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Live from Bremerton. It's Monday night. Let's pray. Father, we thank you so much. We lift this night up into your hands. Thank you for Rob and Vicky and hosting and allowing us to do this bible study in Daniel chapter seven. Lord, we lift up Amanda and pray you help her with her kidney infection and the slight pneumonia. Help David be that caregiver that she needs. We lift up Sally and James. Lord, heal Sally of her of her cancer, Lord. Help all the the chemo and everything that's been utilized to try and kill those cells. We pray that you would heal her. Pray for Joe, that you'd also heal him. We pray for Mike and Shannon Goodson, that you comfort them in regard to Sofia Sofia and Jace, and continue to heal Mike. And, Lord, we lift up Adrian's family as she went home to be with you a couple days ago, and we pray, Lord, that you would comfort Adrian's family and that they would be comforted knowing that she's, with you. And we pray that you give Mitch and Carissa, with her and them and the boys, the kids, Lord, and help them as they have to adjust. And, Lord, we just lift up this night and pray that you pour out a special blessing upon Stan and Vanjee with their anniversary. And, what a blessing that is. And thank you for Mark and Shelley. Be with Shelley. Help her to get better better. And thank you for Mark, filling in for me on Mondays. That was so so great to go through Genesis in that way. And thank you for my son-in-law, Wayne, and we pray that you help him with his traumatic brain injury and the PTSD and all that he's wrestling with, the transition from being a sheriff to to who knows what. But, Lord, we just pray that you give him favor with the state and as everybody would compensate him as he's supposed to be. And, I pray for Brittany and the kids and that you continue to sustain them. And, Lord, we just lift up this night and ask that you bless that you pour your holy spirit upon us in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. He is exalted. The king is exalted on high, and I'll praise him. Lord, I lift your name on high. I love to sing your praises. I'm so glad you're in my life. I'm so glad you came to stay. Came from heaven to earth to show the way Amen. I have decided to follow Jesus. I have decided I have decided to follow Jesus. I have decided to follow One more time. I have decided. Yeah. Yeah. You follow Jesus. I have decided. There There you go, pastor. Alright. That's a good Hi. Yep. Alright. Let's see here. We are in Daniel chapter seven tonight. Daniel chapter seven. As you're getting there, this is gonna be the last chapter that's written in Aramaic from chapter two verse, excuse me, from chapter two verse 46 to chapter seven verse 28. Daniel wrote this in Aramaic. Chapter eight, moving forward, will be, in Hebrew, and Daniel's gonna give us a picture of his dream. In chapter two, Nebuchadnezzar had a dream. In chapter seven, Daniel's describing the dream that he had, back in chapter five in the time of Belshazzar. The first verse of seven verse one, he said in the time of Belshazzar. So although we're moving from five, six, seven, seven goes backwards, chronologically, Daniel giving the dream that he has and then an angel helping him to interpret it. He starts out on, planet Earth with his dream, and then, his dream, chapter verse nine, you'll see that the setting the setting of his dream becomes that of heaven. So he's describing the the throne of God and all. Your faith, my faith isn't based upon science. Although we, look at science, we see science, biblical science, biblical creation, like Mark was teaching last week. Science, to prove a fact concerning science, need a hypothesis, you need a time of observation, and then you need to be able to prove the results of that observation. In the case of the Bible, when someone ignorantly says something, well, you can't prove it from science. Do they say the same thing about COVID? It's in the science or something like that? We say, no. No. No. We proved the Bible in a courtroom of law based upon eyewitness testimony. So if you have something where somebody accost you some and they're hurting you, and if somebody, is able to observe it to witness what's happening to you, And you can find that witness and nowadays it's really nice because people have cell phones and a lot of people have dash cams and so if somebody hurts you or does something runs into you whatever you have the testimony, the witness of the video feed and all. Now with AI coming, a lot of what we think is true may not be true because AI is big time liars, man. And a lot of different videos and different things that we have to say, wait a minute. I think that's doctor. That's a doctor video. But in regard to the bible, going back to the first century, Jesus started his public ministry at 30 years of age and and crucified, buried, raised from the dead three years later three, three and a half years later. And after his resurrection, he walked on the planet for forty days, and then he ascended to the right hand of his father. And ten days later, Pentecost hit, and we have what is called the the church age. And, we're in the dispensation of the church age. Now, in that regard, tonight, we're we're gonna be looking at prophecies that, Daniel had recorded for us. And these prophecies are a proof text for your faith and for my faith, not just eyewitness testimony, but Peter describes it as the more sure word of prophecy. So the Bible's unique in that the Bible can tell us the future, can even tell us history, what's gonna be history ahead of time. And the Bible has to be 100% accurate to be God's word. If the bible ever any promise that God's ever made to Israel, and that's why you're a thinking people, you know there's no replacement theology. Why, pastor? Because God has promised to Israel that he's gonna bring them back in the land. It's impossible for God to lie. God would be a liar if he didn't bring forth the unconditional covenant, you know, in Jeremiah 33, where he's gonna write his word within their heart. They're gonna be born again. A one third remnant, Zechariah thirteen eight, is gonna be preserved through the seventieth seven of Daniel, which we're gonna see in Daniel nine. And so just based upon prophecy, I know there can be no replacement theology that Augustine and Martin Luther and others began to push through during the dark ages and during the reformation. Many of the church began to adopt, you know, adapt that. And so an easy way as a bible student prior to 1948 was to say, well, it was allegorical. When God says in Ezekiel 36 that he's going to restore the nation of Israel, Ezekiel thirty six and thirty seven, he's gonna cause in the valley of dry bones for life to come back to the nation of Israel that was dead for, you know, two thousand years. It's easier as an as an expositor to say, oh, that's just allegorical. That's that's allegorical. But then on 05/14/1948, it's liberal. Israel is reborn in one day. So the guys presently that are looking for the rapture and looking for the second coming of Christ and looking for the book of revelation to be literal in that these things are gonna happen from chapter six to chapter 19. That's the 77 of Daniel. That's the tribulation period. In chapter one, write the things which you, have seen, which is John saw, a revelation, a vision of Jesus in chapter one. Then he says, write the things, which are, which is in the present tense John, and that's the church age. And then he says, write the things which shall be hereafter. That's after these things, after the church age. So you see John in chapter one and the vision that he has of Jesus, and we're gonna see a similarity here in chapter seven here. And then the church age, chapter two and three, the church age continues until Romans eleven twenty five, and blindness in part has happened unto Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles become in. So in the church age, we're waiting for the last person. Maybe you're that person holding back. We're waiting for that last person to receive Christ that fills up the church age. After the the church age is full, that's the rapture of the church. The rapture of the church can happen and there could be a gap. After the rapture, there could be a gap. It doesn't mean the tribulation is gonna immediately start because the tribulation is started with the signing or the confirmation of a treaty that's signed in Daniel chapter nine twenty five to 27. Right? So chronologically, as we're looking at this, we're in the church age, we're looking prophetically. Now how do I know that I can trust that God is not gonna put me through the tribulation period? And as a as a Christian, as a as the bride of Christ, well, I'm promised that we're not subject unto his wrath, that we're not we're not subject unto God's wrath which is pouring out upon a Christ rejecting world. And I also I see the church in chapter four and five of the book of Revelation is in heaven. They're not on the earth. In chapter six forward, you don't see the name church again till chapter 19 when the Lord Jesus comes back with his church according to Jude. So real real simple, but turn to second Peter chapter one. This is such an important proof text for you When you're when you're an apologist, when you're proving Christ, when you're giving an answer to every man of the hope that lies within you, you're a student of prophecy. You're not in the 2%. I mean, you're in the 2% that still study prophecy. And 98% of the church, the pastors don't teach prophecy. No prophecy. Now in the first coming of Jesus, in his first coming, Jesus, according to Philip Stoner, I remember Mark gave you this too. We we remind you this every now and then, and you're gonna be able to repeat my sentences. In the first coming of Jesus, he fulfilled over 300 prophecies. The mathematical compound probability of one man coming along and fulfilling eight prophecies, not 300, is 10 to the seventeenth power mathematically. 10 to the seventeenth power is illustrated by filling the state of Texas, which is a big state. Right? Pretty big? Israel is the size of New Jersey, very, very small state, tiny sliver of a country. Texas is huge. Everything's bigger in Texas. Right? Fill the state of Texas two and a half feet deep with silver dollars. Take one silver dollar and market, and you're trying to win $1,800,000,000 in the Powerball, reach down there. And if you can pick up that silver dollar that's been marked, the compound probability of that happening is 10 to the seventeenth power that Jesus fulfilled just eight prophecies. Now the mathematical equation goes to the point of over 300 prophecies being fulfilled. So your faith is not based upon idiocy. It's not I hope so. It's not based upon fables. It's not based upon, you know, I had a burning in my bosom. It's based upon facts. You're a student of the bible. Based upon facts, you know that five hundred years before Jesus was born, you celebrate every Christmas that he would be born where? According to Micah what? Micah five two, he's gonna be born in Bethlehem. Right? And, and so you sell that's one. What tribe would he come from? According to Genesis 39, the tribe of Judah, there's 12 tribes. He's gonna come. He's he until Shiloh come. Right? How's he gonna be born according to Isaiah seven fourteen? Through a virgin according to Genesis three fifteen, Isaiah seven fourteen, and Isaiah nine verse six. Is he gonna be a king? Isaiah nine six, the of his kingdom and his government, there shall be no end. Right? Is he gonna be how is he gonna die? Is he gonna die by stoning? No. How's he gonna die? One thousand years before he dies in Psalm 22 is a huge picture of crucifixion, which wasn't even invented back then. Then you've got seven hundred years before he's crucified. You've got Isaiah 53. You've got all sorts of prophecies in Isaiah 53 and in Psalm 22, the the dividing of his garment, the casting of lots, crucified between two thieves in Isaiah 53, his beard pulled out in Isaiah, beaten beyond the recognition of a man as a sheep before he shears his thumb, so he opens not his mouth. So you and I are like, dude, prophecy has got me interested in the Bible. The Bible's real. How do I know? Because God's telling me ahead of time what's gonna happen. Well, hey, pastor. What's gonna what's up ahead? What's up ahead? Now you guys can fill that in because we've been going over it quite a bit. What's happening right now? Does the bible say in Genesis or excuse me, Revelation, the other side of the book. Revelation thirteen sixteen through 18 that the economic system's gonna change? Right? Yep. Is that technology present today? It's happening. Is the devil omniscient? Is the devil omnipresent? Is the devil omnipotent? What is the devil? He's a liar and a murderer. So the devil needs technology to watch everybody. The devil needs surveillance cameras to know what everybody's doing. The devil needs the blockchain technology that that with tokenization and stuff that you you can't buy or sell without the mark on your right hand to your forehead and stuff. And and then there's one more religious system coming also. So we see three big big things that are taking place, three legged stools, Rick Warren would say. Rick Warren in his purpose driven life, he's a globalist speaking prophetically what's coming in the beast system. Do you understand that? He learned from a guy named Peter Drucker. Peter Drucker was sent into Japan after Hiroshima and Nagasaki. And Peter Drucker went into Japan to teach the Japanese concerning industrialization. General Douglas MacArthur pleaded for the church to come to Japan because there was a huge spiritual vacuum created when the people found out that the emperor of Japan was not God. Now where's their belief system gonna go? The church was taught to hate Japanese people. The church did not heed the call. So the Japanese embrace one of the gods of America, which is the materialism god of industrialization. Peter Drucker is a mentor of Rick Warren. Rick Warren learned from Peter Drucker his three legged stool, which is prophetic, which is one of the stools is government. Another of the stool is religion, and the third aspect of the leg of the stool is business. So it's the merging of business with government with religion. That's the one world government, one world economic system, and one world religious system. So just that alone, most Christians don't pick up on. They don't they don't realize how what purpose they're being driven. You know? Alright. So in second Peter chapter one verse 15, moreover, will endeavor that you may be able after my deceased to have these things always in remembrance. Lot of what we go over, we re go over. We we keep going over. It's repetitive. Just even what I'm talking about right now. Probably most of you people that have been here, I've spoke of that illustration of Peter Stoner's. Maybe Rob and Vicki have heard it in six years, probably 20 times. And we just keep going over it because it's important. And same with the rapture, same with the reason of the rapture, same with John 14, you know, one through three and, first Thessalonians four, and we just keep going over and over and over the scriptures concerning the rapture and stuff because it's important for us to watch and be ready. So he says, I'm gonna bring it to remembrance, for we have not followed cuddly devised fables. So picture that. The disciples are walking with Jesus, and we're going to make up some stories to start a religion. Now if you made up some stories to to start a religion, would you be willing to die for those stories? No. It's human nature as such that you're not gonna die if you know it's a lie. If you stole the body of Jesus and you hid it somewhere, when it comes to crunch time, your greatest instinct as Peter found out before this, the cock crows, Peter, you're gonna deny that you even know me three occasions this night. Your greatest instinct is self preservation. So as soon as it gets difficult, we're gonna find out that you're not really a believer. You've been playing a game, a religious game. But they were radically transformed and changed after the resurrection, weren't they? They weren't afraid of death anymore. In acts 12, Peter's lying asleep. James, the brother of John, was already executed by Herod, but Peter wasn't afraid. The same guy that was once afraid is now sleeping. He's getting a good night's sleep because he knows after Easter, after Passover, that Herod's gonna grab him because it pleased the Jews to kill James. He's thrown off the top of the pinnacle of the temple. He's thrown down and, died and then beaten. The sons of thunder, one of them died right there, the martyr, after Stephen had died in chapter seven. And Peter, he's he's sleeping. And then an angel comes in and looses him, and shackles come off and they're praying. They got a the early church has a prayer meeting, and Rhoda comes to the door and sees it's Peter, and she runs back and tells her, hey. Peter's out here. They didn't have much faith in their prayer meeting. They thought she was nutso. Didn't believe her. And so we we see that Peter, and the rest of the disciples, if they're eyewitnesses of Jesus, are they willing to die? Are they willing to be in acts chapter one, Jesus said, you're gonna be my witnesses. That word witness is a martyr. Are you willing to be a martyr for me? And Salome came to Jesus and said, Jesus, you know, when you get your kingdom, remember my sons, James and John. Let one sit on your right hand, one on your left hand when you come into your kingdom. And Jesus said, you don't even know what you're asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I'm gonna drink? And the boys and the mom, oh, sure. We can drink that cup. Well, in the Garden Of Gethsemane, what cup was Jesus asking to be passed from him? Cup of wrath. The father pointed out his wrath upon him. And, so, anyway, the disciples, Thomas was willing to go die, but then Thomas doubted after the resurrection. But, anyway, all of the apostles, Judas hung himself. Matthias came in. The apostle Paul, apostle out of due time. But all the apostles that walked with Jesus, all of them died violent deaths of martyrdom recorded in history, except for one, John the beloved. John the beloved, they tried to boil him in oil and he wouldn't boil, so they sent him to the island of Patmos. John wrote the gospel of John. John wrote first, second, and third epistle of John, and John wrote John the revelator wrote the book of revelation, the apocalypse, the revelation of Jesus Christ. So as he's on the island of Patmos, the Lord has, given John the the revelation of Jesus Christ. So we didn't follow fables. Do you think the Mormons followed some fables? Do you think there's some make believe with certain kinds of glasses he wore and the secret underwear they wear? Mean, is your faith based on that kind of stuff? I mean, they almost act like they're Masons. Devise fables. When we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty. So not only did we see him on the mount of transfiguration in Matthew 17, the Shekinah glory of God shining bright and hearing the voice from heaven. This is my beloved son in whom I'm well pleased. Listen to him. Not only that, but we saw him after his crucifixion. Thomas said, I am not gonna believe in him unless I can, you know, touch where the where he was pierced. Thomas, put your finger here, right, where the centurion pierced him. Look at my hands and my feet. Revelation five, as Chuck Mister says, the only man made thing in heaven is the scars that we gave him. Revelation five, John saw him as a lamb that had been slain. Right? And so they see him resurrected, their majesty of the king, where he received from God the father honor and glory when we came to such a voice by him, from the excellent glory. This is my beloved son in whom I'm well pleased. And this voice which came from heaven, we heard when we were with him in the holy mount. The mount of transfiguration. Peter, James, and John are there. Peter's like, hey. I like a mountaintop experience. I hate going down below where the demons are. I like going on a Christian retreat when I'm all around Christian, and we're singing to the Lord all day long and praying, and and Jesus is just shining so bright in our hearts and lives and everything. Let's build some booths here. You know? Let's build let let's build get some tents going. Let's stay here. Let's camp out here. And the voice which came from heaven, we heard when we were with him in the Holy Mount. And then he says, so that's one proof text. That's one way Peter is saying, remember our testimony, our witness. Your testimony, your witness of what Jesus has done for you is powerful. You use the gospel, which is the power of God unto salvation, and you use your testimony of all I know is I was once blind and now I see. All I know is I was a drunk. I was a drug addict. I was a womanizer. I was promiscuous. I was angry. I was a rager in your past, your BC days, but God transformed and changed me. And who can argue with that? Who can argue with the man that was impotent for forty years and the boys walk by him and say, silver and gold, have we none? For the name of Jesus Christ, stand up and walk. And the religious leaders are like in a real pickle because it's irrefutable. This guy was lame in his feet, begging at the Pool Of Siloam for about forty years, you know, for into his adult life. They can't deny the miracle. You know? So that's one of your proof texts is the is the testimony that you have. So they're testifying of being with Jesus. They're testifying, and they're writing their testimony down. Matthew is writing his testimony, the gospel of Matthew. John is writing his testimony in the gospel of John. Right? And and Luke is getting information from from, Mark and from from Paul possibly and writing down his version of it. Luke is a Gentile, a doctor, but he wasn't there as one of the 12. And so you got Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, and they're testifying. And, the apostle Paul in Acts 15 says that Jesus was seen, you know, by over 500 people, many of whom are still alive at this time. So you have eyewitness testimony of people that saw him, resurrected. And remember, these people once they believe in their heart that Jesus was crucified, buried, raised from the dead, and coming again, they don't fear death anymore. Death is just moving. You're gonna help me move? You're gonna help me move away from your ugly face into the presence of God? You know? And Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, Jesus is there with them in that fiery trial. They weren't real anxious to get out of there. They enjoyed fellowship. Why get out of there and go look at Nebby's face? You know? He was just a rager. So he says, we also have a notice that says a more sure word. Greater than eyewitness testimony is the testimony of prophecy. Nobody can do this. Only God can tell you ahead of time of what's gonna happen. Even the devil does not know the future. The only future the devil knows is what's recorded, of what's written down, but he doesn't know all the little nuances of of the timing of things and when things are actually gonna happen. If he could, he would have destroyed the nation of Israel in past history. Remember Haman? Haman wanted to execute him. Hitler wanted to execute him. All throughout history, the devil's been trying to destroy the nation of Israel. Because if he can destroy the nation of Israel, then the Messiah has no one to come back to, and there's no millennial kingdom. And then the devil and his rebellion with one third of the stars that fell with him, they can bring that coup of Psalm two. Oh, how the heathen rage, imagine vain thing against the Lord and against his anointed. And God just laughs from heaven, but the devil's been trying to destroy the Jews. The devil's been trying to destroy Christians. The devil's been trying to make it somehow where God's promises don't happen, or it doesn't matter if there's a promise that the people don't believe the promises. If people live today like these promises aren't enforced, then they live with a replacement theology mentality that the church has replaced the nation of Israel, and then they wander further from sound doctrine that there's no millennium, they begin to interpret the Bible as allegorical and symbolic when it's when in the case that they're looking at, it is literal. Sometimes we look symbolic, but it says like. There's words that trigger that it is symbolic. So we have the more sure word of prophecy, unto which you do well, that you take heed as unto a light that shines in a dark place. Is it dark today? Do people need the light of prophecy? Why are only 2% of the pastors teaching prophecy when 27% of the bible is prophecy? What are they afraid of? They love the world. They love the world. They don't want Jesus coming back. They wanna make America great. They wanna be, you know, rich and increased with goods and in need of nothing. In Revelation three twenty, Jesus is knocking on the door of his church. And where's the location? He's on the outside of the church. He's been kicked out of his church, and his church is delusional. They say we're in need of nothing. We're rich and increased with good and need of nothing. Jesus said, no. My my report my report on you as I analyze and evaluate what you're doing, you're naked, poor by, and miserable. You're lukewarm. You make me sick. That's the apostate last days church. They're not in love with Jesus. A light shines in a dark place until the day dawn and the day start rising your hearts. So part of the way people come to know the lord is as they watch prophecy be fulfilled. Pastor Chuck, when I got saved, he used prophecy to get us ready for the rapture, to get us ready for the one world government, the 10 toes that we read about in Daniel two, the 10 horns that we're gonna read about tonight in Daniel seven. He began to show me history of the Babylonian empire, the Medo Persian empire, the Grecian empire, and the Roman empire, four beasts, four huge empires, the head of gold, the Babylonian Empire in Daniel two, the chest of silver, the Medo Persian, Cyrus the Persian, Darius the Mede. As they destroyed, in Daniel five, they wiped out the Babylonians, and they took over. And then after that, Alexander the Great, 32 years old, he dies. But he took on eleven thousand eleven eleven eleven thousand miles of territory from Greece all the way into India, and he did it like a leopard. He did it quick and swift. And, and then after the Greeks, it's the Romans. And the Roman Empire lasts about five hundred years, but it never completely went out. It shifted to East West. So we're looking now for that fourth empire, according to Daniel nine, to be reborn. And that 10 toes of Daniel two, the 10 kings, the 10 horns, the 10 crowns of Daniel seven, and Revelation 13, and Revelation 17 are being fulfilled or being spoken of in chapter seven here. So Daniel has a vision in chapter two, and now we see Daniel, Nebuchadnezzar has the dream. Daniel interprets it. Now we see clear in chapter seven to a greater measure concerning these four world governing empire. Luke twenty one twenty four says this is what's called the times of the Gentiles. Midway through chapter seven, we're gonna see the ancient of days about chapter, verse 12, verse 11, and the ancient of days, God the father. We're gonna see the little horn, the Antichrist, who becomes the eleventh. Three are wiped down. He becomes the eighth during the tribulation period. Fascinating. You you can tell people about this. You can say, hey. The world is going to develop a global government, and that global government's gonna be the rebirth of the Roman Empire, which is imperial. And that imperial, these kings, there's gonna be 10 kings. And you might even be able to say, you know, they might not be the type of kings we think of. They might be technocrats. They might be the Elon Musk and Peter Thiel and Schmidt and Bill Gates or whoever, Jin Jinping or some of these political leaders are gonna be more of a of a kings, 10 kings, and the the Antichrist gonna emerge as the hero. The three of the 10 kings are gonna fight against the Antichrist. He's gonna wipe them out. The other seven are gonna give over their sovereignty to the Antichrist, who is the eleventh and now is the eighth. How do you know that stuff? Well, it's written in the Bible. And what's happening? We're watching the world move in a direction of a global economic system, a global governance system, and a global religious system, the covenant, the Abraham Accords in The Middle East, trying to bring all the religions together to be as one. And and if your eyes aren't open to this, if you're not excited about prophecy and the soon return, what we call it at Calvary of Bremerton, we we speak in terms of the beast system. If we see the birth pangs happening, we see the the birthing of this Roman the Roman Empire is gonna be the fourth reborn. The fifth Empire is Jesus returning and setting up his millennial reign. So when we're watching the birth pangs, the time of sorrow that Jesus spoke of Matthew 24, we're looking up knowing our redemption's drawing nigh. We know because we're watching this technology. We're watching the world move in this direction. Bible prophecies being fulfilled. And the textual critics, the critics of Christianity will say, no. Daniel wasn't written on that date. Daniel was written after the fact. Because it's so accurate. There's no way somebody could predict that ahead of time. And then you go into the Qumran Caves and you find the Dead Sea Scrolls and you see the dating of it exactly exactly what, the Lord said and what's recorded here for us. So, sixth century BC and, not after the fact. So he says, got the more sure word of prophecy, which signs like a star, day star rising earth, knowing this first that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. So you don't you don't, follow a man that doesn't use the scripture to interpret the scripture. If a guy wakes up and says, hey. I think, I had a dream, and I think Babylon's America. He's gonna have to prove that. That's his opinion, and that's been the opinion of a lot of expositors for a lot of years. But as doctor Andy Woods is pointing out, we're talking a literal Babylon. Do you think literal Babylon can be rebuilt? It's being rebuilt right now. Literal Babylon is being rebuilt. And when you look at Revelation seventeen and eighteen, and the mariners are looking from afar, and it's destroyed as in a moment, the smoke is billowing out. Presently, right now, the port, a port along also canals along the Euphrates River are being developed to move commerce, to move goods from India and all over to be able to move and to fulfill that global globalism of of goods. Literal Babylon's being rebuilt. That's fascinating to me. Again, like Israel, people are going, oh, no. That could never happen. And one day, 05/14/9048, it fell. So you have the more sure word of prophecies of no private interpretation. For the prophecy came not at any time by the will of man, but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the holy spirit. So as the holy spirit moved upon Daniel, Daniel recorded what the lord gave him in a dream, and as the holy spirit's instructing him, he's writing down. So in the original can you trust your bible? In the original manuscript, we call them the autographs. We speak concerning the infallibility and inerrancy of the scriptures in the original autographs. Now my King James, there are errors in this King James, but we know where those errors are It's been around since 1611. A lot of your newer translations, you don't know where the translators went wrong. But if you were to go back and look at the Koine Greek and the Texas Receptus, the Byzantine text, even beyond that, if you had manuscripts from the first century, you find, even like the Essenes that had the, Dead Sea Scrolls as they put them in jars and hid them away, you'll have manuscripts there that are that are thousands of years old and accurate. The Masorets that wrote the Hebrew part of the Old Testament, if they made one little mistake, they destroy the the scroll and start over. So they took very serious the oracles of God that were entrusted to the Jews. And so the small little now there's no central doctrine in the Bible that has an error. None. It's little tidbits of things that, where there might be an error, and we we can we can basically expose that. So that's why I like, as Chuck Messer says, the reason he liked the King James. Now my King James doesn't have all the sixteen eleven Elizabethan language that I don't know what a lot of those words mean. So mine mine is still brought up to speed, so that the word, you know, these and thou are there. But, the reason we like the King James is because we know what scribal heirs are there. And even so, when your bible, if it's a Schofield bible, when it says concerning, Mark 16 that the oldest and most reliable manuscripts in the footnotes, this chapter is not in the bible. That's a lie. They're wimping out. They're wimping out with Westcott and Hort that came along and made 33,000 changes to the King James bible. So they were supposed to remove the these and the thous, but they attacked more than the these and the thous. They attacked the virgin birth and and a lot of other central doctrine issues. So, again, the King James, why do I use it? Because I have an investment in the memorization of scripture. For forty some years, this is the bible that I've been reading. You can say one word and it triggers the rest of the verse for me because that's what I've been reading. You put me in an NIV, nearly inspired version, or ESV or whatever, it's gonna take me a little while to figure out where you're at when you read a verse because I haven't heard it read or said that way. So that's one reason. The other reason is the places where there are some errors, we can look at Greek text and Hebrew text and we can look at it and determine well that's just a minor thing and we can fix that you know. Most of them have already been fixed for us. So brilliant, brilliant men well before us that wrote the King James Bible. We're gonna see an AI bible if you haven't already. How many of you have a Donald Trump bible? How many of want me to sign your bible? No. Alright. It's ludicrous to me, but the more sure word of prophecy. So if anybody wants to challenge you, I sat next to a guy that says he was agnostic, and, it's so nice to use prophecy. Tell him ahead of time what's gonna happen. I'm able to tell him ahead of time about the beast system, which we look at as the birth pangs, the development of the Antichrist system that has to be in place before the Antichrist can be empowered. Right? And so he said he talked to Peter Thiel. He knows Peter Thiel. And, so you talk about Palantir, you know, talk about the space project, all the satellites that are very low flying satellites, the surveillance system in China presently that they're trying to perfect, and you begin to say this to people, and they're like, that's fascinating. You let them know that the devil is just a fallen angel. He's not the opposite of God, that he's not omniscient. He's not omnipresent, that they need that technology to surveil to be a counterfeit God. It's a counterfeit God system because the devil can't create. He's a counterfeit. So we it's amazing. It's just amazing. The devil knows the prophecies that are written, but the devil can't prophesy. Doesn't know the future. He can lie to you, though. Can say he had a dream of vision or give somebody a dream of vision. Now if you go to one-nine hundred Psycic, how do they know things about you? First they ask your name and then they go on Google and do a search on you. And then they find out that Auntie so and so died twenty years ago and Oh, Auntie so and so is talking to you, you know. And so they study you and they do generalizations. Call the 1900 numbers and they say, Hey, what's your name? I thought you're a psychic. You tell me my name. You know? Anyway, But if you've got a famous face like mine, they'll always know your name, so I can't get away with it. Alright. Alright. Prophecy. Hope it's down deep. Prophecy. It's not a dirty word. The return of Jesus Christ is not a dirty word. It's Titus two thirteen, that blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great god and savior Jesus Christ. So I'm trying to build your faith. If what Daniel wrote down here ahead of time, we know historically happened, and Daniel's writing it before it happens, you and I should be real excited about the prophecies that are coming in our generation that are about to happen. Do you see what I mean? It shouldn't be doom and gloom. Alright. Father, we pray that you would teach us now, open the scripture on our understanding, and thank you so much that we can be bible students, that we can be disciples, and that, Lord, you're so willing to teach us. Lord, please give us ears to hear. Open our hearts. Open our minds. And, Lord, build us up, strengthen us. Help us to be so excited about your soon return. In Jesus' name, amen. Alright. In the first year of Belshazzar, remember that? Remember back in chapter five? We're in chapter seven. So now Daniel, before in chapter two, he interpreted Nebbe's dream. Now Daniel's gonna describe a dream that he had, and he's dating it, and this is in May. So you add fourteen years after this dream, that's when Belshazzar died. Daniel Daniel chapter five. So in the first year of Belshazzar, king of Babylon, Daniel had a dream and vision, and I'm all for dreams and visions. Some of you are old men. You're gonna have dreams. Young men, old men dreams and visions. Right? Joel two? Acts two? Young men shall dream dreams, and old men shall have visions. Right? You got a vision? I like, I like that, Bruce came up to me Sunday, and he told me that, he envisions that this church is gonna grow. If you have a vision like that, you can encourage me. Tell me. Tell me. It's been a long time coming. Now if it doesn't happen, I'm gonna have to take him out and stone him, but that's alright. But it could grow, and he could be a prophet. Right? But I could cause the people to leave. So he didn't say they'd stay. He just said the church's gonna grow. Right? So it's a win win. I mean, I hope they stay. I hope somebody stays. I'm glad you've stayed. So when I got home on Saturday night and then Sunday morning, I was so excited. I got a grace attack. It's like, hey. The ones we love are still here, Kath. They didn't get mad because we went away for a month. Every time a pastor goes away or does something, we're afraid that people are gonna be envious, jealous, and be mad. You know? Leave. But, you guys aren't like that, and my son-in-law did a good job, and the holy spirit tugged your heart to, hey. Rick and Cathy are coming back. Let's go. Let's celebrate. So I I I I thank the Lord for that. So in the first year of Belshazzar, King of Babylon, Daniel had a dream and a vision of his head upon his bed. So he's in bed, and he's sleeping, and he's getting dreams and visions of his head upon his bed. Then he wrote the dream. So, like, when you wake up at night and the Lord gives you a dream, a lot of times we go back to sleep in the morning, I'll say, Cath, I had a dream. I can't remember it anymore. What? I can't remember it. It was really good dream. I can't remember it. I think we won the lottery, Cath. I can't remember. The Lord gave me the numbers to the lottery, Cath. I can't remember them. Well, when you wake up at night, have a notepad or your phone or a recorder and write it down. Write especially if it's prophecy, if the Lord's if the Lord's speaking to you. And so he he's in his bed, a dream, and he says, and he wrote the dream and told the Psalm. So he the Psalm speaks in Aramaic of the essentials. He doesn't have all of it, but he's got it in black and white. There's some color to it. The essentials are there. So he doesn't have every little detail, but he's got the most important part of it is there, of the matters. And he's gonna speak concerning these four beasts. He's gonna speak concerning the end of the times of the Gentiles. Do you remember the ends of the times of the Gentiles, Luke twenty one twenty four? Right? The times of the Gentiles is when the Gentiles have world rule over the Jews. There's a day coming where that will end, And then king Jesus will rule and reign from Jerusalem and David as his prince, and the Jews will be dominant over all the Gentiles for a thousand years. And the devil's gonna be incarcerated in the abyss for a thousand years, and Gentiles are gonna repopulate the planet during the millennium for a thousand years. At the end of that thousand years, to illustrate free will because Jesus is ruling and reigning with a rod of righteousness. Nobody's gonna get away with sin. You're gonna be ruling and reigning with him as kings and priests. And remember, he's omniscient, and you got your new glorified body so you don't forget what he tells you anymore. And so he tells you, hey. So and so's you you know how the the the lunatics are trying to use technology, precrime info? They're gonna watch your Facebook and the trends and the patterns that you have, and I think he's gonna go rob a liquor store tonight. You know, they rest you beforehand. Well, that's real time. The Lord knows ahead of time. He knows the easy alpha, the omega. He knows what's gonna happen. Hey. These guys are thinking of going over there and blowing this up or grabbing a kid or whatever, and he sends you over in there and say, uh-uh. Uh-uh. People are gonna sin, but he's gonna rule and reign with a rod of righteousness. And, every single crime, everything done in secret to me shouted from the rooftop, nobody's gonna get away with anything. Even the wicked dead today, those who are the globalists, who are peeing their pants in Revelation six trying to in their billion dollar bunkers trying to hide from the wrath of the lamb, even they can't evade him through death. They're gonna be bodily resurrected from the dead. They're eternal beings. All that's determined is are they gonna be eternal in hell or eternal in heaven. There's no annihilation. There's no reincarnation. So they're gonna stand before God in Revelation 20 verse 15 before the great white throne judgment, and they're going to give an account to God of what they did while they're in this body, whether good or bad. Their punishment is hell, but the punishment according to Luke 12 is graduated, which means knowledge brings responsibility. So if Peter Thiel doesn't get saved between now and the day he dies, he's gonna be responsible for having researched the Antichrist. And God's gonna say, you did a four part series on the Antichrist. You knew better. So his punishment's gonna be far greater than somebody that was in the churches today that don't teach prophecy. Did you get that? He knows more prophecy than people in the church because people in the church don't have an interest. Peter Thiel has an interest. It's intriguing to him. He's studying history, and he's studying the bible, and he's wanting to find an edge. That's what they want. These guys in Silicon Valley, they'll fast, they'll use psychotropic drugs that they need, maybe they'll take mushrooms, but they're always looking like Hitler's guys for an occultic edge that demons can communicate to them that they have an edge, you know, be empowered. So he's intrigued presently. And remember sorcery. They're gonna use sorcery. They're gonna use pharmakia to deceive the world, and they're a part of that. So so he says he wrote the dream and told the sum of the matters. Daniel spoke and said, I saw in my vision by night, so it happened at night, and behold the four winds of heaven. So these winds are emanating, not like the flat earth are saying the four winds, four corners of the earth. No. Mark refuted that last week. Right? This speaks that the winds are coming from heaven. God's causing a storm to come upon the earth. God's blowing blowing the wind. And behold, the four winds of heaven, notice it emanates from heaven, strove upon the great sea. The sea now we're talking symbolic here. The wind, when it blows on the sea, it gets boisterous. Right? It get the wind and the waves and the whole thing. Well, the sea symbolically speaks of of the world, the Gentiles in the world and the world system, basically. And when it's literal, it speaks to the Mediterranean. When it's spoken symbolically, it's speaking of the sea of man, the sea of humanity, and the peoples, the populace, the unorganized mass of mankind is what this is speaking of. So it's it it came upon this the great sea and four great beasts. Four great beasts. Think back to Daniel two. What's the first beast, the head of gold? Babylon. What's the second beast? Global world empire. Medo Persian. What's the third global empire? Now this is history. You're not even a Christian, but you went to school and you studied history. And you've heard of Alexander the Great, the Grecian empire that overcame the Medo Persian Empire. The Medo Persian Empire had 2,500,000 soldiers. Their method of of, defeating their enemy was just wear them out, overwhelm them. Alexander the Great, his methodology was speed. He's like a leopard. We'll see. And, and the Romans, they had teeth of iron. They just crush you. There's no vestige of you left when they're done with it. You'd either merge with them or or you're done. And so he says, four beasts came up from the sea. So remember, this is the times of the Gentiles, diverse one from another. So they're different. They're different. And in verse 17, these great beasts which are four are four kings who shall arise out of the earth. So when you talk about sea, they're gonna come out of the sea. There you go. You have verse 17 that say, the sea is interpreted out of the earth. The beast, it's interpreted right there. They're four kings. Don't you like how the bible interpret that? I could have told you something else and you'd believe me, but but some of you catch me, wouldn't wouldn't you? Pastor Rick, verse 17 says it says, well, I don't think so. I I had a dream, and I feel like it's I I feel like I feel like well, pastor, I don't care how you feel. I feel you're wrong. Four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from the other. So these kingdoms are gonna gonna be dominant global empires, but they're gonna be different. They're not all the same kind of kingdoms. And, so the first world empire is Babylon. The first was like a lion and had eagle's wings. And so the lion represents the king of beasts. Right? And eagle is the superior bird of prey, the eagle. And so this lion is is at the top of the of the pecking order. In Jeremiah chapter 11, Babylon is described as as having lion with eagle's wings. So as a lion, then they have these wings on the side of them. And Jeremiah four verse seven, Jeremiah forty nine nineteen, Jeremiah fifty seventeen fifty forty four describe Babylon as a lion. Now in Berlin today, the Germans went into Pergamum, and they grabbed hold of where Satan's throne dwells. Do you remember Pergamum? And they excavated. They brought it back to Berlin and they have the Ishtar door. The Ishtar door is from Babylon, and the Ishtar door shows a lion with wings of their own their own design. So Daniel's describing it here, and it's a fascinating study, the study concerning Pergamum where Satan's throne dwells. It's fascinating to remember what I told you about Obama wanting to go to Berlin and to do his acceptance speech of the democratic whatever they do when the guy is elected, you know? And the German said no. So he came back to America and they made a mock up Hollywood movie set. A set of Pergamum where Satan's throne dwells. He's not trying to hide anything, is he? Worshipper of Lucifer. An Antipas was put in a bowl, a brass bowl, the Lord's martyr, and they heat the bottom of the bowl and boil them inside of it. Revelation chapter, two and three. So the first was like a lion and an eagle's wing and I beheld till its wings were plucked. And so, picture Nebuchadnezzar here. So Nebuchadnezzar is the leader. He's the king. He's like a lion, and it's his, there's a point where this nation is gonna be plucked. They're gonna be destroyed. But, also, you can tie this in with king Nebuchadnezzar himself. The pride that lifted him up were plucked, and it was lifted up. So when Nebuchadnezzar said, is this not great Babylon which I have built? In chapter four, the words were barely out of his mouth, and the watchers came, and Nebuchadnezzar became a beast. He went for seven years eating grass like a cow and his hair grew really long like a hippie and his nails grew really long like an eagle, eagles claws. Right? And so and the earth and and made lifted up from the earth and made him stand upon his feet as a man. So Nebbe went from a man to a beast back to a man. And Nebbe began to he's born again, basically. Nebbe began to worship God, the true living God. Are you resisting God? I talked to Jim today about the mega cult, how I can't reach them. I just can't reach them. They just they're under a spell. And no matter what facts you present, you can't reach them. And Jim says, well, God can reach them. And I wrote back, yeah, if he treats them like Jonah. Or I could add to it, if he treats him like Nebby, Nebby wound up believing. Nebby wound up having a moment. Right? Some people are so incredibly delusional. They'll believe anything. And you in the in the know, your eyes are open. You see it so clear to you, but the devil's blinded their minds, blinded their eyes. There's just a point where the light needs to go on, where where they need to see. And, I went through years of, being deceived by the media, being deceived by things, but I I didn't I didn't really need to dig in whenever dig in or whatever because it didn't matter so much. I love truth, but ignorance was bliss. It's fun not to know, but now I gotta know. I gotta I hate being lied to. I'm so tired of being lied to. So I beheld till his wings were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth and made stand upon defeat as a man's, and a man's heart was given to him. Nebbe came back. He came back from the brink of being a a beast. Imagine what the people were thinking. Look at the king over there. He's eating grass again. His hair has grown so long. He looks like Howard Hughes, man. He's lost his mind. And, so Nebbe not got a new heart. And, the nation was a warring nation, and they're filled with pride, and they were they were fierce, and they could destroy any nation. And then after they became dominant, then they focused on culture. They focused on building, as Nebbe did, he built one of the seven wonders of the world, the Babylonian garden, the hanging garden there. One of his wives, liked, you know, Polynesian, Garden Of Eden kind of an existence that have just dried dirt desert. So he brought in the the irrigation, the water needed, and the plants and everything to build the the hanging gardens of Babylon. So culture, began to spread. When the Jews were there for seventy years, one of the things I left with was Babylonian culture. In Genesis chapter ten and eleven of Nimrod, Babylon, Babel, the nations, the nation states are are they're confounded. They went with different languages, but the Babylonian culture permeated the whole world. The religious system of Babylon is the religious system that's gonna continue into the into the tribulation period in Revelation seventeen and eighteen. So Babylon's a city, but that system, Ishtar, Christmas, Easter, those are Babylonian terms that continue to this day. Right? And so man's heart was given to it. Verse five, the Medo Persian Empire. Cyrus, Isaiah forty four and forty five, Cyrus is polytheistic. He doesn't believe there's just one god. But Cyrus, the lord describes him as my servant Cyrus. And god, again, a very powerful prophecy, one of my favorites, is at the end of Isaiah 44 leading into Isaiah 45 where God surnames Cyrus a hundred and ninety years before he's born. So in Daniel five, when the handwriting's on the wall, here I'll do it. The handwriting on the wall and Belshazzar sees it. That very night, the Medes and the Persians had diverted the Euphrates River, and they they came in as an army underneath the gate, the Levied Gate. They came into the city. That very night, Belteshazzar, the grandson of Nebuchadnezzar died. And as Cyrus is coming in there, Cyrus the king, Daniel's able to bring the scroll of Isaiah and show him that God named you. And Cyrus is favorable toward the Jews to send the Jews back to Jerusalem to rebuild the city. Many of the Jews were so enamored with Babylonian culture and economics, they didn't wanna go back to be farmers and rebuild Jerusalem. They liked Alexandria, Egypt. They liked the libraries. They liked the learning. They liked the the world, if you will. And, they became very, very astute with, being merchants and bankers and things like that. And so, Cyrus, amazing, and behold another beast, the second like a bear. And the bear is not as fierce as the lion, but the bear is a formidable enemy and, and it raised up itself on one side. So you've got a divided. Remember in Daniel two, the second part, you got the gold head? What's next? Chest of what? Silver. Two arms. Medo, Persia. Medo, Persia. The Persians were the dominant side. And where's present day Persia? Iran. The Persians were the dominant side. The Medes. Where's the Medes today? The Medes are always under attack. The Medes are in the northern part of Iraq, and Saddam Hussein used to protect them from the crazies. Turkey hates the Medes. Turkey the Medes today are the Kurds the Kurds. So the the Kurds seem to really be hated, but that's the Medes and the Persians. And alright. So a bear and it raised itself upon one side, so it's a little imbalance because one side's bigger than the other. And this is in May. Their army is 2,500,000, and, the Persians were over the Medes. So Daniel, or Isaiah excuse me. Cyrus is the dominant king, and then Darius was over a region as a king, but Cyrus was over over the whole thing. And three ribs in his mouth between its teeth, and they said unto it, arise and devour much flesh. So the Medes and the Persians, they devoured the three, ribs in its mouth was Libya Libya, Babylon, and Egypt. The Medes and the Persians, defeated them and devours much flesh. And so the this Persian Empire, reigned for two hundred years, the Babylonian Empire for seventy years, the Greece reigned for a hundred and eighty years, and Roman Empire predominantly five hundred years, but it's gonna be a rebirth. Three thirteen Constantine moved his headquarters to Constantinople which is in present day Turkey, Istanbul, Turkey. And so you had the the Roman Empire divide between East West, Roman Catholics, you know, and, but it's still, it's this fourth empire that's going to be reborn that's going to be the beast system, the fulfillment. So the fourth empire has stages. The final stage will be the stage of the little horn, that of the Antichrist. This stage early on in the time of Christ was one of the obviously one of the beginning stages. Okay. So, next we have Alexander the Great. And when you read your bible and you read the book of Philippians, that's where Paul shares the gospel to the city of Philippi, and that's a city that when Alexander the Great conquered Israel and, let's see. Israel conquered the Medes and the Persians that he named Philippi after his father, Philip Of Macedon. So that's where you see the Macedonians in that region. The region is the area of Macedon. The city of Philippi was built by Alexander the Great in name of his father who wasn't a dominating leader. He got defeated, but Alexander, when he took the reins, he was able to be a world conqueror. And he did it swiftly, like a leopard we're gonna see here very quickly. And, why he died at 32, they said he was drunk, and they said that he, got a cold like a pneumonia, and others say that he was poisoned and, by some of his guys. His kingdom was divided in four parts and four parts going to one of a to four of his generals. Correct. For after this, I beheld a low another like a leopard. So the leopard is not as fierce as the lion or the bear, but much faster. It can outrun him. And that was the prowess of Alexander the greatest, how swiftly his armies defeated and, so much wealth, enormous wealth. So picture Solomon amassing Solomon's wealth. And then, Hezekiah coming along later, and Hezekiah having Solomon's gold there. And some ambassadors from Babylon come to visit in Jerusalem there to visit Hezekiah, and Hezekiah brings them in and shows them all the gold, all the vessels, all the things from the temple, and all that stuff that Solomon had massed that David had massed for Solomon. Solomon brought forth to build the temple now. Well, later on, May, when Jerusalem's destroyed, the Babylonians took all that wealth. So when the Babylonians go to Egypt, sure, the Egyptians are trying to hide some of their wealth and their pyramids and bury them and things like that, king Tut's tomb and all that. But a whole lot of it is taken again. The victor gets the spoils. So by the time, Alexander comes along, there's an enormous amount of wealth built up in these in these countries. And the soldiers, a lot of them are constricted, and and they get paid by the spoil. You know? They get paid through the spoil. So it said of Alexander the Great that he's just giving it away. There's so much wealth. He's just it's amassing so much wealth all the way up to India. You know? And, so in any event, pretty amazing story concerning Alexander the Great. So you're gonna give this prophecy. You're gonna say, hey. This is pertaining to Alexander the Great. Someone's gonna say to you, oh, come on. And you're gonna talk about Babylon, the Medes of the Persians, Greece, and how Greece is divided up into four regions, and here's the name of the generals, and they're gonna go, that must have been written afterwards. No. Written sixth century. Written before. It does happen afterwards. Alright. So after this, beheld another like a leopard which had upon its back four wings of a fowl, so speaking how of a leopard, and the wings really fast. A leopard with wings can move quick. Of a fowl, the beast had also four heads, and dominion was given to it. And so the four head speaks of, the four generals. The one general is Cassandra. He was able to, have a region divided in the in the the Empire Of Macedon and of Greece, Lysimachus of Asia Minor and Thrace. Seleucus, he received Syria, area of Upper Asia. He received Babylon in in the area of the East. And Ptolemy received Egypt, Palestine, and Arabia. The Babylonian Empire lasted seventy years. The Medo Persian, two hundred years. The Greek Empire, a hundred and eighty years. And how long the Roman Empire? Roughly, five hundred. Alright. There we go. So it's so interesting what we can learn from AI today. This is so verse seven. After this, I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful. Think of the Roman Empire. The Roman Empire is empirical, and that's gonna be the rebirth and the imperial reign with kings, 10 kings, the world divided into 10 regions. Not gonna be a democracy. America is not a democracy. America is a constitutional republic, which our founders fashioned after Rome, a republic, meaning based upon law. The those in government are chained to the constitution so that they can't vote us out and take away our freedoms. They're chained to it, and they're supposed to be public servants. They're not they let's use this phrase. They have limited powers with the constitution. Now lately, in the last few administrations, the presidents are trying to get away from that limited power and acting like they're dictators. Like, remember when twice you voted that marriage should be between one man and one woman? Remember that? The people voting on something like that? And remember Obama came along and lit up the the White House in rainbow colors, and he said, you people got it wrong? And he defined marriage, that's a dictator, and everybody went along with it. Remember when you woke up when you heard the word mandate and you said that's not a law? And I don't care how many Karens or Chads try to belittle me or force me to wear a mask or take the jab or shut the church down and not sing and not do communion. You had protecting you the constitution. And your sheriffs in Kitsap County, they had no ticket books to ticket you for not wearing a mask. It was all based upon pressure, public pressure, and the media blasting you. And so and informed people is real hard a real hard people to bring into communism, if you're informed. But if you're uninformed, then you're gonna be Goebbels said as soon as you get them to fear, then you can control them. So you and I have to hold our fear in check and walk by faith. So you had Cassandra, Lissimachus, Seleucus, and Ptolemy. Now we come to fourth empire. After this I saw in the night vision, behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible and strong exceedingly. So Rome just crushed people. They just crushed their enemies. And it had great iron teeth, and it devoured. It just devoured people. There's no coming back after dealing with the Romans. And broken pieces and stamped the residue with its feet. I think it said that the Roman Empire, had 60,000,000 slaves. And a slave owner, according to William Barclay, I love that guy, he gives me such good info on history, a slave owner could simply get angry at his slave, take that slave and throw him in a pond of piranhas, The piranhas devour him and never face a court hearing. Do whatever he's a purchased possession. He's an animal. No rights. Nothing you can do. So if you're in a slave situation, the apostle Paul at the Atonia Fortress when the Jews are trying to kill him, Paul was speaking to the Hebrews in Hebrew, and and they listened at first. And then when he came to the word Gentile, they're throwing stuff in the air and all that. Well, Paul is multilingual, and he could speak to the centurion there. And and the centurion is gonna start to beat Paul. He's gonna flog him to get a confession out of him of what he did wrong, of why are the Jews so angry at him. And Paul said, is it legal to scourge a Roman citizen? And all of a sudden, the centurion's nervous because he could get in a lot of trouble for scourging a Roman citizen. And the Roman citizen said, with a great price, I purchased my citizenship. And Paul says, was freeborn. Paul was from a Jewish family raised in Tarsus, a Greek, Roman, you know, area of Gentiles, an educational area, but apparently had a wealthy father that that could preserve his Roman citizenship. Paul uniquely equipped him for the work that God had for him. Alright, so diverse. It says, great iron teeth that devoured him, broken pieces and stamped the residue with his feet. And it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it, and it had 10 horns. There you go. There's your first clue. Alright. You're gonna teach it now. 10 horns. What's that mean? 10 regions. Vicky says 10 horns here. Right? What else? 10 horns? 10 kings. And where's your proof text? Where's your verses that interpret that for you? Horn speaks of power. The animal that has a horn, it's powerful. Sometimes its mountains are described as kingdoms. But these 10 horns, you're gonna see your 10 crowns in Revelation 13, Revelation 17. You'll see 10 horn remember in Daniel two, first of all, toes. 10 toes. Daniel seven here, 10 horns. We're gonna see it's 10 kings, and we'll see in Revelation 17 and Revelation 13 described as crowns and kings. So the Bible's interpreting it for you. This rebirth Roman Empire is imperial run by 10 kings. And then there's an eleventh horn that comes, that's the Antichrist, in the next verse we read. And we read that the Antichrist gets in a fight with three of the 10 and defeats them, and then the Antichrist becomes the eighth. And then the book of Revelation tells us, and then the ape gave over their sovereignty to the antichrist, to the beast. Ain't that amazing? Just so amazing. I love it. The Bible fits. So 10 horns. Verse 24 tells you what's it say these 10 horns are? And the 10 horns out of this kingdom are 10 kings. Right? Revelation thirteen one or seventeen one. Who wants that? Seventeen one through 13. Revelation thirteen one through 10. Well, let's just go there. I'm doing all the talking. God, I miss being here. It's just like, wow. I got a lot built up in me, man. Alright. Verse chapter 13. I stood upon the sand of the sea and saw a beast rise up out of the sea. What did we learn the sea was? The sea of humanity. One guy's rising. We're looking for Jesus Christ, not the antichrist. Now the AC, the antichrist, what does his name mean? Counterfeit. Counterfeit? In place of. He's in place of Jesus Christ. That's the important phrase we want. Rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and 10 horns, and upon his horns crowns. So the crowns are kings or crowns here. And upon his head, the name of blasphemy. And the beast which I saw was like a leopard, and his feet were like the feet of a bear. Oh, we just saw that. So his kingdom's gonna resemble certain characteristics. Remember it said he's diverse? The Roman Empire is diverse. So he's he's like a leopard, like Alexander, like a bear, like the Menopurcens, and like the mouth of a lion, like Babylon. It's not it's not great. Babylon, which I have built. And the dragon is who? So what's the counterfeit trinity, the unholy counterfeit trinity? Who does Satan see himself as? God the father. He's the dragon. And who is the beast? The counterfeit what? In place of Jesus Christ. And then the false prophet. Holy spirit. Counterfeit holy spirit. There you go. So the devil is not the opposite of God. The devil wants to be God. Does Bill Gates wanna be God? Do a lot of men wanna be God? Have a God complex? Yeah. They're gonna die just like you and I. They're not gonna live forever. No matter what their technology is, it's appointed on all men once to die and then the judgment. I know that for certain because the bible says so. So if I die, I'm not gonna say, Kathy, take my head and go freeze it in Arizona, chyrogenics. And when the technology catches up, put my put my head on my body when I was 19. You know? Not gonna work. Not gonna happen. People can lie and make a lot of money, though. Gave him his power and his throne in great authority. And I saw one of his heads as though it were wounded to death, and his deadly wound was healed, and all the world wondered after the beast. Now a counterfeit crucifixion and resurrection, an assassination attempt against the AC. When the AC comes back to life with lion's signs and wonders, the whole world looks on who can fight with the antichrist. Who can fight with the beast? You know? So, again, Satan's a counterfeit. Now if Satan's able to truly if the antichrist truly dies and Satan's supposedly able to bring him back from the dead, Satan doesn't have that power. Satan has to get help from God to raise him back from the dead. Satan just gets the credit with lying signs and wonders. Do you understand that? Only God can create. Only God can overcome death. Alright. So this is a graduated, delegated authority. Gave him his power and his throne and his great authority. And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death and the deadly wound was healed and all the world wondered after the beast. And they worshipped the dragon. So the religious system is going to morph from an apostate one world Christianity for three and a half years. Satan or excuse me, Hitler said he could use the church. The church was useful. So the Antichrist can use an apostate one world religious system for three and a half years. At the midpoint of the tribulation period, the devil goes in, not the devil, the Antichrist goes in to the temple that's rebuilt in Jerusalem, declares himself to be God, demands to be worshipped as God. Right? And that's the blasphemy. That's the abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel LeBrovat in chapter nine. And, and then the religion becomes Luciferian. Most of the globalists today are already Luciferian. They're they they don't believe in Jesus Christ. They don't believe in Buddha, Mohammed, Confucius. They have given their soul to the devil. They're demonic worshipers of the devil who gave power under the beast, and they worship the beast saying, who is like the beast? Who is able to make war with him? And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies. We're gonna see this in chapter seven. Now chapter seven is also called the little revelation. A lot of what we're reading in Daniel seven, we're gonna see, you know, corresponding with what's written in the book of Revelation because Daniel's talking about that rebirth Roman empire. He's talking about the future. And John the beloved is also writing what happens during the tribulation period describing that global system. So so speaking great blasphemies and power is given unto him in coming 40 in two months or three and a half years. And he opened his mouth and blasphemy against God to blaspheme his name and his tabernacle and them that dwell in it in heaven, and it was given unto him to make war with the saints. This is the tribulation saints, the Christians. Doesn't say church. You know there's four types of saints? Distinction of saints. What are the four distinction of saints in the Bible? You have Old Testament saints. John is the greatest of the Old Testament saints. Right? And he that's least in the kingdom of God is greater than John. Why? You got a greater revelation. You got the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. John, the Holy Spirit was, from his mother's womb, he had the Holy Spirit too, as a prophet. But, what's the second type of saint? Church saint. What's the third type of saint? Tribulation saint. What's the fourth? Millennial. You have saints in the millennium. Alright. So these saints are the tribulation saints, and to overcome them, and power was given to him over all kindreds and tongues and nations. Notice it's given to him. Given to him. Given to him. God's granting this, allowing it. And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him whose names are not written in the book of life of the lamb slain from the foundation of the earth. Yep. That's who we are. If any man have an ear, let him hear. He that leadeth into captivity should go into captivity. He that kills with a sword must be killed with a sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints. And behold another beast coming up out of the earth and he had two horns like a lamb and he spoke like a dragon. He exercised all the power of the first beast before him and caused the earth All who dwell in it worship the first beast. So you got the false prophet here, whose deadly wound was healed, and he he doeth great wonders, and so that he makes fire come down from heaven on the earth in the side of man, and he deceives them that dwell upon the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast, saying in them that dwell on the earth that they should make an image under the beast and that the wound of thy sword did live. And so the heart of the gospel is the resurrection. The heart of the counterfeit guys is this guy raised himself from the dead. So he's trying to refute all those who believed in Jesus Christ. Right? And saying to them, the image of the beast is wounded by a sword. So when we talk about the image of the beast, we talk about the technology today, the AI technology, be able to speak, project blue beam, all the different facets of the technology that the devil's gonna be able to use to have this image of the statue of the beast, if you will. And he laid power gave power in him the image of the beast. The image of the beast should both speak and cause that as many as would worship the image of the beast should be killed. And he causes all both small and great, rich and poor, and slave to receive a mark in their right hand and in their foreheads, and that no man might buy or sell except he that had the mark of the name of the beast, the number of his name. Here's wisdom. Let him that has understanding count the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man, and his number is 600 threescore and six. So chapter 13 verse one, ten horns, 10 crowns. Now turn to chapter 17. And then there came out of the seven angels who had the seven bowls and talked with me, saying unto me, come up. I here I will show you the judgment of the great harlot who sits upon the many waters, with whom the kings of the earth came and committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of the fornication. So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness, and I saw a woman sit upon the scarlet colored beast full of names of blasphemy, and having seven heads and 10 horns. And the woman was arid in purple and scarlet and color and the deck with gold. And so the merging of the global government, the kings, with the global religion tied in with the dragon tied in with the antichrist. Having a golden cup in her hand full of abomination, filthiness, fornication. And upon the forehead was name written mystery Babylon the great, the mother of harlots and abominations of the earth. And I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints. Revelation six and seven, there's innumerable multitude of people who refuse the mark of the beast. Revelation 20 verse four, they were beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. And when I saw her, I wondered with great wonder. And the angel came unto me and did why are you wondering? I'll tell the, the mystery of the woman and of the beast that carries her, which has the seven heads of the 10 horns, The beast that you saw and was and is not so remember again, the phrasing here is like the beast was alive, dead, and now is alive again. Right? And the beast that you saw was and is not and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit and go into perdition. And they that dwell on the earth shall wonder whose names were written in the book of the life from the foundation of the world when they behold the beast that was and is not and yet is. And here is the mind which has wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains. Mountains speaks of kingdoms on which the woman sits, not Rome, not seven hills of Rome. And there are seven kings, five are fallen, one, is, and the one is not yet comes. And when he comes, he he must continue a space. So some are saying these five are Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, Persia, and Greece. The sixth would be Rome here. The seventh, the rebirth of the Roman Empire. And the beast that was and is not, and he is the eighth, and of the seven that goes into perdition. And the 10 horns remember back in chapter seven? And the 10 horns which you saw are 10 kings who have received no kingdom as yet, but received power as kings for one hour with the beast. These all have one mind and shall give their power and strength under the beast. These shall make war with the lamb, and the lamb shall overcome them for he is the lord of lords and king of kings, and they that are with him are called and chosen and faithful. And he saith unto me, the waters which thou saw, where the harlot sits are peoples, multitudes, and nations, and tongues, and the 10 horns which you saw upon the beast, these shall hate the harlot, and shall make her desolate, and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire. So this is the point that the kings of the earth turn against the apostate church. Think of the wealth of the Vatican. Think of the technocrats, the kings, using the church to mass the people together as one and getting the worship to be the Lucifer, and then now they're going to get rid of the, the false Babylonian system, religious system. For God has put in their hearts, and I love this verse for today with all the technocrats of Peter, Theals, and Gates. God is putting in their hearts to do what? For God has put in their hearts to fulfill his will and to agree and give their kingdom into the beast until the words of God shall be fulfilled prophecy. And the woman whom thou sawest is the great city, which reigns over the kings of the earth. So a literal city that of Babylon where the antichrist rules and reigns from, one of his headquarters, the other being Jerusalem. So back in chapter seven now, and so the 10 horns of verse seven verse eight, the stages of Rome gonna reach another stage, and the last days, the stage will be the stage of the little horn, the Antichrist. I considered the horns, and behold, there came up among them another little horn, this is the Antichrist, Before which there were three of the first horns plucked up. So three of them are gonna fight with the Antichrist. He's gonna pluck them up, get rid of them. They're gonna fight against them. So when you think of the the technocrats, when you think of the 10 toes, the 10 kings, 10 horns, you you lean toward they're all like minded working together. But you'll see three are angry and fight against them, and they lose. And when they lose, the other seven make the antichrist the eight, and they hand over their sovereignty unto him. So then he becomes the little, you know, the most powerful dictator, tyrannical leader on the earth. Three of the first horns plucked up by the root and behold, in this the horn were eyes like the eyes of a man. So this is description of the antichrist. You can tie this in with, second Thessalonians two. And somebody wanna read that? Second Thessalonians two, four through eight. And we're gonna we're gonna see that he's a he's a big mouth. Behold, and the horns were eyes like the eyes of a man, a mouth speaking great things. So he's a big mouth. He's arrogant. And, that's one thing characteristic of these guys is pride, like Lucifer. That was his fall, was pride. Second Thessalonians two four through eight. Okay. Rob has it? Four through eight. For he wants everything to be everyone to be saved and to understand the truth for there is only one God and one mediator who can reconcile God and people. He is a man, Christ Jesus. He gave his life to purchase freedom for everyone. This is a message that God gave to the world at the proper time. And I have been chosen. This is the absolute truth as a preacher and apostle to teach the Gentiles about faith and truth. That's really nice. Really nice. So now second Thessalonians two four through eight. Who oppose and exalt himself above all that is called God I raced right past it. Second Thessalonians. That was good. I thought that was good. That was really good. That was good. Two Four through eight. Four through eight. Goodness gracious. You might lose your salvation over that one. I just might. Lose a little gold crown or something. Mhmm. It didn't sound correct. Anyway, he will exalt himself and defy every god there is and tear down every object of adoration and worship. He will position himself in the temple of God claiming that he himself is God. Don't you remember that I told you this when I was with you and you know what, excuse me, what the holding what is holding him back where he can be revealed only when his time comes. This for his lawlessness is already at work secretly, and it will remain secret until the one who is holding back is stepped out of the way. Amen. Praise the Lord. Revelation nineteen twenty says, and the beast was taken with him the false prophet who wrought miracles before him, which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast. And then that worshiped his image, these both were cast alive in a lake of fire burning with brimstone. Oh, boy. There's his future. Remember when Jesus was in Gadara, and the two demoniacs are there, and they're cutting themselves and all that. And, Jesus is approaching, and they're crying out to Jesus. We know who you are, Jesus. You know, the just one and all that. Have you come to torment us before our time? The demons know their destiny. They know where they're going to hell. And Jesus asked them, what's your name? We're legion. We're many. Right? So they have name. They they were they don't wanna be unembodied spirits. And so they're in these two demoniacs, and then he sends them into the pigs, and the pigs go over the cliff and die. And and pigs are all drowned. And and so, Rob, what was that the description of? Deviled ham. There you go. There you go. Alright. Deviled ham. Alright. Alright. You like bacon? Okay. So we're we're gonna finish up with these next three verses, and then next week, I'll I'll review these again as we get into the next. So Daniel's got another vision here. Now now we're watching the shift, and the shift, Daniel goes from describing the sea of humanity on the ground, on the earth, and now his vision goes up into heaven. Now he's gonna describe and I don't know. There's so much here. I don't know that I wanna speed through it. I'll just read you a couple verses here, and we're gonna review this next week again. So all that all that about the beast, the four I mean, it's crazy. Doom and gloom, prophecy. We don't want that to happen. But people lose sight of the blessed hope. All this the stage is being set for Jesus to return and to destroy the devil, to destroy evil, to stop it, to overcome these trillionaire globalists, you know, who are led by the devil. They're just tools of the devil. He says, I beheld till the throne. Notice we're dealing with thrones now. Thrones. And in Revelation four and five, throne is used 17 times. So the church age is Revelation two and three. And then chapter four of Revelation, John says John is told to come up hither. After these things, after what? After the church age, he's told to come up hither. So we see the church in chapter four in heaven. Chapter five in heaven where who is worthy to open the scroll and loose the seals? Everybody wept because nobody's worthy. Don't wave John the lion of the tribe of Judah. He's worthy to open the scroll and loose the seal. Chapter six is the opening of the of the seal judgment, and there again, a lot of these guys are getting wackadoodle. They're saying that some of the seals are already being opened right now, And that the first 16 verses of Revelation six have to do with the wrath of man, and they differentiate the wrath of man. Bill Gates trying to make us die of famine and pestilence and all that other stuff. Somehow, men are doing it. And then verse 17, it talks about the wrath of the lamb. Well, wait a minute. How could those seals be open? In chapter five, they said, who's worthy to open them? Only one that can open them is Jesus, not men. So don't give into what's called the pre wrath rapture. Pre wrath. Okay? Don't give into that. They're saying the rapture could happen in the tribulation period right up to verse 17 because the wrath starts in verse 17. Well, who opened the seals? Where's the church? The church is in heaven. Alright. That's a Rosenthal theory. Back in the eighties, he came up with that, and it's starting to gain popularity again. So I just gotta throw that stuff down for you. Alright. So I beheld I beheld till the thrones were placed in the ancient of days. Who's the ancient of days? Now Vicky says Jesus. God the father in verse nine, God the father in verse 13, and then over in verse 22, until the ancients of days came and judgment was given to the saints of the most high, and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom. So it can be used it's used of of the throne, seated at the throne, God's throne, Jesus seated at the right hand of his father. Psalm fifty five nineteen talks about the ancient of days. And so God the father in verse nine, but can be used applied to Jesus in verse 22, placed and the ancient of days did sit whose garment was white. So when we're in Revelation one, remember the description John had of the vision of Jesus in heaven, how he's described his hair all white and everything. White hair is good. Ancient of days. And did sit. Whose garment was white as snow and the hair of his head like pure wool. His throne was like the fiery flame and his wheels. Remember Ezekiel? The wheels? Wheels keep turning. The wheels as burning fire. Fire speaks of the holiness of God. It speaks of judgment. It speaks of purifying. You have to go through the fire to be purified. And and fiery stream issued and came forth before him. And so you picture in Isaiah six the description of the throne of God. You picture in Ezekiel chapter one, verse 13, the the fiery wheels and and the throne of God. And, and so this fire stream is issuing coming forth before him a thousand now notice how many angels. So in Revelation twelve, one third of the stars fell with Lucifer. Lucifer is just one angel. Lucifer rank wise is like that of Michael the archangel. Right? He's just an angel. So you got different types of angels. Again, the angel is a messenger. You have a cherub angel. You have seraph angel, and you have an archangel. Right? So different ranks. And, so Lucifer was an exalted angel and Michael, an exalted angel. And even Michael, contending with Lucifer, the body of Moses, dared not make a really accusation at him, but said the Lord rebuke you. So today, my grandsons were going down to get the mail, and they're cruising along. And this dog, big German shepherd, bigger than Ezra, jumped over the hedge and started barking at him real bad, and Gideon came through the door. Papa, papa, jumped out, came out. And you know what Ezra did? Ezra rebuked him in the name of Jesus. He called him out in the name of Jesus. He rebuked the dog. And and I'm like, good job, man. And then the owner came over and shock collared him. And then I said, what did the dog do? It's a funny story, man. It's a funny story. I wanted to videotape, and they said, no. You'll put it on Facebook. I'm not gonna do that. You put everything on Facebook. I don't have a life. Alright. So a fiery stream issue. Ten thousandth time 10,000 stood before him. The judgment was set, and the books were opened. God keep great records, man. The books were opened. And when the books opened on your life, everything bad's been blotted out. There's no record of wrong. East to the west, it is finished, paid in full. You know? Isn't that great? But for the wicked, every idle word, every little thing is recorded, and you're gonna give an account for. And I beheld and became of the voice of the great words which the horn spoke. Remember the little horn? And I beheld even till the beast was slain and its body destroyed and and given to the burning flames. So we read in Revelation 20 verse 19, how the beast and the false prophet are put into the lake of fire. The devil now the antichrist takes his armies, and he goes toward Basra, which is Southern Jordan. Right? And he's gonna try and destroy the Jews, that one third remnant, Revelation thirteen eighteen. And Jesus intervenes when the nation of Israel cries out, blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord. Jesus intervenes. In Isaiah 63, he's trampling out the vintage. His garment outside is filled with blood. The battlefield is Armageddon, a 200 mile radius battlefield. Blood is four and a half feet high, as high as the horse is bridle, and Jesus is trampling out the vintage. He don't need any help from the angels. He's doing it himself. We come along with him according to Jude. He comes with 10,000, his second coming. We're already in heaven, raptured, marriage ceremony, and now we're gonna come back with him for the marriage supper of the lamb. He's gonna take possession of the planet that he created and the planet that he redeemed. All of creation is groaning and travailing right now because of the curse, waiting for Jesus to return to make everything right. We come back with him, and he snuffs out the Antichrist. Isaiah 14, and the Antichrist falls dead on the ground and doesn't get buried. And the angels take him to the lake of fire with the false prophet immediately, but the devil is put into the abyss, not the lake of fire, for a thousand years. After that thousand years, he's loosed in Revelation 20, and he tempts the Gentile human beings that are on the planet. You and I are our new glorified bodies. And they war against Jesus. Fire comes out of heaven, destroys them, and then the devil's taken and put in the Lake Of Fire. Jesus described the Lake Of Fire as Gehenna, a perpetual dump outside of Jerusalem that is always burning. So where the worm dieth not and the fire is never quenched. Or another description, outer darkness in the sense that, you're never gonna see the light of day. You're never gonna see the light of God. So that's the eventual place that the devil's going in the beast in the false prophet. And so the horn spake as even till the beast was slain and its body destroyed and given to the burning flame. So, again, if the beast had this power to raise himself from the dead, he just raised himself from the dead. So in the tribulation period, when it appears that he's slain and raised from the dead, that's God allowing that to be a strong delusion. When they reject the truth in second Thessalonians two, God says he's gonna give them over to a strong delusion that they would believe what? And what is the lie? Which devil told Adam and Eve. It's the same lie that people have been espousing that they don't need God. Satan says, you're not gonna die, Eve. You're not gonna die. You're just gonna know good and evil. But death is separation from God. Adam and Eve were separated from God. They died spiritually, didn't they? Spiritual death is separation from God. We have to be born again. Beast was slain and its body destroyed and given to the burning flame. As for the rest of the beast, so now we're talking the beast is Antichrist. Now we're talking the rest of the beast, watch this, before global empires. As for the rest of the beast, they had their dominion taken away. So when Babylon was destroyed by the Medo Persians, did Babylon cease to exist? No. They continued. The nation of Babylon continued. They just didn't have dominion over there. When the Medo Persians were taken out by Alexander, is there still Persians in Iran today? Yeah. When the Greeks were destroyed by the Romans, is there still people in Greece? Yeah. They just lost their dominion. But watch this. They had their dominion taken away, yet their lives were prolonged for a season and times, and they're prolonged until judgment. And when is the judgment of the Gentile nation? Matthew 25. When Jesus returns, he's going to judge the nations, according to Matthew 25, as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. The goats are those that treated the nation of Israel unfavorably during the tribulation period, and the Gentiles that were favorable nations toward Israel enter into the millennium, but not in their new glorified bodies. They have their human bodies, and then they begin to repopulate the planet during the millennium. And we have Jesus ruling and reigning from Jerusalem as king of kings and lord of lords, David as his prince, the 12 apostles ruling and reigning with 12 thrones. Right? And then we have, you and I as the church, which can be Jew and Gentile, male, female, barbarian, Scythian, Bonapri, and we are ruling and reigning with him as kings and priests, serving him during the millennium. Alright. We're gonna go over those verses again next week to to set it off, and so we'll come back to that from verse nine. But don't wanna go too fast with chapter seven. There's so much there, and we're just scratching the surface. Alright. Let's pray. Father, we thank you for tonight. What a glorious night, wonderful night. It's so comfortable out here. Thank you for the awesome food that everybody brought that we shared. Just so amazing. And, thank you for the fellowship, the sweet time of worship, and we just lift up, again, the body of Christ. Those who are sick, Lord, we pray that you would heal. We pray for those that don't know you, Lord, that you would save. And, Lord, we pray that you give us open doors that no man could shut, that we'd be able to share the glorious good news of your coming kingdom with those who are perishing, Lord, that don't know you. We pray that we'd be used of you to spark those that are lukewarm, who just aren't excited about your return, may not even believe you're coming very soon. But, Lord, that you'd use us as we've been taught that we might be able to teach them also of just how close we are with the birth pangs banging away, that, Lord, your coming is at the very door, that we wanna be ready. We want our oil. We want the lamps burning, and we wanna be ready. We don't wanna be lukewarm, Lord. You said you'd rather we're hot or cold, but not lukewarm. We wanna be on fire, Lord. Help us to maintain, be being filled with your holy spirit. In Jesus' name, pray. Amen.

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