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Live from Bremerton. It's Monday night. We've got Ezekiel 39 in front of us tonight, and, we want to open up with a word of prayer, let people know that spring is upon us. And soon, very soon, if, the Lord gives us some good, weather, maybe about August, we'll be able to go outside. Rob Rob and Vicki have a real nice deck outside that they're working on, and we love going outside. But meanwhile, we're inside still, and we got teased with a couple good sunny days last week. It's raining here in Bremerton, but we can we can do it indoors, comfortable. And so here's our I just had to whine a little bit, but we're gonna open with prayer. So father, we come before you and Lord, we we lift up Shelly and Mark. We pray that you continue to heal their bodies. We thank you they're able to follow on Facebook and and hear the bible studies and stuff and see us eating at the oak table. They really got jealous and that's good. And and I pray for my dad as he's just so frustrated being in the VA for over a month. I pray they'd figure out what's wrong with him and help him before he gives up and, heal his body and continue to heal Alan and Cora as they love the scriptures. And, thank you for healing Sally and, we pray for James with his knees and anybody else in the church. We pray for your comfort comforting hand upon Pamela's friends who lost a daughter to suicide this past week. And then for Carl, Carl Ashum, Lord, his niece committed suicide yesterday and so out in New York. And so we pray that you comfort the family. We lift up Vince who's, wanting to commit suicide, but now he's lost, Lord. He's he's out in the as a homeless person somewhere. I prayed, that you'd you know exactly where he is, and I prayed come end of himself, and that he'd surrender himself to you, Lord. And I pray for each and every one of us on a daily basis, we'd surrender to you afresh, taking our cross up daily and following you and that cross means death to self and that we'd follow you in this walk of faith, being yoked up with you. So blessed, pray tonight, teach us, Lord, we're your disciples and we desire to learn. We desire to be students of prophecy, be watchmen on the wall, be able to speak to people of the hope that's within us, Lord, the blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and savior. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Amen. Amen. God send his son. I mean, that's new for some. Yeah. I love that one. Alright. Thanks, Rob. Alright. Ezekiel 39. Ezekiel 39, a prophetic passage, a passage of scripture that hasn't happened yet. When we looked at Ezekiel thirty six and thirty seven, that's a passage of scripture that 05/14/1948 came to pass. It God bringing Israel back into the land after the holocaust, the valley of dry bones in chapter 37, and then breathing life into the nation of Israel, and what we would call regathered in unbelief. And the apostle Paul, when he's teaching concerning the gospel, he's answering the question, well, what about Israel then? You know, the church when he's talking about the church in Ephesians two and three described as a mystery once hid, now revealed. And so the gospel going to the Jew first and then to the Gentile, the priority. But what about the nation of Israel in that they, you know, Messiah was cut off in Daniel nine twenty six. And so after his first advent being cut off, then what happens, you know, to the nation of Israel? Is God done with Israel? And that's what a lot of people in the churches today have what's called a preterist or a placement theology, thinking that the church has replaced Israel, which we see is not true because Israel's back in the land. Ezekiel thirty six and thirty seven. So in '38 and '39, today, there's discussion in our news that America could strike Iran, right, which is Persia, ancient Persia. And if that takes place, what kind of a huge war that's gonna set off because Russia's saying they're gonna retaliate. They're gonna support, you know, Persia or Iran. And then apparently, Israel just bombed Syria with a huge on the Richter scale, caused a three point o earthquake, you know, in in Syria. Assad left Syria. Damascus, according to Isaiah seventeen one through three, is gonna be a ruinous heap someday, but that hasn't happened. So Israel has spoil. They have a Leviathan, an enormous amount of, natural gas and oil, and they're sitting not in a way of peace, but in security. They're sitting with confidence militarily, economically. Their, GDP is strong. They, they have a strong tech community there, technology community, and, fourth largest producer of of fruits and vegetables and food to Europe, and they could provide a natural gas and energy to Europe if as Gaza is scraped like Ukraine and and Lahaina and and and Hawaii. The globalists wanna, you know, rebuild a smart city there and possibly, you know, a what do you call it? The the pipeline, a pipeline heading through Turkey on into Europe and and and then also vessels, you know, bringing vessels in and loading them up with natural gas and trains and and by way of the sea and sending it all over the world. So that's a huge amount of wealth potential there along with the deads Dead Sea, the minerals the enormous amount of minerals that are there in the Dead Sea. So something's gonna put a hook in the jaw of of Russia, the coalition of nations we saw in chapter 38. So from the north, you draw a line directly directly north, Meshach and Dubolsk, and Gog, the leader, Amos seven verse one. We talked about how the the leader is a king and this leader, a demonic leader, we tied it in Revelation chapter nine. We looked at Revelation 20 where Gog Magog in the at the end of the millennium reemerges and god snuffs them out by the coalition of nations. So we look at those nations today and we see Russia, we see Iran, which is Persia, Gomer, which is Germany, Turkey, Togarmah, and what are a couple other ones? Somalia, Sudan, and some say Libya, but others say no, that it doesn't apply to them. What else? Egypt. Egypt. Not Egypt. They're not listed there. So Egypt's not listed in this coalition of nations. What about Saudi Arabia? Where do we see them? They're just doing nothing. Sheba and Dedan give a issue a complaint. So maybe a complaint to the United Nations. Now who mysteriously is unmentioned, not mentioned at all? US. The United States. Yeah. So what happens to The United States in all this? You know? When do you think Ezekiel thirty eight and thirty nine? This is another big topic. When do you think Ezekiel thirty eight and thirty nine is gonna take place? That's a that's a huge that's a huge topic. When's it gonna happen? Soon. Soon? Soon. Before the tribulation period? After the tribulation period? Is it Armageddon? Hal Lindsey and others think that it's Armageddon. Before the tribulation. Before the tribulation, Rob says. How much before the tribulation? A short time. A short time. That's pretty good way to describe things. A short time. He'd he'd make a good bible commentator a short time, you know. Brandon knows. Brandon knows exactly the date. He's a date setter. Yeah. So when's the rapture gonna take place? Before Ezekiel '38 and '30 '9 or after? A trick that's a trick question by the way. Anytime. That's a trick question. Anytime. Nothing's holding back. Nothing's holding back the rapture. It could happen anytime. Right? Yeah. We call it the eminency. It could happen at any moment. Now the tribulation period, when does it start? With the rapture? Signing of peace treaty. That's another trick question. Only this peace treaty starts the rapture. So what about valley of what about bones that we chapter 39 is a continuation of 38, and so God's gonna cause huge hail bombs to come out of the sky and fire and brimstone and wipe out this invading force. Right? They're gonna be in the mountains and they're gonna be wiped out. We read or we're gonna read here, five out of every six, but in the Hebrew, they don't have a five six. The King James says five out of every six. The Hebrew would indicate all the armies wiped out, the invading forces. All of them are wiped out. And now you've gotta deal with the bones, and you've gotta bury them. And we're gonna get in here and we're gonna look at that. But from a timing standpoint, if you're gonna put this as Armageddon, then are you gonna take and bury bones for seven months into the millennium? I don't think so. Are you gonna burn energy for seven years into the millennium? No. I don't think so. No. Okay. So Before. Alright. So anyway, we got a lot to learn tonight and I've got all the answers for you. Perfect. And I've written my book on when the rapture is, I'm almost ready to release it, so I'm gonna be rich soon, I'm gonna be really rich. Alright. Father, we come before you and Lord, we just pray that you open the scriptures to our understanding. So many questions. I love the questions, I love looking to your word to find the answers and some of it tonight, Lord, we're not gonna be able to be dogmatic and say that this is absolutely what's gonna happen. But Lord, we ask that you'd guide and teach us. You know exactly what's gonna happen. And Lord, I thank you that we don't know need to go to the YouTube prophets, to people that have had dreams and visions and speculation, but we get to look to your word and we pray line upon line, precept upon precept. As we look at the scriptures, we pray that you by the power of your holy spirit would be our teacher tonight. So blessed, we pray in Jesus name, amen. Amen. Now, I'm so grateful that I can be in a bible study tonight with people that are students of prophecy. This is a very rare thing today. The churches just don't wanna study prophecy. They don't care about Ezekiel thirty eight and thirty nine. They don't care about the nation of Israel. 2% of churches teach prophecy. 27% of the Bible is prophecy and Ezekiel thirty eight and thirty nine is align aligning. These nations are aligning themselves, know, and Israel's in the land and Leviathan is there, the hook in the jaw is there. So we are we are not pre 1948, we're after 1948, Israel's in the land and fascinating. So fascinating. So therefore, thou son of man, so prophesy against Gog, the leader of it, continue the destruction. So more of a of applying a greater information about what happened in chapter 38. So now we're gonna get a more vivid picture. So therefore, thou son of man prophesy against Gog and say thus saith the Lord God, behold, I am against thee, oh Gog, the chief prince of Meshach and Tubal. So, the chief prince as in Gog is the leader, the king, the kaiser, the different names that they have. Kaiser was for Germany. What's another name for a leader? Czar. The Czar of Russia. So that's what Gog is. It's a title, it's not a name of a person. And again, when we go to Amos seven one through three, there's a picture of the locusts that are being led by a king and locusts don't have a king and so we see with tying it in with Revelation nine with the demons that are coming out of the abyss and stinging people and not letting them die and faces like a like a lion and tails like a scorpion and all. They're being led by a demonic a demonic entity and that's the same kind of picture here, a demonic being that's leading this coalition. So, we fight not against flesh and blood but against spirits and principalities of the air and so I believe that in many cases when we lose down here on earth, it's because we lost in the spiritual realm. Do you understand that? That we as the church, when we lose, when we're defeated, it's because we didn't prepare spiritually. The battle is spiritual. So something like the tongue, slandering and gossip and all that can permeate a church and cause us to be defeated because spiritually, we haven't been in prayer and being filled with the Holy Spirit and able to apply the word of God to what's happening. Instead, we're sensory and we're using feelings and psychology and all these other things and we become we become defeated so easily, divided because in a spiritual from a spiritual standpoint, we haven't prepared spiritually for the attack and for the battles that are coming. And and so I would I would encourage as we move forward in the days ahead as the times in which we're living become more and more tumultuous and what if what if one third of the people in our church lose their jobs because of Doge? What happens if the economy deflationary comes down and huge amount of layoffs of people? I lived at a time of 1989 when 200,000 aerospace workers were laid off in Southern California. Very very qualified engineers and people that had great paying jobs and they just shifted the powers that be just shifted the aerospace and, Mcdonald Douglas and, a lot of people losing their jobs and there was a downturn in the economy and man, people were panicking and obviously it turned back and they repositioned themselves. But the it's a very, very sad day when you see people losing their jobs and they can't find a job. They're applying like crazy and they're just nobody's hiring. And so if those days are ahead of us, we better be ready. We better be ready spiritually. Food prices, no matter what's coming, we better be ready spiritually. So here's an actual picture of a war here but we have to be reminded that in Daniel chapter 10 that Daniel was praying twenty one days and he was praying and angel Michael came to him and said, Daniel, beloved, the very moment you began to pray to the present, you know, we've been wanting to come and give you an answer, but the prince of Persia, Iran, was warring with us in the heavenlies, in the spiritual realm. Right? And Daniel's illustrating, showing us how the battle's won. It's on our knees. He's fasting. He's praying for twenty one days. And I I don't put my confidence in man, in our political leaders and all them to get us out of the mess that we're facing, war and economy and all of it. The church has to come to a place of prayer, of fasting and praying and seeking the Lord and asking for wisdom and discernment because there's so much deception taking place. How are we even gonna be able to meet in the future if, you know, if we're divided as a small group of believers, you know, the the crazy things that can come in to distract us nowadays, nonsensical things, you know, getting us away from the most important things that God's called us to do of getting the gospel out and and prophetically shouting from the rooftops that Jesus is coming again. But hey, people don't wanna hear about prophecy because it's doom and gloom, know, you can't talk about that in so many churches. Anti rapture, you know, harpazo, the word rapture is not even in the Bible, you know. How many times do I have to hear this kind of stuff, you know, but it's so prevalent. So basically, it's a spiritual battle, we gotta remember that. So I'm against the old God. God is against God, God is against since God's for us, who can be against us? But we need to be aligned with God spiritually. The children of Israel were not in alignment with God. The nation of Israel is not in alignment with God. They're in alignment with iniquity and sin and that's why God sent them into captivity. In his judgment, in his punishment of them, it was because they were not in alignment with him and his will and his purposes for them. So the chief prince of Meshach and Tubal, and I will turn thee back and have but the six parts. So hooks in the jaw drawn you in, but I'm gonna stop you. No. It will cause thee to come up from the South from the North parts, so a direct line north from Jerusalem is is Russia, from the north parts and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel. So here's another indicator of of this not being Armageddon because the mountains of Israel, the area of Judea, the Judean Mountains. And this is an area prior to the sixty seven war. This couldn't have happened because Jordan controlled this general region. This would be what we call today the West Bank. And that's where this battle's gonna take place is in the area of Judea. Now, the reason I say that is Armageddon is the Valley Of Megiddo of Jezreel, not in these mountains. So location wise, this is where this battle takes place. But there's a fascinating aspect, a hinge. There's a hinge in this chapter, a transition. And I'm not gonna tell you where it is. You guys have to find it. Alright. So this part right here has to do with Russia and this coalition of nations from chapter 38 into 39 coming upon these mountains. Now, it's gonna describe them coming on horses. Did any of you see that Husqvarna robot those guys are riding? Yeah. Isn't that insane? That was crazy. Crazy, I mean I mean, would you wanna, as a soldier, wanna ride that thing, you know, on end of battle? That's crazy. I mean okay. We're looking at this. Are they gonna use contemporary weapons? Is Ezekiel trying to describe like John the beloved in Revelation? Is he trying to describe things that he's seeing in the spiritual realm in the future with the words that he has, you know, scorpions, lions faces. Are those drones or are they actual demonic beings coming out of the hole with tails and the whole thing, you know? So sometimes it's literal. Sometimes it's allegorical. It's imagery. But, I mean, literal horses really today? And then we find out that in Ukraine, Putin, Russia's using horses and mules and, things like that. And Brandon taught us that in Afghanistan on some missions they use horses. Okay. So when Jesus comes back in Revelation 19, how's he come back? On a drone? On a horse. Helicopter? Rocket ship from Elon Musk? SpaceX? How's he come back? On horse. And how do we come back? On horses. Oh, boy. Really? Do you know how to ride a horse? I don't. Yeah. I'll teach you. I mean I mean, literal horses do we really think they're horses? Is she's really coming on a horse? Yes. A white Right? Yeah. Ain't that fascinating? I mean, wow. What are we gonna do? So these guys come in and they're all destroyed, completely destroyed. And I'll smite thy bow out of thy left hand. So the majority of people are right handed, right? And you hold the bow in the left hand and it'll cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand, so you got the arrow in your pollen and some would say in the Hebrew this word for arrow can also be used in the Hebrew as missiles. So Israel has their dome technology, right? Iron dome. So all those missiles and everything that come from Hezbollah and all those people, it used to be the missiles and and all of the cache of weapons were Russian weapons. Right? Well, with Obama and Biden and a whole lot of chicanery, bad stuff, there's a lot of US type armory. I mean, didn't we leave Afghanistan and leave these guys with all sorts of US Yep. Ability? And didn't didn't we give $7,000,000,000 and billions and billions of plane loads of money and cash and everything for them to rearm themselves, you know? And and wasn't ISIS and Al Qaeda created by our government and funded and isn't Doge exposing all of that? Somebody had a good question at end of day. With all of this doge and all this fraud being exposed, how come nobody's been arrested yet? Yeah. How come nobody in the poll the politicians were a part of this and they're being caught? How come not one of them is being arrested? Right. Ain't that crazy? That's just crazy. It's crazy to me. You're caught, you know? And but anyway, that's just a side issue. Uh-huh. So so anyway, in the mountains of Israel all destroyed and I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand. Who wants to read Psalm 46 verse nine? Psalm 46 verse nine. I'll tell you. Okay. And what's that say? Psalm 46. Some trust in horses? 46 what? 46 verse nine. He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth. He breaketh the bow and cutteth the spear in sunder. He burneth the chariot in fire. So in our present day technology with SpaceX, if SpaceX was cut off in Ukraine and nobody had any communications, if the communications network of satellites and EMPs are used and confusion with with with you know, your your comms are come down. How do you how do you facilitate normal warfare if the comms are down? If if just simply Elon Musk cut the comms over Ukraine or anywhere around the world, In Revelation 11, the comms are working because the whole world can see the two witnesses lying in the Street Of Jerusalem. Right? Yeah. So all the satellites, low flying satellites all over the globe, it's it's what are they called? SpaceX? Right? SpaceX. Right? And so at this point, the Lord can cut off the comms. He can cut off Starlink. Starlink. There you go. Starlink. Thank you. And so down satellites and fire and brimstone from the heavens God's bringing down and a disabled guidance system. So if it's missiles and we're looking at, you know, pinpoint accuracy, well, the Lord disabled your guidance system. He's going to intervene with Russia and all their technology and all their ability to be able to hit what they're aiming at and he can do a a God made EMP to wipe out all their technology, whatever he wants. And and so sometimes we we think because we got all this technology and the drones and all this stuff that there's no way you could lose and there's no way Israel could defend itself with this huge amount of force that's coming in and God used something as archaic as 100 pound hailstones. Yeah. Yeah. Who can survive that? Or if the Lord brings in a huge aquatic river, tanks, none of that stuff works in mud. Right? You're stuck. I remember one time when Jimmy Carter, the worst president ever, I remember years ago that they tried to go and do some sort of a rescue and it was simply a windstorm in the turbines of the helicopters and stuff that grounded them, you know, just just wind in Beirut. Just just simply sand, you know. Well, who does that? So God can God can intervene any in any way, shape and form and we need to be careful to not be enamored by technology, transhumanism and live forever and all that other sort of thing. We thank the Lord when, you know, there's medical advancements and and cause the blind to see maybe, I don't know. I don't know how far they're gonna be able to advance, but there's definitely a demonic effort to counterfeit the true living God and his his miraculous things that he does. So they're gonna fall your right hand, thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou and all thy hordes and thy people that are with thee, so a huge coalition of people. And again, America's not there to stop them. How many ships do we have right now in the Persian Gulf? Are we preparing for war? Are we preparing to hit Iran? You're gearing up. Are the admirals telling you by 2017 this is gonna happen? 2027. 2027, excuse me. So is America preparing for war in the Middle East? The Houthis, the Iranians and what else? So thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou and all thy hordes and the peoples that are with thee and I will give thee unto the ravenous birds, every sort and to the beasts of the field to be devoured. Thou shall fall upon the open field for I have spoken it, saith the Lord God. And so just like Armageddon, like Armageddon, we use the word like, there's gonna be a feasting with the carnivorous birds that are gonna come there as carnivores. They aren't drawn to salads, they aren't drawn to, you know, lettuce, they're drawn to take the flesh off of the bones of these bodies. I will send a fire on Magog. So now the Lord's gonna say, you came in to evade Israel, I'm gonna send a fire where you guys are from. I'm gonna send a fire upon Moscow, you know, Russia, and among those who dwell securely in the coastlands. I'm not gonna speculate where that is. Coastlands, we don't know where that is. And they shall know that I am the Lord. So when God intervenes in this way, it's gonna be for his glory. It's gonna be that the whole world knows that the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the true and living Gods, the God of Israel. So your replacement theology isn't working right now, guys. And so I believe that will facilitate the need for the world to come together and sign a peace treaty and that will be the start of the tribulation period, that peace treaty. So it could very well be that this war of Armageddon starts three and a half years before the tribulation period and then you go another three and a half years into the tribulation period to continue to burn the armaments and to bury all the bones in seven months. The bones, the burial of the birds pick them off and everything and people that come along the traveler's route, they see and they put a they put a a flag there and the professionals that come in and bury them. Some have speculated the reason they need the professionals because of radioactivity from nuclear exchange. Others would say, no, the temple is rebuilt and they're being very careful to not defile themselves in regard to the feast system to make sure that the people aren't defiled, that they can participate in in that of Judaism, the rebirth or the re, you know, hashing of Judaism with the tribulation temple and all. So ritual purity in regard to the defilement and all and so we don't know, probably probably the defilement part of it and so that the people will know. So I will make my holy name known in the midst of my people, huge antisemitism today, huge hatred for Israel and for Christians today. It's mounting, it's building and God has a solution that for the church, it's gonna rapture us, right? Amen. I'll take them out. Take them out of your problem there. The midst of my people Israel and I will not let them pollute my holy name anymore and the nation shall the nation shall know that I am the Lord, the holy one of Israel. So you got this one world religion wanting to emerge during the tribulation period and the Jews are gonna wake up midway through and the Jews who have the temple entered offering sacrifices at the midpoint of the of the tribulation period in the temple. The antichrist goes in there and declares himself to be God, demands to be worshipped as God and God's people have to flee, we see in Revelation 12 and we see Matthew 24 and where do they where do they flee to? Basra. Judean Hills first headed toward Basra which would be Southern Jordan. So this is that general area where this this battle has taken place and they're fleeing away from the Antichrist and his armies and all. And ultimately, yes, they reach Basra. But as they're fleeing, Matthew 24 talks about the hills, the Judean Hills, it leads toward East of the Dead Sea, the area of what is known today as Southern Jordan, ancient Moab, Mount Seer and all and Basra, in in Micah, the flock of Basra, the sheep of Basra. So God wanting to be known among the nations. It's not Muhammad, it's not Islam, it's not the pope, it's not Mary, it's the true living God, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob and shall know that I am the Lord, the holy one of Israel. Now, for the nation of Israel, there's a period there as they've been regathered in unbelief, it looks like there's a spike of revival among them, where they're starting to regather non belief, but they're starting to be reintroduced to the true living God. They don't know Jesus yet for the most part because at the end of the tribulation period, when they're at Basra, when they cry out blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord, and according to Zechariah 12 verse five, they recognize that it was he that they pierced. And Zechariah 12 verse ten, twelve verse 10, they come to the knowledge, the shame and the knowledge and the guilt of oh, we crucified our savior. The guilt, it was him that we crucified. Pastor? Yeah. So it would seem at that time that when the whole world sees that God did this, they themselves would know that this this whooping that just happened was God, so it would cause them to be reunited with their faith that could possibly move. Hopefully, you would think you would think, but it it it it's almost like the devil it's kinda like when there's a revival in Guatemala and the planes are filled with Mormons heading there. You know what I mean? The the devil tries to steal the moment and spin it toward the Antichrist or spin it toward their one religion. Because they're gonna incorporate Judaism in the one world religion Yeah. And and Islam and an apostate Christianity. But that's true. I we were hoping for that. We're hoping that people have we call today their moment or their Jesus moment. Mhmm. Maybe there would be their Jesus moment there when they when they realize. But so much of what we see today that we can see, others don't see. It's like it's a no brainer for me, but they just can't see it. It's so hard to get people to see spiritually what's happening. They're so easily deceived. That's why over and over again but in this case, it's such a large event that the global leaders say, you know what? We need to make a peace treaty. We're not gonna be able to destroy Israel. And so the Antichrist emerges out of those 10 toes, those 10 kings that are around that global government, yeah, I believe, and they're they're at a point where the peacemaker is gonna be the antichrist that emerges at that time. Peace and safety is how he's gonna emerge out of this crisis and people are gonna listen to him. He says, verse eight, behold, it has come and it is done, saith the Lord God, this is the day which I have spoken. So he's the alpha, he's the omega looking at the future and this is the day that I've spoken pointing to the future of of the tribulation period, the 77 of Daniel, the start of the the tribulation period is a campaign. It's the book of Revelation is a campaign when you try to chronologically look at it. The day of the Lord is a campaign that begins and ends ultimately with his return. But the start of it is the signing of that peace treaty and that starts the day of the Lord. The second coming of Jesus. So that they shall take no wood out of the field, neither cut down any out of the forest for they shall burn the weapons with fire and they shall spoil those that spoil them and rob those that rob them saith the Lord God. So God is not mocked whatsoever man sows that shall also reap. So Genesis 12 verse three the Lord says I'll bless those that bless Israel, curse those that curse Israel. So you guys came in to make us spoil. Now they're gonna despoil you. They're going to take so with this invading force you're not gonna need wood for energy. So you're probably whatever your source of energy at this point in time is, it could be diesel, it could be gasoline, it could be oil, natural gas, whatever it is that you have in the battlefield there, they're gonna be able to use there's gonna be so much of it that they're gonna have enough for seven years of energy that they're able to use. And so burn the weapons both the shields and the bucklers and and the bows and arrows and the hand spikes and the spears and they shall burn them for seven years. So are some of the armaments today the the shield, the tanks, the hummers, the vehicles, are they vehicles that you could burn the vehicles themselves? Or are they speaking of the energy that that's going on? When we left Afghanistan, how much did we leave behind? A lot. A lot. Billions of dollars worth. And we left and so these these soldiers, all of them are gonna be wiped out, but Israel's gonna be able to despoil them and use it for seven years. Now that burning of that energy, again, if this is if this is Armageddon at the end of the tribulation period, what you're telling me we're gonna burn this oil, this energy for seven years into the millennium? No. No. Nuh-uh. You don't need any energy like that. Right? And so it's gotta be before that. Into the tribulation period, yes, I could see that. So that they shall take no wood out of the field neither cut down any out of the forest for they shall burn the weapons of fire and they shall spoil those that spoil them and rob those that rob them, saith the Lord God. So they're not gonna be able to have to use any of their natural gas or oil that these guys were after and they can just sell it to somebody else. And it shall come to pass in that day that I will give unto Gog a place there of graves. So we're gonna make a graveyard for Gog and all this hoard that came in here and we're gonna bury them. Graves in Israel in the valley of the travelers of the East of the sea and it shall stop the noses of the travelers and there shall they bury Gog and all of the multitude and they shall call it the Valley Of Ham And Gog. So they're gonna call it the multitude of hoards of Gog or the Valley Of Gog, valley in that in that area. And there's gonna be a huge stench, a huge stinking going on, and all of the dead bodies and the carnivorous birds that are coming and stuff, and probably make a joke about ham and gog, you know. In seven months I wouldn't do that. I'm more mature than that. In seven months shall the house of Israel be be burying them. You guys are thinking the jokes, I know you are. You're just as sick as I am. Alright, and seven months shall the house of Israel be burying them that they may cleanse the land. So you've got seven years of burning and utilizing the energy. You've got seven months of burying the bodies, which seven months is over two hundred days. So again, if you had the timing of this be Armageddon, you've got a seventy five day interval according to Daniel 12. Blessed he is he that comes at thirteen hundred and thirty fifth day. So twelve sixty days from the sign of the peace treaty into the tribulation period is the midpoint when the two witnesses die when the antichrist, the abomination of desolation. And then twelve sixty more days is the end of the tribulation period where the Lord returns, his second coming. And then blessed is he that comes at thirteen hundred and thirty fifth day. So we believe in that interim period there, that seventy five day interim, that the world is restored. The curse is reversed and the lord restores like we see the picture in Isaiah 11, the the land being restored from all the upheaval that took place during the tribulation period. Not a new heaven, a new earth. We don't see that until Revelation twenty one and twenty two, but a restoration of the planet, removal of the curse that came from the Garden of Eden, and the planet starting to blossom and bud and grow similar to the Garden of Eden. Still sin in the millennium because the Gentiles that come in, that come through the tribulation period into the millennium are those that were favorable toward the nation of Israel. They're in their human bodies and they repopulate the planet. You and I are in our new glorified bodies and we neither marry nor are given in marriage, but we serve the Lord from the Gentile side of his government and the nation of Israel on the Jewish side of the government, Jesus king of kings and lord of lords, and David as his prince, and the 12 apostles also upon thrones and so that's the government he's going to rule and reign with a rod of righteousness, but the planet itself is restored to an identic condition so you wouldn't see the burying of bodies two hundred days into the millennium. That gap there is only seventy five days, and so that wouldn't work. So again, from best we can tell, this burying of the bodies and the burning of the spoil is something that takes place in the first half of the tribulation period. And so in seven months shall the house, verse 12, Israel be burying them that they may cleanse the land. So the land's gotta be cleansed, the purity, emphasis there in Numbers nineteen sixteen gotta purify it. Yeah, and all the people of the land shall bury them and it shall be to their renown on the day that I shall be glorified saith the Lord God. So the people are gonna be given God the glory because he destroyed this invading force. They're all just wiped out, the Lord wiped them out. And they shall set apart men for the continual task of passing through the land to bury with the help of the travelers, those that remain upon the face of the land to cleanse it after the end of seven months shall they make their search. So it's not just the men, it's also women. Christie has a job going picking up bodies, and I'm sure Christie's gonna be a part of this because she really, really likes it. And pastor Chuck used to go pick up bodies and said that sometimes he was able to get a new pair of shoes as a result. So a lot of people certain people that are equipped this way, they're able to handle it. I'm not. I don't wanna go anywhere near it, but there's gonna be people there with a designation of not only a if you're just a traveler like me and you're a poser, you know, you just take a flag and put it there, send your kid down there, hey, go put a flag over there, don't touch it, don't touch it, And and then that flag alerts the professionals that come in and bury these bodies. So probably from the standpoint of defilement, again, if it's in the tribulation period, the temple's erected and Judaism's, a false Judaism's being re inaugurated, the ashes of the red heifer, all of it happening, and so not till the midpoint are the nation of Israel, their eyes open where the antichrist goes in, the abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel the prophet in in Matthew twenty four fifteen that Jesus spoke about and confirmed Daniel's prophecy, and and so the people would be defiled and unable to participate in the system, the the feasts and all, and the worshiping of God through the temple and all that, which he's not prescribing. This is a this is a tribulation temple and in the rebellion against God not knowing the true and living God. And so those were all shadows but the substances of Christ. So anyway, you're gonna have those that bury the bodies, the travelers, and they shall set apart men for the continual task of passing through the land to bury with the help of the travelers. Now here I could see where you'd use drones. You'd send some drones over and the drones would be flying and and satellite and imagery and all and locating the dead bodies and travelers, people, you know, in real time. Those that remain upon the face of the land to cleanse it at the end of the seven months shall they make their search. And so Numbers nineteen sixteen, you'd be unclean for seven days if you'd touched a dead body. Verse 15, and the travelers that pass through the land when any sees a man's bone, then shall they set up a sign by it till the barriers have buried it in the Valley Of Hamangog. And so Gog Valley. And so God's gonna not only make this area a cemetery area, but also a city. There's gonna be a city that that spins off of it. Who wants to read Zechariah 14 verse 12? And get ready with Isaiah eighteen six. Isaiah eighteen six? Yeah. I'll do Isaiah eighteen six. And Isaiah thirty four six and seven. Anybody want that? I'll take it. Okay. Zephaniah one, seven and eight. Zephaniah what? One, seven and eight. Who wants Revelation nineteen seventeen through 21? I'll do that. Okay. Alrighty. So, and the travelers that pass through the land when they see the man's bone, then they shall set up a sign by it, tell the barriers that buried in the Valley Of Ham And Gog. Zechariah fourteen twelve. And this shall be the plague wherewith the Lord shall smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem. Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet and their eyes shall consume away in their holes and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth. So I believe that's Armageddon. I don't believe that's pertaining to this particular battle. That's gonna happen at the end of the tribulation period when the Lord causes the blood to be as high as the horse's bridle and wipes them all out. Now some the description there, the Chuck Meltzers and all would say, now this is a description of fallout from atomic weapons being used. Right? The skin melting. Didn't you guys see Raiders of Lost Ark? Did you see those guys? Yeah. Yeah. Just that was perfect, wasn't it? And couldn't believe that Bilzy Bud fly was on his tongue, you know, and all that. And that happened to Obama a lot. Flies would follow him and land on his face while he was talking. It was that was an indicator if you saw it. Alright. So and also the name of the city shall be Hananoa, thus shall they cleanse the land. So is it possibly a radioactive city or is it simply the defilement from dead bodies? I believe it's dead bodies. And the city a city of hoards And alright. Revelation nine and and thou son of man okay. So Revelation nineteen seventeen through 21. Yes. Sorry. Was doing Isaiah first. Okay. For who? I'm sorry. I'm sorry. God. Alright. Bad. Alright. Let me let me 19. Up here. Come here. 17 to 21? Mhmm. Okay. And I saw an angel standing in the sun, and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, come and gather yourselves together onto this supper of the great God, that ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both the free and bond, both small and great. And I saw the beast and the kings of the earth and their armies gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse and against his army. And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that brought miracles before him with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast and them that worshiped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone. And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth and all the fowls were filled with their flesh. Okay. So you know where the hinge is now. Right? This is the hinge, verse 17. So if you compare verse one of 39, therefore thou son of man prophesy against Gog and thus saith the Lord God, behold I am against thee, O God. Now notice verse 17. So, and thou son of man, thus saith the Lord God, speak unto every feathered fowl and every beast of the field and assemble yourselves and come and gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I sacrificed for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel that you may eat the flesh and drink the blood. And so this is the transition, I believe, where now we're looking at Armageddon. Now it's transitioning to where this battle's gonna take there's gonna be a battle again at the end of the tribulation period where the armies of the world along led by the antichrist are going to try and destroy once again the nation of Israel, and God's gonna intervene. It's gonna take intervention by God except those days be short and no flesh be saved. But for the elect's sake, the Lord Jesus returns and the same thing we're gonna see in Revelation 17, these these carnivorous birds coming and feasting upon all those that that are invading Israel with the armies of the Antichrist. And so, you know, it campaigns. So it's telescoping. This is a hinge here. It doesn't say say unto Gog anymore. Gog's not the issue here. This is the is the battle of Armageddon of Megiddo. Now the okay. Here here we go. So before I study this today, I'd we'd all I we would debate about is Ezekiel thirty eight and thirty nine before the tribulation period, or is it Armageddon? Well, it's both. That's what I learned today. It's both. It starts out Ezekiel thirty eight and thirty nine up into verse 17 before, but now from verse 17 to the end, we're gonna see the conversion of the nation of Israel. We're gonna see God being glorified and we're going to see the second coming of Jesus and we're gonna see the nation of Israel converted according to Jeremiah thirty one thirty one. Right? The new covenant. You see that? We're gonna see that. It's pretty exciting. So and thou son of man, thus saith the Lord God, speak unto every feathered fowl, to every beast of the field and assemble yourselves and come gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I sacrificed for you and a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel that you may eat the flesh and drink the blood, you know, these vultures that are coming. Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams and of lambs and of goats and of bullocks of them, the fatlings of Bashan. Now, fatlings of Bashan, this isn't a bremalo. Okay? This this is the the the fat lanes of Bashan, it's a it's a picture of the rich women. The rich women. All the kings, you know, as he's coming through here, kings and princes and all that, the fatlings of Bashan were you'd fatten them up. And so these are the wealthy the wealthy, if you will, all the way, all different spheres, all the different strata of society, the kings, the princes, the so husbands don't call your wife a fat lean of Bashon, don't do that. You will you will you'll be in marriage counseling in no time and and there's nothing I can do to help you, there's nothing I can do. Lightning speed. Yeah, just just don't don't don't ever go there, okay? And area of and the goats and the bullocks and all of them and so So on the one hand you're eating all these animals and on this hand the picture is of this elite group of of people that are actually being they also are being eaten, not just the soldiers. Alright. So we're gonna look at Isaiah 18 verse six. Okay. 18 verse six. They shall be left together unto the fowls of the mountains and to the beasts of the earth and the fowls shall summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them. K. In Isaiah thirty four six and seven. The sword of the Lord is filled with blood. It is made overflowing with fattest, with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams, for the lord has a sacrifice in Basra, the great slaughter in the land of Edom. The wild oxen shall come down with them, and the young bulls with the mighty bulls. Their land shall be soaked with blood and their dust saturated with fatness. Do you see the Battlefield Of Armageddon extending all the way to Basra and all over that 200 mile region there in the mountains, the Mountains Of Moab, you know, and all the way into the Valley Of Jezreel, which is right before the Mount Of Olives, and Megiddo, Armageddon, and it's fascinating. Vultures, as we read in Revelation nineteen seventeen through 21, and and ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, the rams and of lambs and of goats and of bullocks and of them the fatlings of Bashan. You'll never read that the same, will you? Never read that the same. Yeah. And the area of Galilee. And ye shall eat fat till you be full and drink blood till you be drunk of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you. So great keto diet here, great keto carnivore carnivore diet. Thus shall you be filled at my table with horses and chariots at my table and mighty men and with all the men of war saith the Lord God. So no cannibalism, but the Lord going to feast upon all these people allowing the the birds to do that. But you're gonna feast on them in the sense that that God's gonna give you the victory and and I'll set my glory. So two reasons here, one, that God's doing this for God's glory. God's intervening in the affairs of men that the nations and that the whole earth would give him the glory that's to his name. So the Lord's glorified when he judges, when God poured us out his wrath during the tribulation period and he judges all the earth dwellers, all these people that think there's something, all these globalists and technic I mean, do you feel presently how prideful they are? That pride, that arrogance and he's gonna, as Psalm two describes, oh, how the heathen rage and imagine a vain thing against the Lord and against his anointed, they're actually contemplating, strategizing, planning to stop Jesus from returning. They wanna meet him with their armies, you know, in the Valley Of Armageddon to stop him from returning and take him possession of the planet. The devil is a student of prophecy, right? And the Lord's Lord's saying, you know what? I'm gonna I'm gonna wipe him out. And how does the Lord wipe him out? The second Thessalonians two. Brightness of his coming and the sword of his mouth. And what's the brightness of his coming? Shekinah glory. Shekinah glory. Right? And the sword of his mouth. Doesn't take a whole army. Now, and I've executed my hand that I have laid upon them. So powerful, powerful display. So the house of Israel shall know. So not just the nations know. So the nation of Israel know. They need to come to know the true living God. They've been regathered in unbelief. Paul said that I might know him, Philippians three ten. Christianity is a relationship. They don't know their God. They're they're still in the Mosaic sacrificial system. They don't know their they don't know their God. So the house of Israel shall know that I am the Lord their God from that day and forward. So the return of God, God's gonna return that day and forward. So this is the end of the tribulation period, the return of Jesus Christ, the nation, the one third remnant according to Zechariah thirteen eight and nine, you know, preserved. Two thirds are gonna go through the tribulation period and perish in unbelief, but a one third remnant is gonna be purified through the time of Jacob's trouble and come to a saving knowledge of the Lord. And the nation shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for the iniquity because they trespassed against me, therefore hid I my face from them and gave them into the hand of their enemies. So they fell, they all by the sword. So the nations, they try to come up with a replacement theology and a predator's theology and all the time all the way from the time of Augustine, and they try to come up with a false erroneous doctrine that God's done with Israel because they crucified Jesus. You know, so be a Jew hater because you're the guys that crucified Jesus and it's my sin that crucified Jesus. Right? Yeah. And he went to the cross willingly to die for you and I. So we don't blame the Jews for the crucifixion of Jesus. That's crazy. And they it's their unbelief that opened the door for you and I to faith, you know. And so they're the true branch and we've been grafted in, and so we have a lot to applaud them and be be appreciative of them and thankful of the nation of Israel and that they were entrusted with the holy oracles of God, the word of God's come to us and and they're the ones that birth the son. In Revelation 12, talking about the woman that birthed the son, that's who the devil's after is to take away the nation of Israel. And ultimately, the same thing that Haman tried to do in destroying all the Jews in the book of Esther, same thing happens to the Russians and all the armies of the world. Every time they try to exterminate Jews, God intervenes and they wind up having it come upon their own head and Haman wound up hanging from his own gallows that he had for Mordecai and the Jews. Verse 23, and the nation shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity because they trespass against me. So God's punishing the nation. It's a time of Jacob's trouble. Therefore hid on my face from them and gave them into the hand of their enemies. So God used their enemies to correct them, to punish them. So they fell, they and all, by the sword. Who wants to read Deuteronomy thirty one seventeen? Isaiah. Okay. In Isaiah 59 verse two. Fifty nine two. Yeah. And then I've got Jeremiah. Somebody wanna read Matthew twenty three thirty nine. I got that. 23. Okay. And then Jeremiah thirty one thirty one. Thirty one thirty one? Yep. Romans eleven twenty six. Okay. And I'm gonna I'm gonna let you know when to read them. It's gonna be in a pattern. Zechariah 12 verse 10. I'll take that one. Okay. Hosea three, four, and five. I'll do that. Matthew twenty four thirty one. I'll do that. Okay. Joel two twenty eight and twenty nine. I'll do that one. Okay. You guys want any more? Alright. Then we're gonna we're gonna finish up in Revelation chapter 19 when we finish this. We're gonna go from verse 29, then we're gonna read Revelation chapter 19 and compare. Okay. So and the nation shall know, Galatians six one, God's not mocked, whatsoever a man sows, that shall he also reap. And Deuteronomy thirty one seventeen. Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured. And many evils and troubles shall befall them so that they will say in that day, are thee are not these evils come upon us because our God is not among us? So they recognize that the Lord has fulfilled Deuteronomy Deuteronomy thirty one seventeen that he warned them if they ever turn from him that he would turn from them also. Isaiah 59 verse two. Isaiah 59 verse two. I'll do that. Okay. Okay. But your iniquities are separated between you and your god, and your sins have hid his face from you, and he will not hear. So when you pray and you're asking the lord for whatever it is, you know, your time of need or whatever, it's not that his arm is too short that he cannot save nor his ear too heavy that he cannot hear you. It's your iniquities have separated you from you and your God. So how close is he? How far away is he? Right here. A prayer of repentance, a prayer of confession. As soon as you confess that sin, he's faithful and just to forgive you of your sin, cleanse you of all unrighteousness. What hinders fellowship with God is unconfessed sin in our lives. When we harbor it, when we cover it, when we rationalize it, when we make excuses. So we don't lose our salvation, but we can be distant from God because of our sins and our iniquities that he will not hear. He warns husbands, husbands, take knowledge of your wives lest your prayers be hindered. Our prayers can be hindered because we're inconsiderate or as the one that's supposed to be the covering for our wife, we're to take knowledge of them of Lord asking the Lord, you know, Lord, how'd you make her? I don't understand her at all. Can you give me some wisdom in what it's gonna take to put that smile back on her face, you know? And and the Lord will the Lord will give you that wisdom. And as you as you seek the mind of the Lord to help though to help your wife enter into, you know, who God has made her, she's not made the image of your mother, so you're not to try and make her like your mom. She's unique, she's different and and she's in many cases, she's the opposite of who you are. So your whole life, your whole marriage, you're gonna have to die to self. You're not to conform her to your will. You're gonna die to self. More and more and more you're gonna die to self and you're gonna try and get to know her and as you try to get to know her that she get to know Jesus better and better and better and enter into what he's had for her, then your prayers aren't gonna be hindered. Then you're gonna you're gonna be there as the helpmate. She's your helpmate but you're there to cover her, to wash her with God's word, to pray for her. Husbands, prayers can be hindered. Your prayer can be hindered because you're not taking knowledge of your wife and getting to know her in in Christ, know, in your walking relationship with the Lord. But our own sin can hinder us and for them, the Lord's hand isn't too short or his ear too heavy that he cannot hear or that he won't save, but your iniquities, your sins have separated me for you so that I will not hear. He won't hear. So David, you're the man, come to that place of repentance. Alright, so Isaiah 59 verse two, we got that, face from and gave them into the hand of their enemies. So they fell and they are all by the sword. So fell they all by the sword. God used God used when we're studying, he used the sword, he used famine, he used pestilence. Right? Three different things to judge his own people. The sword, the famine, the pestilence. According to the uncleanness and according to their transgressions have I done unto them and hid my face from them. So they reap what they sown, they're punished because of it. Now, when is it they're gonna see his face again? He hid his face from them. Jesus said, you're not gonna see my face anymore until Matthew twenty three thirty nine. Till you say Blessed he who comes in the name of Jesus. Blessed he who comes And when do they do that? When they're in Petra. When they're in Basra, Petra. Yep. Right? So their backs to the wall, the antichrist is coming, they're in an area that the Lord did was hands off to the antichrist. He's not allowed to be there, but they fled from the midpoint of the tribulation period. They've been fleeing from Revelation 12 and and the antichrist is is pursuing, wanting to destroy them, and they couldn't hold on to Jerusalem anymore according to Zechariah 12. They couldn't hold it. The Antichrist's armies are causing them to flee. They saw the abomination of desolation. They know it's game off, you know, that that treaty, that peace treaty with him isn't working and their eyes are open. They know that he's not God and so they flee and they and then the Lord spiritually opens their eyes and they cry out blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. So Jeremiah thirty one thirty one for Rob. Thirty one thirty one. Thirty one? Thirty one? Behold the 30 day one thirty one. Behold the day come, say it the Lord that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah. 32? New covenant. Yeah. Go ahead. Not additional covenant. Not according to the the covenant that I made with their fathers in that day that I took them into the out of the land and bring them out of the land of Egypt. That's the old covenant. Mhmm. Which my covenant, they broke, although I was a husband unto them, saith the Lord. But So the new covenant. But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel. After those days, saith the Lord, I will put my law in their inward parts and write in their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people. So the the relationship God's gonna write us his word in their heart, gonna change their heart, being born again, born of the spirit. Romans eleven twenty six, all Israel shall be saved. And when we say all Israel What's left? The real Israel of God are those who believe. As you believe. In Isaac shall they see be called. The true Israel of God are those who believe. So it's not a natural posterity. It's it's those who believe mixed with faith. And God gives them the measure of faith to believe. They confess national confession and then national conversion. Therefore, thus saith the Lord God, verse 25, now will I bring again the captivity of Jacob and have mercy upon the whole house of Israel and will be jealous for my holy name. And they have borne their shame and their trespasses by which they have trespassed against me when they have dealt safely in the land and none made them afraid. Zechariah twelve ten. And I will pour upon the house of David and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem the spirit of grace and of supplications. And they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn. That's a gift from God. When we pray for our family members, friends, family, especially prodigals or even in our own lives, the mercies of the Lord are new every morning. If we harden our heart, then what happens is we start to drift and that drifting have you ever seen a boat start to drift from the dock? It's it's you don't quite even recognize, you don't even feel it if you're on the boat. And next thing you know, you're man, you've gone a long way, you've drifted a long way, you know. And the Lord didn't leave, he's right there at the dock, right? But we start to drift because we because of our pride and but when he gives us that realization, that uh-oh moment of, man, I've sinned, I've sinned. And the Pharisee and the publican, the publican wouldn't, you know, wouldn't so much as lift up his eyes up to heaven but smites his breast, God be merciful to me, a sinner. That's a gift from God. Whereas the publican, or excuse me, the Pharisee is so filled with pride, his prayer doesn't even get past the ceiling. Right? He prayed thus, Jesus said, with himself. God wouldn't hear him. He says, when I have brought them again from the peoples and gathered them out of their enemies lands and am sanctified in them in the sight of many nations. Now that would be Then shall they know that I am the Lord their God who caused them to be led into captivity among the nations, but I have gathered them under their own land and have let none of them anymore there. So they're all gonna be regathered according to Hosea three, four, and five? Three. Hosea three, four, and five. Okay. Three. For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king and without a prince, without a sacrifice and without an image and without an ephod and without a teraphim. Afterward shall the children of Israel return and seek the Lord their God and David their king and shall fear the Lord and his goodness in the latter days. Amen. In the latter days. Matthew twenty four thirty one. The regathering. And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds from one end of heaven to the other. His elect, the nation of Israel during the tribulation period. Joel two twenty eight and twenty nine. He says, neither will I hide my face anymore from them for I have poured out my spirit upon the house of Israel, saith the Lord God. Joel two twenty eight twenty nine prophesied. And it and it shall come to pass afterward that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy and your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions and also upon the servants and upon the handmaiden maidens in those days will I pour out my spirit. Amen. And we saw a partial fulfillment of that in the book of Acts in chapter two when the Holy Ghost was poured out upon the, you know, the early church. Mhmm. And and we see the nation of Israel as a different the wife of Jehovah, not the church, but the same thing, God pouring out his holy spirit upon them. So turn to Revelation chapter 19. So, after these things, I heard a great voice of many people in heaven saying, Hallelujah, salvation, glory and honor and power under the Lord our God, for true and righteous are his judgments. For he has judged the great harlot who did corrupt the earth with her fornication and has avenged the blood of his servants at her hand. And again, they said, Hallelujah. And her smoke rose up forever and ever. And the four and twenty elders and the four living creatures fell down and worshiped God that sat upon the throne saying, Amen, Hallelujah. The hallelujah chorus. And a voice came out of the throne saying, praise our God, all ye servants and ye that fear him both small and great. And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude and like the voice of many waters and the voice of a mighty peals of thunder saying, Hallelujah for the Lord God omnipotent reigns. Let us be glad and rejoice and give honor to him for the marriage of the lamb has come and his wife has made herself ready. So, speaking of the church here, and to her was granted that she should be aired in fine linen, clean and white for the fine linen is the righteousness of the saints. And he say it unto me, write blessed are they who are called under the marriage supper of the lamb and he saith unto me, these are the true saints of God and I fell at his feet to worship him and he said unto me, say thou do it not, I'm thy fellow servant and of thy brethren and have the testimony of Jesus. Worship God for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. So John the revelator fell at the feet of the messenger, the angel and he said, see you do it not, know, only fall at the Lord's feet that worship God, don't worship angels and and I saw heaven open. So John the revelator, he's he sees the Lord, they're singing hallelujahs, the second coming of Christ and his bride has made herself ready. So we've been in heaven for seven years and now we're gonna return with Jesus riding horses. Amen. Not drones or not those Kawasaki's. I don't even know why we even need a horse, but but we get to and Rob's gonna teach us how to ride them. And I saw heaven open and behold a white horse, a white horse and he that sat upon him was called faithful and true and in righteousness he does judge and and make war. His eyes were like a flame of fire. So remember in chapter one, John saw the risen Christ, right? He saw an image of Jesus, write the things in one verse 19, write the things which you have seen, chapter one, a vision of Jesus And Revelation is the revelation of Jesus, the unfolding, the unveiling of Jesus through this entire book, the apocalypse. And then write the things which which are, which was the church age, chapter two and three. And and then chapter four, metatata, after these things, after the church age, John is taken up into heaven in the spiritual realm and the church is already up in heaven in chapter four and five. The seal are opened. Who's worthy to open the scroll and loose the seals in chapter five? John Webb, the only the lion of the tribe of Judah, he's prevailed. And so we see the timing of the rapture before that. It's not in chapter six, a pre wrath rapture because Jesus is the one in chapter five that opens those seals. He's the only one where they open and and lose the scroll. We don't see the church mentioned from chapter six all the way until now in chapter 19 we see the church. So the tribulation period went from chapter six, the seal, the trumpet, the bowl judgments until Armageddon and the return of Jesus Christ with his bride, Jude says with 10 thousands and thousands of his saints, the saints being the church saints, not the tribulation saints, not the Old Testament saints, but the church saints. And we're going to the marriage supper of the lamb and the nation of Israel is going to be there, John the Baptist, the friend of the bridegroom, and Israel being the wife of Jehovah, the church being the bride of Christ. There we go. Alright, so marriage supper of the lamb and he saith unto me these are true saints of God and I fell at his feet to worship him and he saith unto me see thou do it not I am thy fellow servant of thy brethren that they have the testimony of Jesus. Worship God for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy and I saw heaven opened and behold a white horse and he that sat upon him was called faithful and true and in righteousness he does judge and make war. His eyes were like a flame of fire and on his head were many crowns and he had a name written that no man knew but he himself. And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood and his name is called the word of God. So a vesture dipped in blood in Isaiah 63, remember his clothes were dipped in blood, he was trampling out the vintage from Basra and blood as high as the horse's bridle and his name written with no man knew but I know his name, I'm gonna write a book, but he himself. And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood and his name is called the word of God and the armies that were in heaven followed him upon white horses clothed in fine linen, white and clean, and this is the bride of Christ. We're with him and how exciting that is. Angels are coming also and out of his mouth goes a sharp sword. Remember second Thessalonians chapter two? He's going to destroy the Antichrist with the brightness of his coming and the sword of his mouth and this is the ramphia in the Greek, which is a larger two handed executioner sword. So I mean, he's just chopping off heads. Peter wanted to chop off a guy's head and the guy Malchus went like this and it only got the ear, guy was quick. Peter was going for the neck to take the whole head off, you know, but but the Lord put that that ear back on Malchus. I hope we see Malchus in heaven, I hope it was enough to get him to believe in Jesus. And out of his mouth goes a sharp sword that with it he should smite the nations and shall rule them with a rod of iron. So we're looking at chapter 20 into the millennium, right? Rule them with a rod of iron and he treads the winepress of the fierceness wrath of Almighty God. So there's Isaiah 63 at Basra and he has on his vesture and on his thigh a name written king of kings and Lord of lords and I saw an angel standing in the sun and he cried with a loud voice saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, that's where we were, latter part of chapter 39, the fowls come to feast upon these kings that fly in the midst of heaven, come and gather yourselves together under the supper of the great God, that ye may eat the flesh of kings and the flesh of captains, the flesh of mighty men, the flesh of horses, All those horses that were there. And of them that sit upon them and the flesh of all men, both free and enslaved, both small and great. And I saw the beast. Who's the beast? The Antichrist. And his system's being built right now, isn't it? The beast system. The false Christ, the in place of Jesus Christ. And I saw the beast and the kings of the earth, so you got those 10 kings, right? And and their armies gathered together to make war against him that sat upon the horse and against his army. And I don't want to use the r word here but these guys are lunatics, alright? And and the beast was taken with him and the false prophets, so you got the unholy trinity, the false prophet, the religious arm of the beast system, that wrought miracles before him with which deceived them that received the mark of the beast and then that worshiped. So those that received the mark of the beast, second Thessalonians chapter two, because they rejected the truth, because they suppressed the truth, what happened? God gave them over to a strong delusion that they would believe the lie. And what is that lie? You god. You can be his god. The same lie that the devil used, the dragon we're gonna see here, the devil used in the Garden of Eden. So fascinating, these people think they're so smart that they're never gonna die and they're gonna be gods, right? And man, it's that very that very pride that blinds them to the truth. So, deceive them that received the mark of the beast and then that worshipped his image. So AI technology, the convergence of the if we look at Daniel two, some hold that the iron mixed with clay that the clay, the feet of men made from the ground and then the iron, that of the technocrats trying to merge the transhumanism, if you will, taking the DNA of people and changing it with mRNA technology and the CRISPR and all of it and trying to make a hybrid, a hybrid, the devil wants to create a hybrid that'll live forever and then worship his image, they both were cast alive in the lake burning with fire and brimstone and the remnant were slain with a sword with him that sat upon the horse and the sword proceeded out of his mouth and all the fowls were filled with their flesh. And and then in chapter 21 through four, the angel takes a hold of the devil and puts him into the abyss for a thousand years and loosed at the end of it. And so what we can conclude with chapter 39 is if God's gonna keep his promises to the nation of Israel, yay and amen, do you think God's gonna keep his promise with you and I? Amen. Amen. So no matter how far our prodigals have gone, no matter how far we may stray, the nation of Israel strayed really far but God knew exactly where they were and the timing was perfect and in that right time, the Lord moved upon them. He's poured out his holy spirit upon them and moved them to a place where, like, the departing of the Red Sea where their back was to the wall and the Egyptians are coming. There's nowhere to go and the Lord parted that sea and the same thing at Basra, the Lord brought forth a national confession and then national conversion and restored a relationship with God. And so too, for we as Christians, the Lord is gonna complete that work that he's begun in us. He's gonna bring the rapture to finish that work, you know, and being confident in this very thing that he that's begun a good work in us that he will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ, and that day of Jesus Christ for you and I is the rapture when he comes for us. And he that has this hope in him, first John three, purifies himself even as he is pure. There's a purifying hope in the hope that the Lord Jesus is gonna complete that work that he's begun in me. And we can be sure that God has regathered the nation of Israel presently in unbelief, and we can be sure that at the end of the tribulation period, he's going to reestablish his relationship with the wife of Jehovah. And also during the tribulation period, 12,000 from each tribe come to a saving knowledge in the true and living God, a 144,000. And they're evangelists, they're marked out, and they're used mightily of God during the tribulation period. An angel flies overhead with the everlasting gospel. The tribulation saints, those who refuse the mark of the beast, Revelation 20 verse four, they lose their heads because they refuse. They too are bodily resurrected and enter into the millennium in their new glorified bodies. The old testament saints are resurrected, saints as in they believed like John the John the Baptist and others, and they get their new glorified bodies. And that makes up the believers along with the Gentiles that enter in. That makes up the those who are going to be a part of witnessing and seeing Jesus rule and reign from Jerusalem, from Zion as king of kings and lord of lords. And you and I, we get to rule and reign with him for a thousand years. And what happens, Vicky, after that thousand years? The the judgment. Revelation twenty one and twenty two. Yep. A new heaven, a new earth, a new Jerusalem, and the old things are passed away. All this stuff burns up, and it's the ages to come. Timing, timing, timing. What time are we living in right now? Church age. Church age. Church age. Amen. And what comes after the church age? Or well, the tribulation. Tribulation. The seventh the seventieth seven of Daniel. And what happens after the seventieth seven of Daniel? The millennial age. The return of Jesus Christ and the setting up of the millennial kingdom. He's gonna rule and reign for a thousand years. Now, do you think that's the real golden age that's coming? The millennial The devil's a counterfeit promising to people presently that a golden age is coming. That somehow man can usher in a golden age. I can't believe people believe that right now, but they do. Alright. Let's pray. Father, we thank you. And I thank you, Lord, that our hope is in you, that everything man touches just turns to turns to junk. It's all junk. And Lord, it perishes, but Lord that which you touch, that which you mold and shape, that which you fill with yourself by the power of your holy spirit, Lord, there's real value and there's on into eternity, Lord, we're gonna get to know you. We thank you, Lord, that you're revealing yourself to us now. We thank you that we've been born again. We as the bride of Christ, the church. We thank you for this preciousness of the faith we have. We pray, Lord, that as you say, Lord, when the son of man comes, will he find faith on the earth? And, Lord, I I thank you that you you prayed for Peter that his faith would fail not. And I pray, Lord, that you continue to intercede and strengthen us, that our faith would fail not, Lord. The most precious thing that we possess, Lord, is our relationship with you. And we thank you that we enter into this relationship and continue in this relationship by grace through faith alone. So Lord, help us evermore to bear fruit as we walk not by sight, but by faith. We walk by faith, not by sight. Give us insights, Lord, into the spiritual realm and help us to discern between good and evil in these last days. And Lord, give us a strong appetite for the things of the spirit. Help us to detest and and hate the things of the world Lord in comparison. And Lord give us that anointing of your Holy Spirit to reach out to those that are perishing, are losing it, they're melting down, that are committing suicide already and they ain't seen nothing yet. And they're growing weary Lord in this battle that Jeremiah described as being weary with the footmen. They ain't seen the horses yet. They ain't seen the horses invade Lord, the intensity of the war that's coming, the demonic assault that's coming against this planet. So God I just pray that you raise up a standard against all this unbelief and help us to walk by faith, to walk in that that purity and that that closeness of intimacy with you Lord where we experience your peace that surpasses all understanding that will guard our hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. Lord, it's in Jesus name we pray, Father. 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.
