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Live from Bremerton. It's Monday night. Alright. We we we are back. We took a week off. Rob and Vicky got refreshed in Disneyland, brought me back this cup, and praise the Lord. We are Daniel chapter four tonight. We're gonna worship the Lord a bit here, and we're gonna lift up Shelley. She's had back surgery. Pray that she'll feel better. Sally, with her cancer, she's fighting a good fight, and also Joe fighting his cancer. So let's open in prayer. Father, we come before you, and we lift up Sally. We pray that her lung would continue to be drained and not not have the fluid in there to begin with. Lord, you would help the chemo and all the all the medicines and stuff to kill all the cancer, Lord, that you would eradicate all the cancer in her and also in in Joe. And, Lord, it's gonna take a miracle of healing on your on your behalf. And, Lord, we just know that you're the same yesterday, today, and forever. You're God who heals. And we we ask for your perfect will to be done, that you'd heal Linda and Joe and Sally. You'd help James' knees to feel better. And we lift up our sister, Shelly, and we pray that she'd recover from the surgery that she just had. And, Lord, we commit this Monday night into your hands as we study the word of God tonight, and we ask that you be our teacher and bless this time and bless as we worship you. And thank you for the food. Thank you for the hospitality that Rob and Vicky and Brandon opened in their home. And, Lord, just thank you so much in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Amen. God sent his son. Alright. Thank you, Rob. Okay. Daniel chapter four. Father, we come before you once again, and we ask that you'd open the scriptures that you teach us that we could hide your word away in our heart, Lord, that we could learn from, King Nebbe and Daniel and just everything that we as we study, Lord, that we'd see Jesus, that you'd reveal yourself unto us, Lord, and, build us up, strengthen us, help us to live the Christian life that you've called us unto, Lord, by your grace, Lord, by the power of your holy spirit. In Jesus' name, we pray. Amen. Alright. So we've got Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego that are serving the nation of Babylon along with Daniel. Daniel is the chief the chief the head of all the magicians or the astrologers, if you will. And, king Nebuchadnezzar had a dream in chapter two, and, we saw he built a a 90 foot tall, statue of himself and Shadrach, Meshach, Abednego. They're, they're the only ones that didn't bow down and worship, uncompromising in their love and adoration for the true living God. And Daniel being a type of church wasn't there. The the fiery furnace being a type of the tribulation period as Israel goes through the tribulation period. And and so in chapter four here, we've got Nebuchadnezzar having another dream. And in this dream, it's a nightmare, and it's really got his attention. He's, very upset. And, this time around, he doesn't, challenge the astrologers, the magicians, who sayers, all them. He doesn't say to them, tell me what the dream is. He tells them the dream, and they're unable to interpret the dream. And then they go and they grab hold of Daniel, and Daniel's able to interpret the dream for him. And so this is king Nebbe's testimony. This is where the Lord is gonna save king Nebuchadnezzar. All that's happened beforehand, he acknowledges the God of Daniel, but he's just one of many gods out there, polytheistic. And by the end of this chapter, king Nebbe, is gonna know, it's gonna know God. And the Lord is the Lord is gonna reveal himself unto him. Alright. So Nebuchadnezzar the king, unto all people, nations, and languages that dwells in all the earth, peace be multiplied unto you. So, he's the most powerful dude out there, but he's saying peace. And, he's offering them peace. And, he's praising the Lord here. No war. Let's have peace. I thought it good to show the signs and wonders that the high God has, wrought toward me. And so, he's expressing these signs and wonders in Exodus seven verse three. They're signs and wonders that God used against the nation of Egypt and got their attention also in Deuteronomy six twenty two and thirteen two signs and wonders. And, many commentators feel that Daniel is drafting the next verse because the next verse has a biblical content onto it and also in verse 37. So it could be that Daniel's drafting a letter for, king Nebuchadnezzar, and, and it's Daniel act you know, writing this part of it. He says, how great are his signs, how mighty are his wonders. His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and his dominion is from generation, to generation. And and so he's he's praising the Lord here, worshiping the Lord, giving glory and honor unto him. And, now turn to Job chapter 33. Job 33 verse 14. So God has God has already spoken to king Nebuchadnezzar a couple times before. Right? He's spoken to him, in chapter two with Daniel being able to interpret the dream, let him know about the Gentile the, times of the Gentiles, and that didn't bring him to the point where he surrendered his heart and life under the true and the God. He spoke to him again with the fourth person being in that fiery furnace, telling Shadrach, Meshach, Abednego to come on out. Now notice verse 14. For God speaks once, yay, twice, yet man perceives it not. So how many times does God need to speak to you and I before he gets our attention? How many times? What's it gonna take for God to get your attention? Seven years of eating grass? Is God preparing a whale, a fish to get your attention? So we talk about preamoral agency of man. Right? We're not made as robots. We're not Elon Musk's creation. We're made in the image of God and that we can think and we can choose whether we're to love God or not love God, whether we obey God or disobey God. So a guy named Jonah thinks he's got free will, and God tells him to, you know, go down to Nineveh and let him know that they got forty days and they're gonna perish, and Jonah wants no part of it. Jonah exercises his free will, fighting against the sovereignty of God. And so we see that in affliction, Jonah changes his mind. God prepares a great fish fisherman. The boat guys throw him over the over into the water, and now Jonah is finding himself in hell. He's in torment in chapter two of the book of Jonah. And in in affliction, he cries out to God. And and the Lord causes the fish to throw him up on the on the shore. Jonah's willing now. And the word of the Lord came to Jonah a second time. Right? Samson's hair grew back. And Jesus went to the shore at the Sea Of Galilee and met with Peter and the guys that that, thought they were disqualified and and, restored, especially Peter, the fellowship after he denied the Lord on three different occasions. So some of us are just really dense. It takes a lot. Maybe the Lord will give you a nightmare to try and speak to you. You just don't know. So why does thou strive against him? Or excuse me. For God speaks once, yea, twice yet man perceives it not. In a dream, in a vision of the night when deep sleep falls upon me and slumberings upon my bed. So sometimes the Lord will try to speak to you in a dream, in a vision. He's trying to get through to Nebuchadnezzar through a dream. Maybe the Lord will prepare a donkey to try right, Cath? A donkey to try and speak to Balaam. Right? And and then Balaam's donkey speaks back to Balaam. You know? It's pretty crazy. And he tries to reason with him. Haven't I been a good donkey? Have I ever, you know, tried to hurt you? Whatever. You know? And just so funny. Jesus said if the people didn't worship him with Hosanna, Hosanna, Hosanna, that the very rocks would cry out, he told the religious leaders, and as they could not hear. He said, in a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls upon men and slumbers upon the bed, then he opened the ears of men and sends their instruction that he may withdraw man from his purpose and hide pride from him. So God wants to correct the pride of king Nebuchadnezzar, and and he's he's gonna chasten him, it says. He has chastened also with pain upon his bed and the multitude of his bones with strong with strong pain. And so he keeps back his pit. So the objective is that Nebuchadnezzar not going to the pit. God corrects him here and brings him, to a place of of a submission under the Lord. And so, how great are thy signs and how mighty are thy wonders? His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and his dominion is from generation to generation. So presently speaking, you think the Lord's still on the throne in control of America? Think he knows everything that's going on and all the different machinations and things that that people are trying to do? On the one hand, king Nebuchadnezzar, he's it. He's the biggest dude dude around, but it's gonna be his pride that takes him low. We have people parading around with pride month or gay pride or whatever. And then we got people on the other end of the spectrum wearing mega hats, make America great, and postulating thinking that somehow by voting to get the right people in there with Paula White's help, that we're gonna overthrow all the bad Democrats and we're gonna arrest people in the swamp and the Epstein trials and all that other stuff. Somehow we're gonna gain control of the planet and then we'll usher in Jesus, then Jesus will come back. Both spectrums of pride are rooted in pride. And and so pride, thinking more highly of of ourselves than we ought. So I Nebuchadnezzar was at rest in my house and flourished in my palace. So life's good. Can we turn that down a little bit? Okay. Something's coming back at me. So is it still working okay? Okay. So hard to think of that thing reverberating back in my head. Hearing voices. I'm hearing voices in my head. Alright. So he's a world ruler, and he's afraid. Verse four. So I never can was without rest in my house and flourished in my palace. So he's just got it all going. Everything's going well and living the dream. Best life now. And I saw a dream which made me afraid. So this king that has a military and above everybody else, he's got a nightmare going on. Have you ever had a nightmare? Of course, all of us have. And I have these dreams every now and then, and I'm so glad when I wake up. I'm so glad. And I'm like, it was just a dream. I'm always so glad. Kathy is gonna get me out there to go watch the new Jurassic Park with the grandkids. And when I was 27, I saw the first one and that dinosaur that ate that guy in the in the restroom, man. I had nightmares after that. You know? So my grandkids will say to me, papa, you can't watch Jurassic Park. You get nightmares. But but I did. And and his thoughts upon my bed and the visions of my head troubled me. And so he's got perplexity going on. He's got night night horrors. You know? And in the tribulation period, we're told that men's heart are gonna fail them for fear, overwhelmed with fear. What's the opposite of fear? Faith. And you and I, as we continue to trust the Lord, casting all our cares upon him, we may be faced with some trials that really rock us, and we may be filled with anxiety and terror and maybe even demonic oppression. And and we come back to the Lord, and we cast it upon him. We give it to him, and we get back to square one and trust in the Lord. But Nebuchadnezzar doesn't know the Lord. He doesn't know where to put this fear. Therefore, made I a decree to bring in all the wise men of Babylon before me. Uh-oh. That they might make known unto me the interpretation of the dream. And so a wrong place to go, Nebuchadnezzar. You're bringing in the soothsayers. He's calling 1900. Hey, mister psychic. Can you tell me what's going on? Hey. Can you psychiatrist, psychologist, can you tell me why I'm acting this way? Can you tell me how I can get better? Can you reform me? Do you have a pill, mister pharmaceutical doctor? Is there a pill that can take away this anxiety and this fear and these nightmares that I'm having? Is there any pharmaceutical way that I can that I can, you know, do this and get past this? Can get back to where I was where everything is good. So wrong place for answers. How often people look in the wrong place for the answers? Is prayer the first place that you look? Is the word of God the first place we go to when we're overwhelmed? Many times it's the last place we go. As the last effort, we pray, and it shouldn't be that way. It's the very first place we should go. So be anxious for nothing in everything through prayer and supplication. With thanksgiving, let your request be made known unto God, and the peace of God that surpasses all understanding will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. And count it all joy when you're in these diverse trials. Right? Count it all joy. Then came in the magicians, the astrologers. So they they, some people follow their horoscope. Yeah. What what should I do today? You know, I'm Sagittarius. I'm Capricorn and how are the stars aligning? Is this gonna be a good day for me? And so the astrologers, the priests, the Chaldeans, the soothsayers, and and I told some of these guys that come up whisper, hey. You're you're a big king. You're you're a good guy. So soothe me. Right? I'm gonna go get a I'm gonna go get a massage, you know. I'm gonna go take a mud bath. I'm gonna I'm gonna home out. I'm gonna meditate. You know, a lot of different ways people try to soothe their conscience. And I told the dream to them, but they did not make known unto me its interpretation. And so the natural man the natural man understands not the things of God neither can he know them. The antichrist is going to need to use what? Technology. And they're going to have to spy on you and listen to you and all that to try and discern what you're doing. Track and trace. And then he says, at the last resort, the last resort, I'm gonna go get that Hebrew guy. I'm gonna go get that guy that helped me last time. I really don't wanna get him because, you know, who knows what's gonna happen. You know? And so at the last, Daniel came in before me whose name is Belteshazzar according to the name of my god. So notice he's still not a believer. He's still a pagan. He wants to do it his way. Doesn't wanna give in to Daniel's god, but Daniel's god seems to be the only way when it really gets tough, when things get big, when when it seems impossible, you know, gotta get Daniel. Daniel's gonna shine a light on the darkness. He's gonna shine a light on this dark, dark dream that I've had. According to the name of my my God, in whom is the spirit of the holy gods. Notice God's plural. Little g gods plural. He's still not acknowledging Daniel's God as a true living God. The one and only God. There's one God. The father, the son, the holy spirit. One God in three persons. It's not polytheistic. There's one God. And he's saying, you know, we've got Marduk, we've got Baal, we've got Ishtar, we've got a lot of different gods. Babylon is the very center of idolatry. And if you didn't hear the first time the second time, why can't you hear presently? What's it gonna take for Nebuchadnezzar to finally bow his knee to the true living God? You know? I mean, God's going a long distance to get this guy. And, so the holy gods, and to him I told the dream saying, oh, Beltashazar, master of the magicians. So Daniel is the number one wise man, the wise man that came to search for Jesus. Daniel's the number one number one wise guy, the master of the magicians. And this is this has been forty years now. Forty years since Daniel was, placed and made the the interpreted in chapter two where he interpreted the previous dream. It's been forty years now. So this is getting at the end of Nebuchadnezzar's reign. He's gonna reign for only about forty three years, about three more years. And so Daniel, the master of the magicians, because I know that the spirit of the holy gods, again, little g o d s, gods, plural. Nebbe, And we gotta correct that in you. What's it gonna take? You wanna eat grass for seven years? You wanna become a vegan? You wanna be like an ox? You know, what's it gonna take? So the spirit of the holy gods is in thee and no secret troubles thee. So he doesn't he didn't freak out. He didn't he didn't wimp out. He knew it was serious that all of them be executed if they couldn't in chapter two not only get the dream and then the interpretation. This time, it's the interpretation thereafter. So no secret troubles thee. Tell me the visions of my dream that I have seen and the interpretation of it. And so this is this is one of the one of those divine appointments where Philip in Acts chapter six, know, there's an Ethiopian eunuch that came from Africa from Candace the queen and came for the Passover, and he's leaving Jerusalem having not met God, having not get to know God. And it just happens that God tells Philip to go down to Gaza, which is desert. Leave Jerusalem. Leave the revival. Leave the great church, and go down to Bremerton, which is desert. You know? Go to the spiritual desert place. And I've got this guy that I want you to meet. And progressive revelation, as you obey the Lord in step number one, obey the Lord, leave the revival, leave it all, Abraham and Sarah. Leave your home, step out, step out in faith. And so Philip steps out in faith and as he's stepping out, he sees this guy up on his camel reading. And as he draws near, he inquires and he finds out, hey, this is really is a divine appointment. He's reading the scroll of Isaiah. Not only that, but he's reading Isaiah 53. Now I get to come and I get to preach Christ unto him. Right? And then I get to baptize him, and then I get to be raptured the way Zodus. You know? I mean, what such a deal? All because he obeyed the Lord and walking by faith step by step, a divine appointment. Now how is there a divine appointment in John chapter four with the woman of Samaria? Jesus purposely went there. Purposely went there because he had an appointment with this woman and she didn't know about it. Right? The day that the Lord met you, it was a divine appointment. The day you met the Lord. The Lord orchestrated all the circumstances, every little thing for you to come to that place where you were face to face with God's love for you, where you heard the gospel, where your ears were open, where people that prayed for you and prayed that the devil blinding your mind and blinding your eyes and blinding your heart, that that scales those scales would come off. And finally, the light, Daniel being that light, the light is shined upon the darkness, dispelling the darkness, and there's an illumination, there's a revelation, God revealing himself to you. This is a divine appointment. To a pagan king, thus were the visions of mine head in my bed. I saw and behold a tree in the midst of the earth, and the height of it was great. It's a really tall tree, tall tree. The tree grew and was strong, and its height reached under the heaven. So sometimes we make children's things about that. Right? Jack and the Beanstalk. The height reached unto the heaven, and the side of it to the end of all the earth. So powerful, powerful tree. Its leaves were fair, and its fruit much, and in it was food for all. The beasts of the field had shadow under it, and the fowls of the heavens dwelt in its bowels, and all flesh was fed from it. Speaks of provision for many. Provision for many. Even the fowls. Jesus interprets the fowls, the birds, as, you know, the devil, demon. Even demons like to hang out in churches around Christians. You know demons, demonic people, like to move where you pioneered and made the place nice? You did all the work to make that community nice. And they leave the hell holes that they destroy, and they move to Idaho. They move to Idaho to be a part of a community they had nothing to do with. And then they begin to get involved in the politics of the place and try to change it, you know? Change the place. And but they love to go to a place where their kids can be blessed. They say that Steve Jobs and many of the tech giants, they do not give their kids phones. They do not let them be a part of social media. They're smart enough to know how destructive it is. Ain't that funny? Kinda strange. So I saw in the vision my head upon my bed, and behold watchers. So we see a watcher in verse 13. We see a watcher in verse 23. We see a watcher in verse 17. What's a watcher? A a watcher is an angel. A watcher is an angel, and we see him in verse 17. We see verse three, and then also let's see. There's one other one other place. And and this is an angel, verse 23, that's come there, and a single angel, not not several. Psalm 34 verse seven talks about a guardian angel watching over us. Psalm 35 verse five, again, an angel, a watcher, watching over us. And so this watcher is an angel, and and he cried aloud and said thus, hew down the tree and cut off its branches. Shake off its leaves and scatter its fruit. Let the beast get away from under it and the fowls from its branches. So cut him down, break his pride. Now what's interesting is when is when we have someone that prolific, that prominent, that tall, you know, everybody's benefiting from king Nebuchadnezzar and God's hand upon his life, the leadership that he has. And there's provision. The economy is good. It's safe. There's no enemies coming. None of that sort of stuff. And, I I was thinking about this today is that pastor Chuck and Kay had to had to go through seventeen years of really, really lean years and got preparing them. And then when Calvary Chapel began to explode and grow, Kathy and I came in in 1980, and, there were incredible amenities there. Things that we didn't pay for, that we didn't labor for, that we didn't do whatever. And God's hand upon pastor Chuck was such that everybody was getting blessed. Best worship, best teaching. We got a conference center up in the mountains you get to go on retreats to. We got a bible college, trips to Israel, cruises, a school to put your children in. All these amenities, all these things that everybody could come and enjoy and then later contribute and help and serve and all that. And when and if someone like that is cut down, boy, it really reverberates. Spreads itself out everywhere. And and you miss you miss out on that kind of leadership, that kind of blessing that God's pouring out. And in this case with Nebby, everybody's benefiting because God has put his hand upon king Nebbe. He's a pagan pagan king, but nevertheless, all the nations around him are blessed because there's peace. You know? Now there's rest. And he's wiped out the Assyrians so they're not a threat anymore. The Egyptians certainly aren't gonna bother anybody. And and so too with when the Romans conquered. The Pax Romana as we talked about before and Christianity be able to spread across the known world at that time because Rome had conquered all the other nations. So the watcher's there and they cut him down. They cut him down. Whoever exalts himself, God, he's gonna say, able to base him. And so the way up is down for a Christian. Humble yourself in the sight of the Lord and he'll lift you up, you know. And but you God resists the proud and he gives grace to the humble. And so this tree's gonna be cut down. God's gonna break his pride. Nevertheless, leave the leave the stump of its roots in the earth, even with a band of iron and bronze in the tender grass of the field. And let him be wet with the dew of heaven, and let his portion be with the beasts in the grass of the earth. And so King Nebbe, now he's stumpy. He's just a stump. And, you can contrast him with Daniel in Psalm one. A tree that shall be like a tree that's planted by the river. Its leaf shall not wither and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper. He's the humble man of God, the woman of God that meditates upon God's word, day and night. And in John fifteen two, Jesus likened you and I fellowship with him. He's the vine, we're the branches. And as we, are connected to Jesus, there's a time where the Lord Jesus will wash us, verse two, and he'll also prune us. And the pruning that takes place on that rose bush or that tree, the cutting it down almost to a stump. You've seen you've seen rose bush at certain time of year or trees where the arbor has come and maybe some of your fruit trees. You've cut them so far back. It's like you killed it. You killed it. It'll never come back. And, boy, they come back next spring, don't they? Come way back. And the Lord at times wants to cut off the dead branches in our life. He wants to prune and cut away the things that are that are standing in the way of fellowship with him. And so he might prune you. He might he might you think you're gonna marry this girl, but he might prune. He might take her away. And you're heartbroken. You're just broken. You're in a pool, and and you find out later that he had something much, much better. Right? And so Nebbe's just a stump right now, but he's noticed he's got iron. He's got bronze on that stump. So let his portion be with the beast in the grass of the earth. Let his heart be changed from a man's and let a beast's heart be given unto him. And let seven times pass over him. So beauty and the beast, man, go from being beautiful, now you're a beast. You got a beast heart, you got an animal heart and you're you're gonna lose your faculties. You're going to lose your mind. You're gonna lose your faculties to such a great degree and nobody can get your faculties back for you. We would say you've gone insane. You've gone insane. You can't reason anymore. And some would say maybe a demon came to torment him. Maybe a demon entered into him. Sometimes people, it was thought that that, you know, the little boy that casts himself into the fire and all, the Lord Jesus heals him, casts the demon out of him, but sometimes it manifests itself and what's that disease? Do they have the seizures? Epilepsy? And that would be very cruel to tell somebody with epilepsy that they have a demon. That would be very cruel, don't do that. But there are times where people are completely healed by the Lord taking the demon out them. There's a woman that was bent over for thirteen years and Satan, you know, afflicted and the healing of her is getting the demon out of her and she's healed. So in this case we don't know about King Nebbe. Some say there's an actual medical condition that starts with an l. I didn't bother to go there because of just speculation. I just believe the Lord took his took his mind away from him. And the only time I felt where I was I could potentially lose my mind Where can you potentially lose your mind? Lose your faculties? Lose your ability to reason? Pardon me? Rejecting God? Unbelief. Rejecting God. Unbelief. When you get in the place of unbelief and rebellion trying to run from God as a Christian, chances are you're gonna lose your mind. You're not gonna be able to reason. So Bob's got a brother that's fighting against God. What's happening to his mind? Grossly unstable. Now, he was once a Christian walking with the Lord. He brought Rob to church when they were younger. The devil's come to steal, to kill, and to destroy. The devil wants to destroy your Christian children that you've raised in the nursery and have been near to them of the Lord. The devil wants to destroy their faith. The devil wants you to doubt, to doubt God. To doubt his goodness. The devil wants you to be unforgiving toward others. The devil wants you to be selfish and demanding your rights, unwilling to lay your life down. All these things bring us out of fellowship with the Lord. Don't lose your salvation, but you're out of fellowship. And out of fellowship, the devil's just having a heyday if you condemn yourself, filled with guilt. Some people don't even believe they're saved anymore. They think they've crossed the line. Some people think because they were a prodigal and went out and sinned so greatly, they remember when they used to walk with the Lord and go to church and go to Sunday school and the guy told me I used to do that. I used to be a bible thumper, Rick. Today he's wrestling. He's having a very hard time keeping his composure. I wrote him and I told him, I said, you know what? You're resisting the Holy Spirit. You're fighting against God. Of Of course, he didn't write me back. He was angry to hear that, but that's exactly what's happening. And I know for me, if I were to go my own way and I were to resist the Holy Spirit, if I were to fight against God, there's times where I may feel like I'm going insane. And many of our prodigals wind up there and hospitals try to medicate them and talk to them and keep them from hurting themselves and all. In this case, the Lord brought it on him, brought it on king Nebbe. And so let his heart be changed from a man, so he's gonna be a beastly man, like a beast, like an animal, and be given unto him. And let seven times or seven years pass over him, Seven years of insanity. Holy smokes. That's just a mindblower. You think of the two at Gadera. Remember Gadera? The Gaderenes? Remember the demons that were in these guys? Debbie remembers. What was their lifestyle? How were they enjoying their best life now? They were tormented, they were breaking chains, that superhuman demonic strength. They were, you know, nowadays, or it used to be a long time ago, police officers, people would hate to deal with somebody on PCP, superhuman strength, you gotta wrestle on the ground, hurting people around them. But which which in a lot of cases is the doorway, the window that allows demons into a person's life, the pharmakia, the drugs, the sorcery. And so they were cutting themselves, they were in the tombs away from everybody, shrieking and the demons speaking through them. We know who you are Jesus, have you come to torment us before our time? Interesting, the demons know the providence of God, they know the sovereignty of God, they know their destiny. They're gonna spend eternity in hell and they know it. They're fallen angels. They try to coo, they try to rebellion against God with Lucifer. In Isaiah 14, it didn't work. They lost. One third of the stars fell with Lucifer in Revelation 12, cast down to the earth. And so they're they're to torment. Greater is he that's in us than he that's in the world. You're a Christian. You can be oppressed. Nebbe is a pagan. The devil had a heyday with him. You and I are protected. We're protected. The devil cannot force you to do anything. The devil cannot come into your heart and mind. You can have fiery darts that hit, thoughts that hit you, bad thoughts, but you take those to the obedience of Christ. And so so the there's none of this Christian so called Christian having the demon of gluttony, the demon of chocolate chip cookies, you know, the demon of, you know, whatever you want to put on the top. You've got oh, you've got a demon of this. You've got a demon of that. No. Jesus said a house divided against itself cannot stand. But you're the temple of the holy spirit. The holy spirit is living and dwelling within you. So you need not fear that somehow you're gonna have this same nightmare and lose your faculties and be controlled by demon. No. Your salvation is deliverance and healing. And when Jesus comes into your heart and life, the devil and sin shall not have dominion over you. Now you could backslide and give the devil permission, but she's got to get permission from you exercising your will and disobedience to God to come under the influence. You could physiologically become addicted to drugs as a Christian because you opened the door to it. You allowed it in. But the devil's not gonna overpower you. The devil can put thoughts in, send people around you, try and get people to influence you to to go back to the pigpen. But that's not the case here. The Lord is the one that's cutting down the tree. The Lord is the one that's putting Nebby in this position. And so then when we think about people's so called mental illness, you know, whatever we're going to describe, how do we evaluate it? How do we diagnose? How do we understand? God hasn't given us the spirit of fear but the power of love and a sound mind. And these at Gadaro, when the demons came out, they were clean, they were clothed and in their right mind. Right? They got their faculties back. And I don't know how anyone would want to go and become a satanist and invite reject God and become a satanist and invite these demons into your life. It's just insane to me. And seven years goes by, but God protects him. The iron and the brass around him protecting Nebbe has a stump. He's not the big tree anymore. Somehow his kingdom is held intact and ready for him when he when he comes to repentance and restored at the end of the chapter. It's so strange, isn't it? God's God's providence on him. And, man, when when you're a parent of a prodigal, you know, you're praying for a shield of iron and brass because you you see the vulnerability of your child, and yet not one hair of their head can fall without God, you know, allowing it. And so so this matter is by the decree of the watchers. So notice the decree of the watchers. This whole thing come about because of the decree of the watchers. But take a peek ahead and look over at verse 24. This interpretation, o king, and this is the decree of the most high. So the watchers are doing what the most high told them to do. You see, the angels are ministering spirits. And the watcher, singular, watchers plural, they had a meeting by decree of the watchers plural. So they had a meeting. Said, alright. This is this is what we're gonna do. God's God's directing us to do this. And in Ezekiel one eighteen, Ezekiel saw the watchers. He saw angels. Zechariah four ten, the eyes of the watchers. Isaiah six one through eight, the Seraphim, six winged, two that cover their eyes and two that are flying. As Isaiah said, I'm undone and a man that have unclean lips among the people of unclean lips. And so the garden of the throne of God. The most high rules in the kingdom of men. So here's the thing is the watchers demand by the word of the holy ones to the intent that the living may know. Now notice that word know. The importance of this is knowing. God is revealing Himself to King Nebuchadnezzar. God is revealing Himself to those around king Nebuchadnezzar because he's so influential. And notice over in in verse 25, seven times shall pass over thee, till thou know that the most high rules in the kingdom of men. And then down in verse 32, and given time shall pass over until thou know the most high. By the time we get to the end, he's gonna know. He's gonna know God. But how does God get you there? How does he get you there? So amazing. In his love for us, the links with which he'll go to correct us and bring us back around. So seven years of insanity, this matter is in by the decree of the watchers and the demand by the word of the holy ones, to the intent that the lion may know, that the living may know, that the most high ruleth in the kingdom of men, so the sovereignty of God, and he gives it to whomsoever he will. And Nebbe, everything you have has come from me. Everything you've built has come from me. What do you have but that which has already been given you of God? In first Corinthians four verse seven. Right? Who do you think you are? There's no boasting. Everything you have, everything you are, all your faculties, every ability you have comes from God. He sets up over at the basis of men, he says. He gives it to whomsoever he will and sets up over at the basis of men. I agree. The basis, the bottom of the barrel, the scum of the earth are your leaders. Our leaders. These are the most reprehensible people on the planet. Psychopaths just sold their souls to the devil. Just unbelievable. And I and I have to say, every now and then you think, that one might be a Christian. Oh, Sarah Palin might be one of us. Oh, this one. Oh, that that green lady, what's her name? Marjorie Henry. She might be one of us. She refused to sign the genius bill. She said it's gonna be the mark of the beast. Revelation thirteen sixteen through 18, she quoted. Well, that that makes me think, hey. She might be one of us. And then you hear Michelle Bachman on on Jan Merkel, and you know she's not one of us. You know she's a shill, that she's deceived. She's a shill. She's a part of the the the whole apparatus that's deceiving Christians, making them think this is a good thing. This is the greatest thing ever. Be not deceived. I heard Michelle Bachman one time on on Jammerkel talk about how great they did for nine eleven. Excuse me? Yeah. We did a great job. Because she was a senator at the time. Yeah. We responded, and she's pro bomb Iraq and the whole thing. I mean, hook, line, and sinker. There's so much information since then that proves it was a false flag. It's unbelievable. You'd have to be you'd have to be demon possessed to believe the official narrative, you know. Drinking your bath water rules in the kingdom of men and gives it to whomsoever he will and sets up over at the basis of men. These guys, that that Epstein file and Durinachrome they do and the pedophilia and they're controlled and they're leveraged and they have handlers and these are the basis of men and women. This is the bottom bottom bottom of the barrel. And so this dream, I King Nebuchadnezzar now what I'm saying about this, not all people in government lot of you work for government. We're talking at the upper echelon to get to that point. You've been compromised. They've got film on you. They've got a mean of controlling you, and you can't get off the reservation or you will either die or you'll be ruined. And they don't even care about ruining you anymore. They'll just kill you. You'll be on Hillary Clinton's list, you know, list of dead people. So now that again, that's the reason why you won't see anybody prosecuted. Maybe a lower level token prosecution because if you try to prosecute one, you're gonna have to prosecute them all because the one will begin to sing about all the others. So they have to act like they're all tough and gonna do it and all, but they're not gonna because they're the basis of men. They're just little puppets. But God allows them there. God allows them in that place. And so we keep thinking it's a political problem. If we get better people in there, it'll work. Right here, it says the basis of man. The problem is a spiritual problem. God can restrain them when we as Christians are salt and light. God will restrain them. They can still be the basis of men, but fear what might happen to them if they go off the reservation. But if if we're worse than them or just as bad as them, they don't fear us anymore. It's in your face. This is what we're gonna do. So it's it's the basis, the worst. This dream I, king Nebuchadnezzar, have seen. Now thou, O Belshazzar, declare the interpretation of it for as much as all the wise men of my kingdom are not able to make known unto me the interpretation. But thou art able for the spirit of the holy, again, little g gods, is in thee. So there's a true witness. He has a true witness of Daniel and his relationship with the true living god, but he doesn't know this god. He doesn't know Daniel's god. Daniel interprets the vision now. Then Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, was perplexed for one hour. One hour. It didn't come to him real quick. He's perplexed. Alright. Well, I hope this is a good dream. I hope it's some really good things that God has in store for king Nebbe because if it's a bad interpretation, I'm perplexed. He might he might kill me. You're not allowed if you're queen Esther to go in and tell some bad things to the king. Right? So Mordecai, everybody get in a prayer meeting. Everybody pray because I could be executed. You know? Kings don't like to hear bad news. Little perplexed there. The world's gonna face during the tribulation a time of perplexity, which means no way out. So only for an hour, though. For one hour, and his thoughts troubled him. So now it's starting to bother him. Nebby had a bad dream that troubled him. Daniel's getting the interpretation of the dream. It's troubling him. He's he's thinking, oh my gosh, Nebbe's gonna be cut down. Who's gonna take his place? Who's what's gonna happen? How's what's gonna happen to the nation? What's gonna happen to the all the all the Jews that are here? What if a guy like Haman gets in charge and makes a new law with the Hashirahs, you know, to execute all the Jews? What if that happens, you know? So you're starting to you're starting to project what's gonna happen and starting to bother you because it's a negative, interpretation. And so he spoke and said, Belshazzar, I let not the dream or its interpretation trouble thee. Belshazzar answered and said, my lord, the dream be to them that hate thee. This is this is an interpretation of people that hate thee and the interpretation of it thine enemies. So not good. Not good. If if your enemies could concoct a dream or a a plan, this would be it. Cut you down. This is from somebody that hates you. And so don't fear, man. It's not good, king. There's trouble ahead. But the fear of man's a snare. Right? So even when we hear bad news, we know that all things are working together for those who love God and are called according to his purpose. For you and I, it's all working together for good. God is sovereign. He's on the throne. He's in control. He might prune. He might cut back. He might cause some chastening, some difficult season for us, but it's all working together for good. It's working for us, not against us. And when, when Jacob, when Israel went down, you know, into Egypt, Joseph was already there ahead of time. He didn't even know Joseph was alive. And a famine God allowed a famine. And then the 70 go down into Egypt, and he he was asked by the pharaoh later after Joseph revealed himself to him, what have your what have the days of your pilgrimage been like? And he says, few and evil. Few and evil. And he had no idea that Joseph was there. He had no idea that Joseph was gonna take care of him, that God was gonna make a nation and all. He had no idea. And then later he finds out, thirteen years later, wow. Look at what God's been doing, setting the stage. And Joseph, he told his brothers, what you did, you meant for evil. But God allowed it to save many people this day. He had a perspective in it that, yeah, was tough. It was tough my brother selling me into slavery, you know, lying to dad saying I was dead. Potiphar's wife falsely accusing me, going to prison. It was really tough. But look at how God used to prepare me and to move me in that direction. And so so the tree that thou sawest which grew and was strong, whose height reached under the heaven, and the side of it to all the earth. So you're the dude. You're the you're the man. And in chapter two verse 38, Nebbe was the head. This time he's the tree. You're the tree. So whose leaves were fair and its fruit much, and it was food for all under which the beasts of the field dwelt and upon whose branches the fowls of the heavens had their habitation. You're the problem, Nebuchadnezzar. You're the problem. That's that's hard to swallow. But it's the bold truth. I've been noticing, since John MacArthur died, I've been noticing on social media. That guy's got a lot of enemies. People are coming out of the woodwork now that he's dead to point out all the things they don't like about him. And I had no idea he was that hated. It's it's bizarre. And I kinda like the guy. I don't agree with all of his theology, but, man, I there's a whole lot of good he's done, especially during COVID when he stood up, you know, and kept his church open. I I I like that courage. And, he's a very good teacher, very good expositor, and there's areas of his teaching I definitely don't agree with, but you guys don't agree with me about everything, do you? Because I'm not a cult leader. If you agreed on everything, then you'd be in a cult. Right? Just don't tell me what you disagree about. It will hurt my feelings. Just kidding. I know. I've I got fact checkers in the bible study. Believe me, I know it. But it's just just part of what happens. Right? And but anyway, to be hated, to be told the bold truth. John MacArthur is very bold in what he says. Some of the stuff's so bold. Hurts. It's just so bold. He's a Larry King really bold man. I applaud him how bold he is, you know, and not not cowering to the pressure. And so so does you, o king. You are grown and become strong for thy greatness is grown and reaches under the heaven and thy dominion to the end of the earth. So, man, there's nobody bigger than you. You're the biggest celebrity king there ever was. But king, God resists the proud, and he gives grace to the humble. And whereas the king saw a watcher and a holy one coming down from heaven and saying, hew the tree down and destroy it. Yet leave the stump of its roots in the earth, even with the band of iron and bronze in the tender grass of the field, and let him be wet with the dew of heaven, and let his portion be with the beast of the field till seven times pass over him. So seven years. Seven years that's gonna happen, and he he's gonna have the he's gonna be out in the open. No house, no palace, no place to to be comfortable anymore. And so he's gonna be with the dew seven years. This is the interpretation, o king verse 24, and this is the decree of the most high. And so he's he's learning of the most high. In Genesis chapter 14, Melchizedek is described by Abraham as, you know, the god of the most high. The most high means possessor of heaven. So there's nobody nobody higher. This is the possessor of heaven. And the most high, which has come upon my lord. Very risky business as as we said concerning Esther. That they shall drive thee from men, so these watchers are gonna drive you from men, the beasts of the field, and they shall make me to eat grass like an oxen. So you go from being a carnivore to a grass fed beef, a grass fed ox. And, now he's a vegan. What a bummer. That that'd be the worst part about it. But he's grass fed. He's a grass fed ox. And they shall make thee eat grass like an oxen. So can you picture this guy on all fours? He's down on the ground. He's eating grass. And then it says, and the dew's gonna wet wet you, a homeless person, and with the dew of heaven, and seven times shall pass over thee, tell what? What's the whole purpose is? Tell thou what? Tell thou know. There's our word. Know. Tell thou know that the most high rules in the kingdom of men and gives it to whomsoever he wills. Give God the glory, king. God rules. Humble yourself. Foxes have holes, birds there have nests, but the son of man is nowhere to lay his head. Did Jesus have the dew of the evening come down upon him? Did Jesus kinda hang out like a homeless guy? Go camping, go praying all night, and the guys, hey. Where is he? He's in the Garden Of Gethsemane. He's near the Mount Of Olives. He loved to hang out there. Lay down, look at the stars, get on his face before his father, pray to his dad, probably probably one of the few times it was actually quiet enough to pray away from everybody. God rules, king. And whereas they commanded to leave the stump of the of the trees so that trees fell, the trees knocked down, you're knocked down in your pride, you're dropped down. Thy kingdom shall be sure unto thee after the shalt thou have known that the heavens do rule. I always think in terms of Job, how he's the greatest man. God's bragging on him, loves him. He's one of his own. This guy's a pagan king that the Lord's wanting to save. Job, the devil's coming along. Hey. Where you been, Satan? Oh, walking to and fro throughout the earth, you know. Have you considered my servant Job? Man perfect and upright. Man that fears God and excuse evil. He's the greatest in the East. He's the greatest guy of all of them. Man, he's brought down, isn't he? Brought down. And you see that. You see kind of a part of our human nature where when the Lord began to reveal himself to Job toward the end of the book, Job's response was, abhor myself. Abhor, a b h o r. I abhor. I loathe myself, and I repent in dust and ashes. So he goes from being bragged on by God to the devil to drawing closer to God. And as he got closer to God, he realized how incredibly sinful he is. Maybe the Lord wanted to reveal that to Job because you can start to think you're pretty good. And God's blessed me because I'm good. I'm good, man. No. God blessed us because he's good, because he's gracious. So and where is thou commanded to leave the stump of the of the tree roots? Thy kingdom shall be sure unto thee. So your kingdom's gonna be intact after thou shall have known that the the heavens do rule. So the most high, the possessor of the heavens, you're gonna learn. You're gonna get to know him. You're also gonna know that he's sovereign, almighty sovereign, that he's king of kings. He's lord of lords, and thy kingdom come. You're gonna start praying. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. You're gonna learn how to pray. Wherefore, o king, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee and break off thy sins. So Daniel's given them an out. King, you can avoid all this. You can avoid all this by by through repentance. God's gonna give you space to repent before it happens. Wouldn't you love that? Wouldn't wouldn't you love that, you know, we don't just go out one day and ruin our lives in one day. We've been thinking about it for quite a while, and the holy spirit's been telling us, no. No. Don't go there. Don't go there. Don't do that. Don't do that. And maybe the Lord even has somebody come up and confront us and say, you know what? You need to stop doing that. It's gonna destroy you. It's gonna destroy your family. So what the Lord does, he gives always gives us space to repent. Now Ananias and Sapphira, I don't know how that applied. They didn't get much space. But the Lord must have been speaking to them before that about their lying lying to God, being hypocrites. They seem to drop pretty quick. And we see a pagan king in Acts chapter 12 that the lord took down and consumed with worms, Herod. Right? Because he took God's glory unto himself. So God can take him down. The lord raises up one and takes down another. Wherefore, o king, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee and break off thy sins by righteousness. So do what's right. Come to the Lord by grace through faith. Come to him in faith, and thine iniquities by showing mercy. So the fruit of your faith, let there be repentance and pursue righteousness. Pursue righteousness. And thine iniquity speaks of perverseness. Sin's missing the mark. Perverseness, iniquities, is your perverse crooked character. By showing mercy to the poor, if there be a lengthening of thy tranquility. So at the beginning of the chapter, he's at rest. There's peace. Everything's great. Do you want this to continue? Do you want the tranquility? Do you want the the peace and the blessing? Repent. You need to come to Jesus. You need your come to Jesus moment right here. Do it now. The means of redemption. So who wants Job nineteen fourteen? And I heard somebody say I'll do it. K. Looks like Isaiah fifty one seventeen. Revelation two twenty one. Anybody want that? K. I can't read this one. Can't do it. Alright. So Job nineteen fourteen. My kinfolk had failed me, and my familiar friends have forgotten me. God won't forget you. As if is it fifty one seventeen? What's that saying? Oh, who's doing that? Maybe fifty nine seventeen. Try them both. It's the word of God. Awake. Awake. Stand up, O Jerusalem, which has drunk at the hand of the Lord, the cup of his fury. Thou has drunken the dregs of the cup of the trembling and wrung them out. There is none there is none to guide her among all the sons whom she hath brought forth, neither is there any that taketh her by the hand of all the sons that she hath brought up. Revelation two twenty one. I have given her time to repent of her immorality, but she is unwilling. So somebody sins. You as a Christian, you go to them. Galatians six one, if any man be overtaken of fault, you or a spiritual resource such one, the spirit of meekness. So according to Matthew 18, you go to them alone. You just confront them. And then they have space to repent. It's a private matter. But if they don't repent, then you bring it before the you go with another witness. You make it a little bit more public. And they still don't listen. Then now you bring it before the leadership of the church. And in first Corinthians five, you saw where the church of Corinth was, very liberal minded and thinking that a man could take his father's wife. And Paul said a little eleven eleven is a lump. You gotta deal with that. You gotta cut out the leaven. So you gotta confront these folks, see if they'll come to repentance. If they come to repentance, restore them. But if they persist in that evil, that evil, that corruption is gonna permeate the church, gonna wear cause impurity within the church and grieve the holy spirit, quench the holy spirit. So God's raising up the dream, raising up Daniel to confront the king, to say, you know, king, I I wanna give you the easy way. I want you to come the easy way by way of repentance. We, you know, we we want to be led by the Lord's eye. We want the Lord to look at us, and just that look, we know what we're supposed to do. He says, don't want you to be like the horse or the mule that needs a bit put in your mouth. You know what the bit is. Right? And so sometimes the Lord will use a painful means in our life to direct us left, to direct us right, to make a stop, or you get to run. Right? So he says, don't be like a stubborn mule, stubborn horse. Just keep your eyes on me. Watch me. Listen. Be in the word. Be in prayer. And don't just be a hearer of God's word. Be a doer of God's word. Apply these truths to your life. And so but if we won't listen, then he's gonna have to raise the ante. He's gonna have to raise the pressure. Right? See, all this came upon the king Nebuchadnezzar. At the end of twelve months. For twelve months, he listened. He held back. He held back. He held back. Twelve months. How many days you have sober? Twelve months. How many days you haven't looked at that stuff and done that stuff? Twelve months. I've been doing pretty good. Pretty good. And at the end of twelve months, he walked into the palace of the king of Babylon. So I picture David in a time when kings go out to battle, and David has had his enemies. He's had king Saul. He's had the Philistines. He's had Amalekites, all these people after him. And, he's got it made. And sometimes that's the most dangerous time is when we finally got it made, so to speak. The fight, the struggle on the way there, you know, keeps us in check. But now he's got victory over his enemies. Now he's got a harem of women. He's got queens, you know. He's got the palace. He's got it all. But now he's idle. He's idle. And he goes out on top the deck, and he sees a woman across the way. And that woman was a test. Bathsheba is a test. And, man, you know the story. His pride took him down. He shouldn't have done it. Nathan, you know the whole story, it complicates from adultery to murder to death of a child. And then the sword didn't depart from his family. There are consequences all throughout his family, with Absalom and Amnon raping Tamar, and Tamar being raped by Amnon and then Amnon being killed by Absalom and Absalom disenfranchised from his dad, then Absalom, you know, executed by Joab, and the sword didn't depart. And Nathan, David, in Psalm thirty two thirty eight fifty one, you can see how miserable he is, just miserable outside of fellowship with God. Sweet psalmist of Israel, man after God's own heart. And God, in his grace and his mercy, sends Nathan the prophet to confront him. David, you're the man. You're the one that's done this. But David, you're not gonna die because David in his self righteousness, when Nathan told him the the story of this of this rich man with a neighbor, a poor neighbor that had one little lamb that actually sleep in his bed and in the house and all. And the rich man was having a party, and rather than killing one of his own, taking one of his own, he forced himself and took the the poor man's little lamb. And David said, that man will surely die. Our sin looks so bad on someone else, and you're projecting onto someone else in your self righteousness. But God didn't let him get away with that. God had Nathan say, David, you're that man, but you're not gonna die. You've given great occasion of the enemies of the Lord to blaspheme his name, David. This is shameful. And then later, we find out that Ahithophel in the rebellion of Amsalam, that Ahithophel, David's wise man, counselor, good dear friend of his, that Ahithophel is the grandfather of Bathsheba. Oh. Terrible, terrible, terrible. How many people are affected by one man's sin? One man who's been entrusted with so much. King Nebuchadnezzar, when he goes down, it's gonna affect a lot of people. If you go down, how many people will it affect? How many people in your sphere of influence will it affect? Will it affect your kids? Affect your wife, your grandkids, will affect your witness in the community? Will you give great occasions for the enemies of the Lord to blaspheme his name? Jimmy Swaggart just died. His son's not gonna go to the funeral. His son's learning things that secret things about his dad. A rift in the family. Great occasion for the enemies of the Lord to blaspheme his name. God help us. He always gives us space to repent. Listen to the Holy Spirit when the Holy Spirit's convicting you. Don't think that you're the exception. As Moses said, our sin will find us out. God is not mocked. Whatsoever man sows, that shall he also reap. And God is merciful to me. He's merciful when I repent, when I listen to what he's saying, when I don't let it go any further, when I cry out to him and ask him for help. He's merciful. His mercies are new every morning. Every morning, I got a fresh new start. He's long suffering. He's patient with me. He's not quick to knock me out, hammer me. The king spoke and said, is not this great Babylon which I have built? Sounds familiar. Sounds like he he's in Isaiah 14 with the devil. I will. I will. I will. I will. The pride that puffing him up. Huge ego. You ever heard anybody talk like that? Weaning. Weaning. So boastful. I cringe. I cringe when I hear people talking like that. Oh, all the superlatives, you know. Oh, How do you deal with your sin? I don't know that I've ever sinned. I just try to do better next time. Really? Crazy. Crazy. Crazy. Crazy arrogance. But hey, people love it so The pictures that bother me now, I don't I don't know if they're no. I won't say it. It's just I will say it. It's this whole Epstein thing, craziness of it, when you see these pictures of president Trump with Epstein and all these children in the room or young girls, it just makes me sick in my stomach. Makes me so sick. And I'm praying and I'm hoping I'm hoping that that's AI. I'm hoping that that's phony. That wasn't real. But nobody's saying that. These are real pictures. And I just get so sick to my stomach because a lot of these a lot of these are children, really young children. But you know what the American people want more than anything else? You know what the American church wants more than anything else? The professing church? What Bill Clinton knew. The immorality is not the issue. Nobody cares about the immorality. It's the economy, stupid. He's promising for everybody to make lots of money and for prosperity. And that's what everybody's addicted to, that idol. That very thing that we're after is the thing that's gonna take us down. I just made more friends right now. More people are gonna leave the church because I poked at their their idol. Oh, well. So the king spoke and said, is not this great Babylon that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the night of my my power, with my might, my power, and for the honor of my majesty. Crazy pride. Now somebody read Philippians two three and four. Look at how opposite Jesus is of that. In Proverbs sixteen eighteen and and first Timothy six four through 10. So Philippians two three and four, the humility of Jesus. Philippians two three and four. She's got a great reading voice. I love that voice. Fulfill ye my joy when ye are when ye be like minded having the same love being of one accord, of one mind, let nothing be done through strife or vainglory, but in loneliness of mind, let each esteem other better than themselves. Let not every man look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others. So keep reading. Keep reading. Okay. This mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus, who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God, but made himself of no reputation and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men. And being found in the fashion as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient unto death, even death on the cross. Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him and given him a name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow of the things in heaven, and the things in earth, and the things under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to glory of God the father. So let this mind be in you, King Nebbe, all you leaders out there. Proverbs sixteen eighteen. Pride goeth before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall. Nice. Pride goes before destruction. So a lot of times we say pride before a fall, pride before a fall. Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall. Alright. And then first Timothy six, Paul's warning to the rich. Let's see if six. First Timothy six four through 10. Bernie. He is proud knowing nothing, but is obsessed with disputes and arguments over words from which come envy, stray, reviling evil suspicions, useless wranglings of men of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. From such, withdraw yourself. Now godliness with contentment is great gain, for we brought nothing into this world and is certain that we can carry nothing out. And having food and clothing, with these we shall be content. But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare and into many foolish and harmful lust which drove down men in destruction and perdition. For the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil, for which some have strayed from the faith in their greediness and pierced themselves through and pierced themselves through with many sorrows. Jesus said, what's a profit a man to gain the whole world to lose his own soul, or what would a man give in exchange for his life? The Lord here is wanting king Nebuchadnezzar, the richest dude in the planet, the most powerful, mighty guy in the planet, to discover the true riches. Right? God wants to reveal himself unto him. Okay. So let's see here. He says, while the word was yet in the king's mouth, there fell a voice from heaven saying, oh, king Nebuchadnezzar, to thee it is spoken, the kingdom is departed from thee. Just that fast. When we get into chapter five, very similar thing, the handwriting on the wall, as in a moment, Cyrus and Darius, the Medes and the Persians are coming in and Belteshazzar, the great grandson of Nebbe, you know, the kingdom's departed, taken from him right there in a moment, right like that. Boom. And to happen that quickly how things can change. And for you and I, you know, there's no guarantee of tomorrow for us. We we we we should enjoy and do what we can today to show our love for one another and not put it on in the future because you don't know what the future holds. You don't know if you've got it tomorrow or three days from now. You know? So things can switch, things can change so quickly. I saw where the guy that actor in the Cosby show that he drowned with his family on a vacation. It happened that quick. I saw where a policeman saved five people in a rip current and then he drowned. You know? Save five other people before he succumbed to the, you know, to the current. And so quickly, it's in your mouth, man, things change so quick. Next seven years, you're gonna be stumpy. O king Nebuchadnezzar, to thee it is spoken, thy kingdom is departed from thee, and they shall drive thee from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field. They shall make thee to eat grass like oxen, and seven times shall pass over thee until thou know the most high. Not know about him, but know him. You know about him. You describe him as Daniel's God, many gods, plural. You're gonna find out that god rules, and you're gonna find out who he is, the true and living god, the most high, the possessor of the heavens. So you're gonna get to know truth who rules in the kingdom of men and gives it to whomsoever he will. So if we have bad government, we need to remind ourselves that God is sovereign, that he's on the throne, he's in control, that Pontius Pilate and others think that they have, you know, authority. Don't you know that I have power to crucify you? And Jesus lets them know that you have no power except that which has been given you from above, you know? And, Jesus earlier had said that he has power to lay his life down and to take it up again, and, and he proved it. So no matter what happens, we understand the sovereignty of God, that God's on the throne, God's in control, thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. And these human rulers are just puppets. They're just puppets on a string. And Revelation seventeen seventeen is a verse I like that describes what's happening today where the Lord is putting it in Bill Gates' heart. He's putting it in this globalist heart to do his will. They are alive. Cathy and I are always saying, how can they still be alive after all the terrible stuff they do, you know? You'd like with Herod Antipas, like, in acts 12 for them to be dropped to the ground publicly, and then worms eat them right there. You know? How do they stay alive? How do these George Soros keep doing this? Well, they're tools that the devil's using, that God's using. They're tools of the devil that God's using. They're intoxicated with pride, and they don't even have to hide it anymore. They just do it right out in the open. I'm gonna block the sun. I'm gonna put a peel on all the food. I'm gonna pay the pay the FDA to let me poison your food and put the vaxx your food and destroy your food. You know, why is he buying up all the, farmland? I learned that it wasn't because he wants to grow synthetic food. It's because he wants the water rights. Because in order for AI technology to move forward, they need a massive amount of water when they build these huge data centers, collection of data. So it's all the above. It's it's population reduction and control of those that are still, you know, are there. But what's happening? The Lord's setting the stage for king Jesus to come back. We're at the end of the age. We're at the end of the times of the Gentiles. And so when you see these things begin to come to pass, look up knowing that your redemption draws nigh. These guys can't do this without God allowing them. You know? They, they gotta be amazed themselves how quickly it's happening. We talk about, you know, the birth pangs and, the birth pangs intensifying. And now you're hearing, hey. It described as not just intensifying, but the water's broken. This this this tribulation period's gonna be burnt. It's gonna happen. And, and so we know the rapture proceeds that, and so we're watching, looking, and aware. And so if you're in love with the world, though, and you see us in jeopardy everything you've worked for and all, you know, everything here, and you're saying, oh, Lord, you know, come back later. I wanna raise my kids and, you know, and I don't I don't, you know, I don't wanna give up right now. There's gotta be a solution, a human solution to the spiritual problem. It's kinda like you're Lot's wife, and you're looking back to Sodom and Gomorrah. And Jesus said, remember Lot's wife. Remember the lesson. Don't be doing that. Lot left the porch light on. He got her. Yeah. That's it. Alright. So you're gonna be eating grass like an oxen. Now sometimes we have loved ones, people that, you know, are in comas, and they could be in a coma for quite a while. Can they hear when they're in a coma? What kind of condition are they in? I mean, this guy, he's actually gonna become like a like a like a dog. He'd fit in real well today where people identify as a cat or a dog. They I'm with Nebby, you know. I'm gonna go out there and get his hairstyled. So his hair is gonna grow like like dreads. He's got dreadlocks everywhere, real long and long nails, and and he's gonna be Rastafarian probably. And so you're gonna drive him from in and they're drilling. Shall eat with beasts of the field, and they shall make thee to eat grass. He's turned into vegan like an oxen. And and even know that the most high rules in the kingdom of men and gives it to whomsoever he will. So they're just puppets. Puppets on a string. So the same hour was the thing the same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar. And he was driven from men and did eat grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven till his hairs were grown like eagles feathers and nails like birds of claws. So is this not great Babylon, which I have built? It it had these, hanging gardens. His wife was from media, Attilia, and she, didn't like the desert climate there and all. She yearned of Huntington Beach with the the waves and the smell and the birds and all that. So he took and he had up above, he had these hanging gardens that the Romans and others later, described as one of the seven wonders of the world. So the getting all of the, the climate to change, basically, to have an ecosystem there and, water. He had water from the Tigris and the Euphrates River. The walls of of Babylon were, 335 feet tall, and they were double walls. So if somebody were to breach the wall, there's a gap there for the next part of the wall, and there was, on that part of the wall, it was, 87, feet broad and wide. And so this is where Harrison Ford, the guys did the chariot races up on top of the walls. And, four chariots four chariots wide upon their walls is how big they were. He had a 20 mile square. The city was 20 mile square. So, enormous, enormous, accomplishment and and he's boasting about it. And the boasting, a man's pride will bring him low, Proverbs twenty nine twenty three, but the humble in spirit will retain honor. And, so now you got this guy who's the biggest kahuna of all, the big kahuna and, what they call him when I watch the Flintstones? But anyway, he The grand pooh bah. Yeah. He's the grand pooh bah. Eddie's a man after my own heart. So he's the grand pooh bah. Now now he's on all fours, howling at the moon at night. In the morning, people are waking up because he's cock a doodle doing. He's like a rooster. Cock a doodle doo. There he goes howling again. There goes king Nebby howling at the moon. Howling at the moon. He's got his pack pack of other animals, living with the animals, eating grass, hair, can't go get a pedicure, nails, nothing done, and eagle eagle claws. Some would say he's got mad cow disease. He's he's a madman. He's just he's gone. Lights on, but nobody's home. He's drooling, and nobody's there to wipe his lip for him. They said that Howard Hughes, the late Howard Hughes, you guys remember Howard Hughes? One of the first technocrats, big industrialists, and, he spent his last years imprisoned in his mind in hotels. Hotels, he he wouldn't leave these hotels, you know, and, just crazy, crazy, crazy how some of them break down at the end. And and so he's he's boasting. Now, what's the only thing you can boast in according to Jeremiah chapter nine? Let not the mighty man glory in his might, the wise man glory in his wisdom, wealthy, it is. That's where God's bringing them. You're gonna get to boast, Nebby, in a minute here. You're gonna get to boast finally. The only boasting that's okay is that you understand and know God. Right? Paul said that I might know him. Now the only reason we know him or only way we know him is how. He reveals himself, first of all, to us. Right? And we love him because he first loved us. So God initiates. He initiates. And if we're not listening, if he's spoken a couple times, already a big old huge vision, knowledge brings responsibility, Nebby. You're not listening and, so I gotta get your attention. And boy, what a way to get this guy's attention. And so he's so at the end of the days, I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted up my eyes unto heaven, and my understanding returned unto me. And I blessed notice it says, I lifted up my eyes. Where had he been looking? Been looking down. He's looking down at the grass. Now he's looking up. Looking up. Looking unto Jesus, the author and the finisher of our faith. When you get off track and you're thinking, man, life is not working out how you thought, how you perceive, look unto Jesus, the author. It's his idea to save you and the finisher of your faith. He's gonna complete that work that he's begun in you. Also, looking up when if you get perplexed about all that's happening in the world, it looks like it's the end of the world. It's not doom and gloom for us because Jesus said when you see these things begin to come to pass, then look up knowing that your redemption draws nigh. It's when we're looking at the wind and the waves, the storms and the craziness that we sink, that we drown. But we get our eyes off ourselves and off of the circumstances and look to the sovereignty of God, that God's on the throne, He's in control, then He gives us His peace that surpasses all understanding. Not necessarily changing all the circumstances, but there's a tranquility. There's a peace within that can only come from him, as we surrender, as we as we quit trying to be God. There's a there's this idea that people have that somehow they're in control. Ever met someone like that? They think they're in control? Or that they have some vestige of control. You're not one little cancer cell can change your life. One tiniest little thing, tiniest little alteration, and by him, all things consist. The Lord holds all the atoms, all the neutrons. He holds everything, the space, everything together. He's a God of order. By him, all things consist, means he's holding it together. If the Lord lets go of you, if he lets go, then it's just a nuclear bomb going off. Right? It's all fire. It's all gonna burn. And so he's holding the world that he created together and he's big enough. If he cares for the sparrow, be careful little sparrow that falls to the ground. Oh, you have little faith, you know. Fear not little flock. It's your father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom. He's got a plan and a purpose and all that. And so we don't need to look at life like unbelievers. So he says, I blessed the most high. He praised him. He praised the most high. And now it's not just Daniel's God. I praise the most high, the possessor of heaven. I lifted up my eyes on the heaven. He's looking the right way and my understanding. And so it's not just the faculties of a natural man, but the faculties of a guy that's being converted. He's gaining a spiritual understanding of the true living God. You gotta be born again, Nicodemus. You got a lot of facts. You're a religious guy. You know the you know the the Pentateuch. You know the old testament really well, but you don't know me. You need to be born again. Returned unto me and I blessed the most high and I praised. And that's what we were made for. We were made to worship God. Now he's entering into what he's made for, is to praise and to worship God. And I honored him who lives forever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom is from generation to generation. Now he's quoting scripture. Now the scripture is like Psalm a hundred and forty five thirteen is coming through him. And he's He doesn't know it but he's quoting scriptures. So who wants Isaiah forty seventeen? Ready? Who wants Psalm one forty five thirteen? Who wants Isaiah forty three thirteen? Okay. So by way of review, Isaiah forty three thirteen, Psalm one forty five thirteen, Isaiah forty seventeen. How about, Job nine twelve? Job nine twelve? Okay. Alright. And then we're gonna do some other ones. We got some more here to finish up on. Alright. So he said, I praised and I honored him who lives forever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion. And so Psalm one forty five thirteen. Oh, Isaiah forty seven? Forty seven. Forty seventeen. You want that? Yeah. Okay. I don't want Rob to run back over there. Psalms one forty five thirteen, thy kingdom is an everlasting kingdom and thy dominion endures throughout all generations. So Nebbe's quoting that. He's saying, forever whose dominion is an everlasting dominion. And Isaiah forty seventeen. All nations before him are as nothing, and they are accounted to him less than nothing and vanity. And then he says that right here. He says, and all the inhabitants of the earth are repeated as nothing. So he's quoting the scripture. This guy's brand new born again. He's quoting the scripture. You think Daniel wrote this? All the scripture's coming into his heart. Right. Well, I mean I mean and who's next? Isaiah forty three thirteen? Forty three thirteen. Indeed, before the day was, I am he, and there is no one who can deliver out of my hand. I work and who will reverse it. So he doeth according to his will. You know? And, I like this one here from Job, nine twelve. Behold, he taketh away who can hinder him. Who will say unto him, what doest thou? What doest thou? I mean, we can't even ask him, what are you doing? I mean, does he have to answer to us? God, what are you doing? Hey, God. You didn't get permission. God, this isn't what we talked about. Yeah. I prayed the complete opposite of this. You know? And or you're like, God, you need to explain yourself. You got some explaining to do. And or why, god? Why? What does he need to explain to you? Does he explain to me? And so what are we gonna do when we get to heaven about the why gods? You were gonna say, God, why did you save me? Yeah. That's the mystery. Why would God save me? Right? Was there any more? Now we're gonna look at the affliction, what affliction does in the life of the believer. Okay? Before I was afflicted, I went astray in Psalm a 119. Okay? So Psalm one nineteen sixty seven, Psalm one nineteen seventy one, Psalm one nineteen seventy five. Psalm one nineteen one zero seven. Okay. So at the same time, my reason returned unto me and for the glory of my kingdom and mine honor and brightness returned unto me. And my counselors and my lords sought unto me and I was established in my kingdom and excellent majesty was added unto me. That's where the Lord brought him. Now how did the Lord get him there? Well, he gets all that other stuff back like Job. Job two point o. Job got all the stuff back. He got twice as much. But in the interim there, he got to know the Lord to a greater measure and depth than he ever knew him through affliction, going through the affliction. So we experience the fellowship of Jesus' sufferings being made conformable unto his death. Paul said that I might know him and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings. So as we're suffering like our savior, we're filling up his sufferings. People are reminded of the cross, and Jesus is a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. And and in that man of sorrows, he's relating with us. We're relating with him. We're empathizing, getting to know him. Alright. So Psalm one nineteen sixty seven. Oh, 67. Before I was afflicted, I went astray, but now have I kept thy word. So before you were afflicted, the rains are open. You just then the Lord loves you enough, so we would go to Hebrews 12. Right? We'd say, whom the Lord loves, he chastens and he scourges every son, right? Those that don't receive chastening are illegitimate, they aren't children of God. So if the Lord loves you and I, and he does as his children, he's going to flick, he's going to spank us, he's going to correct us so that we don't go super far astray. So before I was afflicted, I went astray. And which of your fathers didn't correct you? Right? That's what he says. Alright. So Psalm one nineteen seventy one. Psalm one nineteen seventy one. It is good for me that I have been afflicted that I might learn thy statutes. So as you're afflicted now, you're learning. Now now you're a student of God's word, a disciple. Now you're wanting to get to know him. And, Psalm one nineteen seventy five. I know, o Lord, that thy judgments are right and that thou in faithful faithfulness has afflicted me. So I have to by faith, I have to say, you know, this is good for me. I don't understand it right now, but I know in your faithfulness, Lord, it was necessary. You afflicted me. Psalm one nineteen one zero seven. That's the longest chapter in the Bible right there, baby. I am afflicted very much. Oh. Revive me, oh, Lord, according to your word. I'm afflicted very much. I want it little. I wanna learn my lessons well. I don't want to have to keep relearning. So pastor Chuck would say, if you fail the test, got to retake it. Nebbe is getting the biggest test of his life. So my reason returned unto me, my faculties, and notice he gets the glory of his kingdoms intact. Remember, he's the stump, but it's got the iron and the brass there, preserving his kingdom while all this goes on. I mean, I mean, one time I went up to the bible college with Kathy and the girls when I was 25 and I, I went up to try and discover if if, God was calling me into the ministry. I didn't know. So I thought, well, if I go to the Bible College, then I can see if there's any gifting, if there's any anything there. And, so I went up there and for two months, it was just unbelievable. And it was, we rented a house up there and I left my business down the mountain and, which is like two hours away to the guys that were doing just fine when I was there. When I was there, everything was fine. Plenty of accounts. Just go do what you do when I'm here. And I went up there and they began to, one guy quit real quickly. The pressure, my foreman guy hand me the keys because I go down each weekend and pay him stuff. And and then pretty soon, start stealing. Pretty soon, they quit showing up. Pretty soon, what they did is they only did cash jobs. And now I don't have any money to pay my bills. Everything's falling apart, I'm losing accounts and all that. Debbie Kineser is seven years away from oh, and a woman said to me, one of the accounts I had, she says absentee management doesn't work. Because I tried to say, hey, So what what did you do? What happened? How come it changed? And I said, well, tried to go to the Bible College and they had their jobs. They just need to do their jobs. That's why I have a very difficult time when people just won't do what they're supposed to do. Why do you need supervision? It's my thought. Just do what you're supposed to do. Do it as under the Lord. He's your supervisor. But some people just can't function like that. And so Nebby had some good people. They, how would they know he's coming back in seven years? Look at him. He's howling at the moon, man. We need a new king. We need someone to take his place. There he goes again, cock a doodle doo, man. He's rolling in it with all the rest of the animals. They love to roll in that stuff, you know. Nebby. Oh, no. He's going back in oh, no. Do you see what he just ate? Oh, no. Alright. So there we go. They could've made a sitcom out of it. They could've had a well, those shows they have today were a reality show. Here's here's Nebbe. Look at that. The whole the whole empire, everybody laughing. Look what he's doing. So now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praised and extol and honor the king of heaven, the most high. All whose works are truth, notice, truth and his ways just, and justice, just and truth, truth and justice. And those that walk in pride, he is able to abase. Amen. Think of Herod in acts 12 turned into worms, know, and those that walk in pride is able to abase. Now let's go back to Job thirty three fourteen. And remember the old Verizon commercial. Can you hear me now? Can you me now? Can you hear me now? For God speaketh once, yea, twice, yet man perceives it not. So my grandsons are pretty amazing, very amazing, the best ever. But they're starting to get this like cool edge to them, you know, like they're especially if there's some girls around who noticed. And, so when you talk to him at the picnic yesterday, hey, hey, guys, come here. I need you to to pick this up. Pick up that trash right there. We need to we need to pick up the trash everywhere. And they're just looking at you like you're must be talking to somebody else. Not talking to me. Not me. And then, hey. And then you start naming their names. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. And then pretty soon, I'm this going, read to my lips. Read my lips, I'm saying to them. And I'm like, what do I gotta do? Sign language? You gotta do sign language? What? Why isn't it competing with you? And they're just like in a different zone. They're they're somewhere gone. You know? And I feel like that's sometimes how we are. You know? They're turning into teenagers. And it's now when they want something, they hear you. Hey, papa. Let me drive the van. What? They helped us today offload everything. They were great. They're wonderful. And and then you notice when we're trying to do the piety contest, I can't get those hip cool guys do it. So I kept saying to him, you're not that cool. Get over here. Get over here. Start doing this pining contest with me. So so here's what happens. Pretty soon, you just can't get them to budge. And I asked Gideon today, you know, Gideon, why why didn't you wanna come over there and do that pie thing, buddy? And he's like, papa, I didn't wanna get it on my clothes. Because again, there's girls there and he's got hip new clothes. He doesn't want any pies about his clothes. So so this girl thing is like really hard to overcome, so here's how we overcome it. You guys wanna make $20? You wanna make $20? You know? Oh, baby. They're just ready to they hear you when you say that. I mean, it went up to $50 yesterday to get people over there to eat the pies. And little Ruthie, she ate the whole center of the pie. She ate it all. But this big Nephilim came. We were halfway through, and this huge Nephilim came in there. I think his name is Rick, not me. I was doing it, but Nephilim, he comes over there. We're halfway done, and he joins in. He took the pie and just turned it over onto the table. Amazing. Amazing talent. I'm thinking of my little little Ruthie. I didn't even know she knew how to do that. She's like, pull it in there. You get $50? I he got $50. Yeah. The big guy did. The Nephilim. I don't know why Nephilim need $50, but that was so was so big. He made me feel like I was tiny, man. Like, they called me tiny. Hey, tiny. Nobody's ever called me tiny. So today, we gave Ruthie Cathy gave Ruthie a chain with a metal, gold metal. And Isaiah, our other grandson, wanted a metal. So then Kathy takes them out to thank them for helping offload the trailer day truck. Take some Waffle House, and Kathy told me, it's so cute. Ruthie kept saying, I'm a winner. I'm a winner. I'm a winner, grandma. Alright. So here we go. Verse 14. For God speaks once, and we listen the first time to him. Once. So if if you were if you were a boot camp, you military guys, how many times does a guy have to speak to you to give you an order? How many times? One time. One time. So if you're in Obama's military, you pull out a stress card and wear your red high heels. Hopefully, that doesn't work anymore. Right? I'm stressed out at boot camp. Right? Well, you're in the wrong place. For God speaks once, yay twice. So if he's gotta speak to you a second time, now there's some push ups to be done or some some running to be done, something. Yet man perceives it not. They're just like oblivious. Oblivious. God's speaking. Can you hear me now? So what's he gotta do to raise the ante? Does he need to can he use an earthquake? Can he use a natural disaster to get a nation's attention? Can he use a famine like he did with his own people? Can he use a war like he did with his own people? To what extent does God need to go to get his people's attention? They're in Babylon. They didn't listen to Jeremiah for forty years of trying to get through to those knuckleheads. Right? And can you hear me now? It's just it's mind boggling in time of apostasy when people are rebelling to God. And, for God speaks once, yea twice, perceives it not. In a dream and a vision? Can I speak to you in a dream and a vision? Can I give you a nightmare of the night when deep sleep falls upon men and slumbering upon the bed? That's what he used with Nebbe. That's part of the way he started moving the direction he wanted them to go. Then he opened the ears of men and seals their instruction. So he he opened Nebbe's ears, opened Nebbe's hearts, he started to be able to hear, that he may withdraw man from his purpose and hide pride from him. The Lord had to humble, humble Nebbe. Pride's in the way. Pride's blinding you. Pride's making it so you can't hear or see. He keepeth back his soul from the pit and his life from perishing by the sword. So what's the intention? Before I was afflicted, I went astray. The Lord used the affliction, the adversity, the trial, the difficulty. I liken it to you're driving down the road of life and everything's great and then the red light comes on. There's a red light, you gotta stop. Something stopped you in your tracks, and now you gotta deal with why God stopped you. He's got your attention. He stopped you. He's he's caused something in your life to where, hey. I've gotta deal with this now. I can't keep saying tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow. There's the there's the urgency of I gotta get right with the Lord now. And, today is the day of salvation. So many people are asleep. Now the watchers, their name means awake ones, they're awake. So it's high time to wake out of sleep, our salvation is nearer than what we believe. And so much, so many of us are asleep. So many of us as human beings in America, in the church, we're asleep. And the Lord what's the Lord to do with the lay of the sea in church, a lukewarm church? How's he gonna get them to quit being indifferent? How's he gonna get them to let Jesus back in? So that that's the way I look at it. As I said on Sunday, I look at it as, it's not a political problem. It's a spiritual problem we have in the church today. And what we need is some preachers like Jonah, and we need to look at ourselves as the Ninevites, and it's a time to repent. It's a time to turn, and God will give us a reprieve. If you if you really want if you really want if you really, really want to keep going with America and come back to normal, I believe the only way is repentance. I believe then, and why would you though? Then and only then, would the Lord correct some things that are corrupting and taking us down and, give us a reprieve like Nineveh had a hundred year reprieve, which that's just theoretical preaching right there. I think it's over. I think the fat lady is singing. I think it's over. And, over in the sense in the sense of we as a nation, the nation states, the time of the Gentiles is closing and now the Lord is coming back and the nation of Israel is going be the focal point. And that's where I think we're at prophetically. But that is a very unpopular, view. It's a biblical view, but the timing thereof is debatable of where we're at. And so keep preaching the gospel. If you don't want to address the spiritual problem, then you need to vote harder. You need to vote much harder because the voting isn't fixing it. Alright. Let's pray. Father, we come before you, and we thank you, Lord, for how sober reading about this is. If you take the biggest biggest, biggest kahuna, the biggest guy, the Grand Poobop, you take him down Lord like that, and for seven years, and all the world, all the people, the buzz that must have been going on Lord, it certainly should awaken a whole lot of other people to evaluate where they're at. I know, Lord, when you told Moses that he couldn't enter into the promised land, it's a on Mount Nebo as he's looking over, boy, that must have really been a buzz among Israelites, Lord. Moses, not going in? They had to evaluate what was going on, what was happening, and it causes them to look a little closer, Lord. And so, Lord, I pray that nothing miss our gaze. I pray that we're sifting, that we're working through these truths that you've given us, Lord, and and, Lord, that we're we're doers of your word, not hearers only. That you empower us to live the Christian life, that you empower us to share the glorious good news of your coming kingdom, that it wouldn't be doom and gloom, that it'd be glorious, a blessed hope, and glorious appearing of our great God and savior, Jesus Christ. So Lord, we thank you that in the devil's rebellion, we thank you in the rebellion of men in Psalm two. Oh, how the heathen rage imagine a vain thing against the Lord and against the anointed. Lord, you laugh from heaven. You're laughing at how Nebbe and men like him throughout history have tried to posture themselves as gods, little g gods. I thank you, Lord, that you're not gonna tolerate it. You're not gonna allow it indefinitely, that you have a plan, that you're gonna judge, that you're gonna set up your kingdom, you're gonna rule and reign with a rod of righteousness, where there'll be truth and justice. That's what we yearn for, Lord. So bless Lord, as we pray, be with Shelly, be with Joe, be with Sally. Bring healing, comfort. Pray that your peace surpasses all understanding. I pray that you give the doctors and nurses everybody wisdom. I pray that you heal, Lord. Heal the bodies. Heal these bodies. Heal each one and bless, Lord. Build your church. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.

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