May. May. And he has taken of the king's seed and made a covenant with him and has taken an oath of him, and he has also taken the mighty of land. So he's taken the military away and and made a covenant with Zedekiah that the king might be base might not lift itself up, but that by keeping his covenant, he might stand. So Zedekiah continue to be submissive. If you continue to be submissive, then the nation of Israel can continue from Jerusalem there. But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt that he might give him horses. And kings are told not to multiply horses or chariots nor women. Solomon multiplied his the women in his life. Right? 700 wives, 300 concubines. And they stole his heart. They stole his heart, didn't they? And he built idolatrous palaces for each of these foreign women that he married because they had different belief systems. So he filled Israel with paganism, with idolatry. Had a problem. And and he's the wisest man on the planet at the time. You say he's kinda stupid. He's the he's the wisest guy. The wisest guy. So what's the most deceitful thing on the planet? Your heart. Your heart. So Solomon's problem was his heart. Even though he was wise, he was deceitful. And you girls are doing it again, I'll tell you. Do you want that on film? Well, go ahead. No. I'm just kidding. Don't cry. Don't cry. It's okay. And has taken of the king's seed and made a covenant with him. So he took, Jehoiachin back and, part of the family members, and he's made a covenant with, Zedekiah with him and has taken an oath with him and has taken the mighty of the land, so the military. And when you make that oath with the king, you're making an oath with God. He's taken that oath serious that the kingdom might be based and that it might not lift itself up, that by keeping of his covenant might might stand or continue if you're submissive. But he rebelled against him in sending the masters into Egypt that he might give him horses and many people. Shall he prosper? Shall he escape, that does such thing, or shall he break the covenant and be delivered? So he's gonna break the covenant. He's gonna be a loser, and he's gonna lose everything. Now, you know how when we talk about Ezekiel thirty eight and thirty nine and we talk about an alliance that Meshach, that Russia in the North is gonna make with Iran and with Turkey. You remember that? Mhmm. And you remember that another name listed there is is Gomer, was Germany, but another one is The Sudan. Sudan has just recently, in the last month, made an alliance with Iran. And it's significant because they have access, just like Babylon to port, to water. And they're able you know how the Houthis right now are limiting with the Red Sea there and and the transfer of goods and stuff there? Russia and this whole alliance of nations that's gonna come against Israel one day. God's gonna put a hook in their jaw and bring them. That alliance is forming in our lifetime right now. That alliance, they're making treaties with each other, we would call that. And that's very, very fascinating to me that and Israel's in the land, and Israel has spoil that somebody wants. And we mentioned that it's the natural gas. The natural gas Leviathan off the coast there. We just sold $2,000,000,000 worth of weapons to somebody. Did we? Yeah. It was on the little reader on the We always sell weapons, don't we? Hopefully, we sold them to Israel or gave them to them to protect themselves. To another country for that war. Oh, okay. That's not good. Yeah. Uh-oh. So Genesis 12. 2,000,000,000 on Genesis. I'll bless those that bless you, curse those that curse you. We wanna make sure that we're blessed in Israel. So, anyway, back to the covenant delivered. Verse 10. No. It's okay. I was just quoting a verse for you. I know. A principle of I'll bless those that bless you, Abraham, and I'll curse those that curse you. And Bill Koenig has written a book of every time a president makes a decision against Israel, huge storms, terrible things come against America shortly thereafter. Kinda interesting. Alright. But he rebelled against them. Okay. We got that. Verse 10. And as I live, saith the Lord God, surely in the place where the king dwells, who made him king, whose oath he despised and whose covenant he broke, even with him in the midst of Babylon, he shall die. So Zedekiah died in May there in Jerusalem. He already saw his son's eyes plucked out there near Jericho at Rebla, and then he's taken to Babylon, and he dies in May. Neither shall pharaoh, with his mighty army and great company so this is pharaoh Hephra, and with his mighty army and great company, help him in war by casting up a siege mounds and building forts to cut off many persons. So one of the things they would do is they build outlying out how many military bases America have around the world? So what they would do is they would take in the they would make bases. They would make forts outside of Jerusalem so as there'd be a military presence to stop any army from getting to Jerusalem. And in the time of fighting against the Assyrians, I think there's, like, 40 some of them that were, wiped out. But it was strong enough to keep the Assyrians from, defeating Judah. And so the Assyrians in July destroyed the 10 northern tribes which were headquartered in Samaria. And but now later, it's Nebuchadnezzar that's coming, and they don't have any forts. They don't have any outlying military bases or alliances or anything that can it's down to the nitty gritty now. It's down to the city. And part of the defense of a city is its walls and moats and various things to keep the, you know, invading force. Even Babylon. And when we study Babylon, Babylon had walls, like, 20 feet thick. You know? I forget 02/1980. We studied this 180 feet high, big enough to do chariot races on with Ben Hur, you know, and all that. I think, like, twenty years of food stored up and then the Nile River, not the Nile, the Euphrates, the Tigris nearby, but water coming underneath the walls so that if anybody came against them to siege against them, they could withstand them for years and years and years and years. So much so that in Daniel chapter five, Belteshazzar, grandson of Nebuchadnezzar, is so puffed up and prideful that he takes all that gold and all those goblets and drinks and saucers and all that that we read about in second Kings chapter 25. Now what had happened was Hezekiah had some ambassadors when Hezekiah was king come from Babylon to Jerusalem, and Hezekiah made the mistake of showing them his treasure. He opened up the vault. He opened up everything and showed them Solomon's treasure. Well, what do you think the Babylonians are thinking? You know? Someday we're gonna come back and take this treasure. Right? So the the Babylonians came and grabbed all that. And then Belteshazzar is having a party, and they're getting drunk in Daniel chapter five, and you know the story. They're drinking of those out of those vases and goblets and getting drunk, and then a finger is on the wall, the handwriting on the wall. And what did it say? It's that hand there. Just the hand. The finger of God that wrote the 10 commandments. They wrote in John eight in the dust that finger of God. What did it say? Many weighed in the balance and wanting. But weighed in the balance and found wanting. Right? Your kingdom's measured. You're you're judged and divided between the Medes and the Persians. Cyrus, that night, was outside the walls. Cyrus, the Persian, and Darius, the Mede, the Medes and the Persians. And they had an army that again, a siege upon the city of Babylon. And the way they got in was how? You guys know this. From the drainage. The Lord allowed them to divert the Euphrates, dam it up, and then it made it dry. So they came underneath the grate, and they came into the city and destroyed the city in one night and executed a belt of Shazar that very night. So pretty interesting. All historical. These guys are these guys are part of history. And when we studied the book of Daniel, we learned about the times of the Gentiles and global global governments or conquerors. And we learned about the Babylonians having a global empire. We learned about the Medes and the Persians, a global empire. Then we learned about the Greeks, Alexander the Great coming and defeating the Persians. And then we learned about the Romans defeating the Greeks. And then we learned that the Roman empire dissipated, never really overcome, never really conquered east and west that divided. But the next world empire is gonna be what? The rebirth of the Roman Empire. Yep. And that's going to be the tribulation period. Alright. Is Ezekiel and Jeremiah at the same time? Similar time. Yeah. Same time. May, Jeremiah writes the book of Lamentations and describes what happened when the city was, you know, besieged and destroyed. He was taken as part of the poor group of people to Egypt where tradition says they were such poor losers when they fled to Egypt that when they rebelled against king Nebbe that they stoned him to death. Now Ezekiel is part of a remnant of people that 10,000, and he's at Babylon. Alright. So along the Tigris River. And okay. So he didn't he didn't he died. Verse 17. Neither shall pharaoh with his mighty army and his great company help him in war by casting up a siege mounts and building forts to cut off many persons. Seeing he despised the oath by breaking the covenant when lo, he had given his hand and had done all these things, he shall not escape. So he gave your hand, you shook hands, you signed the covenant, you made the agreement, and the Lord doesn't like you breaking that agreement like your yay be yay, your nay be nay. Therefore, thus saith the Lord God, as I live, surely mine oaths are not transfers from an oath that he made with Nebbe to mine oath. This is Nebbe's my servant and I sent him there to discipline you guys. Now you now you broke the oath that you made with me. When we get married, we take vows of marriage, you know, in the presence of friends and family, but it's before God. And so we're responsible to God. That he has despised my covenant that he has broken, even it will I recompense upon his own head. And I will spread my net upon him, and we shall he shall be taken in my snare. So remember when they were fleeing? And so that net that snared the trap, they caught him near Jericho. And I'll bring him to Babylon. He will enter in judgment and and him there for his trespass that he has trespassed against me. So we just read about that. And all his fugitives, those that went with him, with all of his bands shall fall by the sword, and they that remain shall be scattered toward all winds, and he shall know that I, the Lord, have spoken it. So you you shall know. We read where it already happened, and this is prophetic that it's gonna happen, and it did happen. And then we have a a new paragraph, new thought, new so how do we bring this back? How do we we bring it back to Jesus now. We bring it back to the greatest eagle of all. Right? Thus saith the Lord God, I will also take of the highest branch of the high cedar and will set it out. I will crop off from the top of its young twigs, a tender one, and will plant it upon the high mountain and eminent. Well, we'll we'll see if we can get it. So I want you to read Psalm two verse six. Get And who wants Isaiah four verse two? Take it. Wants Isaiah 11 verse one? I'll take that. Okay. Who wants Jeremiah twenty three five and six? Who wants Jeremiah thirty three fifteen? Thirty three fifteen, Jeremiah? Okay. Who wants Zechariah three eight and six twelve? 38612. Zechariah? 38612. Zechariah? Okay. I hear her out there. Okay. Good. 38612. It's about Isaiah in that room, does it? Isaiah fifty three two. Just joking. Isaiah fifty three two. I'll take fifty three two. Okay. Psalm two verse six. Oh, that's me. Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion. So location, the mountain here in the mountain of the height of Israel. So the location where he's gonna set this high eagle, this greatest eagle, this branch, this twig cut off the tallest cedar. When you're looking at the lineage, the location is Zion. Where's Zion? Jerusalem. Okay. And then we've got you did Isaiah four two? Yes. Isaiah go ahead. Sorry. Isaiah four two. In that day shall the branch of the Lord be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and calmly for them that are escaped of Israel. And Isaiah eleven one. Eleven one. And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a branch shall grow out of his roots. So that's speaking of the Messiah, the lineage. Jesus is the root and the offspring of David. David god David wanted to build god a house, and god said, David Nathan said, David, that's a great idea. It sounds really good to build a temple. You know? And then Nathan, the prophet, went and inquired of the Lord, and the Lord said, no. Tell David that his hands are too bloody, that he can't build me a house, but I'm gonna build him a house. And the house that the Lord was referring to was a dynasty. So in second Samuel, chapter seven, god made what's called the Davidic covenant, and the Davidic covenant is that the messiah would come forth from David's loins. And so, so you have a a root. Jesus is the root. So David comes out of the root of Jesus and the offspring Jesus, the offspring of David coming out later. And so he's the branch, the stem of Jesse. Alright? And, Jeremiah twenty three five and six. Behold, the days come, saith the lord, that I will raise under David a righteous branch, and a king shall reign and prosper and shall execute judgment and justice on the earth. In his days, Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely. And this is his name, whereby we shall be he shall be called the Lord our righteousness. So in the millennium, Jesus is gonna rule and reign as king of kings and lord of lords. Right? Mhmm. And David as his prince, and the nation of Israel is gonna be dominant. No longer will it be the times of the Gentile empires and nations. Israel will be dominant. But the Gentiles will be subservient to Israel, and you and I are gonna be ruling and reigning as kings and priests. And, the nations are gonna flow to Jerusalem to hear the word of the Lord year by year. Now somebody on Facebook today suggested that I run for president, and I said, well, although I could do that You're kind of popular. I thought it might be better to use my talents during the millennium. I'd like to be the president during the millennium. And she says, oh, that's easy peasy. Anybody can be president during the millennium, which is true. Why? Because you're perfect. The king. Yeah. You're perfect. You're king. Know? So you can rule over the Gentile nations. Right? We're gonna be kings and priests ruling. And so so I declined. I told her that Charles Spurgeon said that if God has called you to be a pastor, don't lower yourself to become a king. And so there you go. So in the millennium there, we got Jesus rule and reigning with the rod of righteousness, and that's what we're waiting for. So this gives me a chance to tell you that today as I was meditating upon all this, that I want to go on record now. Went on record a week or so ago saying that I would not vote for Donald Trump. But based upon what we're studying right here, I'm now ready to vote for Donald Trump. And you know why? Yeah. Go on. Because we're gonna get here a lot faster. Hey. Because a vote for Trump is a vote for the beast system. The beast system. And the beast system is the system that's put together technocratically for the antichrist. The antichrist has to have a system of surveillance and a digital currency. No man can buy without a mark in his right hand or his forehead. And Donald Trump is surrounded with Elon Musk, Zuckerberg, Peter Thiel, all of the tech giants are ready. They're ready to explode with artificial intelligence and just change with robotics and everything. It's gonna explode, and Trump is gonna be the salesman like he was the workmanship job to convince apostate evangelicals that it's the right thing to do. Give up America and move into this, Klaus Schwab would say, yeah, technocratic. You know how they talked about the Industrial Revolution? They've got a new revolution of technocratic revolution that they're wanting to implement. And I think either way, they're gonna get it. Because I don't think Trump or Kamala, however you say her name, are pulling the strings of anything. They're just doing exactly what I agree with you. But for me and my conscience Yeah. I could not vote for Trump based upon morality. I can't vote for him. He's the lesser of two evils. I can't get away from the warp speed jab that's killing millions of people. The other thing is the reason Americans are voting for Trump is they think they're gonna save America. And I think that's a big, huge lie. And so I can't buy into that. But I can buy into him as president's gonna usher in the beast system with his deception. He's going to bring people along with a lot of other people helping him. We're gonna see America go down, the dollar go down, the economy go down, and this whole AI system. Now that system is a prelude. It's a counterfeit system to the millennium where Jesus is gonna rule and reign for a thousand years. The Satanists, the Luciferians think they have utopia upon earth when they can become gods, and they can take control of the planet. But unfortunately for them or fortunately for them, it only lasts seven years. That's a good thing. Right? It's a long time. It they got a short period of time to suffer rather than a whole thousand years. Alright. So this is a beautiful thing. This is what we're looking for. So when I look at voting and I say I'm voting for Jesus, I'm voting for Jesus through Donald Trump because Donald Trump's gonna get me to Jesus sooner. Right? Because that beast system is common. It's common. It's it's already here. Yeah. Down on down on 6th Street in Bremerton, there's the pole I told you about with the cameras up top, and there's two two satellite, you know, thingies to get energy. Right there at the seven eleven by the Salvation Army is artificial intelligence, a surveillance system in Bremerton, directly going to the police officers. They're going up everywhere. I post an article today for Leo Hulman. They're going everywhere with surveillance in every US city, even if they have to make it portable to get it and tie with the police and connect all the facial recognition, everything together. It's common. Well, your phone is already here. Already like Yeah. Remember when people were saying years ago, your phone is listening to you? Yeah. Your phone is constantly looking at your facial expressions and And it's a tracking system. It's a tracking system. Yeah. And to think that they're not, you're fooling yourself. And the reason the reason they need technology is why? Because people are addicted to it. Because God is omniscient. God is omniscient. He knows everything. God is omnipresent. Right? God is omnipotent. He's all powerful. The devil has to counterfeit it with technology because the devil can only be in one place at a time. And the devil's not omniscient. He doesn't know everything. But with artificial intelligence and demons helping develop this artificial intelligence in these computers and this whole vast system, they can have a pseudo pseudo gods, you know, pseudo with, you know, what our god can do. Yeah. Counterfeit. A counterfeit. It's all counterfeit. So we got the real deal here. We gotta wait for Jesus to come. And I feel so good. I'm so excited now because now everybody won't hate me because I won't won't vote for Trump. You know? But here's another thing I learned. I learned Sunday. I've learned this last week. People's heads are exploding with fear because they think Kamala's gonna win. Christian people. And they're exploded. Their heads are exploding. It's the other way around too. Maybe. Maybe. Probably you're right. But people are are overwhelmed with fear. I'm not afraid one bit. It doesn't matter as you're saying who gets in there because God's sovereign. God's on the throne. He's in control. What I don't wanna do is I don't want to be a part of the COVID lie. Same thing. Lord gives us a sermon. We're not going with it, and I don't wanna be a part of this lie. So if I go in voting knowing, hey. That lie is gonna gonna fly. Alright. That's one I can fly with because the Lord is gonna the Lord is going to bring an upheaval against the whole thing. Alright. So here the only thing I have a check-in my spirit and I'm still working through is I want to be salt and light and be part of the restraint of that beast system. Yes. Okay? So that's one part of it. But I know what time it is. Yes. Because I know the time I'm living in, it's time to give up America, and it's time to embrace the Lord's coming. He's coming. Prophetically, that's the time clock. Okay. So I'm not I'm not trying to ruin anybody's retirement or your millions of dollars in Social Security you're not gonna get, you know, because that's really what people are after, lower gas prices, more prosperity. Alright. So the prosperity is gonna be when Jesus comes. The curse can be reversed. So where were we? Let's see here. We got Jeremiah Where? 22. 3315. Okay. There we go. Who's got that? Oh, that's me. I'm coming in with you guys. Yay. I don't get to do that very often. Hi. Hi. This is Vicky. Vicky's still alive. I'm here. Hey. Vicky's still alive. Okay. Jeremiah thirty three fifteen. In those days, at that time, I will cause to grow up to David a branch of righteousness. He shall execute judgment and righteousness in the earth. That's the one I'm looking for. That's the one I'm voting for. Zechariah 38612. Kathy? Oh. Grow up out of his place, and he shall build the temple of the Lord. Amen. Isaiah fifty three two. That's me. K. For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant and as a root out of dry ground. He hath no form nor cleanliness, and when we shall see him there is no beauty that we should desire him. So he's coming through that root, through that line, but he's coming by way of the cross. Right? We get to the millennium by way through the cross. We gotta go through the cross. So Satan said, if you bow down and worship me, I'll give you all these kingdoms of the world. Shortcut, Jesus. No suffering. No cross. But and Satan does the same with us. You don't need to suffer. I'll give you a shortcut. But Jesus said, it is written, thou shall worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve be gone Satan. So he went by way of the cross to redeem us. Right? Amen. Okay. Psalm two verse six. Okay. Zion. Right? You already read that? Yeah. Okay. Good. Zion. Okay. So verse 32, thus saith the Lord God, I will also take of the highest branch, the high cedar, and will set it out and will crop off from the top of its young twigs, a tender one, Jesus, and will plant it upon a high mountain and eminent. In the mountain of the height of Israel will I plant it and it shall bring forth boughs and and bear fruit and be a well favored cedar and under it shall dwell all the fowl of every wing and the shadow of its branches shall they dwell. So where others have failed, other global empires have failed and all all facets of human government has failed, every form of human government has failed. And probably one of the greatest experiments is a constitutional republic, and we're failing because of the corruption of us as people. But the best form of government is a monarchy with a benevolent monarch with Jesus ruling and reigning as king of kings and lord of lords. Right? And it's going to succeed. And so I'm a monarchist. Alright? Shadow of its branches shall they dwell. So other nations Israel's gonna be so prosperous that other nations are gonna be able to benefit from the success and the blessing of Israel all over the all over the planet when when Jesus is ruling and reigning. And all the trees of the field shall know that I, the Lord, have brought down the high tree and have exalted the low tree. So other nations came to Jesus, they came to know him. And have dried up the green tree and have made the dry tree to flourish. I, the Lord, have spoken and have done it. So the blessings that are coming, the blessings through the Lord Jesus, and where others have failed, God his plan prospers, his plan. So if God be for us, who can be against us? Greater is he that's in me than he that's in the world. And we we know that he spoiled all principalities and powers he triumphed over them. So tonight, as we read this historically and we saw it prophetically, what prophecies are we looking at, we know that Jesus is coming. Amen. And when you see these things begin to come to pass, the one world government forming, the one world religious system forming, and the one world economic system forming. Banks are failing every day now. People are maneuvering and getting in position to deal with what's coming. And what's coming is a digital economy where the bankers have the greatest measure of tyranny the world has ever seen during the beast system. So we don't need to fear. We don't need to be afraid. Just keep looking up knowing our redemption draws nigh. So, father, thank you for the night that we could spend together in your word. Lord, as we've been reading your word, we spend so much time on our phones and television and other forms of media, even reading books, even good things we do, taking walks and all that. But Lord, tonight we did as Mary was doing, Lord. Martha was really busy doing a lot of good. But Lord, we did like Mary. We sat at your feet. We heard your word. And lord, we did not just what was good, we did what was best, lord. Yes. And that won't be taken from us. So, we thank you for it, lord. That you're there when we need fellowship, when we need you, lord, you're there. In Jesus name, we pray. Amen. Amen. Can we pray for my my cousin Heidi? Sure. Ringer Lloyd. Yeah. Texted me. My aunt Dottie is was taken to the hospital, and she she is having some problems in in her stomach and her bowels and things. So Heidi asked us to pray today. She's watching right now. Alright. So I just wanna make sure we pray. And Donnie. Yeah. Father, we come before you, and we thank you for the fellowship that we enjoy with Heidi Ringer Lloyd. And we list we lift up aunt Donnie, Lord. And, Lord, we thank you that you ever lived to make intercession for us, Lord, that you're praying for aunt Donnie right now. And the Holy Spirit's making intercession with groanings which cannot be uttered. And, Lord, Vicky and Rob and Brandon and all of us at the Bible study here, as intercessors, Lord, we're lifting her up to you, we ask that you as the great physician would touch her body, heal her body, give the doctors wisdom to know what's going on, and bring her to the place of of a just total and complete restoration, Lord. Heal her body, we ask. 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.
