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Live from Bremerton. Happy Veterans Day to all you veterans out there, male, female. And thank you for your service, your sacrifice, all that. And Merry Christmas. It's gonna be a great Christmas season. And so we are here to study Ezekiel chapter 19 tonight at Rob and Vicky's home. Oh. Should I keep going? No. How you doing? Good. How's it going? Was wondering if wanted to talk to him. Oh, okay. Is that your brother? We're all my brother. All my brothers and sisters are here. Oh, really? Yeah. In Christ. All 20 of them. In Christ. Okay. The body of Christ. Okay. You guys wanna pray? No. He's gonna pray. Yes. Let's pray. Right? So, So, father, we come before you. We thank you for the New faces and the food and and the season that we're in, Lord, and the rest that many of us had to got to have today with it being Veterans Day. And, Lord, we just pray that that we sit at your feet and enjoy the rest that's in Christ, Lord. We pray that you pour out your holy spirit, that you teach us tonight, that you help us to worship you in spirit and truth tonight, that we minister and love one to another, that you encourage, that you bring healing to those who who couldn't be here, Lord. We pray you heal Sally, and, pray that you continue to work, in each of our lives, Lord, and our kids and our family. In Jesus' name, amen. Thanks with a grateful heart. Give thanks to the holy one. Give thanks because he's given Alright. Thanks, Rob. Alright. We are in Ezekiel chapter 19. Ezekiel. Alright. Let's pray. Lord, we thank you once again, and we ask that you bless as we study. Lord, that you'd be our teacher, that you'd open the scriptures, Lord, and help us to understand, help us to know what's being said, and and give us ears to hear that we might hear from you and make application in our lives, Lord, of how we can avoid some of the pitfalls that the children of Israel went through and what what caused their problem. Why did they fall? Why did you have to destroy Jerusalem in May? Why did you use Nebuchadnezzar, Babylon? Lord, we find ourselves, Lord, in the church age, knowing that one day soon, Lord, the times of the Gentiles is gonna be over and that, Jesus, king of kings and lord of lords, the line of the tribe of Judah, that he's gonna return and he's going to rule and reign from Jerusalem. And and, lord, he's gonna rule and reign for a thousand years in righteousness, lord. So bless us as we study in Ezekiel 19 in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Alright. So this is a funeral dirge. Do you know what a funeral dirge is? Mhmm. Yeah? Anybody wanna sing a funeral dirge? It's a funeral dirge over the kings that are have failed. And so the kings of Judah have failed. They failed the nation, and then their failure as leaders, and not just the political leaders, but also the religious leaders have failed. And in that failure, it's left the sheep. It's left the people, you know, in a state of panic, in a state of deportation. As we read the book of Lamentations, Jeremiah saw after after the destruction that came. You know, people were eating their own children. There's famine, cannibalism, just just huge problems. So this is about five, about six years before that. This is written in May by Ezekiel, and he's instructed to, you know, provide a dirge, a lamentation of of just how sad it is that there's this breakdown. Now in Genesis chapter 49, it says Judah is a lion's whelp from from the prey, my son. Thou art gone up. He is scooped down. He crouched as a lion and as an old lion, who shall rouse him up? The kids watch the show, The Lion King. And so in this chapter, there's a the first part of the analysis or the the symbolism is that of a lion, that the leadership, the princes, the kings, come out of the line of the tribe of Judah. The tribe of Judah is the kingly line. Verse 10. The scepter shall not depart from Judah nor a lawgiver from between his feet until Shiloh come, and unto him shall be the gathering of the people be. So this is way back in Genesis. It's letting us know that the kingly tribe of the 12 tribes is gonna be, the tribe of Judah and that there's a point in time where the nation of Israel will lack a king where they'll like the Romans, you got king Herod there and you got Pilate. You got the Romans subjugating them, and they're looking for their messiah and all. But from the time of Zedekiah Zedekiah here, as he tried to flee in May to, get out of the country, you know, to, over near Jericho at Ribla's where Nebuchadnezzar was, and they grabbed hold of him, as you recall. And they took his sons, his 23 sons, and they executed him in front of him. And then they plucked his eyes out, and then they deported him back to Babylon. And so that's what happened with king Zedekiah. So he's the last of the kings until when? Until Jesus returns. Oh. There's there's no there's no nobody filling his place even from the time after May. When you look at king Herod the Great, they don't have sovereignty. They're subjugated by the Romans. And king Herod the great, the reason the religious leaders hated him was why? Why was he so hated, king Herod the great? He was secular. Yeah. Because he wasn't Jewish. He wasn't Jewish. He was, means he was from Esau. And he was great builder, very insecure, but his his family had a kingly line that that the Romans utilized, but he wasn't received by the Jews as the, you know, the bloodline. He didn't have the bloodline to be a a king. So when the children of Israel, when they, when the 70 went down into Egypt, Jacob experienced a famine. Joseph went before them, Joseph being a type of Christ, And Joseph, was in the pit. He was in, being sold by his brothers. He had the coat of many colors and all. And, and Joseph went to prison. And then when he's 30 years old, like a type of crisis, he's elevated to the place of being second to only that of pharaoh. And then a famine took place, and then Jacob, the patriarch, sends the boys down into Egypt to get some food and stuff, and then pretty soon, you know the story, Jacob's there with the 70. So then they're there four hundred and thirty years, and God's created a nation out of them. And so in the Abrahamic covenant, God said that from your seed, Abraham, all nations of the earth are gonna be blessed from your loins. And, oh, that Ishmael might live before you, but Ishmael can't live before you. So it's in Isaac shall thy seed be called. So the seed of promise, the miracle of Abraham 99, Sarah 89, and, having this child. And, and then and then we got Isaac, then we got Esau and Jacob. Esau God says Esau Jacob, I love Esau, hate it. And then with Jacob, God changes Jacob. God wrestles with Jacob, and God cripples him. And he walks away with a limp, but he's no longer Jacob, which means conniver. But instead his name's changed to Israel, which means governed of God. So he's he's governed of God, and he's got a couple wives and concubines, and he's got a big family, lots of kids. Gonna see Esau in the morning, and he's really nervous. And the angel of the Lord, Jesus, comes and wrestles with him and breaks the sinew of his of his hip, and he walks away there crippled but changed from the inside. And God begins to, you know, convince him and and draw near to him that he's gonna use them. And so they go down in Egypt, and they're shepherds. And so they get the to be able to graze in the area of Goshen. For the Egyptians, a shepherd is just a disdain, just dirty people, just dirty, dirty, dirty. But because of Joseph being alive, they had favor, you know, with the pharaoh. But then there came a day where, after Joseph died, there were pharaohs that knew not Joseph that began to to come. And in that not knowing Joseph, they began to beat and mistreat and make the Israelites slaves. And the more they beat him, the more they mistreated him, the more they multiplied. Right? And as they're multiplying, there's a pharaoh that says, take the male children. There's too many of them. There's too many of them. You know? So take the male children and when they you you midwives, when the child comes out, abort that baby, throw that baby into the Nile, population reduction. And and so you know the story. Pharaoh's daughter was if you if you watched the 10 commandments, can see this. She's there washing herself with her maidens there at the at the Nile River. And and then Miriam, the mother of Moses drawn forth, she's she's having a child, and she's not going to, you know, throw this child into the Nile to be eaten by the crocodiles. So Amram and Jochebed determined that they're gonna obey god rather than men. The child's a beautiful child, so they made an ark, a little ark. And they put out a bulrush out of out of like these guys right here, they're fashioning something. What are you making? Oh, they're weaving something. So they weaved a they weaved an ark. But weaving a basket, it's gonna sink. So they put pitch around it. The pitch is the kefir that the gopher would that that Noah used. They put a, like, a pitch component all the way around it to make it so it would so that it would float. And so it's floating, and Pharaoh's daughter sees it. Moses comes into the home of of Pharaoh. And Moses, when he's 40 years old, he's starting to think like, you know, why am I here? What am I supposed to do? I could be schooled in all the greatest colleges and all the greatest things of Egypt and become maybe the next pharaoh, but there's something going on in my heart as I'm watching these Israelites as they're making the bricks and the the lictors are there whipping them and such. It's you know, I feel a calling, so to speak. And and so god began to god began to work in Moses' heart, and he saw an Egyptian mistreating an Israelite, and he he slew the Egyptian, buried him, and tried to, you know, cover it up, and the whole community already knew about it. There was a couple Israel Israelites fighting, and they said, you gonna treat us the way you did that Egyptian the other day? And he realized, oh, every word's gotten around. So Moses has to flee, and he flees to the deserts of Midian, Jethro and Jethro Gibbs, N C I S. Right? And he he's out there for another forty years, and he's tending the sheep of another man, tending the sheep of Jethro. And he's got his wife and his two kids, and the Lord appears to him when he's 80 years old. 80 years old now. Two thirds of his life is over. But he still feels this calling inside of him to lead God's people. Now what form of government do the children, you know, of Israel have at this point of being slaves in Egypt? They're subjugated by the Egyptians. They have no government Yeah. Except they have a theocracy over them, A theocracy where God's gonna lead them, and he's gonna lead them by a pillar of fire by night and a cloud by day as he produces the exodus, a deliverance from that bondage. So Egypt's a type of the flesh. They need a deliverer, though. They need a leader. They need somebody to, you know, act as a a governor, if you will. And so god commissions, you know, Moses to be a type of Christ and that he's a deliverer. And and so he tries to deliver the first time in the arm of the flesh. The second time, Stephen tells us, by the time the Lord got to Moses, he was so emptied of his confidence. He didn't have confidence anymore. He was once an eloquent man. He was once a very brilliant man, kinda like Saul of Tarsus, you know, being groomed at the feet of Gamaliel to possibly be, you know, a person very high up in the Sanhedrin. And and so Moses said, I got a speech impediment. I I can't go. He sees this burning bush, god says, you're gonna you're my man, and you're gonna go and tell pharaoh, let my people go. The pharaoh is the most powerful dictator king, if you will, on the planet, right, in that region. And you're gonna send this shepherd with a stick, and he's gonna go into the palace and tell this pharaoh, hey. I got a word from god. And the Egyptians got a bunch of gods, you know, pluralistic, and one for the sun. If you look at all the plagues, the 10 plagues, the plagues were designed against their gods, each of their gods. Right? And the lord's shown their impotence to stop them. And so Moses winds up going, brings his brother Aaron with him and spokesperson. And eventually, after the tenth plague, the Passover firstborn dying, we've got two million people leaving Egypt. And the lord directs them where? To a cul de sac. No way out. And these aren't a warring people. They don't know how to war. They don't know how to fight. And they have a pillar of Shekinah glory wall of fire protecting them at night in a cloud by day. And then now, god says, I'm gonna park the Red Sea, not the Reed Sea, the Red Sea, you guys are gonna cross over on dry ground. And, so, again, you know the story. Moses goes over and and, takes his staff under the the Red Sea and it parts. 2,000,000 people are gonna cross, women, children, old. You know, I saw the movie again. I saw it. And, they went across, and then the pharaoh gets an evil thought in his mind that I'm gonna go after them. In the Gulf Of Aqaba, you can watch some videos today of archaeologists that will show you pictures of chariot wheels and portions of chariots that are underneath the the area of Aqaba. Those that question this account of the lord dividing the Red Sea, they say, oh, no. No. No. This was the Reed Sea, not Red Sea, and it was only about two inches deep. So now you have a choice. What's a greater miracle for god to take the Red Sea and wall it up on each side like he's gonna later do with the Jordan and cause the people to walk across or to cause the Egyptians to come in and die in one inch of water, two inches of water? You know? So which one do you want? So so the whole army's wiped out, and then they they have Moses leading them into Canaan, and he's leading these people. And these are people that think that that his leadership should be like going to Burger King. Burger King had an advertisement where you can what? You can Boy, what do you do when you got 2,000,000 people, everyone wanted their way? What do you do as a leader? What's he supposed to do? So he gets seventy seventy guys to help him, and now he's got some help. He's given wisdom to everybody all day long. God's doing miracles feeding the people. Right? They they come they run out of water, and they're hungry, and God's providing. God's causing manna to come down from heaven every single day. And they're able to go out there without working, and they're able to grab a hold of this manna, And it's called angel's food and coriander, angel's food, and it totally sustains them. It's really a super food. Right? Manna. What is it? Manicotti? Manno this. What Keith Green. Remember Keith Green, you guys? Okay. So anyway, they get the people get tired of manna. Have any of you ever got tired of going to church and hearing about Jesus? Are you tired of reading your bible? Are there other things that that the world has that looks much more tempting and savory food? I want some spicy food. I want a spicier life. I like going to nightclubs and the casino and sports and movies and all that other stuff. They became bored with Jesus. He's the man that come down from heaven. Right? And so they told Moses, we don't like you anymore, Moe. We're gonna get a leader, and we're gonna go back to Egypt. We're gonna go back to Egypt because in Egypt, we were treated better than we're being treated out here. When you're in a trial, do you try to say that to god? God, I'm going back into the world. I was better off in the world since since I became a Christian. Oh, really? You remember when you're waking up drunk in your own vomit? Remember that? Was that better? You know? Was it better going through rehab? Was it better going through those divorces? Was it better when you're in rebellion unto me? Is it not better that you know me now and walk into fellowship with me? And so in John chapter six, when Jesus was feeding people, everybody, some of them were even called disciples, they they thought, hey. This is great. He can take a little boy sack lunch, and he can take the little loaves and fishes and feed everybody, you know, thousands, 5,000, 4,000 men and women, not counting children. You know? And, hey, let's just hang out with this guy. This is a great socialism, communism, whatever it is, form of government this is. This guy this guy's gonna feed us. He's gonna give us our universal basic income in our in our our fed coin. You know? We're going digital, man. And Jesus said, you need to seek me for me. You need to eat my flesh and drink my blood. Jesus knows they're only following him for the happy meals, for the bennies, the benefit package. Right? And he wanted them to cost to to to evaluate the cost of being a Christian and following him is not a religious exercise or external benefit package. It's an internal relationship with him that he wants to have with him. He's speaking of intimacy. He's speaking of communion. And he's he says, take eat. This is my body broken for you. Taking that bread, the manna, and partaking and his life being assimilated in all of our lives, and we becoming one coming into that union. That's what he's wanting. But and it says that many of his disciples walked away from him that day, you know, no longer walk with him. In terms of the 12 and he says, are you gonna leave me also? And what do they say? Where go? Where are we gonna go? You have the words of eternal life. If we leave Calvary Bremerton, man, it's pretty hard out there. You know? Just kidding. Alright. So, anyway, back with Moses and the gang, they they wind up making God angry. And God says, I'm gonna wipe these people out, and I'll make a people out of you, Moses. And Moses, the intercessor, Jesus is our great high priest, and he begins to intercede on behalf of the people who are just so rebellious. And and god repents of the what he was gonna do, but he was really showing Moses his own heart, that Moses had a shepherd's heart for these people. And then the people had no water. And, again, they're just so angry. There's no water. There's no water. And the lord instructed Moses to smite the rock. Remember? Take your staff and smite the rock. What does the rock represent? Jesus. First Corinthians ten five says that rock that followed them was Christ. Right? So you're gonna smite the rock. What does smiting the rock represent? In sacraments. Crucifixion. He's crucified. And so he's crucified upon the cross of Calvary so that we could have living water. Right? So we'd never thirst again. So they get the water and call the place Mara, which means bitter, the bitterness of the people. You know? And then they're moving along again a little while later, and it happens again. Deja vu. Now God says to Moses, and Moses is angry. He's really angry. He's angry at these people. He said, man, I'm tired of you people. You know? Don't you know this is not Burger King? You gotta do this God's way, not your own way. And so you rebels, he says, must we what is this we, Moses? Must we bring you forth water? And he smites the rock a second time. God told him just speak to the rock. What did Moses do wrong? Broke the type, Brandon's saying. And the type is what? Jesus would only die once. So now we just pray. We speak to the rock. We speak to him. We speak to Jesus. We have access. And so God told Moses, Moses, Moses, come in here. I'm gonna take you to the woodshed. I gotta talk to you, bro. And, Moses, you misrepresented me. I told you to speak to the rock, not beat the rock again. And because of that, you're not gonna go into the promised land. And he takes him up on top of Mount Nebo, and he looks across, and he can see everything, you know, and all. But he wasn't gonna get to go. So Moses has been elevated as a leader to be in like an idol. He was so revered and so built up in the eyes of the people. You know? He got the popular vote. He got everything. You know? And just, I mean, amazing. And so god had to bring him down, and he did bring him down. He showed him they had a feet of clay. So now they're they're in their transition, the lord's lay raises up Joshua as a leader. Joshua is the name of Jesus in Hebrew. God is salvation. Yeshua. Yeah. And God is salvation. And so Moses could not, as a type of the law, couldn't lead the children of Israel into the promised land. The law can't get us in. The law shows us our sin. We need Jesus. We need Joshua to get us across that Jordan and get us into the promised land. And so Joshua comes in and begins to lead the people, and they come against a bunch of different kings, bunch of different governments and all. And, again, they have what's called a theocracy. They have where god is their form of government. So they go through the period after Joshua through the period of the times of the judges, another four hundred years. And the judges is the time where god raises up a leader like, say, Samuel. Deborah, a woman leader. Think of some other judges, Gideon, Samson, Jephthah. So four hundred about four hundred and thirty years of in the times of the judges. And the cycle in the times of the judges is and again, God's taking care of these guys. They would fall into idolatry. They'd fall away from the Lord and they'd go into idolatry. And then the Lord would bring an enemy, maybe the Philistines, maybe the Ammonites, maybe the Moabites. They bring the enemy come in to torment them, the Midianites. That's who was coming against Gideon. And and in that torment by their enemies, they'd cry out to god. When they cry out to god, god would bring a deliverer, raise up a deliverer. So the angel meets in with Gideon and says, oh, Gideon, thou mighty man of valor. And Gideon is threshing wheat, which you're supposed to do on top of a mountain, a hill, because the means of threshing is you beat the kernels, and then you winnow them up in the air. And then the wind goes by so it doesn't stick to your face. You know? So if you're down in a hole and you're trying to do that kind of a work, it's because you're afraid. Because the enemy, the Midianites, let you do all the work. All the work. And then when it comes to harvest time, they come in like terrorists, and they take all your grain, all your hard work. So Gideon's down in a hole, a wine vat, where you're supposed to chomp on the stomp on the wine on the grapes to make wine and grape juice. And an angel appeared, oh, Gideon, the mighty man of valor. And God's raising up Gideon, and Gideon says, hey. My father's house is the least, and I'm the least to my father's house. You got the wrong guy. You know? And besides that, his dad was an idolater. So God raises up Gideon, he's got 30,000 men. He's got 10,000 down to 300 in the Sunday school. Gideon and the 300. They have a very unconventional means of of defeating the enemy. Right? The sword of the lord and of Gideon, you know, and break the picture, you know, and and discomfit the enemy. And so over and over again, Samson killing a thousand Philistines with the jawbone of a donkey. Over and over again, these deliverers would help them be delivered from their enemies, and then they'd have forty years of prosperity during the during the generation of that guy, of that deliverer. And then when he died, they forget. The second generation forgets. Third generation forgets, and they go back into idolatry. Because in that time of prosperity, what do we need God for? So they go into that idolatry, and again, they become corrupted, and they they are subjected to under their enemies until they cry out once again. So the cycle repeats itself. We would call that existential humanism. Every man doing that which is right in his own eyes is a key phrase in the book of Judges. Every man did that which was right in his own eyes. So they come out of that with a little guy named Samuel, the last of the of the judges, the first prophet. And god prepared the stage for that situation with with little Samuel. His mother, Hannah, couldn't have a child. When God's gonna do a great thing, in many cases, he denies. He denies people. He denied Abraham and Sarah being able to have a baby so that when it came time to have a baby, they'd have an Isaac, not just any any old baby. You know? When the Lord wanted to raise up a priest in the time of Christ, Elizabeth couldn't have a baby, so God raised up a John the Baptist. Right? And as Elizabeth became pregnant in her old age And there was a guy named Elcana, and Elcana had two wives. And one of them, I think her name is Pua or something like that, she was prolific. She could pump out babies like crazy. She was like my daughter, Britney. You know, you just get near you just get near a man and you're pregnant. You know? And and then there's then there's Hannah. Hannah Hannah can't even can't get pregnant. And so so the other wife begins to gloat, you know, much like when Leah and Rachel were in competition for Jacob's heart, you know, who could have the most babies and all that. And so Hannah would go away crying, And her husband, Elkanah, he he was he was distraught. Like, my wife's so unhappy. You know? And so he came to her and he said to her, aren't I better to you than 10 sons? And she says, not a chance. So she goes to the priest Eli, and she's at temple. You know, she's synagogue, and she's praying. And she's praying quietly. No words coming out, but her lips moving. And Eli, his two sons, Hofne and Phineas, really bad dudes. And Eli comes to her and rebukes her that she shouldn't be here when she's drunk. And she says, sir, I'm not drunk as you suppose, and and I'm just praying. My heart's broken. It's a broken heart that you're seeing. And so Eli encouraged her, and she went home and El Cana knew her, and she became pregnant. But what she did before she got pregnant, the Lord brought her to the brink, the place of desperation. God, if you allow me to have a son, I will dedicate him to to you all the days of his life. And that's where we get our baby dedication from. Right? The Lord blesses us with the baby, but then we give the baby back to the Lord because they belong to him, and we promise to raise them in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. And so little Samuel's born, and she gets to keep him till he's weaned. And apparently, in the day, you'd keep a child till they're about four years old, from the place of weaning. And, she'd make a special coat for young Samuel, and year by year, she'd go and visit him as he's there with with Eli. And Samuel had a ear for the lord. He'd be praying, and he'd hear the lord speaking. And Eli, you know, came and said, just tell tell tell the lord when he's speaking to you, your servant hears. Speak, lord. Your servant hears. So Samuel, little Samuel, little boy began to develop an ear to hear the lord and to walk close to the lord. And as he's getting older, as we said, he's he's the first of the prophets. There came a day where Samuel he led the nation really well. And there came a day where Samuel, as the last of the judges and the first of the prophets, as he's almost ready to die, getting older, the, children of Israel come up to him and said, Samuel, your sons are not very good leadership. We we don't want them to lead us. And they said, we want a king like all the other nations. Who did they have up to that point? They had God. They had a theocracy. A theocracy. God was still governing over his nation. Right? So then he he says, alright. You get to have a king. And there was a guy from the tribe of Benjamin, not Judah. Back in Genesis that we read, we started it out, the kingly line is the lie you know, the Judah. And so Benjamin, there's a guy named Saul, and he's good looking. He's a head taller than everybody. And when he's humble, he started out pretty good. But then he got a little big for his britches, and and and you know the story. The lord presented David to the nation, and he's just a lowly shepherd boy. Nobody even knows how god's been grooming this guy and getting him ready. And now he's a a giant killer. God sends him out there with a slingshot, and he slays Goliath all nine feet at something ugly of him and cuts his head off and and all that. And the people are cheering, and Saul's getting more and more desperate and jealous. And people are singing Saul has killed his thousands, and David has tens of thousands. And and so there came a day where king Saul was supposed to kill all the Amalekites and king Agag and wipe them out completely. Nothing to be left. No spoil. Don't touch any of it. It's mine. And so they went into battle, and they they whooped on him. God gave him the victory. But Saul kept a bunch of the sheep, the goats, the ox, and the animals, the choice the choice animals. And and he also allowed Agag or Og Agag to to live. And and so Samuel comes pulling up, and and Saul begins to talk about what a great victory it was and all that. And and, hey. We, you know, we we did what you said, and the lord blessed and all. And Samuel says, what's that bleeding of the sheep I hear in my ears? And Saul, being a poor leader, blamed the people. It was the people. The people wanted that stuff, and we're gonna we're gonna offer all that stuff under the Lord. So in your disobedience, you justify your disobedience by making it Christian. You Christianize your disobedience. You say, you know, aborting babies for fifteen weeks is not that bad. The other the other guys are aborting them from the all year long. But but we're gonna Christianize our approach because because after all, we're better than the other side. You know? And pretty soon you rationalize and and justify. And god says to Samuel, obedience is better than sacrifice. And so why don't you obey? And Samuel goes over there, and and then he cuts up king Agag, doesn't he? And the lord caused Samuel to rip the mantle of Saul, the kingdoms ripped from him and given to, you know, given to David, the shepherd boy. And so that's the kingly line. David's the root and the offspring. Jesus is the root and the offspring of David, and David's from the tribe of Judah. And God made a covenant with David that David wanted to build a sanctuary for the Lord. And Nathan, the prophet, said, David, that's a really good desire you have to build the lord a house, but, I'll go talk to the lord about that. And and Nathan, the prophet, went to talk to the lord, the lord says, well, that that's a cool thing, but I'm gonna build David a house instead. And David's hands are too bloody. And so but I'm gonna do something for David in second Samuel seven. I'm gonna do something for David. I'm going to build a dynasty. I'm gonna build a house for him, and the kingly lion's going to come through his loins. The Messiah is gonna be born in Bethlehem. The Messiah is gonna be from the tribe of Judah just as God promised back in Genesis chapter forty nine nine and ten. And and so the nation of Israel enjoyed good kings and bad kings. Solomon got to enjoy the all the money and all the wood and all the materials and everything that David amassed during his lifetime to get ready to build that temple. And so that temple's built, and now, we're down to the last of the kings in this chapter, and there's a dirge, a lamentation because now, Zedekiah is gonna be the very last king, until Jesus. It can be that big gap. And May, the temple's gonna be destroyed, and Zerubbabel's temple's a partial rebuilding. King Herod the Great, a continuing rebuilding of the second temple period. The Antichrist is gonna help Israel build another temple in our near future, I believe. And and then there's a fourth temple that's gonna be built, and we'll see it in Ezekiel 40 through 48. It's, the temple that's gonna be built during the millennium. And so, so here we are back at 19. That's a backdrop of of chapter 19 of Ezekiel. Moreover, take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel and say, what is thy mother? A lioness she laid down among lions. And so we saw that in Genesis 49, talked about a lion, the lion of the tribe of Judah. Let me read it for you again. Judah is a lion's whelp, from the prey, my son, thou art gone up. He stooped down, he crouched as a lion, as an old lion, who shall rouse him up? So that's where we got the the cartoon or the thing from Disney, the lion king right there. Royalty lord. So the scepter shall not depart from Judah nor a lawgiver between his feet until Shiloh come, the Messiah, and unto him shall the gathering of his Israel be. So it's telescoping to the future when Jesus returns. Then in Isaiah chapter 29 verse one, we read I read, woe to Ariel to Ariel, the city where David dwelt. Add year to year, let them kill sacrifices, yet I will distress Ariel. Ariel means lion of god. So the lion of god. And so what's a picture here is Israel's a type of lion, tribe of Judah, the kings, the kingly line of Judah. The 10 northern tribes were destroyed by the the Assyrians because they had a division, right, divided into two kingdoms. And in July, the Assyrians destroyed the 10 northern tribes that were operating out of Samaria. But Judah was able to stay and not be destroyed by the Assyrians, but later, after Jeremiah and others prophesied over and over again, Jeremiah for forty years to the Israelites to repent, they wouldn't repent. So now it comes time where they're ripened under judgment, and there's a lamentation about the kings and the failure of the kings to properly lead the people, the failure of the priests to properly lead the people. So if we were to make an evaluation of America and a country song were to be made, a funeral dirge, what would be said? Judgment begins in the house of god. So we take responsibility first in the church, the leadership of the church. And A would definitely be in there. A fork? A ford. A ford? Yeah. Like a ford. Because you said a country song. Country song. There you go and a dog and all that. So do we what form of government do we have? Terrorism. A constitutional republic. Republic. What other forms of government are there? Socialism. Communism. All the isms. All the isms? Republics. Monarchy? Are are we kinda one of the only republic? And so the question comes back, the demise of America as America's going down in our lifetime. Same sort of thing as Israel. If we were to look at parallels, we we, the people, have corrupted ourselves. And as we've corrupted ourselves, our leadership represents who we are. Kamala Harris is absolutely, unequivocally, like Biden, nonelectable. Mhmm. She's completely unqualified, and yet she's paraded out in front of everybody. They didn't even put her in the primaries. They knew she couldn't put in the primaries. Yeah. They knew it'd swing swing over to Trump. So now is there is there is there bloodlines? Are there bloodlines for presidents? No. Rob says no. I don't know. You'll have to ask the 23 me people that took all of our DNA. How many presidents came from the Bush bloodline? Yep. Two. Tried a third, didn't they? Jab? Kennedy's They got another one? Is there a Kennedy on the ticket now? Yep. That's a bloodline. Right? Yeah. There are bloodlines in the globalist. Wait. Globalist have some bloodlines, don't they? Oligarchs. Oligarchs. Right? An oligarchy. Black bloodline. Want people like us to be in leadership. Right? So we see the lord has a bloodline of kings that he's raising up. It's a dirge because these kings failed, but we have the same sort of things still going on. Does the devil have a bloodline? Yeah. Which is There's some crazy people out there. Which is the seed of the serpent. Right? The seed of the serpent. So there's some bloodlines in that way. Alright. So lioness, she shall lay lay among lions, so she's gonna raise up this lioness is gonna raise up lions, raise up kings. The nation of Israel is gonna raise up some kings. That's the picture here. She nourished her whelps among young lions, so she's produced kings. And this first one is Josiah, king Josiah, the did great reforms and all. But king Josiah, although he's prolific and he came after Manasseh, Manasseh, his father was just horrible, and Manasseh came from Hezekiah. Hezekiah was a good king, really good king. But Hezekiah got sick, and everybody began to pray for him. And he didn't wanna die, and he went against the wall and began to weep. And god came to him and said, alright, Hezekiah. I'm gonna give you fifteen more years. And so take this, balm. Take this what was it? A not an olive, but a fig. I think it's a fig. So kinda, you know, the medicines that people know how to whatever. Anyway, he had a boil and take this and put it on it and all. And and prior to that, the prophet came to him and said, hey. The sickness is unto death. Get your house in order. So that shook him up. And then he cried out to God, and God gave him fifteen more years. But then he went back too. He's still a good king, but he had a son named Manasseh. And Manasseh ruled for fifty five years, and Manasseh was collectively Manasseh did more evil than all the other kings before and after him. And these guys are so evil, they're more evil than the secular nations around them. Hard to fathom. Right? Just hard to hard to comprehend. But anyway, Josiah came, and Josiah was a reformer. Josiah got rid of all the Sodomites in and around Jerusalem and everything, began to clean everything up, get rid of all the bad Democrats, and throw them in jail and everything. And but he didn't clean out the groves. He didn't clean out the places up in the hills and stuff. Right? And so but he did good. And then he had a he had a king friend in another country. The country was Egypt. The guy's name was or excuse me. He went to battle against another another country, Egypt, in an alliance in an alliance which he shouldn't have been meddling in other men's war and pharaoh Neko. And one of the anyway, he died in battle. In that battle, king Josiah did it. He died at a young age, And and she brought up one of her whelps. He became a a young lion, and he learned to catch the prey. He devoured men. And so this is Jehoaz. He reigned for three months, and we can see him in second Kings 23, thirty one and twenty four verse 18. The nations also heard of him, so so he's pretty prolific there. And he was taken in their pit, and they brought him with chains under the land of Egypt. So pharaoh Necho killed Josiah. Now Jehoaz reigns for three months after his after his dad, and he's put in chains, he's brought back to Egypt. And and that's where he died. He died in captivity, in Egypt, this king. So he put in the pit, and they brought him with chains under the land of Egypt. And so the way they would do is they'd put a chain of collar around their necks. They'd also put hooks in their noses, and then they would pull them. You know, they'd or have them be in the front, pull them, whatever. And and that's that's a king being humbled right there. So those things in their nose now. I don't understand that. I I look at I mean, teach his own, but I these beautiful, beautiful waitresses. It's the girls that catch my eye, by the way. But they got these things right here, you know, with balls. You know? It's like I'm like, everything right there, that's attractive. That's God made you that way. That what what's the purpose of that? Can you tell me? What is it? Is it a fashion statement? Teeny tiny little stud over here and that one's okay. It's almost like you put a chain on. Anyway, teach his own. I I have no idea, but I hope that fashion was part of wokeism and is gonna go away because anyway, my my daughters have them. Well, they got all of it. Alrighty. So the nations also heard of him, and he was taken in their pit, and they brought him with chains under the land of Egypt. So, Johaz died in captivity. Verse five. Now when she saw that she had, waited and her hope was lost, then she took another of her wealth. So Israel has another king that she's producing, and made him a young lion. So this is Jehoia Chin, and some know him as a Jehoia Kim. And he went up and down among the lions, and he became a young lion and learned to catch the the prey and devoured men. So this is the lion king, but he's a bad bad dude. He's meddling. He's messing around with the nations around him, people around him, cities around him. He committed a monster of iniquity and created havoc upon the cities of Israel. And he'd go into their palaces and their homes and their women and just created really bad stuff he was doing. And he knew their desolate palaces, and he laid waste with their cities, and the land was, desolate in its fullness by the noise of his roaring. And so he's like an 18 year old king or whatever and and just going crazy. Then the nation sat against him, so everybody got against him on every side from the province provinces and spread their net over him, and he was taken in their in their pit. So now he's, gonna be taken to Babylon. He's gonna be a prisoner of king Nebbe. And we read in Jeremiah 52 that, Ezra Ezrael Barelak, way down the line, thirty seven years later, he's been in captivity in prison in Babylon, and he's released later. And, Lamentations four twenty. And And somebody wanna read Proverbs twenty eight fifteen? Okay. K. You guys like reading? Mhmm. Psalm two eight nine. Two eight nine. Okay. Go ahead. As a roaring lion and a ranging bear, so is a wicked ruler over the poor people. So why all of a sudden when Trump won was there this huge quiet, this huge peaceful Because before that, you had a raging line. You had the raging media, raging everything, and people were their heads ready to explode a fear that Kamala was gonna win. And once it passed that she wasn't gonna get it stolen and people calmed down. And so your proverb talks about like a raging lion when a you have an evil ruler in power. You know, it it it's like a raging lion when you have an evil ruler in power. And that's what Jehoia Chen was like, a raging lunatic, and then he finally was subdued and put in prison. Now wouldn't that be great if some of these guys would be put in prison? Yes. Think it'll ever happen? No. Think anybody will ever be arrested? No. Why do you think that? Because they're because they're all too deep. Because we're not a part of the bloodlines. Right? Yeah. Is anybody getting arrested in the p ditty or Epstein? I know. You hear anything about the Epstein's still alive. Do you know why they can't be arrested? Because they're untouchable. Yeah. They're untouchable, but why else? I know who's involved. They're all intertwined. So do you remember Barney Frank? Barney. Yeah. Not on Mayberry, Barney. Barney Frank. And Barney Frank is a gay guy in DC, a senator, and he had a gay lover living with him. And they this is in the time of, I think, of one of the Obama administrations, one of the Republicans, I think. Anyway, Barney Frank was threatened by some Republicans because his gay guy was having some activities there at the apartment, the condo or whatever. And they threatened him, and he said, well, if you do that, then I'm gonna expose all you Republicans, the children you're with, the people you're with. Stopped it right there. House of cards. Because it's not just a Democrat thing playing with kids. Right? They're all corrupt. They're all corrupt. So when one one hangs, they all gonna get hung. So that's why you never see it. Not gonna happen. And they might they might put one out there as a as a token, but they're not a they're not one of the insiders. I always wondered why they let Steve Jobs die because those guys never die. Yeah. You know, George Soros keeps getting new hearts and stuff. Right? Maybe he's on Mars. But Steve Jobs, I mean, the founder of Apple, wasn't he on the inside with everybody? You got pancreatic cancer? Don't they have the cure to cancer? Oligarchs? You never hear any of them ever dying of cancer is what I'm saying. So when I hear of Steve Jobs dead. What's that? How do we know he's really dead? Like, Epstein Oh, come on. Know if he's dead. He fought with What Yeah. Bill Gates. They they got they got into it. So you think he was on the outskip with Bill? Okay. But I always look at these guys like the Rockefellers, all of them. None of them ever die the way we die. You know, they seem to push it, you know, almost to a 100 years old. He was part of the Epstein Epstein Island crowd. Yeah. So anyway alright. Back to our text. Yes. So he's taken by Nebbe. First nine, and they put him in a cage and chains and brought him to the king of Babylon and brought him into the strongholds, that his voice should no more be heard upon the mountains of Israel. So he's dethroned, and he's no longer a roaring lion. No no more roaring. No more and and that's that's that's that's kinda how when Trump won it, it's kinda like the media. Everybody was stunned, and there were no more of these raving lunatic liars. You know? Everybody roaring. One of the things I told you guys, everybody is roaring. Pardon me? They're still roaring. Well, Rob told me they're starting to do it again, but they're trying to create the chaos. But one of the things I told everybody was turn it off. Don't listen to mainstream media and have that thing coming into your home and your mind and your heart because it's designed as a psyop. It's psychological to make you filled with anxiety, worry, and fear. And so I would say memorize Psalm one the next time you wanna listen to media. So blessed, oh, how happy is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly. So you're walking along, some guy's trying to talk. I'm not gonna walk and talk with a guy that's giving me counsel. He's an ungodly guy. Nor stands in the way of the sinners, seat of the sinners. So I'm walking, and what he has to say now he's got me standing. I'm not making any progress moving forward in my walk with the Lord because as I was walking and moving forward, listened to him. Now I'm standing. Right? Nor sits in the seat of the scornful. So I'm not gonna be that guy. I'm not gonna listen to those guys. But my delight's gonna be in the law of the Lord, and in his law does he meditate day and night. So if we'll get into God's word and be in God's word and meditate and chew on God's word and leave that lying stuff out there, we're gonna experience peace. Amen. Right? And he shall be planted, you know, by the rivers of waters brings forth its fruit and it sees in that person. The leaf shall not wither whatsoever he doeth shall prosper. But the ungodly are not so bitter like the chaff, which the wind drives away. Right? So our life will be fruitful if we spend time with Jesus and recognize his sovereignty, and somebody's gonna read Psalm two now to point out his sovereignty. Ask of me. You could start at verse one. Okay. I like that song. Yeah. Mhmm. Psalm two. Why do the heathen rage and the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves and the rulers take counsel together against the Lord and against his anointed, saying, let us break their bands asunder and cast away their cords from us. He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh. The Lord shall have them in derision. Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath and vex them in his sore displeasure. Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of I will declare the decree the Lord hath said unto me, thou art my son. This day I have begotten thee. And ask sorry, not and. Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thy inheritance and the uttermost part of the earth for thy possession. Thou should break them with a rod of iron. Thou shall dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel. Be wise now, therefore, o ye kings. Be instructed, ye judges of the earth. Serve the Lord with fear and rejoice with trembling. Kiss the son, least he be angry, and he perish from the way when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him. So it's a messianic psalm. It's the antichrist and all the kings of the earth are gonna try and stop Jesus from returning. They're gonna be converged at Basra, and he's going to come in the clouds to rescue the the remnant, the elect, the the one third remnant of Israel that came through the tribulation period, and they're gonna cry out, blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord, and the Lord Jesus is gonna intervene. And it's interesting. They're gonna try and stop him from returning, and it says that god holds him in derision. He just laughs from heaven. And so we're talking king of kings, lord of lords, and his instruction, his advice to them is kiss the son. Kiss kiss his feet while you can. You know, kiss him while you can because he's gonna rule and reign with a rod of iron and break the nations like a potsherd. You know, he's just gonna gonna club him down. Alright. So so no more be heard upon the mountains of Israel, so dethroned. Now the now the imagery, the type changes. It changes to a vine. So Israel's a lion, but Israel's also a fruitful vine. So the mother is like a vine in thy blood planted by the waters. She was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters. So in her past glory, Israel very, very fruitful. Zedekiah enjoyed a good time. All of them, you know, were fruitful. And she had strong rods for the scepters of them that bore rule. So the scepter's speaking of of, you know, the that the king holds, holds up his scepter. And so they weren't weak. They were strong. They were prosperous. They were strong. And and her statue was exalted among the the thick branches, and she appeared in her height with a multitude of her branches. And so, many past mighty leaders, great leaders in throughout history with Israel. And if the world, you know, wants to play games with Israel, if they really think they're gonna come in there and take a spoil, Israel knows present day Israel knows that they don't have the luxury of going to war and losing any war. They have when you go to Israel, they'll take you to Masada. And when you go to Masada, it'll be a place where where when you when you go into the military, they'll have aircraft that fly over Masada, and you you come to Masada as a soldier, and their their phrase is never again. So they're not gonna surrender to any foreign power. They're up on Masada, a bunch of them killed themselves because what was happening is they were resisting the Romans. The Romans were using Jews as as a means of building their rampart up there to try and get to Masada to to get into the city there that Herod had built. And they were using Jews, so they they don't wanna kill their own countrymen. So rather than be subjected, they killed themselves. Well, they're not gonna do that. They're not gonna just kill themselves, commit suicide. Instead, they're gonna do like Samson did with the Philistines. If if you guys get us on the brink, we're gonna take you with us. Gonna take everybody with us. So so not only that, but when they Ezekiel thirty eight and thirty nine happens, God intervenes. And God intervened in '63 '67, I mean, in the seventy three war. And all throughout their skirmishes in the 1948, God has intervened and helped them. So you fight against Israel, you're fighting against God. You're poking God in the eye, the apple of his eye being Israel. And it doesn't mean they're perfect. Doesn't mean they're righteous. Not yet. But it does mean that God has a plan and a purpose for them. And, so that's why we, remind ourselves of Genesis twelve three. God says, I'll bless those that bless Israel, and I'll curse those that curse Israel. So my mother is like a vine and thy blood planted by the waters. She was fruitful and full of branches, by reason of many waters, past glory, and she had strong rods for the scepters, and they they that bore rule, and and the stature was exalted among the thick branches, and she appeared in her height with a multitude of her branches. But she was plucked up in the fury, and she was cast down. So they got deported. Nebuchadnezzar had several waves of deportation of taking, like, Shadrach, Meshach, Abednego, and Daniel and others to to Babylon. Then he left some of the poor back in Jerusalem, and Jeremiah was able to be there and get Elijah, the governor. And and and then they still rebelled against Nebuchadnezzar, and he had to destroy him completely. So down to the ground, the east wind so they they the fury was cast down to the ground, and the east wind have any of you been watching the fires in California? And do you know what those fires are fanned by? The Santa Santa Ana's. It's a Scirocco wind comes off the desert. So if you grow up there and you're a surfer, in September, you always look at the flag especially. You're looking at the flag. And the flag normally the the wind in the afternoon comes off the ocean, and that's why you like to live near there within 10 miles of the coast because it cools everything off. If you go inland, the temperature can be, like, 90 degrees, 97, whatever. But if you live near the beach, that temperature can you know, seventy, seventy five, 80 right in there. That cool breeze, none of us ever needed air conditioning when we grew up there two miles from the beach. But in September, late August, September, they have what's called the Santa Anas, and that's what's described here, the Scirocco wind. It's wind that drives everything out. So we look at the flag, and if the flag was thrust pointing towards the beach, that's called offshore winds. And that means the waves, they're coming in, they get to be picked up a little bit. So it's hollower, and then there's a spray that comes off. So I I had to go to Golden West College to graduate from high school because I ditched so many days when the flag was like that. You know? But I wound up graduating. I wound up graduating. You know, you you ditch a couple classes, and that adds up when you get to the counselor and she says, you're not gonna have enough credits to graduate. What do I gotta do? Well, you could take a couple classes at Golden Wise. Okay. I'll do that. You know? So but it all builds up toward your senior year because you've been messing around, you know, prior to that. If you fish in CQ, you can't fish on the Easterly. You can't? No. Because of the waves. Oh, the waves. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, it's serious up here. It's really way different. It's so serious here. This place, man. Mhmm. And Oregon. Oregon's serious. The east wind dried up her fruits, so it just dried everything up. And strong rods were broken and withered, and the fire consumed them. And so what happens is if you don't have a if you get fires going and they wipe out all the forests, they just take your trees down. Now, you know, the biggest nut job in our lifetime is Bill Gates. Right? He is proposing to take down all the trees and bury them because of global warming. Everything that comes out of his mouth, the truth is the complete opposite Because these trees provide an environment of dropping, you know, the pine needles and the leaves and all that, and then it comes down on the topsoil. That topsoil is fertile. He wants to kill us all. So when you when you denude in war the trees, now you have the rocks and all the the the rain when it does come. Because after the fires in California, the next is the mudslides. So the mudslides come, takes all the topsoil, and it moves all the topsoil down to the streams. The streams get silted to where they can't flow, and then now you've got marshes developing. And so you you you got you got little hills where nothing will grow. The topsoil's not in the valley. And so you're it'd be perfect for Bill because it makes it so you don't have any farmland anymore. And the only good farmland is the farmland that he bought and that the Chinese bought. And there's no water for anybody else, but they mysteriously got water. You know? So it's a demonic thing. It's a form of warfare that the enemies would employ against the nation of Israel. And so what did Israel do in 1948? What did they what did they start doing? Planting trees. Planting trees. Pine trees. And the pine trees go on the side of the hills, drops the needles, able to get down in there, and it changed the the whole precipitation, the early and the latter rain. And they're able to take those marsh areas. When I lived over off of Impulseville there, we had a marshy area. And what grows really well in the marshy area is the eucalyptus trees. Or we have here, we have alders, and the alders suck up a lot of water, tons of water. Right? And so it drives those out, and then you make little canals and stuff. But, the the Israelis have been ingenious in bringing Israel back to life with fruits, vegetables, flowers, growth. They're able to take areas that were just totally unproductive for hundreds and hundreds of years and bring it back to life with proper husbandry. And they don't ever ask Bill Gates what he thinks, you know, of what he thinks. So, I mean, can you imagine he wants to cut the trees down and bury them for global warming? So do you know this week? I have to tell you another one. He's proposing death panels. Do you know how you have insurance and insurance companies to determine who gets treated or whatever? He's proposing death panels for who? For who? No. For those who were maimed from the vaccination. So you got vaxxed and your health has been impaired, and you're an elderly person, and you already had a stroke because of the jab, his jab, the jab that he developed. You know? And now you're now you're an elderly person that's crippled. He wants death panels to get you off of to kill you. Medicare. That's what he's calling for. How's that guy still breathing? No. I'm serious. I'm serious. Death panels. You he's a youth Malthusian euthanasia. That's how he's raised. His parents were on Planned Parenthood, part of Planned Parenthood and all. So anyway, these are some wicked people. Alright. So deported and the east wind coming in wiped out the fruit. Strong rods were broken, so their leadership was broken and withered. The fire consumed them. They're destroyed. They're deported. Verse 13, and now she is planted in the wilderness in a dry and thirsty ground, desolation, and the devil comes about like a roaring lion whom he may devour. Satan comes as the lion to counteract God's lions. And and fire has gone out of a rod of her branches, which has devoured her fruit so that she has no strong rod to be a scepter to rule. So the nation of Israel is at the mercy of the Gentile nations, and that's why it's so important for America to be a friend of Israel, as her enemies. And Zechariah tells us chapter 12 that all nations are eventually turn their back upon Israel, which means including America. So we don't wanna be a part of that. We wanna make sure that president Trump and Jared Kushner, his son-in-law, and whoever else are very, very favorable toward Israel. And that doesn't mean that we should demonize other nations. We we should seek to help with the evangelism of all those nations. The fastest growing church in the world is not in Israel. Mm-mm. It's in Iran. So when our state department and everybody tries to find a boogeyman to justify war, people lose sight of the fact that there's a whole lot of Christian people coming to Christ, you know, in Iran and Lebanon and these other these other among the Palestinians and all. And so, what's bad about Iran is their leadership. You know? It's their leadership that's bad and their ideology, their their Islam. But there's a whole lot of families there raising children, working that want the lifestyle that you and I've enjoyed, freedom freedom to work and and take care of their children. And they're coming to Christ because they see the emptiness of Islam, and so the mosques are empty, we're told. So the strong rod to be a scepter to rule, this is a lamentation and shall be for a lamentation and, this dirge. And so it's gonna happen, until the lion of the tribe of Judah returns. Revelation five, we see him, Jesus, the lion of the tribe of Judah, who's worthy to open the scroll and loose the seal. Jesus, he's king of kings and lord of lords, and every knee is gonna bow and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is lord. So Zedekiah was the last of the king, that kingly line, and we're waiting for a new king. And, unfortunately, the nation of Israel is gonna be deceived. They're going to sign a peace treaty with another king. Jesus said in John five, I come on my father's name and you receive me not. Another shall come in his own name, in him you will receive. The antichrist is going to deceive them, but their eyes are gonna be open halfway through when he goes into the temple and declares himself to be god. So he goes from being a king to be a world leader to be the eighth, you know, of the ten, three that he subdues, and the others give their sovereignty over to him. But, he's exposed in the minds of the Jews, the remnant, when he goes in the temple, declares himself to be god, and demands to be worshiped as god. There's twelve hundred and sixty days after that where Jesus returns as king of kings and lord of lords. He's gonna rule and reign for a thousand years, and he comes forth from the Davidic line as the lion of the tribe of Judah. Alright. Well, let's pray. Father, thank you for the time that we could spend here. And, Lord, we thank you that in our human frailty, Lord, we do the best we can as human beings with human government. What a bummer that Israel elected to have a king like all the other nations. And, Lord, you warned them. You told them what it would be like. And we thank you for the police officers, the military. We thank you for those that are in government that that, Lord, they're your servants. They're doing it as unto you. They're an extension of who you are. They're preserving good. And, Lord, we pray that evermore that the good would, prevail over the evil, those who are evil and self serving and, want to to be tyrannical. Lord, we pray you open the eyes of your people, in regard to artificial intelligence governance that's coming, that's already here, and the different ways the oligarchs are wanting to enslave the planet with the artificial intelligence, with the digital technology. And, Lord, we know prophetically, Revelation thirteen sixteen through 18, that nobody's gonna be able to buy or sell without a mark on their right hand of their forehead, Lord. And they're going to show their allegiance. They're gonna show their worship toward the antichrist. I thank you that our eyes are open. We thank you for the innumerable multitude of people in the tribulation period who refuse the mark of the beast and are beheaded for their faith. And, Lord, what a great witness that is that, to be asked for the body to be present with the Lord. And so, lord, as these days approach, as we see more and more of the birth pangs, lord, as we see human government failing all around us, as we see bank failures, economic failures, so many different failures, lord, as the stage is being set for the beast system. And, Lord, you're allowing that system to converge. And, Lord, we're looking up knowing that our redemption draws nigh, that it's gonna be short lived. They got seven years to kill themselves, Lord. And, and, Lord, you're coming for us before all that. So we thank you, Lord. So bless tonight, and, pour out your holy spirit upon us and keep us safe, Lord. 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.
