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Live from Bremerton. It's Monday night. Welcome. We are in, Ezekiel chapter 28, and we are so excited to study and to see, prophetically, the various countries, the cities, the places that God's gonna destroy prior to the Lord Jesus returning. Some of it's already taken place. Some of it's gonna continue to take place eventually. But ultimately, the Lord is going to judge all the Gentile nations of the world and and how they've treated Israel. And he's gonna re regather and regenerate the nation of Israel. That's where we're headed tonight. And just wanna welcome you in Ezekiel chapter 28. Also, the Holy Spirit's gonna reveal Lucifer, son of the morning, Isaiah 14 and Ezekiel 28, the king of Tyre who's behind the one behind all this demonic activity that was taking place. So let's pray. Father, thank you for this night that we can study your word, and we pray that you'd open the scriptures to understanding. Bless this time of worship. And, Lord, I lift up, those that are sick. I lift up, James and Sally and Allan Cora. And Joey got his his hand put in a vice today and something crushed it, but it's And we just lift up Nancy and just continue to bless her. Lift up Susan, Jewel's mother, continue to bring healing to her body. And, Lord, anybody else that's struggling physically, emotionally, mentally, spiritually, we just lift them up to you. You know who they are and pray that you bring your healing touch upon their bodies, Lord. Thank you for the sweet time that we had yesterday and tonight as we study in Ezekiel. Just bless this time of worship and this time of fellowship in Jesus' name. Amen. Jesus, the lover of my soul. Jesus, I will never let you go. You've Jesus, I will never let you go. You've taken me Alright. Thanks, Rob. Alright. Ezekiel 28. Ezekiel 28. Like my new light. Father, just thank you. We ask that you'd be our teacher now, that you would open the scriptures to our understanding and help equip us and, be aware of the times in which we're living in, times of great, great demonic deception as the devil seeks to confuse people. And, Lord, we pray that we could build, one another up and, undergird and strengthen, the body of Christ, Lord, going to making disciples that, as the enemy seeks to steal, kill, to destroy and confuse people, Lord, we pray that as a result of studying your word, Lord, as a result of being Bereans, Lord, we won't be, deceived. As you tell us in Matthew 24, be not deceived. So, Lord, please, bless, we pray. In Jesus' name, amen. Amen. That reminds me of an announcement. Vicky and Rob have finished, part one of be not deceived. The refute refutation refuting the flat earth heresy. And so part one's finished. They're working on part two. Part one, you can go to YouTube, and you can type in be not deceived. Right? Yep. And you should be able to bring it up. And pastor Kevin Lee, pastor Mark Dinsmore, Rob, and myself, we spend time building up the truth in the case of a spherical, a globe, if you will, and that the earth is a globe and the the way god of creation, way that he created the heavens and the earth. And so if any of you are curious about that, that particular topic, there you go. And and so doing the best we can to put forth the truth. You'll know the truth. The truth will set you free from the lies of the wicked one. It's best we can do. Alright. Don't forget to advertise the prophecy update. Then there is a prophecy update also coming that's in the works. On January 1, we did a prophecy update with the same same group. And the only problem about that is it's January 12 today? Thirteenth. Thirteenth. It's totally outdated. There's so many prophecies being fulfilled every minute of every day that there's so much more to I'll have the updated part. Oh, god. There's so much. So Vicky's gonna try and compile more and more. But one of them that I wanna I want you to think about two of them. One is Babylon. Babylon literal Babylon, Revelation seventeen and eighteen. And, historically, theologians have thought that Babylon most theologians, not all, that it would be in the in the symbolic mode. Like, for instance, if the economy crashes in New York, if the stock market were to go down, they say that's mystery Babylon The Great, you know, going down. But Babylon is literally being rebuilt, and the site that I want you to go to is A I Space F A W As In Frank, and then Grand Port. And type that in and then study all the articles that are there in regard to Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Iraq, and other nations coming together to build a huge center of commerce where a new port for the ships, railroad translines, huge roads being built so that the oil and the goods from India from all over the world can be spread out and distributed all over the world according to Revelation chapter 18. And then when Babylon is is goes through this the bowl judgments, the last bowl judgment, there's a huge enormous earthquake that divides a city, you know, into three different regions. And the islands go down, the mountains go down, and there's smoke rising up. And the merchants, the monarchs, the mariners are all mourning over the loss of Babylon. They're weeping, mourning over over Babylon. So what's exciting about that is you and I get to see under the radar, because nobody's talking about it, Babylon being rebuilt. Iraq is the focal point, the center of this taking place. Another one that's very exciting is we've talked for years about the North American Union. We've talked for years about a one world government system, a one world monetary system, and a one world religious system. And what we've been trying to teach people is that there'll be come a time where the global empire that America rules over is coming down because we don't see America in the Bible, or it'll morph into something something else. But, basically, according to Daniel two, there's gonna be the world divided into 10 toes. And then in Daniel seven, ten horns. Horn speaks of government. And then in Revelation thirteen and seventeen, you have 10 crowns and 10 kings. And so the club of Rome, and in 1942, there's a a map that was made, but also the club of Rome where the world's divided into 10 regions. And even in closer history, we saw where the North American Union was proposed, and the Rothschild Economist magazine had, you know, the coin, the phoenix that would rise out of the ashes with and even says Bitcoin on the economic standpoint. But the Club of Rome would have the North American Union. North American Union would be Canada, and president Trump is saying Canada should become the fifty first state. I don't know why he wants Greenland. Apparently, minerals and strategic for military. But alright. Greenland. And then the Gulf Of Mexico changed the name to the Gulf Of America and then negotiating with the Panama Canal. So we're we're watching a borderless proposal, no more borders, where this North American Union becomes one of the 10 regions that the world's gonna be guided divided into. And and that's what they're talking about. They're also $8,000,000,000. President Trump is talking about how $8,000,000,000 has been offered to build these local data centers. So in order for the artificial intelligence to accumulate all your information, they wanna propose regionally, locally, these data centers. And there isn't enough electricity to run these data centers, So they're also proposing small nuclear reactors like you would see on the ships, on the submarines that we're well aware of, to bolster the amount of electricity that's gonna be needed for this artificial intelligence and surveillance system that they want to put in place. So that fulfills Revelation chapter thirteen sixteen through 18. Nobody can buy or sell without this mark mark of the beast. President Trump has surrounded himself with globalists. He ran on a ticket of anti woke and anti globalism. And so it's very, very exciting for me because he's the gift that keeps on giving. I'm being vindicated like you can't believe there's so many people left the church over me not jumping on the Hopium Trump wagon and promoting him is gonna make America great. And so now we're we're watching globalism on steroids, and he hasn't even been sworn in. And so so much taking place. Elon Musk, you know, Peter Thiel, Soros, the secretary that Trump appointed as a Soros guy, and it's just all around him globalist. Mark Zuckerberg, PayPal guy, Peter Thiel, and all. Just all these globalists are so excited about what? Artificial intelligence, digital digitalization of the economy. Always interrupting. And and so that's it's it's it's just happening before he's even sworn in. And so many other things taking place prophetically. A one world government, a one world monetary system, a one world religious system. So Revelation chapter 13 verse seven is a one world government, every tribe, tongue, and kindred under the authority of the Antichrist. Revelation 13 verse eight, the religious system, and Revelation thirteen sixteen through 18, the economic system. Nobody be able to buy or sell without a mark upon their right hand or their forehead. The good news is, although we as Christians might see the beast system being developed, we aren't gonna be here at the time that the enforcement of the mark of the beast. We might be here to see the global government, but not the Antichrist leading it. So we can see the beginnings of the collapse of America and the changes necessary for a global, government. And we might be here to see the, beginnings of the economic system where people will use a smart card or their phone or some means of communication of being a part of the central bank digital currency where you go and you get a digital ID, a digital bank account, and all of us are tied together in that way. So we might see some of that. But the good news is is before the signing of the peace treaty, which starts the the tribulation period, meaning there's gonna be wars, maybe World War three. Leo Homan had a good article today about that. Ukraine and Russia revving that up, and it's it's over oil. It's over energy. But but as that takes place, there's gonna be a need for someone to emerge as a peacemaker, and they're gonna be shouting peace and safety when there really is no peace and safety. Because as he does that, then the seal judgments begin to open, Revelation chapter six, And, one fourth of the population dies during the seal's opening, and then you have the trumpet judgments, and then you have the bowl or the vial judgments and, another third of the population. So 8,000,000,000 people today, 4,000,000,000 are gonna die in a very short period of time. The duration of the tribulation period is only seven years, but Jesus said it's a time that the world's never seen or ever see again from the standpoint of of calamity and destruction. So as one guy said, we're seeing the emerging of these prophecies. We're seeing the converging in Luke chapter 21 verse 18. When you see these things, several things converging coming to pass, then look up for you knowing that your redemption draws nigh. So I'm a I'm a student of prophecy. Very excited about prophecy. It represents one third of the Bible, about 27%. And, unfortunately, only 2% of Christians study prophecy. So we have a prophecy update, and we did the best we could on the first to give out what we could. But one of the, there's so many as I said, there's so many other things. So as Vicky says, maybe on an ongoing basis, we'll we'll, look at some other. Now I wanna refer you tonight to pastor JD Frog to his website. He always does a prophecy update. And presently, as I'm thinking about his prophecy update, he's doing it in, response to the fires in Los Angeles because Maui, was lit on fire. And since the time of Maui to the present, he's had much more time with his researchers to try and understand how something like that could happen. And so he's pulling up PDFs. He's pulling up files that were pre printed, and he's reading from them. For instance, mayor Garcetti describing in the p v PDF, prior to all this, how the twenty twenty eight Olympics are gonna be held in Los Angeles and how Los Angeles is gonna be completely rebuilt with people movers and things like that. So this is like the pan pandemic. It's all preplanned. And, the smart cities, the stack and pack apartments that Newsom said they're gonna rebuild, saying that the insurance companies aren't gonna cover the people that have these homes, and, they denied them fire insurance. So he's gonna gobble up with BlackRock, I guess, and all that all that land where Klaus Schwab said you'll own nothing, but you'll be happy. But every here and here and there, he said there'll be a house because you got the one percenter. The one percenters with enough money to still take up that oceanfront property because they got the money to just rebuild. So it's happening so fast. Yeah. There's so much on there, so I would encourage you to go to pastor JD. He's he's the one guy out there through all this that that I can say I'm like minded with and I identify with. Every single other prophecy guy out there that I've watched over the last few years has always presented president Trump as the guy that's fighting the globalists. They should be able to retract that statement, and they should be able to now come forward and say, he's warps speed, Donald. They all forgot that term, warp speed. And and they should be able to say, we've never seen such a thrust toward globalism. And Trump's surrounded by globalists. Another thing I said I wanna remind people of is I said I voted for president Trump to hasten the return of Jesus Christ. Amen. People are like, what do you mean? I knew that he would be on steroids building the beast system, and the building of the beast system precedes the rapture of the church. And so I just knew that if this guy gets gets there on steroids like he is and begins to implement all the description of this beast system, the surveillance state and all that, and the and the economy and and and all of it, that that that would mean that we're getting closer to the point in time of the Antichrist emerging and signing that peace treaty. And we know the rapture is gonna be before. We don't know when the rapture is gonna happen, but we know it's gonna be before the start of the tribulation period. So let's pray now. Father, I lift up those in LA. The winds are still going really hard. A lot of people, whole lot of carnage, whole lot of just chaos and and confusion and and horrible, horrible things with these fires, Lord. Unprecedented fires in Southern California where I'm from, Lord. We always had Santa Ana winds, we had little brushfires, but nothing like a holocaust like this. Nothing nothing even close to this, Lord. And so I pray that you'd expose the globalists. I pray that you'd expose all those and their their ingenuity in the way that they can start fires and keep them going. I pray that the people that didn't provide water and the water hydrants and didn't budget for this and and Newsome that ran all the water out to the ocean in the reservoirs that could be used. I pray this can I use that word, Lord, conspiracy? I pray that it'd be exposed, that the people would awaken, and the truth would set everybody free, Lord. Without the truth, Lord, these guys keep getting away with it. But, Lord, we know that it's a sign of the times of great, great, great deception. And so, Lord, we pray that you lead and guide us into all truth, and you continue to give us discernment that we can navigate what's taken place. And, Lord, help us to walk down the straight and narrow in the simplicity of your word and not be tricked by orbs and drones and all other different ways, the electronic age that we're in, digital age, the way that we could be deceived, Lord. Help us stay on track with your holy word. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Amen. Alright. Probably lost some more people from our church, but, hey, you just gotta you just you just gotta say you just gotta ask yourself the question, am I lying? Am I a liar? Or is this really happening? And, I'm not here to lie. So, there you go. Alright. Verse one. Lot to cover here. Hope we can stay late. The word of the lord came again unto me saying, so it's not the word of man. It's the word of the lord. And that's something you and I need to keep coming back to. All the different stuff that's taking place out there, we we can remain silent as pastor Chuck would say. When the bible's silent, you remain silent. Someone reminded me yesterday, I forget who it was, but they're studying Chuck Missler, Might have been one of you. And, I love pastor Chuck Missler. He's with the lord now. He was one of my teachers, Calvary Costa Mesa. But you can go to the word of god, and there's certain things that are what's called absolutes. And and these absolutes, there there's no negotiating the truth of these absolutes. And we would say one of the absolutes is the god of creation. So if somebody comes along with an evolutionary theory, Darwinian evolution, we could we could stand upon the Genesis account of creation, and these would be absolutes in our life. No negotiating. No theistic evolution. No compromise. No backpedaling. And you know that you know that you know that you have the truth. And science, cosmology, everything will back up what the Bible is telling you God did. And and that's a wonderful place to be in an age of confusion that you're not confused, that you know the truth, and the truth sets you free in your mind. You know? That's such a great place to have peace is in your mind, peace of mind. And so it's the word of God. So I can bank on the word of God. I can I can, I can get married and have a family, and I can determine in my heart like Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego that I want my life to be built upon the word of God, that I want the word of God to be the rock that my house is built upon in Matthew seven? The storms are gonna come. Threats are gonna come. The wind, the waves, the storms of life. But a doer of the word, the one whose life is built upon the rock, has stability, has staying power, can persevere, and get through all that life throws at him. The person that's just a hearer of the word hasn't built his house upon the rock. He's built his house upon sand, and his house goes up quickly and looks good from the outside. But the storms of life reveal what kind of foundation that is. And so I want my life to be, continue to be, not just starting out but finish well, that my life is built upon the word of God. And that means that I need to be a doer of God's word, not a hearer only. And so God wants to communicate something to us. And he's given us these 66 books by 40 different authors. And it's has a theme. The one central theme is god's love of us, man's redemption through the person Jesus Christ. The volume of the book is written of Jesus, the god man, the son of god. And so it behooves us to be lovers of god's word. And I don't care what version of the bible you read. Just read the bible. Don't get into these debates about King James only or, you know, whatever version you like or whatever. I like the King James, but I don't care if you're reading the NIV. I don't care what what bible you're reading. You're gonna get enough truth by reading the bible, with the help of the holy spirit. If there's some weak areas of the ESV or any RSV or any of these other areas, you'll get to them later. And when you get to them later, you'll be stronger, to use some study helps and to point out with the Strong's Concordance or, dictionaries or, treasure of scripture knowledge. You'll be able to come to a clearer understanding. So you you can bank on god's word. You can trust on his word. So son of man, say unto the prince of Tyre so previously, we dealt with the economic system of Tyre, and Tyre had a had a two part of the city. One part was the city, and Nebuchadnezzar, we saw where he came with a thirteen year siege and destroyed the city proper on the mainland. And then about a quarter half a mile offshore, Tyre also had an island type part of its city, and they were prolific. There was the Phoenicians, and they were prolific. Commerce, extremely wealthy. We covered that previously of their economic system and and what came after them, and we pointed out that Alexander the Great, found a way when he had conquered the the Persians. He found a way to take all that rubble that Nebuchadnezzar had broken up on the city proper and made a causeway out to the island area and then able to subdue them, those, the city of Tyre. So it fell, and we and we studied that. So in in chapter 28, we're gonna start out with the prince in verses one through 10 and the prince that rules. So looking at the ruler of Tyre, first, we're gonna look at possibly the human ruler, which many feel is Eth Bal, which means with Bal. And Baal was the false god Baal Baal, Ethbaal. He was a weather and a fertility deity, false deity, false god. And so, this would be the same type of, false deity that would plague the nation of Israel and even continue even to this day, different names that people have for Baal, worship of Baal, and Ashtoreth. And so Moloch, yeah, different different names throughout antiquity. Great is Diana of the Ephesians. You know, these are fertility gods. And so verses one through 10. And so the prince of Tyre, thus saith the lord god, thou hast said, I am a god. So little g god here. God's puffed up with pride. In the seat of god, in the midst of the seas, yet thou art a man and not the yet thou art a man and not god. Though thou set thine heart as the heart of god. And so your heart's with Baal, Baal god. And when you say I am a god, that's falling into Genesis three five where the serpent came and beguiled Eve and said, you'll be as gods. It's the place that Jared Kushner and and others are proposing that they'll never die. The proof of whether you're a god or not is death. If you die, you're not a god. And we would say today, god is not dead. Right? Right. So Jesus proved that he wasn't just a man, although he is a man. He's the last Adam. He's representing you and I as the son of man, but he's fully man. He's fully god. So he set aside the free exercise of his deity to take on the form of a man to go to the cross and die for your sins and my sins. And the dying for your sins and my sins, he challenged his enemies, destroy this temple. In three days, I'll raise it up. So Buddha, Mohammed, Confucius, Jared Kushner, Trump's son-in-law, Musk, none of these guys that tell and boast to people that they'll never die, that they have the technology to keep themselves alive. There's a day coming where it's appointed to all men once to die and then the judgment. They're all gonna die. And the antichrist, when he comes, he's also gonna propagate. He's going to preach this false gospel that you can be as gods. And that's in second Thessalonians chapter two where people will because of rejecting the truth, they'll be given over by God to a strong delusion, and they'll believe the lie. And the lie began in the garden in Genesis three verse five. So when was the first sin committed? And by who? Adam and Eve. The devil and the right? Satan. Satan. Satan committed the first sin, his fall from heaven. We're gonna get to that. Was before the creation of the earth and his origin. He was a created being. And and his sin was pride. And then it led to everything else. So Eve is the first person, a human person that sinned, but the first sin in the universe that God created among his created beings, we're gonna see here, is Lucifer. And so we start out with the prince ruler, and then when we get over to verse 11, we come to the king of Tyre, and that's a picture behind the scenes of the devil who's called Lucifer in Isaiah 14. And his five I will statements show that his fall, his sin against God, and and so this ruler here speaks of a mountaintop, in many cases. It also speaks of ruler. And, he says, behold, thou art wise, wiser than Daniel. There is no secret that, can be hid from thee. So he thinks he's so. He thinks he's wiser than Daniel. Some would say, well, if we're speaking of of the devil, that the devil's definitely wiser than Daniel because the devil is finitely perfect. But you and I, our wisdom can be greater than that of the devil if it's the lord's wisdom. Every good and perfect gift comes down from the father of light. So if we're at praying for wisdom, as James says, and the lord gives us wisdom, it's not our wisdom. It's the wisdom of god, which is smarter than the wisdom of the devil and all of his minions and people that follow. So we should freely admit that, hey. I'm no match for the devil. If somebody if somebody's coming at me aggressively, threatening me, my response is the lord rebuke you. That's right. You're gonna have to go through the devil to get to me. Right? And I know that when they're coming after me, it's not really them. I know it's demons because Paul said we fight not against flesh and blood, but against spirits and principalities. So I know it's demons that are behind them, motivating them, And and so I know how to pray. I know how to pray. I know how to come against those demons. And I'd simply pray to the lord, lord, get them. Lord, hear what hear what your enemies are saying about me. Hear what they're saying. And so if I'm king Hezekiah, I'll take the Rabshakeh with the Rabshakeh saying in slandering, and I'll hold it up to the lord. See, lord? See what they're saying? See what they're saying about you? See what they're saying about me? See what they're saying about your creation? And and then it becomes personal. Then it becomes, hey. You're not you're not fighting me. You're fighting God. If you're in in sync with God's will for your life and enemies come after you, they're fighting God, not you. If you're outside God's will, God can use pagans, unbelievers, whatever, to to correct us and chasten us. But the bottom line is he's not gonna allow Satan to come inside of you as a Christian. He's you're never gonna be possessed by a demon or the devil or whatever. You could face oppression, persecution, and such, but, we should never ever ever fear the devil. We should fear God only. Fear God. And the fear of man is a snare. And so if we're fearing God and we take the authority that's ours as as Christians, if the devil is is wanting to and remember, the devil's only a singular entity. He's not omnipresent. He's not everywhere. But he has one third of the demons fell with him in his rebellion in Revelation 12. And so he has demons, and they have geographical locations and places that they that they do their bidding. And, you know, the powers of darkness come against you and I as a Christian. Always remember, greater is he that's in you than he that's in the world. And since God is for you, who can be against you? And what can separate you from the love of God, you know, in Christ Jesus, Romans eight? So perfect love casts out all fear. The lord hasn't given us the spirit of fear, power of love, a sound mind. And so we don't allow we don't allow the fear that the devil is stirring up in our culture with his lies and threats to take us out of our zone, which is peace. He'll he'll keep him in perfect peace whose mind has stayed on thee. So as we keep our mind stayed on Jesus and we see the fight, the clear picture of the fight, now we, like Daniel in Daniel 10, we can be an intercessor. We can be a watchman on a wall. We can we can begin to intercede on behalf of the people. And, turn to Daniel 10 for a second. I'll show you something. I want you to see what's behind here. And I might be going a little bit too quick on this because a big portion of this is when we get to the king attire, but it's okay. It fits in with both sections. Notice verse 10. And behold, a hand touched me. Daniel's praying. He's gonna pray for twenty one days. Twenty one days praying. And behold, a hand touched me, which set me upon my knees and upon the palms of my hands. So look at his posture. It's a posture of humility. Doesn't mean you have to pray on the on, you know, on all fours. You can pray walking. You can do a prayer walk. But but when he's touched, he's brought to the ground because an angel's touched him. And he said unto me, oh, Daniel, a man greatly beloved, understand the words that I speak unto thee and stand upright, for unto thee am I now sent. And so we have good angels, and there's bad angels. The good angels, two thirds of God's host, they didn't listen to Lucifer when Lucifer was in revolt. Salilinski wrote a book called rules for radicals and dedicated it to Lucifer, the first rebel, the first one that rebelled against god in in the heavenlies. And but one third of the angels listened to Lucifer and were swayed by him in his rebellion against god. So we have two thirds of the angels who are guardian angels to you and I. They're messenger son of god. There's three different ranks of these angels. Satan is a cherub angel, which is the highest exalted angel. These angels would carry the throne of god. And as we are gonna see, Lucifer, he's exalted above all the cherub angels. He's above them as a canopy over the throne of god, so higher than all the rest of them. And he was perfect in beauty, and he was incredibly, also perfect in wisdom at the time before, sin was found in him. And so, you have to remember, though, that he's a fallen angel and that when the time comes, the lord's gonna grab hold of him with an angel in Revelation chapter 20 verse three. And this angel is going probably Michael, the archangel, and gonna place him in the abyss, his his fifth abode. His sixth abode after the millennium is the Lake Of Fire. And so, one angel helped Hezekiah destroy a 185,000 of the Assyrians that were coming against Hezekiah. Right? Just one angel. Jesus said to Peter when he cut off Malchus' ear, you know, don't you know that I could call down 12 legions of angels if I want to to fight for me? But that's not what this is about. So a legion is 6,000. 12 times 6,000. I can call down 72,000 angels if I need to. Right? And Why would we need to? Why would we need to. Right? So greater are they with us than those with the bad guys. The bad guys think they got the upper hand. God before me, who can be against me? I all I need is the favor of God upon my life, which I have. And Jesus didn't die for any angels. There's no plan of redemption for fallen angels. Jesus died for you and I, died for human beings and for for us as Christians. So I stood trembling. Then said he unto me, fear not, Daniel, for the first day that you began to set your heart to understand and to chasten yourself before your god, thy words were heard and I come for thy words. So I've come with a message. And from the very first day that you began to pray, your words were heard. So pray in faith, church. Pray in faith. God's hearing your words. You have access. You can boldly come before his throne of grace. Right? You have access. The veil of the temple was rent in two. Daniel had access in this Old Testament dispensation. How much more you and I with, the advent of the cross and access to the throne of god? Our prayers go up before God as incense. So your words were heard and I am come for thy words. But the prince but in contrast, I had opposition. There's opposition when you pray. Why is it when you start to pray, you get so sleepy? Remember? Will you guys pray with me? Will you pray with me? Will you watch and pray lest you enter into temptation in the Garden Of Gethsemane? And what did Jesus say to them after they kept falling asleep? Spirit's willing, but the flesh is weak. Okay. Now if you're gonna pray and you can't handle that, well, why is it afterward when you wake, you don't go to sleep? Why is it if you go on Facebook, you're wide awake or watch TV? Or in my case, honey, are you hungry? You know? What's something to eat? I don't I've I don't know that I've ever fallen asleep eating something. You know? I might have, but that's a real hard thing for me to do. I I typically I typically devour food, what's put in front of me. I have fallen asleep while I'm counseling, in a marital counseling. A, a couple came in on a Sunday afternoon at church, and they needed counsel in their marriage. They have since divorced, but they were really wanting to talk to a wise guy. So they came to me, and so Kathy and I were in there. And, they began to describe to me the struggles in their marriage and all. And I'd been up Friday night late, Saturday late, and then Sunday sermon, and now it's in the afternoon. And they they begin to pour their heart out, you know, just desperate. And all of a sudden, hear this voice, Rick. You know? And I had fallen asleep right there while they were talking, straight talking to me. I fell asleep. So, you know, it doesn't bode well. It doesn't provide a whole lot of confidence in people that I have the gift of counseling. Well, that was only one case. Right? Yeah. I I don't I don't you know, they don't come to counsel anymore. I wonder why. So but the king of the prince of the kingdom of Persia. So Daniel has been there during the time the Babylonians were in charge. Now he's there in the time of Cyrus and and Darius in charge, the Persians that overthrew the Babylonians. And and there's a there's a demon, a fallen angel behind these princes. You see what you see that? And that's what the same thing we see in in with the prince of Tyre. And so these globalist leaders that you have, these people in power, there are demons assigned to each of them that influence them. They're influencers influencing these fallen you know, in many cases, they're demonic. In many cases, they're Luciferian. In many cases, we're finding more and more of the global leaders who are human beings are worshipers of Satan, and they follow, you know, pagan activities and and human sacrifices and children being abused and all, their pedophilia and all. And the root of it, what's behind it, we see in the book of Revelation is they're worshiping Lucifer. They're worshiping the devil, these Right. Human leaders. So he says, below Michael, one of the chief princes came to help me, and I remained there, with the kings of Persia. So he's saying, hey. This angel that came to him, it could be Gabriel, says Michael came, you know, to help me. And now I have come to make thee understand what shall befall thy people in the latter days for yet the vision is for more days. So I'm here to tell you what's gonna happen to the nation of Israel in the future. And and when he had spoken such words unto me, I set my face toward the ground and I became dumb. And, and behold, one like the similitude of the sons of men touched my lips. Then I opened my mouth and spoke and said unto him who stood, before me, oh my lord, by the vision my sorrows are turned upon me and I've retained, you know, no strength. So humanly speaking, I'm I'm wiped out with with what you're doing. You you see John the same way. John the revelator, when the angel of the lord come and speak to him, he just he dropped to the ground and the angel said, no. Worship god. Don't worship an angel. For how can thy servant of this, my lord, talk with this, my lord? For as for me, straightway there remain no strength in me neither is there breath left in me. And so he's he's overwhelmed. Then there came again then there came again and touched me one like the appearance of a man, and he strengthened me and said, oh, man, greatly beloved, fear not, peace be unto thee. Be strong. Yea, be strong. And and when he had spoken unto me, I was strengthened and said, let my lord speak for thou hast strengthened me. Then said he, knowest thou why I come unto thee? And now will I return to fight with the prince of Persia. And, and when I am gone forth, lo, the prince of Greece shall come. So later, we got Alexander the Great coming, and the prince of Greece, the one that's behind Alexander the Great is gonna be coming. So we're gonna be fighting. And you and I, when we pray for governments, when we pray for the governments of the world, we're we're standing in the gap. We're praying against the wickedness and the evil, and we're asking god to raise up a standard, asking god to send Michael and his angels to thwart against these demons that are influencing the populace. One of the greatest ways for you and I to turn the tide is preaching the gospel. As you preach the gospel and people are transformed and changed, then these demons don't have as great a influence on on the populace. That's right. And, but I will show thee so prayer also, the gospel and prayer. But I will show thee that which is noted in the scripture of truth, and I love that, the scripture of truth. And there is none that hold with me in these things but Michael, your prince. And so so so sweet to see that the wizard of Oz exposed. You know? You're wondering with Dorothy and all them, who's behind that curtain? Who's behind that curtain pulling all the all the strings and everything? You know? Where do those flying monkeys come from? And, you know, and those ruby slippers and all that demonic stuff and everything. And what's that what's that, you know, road of gold, you know, that she's walking down? Is that the gold standard? You know? Is there a symbol there? And and so you see the people behind the curtain, the globalist leaders, but really behind them is Satan and the demons Mhmm. In the in the spiritual realm. And so we're not deceived. We're not deceived of how this you know, what's happening. The lord is the lord is sovereign. He's on the throne. He's in control, And we don't have to speak to the devil. We don't have to speak to demons. We just pray to the Lord. We pray to the father in the name of the son, and then he sends his angels. He dispatches who needs to be dispatched, and and he, protects us because we are no match. We are no match for the devil, the demons on our own. I don't ever want to exorcise somebody of a demon. Why is that? Do you wanna do you want an a ministry of exercising demons, of delivering people of demons? They've been saved for what they've been created for. For me, I wanna share the gospel with a demonically possessed person, and I want the demons to have to leave because the holy spirit goes into him. Amen. That's that's my that's how I roll. That's I don't I don't want this ministry of taking an unbeliever and having that demon or demons come out of them. And then I'm like one of the seven sons of Skiva, and then that guy, you know, overpowers me, strips him my clothes, and tells me, you know, Jesus we know, Paul we know, but who are you, Rick Baudry? You know? I don't I don't want that. I don't want that kind of ministry. So that's not for me. And set my heart as the heart of God. Behold, thou art wiser than Daniel. There is no secret that they they can hide from thee. With thy wisdom and with thine understanding, thou has gotten the riches. And so this the riches that the prince of Tyre is able to amass, he's a very wise guy. And the children of this age, Jesus said, are wiser than you and I. They're very, very good at being worldlings. They're very, very good at lying. They're very good at stealing. If you're a if you want to be a tech giant, you don't necessarily need to be techie. You just need to be in a club of techies and steal their technology and then have the backing to produce the first computer out there operating system. And then if your mom and your dad are are hooked up with the globalist bankers, then 70 people from IBM come and visit you and help you get your what you stole in the market. You know? And so they're very, very good at lying and deceiving and stealing things and continuing to steal. The other thing they do is the devil came to steal to kill. They wouldn't put it past them to kill somebody, to steal their patent, or if they become a threat to them, to just kill them. How many are on the list of the Clintons? You know? People that would expose, them and they wind up mysteriously dead. So steal, kill, and destroy you. And so our only hope is Jesus. That's that's the only way we we can roll. We don't let them threaten us because they can threaten us, but to be honest with the bodies, be present with the lord. So the greatest threat that comes against us, we're gonna kill you if you don't be quiet. And we say, well, you know what? I'm dead already. That's right. That's right. Amen. It's exactly right. I mean, why would I let why would I allow that? I've come this far. Why would I allow censorship to if I'm speaking the truth and speaking it in love and I'm in God's will, God forbid that somebody would come along with threats and silence you and I. And we can't let it happen. Can't let it in. So with thy wisdom and with thine understanding thou has gotten the riches and has gotten gold and silver into thy treasuries by thy great wisdom and by thy merchandise. So now this guy, he's got the wisdom to amass this wealth, and it looks like he's got the wisdom to invest that wealth to get even more wealth. So he's invested with thy merchandise. Has thou increased thy riches, and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches? So what somebody once I heard said asked the Rockefellers, well, you know, we're one of the richest families, you know, in the world in America. You know, how much money is enough? And the Bible says the eyes of the wicked are never full. The Bible says godliness with contentment is great gain. You brought nothing into the world. Certainly, you're not gonna carry anything out. But Rockefeller said, just a little bit more. It's always just a little bit more for the ungodly. And you can be a a billionaire, but you want two bill, three bill, four bill. Doesn't doesn't it never never stops. So your riches and thy heart is lifted up so the pride that comes in, you know, people fawn over you. They deify you. They treat you like you're gods, you know, because you're so wealthy, and the yachts and the airplanes and the cars and all the stuff grabs the the fantasies of people. And Jesus foxes have holes, birds that have nests, and the son of man has nowhere to lay his head. Jesus is poor. So Jesus all poor people from the poor guy all the way up can relate with Jesus. They have access to Jesus. If he was a super rich guy, we'd say, I I don't have any access. He doesn't understand what it's like to not be able to pay my rent. You know? Well, Jesus was homeless. He understands. He he's been there. He's tempted in all points like we and yet without sin. And yet he's the most wealthy person in the universe, and you and I are joint heirs with him. Amen. All that he's received that he's created and redeemed as he's purchased, as as the first federal head, Adam, as he forfeited. And Satan came along and usurped authority, became a little g god of this world. He became the prince, the power of the air, Satan did. And Adam forfeited, but Jesus comes as the last Adam. And with his blood, he's redeemed. He's purchased everything that Adam lost, including you and I. And and the father is gonna pour out the the blessings of the inheritance, and you and I are joint heirs with Jesus. We are plutocrats, the riches that are ours in Christ Jesus. Therefore, thus saith the lord god, because thou hast set thine heart as a heart of a god And so we would go to Jeremiah seventeen nine. Right? The heart's deceitfully wicked above all things and who can know it. Right? Heart's deceitful of all things desperately wicked and who can know it? You and I don't even know our heart. What's the most wicked thing? Our heart. And so he set his heart and it's his pride that's, emboldening him and God resists the proud and he gives grace to the humble. He says, behold, therefore, I will bring strangers upon thee, the terrible of the nations, and they shall draw their swords against thee, the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile, thy brightness. And so God's saying, you're going down. I'm bringing the Babylonians. I'm bringing the Greeks, and all your wisdom and all your trickery and all that, it's gonna come to an end, and, I'm gonna take you down. So they shall bring thee down, to the pit, which speaks of hell. Gonna bring it to the grave. They're gonna bring it down to the pit. And thou shalt die the death of them that are slain in the midst of the seas. So god is not dead. You claim to be a god. Noah, Yuval Harari, these guys claim to be gods that they're never gonna die. Very boastful, very blasphemous against the true and living god. And there's coming a day where it's appointed. There's an appointment where all men are gonna die. And you and I, death is just moving. We're moving out of this body into our new glorified body. But the wicked dead, they they're alive in the sense of there's no cessation. There's no annihilation. They they never reach a place where they cease to exist. It's just a different location. And that location is the eventual abode, the eventual place of the wicked dead is where the devil, the beast, the false prophet, where all the wicked dead that have appeared before the lord at the great white throne judgment in Revelation 20 is the Lake Of Fire. And Jesus said the Lake Of Fire is a place where the worm dieth not. So you take a worm and you throw it into a campfire, what's it do? It's gone. You take a worm, a body, your body, and you put it into the lake of fire hell, it doesn't burn. Where the worm dieth not and the fires never quenched. Also a place he described as a place of weeping and gnashing of teeth. You and I, he wipes away all tears. There's no more sorrow, no more pain. And so this light affliction, which is but for a moment now, it's it's nothing in comparison of the glory that we're gonna receive on into eternity. That's right. And so these these guys, these pretenders, they have a fearful looking of judgment. You and I have no fearful looking to of judgment. Jesus was already judged in your place. Jesus was already punished in your place. So you never need to fear that God's gonna pour out his wrath upon you, you know. Not gonna happen. But this guy's going down. And the reason he's going down what is why? He didn't prepare for heaven. He didn't prepare. Jesus said, what's it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his own soul? Or what would a man give in exchange for his life? God is not anti wealth. He doesn't hate money. He doesn't hate wealth. Right. Right? But if riches increase, set not your heart on it. Don't allow it to take the place of the master passion of your life and become an idol within your heart and life and puff you with pride and pump you up, and god resists the proud. And so he it's the love of money that's the root of all evil. It's not the money. Which some men, as they've coveted after, they pierce themselves through with many sorrows, Many sorrows. And so so will thou yet say, behold, am that slayeth thee, I am a god? So when you're dead, are you gonna say to the guy that's cutting your putting the spear into your chest, wait a minute. Wait a minute. I'm a god. I'm a god. You know? Don't cut me. But thou shall be a man and not god in the hand of him that slays thee. So when we won, the second World War, as general MacArthur was there in Japan, and the emperor of Japan came there for, you know, terms of peace, surrender, one of the things that happened there was the Japanese people's eyes were opened that the emperor of Japan was not a deity, that he wasn't god. They believed in their belief system that he is a god. He presented himself as a god. And so they would take and go to their death for him with their kamikaze airplanes and all that sort of thing. But a huge spiritual vacuum enveloped Japan when the emperor was exposed as not being god. And, MacArthur and others appealed to the American church to come to Japan and and share the gospel, bring the gospel because of this fraud, has been exposed. And, same with Mohammed, same with Confucius, same with all the false pretenders that that, claim to have a way. And Jesus has the audacity to say, I am the way. Who can say that if they can't back it up. Right? So the argument of lord, liar, or lunatic. Right? The he's either lord or he's a liar or he's a lunatic. And we know that he's not a liar and a lunatic because they destroyed his body, and in three days, he raised it up from the dead. So the resurrection is the heart of the gospel. That's what separates Jesus from everybody else. All of the all of the pretenders. And so thou shalt die the death of the uncircumcision, the the pagans, by the hand of foreigners, for I have spoken it, saith the lord god. So now you meant the real god. And, when Samuel gave the people a king, in first Samuel twelve twenty, the the lord through Samuel told the people that if you guys don't obey me, I'm gonna kill not only you, but I'm gonna kill your king. And he's gonna he's gonna die because of his disobedience. So Satan, the real king of Tyre, who instigated the earthly ruler, and, that's what we see in verse starting with verse 11 here going, unto verse 19. So 11 to 19, we saw the prince of Tyre. Now we see the king of Tyre. The king of Tyre, behind the scenes, behind this earthly ruler, is Lucifer. He says, moreover, the word of the lord came unto me saying, son of man, take up a lament lamentation upon the king of Tyre and say unto him, thus saith the lord god, thou sealest up the sum, you're full of wisdom, and you're perfect in beauty. So somebody read, Job thirty eight four through seven. Job thirty eight four through seven. Job thirty eight four through seven. Take a little break. Thank you, Steve, for that living water. Okay. Job thirty eight four through Where wast thou when I laid the foundation of the earth? Declare if thou hast understanding. Who has laid the measures thereof if thou knowest, or who has stretched the line upon it? Where where upon are the foundations thereof fastened, or who laid the cornerstone thereof? When the morning star There it is right there. Morning stars. Together all and all the sons of God shouted for joy. So what's that mean right there? The morning stars? The So as far as a sequence of creation, what was created first? The earth or the angels? The angels. Angels. So the angels were created before the earth was created. And when God was creating there, in the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth. That word created is bara out of nothing. Job reminds us that the angels were watching. The sons of God were watching the creation of the earth. Right? And so Lucifer was there. And Lucifer, in Isaiah 14, was one of his greatest creations, as it says here. He says, he was perfect in beauty. He was full of wisdom, so he had all the wisdom needed. You know, he was wiser than all the rest of them above everybody else. And thou hast been in Eden, the garden of god. Every precious stone was thy covering, the sardis, the topaz, the diamond, the burl, the onyx, the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold, the workmanship of thy timbrels. So you have ten ten aspects of this mineral garden, And then, you have a gold is a what do you call golden? Gold is a I forget that one. So there's nine of them, three three rows on the priest priests, four rows. And it's the same same of these jewels, except a few more. So similarity there. So it could be alluding to the fact that the devil was also serving in the role as a priest between god and the other angels. And there was gold on the priest the priest's garment that held all of it in, and a precious metal is the word I was looking for. So you got a precious metal in the gold, and then you have a this is an exhaustive of what was on the priest's garment, but all of those were there in Exodus twenty eight seventeen through 20. And so possibly in a showing that Lucifer, covering cherub above the rest of them, the cherub angels would hold the throne of god, carry the throne of god. The Seraphim, the second ranking, as we saw, in Isaiah six, they were further, and then angel is a lower rank, as messengers. And so so Lucifer, son of the morning, this guy, Satan the devil, adversary, is the covering one and covering the Sardis and all of it came through, workmanship, carbuncle, and all that. And then it says, and thy timbrels and of thy flutes was prepared in thee in the day that thou, was created. So notice the king of Tyre, human being, wasn't created. He he was born, but Lucifer wasn't born. Lucifer was created. The devil was a created being, an angel. Jesus is the first begotten of the father. He's not created. He is the creator. All things are created by him, But he chose to come through the Genesis three fifteen, the seed of the woman, to be, fully man and fully God. And so he didn't take on, the fallen nature that that Adam had. He came in with a pure DNA, totally pure DNA, and lived a perfect life and able to be the substitute, the propitiation acceptable unto God. And when God poured out his wrath upon his son, fully just in punishing sin, and so the the righteousness of him is is imputed unto us by grace through faith in him. Alright. So, Lucifer, his position here, he's a covering cherub. He's above all the rest of them, so he's numero uno. He's got this priestly worship leader type role before the throne of God with the music and Choir director. Choir director, priest. How well do Satan's musicians play instruments? How well do Satan's musicians sing? Are they any good? Perfect. Skillfully. Skillfully. So is there any truth at all that a person would need to sell their soul for rock and roll? Or have you ever been to the crossroads and you wanna be a big actor, big somebody, whatever, the doors open when you give your soul to the devil. Mhmm. Heard that before? Yeah. I've seen that too. That's not true. He's should the devil have all the good music? The truth is that he does not. And I love Thomas for that. He doesn't. So when we had the Roxy, I used to tell the the worship teams and the Christian musicians, we're on top of Mount Carmel, and this is a battle between the 450 prophets of Baal. This is a battle between darkness and light. And greater is he that's in you than he that's in the world. So you guys shine the light and the darkness will flee. And Britney and Christy and Anna and them used to get up there and do some worship in between the sets of the bands getting on there. And we had secular bands. We had Christian bands, and they're playing the same night. And and a lot a lot of the moms are like, how can you do that? And they said, well, it's outreach. We're trying to reach the kids that need to be reached. And so I had trouble with a lot of the musicians, the bigger name ones, because they didn't wanna preach the gospel. They said this is a rock show, you know, not a church. Church is tomorrow. So I had a real hard time getting them to understand, you know, the vision of reaching people and using their gifting to gain respect from the kids that are out there. And and then bring forth the foolishness of preaching. You know? Give a testimony. Do something up there. Why why are you here? You know? And but I I I could sense, I could see the and feel the holy spirit, you know, dominating the room. And this whole peace would come over that room when worship songs began to be played. And and the worldly kids, they didn't know what was happening. You know? So don't ever fear. Don't ever fear the world. You know? Go for it. Worship the lord. I mean, I'm becoming more and more bold. I sing two songs a week now. So yeah. So I'm not for Satan. Otherwise, they'd be more skilled. Right? Okay. So are thou art the anointed cherub and the anointed one. And so he's a cherub, highest rank. He's been chosen by God to have that high ranking and, anointed. You and I are anointed, our messiah. Jesus is the messiah, the anointed one. And so this is the guy that could could, help all the other ones, all the other angels that are there. And I've set thee, so thou wast upon thy holy mountain of God, and thou has walked up and down in the midst of the stones, of the earth. So Satan's first abode is heaven. That was his first abode, his first job, his first place, is the mountain of God, the throne of God, and it was a covering. He's above them all. He had the the jewels of a priest and the instruments of a worship leader, and he's a leader, perfect wisdom, perfect beauty. And so when we say perfect, finitely perfect, he can fall. Our god who's perfect doesn't fall. There's no variation. And so he's not a he's not the opposite of god. He is there's an opposition of good and bad angels. There's opposition of good and evil. But Satan is not the opposite of God. Satan is a fallen angel. And he's basically God's hit man. He's basically God's instigator. God's that God uses to stimulate the free will of men, to expose the free will of men. Case in point, at the end of the millennium, they've enjoyed the Gentiles, the the unbelievers have seen Jesus ruling and reigning with a rod of righteousness from Jerusalem, and you and I are ruling and reigning with him, and it's a perfect, you know, perfect environment. And at the end of the millennium, the lord loses Satan from the abyss, his fifth abode, the abyss, where he's been held for a thousand years, and he goes and he tempts the human beings. You and I aren't human beings on our old bodies, but there are human beings in their old bodies repopulating the planet during the millennium. We're in our new glorified bodies. And I'm married to Kathy, and Jesus did the wedding on the millennium, but that's a different story. And and but the hearts of these men are exposed because he's ruling and reigning with the rod of righteousness in that they can't get away with their sin. They sin, but they get stopped in their sin. So if you have god who's omniscient and he knows all things, then he's got you and I there. The devil's system and the beast system is a counterfeit to what the real system is gonna be that Jesus has. Right? And so the devil's a counterfeit. So he's gotta use technology to try and cover the planet and watch everything and cameras and all that. But the lord is omniscient. He just dispatches you and I. And we're going all over the place, and the angel's also helping everybody. So somebody has a thought in their mind that they wanna go kidnap a child. Well, Isaiah 11 says these children are gonna be safe. There isn't gonna be any more drive by shootings or a snake that would bite that child and a little child leading a a lamb and a wolf and a and a lion, you know, and all that. So the carnivore, the the curse that came upon the planet after Adam and Eve sinned is reversed. So you don't have that. But you do have the heart of man, which is still wicked. It's ademic in nature, and it's wicked. And it's plotting. It's scheming. And when it starts to act, god stops him. Well, then god there's a day where the devil comes along, and the lord gives the devil a little bit more leash because he told him when he came before for Job, you know, go this far, no further. You know, you can take his stuff, but don't touch his life. Alright. You can afflict him with sickness, but don't touch his life. So he's on a leash, No far. God uses him. And and then you you see all these people exercising their free will in rebellion against God. And then God causes, you know, the fire to come down from heaven and and consume these people and, who are wanting to make war against the lord. And so that's, that's the role of the devil now. He's the destroyer. He's the devil. He's the adversary. He's the accuser of the brethren. And so his first abode is that of the throne of God. His second abode in verse, 13 here is this rock garden, this mineral garden. So Genesis one one Steve's gonna read Genesis one one and two. Go ahead and read Genesis one one and then read verse two. Genesis one one, in the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. Okay. So in John one one, the prior creation before that, in the beginning was the word. The word was with god. The word was god. The same was it in the beginning with god. All things were made by him and without him was not anything made that was made. So the precreation is of the angels. Right? Angels are precreate before Genesis one one. Right? Satan's first boat is in heaven. Mhmm. So then God makes the earth, heavens and the earth. When we look at the heavens, we look at the place where the birds fly, the atmosphere where we breathe. The second heaven is space. The third heaven is God's throne. Paul said, I knew a man, whether in the body or the body, caught up in the third heaven. Right? So the throne of God, the third heaven. And then God made, in the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was read the next verse. And the earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And so in this case, what happened was is Satan was cast out of heaven down to the earth, and the earth was a mineral garden much like we're gonna see in Revelation twenty one and twenty two with the new heaven and the new earth. So he came down, and in his rebellion, he began to destroy and cause chaos and confusion, in his rebellion against God. So in Genesis one one and two, the second abode is the area of the mineral garden, the angels that were with him. So in heaven, when he rebelled, he took one third of the stars with him. So one third of the angels fell with Lucifer out of heaven, and they're thrust down to the earth, his second abode. And and he created the the chaos that covered up that mineral garden with the waters and and things like that, and the salt water and covering it up. And and then the Lord comes in the next verses is the account of bringing form and definition and order to the basic building blocks or whatever of of of creation. And so he brings definition. He brings light. He creates light. He creates darkness. He creates the animals, all the heavenlies, and all that. So that's later. So his second abode is this place called the Mineral Garden. Angels watching. And and then his fall, he has his fall here as we read further. His third abode is the atmospheric heavens. So he's gonna be thrust after after Adam and Eve sinned. Now he's usurped the authority that god gave to Adam to be fruitful and to multiply, and now he becomes the little g god of this world, the prince, the power of the air. And he's got access to heaven. He's the accuser of the brethren in Revelation 12, the prince of the world, the god of this age, Luke four five and seven, the prince of this world. He's a roaring lion walking about seeking whom he may devour. He's second Corinthians eleven fourteen, an angel of light, and he can appear in that way. And so that's his that's where he presently is. That's presently. And and then later, in Revelation twelve seven through 12, three and a half years into it, he's thrust out of heaven. He no longer has access to heaven, and angels are thrust down to the earth. And it says he knows his time is short, and he's plotting to stop Jesus from returning and taking the planet. And he goes after the woman, which is nation of Israel. He's furious and using the Antichrist and the false prophet to try and destroy the Jews. His fifth abode is Revelation twenty two three as we talked about as the abyss during the time of the millennium. And his sixth and final abode is Revelation 27 through 10, the Lake Of Fire. So in Genesis one two, the world was void, and there was chaos caused by, these fallen angels that came, down, thrust out of heaven down to the earth. And, now in Isaiah forty five eighteen, this is a good one. Watch this. Isaiah forty five eighteen to prove part of what we're saying. For thus saith the lord who created the heavens, god himself, who formed the earth and made it, he has established it. He created not in vain. So it says in verse two, the earth was out formed and void. He didn't create it that way. That's the way it came as a result of the rebellion of the devil. He formed it to be inhabited. And so part of that rebellion, get rid of Lucifer out of there, bring in Adam and Eve, and, you know, you now you've created the the garden for them. And their seas, you know, oceans and stuff cover much of God's original point of the mineral garden. But when you get to book of Revelation twenty one and twenty two, like I told you, it's it's returned back to a canopy of these emeralds and sapphires and all these different carbuncles and all these different minerals and stuff. So very, very beautiful, you know, up ahead. And alright. So back to 28. Is this too much stuff? So thou art anointed chair of the covering, verse 14, the holy mountain of god speaks of the throne of god. You walked up and down on the midst of the stones of heaven. You're cast down to your second abode, And, thou was perfect in your ways, from the day that thou was created till iniquity was found in thee. So the origin of sin is found in, Lucifer, son of the morning. Now we go to Isaiah 14. We see what that sin was. Isaiah 14. And who wants to read verses 12 out of 17? Anybody wanna read it? Do you want me to read it? Okay. 14. Twelve seventeen. 12 through 17. This is his fall. This is his pride as he points it out. How art thou fallen from heaven, o Lucifer, son of the morning? Art thou cast down to the ground, which this weakened the nations? For thou has said unto thine heart, I will ascend into the heavens. I will exalt my throne above the stars of God. I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation and the sides of the north. I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, and I will be like the most high. Yet thou shall be brought down to hell to the sides of the pit. They that see thee shall shall narrowly look upon thee and consider thee saying, is this the man that made the earth to tremble? What did shake the kingdoms? Had made the world as a wilderness and destroyed the cities thereof that opened not the house of its prisoners? So he's Lucifer, Lucky Lucy, and and he son of the morning, how art thou cut down to the ground. So how did it happen? You'd you know, you weaken the nations. For thou has said in thine heart, I will. So it's five I will statements. Here's his problem. I will send under the heaven. So I'm gonna go above everybody else, above even the throne of God. I'll exalt my throne above the stars. So all the other angels that are there, I'm gonna exalt my throne above all of them of God, above Michael, all of them. I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation in the sides of the North. So I'm gonna rule and reign during the millennium. I'm gonna I'm gonna be the the savior of the world, you know. I will ascend above the heights of the clouds. I'll be like the most high. So I'm gonna get the glory. I'm gonna go above the clouds. I'm gonna have this kind of glory of God. I'm gonna shine brighter than everybody. I'm gonna shine brighter than the creator. And yet thou shall be brought down. So pride goes before destruction, haughty spirit before a fall. Brought down to hell to the sides of the pit. And, he's gonna spend a thousand years in the pit, the abyss. They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee and consider to thee saying, is this the man? So this is the antichrist. Is this the man? People can look at the antichrist. Who made the earth to tremble, who did shake kingdoms, and who made the world like a wilderness and destroyed the cities, who opened not the houses of the prisoners. So the Jesus in Ephesians four went and opened the prison doors to the captives that were there awaiting the, crucifixion. And, he first he that ascended first descended, and he he emptied out the Old Testament saints in Abraham's bosom, that of paradise. But the wicked dead, it's a holding compartment that of Hades or Sheol, the grave. They're awaiting, the resurrection of the wicked dead in Revelation chapter 20 verse 15 And, to stand before god at the great white throne judgment, give account unto him of what they did while they're in their bodies, whether good or bad. And, basically, they're because they rejected Jesus. That's the that's the blasphemy of the spirit is rejecting Jesus as your as your savior. And, and over the course of the tribulation period, the world's made a wilderness, destroyed the cities, opened up the house of the prisoners. And it says, and all the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, everyone in his own house. But thou art cast out of thy sepulchre like an abomination branch and like the raiment of those that are slain thrust through with a sword. So the according to second Thessalonians two verse eight, the antichrist, Jesus is gonna come, and in his second coming, he's gonna destroy the Antichrist who is converging upon Basra, Isaiah sixty three one through three, where the one third remnant of Jews are there, being preserved in the area of Petra. And they're not gonna see Jesus till they say blessed is he that comes in the name of the lord. So they're regathered and they're regenerated according to Jeremiah 31. God gives them an unconditional covenant of regeneration, so they're born again. And, and it says that the Lord Jesus is gonna destroy the Antichrist with the sword of his mouth and the brightness of his coming. So as he approaches, as he covers the battlefield of Armageddon and as he approaches, his flock, the nation of Israel, he he he kills the antichrist, and the antichrist body just lies there in the street. He doesn't even get a burial. And thrust through with a sword and go down to the stones of the pit like a carcass trampled under feet. The armies just trample them under feet, the antichrist. Thou shall not be joined with them in burial because thou hast destroyed thy land and slain thy people. The seed of evildoers shall never be renowned. And so, gonna be destroyed, just laid there. And that's the Antichrist. Now the Antichrist is the seed of Satan in Genesis three fifteen. He's the little horn of Daniel seven eight. He's the king of fierce countenance in Daniel eight twenty three. He's the prince that shall come in Daniel nine twenty six. He's the desolator, Daniel nine twenty seven. He's the willful king, Daniel eleven thirty six. He's the man of sin, second Thessalonians two verse three. He's the son of perdition, second Thessalonians two verse three. He's the lawless one, second Thessalonians two verse eight. He's the Antichrist, first John two twenty two, and he's the beast of Revelation 11, verse seven. And so that's the, Genesis three fifteen, the seed of the woman. His heel's gonna be bruised, but he's gonna crush he's gonna crush the serpent's head. He's gonna crush the son of perdition, the seed of the serpent, the seed of the antichrist. So the antichrist can be a human being, not an angel. So thou was perfect in your ways from the day that thou was, created, notice. So he's he's just an angel, until iniquity was found in thee. And, first Timothy three six, a picture of a a bishop or a pastor, don't raise up a novice. You raise up a novice, a brand new believer, they're gonna be intoxicated with pride. And that same temptation that overtook Lucifer, in many cases, will overtake them, until they're humbled and grounded and mature enough to handle the responsibility. So by the multitude of thy merchandise, they have filled the midst. So he's got the origin of sin, and he begins to expand his corruption. So the multitude of your merchandise, just as before we saw with the prince, he takes what he's got, which is slander, and he uses slander against god. And who's he slandering? He's slandering god before the angels. He's somehow able to convince one third of the angels that god is not worthy of worship. So that's his modus operandi. He uses, his tongue. You remember Jesus said in John eight to the pharisees that your father's the devil and he was a liar and a murderer from the very beginning. So he's he uses slander and he uses lies against God and against us. Revelation 12, he's the accuser of the brethren. He uses letter of the law to condemn you and I before god, but Jesus is our advocate in heaven who shows the father the scars in his hands. And Jesus just said, dad, that Rick, yeah, he's a rotten sinner, but I paid for his sins. He's one of mine. You know? So the truth of who I am doesn't matter because the real truth is Jesus created me, bought me, and he's changing me from glory to glory in the image of his son. Amen. And so I don't try to posture myself as, hey. Look how good I am. Look. I've arrived. No? I give the glory to God. And then I know one day he'll he'll Thomas is laughing at that. You have the same kind of thing, Thomas? Well, I just wanna say, the Bible says, look for where I have been, but what God has brought me through. You know? Amen. The circle I but for the grace of God. Right. So now he says, with violence. So you have filled the midst of, thee with violence. So now what's happening is it starts out with his pride and his I will statements, but now internally, he's becoming more and more corrupt, and, he's bringing forth, violence, with these other angels. There's conflict in heaven. There's a battle in heaven now between the good angels and the bad angels as a result of the rebellion that, Lucifer brought. So, again, Sala Linsky, whom, Hillary Clinton and Barack Hussein Obama, the Weather Underground, Bill Ayers, many of these so called revolutionaries, dedicated his book to Lucifer. His book was called rules for radicals. So their objective is to tear down the present order, tear down the present structure. And and you're watching it in Los Angeles, it being torn down. Before they build back better, they gotta tear it down. And so, he dedicated his book to Lucifer, the the first rebel, the first revolutionary. And so they're they're fighting against god. They're rebel they're in rebellion against god. And that's why I always remind people that the issue is not being a sinner. We're all sinners. Like I said yesterday, all of us are sinners. And I don't go around sin sniffing trying to figure out what your sin is. You know I mean? And I don't have a robot or anything that can do that and whatever. And I really don't care what your sin is. I don't wanna know. That's between you and the Lord. So I point you to the Lord, to first John one nine, if you confess your sin, he is faithful and just to forgive you of your sin and claims you of all unrighteousness. So when I teach the word, he's given the Holy Spirit to, convict the world of sin, of righteousness, and judgment. So the world, when they hear, they're gonna be convicted of sin because they believe not on me. You and I believe in the Lord. So when the devil comes with condemnation, we reject that condemnation according to Romans eight verse one. There's now therefore no condemnation of those who are in Christ Jesus. He's a condemner. He shows us the pit of hell. The Holy Spirit shows us the cross. And so that's where we agree to confess means to agree. Now if you reach a place of rebellion, though, if you harden your heart harden your heart against God, now that's where it's dangerous. It's not the sinning, because we all sin. And we all have a way to restore fellowship by through confession. We don't lose our salvation by sinning. We just hinder fellowship. So, if we say we have no sin, we're a liar and truth isn't in us. But if you ever get to a point where you're practicing sin in rebellion to God, ignoring the work of the Holy Spirit, seeking to restore you to fellowship, that's where you're in a dangerous place. That's where the Lord has to raise the ante of spanking. He's gonna have to raise it up. But the devil is in full blown turbocharged rebellion against God and enticing not only the fallen angels but human beings who are also in rebellion against God, the biggest influencer. And thou hast sinned, therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of god. Though you profaned in your sinning in your first calling, you profaned the throne of god by sinning. You brought this stench. You brought this stink. You brought the stench of sin into god's who god who's holy, out of the mountain of god, which is the throne of god, and I'll destroy the o covering cherub from the midst of the stones of fire. And so down to your second abode, the stones of of of fire there. And so it used to it used to sparkle and be all nice and bright and everything. And god brought in the salt water and he brought in the chaos and all that. And but eventually, he's gonna restore it. So the midst of the stones of fire. So you're gonna be in the fires of hell eventually, the lake of fire and to the pit. You you defiled the throne of God and Jesus in Hebrews chapter nine, he takes the blood and he goes into heaven and he uses his blood to cleanse the throne of God. Ain't that amazing? The the what you see here upon earth, the holy of holies, the tabernacle and the temple, they're types of the real which is in heaven. So Jesus goes to heaven with his blood and he cleanses the throne of God that Satan had defiled. You can read that in Hebrews chapter nine. Where did I write it down? Hebrews nine twenty two. Somebody wanna read it? Nine twenty two through 26. Nine twenty three through 26. And then another one I'll have somebody read is Revelation chapter twelve seven through 12. I got it. Okay. So who wants to read Hebrews nine? Looks like 23 through 26. Okay. George is reading Hebrews. Okay. I love the book of Hebrews. I can't wait till we get there. 09/23 through '26. They were already at the but now once at the consternation. Like, the Catholics have a mass, and at the mass, they're they're in their transubstantiation, they're trying to, you know, make an offering for sin every day, every day, every day. And Moses, he was instructed to smite the rock and then later instructed to speak to the rock. And he broke the type in that Jesus would be smitten once, once and for all, and that that sacrifice, his blood, was efficacious in that his blood would pay for the sins of the whole world. You know? And no more need of him going to the cross and being continually crucified. But he he took that blood and he went to heaven, and he offered it once as payment for our sins, but also to purify and to cleanse the temple. And so the temple in heaven, the throne of God, excuse me, on in in heaven. And then Thomas is gonna show the picture of Revelation twelve seven through 12 where the devil is thrown out of heaven, which was, you know, his he was in his third abode presently. And then Revelation twelve seven through 12 shows where he's thrown out of heaven down to the earth, and he knows his time is short, and he's gonna go after the woman. That's his fourth abode. Go ahead and read that, Thomas. And there was a war in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the the dragon. And the dragon fought and hit his angels and marveled not neither was their place found any more in heaven. And the great and the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent called the the devil and Satan, which deceive the the the whole world for he was cast out cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. Two more? Yep. And I heard a voice a voice that was warn heaven how to how it come salvation and reigneth and the kingdom of our God and thy power of his his Christ and the accuser of our brethren is cast down and ascended and and descended them before our God day and night. And they overcame him by the blood of the lamb and the word of their testimony, and they loved not their lives until the death. Praise the lord. There is that more? Yeah. Is that more? You got it. Go ahead. Therefore, rejoice in heaven and ye that dwell in them. Woe to to the inheritance of the earth and of the seal for the devil is come down under you having great wrath because he knoweth that is that he have it hit him a short time. Amen. And so there's a question that people often ask. If Satan says perfect in beauty and perfect in wisdom, and he knows all the scriptures, all the bible verses, he knows prophecy, he knows what's gonna happen, Why does he still fight against God? Why does he still fight to try and destroy Israel and, you know, stop Jesus from returning? What what happened from the time that he was perfect in beauty and perfect in wisdom? What happened between then and now? Pride. He has no redemption. Good. He redemption. I think he's trying to overcome that two thirds good angels by swaying them since he's only got a third of the angels, and they're all deceiving angels. He's trying to get the other angels to join him. Sure. Even trying to get Jesus to bow down and worship him. Right? Right. Trying to deceive Jesus. Like, hey. There's a shortcut. You don't need to go by way of the cross. Bow down and worship me, and I'll give you all these kingdoms of the world. Right? One day by day. But what about what about progressive sin? You know, way back in heaven, starts. That's his fall. But now he's getting worse. He's getting more and more distorted, more and more delusional as he continues in rebellion against God. Do you see that how people that are in rebellion against God, how the world is gonna be given over to a strong delusion because they reject the truth? They go insane. Second, that song too, they go insane. People are going insane right now. They're rejecting the truth and rejecting God. And I sleep. I didn't sleep so good Saturday night because devil's after me. Before Sunday morning, sometimes on Sunday, they come at me too. I don't know. But greater is he that's in me than he that's in the world. Amen. But in any event, there isn't this despair or guilt or delusion about my future. You know? I know that it's almost over. The Lord is coming for me. And, you know, I'm hanging on to him, but he's hanging on even tighter to me. You know? Yeah. And nobody's gonna be able to separate me. So there's such a peace in knowing I'm in his will. And prophecy is telling me where we're at and where we're going. And so I'm not confused about, you know, like a like a worldly person would be. And so the reason they enter into a strong delusion is because they suppress the truth in Romans one or they reject the truth in second Thessalonians two. And you and I know the truth, and the truth sets us free from fear and guilt and condemnation and all those things the devil uses to destroy people's lives. So notice it here it says in verse 17. Thine heart was lifted up because of your beauty. So there's there's your pride. That was the origin. Thou has corrupted thy wisdom. So he was perfect in wisdom. Now your wisdom is corrupted. It's it's so it's distorted and you're given over to delusion. You're delusional now. And, it's it's part of god's judgment that the seeds of our sin later come back to judge us. And so god is not mocked. Whatsoever man sows, that shall he also reap. The Lord always gives you and I space for repentance. So if you sow a thought, you're gonna reap an action. You sow an action, you're gonna reap a habit. You sow a habit, you're gonna reap a character. And you sow a character, you're gonna reap a destiny. So for you and I, we're gonna take every thought captive, every thought captive to the obedience of Christ. So I don't want those sins to be able to be in a terrarium to make them grow more. And I wanna take that filthy thought, that selfish thought, that selfish attitude, and I wanna take it right now to the obedience of Christ. And I want the Lord to wash and cleanse me so that that thought doesn't germinate into an action. Right? Right. And I'm gonna pray and ask the Lord to help me. I'm gonna ask him to give me the power of the holy spirit to, resist temptation, to resist the works of the flesh, and to walk be being filled with the holy spirit. If we walk in the spirit, we won't fulfill the lust of the flesh. So that's the key is, Lord, I need to walk in the spirit. I need to spend time with you in the word. I to spend time in prayer. But this guy, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness. So you thought you were so smart and you're so bright, brighter than everybody else, but I will cast thee into the ground. And and we see the the lord, I I, what he's gonna do. I'm gonna cast you to the ground. I will lay thee Thomas just read that. He's cast out of heaven to the ground. I will lay thee before kings that they may behold thee. We saw that in Isaiah fourteen sixteen, the antichrist, laying there. And it can be also that when he's in hell, the Lake Of Fire, that people recognize him. He's gonna be there before kings, and people are gonna say, man, you're the guy that caused this, this wasteland and all? You're the one that started this rebellion? And because remember, they're gonna be conscious, and it's not gonna be when I was younger, everybody says, well, I don't care about going to hell because I'm gonna I'm gonna party with my friends. And remember that? And I'm gonna dance. And there there there used to be these commercials, and they always had miss Bud Light. And so everybody I'm gonna dance with miss Bud Light and party with my friends, drink beer, and party. Well, Jesus said it's where the worm died not, the fire has never quenched, weeping and gnashing of teeth. And then also another description is outer darkness. What's that mean? If God is light, then you're as far away from God as possible in outer darkness. Right? And and there's no cessation. There's no end to it. There's no alright. You spent your two hundred years here. Now I'm gonna flip the light off. You know, I'm just gonna make you go back to the without knowing what you're doing. Right reason of brightness, I'll cast to behold, may behold thee. Verse 18. Thou has defiled thy sanctuary by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy merchandise. So your slander on up in heaven, the sanctuary, caused one third of the stars to fall. One third of the angels fell because of your slandering lion tongue. So he when you see people that slander and gossip and use the tongue, it's an unruly wicked thing. And the the Greek word for slander is diabolos, which is the devil. It's it's demonic. And people are liars and they like to lie. They like to project and they like to like the devil does, they'll project upon you their sin. What they've been doing, they wanna project on you and accuse you of doing what they've been doing to you. And and it's it's a satanic ploy of of character assassination and slander, which which is which is telling lies about somebody. If you tell the truth about somebody and expose them, that's not slander. And so we, sometimes we have to expose the heresies. We have to expose the lies. We have to expose the way that people are, seduced by the wicked one and brought to a place of misunderstanding or or false sense of reality. And so we preach the gospel. We try to get them saved, and we try to get them to read the word of God and allow the holy spirit to minister to them and to lead and guide them into all truth. If they get off course, we try to use the word of god to get them back on course, and, we have to expose the heresy. And Paul would expose the heretics, the people that are propagating these lies. He would mark them and call them out. And, he says, Alexander and Hymenaeus have I delivered unto Satan, that they might learn not to blaspheme. So he's naming them by name, and he's letting them know that these guys are, blaspheming, you know, the lord, promoting unbelief, basically. And, so I've gotta give them over to Satan till they learn not to blaspheme, And he and he calls them out by name. So thou hast defiled, the sanctuary by the multitude of thy iniquities. And so a lot of times, it's so difficult in a church because the poison of heresy and the, methodology that Satan using, it begins to spread. It begins to spread just like it spread to one third of the angels who are good angels. It's his effort to try and spread that stuff to get as many people polluted with it, you know, as he can. And, it's not the holy spirit leading them to do that. Let me tell you. Right. So thou hast defiled thy sanctuary by the multitude of thine iniquities by the iniquity of thy, merchandise. Therefore, will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee and it shall devour thee and I'll bring thee to the ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee. So you were so addicted to your success. You were so addicted to how good you look and how smart you are and how rich you are and all that. But I'm gonna bring your life to ashes. I'm gonna let everybody see you be reduced to internal corruption. Your internal corruption has led you to this place. And so it could be in the lake of fire. The lord exposes him in that way, but he's not gonna prosper. And and all they that know thee among the people shall be appalled at thee. Now the demons with the seven sons of Sceva, they said, Jesus we know, Paul we know, but who are you guys? I'm very thankful that I do not know the devil. Amen. I'm very thankful that I do not know any demons. I don't wanna go there. I don't like horror movies. I've never liked horror movies. I go bowling on Halloween, and, I'm not into Pokemon. I've never read the Harry Potter stuff. And a lot of so called Christians have been reading the Harry Potter and pastors and churches using the Harry Potter to get people to read and stuff and the Pokemon cards and all the different occultic things that the world's into. I'm thankful that I don't even know any of that stuff and I gotta ask people, what is that? What is that? So be wise concerning that which is good and simple concerning that which is evil. So all they that know thee, I don't know the devil. I know Jesus. Amen. And I know Jesus because he knows me. Mhmm. He introduced himself to me. And I I think years ago before I became a Christian or even while I'm a Christian, sometimes, you know, might I might have seen the devil, the devil with the blue dress on, you know, that kind of devil. But so all they that know thee among the people shall be appalled at thee. Thou shall be a terror and never shalt thou be anymore. So not cessation. Not cessation of being, but your life's over. Your your your role, everything that you've ever done is over. It's the end. It's the end of you on the earth. You're no longer gonna be on the earth. It's over. And you're not gonna be in heaven either. Your final abode is the Lake Of Fire where you're gonna spend all eternity. Now very important to understand. Hell, different places, degrees of hell. Right? One is the grave. So Sheol or Hades. Hades is is the Greek word. Sheol, the Hebrew word. When Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, the Old Testament patriarchs died, they went to hell. But it's a double compartment. Right? Luke 16, a double compartment. One side is called Abraham's bosom. Lazarus died, and he is poor and sores and dogs licking him, and he was taken to Abraham's bosom. The thief on the cross this day will be with me in paradise. The other side, a great gulf between there, in this holding compartment, is a place of torment, grievous torment. The rich man said, send Lazarus over to touch his finger in the water to touch my tongue. Interestingly, you could look across the gap and recognize people. You could still see and recognize them. The rich man recognized Lazarus. Right? So they're dead, but there's still a part of them, whatever that is, spiritual being. Soul able to look and see and feel pain. Feel the pain and thirst. All the sensory things in the in the rich man that he's expressing. And and then after that, Jesus emptied out the compartment of paradise. So they asked that the bodies be present with the Lord. And they're all gonna get their new glorified bodies at the resurrection. Jesus, the first fruits of the resurrection, and then a sequential order. And the dead in Christ rise first. So we're next, get our new glorified bodies. Then at the end of the tribulation period, the Old Testament saints and the tribulation saints get their new glorified bodies. The two witnesses in Revelation 11, they've they they get theirs. They're resurrected there in Revelation 11 before they ascend up to heaven. So that will complete the first resurrection. Then there's a second resurrection of the wicked dead, and they're gonna be resurrected and stand before the great white throne judgment, Revelation chapter 20, and give account of what they did while they're in their body, whether good or bad. And so I'm gonna sleep real good tonight because I have an advocate with the father. I have a defense attorney named Jesus. And no matter what accusations come, no matter who tries to destroy me or tear down my character or whatever it may be, they've gotta go through Jesus to get at me. Right? And I have confidence in him that his will will be done. Whatever his will is, thy will will be done. He's sovereign. He's in control. He's king of kings and lord of lords. And the devil is powerful. But also remember, and don't don't make fun of the devil. He doesn't like that. Sometimes we call him he's a roaring lion. But others would say his his bark is greater than his bite in that he's toothless. He's gonna roar. He's gonna lie. He's gonna threaten. But he can't bite you. You see what I mean? He can't take you out of the hand of Jesus. You're you're in the palm of his hand. He has to go through Jesus to get to you. You know what I mean? And greater is he that's in me than he that's in the world. And I'm so thankful for worship, prayer, fellowship. I'm so thankful for be spending time in a bible study or in church. And the heavenly angels and the holy spirit are there in the room and in my heart and the other saints. And I know that the devil's planted tares among the wheat, goats among the sheep. And there's people and entities and fallen entities that will try to cause confusion and stuff from time to time. But typically, those fallen entities will will flee. They will flee when we begin to worship the Lord. In second Chronicles 20, Jehoshaphat had an overwhelming enemy coming at him, and the Lord instructed him as he said, Lord, we we see this force, this this these armies that are coming after us, we don't have the might. And, Lord, we neither know we what to do. We don't have a strategy how to fight this army that's coming at us, Lord. Lord, but our eyes are on you, and you keep your eyes on him. And then the Lord instructed him, you guys begin to worship. You guys start to worship me. And as they began to worship the Lord, the enemy was destroyed by God. God destroyed the enemy that was coming against Jehoshaphat. They began to destroy themselves. And so that's a picture. Many times the people that are fighting against you, they will turn on each other and they'll begin to devour one another. And our objective is to speak the truth in love and try and win as many as we can, you know, to Christ. And those who are deceived or engrossed in sin, Jude says we snatch them out of the fire if we can. We reach over and we grab them to pull them out of the fire that's pulling them to hell. You know? And so as much as we can, we try to restore those whom the enemy is trying to take captive against their will. Who and as Christians, we have some that are deceived and and being thumped on by the enemy. We have those that are wounded in the battlefield and need help, you know, getting up. That's the hospital that we have. But, in many cases, the unbelievers are taken captive against their will by the devil, and Jesus came to set the captives free. And the way that we set the captives free is by preaching the gospel. Amen. The gospel. Right? And, so remember, moving forward, every opportunity you have, preach the gospel. The Lord's given us an open door that no man can shut. One last thing. Be aware of distractions. Be aware of things that distract you and I from the main thing, which is making disciples. And, we preach the gospel and we make disciples. And, and that's what we did tonight with the bible study. Everyone in here is a believer, so I don't need to preach the gospel. But if anybody's listening on Facebook and you don't know the lord Jesus, you may say that you know the devil, most of it, but do you know Jesus? Knowing Jesus, means that you have salvation. You say, well, I believe. Well, the demons also believe and tremble. But do you know Jesus? Do you know him? And do you love him? The only way you can love him is because he first loved you and he drew you and he's wooing you unto himself. And if you call upon the name of the Lord, you'll be saved. Whosoever calls upon the name of Lord shall be saved. If you believe in your heart that he is crucified, buried, raised from the dead, ascend to the right hand of the Father and come again, you're going to be saved. As you turn from your sins, as you cry out to God, God be merciful to me a sinner, the Holy Spirit brings the power of the spirit to convert you, to transform you from body and soul to body, soul, and spirit. The Holy Spirit comes into your heart and life. The Bible calls it being born again, born of the spirit. And and the father, son, the holy spirit will come and make their abode in your heart. So you saw Satan's six abodes, but the father, the son, the holy spirit want your heart to be their home. They want to make themselves at home in your heart. Are you ready to receive Jesus? As many as received him, to them gave he the power to become the sons of God. Are you ready? Alright. Let's pray. Father, thank you that we could look at what we did tonight. Next week, we'll look at, city of Sidon. And just thank you for the sweet time that we could spend together, Lord. No fear. And Lord, as we anticipate another planned pandemic in February, and all the other things the devil has planned for us, Lord, in the days and weeks ahead, Lord, I thank you that you're raising up a standard against the wicked one. I thank you, Lord, that as our eyes are upon you, that you're gonna give us the discernment and the wisdom to make decisions and to navigate the the chaos, the confusion, the deception, the great, great deception that's taking place. And, Lord, we're gonna we're we're just gonna sit at your feet, and we're gonna be at peace, not chaos. And, Lord, we're gonna be anxious for nothing. But in everything, through prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, we're gonna let our request be made known unto God, and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, is gonna guard our hearts and minds through Christ Jesus, Especially when we don't know what to do, when we don't know what's gonna happen. We're going to act in faith, believing you, trusting you that you're on the throne, you're in control. And if you want to, you'll let us know what's gonna happen. And if you don't want to, you just tell us to trust you. We're gonna trust you. You'll get us through. You're gonna get us home. In Jesus' name, we pray. 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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