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Live from Bremerton. It's Monday night. Welcome. We're here, Facebook crowd. We're here to study Ezekiel 21. Happy Thanksgiving, and, we're gonna open with prayer. Father, we come before you, Lord, and we thank you for this night that we can gather. Thank you for that great meal and all the signature dishes to kick in the Thanksgiving week. Watch over and protect all those those that are traveling and driving trains, planes, all of it, and driving their cars and the congestion and just everything that's going on. We thank you for the season that we're in. Such a great time. And we commit this night into your hands and pray you bless as we study your word. As we worship, Lord, as we fellowship, Lord, we do lift up Sally and James. Lord, we pray you heal their body. We pray for Christie, you heal her body. And, Lord, we lift up the person here with cancer, that you heal their bodies also. If my Britney help her with her blood clot and the recovery from the baby having a baby, and just watch over and protect us, Lord. Help us to be be the kind of people that can be thankful in all things. We ask you bless this time in Jesus' name. Every amen. Amen. Amen. He is exalted. The king is exalted on high, and I will praise him. He is Amen. Praise the lord. Amen. Now this is an echo song. You girls need to echo. We do that a couple more times. You girls will get it better. Jewish thing going down right there. Alright. You ready? Yep, pastor. Go ahead. Okay. We're we're gonna watch the Charlie Brown Thanksgiving if you guys wanna move to the other room there. Okay. Do any announcements? What do you guys let's see. Thomas had announcement, and Steve had announcement. What's your announcement, Thomas? Well, it's a it's a saying I've been telling people. You know, it wasn't a reindeer that died for your sins, but it was a lamb. A lamb? Yeah. The lamb of god. You're right. Amen. Amen. And somebody said, why would Jesus be born in the barn? Someone said, well, what do you expect from lambs to be born? There you go, buddy. Thanks, man. Right. Like your haircut. It's nice. Thank you. Alright. Steve. Mister Steve has an announcement. We have a sister Sharifa Marker that has come a few times, but she put it on my heart or gave me a request to, if you can, to help with her niece who is in Bangladesh that is got cancer of two organs in her body. And her mother has three other daughters that she's caring for, and her father just died, like, three or four years ago, months or years ago with that. Anyway, the chemo treatments are $700 a treatment. She's had four treatments. And if you can help at all for the treatments, it would be great. But keep the prayers going. Okay. I believe the Lord is gonna do it. Alright. Doctors. You wanna pray right now, Steve? Go ahead and pray. Father, we come before you. Lord, forgive us that your word talks about going after that one in '99 and, you know, this young lady doesn't know you as lord and savior, but yet she's struggling with this sickness that is trying to take her death before she can come to know Jesus as her lord and savior. Father, we rebuke the power of the devil in the name of Jesus and we come before you and we ask that you would pour out your spirit and put ministering angels around here. And Lord, put doctors around her that would be able to correctly diagnose to reduce or whatever is needed, Lord. She is in so much pain, Lord. Help her. And, Lord, if there be any, people with finances, have them pour into her that they can help with the needs that they have for the doctor. So We thank that you can do far abundantly greater than we can ever imagine, Lord, and we ask you to touch her. And keep her as the apple of your eye and comfort her, and bless her, Lord. Be with her and be with her family. Be with her mother, Lord, and strengthen them all as they go through this trial and tribulation, Lord. We thank you with all you do in Jesus' name. Amen. Save her, Lord. Save her. Save her. Save her. Right. There's a little jar. There's a jar. Yes. There's a little jar that we're passing around. And if you can help help. If you can't, just pray and or pray about it too. So Alright. All you do. Thank you. Yeah. Alright. Does anybody have something they're thankful for tonight? Anybody thankful? The truth. Rob's thankful for the truth. Why is that so important? Because he sets us free. Sets us free. Amen. Jim, very thankful for God answering the prayer, for giving discernment. I believe he's been blessing me with more and more of it, and I'm seeing things, and then, you know, and it helps to direct the prayers when I Amen. Know what's really going on. Amen. In Mark four, it talks about the light that the Lord gives. And when you're faithful with that light, he gives you more. If you hide the light, if you if you're not if you're susceptible, like, hey. I don't wanna know that truth. I'm I'm gonna bury that. I'm gonna live in denial. You don't get anymore. Amen. You you you don't get any more discernment. Alright? I'm thankful that the Lord uses you and Kathy so mightily. And that I'm thankful for that too. Yeah. Do. I'm just kidding. Well, we're thankful for you guys. I'm thankful for for all the food tonight. Oh, nice. And all the company and and Nice. My church people because I love you guys. Oh, we love you too. Yeah. Very thankful for everybody here at Saint Jude, man. I'm a need a hanky right here. No. You're not. Anybody else? What what do you guys think? I got doggy. I got my god didn't take my doggy away from me. Oh, that's sweet. Yeah. That's really sweet. Yes. You love your doggy. Okay. Thankful for our church family. My church family. And it's iron sharpening iron, and I love you all. Amen. Yes. Thank you, Nancy. I love you too. I love you. Do you think we're aliens? No. No. Terry? Anybody else? Something you're thankful for? In everything, give thanks for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. Everything. Right? Thank you. Hi, Bernie. I told my doctor I gotta check with my test to make sure these vaccines are okay to take. Oh, okay. No. I haven't with my test group approval. No. Wow. The RSV and something in medical I'm not a doctor. I'm thankful. I I I mentioned depopulation, and they gave me a funny look. Well, we'll read it after. So you're thankful for your vaccine? Oh, I didn't get my vaccine. Okay. I'm thankful I'm thankful that it wasn't Santa Claus in a manger, but it was a gift giver. Alright. Praise the lord. The gift that keeps on giving. Right. Yep. That's good. Alright. Anybody else? Anybody traveling for the holidays? Gotta get on the road? Have Fly. Drive on the side. Oh, yeah? Okay. Well, safe travels. Mhmm. Alright. I'm thankful for all of you guys. I'm thankful that Kathy and I and my family are in God's will. And Amen. We really, really enjoy ministry, being in God's will. Our function within the body is is to study and to teach God's word. And presently, I I don't know very many people who aggressively want to know the truth. And a lot of folks, they'll 2% truth is okay, 30 truth, 50% truth. But you guys allow me to dig in as far as I can and try and connect the dots with what's happening presently with prophetically prophetically what's going on. We can see a one world government coming. We can see a one world currency coming, the blockchain. We can see a one world religious system coming, and it's in motion. It's happening. And Jesus described these as as the birth pangs. And so when you see those birth pangs, you know, be looking up knowing our redemption draws nigh. So I'm I'm excited that that we can just go for it, you know, that we don't have to have any kind of constraint or anything holding us back in our desire to get to know Jesus. Knowledge puffs up, but love edifies. So it's not just knowledge of the bible that we're after. It's getting to know him. And one of the greatest ways to know him is to teach the bible because the more the the more the more you teach, the more you need to study. So we have to study and study and study, and then we're able to teach. And so for me, that's a good thing because it helps me to dig in and spend time in the word and then spend time reading different periodicals and things and trying to understand the world we're living in and the time frame. The just the times in which we're living know what time it is. And so I don't want any of us we had a message two weeks ago called awake to righteousness, and I'm glad that you're unwilling to go back to sleep. I don't think you ever were asleep. And it's getting more and more exciting every day watching the pieces of the puzzle, you know, come together. And and I'm really I'm really excited about between now and January and then 2025, wondering what the Lord, you know, has for us because there's a there's a lot happening presently. And and we get to study Ezekiel 21 tonight. And so let's pray. Father, please open the scriptures to understanding. Thank you that I'm around some like minded believers that love to study your word to get to know you better. And we lift up Betty and Ray. And, Lord, we pray that you give them a rash, Lord, because they're in Hawaii and they're on a cruise. Just let it be quarantined with bird flu and all that. You know? No. Just kidding. Thank you for the pictures today at the beach. I pray they're having a blast. It's a wonderful time. They're such sweet saints, Lord, and we love them. We miss them. And just help them to get back safe for the Christmas party and potluck, and so blessed. Thank you for Rob and Vicky that open their home each week and clean their house and get it ready and all this food that everybody brings and just all the preparation, all the parking, all the everything. It's a tough, tough job. I pray you keep your hedge of protection about them at work in every way that the devil tries to discourage them and just to undergird and strengthen them and help them continue with all the media stuff, the podcasts, and all the different ideas and vision that you give them, Lord, to get the word of God out there. Just bless. We pray. Pour out your holy spirit upon us. Leading guidance in all truth tonight. In Jesus' name, amen. Vicky, you have something to say? I was gonna say, I am thankful that we have the freedom to gather Amen. In his name in our our homes and that we can continue to do this and exercise our freedom of religion and and obey the Lord by gathering together. Amen. Be blessed by having all of your loved ones here. Amen. Are we a little stronger blesses us. Are we a little stronger this time around than we were when COVID first hit that night we were here? Alright. Are we a little stronger? A little stronger. We learned a couple things. Well, we had Today, they got the news broadcast on Fox News imploring everybody that they're gonna start masking kids in the school. I saw a lot of getting ready? You getting ready? Getting ready? Bird flu's on its way. They're they're all The irony of it all. You know, bird flu is really, really difficult to pass on. Exactly. Yeah. Yep. It's almost like a miracle if you could get it. Yeah. Either lying to us again. It's crazy. Hey. But maybe three masks will help. You know? Now if any of you wanna mask up if any of you wanna mask up to come here to church We'll all look at you funny. No. You're you're more you're more than welcome to you're more than welcome to. Just just don't judge us for eating meat, for eating meat. Be funny. Yeah. You gotta take your shoes off and your mask off before you come in. Oh. Alright. Ezekiel 21. That's right. Or you don't get no ice cream. Oh my god. So the lord's gonna use Okay. Guys ready? Amen. I think you need to pray again. Lord. Shut Cheryl up. Alright. Here we go. I don't want you crying. Don't be crying. Alright. No crying. Alright. So the prophet Ezekiel instructed the lord. The word of the lord is coming to him, and he's emphasis here upon the sword. The sword that god's gonna bring against Jerusalem, gonna bring against Judah, the tribe of Judah, nation of Israel, and also the sword as we finish up here in this chapter against Ammon, the Ammonites. And so over and over again, the emphasis upon the sword, time of judgment. And so first of all, we're gonna see the sword drawn. It says, and the word of the lord came unto me saying, son of man, set thy face toward Jerusalem and drop drop thy drop thy word toward the holy place and prophecy against the land of Israel. So the prophet is instructed by God to prophecy against his own people, his own country, his own temple, you know, against them. God's hand is against his own people. And say to the land of Israel, thus saith the Lord, behold I'm against you. So they don't get any favorable treatment, you know. They've disobeyed the Lord for a long period of time. They've been in rebellion. They're turning to idolatry and it's a time of judgment, a time where God's going to chasten them. Behold, I am against thee and will draw forth my sword out of its sheath and will cut off from the righteous and the wicked. So when Abraham is interceding on behalf of Sodom and Gomorrah, the Lord is is asked questions by Abraham. Are you gonna destroy the righteous with the wicked? You know, is is that fair that you would you know, shouldn't you shouldn't you cause everyone, hey, that's a Christian, you know, raise their hand and and they come over to a certain place and they can evade war? The war is not gonna affect them? Do you think the Christians in China during the communist revolution that only judgment, you know, they only the the sword came upon the the wicked or the the unbelievers. War is not fair. In war, everybody suffers, the righteous and the wicked. Now when the lord brings his judgment, the song memorial, the lord said all the way down to 10. If there's 10 righteous, alright, I'll hold back. But there weren't even 10 righteous and so the judgment came. But the Lord delivered in a lot out of their hands and so we can use that picture there that the Lord when he pours out his wrath during the tribulation period that he's he's going to rapture us out before that period of time because according to first Thessalonians one verse ten and first Thessalonians five verse nine, first of all, he saved us from the wrath to come, which is which is not a soteriological wrath, but an eschatological wrath, meaning in the last days, he's gonna save us from the wrath that he's gonna pour out upon a Christ rejecting world. And then also in first Thessalonians five verse nine, you and I as Christians were not appointed under wrath. So America could break out in war. We could see the Chinese, Russians, whoever come in and invade us. And we as Christians, there's no guarantee for us as Christians of whether or not we're gonna survive that sort of a war. Right? Because there's gonna be Christians that get killed. There's gonna be unbelievers that get killed. There's war war doesn't doesn't care. But when it's God's wrath being poured out, he's going to deliver deliver us during that time of him pouring out his wrath on a Christ rejecting world. So he's saying here in verse three, the righteous and the wicked are gonna get caught in this war. When Nebuchadnezzar comes in and wipes out Jerusalem, he's he's not gonna spare anybody. Everyone's gonna suffer as a result. So seeing them that I will cut off from the righteous and the wicked, therefore shall my sword go forth out of its sheath. So he's drawn his sword against all flesh from south to north. And so he's gonna create a, you know, a slaughter. He's gonna cause a slaughter to take place. And Ephesians six seventeen, for us in our spiritual battle, we're told that the word of God's the sword of the spirit, which is the word of God. And so we use the word of God to counteract the lies of the wicked one. We fight not against flesh and blood but against spirits and principalities of the air. We're in a war right now. We're in a war for truth. And a lot of people don't wanna engage in the war. They wanna try and wait it out. But unfortunately, nobody's gonna escape. So you can choose right now. You can choose to as talking to Mark today, you can choose to get in Christ, get in the ark, or you can dance upon the Titanic. You know? It's it's your choice. And we're gonna go through a very difficult time being in Christ. There's gonna be storm coming, but Jesus is in our boat, you know? And he's gonna get us through it. So we either will walk through the valley of the shadow of death or fear no evil. And so a lot of people just, hey, Trump's the president again. Let's start partying. Everything's gonna be great. And Christian's going back to sleep. And I gave a homework assignment to the church a week or so ago, and I said, want you guys to watch the Catherine Austin Fitz presentation twenty minutes. She's pointing out that now he has to pick 10. He has to point 10 people, and then he's gonna appoint a thousand people, and then there's gonna be 10,000 people as the transfer of government from the Dems to the Republicans. And so watch closely those first 10 and vet them and see who they are because he ran on the platform of anti woke, so what's woke, and anti globalist. Doctor. Oz. So now we get to see if somebody's lying or if somebody's telling the truth. Right? And that's so important because otherwise we're just gonna say, oh, our guy won and we're gonna take him at his promises and we're gonna just start partying and not be ready for some of the horrible things that might be coming and catch us off guard. So it's judgment time. And I've lived during a time of unprecedented peace and prosperity since World War two. I didn't have to go to the Vietnam War. I was too too young, and I didn't join up like Brandon, a lot of others, and go to other parts of the globe and and have to fight wars and all, but many did and many have and to preserve the the freedom and the peace that we enjoy here. But with Ukraine being bombed and with Russia being threatened, with Taiwan being afraid of the Chinese coming in, with Israel and Iran and all the nations there in the Middle East, it looks like the world could break out in war at any moment. And Jesus told us one of the signs in Matthew 24 would be what? Wars of wars. Wars and rumors of wars. How about that? So are you afraid? No. I'm looking up. He'd warned me. He told me ahead of time that there'd be wars and rumors of wars, and and that's part of this one of the signs of his soon return. So sigh therefore, thou son of man. Now notice the emphasis upon sighing, the sighing. What's it mean to sigh? So tired of pastor Rick. I wish I wish you just shut up. You know? Know? So does this the beginning part here, does that mean that God said, I do what I want? Is that what he's saying? Yeah. Have you ever heard God say, oops or I'm sorry? No. But he's saying, I do what I want. Absolutely. He's doing what he want. He always does what he wants. Asking him to not do it? No. Not he's letting he's letting Ezekiel the prophet know. This is right down. Let the audience let the nation of Israel and those that are paying attention understand that it's time for war. Oh, okay. It's time for judgment. God and there's times where the Lord gives us space for repentance. Just look at Jeremiah. How long did he preach? How many years did the Lord give the nation of Israel, Judah, before he finally was forced to judge? Forty years. Forty years. Right? So if somebody's there for forty years and he's got one convert, Baruch, you know, his secretary, you know, there's a day that's coming that I would call the day of vindication. But it's it's not something that Jeremiah is gonna be able to gloat in or celebrate. What do I mean by that? He's not there to get bringing the good news. Well, there's a day coming where everything Jeremiah said is proven to be true. Yes. That's vindication. But it's also leading toward lamentations. He doesn't gloat. He doesn't celebrate. See, everybody else was a false prophet. Not me. I'm the only one that was telling the truth for forty years. Doesn't do that. Instead, he goes into Lamentations. He begins to sigh. Just as Jesus looked at the city of Jerusalem and wept over it. God takes no pleasure in the death of the wicked. So the heart of God is a broken heart. His heart is broken that he couldn't get the people when and you use that loosely. God couldn't get them. Well, gives them free will. And in the exercise of their free will, at any point in time, they could have repented. And God could give them a reprieve like he did the city of Nineveh. Right? But they chose not to repent. And so Jesus looking over the city and he's weeping over the city knowing that Titus is gonna surround it and destroy a couple million people in seventy AD. Here, the Lord is his emotions are coming out through the prophet Ezekiel. He's sighing. It's an emotional response to what's coming. So he's weeping and wailing and mourning. And again, God takes no pleasure in the death of the wicked. I talked to a guy today at the gym. He's he's talking to me a lot about these things and prophecy and the bible and all these things. And I said, you know, God doesn't send anybody to hell. What do you mean? You know, you the only way you can get to hell is by rejecting Jesus Christ. He didn't and then I said to him, he hasn't made you a robot like Elon Musk and preprogrammed you. He's given you the power of choice. And that's it's it's a love relationship that he wants. And it's like you with your wife. You don't force her to do things. You know, program her. You you know that even if you could achieve that, that that wouldn't be love. It'd be putting her under the law and, you know, and that's not the that's not the kind of relationship god wants to have with us. And so it's breaking his heart. He says, sigh therefore, a son of man with breaking heart and with bitterness sigh before their eyes. So do you see the devil wanting to break God's heart? Do you see the devil wanting to take people to hell even though the devil knows he's gonna lose, but he wants to take as many people as he can to hell to break God's heart. Right? And you have these children, you got these grandchildren, and they're just such a gift from God. And you're watching them in their formative years, and you have such high hopes for them, and aspirations, and dreams, and you don't wanna make the same mistakes that you made, and, you know, you wanna give them everything they need to be able to succeed and enjoy life, and you introduce them to Christ, and take them to bible studies, and and home groups, and to church, and baptize them, and all those things. And then they reach a place where they get to exercise their own free will. And boy, how your heart breaks when they go the wrong way. And you watch all that potential, all that beauty, all that everything that God placed within them be used for the kingdom of darkness and living a life of deceit and being ripped off. The devil came to steal, to kill, to destroy, and he's ripping them off. And they don't get to enter into the their potential and and to all that God had intended for them because they they decided to go their own way. And it breaks the parent's heart, the parent of the prodigal. And it shall be when they say unto thee, why sighest thou that thou shall answer for the tidings because it cometh. So we have good tidings. The gospel's good news. Glad tidings. But the tidings here are not good news. This isn't good news. For the tidings, because it cometh in every heart shall melt. This is reality. Their hearts are gonna melt. They're gonna be broken within. And all hands shall be feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and all knees shall be weak as water. Behold, it cometh and shall be brought to pass, saith the lord god. I thought during COVID that we learned. I thought we really had a chance to learn. And the biggest thing I tried to get through to you, to all of us, is don't fear. That was the number one thing. Walk by faith. Don't listen to their lies. Let Jesus fight for you. And then now this election cycle, I want so many professing Christians faint and be paralyzed with fear that Kamala was gonna get it. Just so paralyzed with with depression and fear and anxiety and all that. I saw that both both sides. Both sides. But your eyes are not on Jesus. Yeah. They're off the sovereignty of God. And you're conjuring up a person in your mind that's gonna give you what you want. And you find out later you've been tricked and you wasted so much time by putting your trust in man. Vain is the help of man. And if you keep your eyes on the Lord, you can go through these things and, you know, he gives you peace that surpasses all understanding. You don't have to be overwhelmed with anxiety. You you can trust in the sovereignty of God that even if he did let Kamala, you know, win it or whatever, his will is gonna be done. God's will is gonna be done. Kathy said to me, she says, Rick, they don't understand. It doesn't matter whether it's Kamala or Trump. There's no difference. There's no difference. You're moving toward globalism. That's prophetic. And it doesn't matter which one wins, we're moving toward globalism because that's where we're at prophetically. And guess what? Trump is the globalist president. He's the one that's going to be the bridge that brings the dollar, the cryptocurrency, everything in. And now they're gonna be able to blame the Democrats for crashing the economy, and he's gonna be the savior with the cryptocurrency. And so all that wasted energy watching the news every night, fearful of COVID, gonna ninety nine point nine percent recovery rate, but people can't even leave their houses, you know. Triple mass. Then we get through it and we say, hey, twenty five percent of the people saw through it and didn't succumb to the fear. And so perfect love casts out all fear. Without faith, it's impossible to please God for they that come to him must believe that he is, that he's a rewarder of those who diligently seek him. And faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God. So you have to you have to be in God's word. You have to look at prophetically at what he has to say, and you have to trust in his sovereignty that there may be, you know, a season where you're mourning. You're you're you know, they're they're psychologically trying to break your mind with all of their outlandish things they're saying they're gonna do. And then it swings back the other way, and we're we're such pawns in their hand. And ultimately, the Lord's the one that's on the throne. Amen. And 36,000,000,000,000 in debt. Where do you think we're going? Higher in debt. Where do you think? It it's collapsing. There's no way you can sustain that. And so if we sigh, we sigh on on behalf of our grandchildren and our children because we live in a time of unprecedented prosperity. And how are we gonna pass this on to the next generation? Because we're ripened for judgment. It's time to judge. He says, pull the sword out. It's judgment time. And so the shelf life of a nation, how much more time do we have, you know, as Americans? So his hands shall be feeble and every spirit shall faint. And so this reminds me of Daniel five when the finger was writing on the wall. Right? Many many and Belteshazzar's knees quaked. They hit back and forth. And when it says here, he was overwhelmed with fear, but then it also says, shall be weak as water. He's he's filling his depends with he's wet himself. They're so afraid they're peeing themselves. That's what God's saying here. I do that all the time. TMI. TMI. TMI, Kev. How do I move on from that? Are you alright? You know what's on tape? Cath, help me. Golly. And all knees shall be weak as water. Behold, it cometh and shall be brought to pass, saith the lord god. So terrified. Just terrified with fear. And I don't know to what degree you've been afraid, but there's times where we're terrified. I don't do horror movies. I don't do those kind of things. I don't like I don't like you know, being terrified, if you will. There's times where, like, when Britney this past week when she was bringing forth the baby and the doctor has an opinion and the midwife has an opinion and everybody's got an opinion and she's got a blood clot, and the baby's heart's not we don't know if it's beating, the baby hasn't moved. Oh, I think baby might be stillborn, and all these things in your mind, and everybody's speculate, and everybody's, you know, going around the horn on all that. And you can't help but be concerned. You know, you can't help but feel the anxiety of it all. And you start imagining in your head, oh, well, what would life be like if the Lord decided to take Brittany home? And how would Wayne raise all those kids? And what would we be doing? And and or what if we lose the baby, you know, and and Brittany survives? And so you go through all these different scenarios in your mind and you gotta come right back to nevertheless, Lord, not my will, but thy will be done. He's sovereign. Right. You know? And you and you you pray and you trust him. And but your mind, if you're not careful, your mind can venture into places of deep deep, you know, anxiety and and fear can overtake. Fear is the opposite of faith. So be cautious, be prudent, do your part. And pastor Chuck had a saying, do your best and commit the rest. But when it comes to medical issues in somebody's life, definitely, I would say we're sobered. We're sobered up. Hey, you got my attention. It's not time to, you know, to play. It's time to pray and to intercede. So the sword the sword is drawn and now the sword is sharpened. Gotta have a sharp sword. Again, the word of the Lord came unto me saying, son of man, prophecy and say, thus saith the Lord, say a sword a sword is sharpened. How many swords do you have, Ezra? He's got like a sword that long. Right? How do you sharpen it? A stone? So you got this sword. You gotta sharpen it. A dull a dull sword may not be you know, if you're gonna if you're gonna cut somebody's head off, at least respect them enough to have a sharp sword that you can do it with one whack, you know. Don't try to kill them with a dull sword because it may take a bunch of whacks. You know? So a sword to sword is sharpened and also polished. That's my prayer for the pastor. So I've heard pastor Chuck say this. When you are in a battle, when you're in a fight, some people are all talk. They just talk and talk and talk and talk and talk until the fight comes on. You really don't know what they're gonna be able to do. So some will sit stand back and say, you know, you really gotta be careful. I've got this sword, and it's so sharp that you could, you know, cut somebody's hair with it. You could this, that, and the other with it. Or I've got this lion, and this lion in this cage is so ferocious. It could kill three men or whatever. Instead, what you do is you don't sit there and boast about how sharp the sword is or how strong that line is. You open the cage. Mhmm. You pull the sword out. You take the sword of the spirit, which is the word of God, and you use it. You don't sit there and say, well, you know, you better be afraid of my bible. You better be afraid of the word, you know, because this word's gonna cut you up. No. You use the word of God, and you gotta be you you got to be proficient at it. So it isn't always a in Revelation chapter 19, there's a specific kind of sword that the Lord uses here. And it says, and out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword. And it's the Hebrew word ramphah, which means a large handheld executioner sword. So it's time for him to take that sword, that huge big sword, and he's gonna start lopping heads at Armageddon on his enemies. Right? But the word of God is living and powerful and sharper than any two edged sword. So there's other times where you take the word of God and like a skilled surgeon, you're going to use it as a scalpel to cut out that, you know, tumor that that thing that Christy has in her neck. It might be that they have to skilled surgeon has to get in there and, you know, cut that out or do a biopsy, see if it's cancerous or not, and you pray that it's not. But it's not always used in the word of God to hurt or to, you know, cut people down, but use the word of God in many cases to bring healing. And and we have to know how to use the word of God. We don't we don't wanna be using the word of God with the wrong spirit to always condemn people. But we certainly, when we're under attack, we wanna use the word of God to con to counteract the lies. Amen. And you've gotta be skilled with the word of God to be able to give an answer of the hope that lies within you with meekness and fear to people that are lost, people that are searching. But you don't have to shy away from a fight with an evolutionist. Rob's dialoguing with some evolutionary Christians, atheistic evolution. There's all sorts of debates and things going on, and many of us, we don't we don't like confrontation. And yet Paul says we're to earnestly contend for the faith. We're to fight the good fight of faith. And we can't cower in fear to the lies of the wicked one. So Ephesians five eleven says, have no fellowship with unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them. So we expose the lies with the truth. We simply pull it out of its sheath, and we use it and keep it keep it sharp, keep it ready. And the devil hates it. The devil hates when you're able to skillfully wield that sword, the word of God. And so you keep that you keep that short, know, that light burning, keep the sword sharp. What is it you guys say about your guns? Keep your something something. Keep your there it is. Keep your powder dry. And so a sword a sword is sharpened and also polished. So be prepared for battle. So you get lot of your preppers prepared for battle. But even when we go to the store, when we go shopping, when we go places, I've had so much opposition against me the thirty years I've been here that in a lot of cases, make the mistake of being ready for a fight. I'm ready to fight. And I need to calm down and realize that not everybody's trying to hurt us or whatever. And I I went into the DMV when COVID was happening and and I was gonna upgrade my license and they wanted me to wear a mask and I told them no. And I was all ready for a fight and the sweetest, nicest person that works for the government because we have a tendency to make demonize all government employees when something like that's happening. You know? The sweetest, nicest person came out to the car and did it out the car for me. You know? And and over and over again, I have that kind of encounter where the Lord has his people everywhere. So we can make the mistake of of, you know, putting them all in the one basket like they're all bad and and they're not all bad. We get the we get the liars on TV and in the media and stuff and we and so it's a kindness of god that leads a person to repentance. Soft answer turns away wrath. We go the extra mile. We turn the other cheek. We don't wanna pull it out of the sheath so quick. You know? We wanna avoid direct conflict if we can. But if it comes down to it, or we're backed into a corner, we gotta stand for the truth. You know? We have to stand up and proclaim the truth and not cower in fear. Rob's Rob's to teach me that the earth is round. Yeah. It's open, man. It's actually like a squished pumpkin. It's it's about Yeah. It's oval shape, you know. So it is sharpened to make a great slaughter. It is polished that it may glitter. So you can imagine, you know, you watch Raiders of the Lost Ark and that guy comes out through that sword, you know. And then Harrison Ford just pulls a gun out and goes, you know. So what's the saying? Don't bring a sword to a gunfight. Right? So be prepared. Be prepared. And so you can see this glittering sword, the samurai dude and all that, you know. That that would make you really afraid if you didn't have a sword, if you didn't have means of protecting yourself. So I used to be like that and then I learned that if any man doesn't provide for his own, the necessity of his own, he's better than an infidel. So I've I've I've began to learn that I have a responsibility to protect my family and I can't protect them unless I can meet the same amount of of threat with equal threat, you know, or greater. So you you have to be able to protect your family. So sword is a sword sharpened also polished. It is sharpened to make a great slaughter. It is polished that may glitter. Should we then make myrrh? And so you don't take your bible and set it on the coffee table and leave it there brand new for forty years. Polishing the leather. Oh, look at this. This is fine Corinthian leather. And and Corinthian leather. And and look, Ricardo Monteban, you know. And look, smell these pages. It's got that new page smell and all that. It should have use. It should have nicks and cuts and and just a well used, well oiled, you know, been in battle. And you as a Christian, same thing. You shouldn't be like a little butterfly fluttering around. When your kid's great, you know. I heard a guy say that, you know, when you talk about different kinds of churches and places and all that, we're we're not adequate to meet everybody's needs. We're we can meet there's very few people that can handle what we do at this point in time. But those that do are typically students of the bible. They go to bible study fellowship. They study prophecy. They're looking to study the word. They don't want their time wasted. So that's who we try to accommodate. That's who we attract. That's who we are. And and so more and more, we need to be able to say to people that don't like us or don't like what we do or it's too long. He talks too fast. It's too many verses. It's this, that, and the other. I just like to say to him, this isn't a kindergarten talent show. Okay? If you want a kindergarten talent show, there's plenty of churches like that, and you're gonna get a show. But we're here to study God's word and we're gonna pull the sword out and we're gonna sharpen the sword. We're gonna polish the sword. We're gonna hide God's word away in our heart that we might not sin against him. And we wanna we wanna mine the word of God, the treasure of God's word. It's hard work. It's hard work. There's there's work that goes involved in studying and getting ready for this tonight. I don't just wing it. I don't just say, well, I'm gonna go on YouTube and I'm just gonna tell them what I think off the top of my head. And they're ignorant. They don't know anything, and they'll think I'm a really spiritual guy. Because I came up with something I never heard before. And that's what these guys are doing. Yeah. But you as a student of God's word, you hear it and you say, no. I'm a Berean. That doesn't work. That word of God, you can't substantiate that or back that up with the word of God. And you save a whole lot of time, and and you might be able to help somebody that's been sucked into a cult or it's been sucked into a church that's gonna, you know, not help them to grow spiritually. And they're there for feelings. So it's sharpened to make a a great slaughter that's polished that it may glitter. So it's may look good but you gotta use it. You gotta bring the word of God out. Myrrh. Myrrh and aloes. No. Myrrh. M I r t h. Myrrh. And make myrrh. It's sharpened to make a great slaughter. It is polished that it may glitter. Should we then make myrrh mirth? Yeah. It despises the rod, my son, like its type. So is it is mirth like perfume? Make glitter, should we then make mirth or sorrow? What's the word mirth mean? Look it up. Yeah. Look it up. It despises the rot of my son like every tree, and so it's it's it's a rod of iron. Revelation two twenty seven, the lord is gonna rule like with a rod of iron, not not with a, you know, like a wooden sword. It doesn't come with a wooden sword. And he is given to it to be polished that it may be handled. This sword is sharpened and it is polished to give it into the hand of the slayer. So it's not just for looks. It's not just like a work of art. It's to be used triumphantly. And second Thessalonians two verse eight, how does Jesus defeat the antichrist? Brightness of the sword of the spirit. The first part, sword the sword of the spirit first. Right? Yeah. And and then the brightness of his coming. So it's the it's it's the sword of the spirit, which is the word of God. He's gonna he's gonna just speak it like like he spoke did did you girls get it? Mirth? Yeah. Like a song? What a different so she asked me a question. This one expressed in laughter. His six foot tray frame shook with mirth. Yeah. And then in the bible, it says mirth is a formal or literally term meaning fun and enjoyment as shown by laughter. So it's not it's not just gaiety. It's not for fun. It's not for fun. Not for fun. This is real. And so his triumph hit the slayer, in the hand of the slayer. So cry and wail, son of man, for it shall be upon my people and it shall be upon all the princes of Israel. Terrors by reason of the sword shall be upon my people. Smite therefore upon thy thigh. So the leaders won't escape. None of the leaders are gonna escape. He's gonna he's he's a equal opportunity slayer, gonna slay them all. And when Samson was, you know, slaying the Philistines, you know, that's hip and thigh hip and thigh. So they were they were piling up and they're gonna pile up here because it is a trial. And what if the sword despise even the rod? It shall be no more saith the lord the lord god. So kings are gonna die. The rod that the that a king would have, the sword's gonna overcome the rod of the king. He says, thou therefore, son of man, prophesy and smite thine hands together and let the sword be doubled the third time. The sword, the slain, it is the sword of the great men that are slain, which enters into their secret chambers. So he's he's saying the sword is gonna affect nobility. It's gonna affect the king. It's gonna affect the priest. And three times speaks of the first time that Nebuchadnezzar came. Jehoiach Jehoia Kim was executed. The second time, Jeconiah, and the third time, Zedekiah. So Nebuchadnezzar, the Babylonians came three different times of invasion, and so used the sword three times to subdue these three kings. And and then it says they enter into their secret chambers. And so what's that remind you of? Revelation six fifteen, what are the people doing? Hiding in their bunkers. They're hiding in their bunkers. They're billion dollar bunkers that the the elites are preparing. And turn to Revelation chapter six right now. Revelation six. So Revelation six starts the tribulation period. John is told in Revelation chapter one verse 19, write the things which thou hast seen, which is chapter one, the resurrected lord. Write the things which are, which is the church age, chapter two and three, And then the rights of the things which shall be hereafter, after these things, after the church age. So after the church age, you see the church in heaven, chapter four and five. And then in chapter six is the start of the tribulation period, the seven year tribulation period, and it concludes in chapter 19 with the with the return of Jesus Christ. Chapter 20 is the millennium. Chapter twenty one and twenty two is the eternal state. So he says, and I saw when the lamb opened. Now in chapter five, who's worthy to open the scroll and loose the seals? Only Jesus. Right? The lion of the tribe of Judah. Right? And so and I saw when the lamb opened one of the seals and I heard as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four living creatures saying, come. And I saw and behold a white horse. And he that sat on him had a bow and a crown was given unto him and he went forth conquering and to conquer. So this is the antichrist. He's got a bow and a crown conquering to conquer, no arrows. So he's peace peace where there is no peace. Right? It's a false peace. It's a peace treaty that he signs. Right? With the nation of Israel. And when he had opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, come. And there went out another horse that was red and power was given to him that he sat on it to take peace from the earth and they that should kill one another. So the red horse of war, and it was given on him a great sword unto him. And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, come. And I beheld and lo a black horse, and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand. And so the balances speaks of a measurement, that of justice. And I heard a voice in the midst of the four living creatures say a measure of wheat for a denarius and three measures of barley for a denarius and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine. So this is an economic crisis. This is famine. This is a person working all day as a laborer for one meal, and the meal is not the wheat, which is good food, good grain. It's barley, that of the slave. And so what did what did Warren Buffett do last week? He bought $586,000,000 worth of Domino's Pizza. He's buying up farmland. What's he know? He knows there's gonna be an economic crash. Food prices are gonna go so high that people are gonna be clamoring to Domino's just to get some dough in their belly to stop the hunger pains. Godfather's pizza. It's the cheapest food out there. Right? Why else would he buy 586,000,000 and prepare by buying farmland? I heard him talk about Bitcoin, and then he said, you know, I'm buying stuff that's tangible. I'm buying stuff that's gonna go up in value. You know? And so knowing knowing that the food prices are gonna climb and the scarcity of food, there isn't gonna be food available like it once was. So He bought 586,000,000. And and then and then Jeremiah is in May? Well, that's when they oh, I'm just saying May. I was I don't know if it's May. May something. I thought The 1.2 something 1,200,000 of the actual stock that's available, but it was 580 or 60 or whatever, 68. I got dyslexia, but it was a lot of you could look it up. A lot of It wasn't from about the father. It just sounded like a A lot of Domino's pizza. Why Domino's? So when it says and spare the oil and the wine, the elites are gonna have the luxury still. They're gonna have plenty of money for the luxuries. And when he had opened the fourth sale, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature say, come. And I looked and behold, a pale horse and his name that sat on him was Death and Hades followed him, and a power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth to kill with sword, with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth, and the fifth seal. And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain of the word of God and for the testimony which they held. And they cried with a loud voice saying, how long, oh lord, holy and true, do you not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell upon the earth? And white robes were given unto every one of them, and it was said of them that they should rest yet a little season and their fellow servants also and the brethren that should be killed as they should be fulfilled. And so these are the tribulation saints that died as a result of refusing the mark of the beast, and they've been executed. They're dying all different reasons. And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, lo, there was a great earthquake and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon like the blood, and the stars of heaven fell under the earth even as a fig tree casts her untimely figs when she has shaken a mighty wind. And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together and every mountain and every island moved out of its place. And the kings of the earth and the great men and the rich men and the chief captains and the mighty men and every slave and every free man hid themselves in dens and in the rocks of the mountains and said to the mountains and the rocks, fall on us and hide us from the face of him that sitteth upon the throne and from the wrath Of the lamb. Of the lamb. So The lamb. You just wait till Lambeau comes. Right? Fear the great day of his wrath has come and who shall be able to stand. And so you ain't seen nothing yet. The wrath of God being poured out upon a Christ rejecting world. And so he's doing everything he can during this dispensation of the church age. Whosoever will let him come. He takes no pleasure in the death of the wicked. He doesn't wanna judge him, but there's a point in time where it's judgment time. And that's what's happening to his own people here. And we can learn from this. I've set the point of the sword against all the gates and their hearts may faint and their ruins be multiplied and it's made bright and it is wrapped up for the slaughter. Go one way or another either the right hand or the left whether thou face is set. And I will smite mine hands together and I will cause my fury to rest. I, the lord, have said it. So he's only gonna stop when he's completed it. He's not once it starts, it's gonna continue till the point in time of of completion. Now turn to Revelation chapter 14. I see we skipped over seven where it says there's four corners of the earth. We did? I would never skip the Bible. Why don't you read that for us? Oh, okay. And after these things, I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth. Oh, we did in Revelation six? So it is flat then. Yeah. The four corners are there. It's not round. Okay. Alright. Revelation 14 verse 14. I was 90 sure until I talked to Rob. Now I'm about fifty fifty. So when I looked and behold a white cloud and upon the cloud sat like the son of man having on his head a a golden crown and in his hand a sharp sickle. So this is 14. 14. 14. 14. 14. Fourteen Fourteen. 92. Alright. Columbus sailed the ocean blue. That was a lie too. And another angel came out of the temple crying with a loud voice to him that sat upon the cloud thrust in thy sickle and reap for the time has come for thee to reap for the harvest of the earth is ripe. So you reach a point where you're ripe for judgment. God's long suffering, not willing that any would perish. He waits and he waits and he waits and he waits, and then there's harvest time. It's a harvest of judgment in this case. Ripe for judgment. And he that sat upon the cloud thrusting his sickle in the earth and the earth was reaped. And another angel came out of the temple which is in heaven and also having a sharp sickle. And another angel came out from the altar who had power over the fire and cried with a loud voice to him that had the sharp sickle. Thrust in thy sharp sickle and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth for her grapes are fully ripe. And the angel thrust in his sickle in the earth and gathered of the vine of the earth and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of god. And the winepress was trodden outside the city and blood came out of the winepress even under the horses bridled by the space of a 600 furlongs. So this is a 200 mile battlefield called Armageddon, and the blood is four and a half feet high covering that battlefield. And in Isaiah 63, it's Jesus that's trampling out the vintage. He's squashing. He's he's crushing all of his enemies and a vivid picture of judgment. So we saw the sword drawn, we see the sword sharpened, and now the sword directed. We need direction. In Judges seven eighteen through 20, a guy named Gideon, the sword of the lord and of Gideon. Right? And they used for battle against the Midianites. The word of the lord came unto me again saying, as thou son of man, mark two ways that the sword of the king of Babylon may come and they too shall come forth out of one land and choose thou place. Choose it at the head of the way to the to the city. So there's gonna be a fork in the road. There's Nebuchadnezzar's gonna come and go one or two ways. He can go to the left or he can go to the right. Mark away that the sword may come to Rabbath of the Ammonites and to Judah in Jerusalem the fortified. So Rabbah is the capital city of the Ammonites. And so Nebuchadnezzar is coming from Babylon. He's got one or two ways he could go, the left hand or the right hand. How's he gonna discern? How's he gonna know? How's he gonna be guided of which way to go? For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination, he made his arrows bright, he consulted with images. He looked in the liver. And his right hand was divination for Jerusalem. So notice here, when they were trying to discern God's will, when they're trying to discern which way to go, in in many cases, they would take divination is is calling 1900 psychic, you know, and looking to the psychic, looking to the occult, to witchcraft, to sorcery. So divination, he made arrows bright. So what they do is they take a quiver of arrows, and with that whole quiver of arrows, it's like drawing straws, and they mark one arrow in there for left or one for right. Right? And so shake it up, put them in, reach in, and grab an arrow, and the arrow you know, if it says left, you're going left. It's right, you're going right. So we know we know that there's only one way for you and I. Right? Amen. Jesus is the way. There's no confusion. No other way. No other man. No other name under heaven given the wrong man whereby we must be saved. But the early church when Jesus told them to wait, you know, at the upper room there and there's a 120 waiting. And Peter determines that Judas, hey, he's dead. We've only got 11. And there's supposed to be 12 of us. So let's cast lots. Let's cast lots to see who the twelfth person will be. Right? So the casting of lots. So you throw the lot, but the the the lot is controlled by the lord. There's no accidents. Right? So the lot goes on to Matthias, and they decide that Matthias is gonna be the twelfth guy. And and then after the holy spirit was poured out upon the church, you never saw them use lots ever again to try and discern god's will. How did they discern God's will after the holy spirit came to dwell to be upon them? Prayer. In and upon them. Through prayer. So in acts 13, as they're fasting and praying, the holy spirit said, separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work where if I've called them. And so we if we have ears to hear what the spirit is saying, as Jesus is saying that to the church, then we should have not just a monologue talking to God, but we should be able to hear and be able to look to God's word. And as we're looking to God's word to guide us, we're also we're also asking the Lord to impress upon our heart to lead and guide us. If you're filled with fear and anxiety and unbelief and trying to make a decision and you feel forced, is that really the holy spirit? Because a salesman can be there putting pressure on you. Right? A husband, a wife can be putting pressure. Government officials may be putting pressure. They can put fear in you that you gotta get this job. You gotta get with mask, you know. How do you know God's will? Peace. Peace. Let the peace of God guide you. And the peace of God which surpasses all understanding will guard your heart and mind through Christ Jesus. Right? So be anxious for nothing. But in everything through prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, let your request be made known unto God. And the peace of God You already have peace with God. Right? You have peace with God. Right? You're not an enemy of his anymore because of the cross. Right? Mhmm. So you have peace with God. You have to first of all have peace with God before you can experience the peace of God. And the peace of God will surpass all understanding. It may even go beyond understanding. Your human intellect, your human reasoning. So now you're at Proverbs three five and six. Trust the Lord with all your heart, lean not in own understanding, all your ways acknowledge him, and he'll direct your paths. Right? So there's many decisions we make and things we do that may be incongruous to the ways of the world. The world always has several different ways. Right? And the mistake we make is looking toward man first. And then when it doesn't work out, as a last resort, we say, man, I'm praying like a desperate man now. Maybe God has a way to direct me. Right? Where we should be in the habit of approaching God first and and listen to him. And so direction. Psalm 32, you know, the delight thyself in the Lord and give the desires of your heart. In Philippians, he says, that it'll put in us both the will and to do of his good pleasure. So God's putting his desires within your heart. So these guys are using the divination to try and discern God's will, so they do the arrow thing, kinda like drawing straws. And he consulted with images, so now they're praying to idols. And the idols have eyes, but they can't see. Ears, they have, but they can't hear. They have mouths, but they can't speak. They have throats. They don't have a voice box. And they're fashioned by men. So why are you looking to these images? And then he looked in the liver. What's that mean? So all these people this whole time, is God new to them? Or do they just keep worshiping items? I don't get it. No. He's not new to them. These guys these guys are these guys have known the Lord since childhood. They they've had great privilege. They've been able to go to they still continue in Isaiah one. They're still continuing to go to church and go through the motions of Judaism. But in addition to Judaism, they're ventured over to this idolatry. Tons of idolatry of offering babies under demons and yeah, they're crazy. They they and the false prophets tell them if you worship these idols, God will prosper you. You're in God's will. They think they're in God's will doing those things. And then Jeremiah comes back and says, hey, look at the word of God says you're in sin. Don't do that. But they're obstinate. Jesus in his time said, these people do draw near to me with their lips but their hearts are far from me. So they're obtuse. They're stiff necked. They're stiff necked people. They're rebellious. And so God has to use pain. Yeah. Does God ever have to use pain with you? Yeah. Oh, okay. All the time. Alright. I think he thinks it's funny. So do you know these guys? No. Oh, are they your tribe? No. Oh. You guys are my tribe. Alright. You're fixing me? Okay. The Lord is. So discerning God's will. Anybody have a decision to make? You're moving away from Bremerton? You need to make a decision? You can cast lots. Right? You can take the arrow and mark an arrow. You can look to your images. Go on YouTube and find a celebrity Christian to tell you what to do. Those are idols. Or third, liver. Liver. Cut open the liver and whatever's He looked in the liver. Looked in the liver. What's that mean? I don't know. Some translations say that he made a sacrifice and then examined the liver of the sacrifice. Good boy. Some type of of some type of sign he was expecting to see in that. So the liver could be dark blood. It could be light blood. It could be no blood. So you're cutting various animals, putting the livers out there. And you're saying, you know, I like liver and onions. What you know, this should this should look like this or I'm carnivore. I eat liver. But no. They're looking for the liver, what it would look like. And and somehow that was the their part of their kinda like if you went to Cuba or you went to Haiti, you know, are there people that are steeped in voodooism? You know? I've been told that the Catholic church when it goes around the world, it doesn't try to change the customs of the people. If they go to Haiti, they will incorporate voodooism with the worshiping of Mary. They just they just slide right in, and they incorporate the various tendencies or the various belief systems of the people around them. And and that's how they spread so widely is as they conform to the different belief systems around them. So you can see where the apostate church is gonna have all these different belief systems under one umbrella and anything's anything goes except Jesus being the only way. Like how you knew the people that knocked at your door and they said John one the wrong way. In the beginning was a word to words with God. The word was a god. Yeah. That's because I had read John one Knew it. And what they were saying was wrong. But as a baby Christian, I could open my bible and say, no. You put that a in there. So that was that was just the help of the holy spirit. So read the word. Hide God's word away in your heart. Be skillful with the word of God. Paul told Timothy, study to show yourself approved under God, a workman that needs not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. Right? So you gotta study. You gotta be a student of God's word. You gotta have a good working knowledge of the scripture. And when you're confronted with error, when you're confronted with false prophets and false teaching, many in many cases, your family members and friends of yours are being sucked in to these cults and this aberrant teaching, and God's sending you to show them the bible and instruct them. You know, you're the Berean. You're the one that's gonna search and see whether those things be so. I I had relatives that got very entrenched in Mormonism about the time that I got saved. And by the time by the time I reached them and tried to rescue them, the Mormon church really went all in. And it was very hard for her sister to pull her out. She she got saved at the Calvary Chapel. I got saved. But, man, they they went all in and they're still so far into Mormonism that it's unbelievable. So I I keep praying for them to be prayed out of that, but better to nip it in the bud, get it quick. Don't don't don't let them get entrenched. So the images looked in the liver and his right hand was the divination for Jerusalem. So when they're grabbing the arrows, the arrow went to the right hand and so they're gonna go right. So there are crossroads, go left, go right, decided to go right. Now the Lord's the one directing that. Man's heart plans his ways, but the Lord directs his steps. Right? So when we left California, we first went to Oregon, and then the Lord directed us here. And we didn't know we were coming here, but we've been here thirty years now. So so anyway, so we're in God's will. So at his right hand was divination for Jerusalem to appoint captains to open the mouth in the slaughter to lift up the voice with shouting to appoint battering rams against the gates to cast a siege mound and build a fort. So all the different implements of war are gonna be utilized. So you're gonna go to Jerusalem, you're gonna put siege around it, you're gonna use battlements, you're gonna build hills, you're gonna build a fort, and Nebuchadnezzar's coming. And it shall be unto them like a false divination in their sight to them that have sworn an oath, but he will call to remembrance the iniquity that they may be taken. So they have a false assumption. They have false divination of the children of Israel. They think that they can make an oath or break the oath that Zedekiah had made with Nebuchadnezzar, and they could make an alliance with with Egypt. And that somehow by making alliance with Egypt, they could get out of the oath that Zedekiah had already made with king Nebuchadnezzar. So Zedekiah could stay there even though they were conquered people and could manage and be kind of a in submission to to to Nebuchadnezzar. But Zedekiah rebelled and didn't keep the oath that he'd made, so you're breaking the oath he made with God. So it's God's will that Nebuchadnezzar come a third time to destroy it completely. And Zedekiah tried to escape. He went out the back gate. He got as far as Jericho. And you remember the story that Nebuchadnezzar executed all of his sons, 23 of his sons, and then plucked out his eyes after that. Therefore, thus saith the Lord God, because you have made your iniquity to be remembered in that your transgressions are uncovered, so that in all your doings your sins do appear. Because I say you are come to remembrance, you shall be taken with the hand. And so God said, I'm gonna spank you. I'm gonna deal with you. I'm gonna chase in you. And you think that I don't see it, but it's all uncovered. Moses said, be sure of this that your sin will find you out. Paul to the church of Galatians, you know, God is not mocked. Whatsoever man sows that shall also reap. And in Hebrews four thirteen, everything is naked and open before the eyes with whom we have to do. God is all knowing. He's omniscient. He knows everything. The past, the present, the future. He knows everything about you. He knows how many how much hair is in your head. He knows the exact number of hairs in your head. There isn't a sparrow that falls to the ground that he doesn't notice that sparrow falling to the ground. He he's omnipresent. He's everywhere. The devil tries to duplicate it with the grid system, the cameras, listening, these phones, all these kind of things, but he's a counterfeit. And God's also omnipotent. He's all powerful. So when it speaks when we're reading in Revelation six, Revelation 14 of these angels going out and doing these things, you remember that the Lord used one angel to kill a 185,000 that were coming against Jerusalem. Just one angel. And Jesus said to Peter when he cut off Malchus' ear in the garden, don't you know that I could call down 12 legions of angels, 72,000 angels if I want to to stop these people. Right? And it wouldn't even take one angel. Right? So so we're in we're in good company. If God before us, since God is for us, who can be against us? The Lord has a hedge of protection about us. We're invincible. Anything that God allows in through his providential filter, he's gonna use it for good. All things are working together for good for those who love God and are called according to their own purpose or his purpose? You're called according to his purpose. So he's getting us ready for heaven. He's getting us ready for the millennium. And a lot of these things we experience now are burning off the dross, teaching us to trust in him more and more and to yield to him. He's the potter and we're the clay. And as we yield to him, he's making a work of art out of us. Right? His poema. So we might get spanked along the way because according to Hebrews 12, whom the Lord loves, he chastens and he scourges every son. If you don't receive chastening, if you're allowed to continue in your rebellion against God, then that's an indicator you're not a child of God. Because out of love, he brings correction into our life. Lest we what? Lest we destroy ourselves. If we're left to ourselves, we'll destroy ourselves. Amen. So now we come to verse 25. And thou profane, wicked prince of Israel, speaking to Zedekiah, whose day has come, your day has come Zedekiah, when iniquity shall have an end. You know, I just looked for the day that Bill Gates, his day has come. I can't wait for the Lord to knock that smile off his face and his wife's face. All these innocent children that they've destroyed with their vaccines all over Africa and all over the world, They're tools of the devil. And God allows them to keep breathing. You know? And they're not the only ones. You got George Soros and just so many of these globalists that are genocidal maniacs. You know? They they they prey upon destroying people. And I can't wait for the Lord to finally judge these people. And he's going to. Watch here. Thus saith the Lord, God, remove the diadem and take off the crown. So the miter would be the turban that the priest wears. The diadem and the crown would be that which a king. So God's saying I'm gonna Zedekiah, you're the last king. You're the last king until messiah comes, until Jesus comes. So in the time of Christ when he came, he's king of kings and lord of lords, but they don't recognize him. So Herod the great was I do man. He was not a true Jew. And Zerubbabel that went back for the rebuilding of the temple after the seventy years, he was more of a governor. He wasn't a king. And so the prophecy here is that we're gonna stop in the line of David, the Davidic line of king. It's gonna stop here and it's going to continue when Jesus comes back. And that will be the the true king. And so he says, thus saith the Lord God, remove the diadem and take off the crown. This shall not be the same. Exalt him that is low and abase him that is high. So humble yourself in the sight of the Lord and he shall lift you up. God resists the proud. He gives grace to the humble. Nebuchadnezzar found out God is able to abase those that are filled with pride and bring them low. And Jesus came lowly riding upon a donkey. Zechariah seven nine. Right? Matthew 21. He came riding in Hosanna, Hosanna, save now, save now. The people are shouting, putting palm branches down on Palm Sunday. And he came riding lowly, you know, on a not a big white horse, but on a on a donkey and into Jerusalem. And four days later, the people that were shouting, save now, save now, save now, shouting, crucify him, crucify him, let his blood be upon us and upon our children. Verse 27 is a very, very prominent, powerful prophecy of Jesus. So if you love prophecy, we circle verse 27 and you would begin to study it in-depth. So I'll overturn I'll overturn overturn it and it shall be no more until he comes. He wasn't stuttering. Whose right it is. And I will give it him. So when he comes or him, who is he speaking of? So who's got gen Genesis forty nine nineteen? Okay. K? That's the first book in the Bible. Yeah. Isaiah nine six and seven. Isaiah nine six and seven. Unto us a child is born. Who wants a Psalm two? I'll do it. Okay. And, Jim, I'll give you Isaiah two one through four. And who wants Revelation nineteen eleven through 16? Anybody want it? Want me to read it? I'll Okay. Alright. Here we go. Now this is a this is a passage. This is a prophecy that's we would call this prophecy pregnant, prolific. Right? Prolific. There's so much here that what we're doing right now, we're we're proving this text with the bible. Right? It's not speculation. It's not YouTube. Right? The word of God with by cross referencing and connecting the dots prophetically, we can be sure who he's talking about till he comes whose right it is, and I will give it him whose right it is. So Genesis forty nine nineteen. Gad, a troop shall overcome him, but he shall overcome to the last. Forty nine ten. Genesis forty nine ten until Shiloh come. Oh, you want 4910 also? I made a mistake. My 9 is not a nine. It's a o. 4910. Of Genesis? Shiloh. Yeah. The scepter shall not That's it. Scepter. A king has a scepter. The scepter shall not depart from Judah nor a law giver law giver from between his feet until Shiloh come, and onto him shall be shall the gathering of the people be. So the kingly tribe is the tribe of Judah, and it's speaking of of the right to rule, and it's speaking of Jesus when Shiloh comes. So Isaiah nine, six, and seven. For unto us a child is born, and unto us a son is given. And the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called wonderful counselor, the mighty God, the everlasting father, the prince of peace. Of the increase of his government and peace, there shall not be no end upon the throne of David and upon his kingdom to order it and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even forever. The zeal of the lord of hosts will perform this. Okay. Now we're gonna go to Isaiah two one through four. The word that Isaiah, the son of Amos, saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. And it shall come to pass in the last days that the mountain of the Lord's house shall be established in the top of the mountains and shall be exalted above the hills, and all nations shall flow unto it. And many people shall go and say, come ye and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob, and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths. For out of Zion shall go forth the law and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. And he shall judge among the nations and shall rebuke many people and shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nations shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore. Amen. So where is that projecting to? Seven hundred years before Christ, it's written. And where is it telescoping to? What time frame? Millennium. The millennium. Right. And you could also tie in Isaiah 11. It's a time where the curse is reversed. The wolf and the lion lying down with the lamb, you know, a little child leading him. And so it's a time of Jesus ruling and reigning from Jerusalem, and you and I ruling and reigning with him as kings and priests. And so it's the millennial age, a one thousand year rule and reign of Jesus here upon earth. Then Psalm two is is what the globalist, the world economic form with their imagining in their hearts. Psalm two. Why, excuse me, 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 I have set my king upon my holy hill of Zion. I will declare the decree. The Lord hath said unto me, thou art my son. This day have I begotten thee. And oh, sorry. Not and. Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession. Thou shall 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 ye perish from the way when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him. Amen. Amen. So Revelation 19. How's it end? Revelation 19. When Jesus returns. Revelation 19. 11? 11. Now I saw I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse. And he who sat on him was called faithful and true. And in righteousness, he judges and makes war. His eyes were like a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns. He had a name written that no one knew except himself. He was clothed with a robe dipped in blood, and his name is called the word of God. And the armies in heaven, clothed in fine linen, white and clean, followed him on white horses. Now out of his mouth goes a sharp sword that with with it should he should strike the nations, and he himself will rule them with a rod of iron. He himself treads the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of almighty God, And he has on his robe and on his thigh a name written, king of kings and lord of lords. Alright. So there's there's his there's his coming at Armageddon. And then if we if we go on What does it mean when it's in giant big old letters? Because it says, you know, on his thigh a name written, and it says king of kings and lord of lords. But, I mean, what does it mean? Tattoo. Yeah. When it's when it's giant like, in the book. Like, I don't have a whole bunch of words that are capitalized. It's emphasized. Just emphasized. Some people can't see very well. It's just something they can see. It's bold. It's bold. And so he says, and and the beast was taken with him, the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, which he had deceived them, that received the mark of the beast, and them that worshiped his image, these both were cast alive in the lake of fire burning with brimstone. So the beast and the false prophet cast in the lake of fire and the devil later on. And the remnant were slain with a sword of him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth, and all the fowls were filled with their flesh. And I saw an angel come down from heaven having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand, and he laid hold upon that dragon, that old serpent, who is the devil and Satan bound him a thousand years and cast him into the bottomless pit and shut him up and set a seal upon him that he should deceive the nations no more till the thousand years should be fulfilled, and after that he must be loosed a little season. And I saw thrones and they that sat upon them and judgment was given unto them. And I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus and for the word of God who had not worshiped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads or in their hands and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. Isn't that great? Okay. So now back to here. So after that awesome prophecy there, now he's gonna shift gears to that second way to go which, hey, you guys have Ammon? You're not off the hook. Gonna judge you too. And now son of man prophecy and say thus saith the lord god concerning. So this is the sword to Ammon, the Ammonites. Prophesy and say and thus saith the lord god concerning the Ammonites and concerning their reproach, even say thou the sword the sword is drawn for the slaughter is polished to consume because of the your glittering. So now it's your turn. So five years later, May, Jerusalem was destroyed. About five years later, god used Nebuchadnezzar to destroy the Ammonites. And while they see vanity under thee, while they divine a lie unto thee to bring thee upon the necks of those who are slain of the wicked whose day has come when their iniquity shall have an end, Shall I cause it to return unto its unto its sheath? I will judge thee in the place where thou was created in the land of thy nativity. And I'll pour out mine indignation upon thee. I'll blow against thee in the fire of my wrath and deliver thee into the hand of brutal men and skillful to destroy, so gifted in war. And thou shall be for fuel to the fire, the blood shall be into the midst of the of the land, and thou shall be no more remembered for I the Lord have spoken. So you you don't meet any Ammonites today. They won't be spoken of. God's a consuming fire. God is light and God is love. And you don't wanna mess with him. You wanna kiss his feet like in Psalm two, lest he get angry. And so the Ammonites are gone. The Philistines are gone. But the Israelites, god has a plan, unconditional promise for them to restore them. And Ezekiel thirty six and thirty seven, when we get there, is a prophecy of the rebirth of the nation of Israel, Not the rebirth of the Ammonites, not the rebirth of the Moabites, not the rebirth of the Philistines. They're gone from history. So unprecedented, one of the greatest prophecies in our lifetime, you know, that's happening right now, is the nation of Israel in the land, the rebirth of them as they're scattered all over the world, the wandering Jew. So they can be a Russian Jew, they can be a German Jew, an American Jew in New York, they can be all over the world, but the Lord is drawing them back to Israel beginning 05/14/1948 and continuing to the present and will continue. Now interestingly, when the lord Jesus returns, he returns to Southern Jordan, which is where the Ammonites are. And so Rabbah is the capital city of the Ammonites, which is which is in Jordan, present day Jordan. So Basra, Mount Seir, Isaiah 63 when Jesus comes to Basra, that's the area of Petra. So different names for this location, which is in present day Southern Jordan. And interestingly, the antichrist in Daniel 11 isn't allowed to touch the area of ancient Moab, which is this safe city for the one third remnant that flees from Jerusalem and flees to Petra, which is Basra Mount Seir. So the lord Jesus returns to this location out of the sky and returns there and destroys the antichrist with the sword of his mouth and the brightness of his coming and the false prophet dropped dead there. And they don't even get a burial. They're put as we read in Revelation chapter 20. They're put into the lake of fire immediately, but the devil has grabbed hold and he's put into the, you know, bottomless pit to be chained for a thousand years. And so the Jews are gonna say, blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord. They're gonna recognize that they already crucified their messiah. They're gonna mourn. They're gonna mourn it with sorrow of heart in knowing that they and that's their conversion. That's the Jeremiah 31 conversion, the unconditional covenant that God has with them where God's gonna change their heart and put his word within their heart. So there's an internal change. They're gonna be born again, the nation of Israel. So they're regathered in unbelief right now. Blindness in part has happened unto Israel. The church started out Jewish and then began to explode Gentile wise. So there's a small percentage of Jews that have come to Christ. Right? So blindness in part has happened on to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles become in, which is the church age. And so the rapture of the church ends with the end of the church age ends with the rapture of the church. And so then it's that 77 of Daniel where the Lord's gonna deal with the nation of Israel and purify a one third remnant that's gonna go through the fire, the time of Jacob's trouble, and he's gonna purify this this obstinate, stiff necked, stubborn people. And and there you go. There you go. Where's Mount Herman? Mount Herman is in Israel above the Sea Of Galilee area. Is that close to where this is? Close to where this is? It's all close by. Yeah. By the Jordan River, by the Sea Of Galilee, Mount Hermon above. Yeah. Well, Jordan's toward the toward the South. Jordan's a different country, a different place. Okay. Alright. Look at him up. Alright. Let's pray. Father, we come before you, we have great thanksgiving unto you. Thank you for family and friends that we can gather together and and share a meal. And every day, one man esteems one day above another, another man every day alike. We thank you for your idea of marriage, your idea of children, your idea of families, your idea of a church family. And Lord, we thank you that we don't need to be alone, that we belong, that we're a part of the body of Christ. In your prayers that we'd be one, that we experience communion, that we experience fellowship one with another. And we just pray that you pour out your holy spirit upon us, Lord, and lead and guide us into all truth. And help us to love, Lord. That we wouldn't just love in word, but love indeed and in truth, Lord. That we would live out the Christian life in such a way that it would make people jealous, Lord. Make them thirsty. They would want what we have, that which is a relationship with you, Lord. Thank you that we can study tonight this little bible study and give us travel and mercies as we head home. In Jesus' name, amen. Amen.

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Calvary Chapel Bremerton - Home Bible Study

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

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