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Live from Bremerton. It's Monday night. We have the blessing of being in Rob and Vicky's home and, the Wiedriches, and we're gonna study Daniel chapter eight tonight, Lord willing. We're gonna open with, some, worship. And so those of you who listen on Facebook, welcome, and, we're gonna open with prayer. Father, we thank you that we could have a great meal together and fellowship, and thank you, Lord, for the excitement that we have that, you're coming soon. And, Lord, we just commit this this evening into your hand as you teach us, Lord. Open the scriptures. Lead and guide us in all truth. And, Lord, inhabit the praise of your people, Lord, as we worship you and, God, bless our families. Lord, we pray that you would heal Sally, that you'd heal Mike, that you'd heal Joe, and, anybody else that's been sick, Lord. We pray for Steve that you heal his back and the hematoma and and, just move and work by the power of your holy spirit. Lord, save save mightily, Lord. Thank you for the memorial yesterday. Thank you for the gospel going forth. And we pray, Lord, in the days and weeks ahead, we'll hear of many great praise reports of people coming to Christ, Lord. So all that the enemy meant for evil, Lord, turn it around for good. In Jesus' name, we pray. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Let's worship the Lord together. Amen. Draw me close to you. Never Praise the Lord. Change our hearts, dear Lord. Amen. Change my heart, oh God. Alright. Thanks, Rob. Okay. Since we did so well in singing the our father prayer yesterday, would you guys like to try that again? Yeah. What do you think, Kath? Should we try it? You should hear what she said about me trying that. Uh-uh. Uh-oh. Anyway, it's it's fun. We could we could read it, you know, maybe not sing it next time. Yeah. Yeah. So alright. We are in Daniel chapter eight. But before we get there, does anybody have any praise reports or insights or comments about the Charlie Kirk Memorial yesterday where the cabinet, of our US government, you know, where I hear preaching the gospel. Marco Rubio did a great job, I hear. And and a media guy, Tucker Carlson, I'm hearing. And I didn't watch it or whatever, but I'm reading comments today. Any any thoughts you have on that? Marco reviewed and say in the name of Jesus Christ. He mention it. He didn't? No. He just captured. That's why I said, oh, that's the Muslims for that. But Did you guys hear the name Jesus? No. Oh, yeah. Even Jesus Christ, he just say the verse, but or, like, a phrase that he didn't mention Okay. About Christ. That's why I'm not totally Okay. Well, thank you for thank you. Yes. That's pertinent. That's good. Well, they did mention Jesus Christ at the Kennedy Center. That one in DC? Yeah. Everybody was saying, you need to save. Well, I'm talking about the one where the cabinet was. All the cabinet members at the NFL. The one in Arizona. Yeah. I mean, there was a lot of people from the from the I mean Kennedy Center also? The Kennedy Center is. Okay. Yeah. They probably have it on archives maybe. You might wanna check Washington Watch Washington Watch. I did. With Tony Perkins, they probably have some information. Washington Watch. Okay. Thank you. Mhmm. Any other thoughts? Comments? The other the report before that we come they said or something, the air force guy. I forgot his name. That's a a strong message. Hegseth? Hegseth? Yeah. Yeah. Pete Hegseth. He did he was war. Mention the blood I hear. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. His message also Yep. He nailed into Okay. The way about Christ. Mhmm. And the and my the the best is the wife. He sends her his her message about Christ, not focus on Charlie Charlie. On Charlie. He he just submissive Okay. Focused on Jesus Christ. Nice. Every sentence he is. Did they mention prophecy or the rapture or second coming to Christ? I didn't go there. No. No. Just just the the because Charlie wants to send me Lord, that's the message to me for. Okay. That's why It was a it was a send me Lord. What do you call it? A memorial? A celebrate life. Yes. Right. Celebrated life. Celebration of life. I heard his wife say that she forgave the shooter. There we go. We keep hearing that one. That's good. Yeah. Right. Yeah. Now when they do this sign, is that love? Yeah. That's love. Right? Is that love? Yeah. Sign like And the other way is bad crown. Or Oh, you do if you don't have of the devil. If you don't have the thumb. If you don't have the thumb. Okay. Yeah. No. It's like this. This this is I love you in sign language. Right? This is demonic. Yeah. Is I love you in sign language. Okay. Because she had the thumb on sign language. Yeah. She had the thumb. Okay. This is enough. I'd you like to pray for my feet and leg. I don't want no more pain. No more racing. It's been getting better, though. Is that even on topic? No. Pardon me? Anybody else have Alright. Getting better and better. Alright. Well, let's let's pray for Thomas. Lord, we don't want Thomas to suffer, and, Lord, we pray his feet and his leg is getting better. You're a God who heals, and, Lord, we pray you heal him completely. And it's no fun being sick. It's no fun having these ailments, Lord. And, I just thank you for Thomas and pray that you'd heal him. Yes, Lord. And I pray that you comfort, Erica, Kirk, and her family, her children and all, and just bring sweet comfort from from all the, just everywhere abounding comfort and love and and and kindness toward her and her family and bereaving the loss of, of their her husband and their father. And, Lord, we lift up, Adrian, Lord, to this Wednesday, Lord, her memorial service, her viewing and all with, her family. We pray for Adena Leonott, Ryker and Dixon's mommy who died a couple weeks ago. And, Lord, we lift up Lorraine, I think it is, the young, Ukrainian girl that got stabbed and and murdered by that demoniac dude. And, Lord, we just pray for her and her family. I mean, not for her, but her family. And comfort them also. So much has happened. And help us as a church to stay on point, Lord, to keep the main thing the main thing, not be distracted. And I thank you, Lord, that we're students of prophecy. Lord, we desire to have a sense of timing, of what time we're living in. And some speculate, the twenty third is Rosh Hashanah and the rapture's gonna happen. And, Lord, we know it's not gonna happen on that day because people are date setting. So no man knows the day or the hour, or it could. I don't know. But, but, Lord, your will be done. In Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Alright. Okay. So we're gonna get into a section of prophecy that's been, highly, debated by by agnostics and atheists and and unbelievers because it's so incredibly accurate. And, now this past week, I had an occasion to see some, or had a moment of of a, anybody can prophesy. Anybody can go on YouTube and be a YouTube prophet and say things that are gonna happen, you know, in the future. So if it's Joseph Smith prophesying, the Mormon, you know, main dude, and Glenn Beck cites Joseph Smith as being like Charlie Kirk or whatever. You know? But Joseph Smith gives some prophecies, and you can rally a whole group of people based upon somebody making prophecies. Right? A Mary a Mary Baker Eddy. Throughout history, a lot of different religious groups have been started by a very flamboyant leader that makes predictions and prophesies, and it can be blood moons. It can be pillars hanging up after 09:11, harbingers and things, and people speculating and fires. They get a vision all America on fire. The Islamic faith, Muslims, they have a prophecies pertaining to the Mahdi coming. You know? And they're waiting for their messiah that's going to come, and it motivates them. And and, and they have scripture that their scripture in the Koran that tells them, you know, you get 70 virgins if you if you go be a martyr and all that. And Charlie doesn't get that because he's a Christian, but they get 70 virgins if they if if they die in martyrdom. We as Christians, we have a totally different basis for looking and following Jesus based upon over 300 prophecies already fulfilled in his first coming with a 100% accuracy. So as we study the book of Daniel, we're assured, as Peter said, we have the more sure word of prophecy as an evidence that we're on the right track. Now presently, I want you to be careful of people who add there too, who add to God's written word. People that come along and say, hey, I've got a prophecy and I've got a YouTube dream or a vision. We need to we need to hold them accountable. We need to prove all things, hold fast that which is good. We need to test the spirits. We don't wanna be manipulated by people that are saying, well, I got a prophecy too. And a whole section or a part of the church or the professing church moving in a direction. What if people are prophesying of a golden age up ahead? What if people are prophesying that we're going to usher in the return of Jesus Christ by taking America back or taking control of the world. Is that a prophecy we wanna follow? Are people saying that? Are they looking for a golden age? Mhmm. Kingdom age? Dominion theology? Are they moving in that direction politically and religiously? No. They sure are. Do you wanna be a part of that group based upon what? Is there any prophecy in the Bible that would warrant or say that's what's going to happen prior to the second coming of Christ? Do we as the church have to be so righteous and conquer and dominate dominion theology, dominate the evil in the world that then Jesus will come back? Is that what we read in the Bible? But that's that's that's what many people are following presently. They're caught up in this so called promised golden age, the age of Aquarius, the new age movement, dominion theology. It's all coming together, all religions and the whole thing, and, even evangelicals are getting sucked up into it. So if you call yourself an evangelical, then, you know, we we which means we share the gospel. We evangelize. We we wanna go make disciples of all nations. We wanna preach and teach. And and so our eschatology, which means last days teaching, we wanna make sure that it's based upon facts, based upon the word of God that we back it up. And so I don't ever try to manipulate you with a dream I had or a vision God's given me. I try to motivate you with already written scripture, already written by the prophets of old. Right? And tonight when we're studying, those of you that are like Charlie Kirk where you're really good students of history, you're gonna you're gonna know of four world empires that of the Babylonians, the Medo Persians, the Greeks. I'm sure if somebody asked Charlie Kirk about Alexander the Great, he might even be biblically knowledgeable enough to come to chapter eight here and describe how how, you know, Daniel prophesied before he even came on the scene. And then we can use do you know that Alexander the Great was tutored by Aristotle? And that his father, Philip Of Macedon, that, he, developed a very great, army and all. And Darius of the Medes and the Persians, twice with his sons, tried to conquer Greece, and the Greeks were really angry about that. And then, Philip of Macedon, when we read the the book Philippians, it's Alexander the Great that that brought forth that that region in commemorating his father, Philip of Macedon, the Macedonians. The Macedonian vision is is that area. And so and twice, Darius, with his son and and his armies tried to conquer the area of Greece and they failed, but the Greeks were really angry. So when when the lord allowed Alexander the Great to emerge as a leader of Greece, he was really ready to conquer Medo Persia, and and we we have the facts of it. And we have the facts also of a period of time between the new testament between the old and the new testament of, Attiakis Epiphanes. And Attiakis Epiphanes, his name means god manifest or the illustrious one. Atticus Epiphanes the fourth who emerges out of the the division of the Grecian empire when Alexander the great died at 32 years of age. He died prematurely, died right on time according to God's plan. But his kingdom of the Grecian Empire was divided among the four generals that he had. And one of the generals is Cassandra, and he had Macedon in Greece. Lysimachus had Asia Minor, and Thrace. Seleucus had Syria, Upper Upper Asia, Babylon, the East. Now out of Syria is gonna be a leader called Attiakis Epiphanes, And, the fourth one was, Ptolemy, head of Egypt, Palestine, Arabia. Now Greece lasted a hundred and eighty years, the Medo Persian two hundred years, the Babylonians seventy years, and Rome five hundred years. So Daniel's getting a vision from the lord. In this vision that Daniel gets, notice this is not in chronological order as we're going through Daniel. Mhmm. He points back to chapter five of Belteshazzar. Right? Remember when the when the Medo Persians came and destroyed Babylon in one evening? Well, this is May that Daniel has this vision. So he's, describing the vision that he has, and the fulfillment's gonna be later, as, you know, as we see chapter seven, chapter eight continuing. And then the other earmark here is that from chapter two verse 46 to chapter seven twenty eight was in Aramaic. So chapter eight verse one continues in Hebrew, being written in Hebrew. So let's pray. Father, we pray that you'd open our hearts, open our minds, help us to glean and understand what's going on here. And, thank you, Lord, for prophecy. Thank you for your word. Thank you that as AI and others try to rewrite history, Lord, we have your holy word, and it doesn't alter. It doesn't change. And, Lord, when AI tries to do an AI bible and they try to twist it, Lord, help us to know your word so well that, we'd catch them in their lives, Lord. So help us, we pray in Jesus' name. Amen. Now, at T. K. Epiphanes, during the the testaments, as I said, he's going to, desecrate the temple, and we're gonna read about that. He's gonna go into the Jewish temple that, Cyrus allowed the Jews to go back and rebuild Zerubbabel's temple. And in that period of time, some would call it the Maccabean area, Joseph Maccabees. And Joseph Maccabees and his boys, now some would recommend that you read at this point, you take your Catholic bible and you look at the Apocrypha. Mhmm. And you can look at the Apocrypha and you can see the account of Joseph Maccabeus and how him and his boys rebelled, revolted against Attiakis Epiphanes and regained control of the temple. But Attiakis Epiphanes, we're gonna see that he's called a little horn here. Chapter seven, we saw the little horn represent the Antichrist. Chapter eight, there's two horns here. The first horn is gonna be Attiakis Epiphanes, the second horn, the Antichrist. But this this horn, or one of the horns is actually, Alexander the Great, the horn coming out from the, from the goat. But, the little horn at the of verse nine is a Tiakis Epiphanes of Syria, but he's a type of the Antichrist who's coming later. And, he goes into the temple, and he desecrates the temple with pig blood. And so, Jesus told us that the antichrist is also gonna go in the temple at the midpoint of the tribulation period, and Daniel called it the abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel the prophet. So a prelude, if you will. And throughout history, you know, John tells us to beware of the spirit of antichrist, which is in place of Jesus Christ. And the spirit of antichrist is in the world today. And but the actual antichrist in place of Jesus Christ is gonna be the seed of the serpent, can actually be a human being, who is at the midpoint of the tribulation period is going to stop the daily the daily, offerings of the rebuilt temple that they're wanting to build. And just like a t, Achisibiphanies, just like he did, he stopped it, came in and desecrated it with pig blood. And then we have a feast, a celebration in John ten twenty two that Jesus celebrated called what? Celebration of Hanukkah. Hanukkah. Alright. Okay. I was gonna say Because in rebooting the temple, they didn't have enough oil, and the menorah continued to produce oil for the two thousand, twenty three hundred days. And so it's a feast of lights. The light kept burning. Right? And so that's the feast of lights. And what's interesting, as we celebrate Christmas, it was December 25 that Joseph Maccabeus and his boys, defeated from January to January. And, December 25, we celebrate Christmas, which is not the birth of our lord, but, part of the Babylonian system of Catholicism. And I don't I don't care if it's not the real date that he's born. I celebrate the incarnation that he is born. And, and then Ishtar, Easter, well, that may not be the real the real thing of the resurrection, but I celebrate as resurrection Sunday, and and I'm glad that we acknowledge those two. But but Jesus acknowledged, and Jesus celebrated the feast of lights, which is Hanukkah, which many Jews today, when we're celebrating, Christmas, they celebrate Hanukkah. Okay. So that's an overview of where we're at. So in verse one, king, in the year of the reign of king Belshazzar so we've already passed that. He's already dead chronologically. Right? So Daniel's going back and letting you know that, hey. In the reign of king Belshazzar, May, a vision appeared unto me, even unto me Daniel, after that which appeared unto me at the first. So he had other other visions that appeared to him in in chapter seven. So two years two years after that or before that. And and also he interpreted the vision that Nebuchadnezzar had in chapter two. So in chapter seven, he's describing the vision that that he personally had, and he's saying, this this one happened before that, Daniel, after that which appeared unto me at the first, so afterwards. So after chapter five before the fall of Babylon, Daniel had a vision. And I saw in a vision, and it came to pass when I saw that I was at Shushan in the palace. So Shushan, the palace isn't even built yet, but Daniel's riding a time machine kind of a thing, and he's already there, looking at the the the, it's it's a Persian winter palace. And verse 27 says that, you know, he was there later and I, Dantel, fainted and was six certain days afterward and I rose up and did the king's business and I was astonished at the vision but none understood it, you know. So this vision of him being in the king's palace, the the Persian winter palace, because the Persians hadn't, defeated Belshazzar yet, right, chronologically, but Daniel's already there in in this vision. He's taken, like, in a time time in the spiritual realm, he's taken there, which is in the province of Elam. The province of Elam is in Persia. So Daniel's I don't know. What kind of word can I use? You know, he's Want Want to to leave. Okay. Sounds good. But he's taken there, you know? Yeah. Like John the revelator taken up into heaven and seeing the throne of God and all. So we look at time linear, but he's in he's past this realm here and he's in eternity. He's in the alpha, the omega part, you know, the eternal part, the spiritual part. And even unto me Daniel after that which appeared in me at the first and I saw in a vision and it came to pass when I saw that I was at Shushan in the palace which is in the province of Elam and I saw in a vision and I was by the River Of Ulai. And so this is near the, as I said, the Persian winter palace, and Daniel's about 69 years old at this point in May. And this area is 2,300 miles away from from Babylon is where he's at. He says, then I lifted up mine eyes and saw and behold there stood before the river a ram which had two horns. Right. And the two horns were high but one was higher than the other. And the higher came up last. And so he's getting a vision of the ram, which is the Medo Persian Empire. Two horns, one representing Cyrus, one representing Darius, and Cyrus would be the larger, the more powerful. And and he says, and I saw the ram pushing westward and northward and southward. So the Medo Persian Empire with their military might, they're pushing toward Babylon. They're pushing toward Egypt. They're pushing towards Syria. They're pushing toward Asia Minor, which is present day Turkey, pushing toward Northern Africa, that of Ethiopia. And so they're they're dominating. They're world dominant. And so this would be the second world dominant empire that we learned about in chapter two, you know, with Nebuchadnezzar's vision and Daniel interpreted for him, and as we saw in chapter seven also with Daniel's vision. And so the ram's pushing westward, northward, and southward so that no beast might stand before him, neither was there any that could deliver out of his hand, but he did according to his will and became great. And so this is God's sovereignty. God sovereignly chose the Medo Persians to conquer the Babylonians. The Babylonians had seventy years shelf life as a nation. What's the shelf life of this superpower we call America? 02/1950 almost. February? Alright. And how much time do we have left as a nation? We don't know. We don't know. We don't know. So is does the club of Rome have the world divided up into 10 regions? Yes. I posted I posted something that I don't think people are paying any attention to, and it's not causing the church to grow. I posted on Facebook the genius act and what Putin and his guys say about it. They're basically saying that this cryptocurrency movement, we're gonna take $37,000,000,000,000 debt, and we're gonna transfer it into crypto. Mhmm. And when we do that, it's going to balance the book, so to speak. It's gonna hide that debt, and we're gonna start over with crypto. Well, it's gonna greatly devalue our way of life when that happens. Mhmm. And it's Putin, and I don't know if it's Lavrov or his one of his guys said, basically, the world's not gonna accept that, so the world's gonna divide in regions. Oh, have you heard that before? Mhmm. And these regions right? 10 toes 10 regions. 10 horns, 10 crowns. Right? And the club of Rome's already got that map ready of the 10 regions. We've even heard our president talk about Greenland, Canada, and, you know, even the Panama Canal, this one region. So America could become the North American Union, a part of the North American Union, one of the 10. And and so that's that's very interesting to me that as we're thinking about Charlie's death, that the world's marching toward the beast system. Mhmm. That seems to be pretty important. But under the radar to most Christians, most churches not paying attention. And, again, it doesn't allow our church to grow because we want to believe we want to believe with all of our heart that the best is yet to come. Mhmm. Mhmm. The golden age is right up ahead because we're a godly Christian nation. Our cabinet just got up there and preached the gospel. What nation is like America? So would a godly Christian nation present the warp speed jab where millions of people are dying from being vaccinated? Would a godly Christian nation slam the dollar? Oh, human trafficking. Crashed the dollar. Human trafficking. Epstein no. You can't talk about Epstein anymore since Charlie Kirk. They wiped it out. You can't say anything about Israel since Charlie Kirk. Mhmm. They passed legislation. You can't say anything. No hate speech. So what we're watching is censorship and a greater and greater emphasis upon the government merging with the church. And when I was trying to meditate on this, think about this this morning, and I'm like, Lord, is this part of the one world religious system that's coming? Where government, as Rick Warren pointed out with his three legged stool, where government merges with business, merges with the church? And part of what the government does is the government starts the ability of surveillance Oh, yeah. And then they pass it off to Peter Thiel of of of Palantir and PayPal because then the government's not responsible because we have a constitution. So it's a private corporation that's gonna move forward with the technocracy, but it's the CIA and the funding of the government where $500,000,000,000 is just given to Peter Thiel to further develop this surveillance system. Am I crazy? That's not gonna grow the church, but it might grow you. It might make you aware as a disciple that there's a whole lot going on right now. And I know nobody wants to hear that, but it's happening whether you like it or not. It's moving forward. And your real ID and all this stuff is moving forward. It's gonna move forward. And so they gotta make you want it. They gotta make you and the compliance factor is is enormous. So it all ties in with what we're looking at. It's tying in with where the Antichrist is gonna be with the beast system. So if God has prophesied and let us know the Babylonians, the Medo Persians, the Greeks, the Roman Empire, we're living at a time right on the verge of the what? The rebirth of the fourth empire, which is what? The rebirth of the Roman Empire. The fifth empire, global dominant empire is what? The return of Jesus. Anybody aware of the return of Jesus? Yeah. Yes. You know? We've forgotten because we are fixated on making America great, entering into a golden age. Now these globalists that are doing the crypto and all that, they're gonna make obscene amounts of money as they rape the wealth, the real wealth, the tangible wealth of everybody, and transfer it into crypto. And then they're gonna tokenize. They're gonna tokenize every asset on the planet, and they're going to bring a value of trees, a value of the national parks, a value of dirt, everything. And then there's gonna be a new tax. The tax is a green tax, a climate tax. And everything you say, do, is gonna be monitored. And, hate speech, I'm already on the hate speech thing. So sorry to be such a quench, but that's prophecy. That's what's happening in real time in the world in which we live. Mhmm. And and I know that the more of the bible you teach, the smaller your church will be in the last days. So Right. But you might grow. You might grow. We might grow. We might be ready. Another thing to factor in is how great is your faith? When the son of man comes, will he find faith on the earth? Most important thing is that you and I grow in faith. If we're growing in faith and faith comes by hearing hearing by the word of God, as you're watching enormous amounts of people melt down right now, melt down emotionally. Mhmm. They sense something's up, and people are suicide's so high, and the the the anxiety and stress level of people, a lot of people are just checking out. They they they wanna find a way of refuge, a way of escape. And for them, many churches are that way of escape. The big word within churches is we're broken. And the church service is designed as therapy for the broken. You hear what I'm saying? Yeah. Everybody's broken. So it's a time of tissue and oh. Whereas Jesus is the great physician. We're sinners, and he's building us up. He's strengthening us, and we're gonna be able to we're gonna be able to face what's coming because of faith, because we have faith. And it gives us a lesson in this regard in Hebrews 11, by faith, by faith, by faith, by faith. If we don't have faith, we're not gonna make it. Therapy is not gonna help me. I need the Lord to help me with faith. I need to have faith in the Lord. I need to put my faith in him because man's gonna fail me. So they're they're presenting to people going to church. They're presenting pharmaceutical and therapeutic methodologies to help people to cope. We as Christians, we cope how? By trusting Jesus. Do do you think this is working in Syria, in in Iran where Christians are being persecuted? They're focused on Jesus. Right? So our faith needs to become more and more bedrock, the bedrock to the very core of who we are and to be ready for what's for what's coming. So Daniel says, I left my eyes and saw and behold there stood before the river a ram which had two horns and and two horns were high but one was higher. So he's differentiating between Cyrus and Darius of the Medes and the Persians and then the other. And the higher came up last. And and remember horns, when we're looking at horns, it speaks of it speaks of a king. It speaks of power because this is important. Because when you see the 10 toes of Daniel two and you see the horns in Daniel seven and then horns in eight, and then when we get to Revelation, you know, thirteen and seventeen, it's crowns and kings. And back in chapter seven, it talked about a king. So the antichrist kingdom is a rebirth of the Roman Empire, which is imperial, which is 10 kings. And then as we saw, the Antichrist, the little horn of Daniel seven eight, becomes the dominant leader. Three of them fight with him. He snuffs it. He wins. He becomes the eighth, and the other seven give over their sovereignty to the antichrist during the tribulation period, the remaining three and a half years. Alright. So we have to remember these the these the interpretation of these words. So I saw the ram pushing westward, northward, southward, not to eastward because he's coming from the east. And so that no beasts, so none of these other countries might stand before him, neither was there any that could deliver out of his hand, but he did according to his will and became great. And so, the lord describes Cyrus, you know, my servant Cyrus. God used Cyrus to defeat the Babylonians. God is using the Medo Persians, to dominate Babylon and to have a a world dominance for two hundred years. And then the lord brings on the stage the, the Greeks of Alexander the Great. Now one of the preludes to bringing on the Greeks is the Grecian culture. And the Grecian culture is gonna be dominant during the time of Christ. And during the time of Christ, as the bible, you have people speaking Aramaic, The apostle Paul's gonna know, you know, Aramaic. He's gonna Hebrew. He's gonna know Hebrew. He's speaking Hebrew at the Antonio Fortress. But the dominant language is Greek, And the reason for that is the Lord's gonna write the Bible in Greek. He's gonna write the New Testament in Greek because the the Greek language is so incredibly powerful. As we often have said before, there's four different words for love in Greek. There's one word for love in America, in English. And I love In N Out burgers. I love a cheeseburger. And I love Kathy, and I love Jesus. And I'm using the same word, and I love my grandkids. I love my family. In the Greek language, God's setting the stage. He's using the Romans too for the Pax Romana. He's going to use the Romans to build these big roads and bridges and subdue everybody around so that the gospel that's written in Greek and the letters that are written in Greek, that they're spread, that they go out all over the known world. Okay? So he's setting the stage for for the gospel to go forth. Now in those last days, he's allowing the technology to bring it forth. Like yesterday, they said the largest the largest audience ever heard, you know, the presentation of the gospel with all the satellite technology and all. The two witnesses in Revelation 11, the whole world's gonna see it. You know? So so if I love my family, I would use my family. That's a family love. If I love my brother, I would say my brother, Philadelphia, city of brotherly love. If I want to express my passion or romance toward my wife, it would be an eros love, the erotic love of romance. K? That's three. The fourth one is the one that you and I as Christians, only you and I can experience, and that's a Agape. Agape. Good. Agape. Right? Agape. And the agape love is an unconditional love. It's a spiritual love that, again, Sunday, somebody said, well, how do I know that I'm filled with the spirit? Love. When you become a Christian, the spirit dwells within you. Now all of a sudden, you're able to love like you've never loved before because that's a divine love that God placed in your heart. So this language is a very powerful language. So as we're transitioned from Babylon now Babylon influences the world from Genesis chapter ten and eleven on into chapter seventeen and eighteen in the book of Revelation. The Babylonian influence continues in a negative way, influencing the world with, the whole Babylonian religious system that's permeated Roman Catholicism and and covered the whole world. And and so the the anyway, moving moving out of the from the Medes and the Persians in these two verses three and four, we're gonna we're gonna transition into the third global empire, which is that of Greece. And so he says, and as I was considering, behold, a he goat A he goat is what? A ram? You hunters, what would you call that big Billy. Buck. A buck. Buck. Does a buck goat? That's right. Is a buck is a big buck. I like gold milk. Mhmm. You don't wanna milk this one, isn't it? You could try. Set yourself up, Thomas. It's Alright. Yeah. I'm getting a visual. Alright. And as I was considering, behold, a he goat came from the West over the face of, and this is the first European empire, Greece. And as he was considering, behold, I I had a he goat came from the West over the face of the whole earth and touched not the ground and the goat had a notable horn between his eyes. So, I mean, this is so fascinating. In chapter two verse 39 describe this goat. Someone read that. Somebody else describe this goat in chapter seven verse six. Chapter two verse 39. What nation are we talking about? The thighs of what? Remember head of gold. Boy, have we gone that far? That's Babylon. Chest of and arms of silver. Mhmm. Medo Persia. Medo Persia. Right? Now, thighs of brass. And this is the Greek empire. Right? Mhmm. And then the four winged leopard flying leopard with four heads. Seven verse six. Who's that? Remember the symbolism? It's the it's the it's the it's the Greek empire. The leopard is fast with wings. You're gonna see that Alexander the Great conquers the world quickly. It's like he's flying. He's just flying. He's going so fast. Right? And then the four heads, Bruce just said, represents four generals upon the death of of Alexander the Great. The kingdom's divided up into four under four generals regionally. Right? Okay. So we we see that it's repeating it. It's really helping us to come to terms. We're not making this up. We're not allegorizing. We're not the Bible interprets much of this for us. Right? So we don't have to speculate. Alright. So the he goat came from the West over the face of the whole earth and didn't touch the ground. He moved so fast like a leopard like a leopard with wings. And the goat had a notable horn. This notable horn speaks of a visionary, great vision, tactical vision between his eyes. And and this is this is speaking of Alexander, a billy goat, a linebacker. He crushes everybody. Right? He goat, Buck. Hey, Buck. Name to call your son. Right? Hey, Buck. And he came to the ram, not your daughter. And he came to the ram that had two horns, which I'd seen standing before the river and ran into him in his furious power. So what's that mean? He smashed the Medo Persian empire, just smashed it. And he's getting vengeance on him because Darius had earlier, with his son, tried to smash Greece and they failed twice. And then in the in the time frame there, Alexander's father died, Philip Of Macedon, who had got the army really strong. And and now Alexander has his chance and he had to prove himself to his generals and to everybody that he was capable of of taking the reins of leadership. And and he began to go smash kingdoms, And he smashed the most powerful kingdom of the time, that of the Medo Persians. And I saw him come close to the ram and he was moved with anger against him and smote the ram, so this is personal, and broke his two horns and there was no power in the ram to stand before him, but he cast down to the ground and he stamped upon him and there was none that could deliver the ram out of his hand. So there's no way for the Babylonians to defend themselves from the Medo Persians, just snuffed out quickly because God sovereignly said, it's your time. So too with the Medo Persians, they were powerful. Nobody's gonna mess with them for two hundred years. And then there came a shelf lifetime. You're done. So the handwriting on the wall, Daniel five, meaning, meaning Tekoyeufarsan. Right? Yeah. You're you've been weighed in the balance, found wanting. Your kingdom's taken from you. It's over. It's divided up to the Medes and the Persians. Right? God says it's over. And so I like the beginning of a run. You know, I like the beginning. You know, the Cathy and I were on vacation. She says, you know, Rick, I love that first week. Why? Because I just know it's not the last day of our vacation. You know? We gotta run ahead of us. Right? You're looking forward to all that you've been planning to do and so exciting. And then we'll we'll bum ourselves out that last week and say, oh, we only got four days left. We got three days left. You know? Unless it's exciting to come home to the church and to the grandkids, then you're anxious to come back. Right? And tired of living out of a suitcase. Alright. So these guys it's it's pointed on an all man once to die and then the judgment. Right? Now Alexander the Great, he tradition tells us that he was bummed out because there was no more place to conquer. He's all the way up to India. He's smashing everybody, and and some say he was poisoned. But he was he was a drinker. He's a partier. And some say he drank and then he got pneumonia. He got sick and and then he died at an early age at 32 years of age. And so so his reign of terror as a billy goat, you know, it's it's fun, and a lot of people talk about it. The climb to the top, the the running toward the goal for many is is exhilarating. And then they describe when they reach the top, where do they go from there? Right. And many of them realized they're not satisfied. It didn't satisfy like they thought it would. Mhmm. But we with Jesus, he gives us living water. He satisfies us. Mhmm. We we we aren't on a quest to try and go beyond Jesus. When we have him, we know he's our portion when he has us. And and he has so much more in store for us. And so when we're when we're motivated to move forward with the gospel, it's for his kingdom. It's as his servants, as his ambassadors of his coming kingdom. We're heralding to everybody, the king is coming. Jesus is coming. And that's part of the gospel. It's not just ask Jesus in your heart and get saved. It's get saved, begin to serve him, and let people know he's coming again. Amen. Don't leave the prophecy out. So so to the ground, he stomped upon him, and there was none that could deliver the ram out of his hand. And, so conquered the Medo of the Persians, Babylon in March and Susa in March. Therefore the he goat grew very great. The Greek culture grew it. It just they had said that the Romans conquered the Greeks, but the Greek conquered the Romans culturally, that they couldn't stop the culture from permeating them. And we have to be careful in Western culture that other cultures don't dominate us Amen. Through infiltration. And, we love as a melting pot in America that we can take the best of all the cultures. You know? But we assimilate, all of us, no matter where we come from. We're Americans. But there are cultures in the last fifty, sixty years in Europe, in here, Muslim culture, that doesn't wanna assimilate instead wants to dominate, and it's part of their belief system. They infiltrate, then they dominate. And and so in Europe, we're watching a huge effort on instituting Sharia law. Well, you're welcome here in Texas. You're welcome here in Minnesota and these places in America, but and you can worship how you want, build a mosque, but you're not gonna impose Sharia law. We have a law, and our law is based upon the constitution. We're a constitutional republic. So it's incumbent upon you if you want to become a citizen to be assimilated in our culture. Right? And hopefully people understand that that freedom doesn't mean the freedom to you know, with your progressive agenda to eradicate our constitute our culture, our Western culture that's based upon the Judeo Christian ethic and bring in atheism or Marxism or wokeism or whatever else it is. So so anyway, the the culture of Greece dominated strong and the great horn was broken for it came four notable ones toward the four winds of heaven. So who are these four notable ones? Four generals. Four generals. Cassander over Macedon in Greece. Lysimachus over Asia Minor in Thrace, which is Turkey. Seleucus over Syria, and Syria's gonna be the next one that we look at with the Tiakis Epiphanes. Upper Asia, Babylon, and the East. Ptolemy, Egypt, Palestine, and Arabia. Now Alexander the Great, as I said, he was tutored by Aristotle and this guy, the Lord chose him. The Lord chose him to be that leader. And on June tenth three twenty three BC, he died at 32 years of age. So he died a very young man and and out of one of them came forth a little horn which grew exceedingly great toward the South and toward the East and toward the pleasant land. So this out of one of the four of the generals out of Syria grew this little horn and this little horn here is not the Antichrist, he's a type of the Antichrist, This is a Tiochis Epiphanes the fourth. And, again, his name means god manifest. So he's a type of antichrist, little g god, or the illustrious one. And he hates notice what it says, which great grew exceedingly great toward the South, and this is and toward the East and toward the pleasant land. The pleasant land is Jerusalem. Yeah. Mhmm. Right? And so he's he's growing in that direction and that of Israel from January to January and until September from September sixth BC, January to January, which is December 25 that his reign stopped. And it grew great even to the host of heaven and it cast down some of the host and the stars to the ground and stamped upon them. So he went into the temple and he slew Onias, the high priest, killed him. Yeah. He magnified himself even to the prince of the host, the high priest, and by him, the daily sacrifice was taken away. Same thing the antichrist is gonna do at the midpoint of the tribulation period. Right? Twelve hundred and sixty days in, the antichrist who confirmed the covenant, started the covenant at the beginning. We're gonna see in Daniel nine. He goes into the temple, declares himself to be god, demands to be worshiped as god. And he stops the sacrifices, the mosaic system of Judaism that was restarted, and he declares himself to be god and demands to be worshiped as god. So a tiochis here is a prelude. And throughout history, many have tried to say that spirit of antichrist has been in others like Nero. Some say Nero possessed the spirit of antichrist. Some say Hitler possessed the spirit of antichrist. Basically, it means is these leaders have become demonically possessed, possessed by the devil, possessed by demons. Right? Maybe Stalin, some of these guys that are able to do atrocious, terrible, terrible genocide of people. And you'll notice also a hatred of God, a rebellion against God, a hatred toward Israel, a hatred toward Christians, a hatred toward anything that that God loves, anyone that God loves. And that's the spirit of antichrist. And so he stamped upon them. Yeah. He magnified himself even to the prince of the host and by him the daily sacrifice taken away, and the place of his sanctuary was cast down. And so he offered pigs. He desecrated it, and it was wicked, wicked and evil toward the Jews. And there came a day where the Jews, Joseph Maccabeus, where they revolted, they had enough, and a host was given him against the daily sacrifice by reason of transgression, and it cast down the truth to the ground and it continued and prospered. So he trampled the temple, no longer any scriptures, you know, being read. And just stop the the worshiping of God, the true worship of God. He said then Daniel speaking. Then I heard one of the saints of the holy one speaking and another saint said, unto that certain saint, so he's listening on a conversation, how long shall be the vision concerning the daily sacrifice and the transgression of desolation. Remember the abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel the prophet? To give both the sanctuary and the host to be trampled underfoot. How long is the abomination of desolation gonna last? And he said unto me, unto 2,300, then shall the sanctuary be cleansed. So that's two thousand three hundred days from January to January. December 25 is gonna end. And that's gonna be with Joseph Maccabees, the Maccabean revolt. And that's why the Jews celebrate Hanukkah, the feast of lights. John ten twenty two, Jesus celebrated in the feast of lights. And you remember historically, your bibles tell you, study bibles? Did you Google it? What is Hanukkah? You can Google it. You can see where they lacked oil and God miraculously called caused the menorah to continue to burn as the oil was was replenished continuously over this time. So you're in a time of great darkness. They're bringing about a reform or a resurgence or revival, and it's and it's epitomized, symbolized by light. The nation of Israel is to be a light under the Gentiles. Right? You and I are the city set on a hill. We as Christians, Jesus is the light of the world and we reflect his light to the world that's perishing that's perishing in darkness. Right? Isn't that exciting? To not live in darkness anymore? To live in the light? To walk in the light? And so the Daniel gets the interpretation of the vision now. And it came to pass when I even I, Daniel, had seen the vision and sought for the meaning, then behold, there stood before me, one having the appearance of a man. So when you talk about when people talk about the Nephilim, Genesis six, the sons of God that left their first estate and cohabitated with women, there was giants in the land. Some tried to say that that, no, these are the sons of Seth, the line of Seth. You know? But the Hebrew Nephilim and these these sons of God, they cohabitated with women. So part of what Satan was doing is he was trying to destroy the genealogy of human beings. He was trying to pollute the genome, the DNA of man because Satan knew that the Messiah would be the son of man, the virgin born son of God. So he was trying to eradicate human beings. And then there's a guy named Noah who found grace in the eyes of the Lord, and it says that Noah was perfect in his generations. Well, Noah wasn't perfect in his generations morally. What it meant was is more most excuse me. Noah Noah was pure genealogically. He he hadn't cohabitated nor was his line polluted. What are they trying to do with the mRNA vaccine? Trying to pollute people's DNA. Right? Trying to ruin who you are, your your your your DNA. And it could be transhumanism along with a a demonic effort to, again, make you a son of Satan, you know, a freak. So anyway, back there, there's times where when people ask Jesus, you know, this guy had seven wives, and when he when he dies, you know, who's gonna be his wife? And Jesus said, you in that we neither marry nor are given in marriage in heaven. Right? So people look at that and they say, you know, the angels the angels don't marry. You know, you're gonna be like the angels. They're neither married nor given in marriage. Well, that's true of the holy angels. But what we're talking about here is the unholy angels, the unholy angels that left their first estate of being angels. Now notice how this angel appears as a man. Think of Genesis chapter 19 when Abraham's visited by three men. Two of them are angels, and they look like men. So these angels that can take on the form of a man, those are holy angels. Unholy angels take on the form of man, cohabitating with women, and the offspring is the sniffling. Mhmm. So the flood was such to wipe out all of man. And then Noah and his family come upon the planet again, and now they begin to repopulate the planet. And yet in the time of Joshua, there's the Anakim. It looks like it happened again, you know, a pollution there. But in any event, that's so here we see a man, but this man is Gabriel, an angel. The same Gabriel that met with Zechariah in Luke chapter one or excuse me, Luke one nineteen and and then who met with Mary, letting her know that she would, you know, have a child. So the same Gabriel. Now if you go in the Apocrypha, people tell me there's names of a bunch of different angels, which we don't go to the Apocrypha for, sometimes for historical purposes, but that's about it. And we compare the scripture, make sure the scripture's, dominant. But, what angels do you know by name in the bible? Michael. Michael the archangel? Michael. Michael. Michael. Michael. Michael. Michael. Michael. Michael. Michael. Michael. Those three three that we know. Right? Yeah. Yeah. Lucky Lucy. Luciano Lucifer, son of the morning, false light. And when we watch It's a Wonderful Life, we meet another one. Right? There you go. Alright. So having the appearance of a man, and I heard a man's voice between the banks of the Ulai who called and said, Gabriel, make this man to understand the vision. Now every time a guy like Daniel or John the revelator meets up with an angel, they drop to the ground, don't they? Right. They're they're afraid. There's a fear. So that give you an indicator how these angels look. Maybe they got sort of a glow to them, got sort of a brightness. You know? Make this man to understand the vision. So he came near where I stood and when he came I was afraid, there you go, afraid, and fell upon my face. But he said unto me, understand. God wants us to understand. God's not trying to hide or keep truth from us. He encourages us to be students of his word, to study, to show ourselves approved unto God, rightly dividing the word of truth, workmen that need not be ashamed. If you ever hear of a pastor saying, a guy that's supposed to be a pastor saying, he doesn't teach prophecy because he hasn't studied it. He doesn't teach the book of Revelation because he's never studied it. He's incompetent. Mhmm. He's disqualified. By very definition, he's to present the full counsel of God to God's people. That's what that's what Paul said to the Ephesian elders. Yeah. So he's following a gimmick. He's following a program to just get numbers into a church, but he's not truly a pastor, teacher taking the sheep through the bible. When the lord said to Peter, do you love me? And the lord played on words. Love words. Yeah. That's a good study there. Philo, agape. Do you love me, Peter? Yeah. You know I love you. What'd he say? Feed my sheep. Feed my sheep. Tend the lambs. Tend the lambs. Feed my sheep. Feed my sheep. Three times. One for each sign that Peter denied the Lord. Right? Peter, I love you. You're not disqualified. You don't need to go back to fishing. I'm gonna make you fisher of man. I'm gonna fulfill that what I promised you, but this is your job description. This is what I want you to do. You're not only a fisher of men, you're gonna try and reach them with the gospel, but once they're caught, now I want them taught. I want you to feed the sheep. What's the food? The word of God. What did he have at hand? The Old Testament. And what do you do with the Old Testament? You connect the Old Testament, expose it, and open it to preach Christ. The volume of the book is written of Jesus. Mhmm. That's what you do. And people fall in love with Jesus as the scripture opens up and they discover Jesus on every page, you know, every every all the way through. So understand, oh, man. And the Lord hasn't you know, the Lord could do a much better job than human beings as pastor teachers. He could use angels. Right? But he's chosen for us as human beings to be teachers. You're a teacher. I'm a teacher. We all teach. We teach our kids. We teach our grandkids. We teach one another. We encourage one another. And I've never met an angel that I'm aware of. Kathy's a close thing, but my grandkids. But I knew that. You knew that was coming, Betty? You know it's coming? Kinda cheesy there? Yeah. That was sweet. Well, I'll get a smile out of her. I guarantee it. Right? So so understand, oh, son of man, for the time of the end shall be, the vision. Or excuse me, Gabriel, make this man to understand the vision. So I came near where I stood, and when I came, I was afraid and fell upon my face. But he said unto me, you know, I would like that if people came to church and they were afraid. I would like if people came to church and they weren't so incredibly arrogant dictating to me what they want. I would love if people feared God, simply feared God, and say, God, what do you have for me today? Rather than imposing upon the pastor some sort of baloney. You know? Just baloney. You know? And many of the pastors give into it. They just give in to the pressure. I I heard Wayne Wayne and them were telling me about a pastor that was teaching at a local church here, and he got fired because he was teaching too much of the bible. That their people want are people that they wanted to be motivated, entertained, and more energy, you know, that sort of thing. But he was actually trying to teach them Mhmm. And they fired him. It's not what they want. They want life coaches. They want pep rallies. They want people to feel good. But during that pep rally, they're gonna ask for money over and over and over again because it's a social gospel. That's the saddest part is the manipulation of the people. So understand the vision. So I came near where I stood, and when I came, I was afraid. The fear of the Lord is a beginning of wisdom. The fear of the Lord is a beginning of knowledge. And when we lose the fear of the Lord, boy, we can get off track. And he shouldn't be fearing the angel, but hopefully there's a fear of the Lord here. And a reverence, a respect for God. And fell upon my face, but he said unto me, understand, O son of man, for at that at the time of the end shall be the vision. So when as far as the antichrist, at the time of the end shall be the vision. So some of what you're seeing here is the time of the end. When Daniel gets over to chapter 12, he's told that it's sealed, but knowledge will increase in the end. And then people are gonna be running to and fro and think more information. Well, look at the information we have now with AI, with all the technology. Knowledge is gonna increase and can be so quick and fast and everything. And that's why it's so exciting for you and I to be students of the bible because the beast system's being built. And it's it's happening in in our time, and we were told ahead of time. And so the end shall be the vision. So Luke twenty one twenty four speaks of the times of the Gentiles is gonna end with the return of Jesus Christ. And so now as he was speaking with me, I was in a deep sleep. Betty, you ever had that happen to you at church? No. No. I heard about it. Yeah. If the pastor wasn't so boring. Right? Alright. So now as he was speaking with me, I was in a deep sleep on my face to the toward the ground. Why is it every time we try to pray, we fall asleep? You ever get on your knees by the sofa and I'm a you know, I'm gonna I'm gonna pray and you wake up with drool all over you? Ever had that happen? Ever try to sit in bed or sit in a nice comfortable chair and read your bible and then pray and you're snoring, you're waking up, you know. But if a movie pops on or somebody says, hey. I've got some cherry pie. Man, I'm right awake. You can't get me asleep. Right? How about some chocolate? Yeah. So I try to I try to flagellate myself while I'm beat myself into submission. Yeah. And walk. It's kinda hard to fall asleep if you're walking praying. That's a good reason to have a prayer walk, know. But I I one time so I've told you the story that how bad I am. I finished the service at the Roxy, and it's a Sunday, and this young couple came in for marriage counseling. Now they've since divorced, but it wasn't my fault. But they came in, and they they wanted marital counseling. So Kathy's in there with me, and I'm there. And they start to talk to me about their what's going on, and I'm really intuitive, and I already know. And so I'm listening, and I start to talk to him. And the next thing I know, I'm going, and I fall asleep. As I'm talking, I fall asleep. And I hear Kathy, Rick, you know, and I woke up. You know? And they were so they were so gracious to me. But that's a true story. Right, Kath? True story. And, I mean, as you're talking, I mean, my schedule during those days was so full, and we would do Friday night outreaches, and they're all week long. Saturday morning men, Saturday all day there, Saturday night concerts real late at night, come back Sunday. By Sunday afternoon, I'm like, I'm gone. And I can do Sunday morning, but in the afternoon, even people that go out to lunch with me and stuff on Sundays, it's like that filter isn't there anymore. And and I say things that I normally wouldn't say. I'm I don't I'm I'm so tired. I'm so delirious. Yeah. But so anyway, he's he's fallen asleep. I know that on my face toward the ground, but he touched me and set me upright. Now the woman who had an issue of blood for twelve years, she said, if I can just touch the hem of Jesus' garment, if I can just just touch it. Right? That that sounds like a a good song. He touched me. Right? Right? Right. That's a that's a good song. And so this is an angel touched me and set me upright. He's like, get him off his face. Get sit up. Sit up. Wake up. And he said, behold, I'll make thee know what shall be in the last end of the indignation for at the time appointed the end shall be. Prophecy is 100% accurate. There's nobody going to stop what's coming. Now the church could slow it down. The church can be salt and light and slow down the putrefaction, the corruption of this world. But if the church doesn't want to expose the darkness, if they keep hiding from the truth because it's doom and gloom and blah blah blah blah blah, then it's gonna accelerate. The birth pangs are gonna accelerate, and that's what we're watching. It's accelerating because the 2% of the church only 2% study prophecy. And of that 2%, how many are trying to teach others of what's coming or what's happening? 27% of the Bible's prophecy. It's not doom and gloom. Jesus is coming back. Amen. But if if you don't expose them, then they're emboldened to go for the goal. The devil's been held back, you know. The devil, the restrainer in second Thessalonians two, we restrain evil, the church, when the church is awake. But if we fall asleep, then evil's allowed to and what's William Burke? Edmund Burke's quote. Edmund Burke. In order for evil to try and what? Good men must do nothing. I don't know any good men. Do you know any good men? But supposedly, good men, Christians, if they'll wake if they'll just speak, we're not even asking you to have weapons or strategize or anything carnally. It's just speak up. Expose the darkness. Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose it. And when you turn the light switch on, oh, they hate it. Some of the places that before you bought your house, they or some of the hotels maybe stayed at, the seedy places, you turn the light switch on and the cockroaches flee, don't they? They hide under everything. Yeah. Right? Yeah. And they don't like it. They love darkness. And they're angry at you when you walk into Sodom and Gomorrah and you hold them accountable. They're angry. Why don't you leave us alone? That's what they want. They want the darkness. But if the Christians apostatize or indifferent or don't know the time of his coming, they don't know the time they're living in, then Paul would say to the church of Romans, Romans, you know, it's high time to wake out of sleep. For now is our salvation nearer than what we believed. Right? Yes. Yes. So awaken. And it's very important to be awake. The time appointed. It's gonna it's gonna come at the end there. The ram, which you saw, so we get to interpret the ram, having two horns, these are the kings of Medium Persia. And the rough goat is the king of Greece, Alexander the Great. He's a buck. MMA. And the great horn that is between his eyes is the first king. And so you've got Greek, the the roughcoat is is Greece and the horn between it is is Alexander the Great, the first king. And then now that being broken whereas four stood up for it, four kingdoms shall stand up out of the nations out of the nation, but not in his power. So the Grecian empire continued, but not as powerful under the leadership of the four generals, and Alexander died at 32 years of age. So we had we had the demise of the Greek empire. And then before Rome came along and took over, we've got during that period of time, four hundred year gap there, we had that time of Attiakis Epiphanes and then also a future pointing future of the antichrist. So in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressions are come to the full, a king of fierce countenance and understanding, dark sentences shall stand up. So very occultic and we're living in that time today. We're in the last days. God is patiently waiting. God is long suffering, willing that any would perish, but that all would come to repentance. And that's why the delay has been so long of the return of Jesus. There's still more people to be saved. And yesterday, with the gospel going forth with Charlie Kirk, for me, the verse that I think of, and I quoted it several times yesterday, except a corn and wheat fall to the ground and die, it abides alone. But if it dies, it bears much fruit. The death, the seed of the church is the blood of the martyrs. When when the when martyrdom happens, when witnesses refuse to compromise, many times the devil's allowed to to kill them, and governments sanction killing. People that kill and report on you will think they do god's service. Mhmm. And, you know, and so and as that happens, rather than the church cowering and going underground and and ceasing to exist, the church in many cases flourishes. So in the first two centuries, 6,000,000 Christians were killed by 10 waves of Roman Emperors that were trying to stamp out Christianity with the overt in the face trying to wipe them out, and they began to be entertained with Christians in the Colosseum and coats of skins over them and wild beasts in there and all different types of sport of killing of Christians. And, pretty soon the people lost the taste for it after a little while. But, over two hundred years of, of this, and the church went into catacombs, caves, and dens, and we read about them in Hebrews 11. And and they tried to they tried to live underground, kinda like those in under the radar in China today and in Syria. They're being wiped out in Syria, and I don't know why president Trump and the US government doesn't go rescue the Christians in Syria being wiped out. Mhmm. I know that president Trump was we meeting with the new leader of Syria, which is ISIS, and they are they are devouring Christians. And in present day Iran, fastest growing church in the world is in Iran, and they're under fire. I don't understand it, but you know, why they're not rescued breaks my heart. But I know that on the first two centuries, it they failed. The devil's attack was a frontal attack to try and destroy the church. It didn't work. The much greater attack is to join the church. The devil's infiltrated the church, and the church is so incredibly corrupt. And that corruption is what impedes our progress as a church. And and so the tares with the wheat, the sheep with the goats, the last day's church is the Laodicean, an indifferent, an insipid, an a lukewarm, powerless church, powerless to transform and change lives. And Jesus is set outside the church in Revelation three twenty knocking on the door of the church. He's been kicked out of his church. And so you know what I'm gonna say next. Jesus the church of Laodicea. The now Laodicea means people rule. So the people are ruling. How are the people ruling? With feelings. Not the authority of God's word anymore. Moving forward, it's a progressive revelation. The progressives are moving forward in the church by morphing or excuse me. Not morphing. Mimicking the world. Bringing the world into the church, and I feel I feel its feelings. It's it's humanism rather than the authority of God's word. So Right. That's that's what's happened. And part of the way they deceive themselves is economically, they say I'm rich and increased with goods and need of nothing. It must be God's blessing on my life. Look at look at how rich I am. And you're not even aware. You're delusional that you kick Jesus out. Yeah. And he's wanting fellowship, knocking on the door. And so that's that's where the last days church is. And and so just try to survive. That's all we gotta do. Just survive this. Just survive this this apostasy by walking humbly with our God, by having a childlike faith. And keep your eyes on Jesus and be being filled with the spirit and allow your faith to grow, and you're ready for anything that comes because you're the you're the five virgins with the oil. You got the oil. You're ready. You're watching, waiting for the for for the groom to to return for you. And so in the latter times, their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king of fierce countenance and understanding dark sentences shall stand up. So Adolf Hitler, they studied the occult. They wanted the power of the occult. Now they're gonna have Satan incarnate. You know, they're gonna have the the antichrist. And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power, and he shall destroy wonderfully and shall prosper and continue and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people. So the satanic hatred of the Jews, the Antichrist, is gonna come after him. In Revelation chapter 12, the nation of Israel is described as the woman And the antichrist goes after the woman. The one third remnant has to flee. And two thirds according to Zechariah thirteen eight nine, two thirds of the Jews are wiped out during the tribulation period, a one third remnant gonna be preserved. But the satanic hatred, the antisemitism of the nation of Israel. And presently, nations are meeting with the UN to determine if there should be a Palestinian state, if we should divide Israel. And I don't see this any of my business. It's I'm not Israel should be sovereign and able to have its own borders and shouldn't be divided. Would you want America to be divided if the UN was voting on it? He'd say, no. These are our borders. And and through his policy, this antichrist, this isn't a Tiakis Epiphanes, although a Tiakis is a type. And through his policy also he shall cause deceit to prosper. Oh my gosh. Is he already in power? He's gotta already be in power. I'm so blown away at the times of deceit that we're living in. Mhmm. I mean, I watched the Charlie Kirk videos. Some of it is just so obvious AI. One of them is one of them is this. Up on the roof, supposed shooter, the the building has a shadow going this way. The sun's over here. The shooter running, no shadow. No shadow at all. But when he's down on the ground, there's a shadow. Another one is a chair that's to the if you're looking at Charlie to the left, is going through a table. It's AI generated. The video is AI generated. So we don't know what's the truth anymore when we're watching it thirdhand or fourthhand. And I wanna ask another question. When's the last time everybody believed the official narrative of the media? Didn't we learn a thing during COVID? Everybody's believing hook, line, and sinker, everything they're told right now. And if you question it remember Bush when during nine eleven? If you even question it, you're either for us or against us to go after these terrorists, you'd be in trouble. And today, I'm gonna get banned. I'm gonna get canceled. I'm gonna have a bad social credit score if I even question the official narrative. That's censorship. That's that's that's what they did with nine eleven. Then what happened with nine eleven? They got caught in their lies. Building 7 fell at 05:20 in the evening. No airplanes hit it. Everyone's forgotten, haven't they? They got caught. But not everybody's awake on that one either. Mhmm. Explain to me how did a 44 storey four story building collapse in its footprint textbook controlled demolition with just an office fire that was put out. How'd that happen? And when the media announced it, the media from Europe, yes, a third building just fell. When we talk Building 7, it's not 7 Buildings. It's called Building 7. You got twin towers. Supposedly, hit it. Let me ask you this. If an airplane with a nose cone of aluminum hits a bird, what happens? Crunches it. If an airplane hits a steel girded building and goes through it and comes out the other side in the picture, how did that happen? It's aluminum. It can happen. But at the time, there's so much shock and awe. We don't know what and guess what? These guys wearing towels on their head. We got one of their passports down here on the ground. You know? And at the Pentagon, where's the plane debris? All the cameras are shut off. I've seen pictures of real airplanes crashing. There's debris everywhere, soon everywhere. There's hardly anything there at the Pentagon. Mm-mm. That's all. So if you don't if you don't believe the official story, you're you're at the time when it happened, there was this intensity to rally the troops to go after these weapons of mass destruction. And then my son-in-law and all the guys signed up. There weren't any message weapons of mass destruction. And Saddam Hussein didn't take babies and put them in microwaves. All these lies to demonize and hate the Iraqis. Our government can lie to us and not get in trouble. It's part of national security. So a time of deceit, when you see the antichrist with all this technology, all these cameras, and all the ability I haven't even mentioned holograms, you know, in different ways, project blue beam, and the way that they can project images. And they could take my voice right now. They could make a a video, and you would watch that video. There's no way you could prove it I didn't do it. How am I gonna defend myself that technology is so great? So a time of great deceit, and that's why Jesus said, be not deceived. And through his policy also he shall dis cause deceit to prosper in his hand and he shall magnify himself, a big bolster in his heart. Is this not great Babylon which I have built? And the five I will statements of Lucifer in Isaiah 14, the devil wants to be God. He's gonna magnify himself in his heart and and by notice by peace, Peace and security, peace and safety is how he's gonna get the people to follow, which means war. So let me ask you this. If all this fervor that's happening right now in this nationalism, Do you neck do you think possibly the next shoe to drop is war in The Middle East with Iran? Is that possible? Yeah. Are they gonna try and grab my grandkids and all these these cons good, conservative, godly Christian boys and girls and recruit them to go fight against Iran? Are we gonna go to war again? And then with that war, the antichrist gets to emerge with Ezekiel thirty eight and thirty nine, Russia going into Israel with a peace treaty, with peace peace and security. We need a peace guy. We need a guy to win the Nobel Peace Prize. So wars and rumors of wars, Jesus said. And then this man of peace comes along, and by peace shall destroy many. So by peace you're gonna destroy him. We're gonna go over there and we're gonna destroy these people so they don't develop nukes and kill us all. So by war, he's gonna gain peace. Shall destroy men and he shall also stand up against, the prince of princes, but he shall be broken without hands. So first Thessalonians two, how is this man destroyed? In second Thessalonians two, we read how he's destroyed. Sword of his mouth. In the second coming of Jesus, when he comes back, it's with the sword of his mouth and the brightness of his coming that he destroys this prince of princes that the whole world is saying, who can war with the antichrist? Who can fight against him? You know? And and he's just a nothing. He's not the opposite of God. Satan's not the opposite of God. Satan's a fallen angel. This is all counterfeit. This is all deception to put into Jared Kushner's heart that he would boast and say, my generation is never gonna die. That's what he's saying. They think they technologically have discovered, you know, how it is they're never gonna die through transhumanism and and chips in your brain and all that stuff. Well, chip your brain first. Let me watch you. I don't want it. In fact, I'm ready to die. I'm not afraid of death. I'm ready to go. I have to tell you this about one pastor I heard after Charlie Kirk, and it very dramatic, very drama drama drama filled. I wouldn't have approached it this way, but he approached the Charlie DeKirk thing as everybody needs to get a weapon. And the reason you get a weapon is not because you're afraid to die, because greater love is no man than this than a man laying down his life for his friend. We're not afraid to die, but we have a responsibility, and I agree with him. We have a responsibility to protect our family and those around us. So so he was saying his words were, I'm not ever going to be a soft target. But he's sending out a message to all he's he's he's baited, and he took the bait of dividing conservatives versus liberals. That's that's that's a trap. That's what this is designed to do. And it's designed to divide us and cause a civil war. And so I I don't I don't I don't buy into that. I you have to be taught to hate. You have to be lied to to hate. And Kathy said that somebody pulled up Calvary Bremerton, and it said something like Calvary Chapels love the gays and lesbians. Or what did it say? Are what's that? Gay letters? BG what is it? Favorable? LBGT favorable? LGBT. Yes. And and I think I am. I am favorable. I love them. They're sinners. Right. I don't hate them. Mhmm. But I'm not a progressive in that I condone that behavior. I would call them to repentance Yeah. Just as I would an adulterer Mhmm. And a liar, a thief. He was against? Repenting of sin. Oh, yeah. They they they don't think you need to repent of sin to be saved. You just believe. So, anyway, I think we're talking both there. When you believe, you repent. And if you believe, you repent. So a satanic hatred of the Jews and legislation just passed that people aren't gonna, be able to say anti Semitic things toward the nation of Israel and all in our country. It's gonna hate speech. So the thing that I was worried about is censorship where our right of free speech, the First Amendment's gonna be infringed upon. You you may be a whack a doodle like me and have some opinions, but just like I did nine eleven there, that could get me a lot of trouble. But that's my opinion based upon research that I've done. But you shouldn't be able to turn me into the authorities and have me thrown in jail over my opinion. Right? We still live in a country where there's where there's a Freedom of speech. Freedom of speech. Because if you start to take away my freedom of speech, then they're gonna do it to you. So that's the quote of Germany. First, they came for those in the unions and I didn't say anything, you know, and it goes right down the list. Then they came for me and there was nobody left to say anything. Right? So you gotta speak up. So he's gonna be a politician, gonna garner the support of the of the church, he's gonna be a peacemaker, noble peace shall be destroy many and he shall also stand up against the prince of princes, but he shall be broken without hands. So oh, the heathen rage, imagine a vain thing against the Lord and against his anointed. God holds them in derision, gonna wipe them out. They're gonna be destroyed. And you remember you remember in Acts chapter 12, king Herod when he gave stood up and gave a great oration, a great speech, and the people began to worship him. And and it says that he was wearing silver, an Armani suit made of silver. So with the sun shining on that, it's just glistening. It's just glistening. The t case Epiphanes, what's his name? God manifest, the illustrious one, this this bright light. These guys are egotistical. They love that. And what did the Lord do to this guy? He caused them to be eaten by worms right there. Mhmm. Yeah. Right there. Just oh, you think you're God? Watch this. Had them be consumed by worms right there. Worms and ulcers. And and the vision of the evening and the morning which was told is true. Wherefore shut thou up the vision for it shall be for many days. And so this this came four hundred years before. And I, Daniel, fainted and was sick certain days afterward. I rose up and did the king's business, and I was astonished at the vision, but but none understood. And sometimes when you're when God speaks to you and God one of the most frustrating things can be seeking people that can understand that understand. Mhmm. When you are around a group of people that study prophecy, believe prophecy, believe what's happening, that's called fellowship. You get to fellowship with some like minded people that are yearning for the second coming of Jesus, that are standing on tiptoes, standing on tiptoes watching and waiting. With other people, that excitement that you have and that anticipation of a soon return, to them, it's doom and gloom. And you don't get to fellowship with them about that blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and savior. And it's it can be frustrating. So Daniel, he who can he go and communicate and rejoice? Jeremiah is not there. You know? Who is he gonna communicate and and fellowship with about this? How exciting it is. But the other thing is when they get when a Jewish man, when he gets this sort of thing or like Habakkuk, when Habakkuk's getting a vision, you know, of God using Babylon to destroy Israel, it breaks their heart. It breaks the prophet's heart because it it's so bitter. It it's a bitter pill to swallow. And Daniel sees what's gonna happen to his nation in the latter end. Yeah. And most of the time, you're hoping for the Messiah to come that that wouldn't happen. In the next chapter, Daniel's gonna see that the Messiah's gonna be rejected. So Daniel's looking at the promise of the Messiah, and I know we've blown it, but at the end, it's still gonna be bad. You know? When he does come, well, he's gonna find out that in his first coming, Messiah's cut off. He's rejected. And so then there's a two thousand year gap between his second coming. Right? And so in this case here, he's writing this four hundred years before a Tiakis Epiphanes and the guys are gonna do their dirty. And I, Daniel, fainted and was sick certain days. He's just he's sickened by what he sees. Do you ever get sickened by what the Lord shows you? Does it break your heart? Afterward, I rose up. What what if the Lord showed you and removed the veil of the adrenachrome and sex trafficking of children? It'd make you sick, wouldn't it? And a lot of this stuff we don't wanna know. We we don't wanna know our sensibilities. We we afterward, I rose up and did the king's business, and I was astonished at the vision, but none understood it. John the beloved. Revelation chapter one verse three. Blessed he that reads and they that hear the words of this prophecy and keep those things which are written in it for the time is at hand. So Daniel's shutting it up for the time of the end. We're instructed the time is at hand. We don't need to shut it up and wait for the end. We're in the end. Yes. We're here. And, I mean, I don't know how you can get around it. In Revelation 22 verse 10. And he say it unto me, seal not the words of the prophecy of this book for the time is at hand. Why wouldn't you read the book of Revelation? If you're a pastor, you're in a church, why wouldn't you study the book of Revelation? The time is at hand. God's wanting you to know what's coming. He doesn't want you to be ignorant. He wants you to understand. Alright. Father, we thank you. Oh, Lord, we pray that you continue to be our teacher. You continue to help us be aware of the times in which we're living, that we'd be not deceived. And, Lord, I pray that you'll use all the crisis, all the chaos, all the the tragedy of the last few weeks, Lord, for your kingdom and your glory, that we seize the opportunity to preach the gospel. Again, Lord, we thank you for Charlie Kirk's witness, testimony, the stage being set for us to share the good news of Jesus coming. And I pray that you give us great, great opportunity. And again, Lord, all that the enemy has meant for evil to divide our country, to destroy this country, Lord, we pray you turn around for good. Lord, we do pray for revival, a real revival, a true revival, and, Lord, that we'd know that there is revival as we see repentance, that the people are turning as those in Nineveh as they repented, Lord. And you gave Nineveh a reprieve of over a hundred years before you finally judged. Lord, let your church awaken to righteousness. Help us, Lord, to lead the way. In Jesus' name, pray. Amen.

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Calvary Chapel Bremerton - Home Bible Study

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

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