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Ulcerated feet and problems with that. And, Lord, we pray that you would, heal him totally and completely. Thank you, Lord, for, Thomas' love of you, Lord. And, we just lift this night up to you, commit it into your hands, and ask that you be our teacher. And Lord, set upon this rock, you would build your church, and the gates of hell would not prevail against it, Lord. We pray that you would build us up, Lord, your church. In Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Amen. All right. Thank you, Rob. All right. We are in Daniel chapter nine. Last week, we got the first 19 verses accomplished. And let's pray. Father, please be our teacher. Please build us up and strengthen us. Help us as we study your word, Lord. Help us to be aware of the times we're living in, Lord, that we not be asleep, but Lord, that we're ready, we're watching. We see the nearness of your soon return Lord, and that we comprehend, that we understand what it means to to be a Christian, to be at the end of the age, and the responsibility we have Lord to go and make disciples, Lord, to build people up in the faith, Lord. So bless now in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Amen. Alright. So Daniel is a student of prophecy, and he is not like the 98% of the people today that have no regard for prophecy. 27% of the Bible is prophecy, and maybe they would be interested in prophecy if in June they were deported from their home to Babylon, and they just spent sixty seven years there, and he's 81 years old, and he's wondering how much longer are we gonna be here? And so as a student of prophecy, he reads in Jeremiah chapter twenty five eleven and twelve, and he finds out that they're going to be there for seventy years as we saw last week. So if that seventy starts with this with the deportation in June, he's getting pretty close. If if it's May with the destruction of Jerusalem, then he's got a little bit longer to wait. But but he's anticipating it. And in his mind, he's thinking that, you know, this might mean that Messiah is gonna come, that he's gonna come and set up his kingdom. And so he's an intercessor. He's interceding on behalf of the nation. He's confessing all of their sins, you know, that they've committed under the Lord, and he's looking under the Lord that the Lord will, be gracious unto them and merciful. Lord, in your wrath, remember mercy. And and so now the angel Gabriel is gonna come to him in verse 20, and I'm going to explain prophetically where he's at and God's God's intention of the seventy weeks of years that he learned of in Jeremiah. And so when we talk about seventy weeks of years, we get that term in the Hebrew from Genesis 29 where Laban said to, excuse me, to Isaac that excuse me, Jacob. Jacob, you've you've labored you've labored here, and Laban told him, you know, you get to have Rachel. But he did the switcheroo with Leah, and he said that you've got another another week. So we would say, want a dozen donuts, and we know that a dozen means 12. A week of years is seven years. So that's the picture here of 70. 77 periods are four hundred and ninety years. So it was one year for each year they did not allow the ground to have a Sabbath. So every seventh year, they'd leave the ground, fallow and not plant on it and let the ground rest. And they, decided they wanted the yield. They wanted the harvest of that seventh year. They got away with it for a long time. And you when you get away with sin, you think, hey. Nobody's watching. Might as well just keep going. We keep prospering. And then there came a day where God held them accountable and determined that because of their idolatry and their rejection of God that he would he would judge them, and he would use a more wicked nation than even them, the Babylonians, to subjugate them and to, you know, destroy the temple, Solomon's temple, and and deport them. And so Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach, Abednego, and some of the princes came out of there in June. And so so that's where we're at up to this point, and then now we're gonna get the interpretation from Gabriel. Now in in Hebrews chapter one verse 14, we're told that God sends angels angels as ministering spirits to minister unto us if these angels are sent. And, there's different ranks of angels and all. Michael's an archangel. Lucifer was an archangel, like a worship leader and such. We've got cherub angels, which are high high ranking. Seraphim in Isaiah chapter six. And then you have just basic rank angels. And now I'm not sure if I've ever met an angel, but I know in Hebrews chapter 13 verse one, it says, let brotherly love continue. Don't neglect, or excuse me. Don't forget to entertain strangers. I've entertained a lot of strangers, for some have entertained angels unaware. So I might have met an angel. I met a lot of strange people, but Daniel Daniel is and they would consider me to be strange, definitely, but that's okay. Just be who you are. But Gabriel, we have Michael Gabriel Lucifer and, Lucifer, a fallen angel, and one third of the stars fell with Lucifer. So in in Revelation chapter 12, the stars or one third of the angels fell, with Lucifer in his rebellion against God. And so we call him the devil. We call him Satan. We call him Lucifer. We call him the devil, the adversary. And Angel of life. Yeah. And dragon. He's a dragon. And so here we have a good angel, a good angel that shows up announcing that Zechariah and Elizabeth were gonna have a baby, announcing that Mary was gonna have a baby, you know, and so we're thankful for him. And then we see in Jude that in the contending for the body of Moses that Michael dared not make a railing accusation against the devil, said, the lord rebuke you. So that's a good lesson for us even though Michael, at the end of the age at the end of the age, god's gonna send just an angel to grab hold of the devil and throw him into the abyss. You know? And, and the antichrist and the false prophet, they're gonna be destroyed in the battlefield of Armageddon just by the brightness of the Lord's coming and the sword of his mouth. And so, the devil's not the opposite of God. And, we've talked about that before in the times that we're living in with the counterfeit of the devil. He always loves to counterfeit what God, is doing. And so if the people are prescribed to worship God in the temple, the the nation of Israel, then the devil during the seventieth seven of Daniel, the tribulation period, wants the temple rebuilt, you know. And he's gonna deceive the Jews, and he's going to make a an agreement through his his, second person of his unholy trinity, the antichrist in place of Jesus Christ who can make a covenant with the nation of Israel for one week. So a seven year, period of time. And at the midpoint of that week, and Jesus confirms this, what we're studying tonight in Matthew 24 verse 15, that the abomination of desolation. And we know from second Thessalonians chapter two that also that he's gonna go in the temple. He's going to declare himself to be God and demand to be worshiped as God. So the tribulation period starts with what? Signing of the peace treaty. Signing of the peace treaty. Daniel nine twenty seven is to confirm, which means strong covenant with the Jews for one week, which is a seven year period of time. And and at the midpoint, that's when so the first three and a half years, so the first forty two months, or the first twelve hundred and sixty days, that's the first part of the tribulation period. Revelation six, through 19 is the tribulation period. Revelation nine or six through nine plus 17 is the first half. Revelation 10 through 14 is the middle. And then Revelation fifteen, sixteen, and 18 is the second half of the tribulation period. It's not in the book of Revelation, not in chronological order. So some are parenthetic of what of what John saw in heaven. So this seventieth seven of Daniel, this is gonna be a time that the Bible describes as the time of Jacob's trouble, the time where God deals with the nation of Israel for one final seven year period of time. And according to Zechariah thirteen eight, two thirds of the Jews are going to die during this tribulation period. Blindness in part has happened unto Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles come in. So the church age ends with what? The rapture. And so the the signing of this, peace treaty, definitely the rapture is gonna happen before that signing of the peace treaty because we know that we're not appointed under wrath. Mhmm. And we know that, we're not subject under wrath. God has an ordained wrath. So this is time where God pours out his wrath on a Christ rejecting world. And during that period of time, we're gonna see some of the greatest evangelists, the 144,000, an angel flying overhead declaring the glorious gospel. And we're gonna see in Revelation six and seven, the third the third type of saint, which is what? And Tribulation the tribulation saints are not Old Testament saints, and they're not New Testament saints. They are the tribulation saints. And saint means made holy, And they prove their faith in Jesus Christ according to Dan, Revelation 20 verse four. How? By refusing the mark of the beast. Right? They refuse it. And then at the end of the tribulation period, there's a judgment, Matthew 25, the separation of sheep and the goats. There's a seventy five day day interval before the start of the millennium. Blessed seed that comes to the twelve hundred thirteen hundred and thirty fifth day and twelve sixty, twelve sixty. The second twelve sixty is the return of Jesus Christ. Then there's seventy five more days till the thirteen hundred and thirty fifth day. And during that seventy five day interval, it looks like Matthew 25, that judgment of the sheep and the goats. So there's another group of people that enter into the millennium are called the millennial saints. And they are in their human bodies, and they are believers. And you and I are gonna be in our glorified bodies, and we're gonna come back with Jesus in the second coming. He comes back with 10,000 thousands of saints according to Jude. This is a marriage supper. This is Revelation chapter 19. His bride has made herself ready. You know? She's in clean, white, unspotted, unblemished garments. Right? He doesn't need our help at Armageddon. He he does it alone, but we're there as witnesses. And he's coming with the angels also. And and then the Lord separates the sheep from the goats. The sheep are those who were favorable toward the nation of Israel. I was hungry, you fed me. I was naked, you clothed me. I was thirsty, you gave me drink. I was imprisoned in the hospital, you visit me. When did we do these things? And as much as you've done it under the least of these my brethren, you've done it unto me. So they proved their faith by being faithful unto Israel when Israel was in dire, dire need being chased by the antichrist. So they go into the millennium in their human bodies, they begin to repopulate the planet in their natural bodies. And, for a thousand years, generations of of human beings, continue to repopulate the planet. Jesus rules and reigns from Jerusalem with the rod of righteousness as king of kings and lord of lords, and David as his prince, and then we rule and reign with him. And then after the thousand years is over, Satan is loosed. He's taken out of that abyss, and he's brought up, and he begins to tempt those people that are repopulating the planet. They started out being saints, the parents. Right? Then they started having children. These children are going, going, going, going, going, generational, and many of them didn't believe. So we see the proof of that by Revelation chapter 20 tells us that they they fight against God. And then fire comes out from heaven, consumes them. And then the devil is taken by an angel and put into the lake of fire where the Antichrist and the false prophet and all of the wicked dead are gonna wind up because in Revelation chapter 20 verse 15 is the great white throne judgment where all the dead, the wicked dead, are bodily raised from the dead. There's no annihilation. There's no cessation of being. There's no reincarnation. There's no second chance or third chance. There's no purgatory. There's nobody getting there by doing good deeds. You get there. The only way you get there is by believing in Jesus Christ. The only way you go to hell is by refusing Jesus Christ. The only sin that is not forgivable is the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit, which is rejecting Jesus Christ. So nobody goes to hell being sent by God. People go to hell by rejecting Jesus Christ and choose them to go to hell. So we're not we're not the five point Calvinist, the tulip many people think we are. So we just teach it as it comes. So Jesus said, no man can come unto me except the father would set me draw him and I'll raise him up at the last day. And whosoever comes unto me, I'll know why is cast out. So you have election and you have the free moral agency of human beings and that a God of love gives you the choice. You can think and choose of whether you will receive God's forgiveness through the person of his only begotten son, or whether you will reject him and and choose darkness rather than light. Okay. So there's a little gospel there for you. Anybody that's listening, just write me if you come to Christ over that. I'll get you a Donald Trump Bible. You'll be really saved. And I'm gonna get a signed one. Alright. Verse 20. And while I was speaking and praying and confessing my sins, so speaking and praying. And what's it mean to confess my sin according to first John one nine? To agree with God. To agree with God. And he's shown us the cross. Right? Yeah. Mhmm. So if we confess our sin, he's faithful and just to forgive us of our sin and to cleanse us of all unrighteousness. So in Isaiah 65, 25, 26. I can't read it, but, you know, the Lord speaks of of hearing. He hears as Daniel's praying. He certainly hears. In chapter 10, we see where Daniel, beloved, you know, from the very first point that you began to speak to the present, you know, twenty one days, I've been fighting with the prince of Persia as we'll see the battle as we fight not against flesh and blood, but against spirits and principalities, you know, of the air. And, let's see here. 65 24. And so he says, and it shall come to pass that before they call, I will answer. And while they are yet speaking, I will hear. So no waiting instantly. Don't you love when God answers your prayers that way? I get put on hold all the time. I got this put on hold. But good things come to those that wait, let me tell you. And and I'm so glad that I have access. And sometimes, you know, God says no. He might answer real quick, but he says no. And so in this case, I think he's gonna tell Daniel, wait. Wait, Daniel. You're gonna have to wait. There's 70 sevens determined, you know. You're gonna have to wait a while, bro. And and the Lord says, my ear is not so heavy that I cannot hear, and my hand is not so short that I cannot save, but your sin has separated me from you and I will not hear. So Daniel's doing the right thing by confessing his sin because sin gets in the way of our fellowship with God. And so we we wanna keep a short account in that way. Not that we lose our salvation, but it hinders our fellowship with God. And so if you want to continue to walk in the spirit, then be sensitive, leading, guiding the Holy Spirit in that the lord may be saying, you know what? I want you to I want you to be washed in the blood. The blood of Jesus Christ, God's son, continually cleansed the men of all unrighteousness. So it's not, hey, Peter. You gotta go be bathed again. No. You've already been washed. You just need to clean up. Your sandals are a little dirty. You're stepping some junk outside there. So so that's that confession confession part. Part. And the sin of my people Israel and present you my supplications before the Lord my God, for the holy mountain of my God, the Holy Mountain Mount Moriah, the holy mountain where Jesus was crucified, Calvary, the Holy Mountain Zion. And so the his home, that of Jerusalem. And Melchizedek met with Abraham after Abraham went and killed the 300 and, I think, 18, you know, of the Chedolamor and all the ones that were coming against Lot and the king of Sodom, and Melchizedek, king of Salem, Jerusalem, you know, came out neither beginning the days nor of end, we know in Hebrews seven. And so a Christophany, a meeting of Jesus, what did they do? He paid tithes of all that he wanted to spoil. And secondly, they had fellowship. They had communion, partaking of the the cup and the bread. Right? Isn't that isn't that fascinating? Way back then. Way back before the law, fellowship with God. So as Yeh, while I was speaking in prayer, even the man Gabriel, the man Gabriel, the man Gabriel. So Gabriel, an angel, angels can look like men. We never see a female angel. Amen. We see Christmas time little chubbies, you know, chubby chubbettes, know, cherubs or whatever people have all around their house for Christmas, whatever. But we we never see a feminine angel, always in the masculine. Amen. And but we do see a lot of effeminate guys in the pulpit acting like clowns. Right? Mhmm. They don't wanna be masculine anymore. They wanna be feminine. And that's kinda they list when they talk, and they go, you know, like that. So somehow somehow it makes the church grow. You know? Who might have seen and I and I had seen and visited at the beginning being caused to fly swiftly. Wouldn't that be cool? Mhmm. You know? Wouldn't it be cool if an angel picked you up and brought you into, the spiritual realm? Right? And you're like, you're like John the beloved, the revelator. In chapter four, you're told, come up hither. You know? After these things, after what things? After the church age in John four, John's up in heaven. Right? Chapter four and five, the church is in heaven. And so the the outline of the book of Revelation, people, oh, the church is in the tribulation period. No. It's not. Chapter one, John, write the things which, you have seen. Chapter one, the risen Christ, the Lord Jesus being glorified. Write the things which are in the present tense John, which is chapter two and three, the church age, we're at the end of the church age, and write the things which shall be hereafter, metatalta, which means after these things. What things? After the church age. After the church age, we see in chapter four, John's caught up to the third heaven. He's caught up to heaven. Come up hither. After these things, come up hither. And and so he's up in heaven. He sees the four and twenty elders bound before the throne of God. He sees who's worthy to open the scroll and loose the seal in chapter five. You know? Don't weep, John, the lion of the tribe of Judah. You know? Please prevail. Speaking of Jesus. He saw Jesus with the stone bearing the scars as the lamb that had been slain. So don't believe these guys that think the tribulation period starts, you know, at verse 17 in Revelation six that they differentiate between the churches and subject unto the lord's wrath, but might be subject unto man's wrath. And so presently, this guy's running around going, we're already in the tribulation period. Why you say that? Well, the the horses, the four horsemen, you know, we're getting ready for war. Well, Jesus said there'd be wars and rumors of wars. We see in famine, they got rid of all the migrant workers and all the fruits falling to the ground now just rotting. You know? And the Bill Gateses are buying up all the food, and we're gonna have a food shortage, so they're creating a famine. You know? No. No. That's mega. That's mega time, man. That's that's that's getting rid of all the all the the bad guys that the the Democrats brought in so that we could bring in a digital ID, you know, because the election got stolen, and then the the all these all these foreigners that are here, they're getting health care and all that. Well, you know why they're doing it. They're developing the beast system. Everybody's gotta have a digital ID. But that's glorious for you and I because we know the raptures come because the rapture comes before the beast system's inaugurated with but the beast system has to be in place so that the beast has something to use because, again, he's just a man. He's not God. And the God he worships, the devil, is not God. So he's not omniscient. He's not omnipresent, and he's not omnipotent. Only God is. So he has to use technology. And you see that technology in place, the technology of Revelation chapter 11 when the two witnesses are killed, and they lie in the streets for three and a half days, and everybody's looking at it on their cell phone. Everybody can see it. Right? These two guys are laying there, and the people start to have a satanic Christmas giving gifts to each other because the antichrist overcame the two witnesses. Right? And then the two witnesses rise back up, you know, uh-oh, going on to heaven. So it's fascinating to be on the right side of all this, and I'm just so excited that we're getting so close to the return of Jesus Christ for his bride, for the church. And and the secretary of defense, the Pete Hegzeth secretary of war, department of war, man. Wars and rumors of wars. He doesn't want any fat guys anymore. The woke guys. Right? And he said it's time to build the temple. And Donald's over there with all the Qatar guys and Israelis and Arabs and everybody. They're gonna do something really fascinating. The Riviera and Gaza. Gonna name it after Trump. Right? And somebody's gonna come along and make a peace treaty pretty soon. Well, I'm getting ahead of myself here, but I'm just so excited. I can't hold back. You know? Right. Yeah. So anytime I see the word fly, fly swiftly. Yeah. Why fly slow? If you could fly, fly swiftly. Right? No limits there. He touched me about the time of the evening ablation, which is about 3PM according to Matthew twenty seven forty five. That's the time of the day that Jesus was crucified, and it's getting toward the the sunset. You gotta get him down off that off that, cross in time to beat the Sabbath. He's gotta come down before that. And so, you know, we're gonna go break his bones to speed up the death because death of crucifixion is is asphyxiation. You gotta be able to push up off the block they put at your feet so that you can reach up and get a breath of air. But, Jesus, he gave up the ghost on his own. He was already dead by the time they came there. Right? And so, but he's the lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world. Exodus 12 verse six. He's the Passover lamb during Passover. And he informed me and talked with me and said, oh, Daniel, I have now come forth to give thee skill and understanding. Man, we need the Holy Spirit, don't we? We need we need the Holy Spirit to lead and guide us into all truth, you know, and to bring to remembrance the scriptures that we've studied. I would hate to have to be a Christian and rely upon my own strength. No matter how smart you think you are, you're not smart enough. You need the help of the Holy Spirit. We need help of those spirit. Jesus said, without me, you can do nothing. To the church of Philippi, Paul said, I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. And so Paul said, the most brilliant guy around, he says, is sufficient for these things? Mhmm. What things? The ministry that God's called you to. Who's sufficient? You got a doctorate? I mean, I I was thinking about this that today, I thought of it, you know, I love being a pastor and I love teaching God's word and and, but I hate the pride of man. I just hate the pride of man. And so I hold back. I could go online, and I could get a doctorate. Do you know that? And you guys would have to run around and call me doctor Dicky, Ricky, or whatever. You know? And I'd I'd say, call me doctor Dicky, you know, and because my name's Richard, and, you know, and and I think it's a joke, you know. But there's guys out there that that have have earned doctorates, and they're brilliant men. And I'm just so thankful for them that they can parse the verbs and so good linguistically linguistically and all the different theological things and all. And I'm just so fat and I love them. I appreciate them. Doctor David Hawking is one of my teachers, and he's a teacher's teacher. When I listen to him, when I when I'm studying, it's like, man, I'm learning now. I'm learning something. And so I love guys like that. But he's grossly inadequate without the help of Holy Spirit. Right? And and he'll tell you that himself. And so our sufficiency, who is sufficient for these things? I gotta look at Kathy because she's like, well, did he really say that? Do you know me? Do you know me? She knows me. Alright. And sometimes people act like they don't know me. You know me? Who are you? Who are you? I didn't get enough sleep last night. No. I'm just kidding. So who is sufficient for these things? And then Paul answers his own question. Our sufficiency is of Christ. So I finished the school of ministry a couple years and grueling, and you're getting ready to go out there and plant a church. And you're thinking, god. That two years of school, Greek, Hebrew, all that stuff, is that enough? Am I equipped? Am I ready? Is the world ready for me? I'm gonna change the world. And so the Lord impressed upon my heart, who's sufficient for these things? You think going to school two years makes you sufficient? And so I realized my sufficiency is of Christ. I'm gonna have to rely upon him every single day. And I had no idea that he'd sent me to Bremerton and that it would be just an incredibly difficult, ministry. The enormous resistance to the teaching of sound doctrine. I had no idea because I came from a place where if you teach the bible, they will come. And the more of the bible you teach here, they don't come. But I learned something today talking to Rob and Vicky. And as they evaluate some of the churches around here, I realized that the building the church, I I don't believe that God's called me, called us to build his church in the sense, except the Lord build the house, they that labor labor and vain that build it in Psalm a 127. What I mean by that is I don't need to come up with a business model to build his church. My job is to build you up. You're his church. Jesus said, upon this rock, I will build my church, and the gates of hell won't prevail against it. So what I see, what I understand is is that if the pastor is doing his job in feeding the sheep, you're being edified, which means built up. And so that's the building up of his church. That's the building of the church. As we all of us exercise our gifts that he's given us, the Holy Spirit is building up the church, and healthy sheep reproduce. Right? We're gonna we're gonna we're going to go and make disciples, not converts, not customers. Disciples. And disciples are learners. You're disciples. And the Holy Spirit's wanting you to study prophecy. The Holy Spirit's wanting you to study the Bible so that you can get to know Jesus. The testimony of Jesus is spirit of prophecy, right? And so the volume of the book is written of him. Why wouldn't people want to study the Bible? Does that mean the homeless won't get fed? Of course the homeless are going to get fed. Of course we're going to, you know, not love just in word, but in deed and in truth, you know? But not at the expense of building up my inner man. I have to be built up first. I have to first receive before I can give. So I have to be built up spiritually, and that's the building of his church. The Lord Jesus building of his church. And so I see in John chapter four, Jesus wanted so much to help a woman who was empty that he made a divine appointment, said he had water that she could drink, and she'd never thirst again. Just one woman. A divine appointment with one woman Jesus met with just to build her up. Right? The eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth to show himself strong on behalf of one woman, one man whose heart is perfect toward God. When God wanted to make a nation, he looked for one man, Abraham. He doesn't need a whole big group of people. So that's what encourages me about being here in Bremerton these years is that the Lord allows me the privilege of teaching sound doctrine, of teaching the Bible, of, help helping to build people up in their faith to go and make, disciples. And so he's got skill and understanding. I want you to have skill and understanding. I don't want you to be a Christian dope. Kathy says, oh, you're a dope on a rope, Rick. Well, I don't know what that means, but I don't want you to be a dope on a rope. I want you to have skill and understanding. Study to show yourself approved unto God, a workman that need not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. We have the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit's our teacher. And the Holy Spirit wants to teach you and give you the skill and understanding. I've had people tell me, do you understand that some of the pastors have never studied the book of Revelation and that's why they don't teach it? Well, go get a job in the shipyard. You know? Go work at McDonald's. Do something else. Because Paul says, study to show yourself approved. You're not approved. You haven't passed the test. And nobody, when they teach a book for the first time, has a whole lot of confidence. You know? You walk by faith. You trust the Lord and you walk by faith. And you have other teachers that are teaching you so that you can teach others. You know? And and I I don't want to slam the shipyard or any of these places. There's a lot of skilled bible students in the shipyard that teach home bible studies. They can be pastors or whatever, but God's called them there. But just be a student of the word and ask the Lord. Lord, say Lord, please help me to understand. Every time before you read the bible, pray first and say Lord, please open the scriptures to our understanding. Please help us to understand your word. Lord, please be my teacher. And I've discovered he'll answer that prayer. So at the beginning of thy supplications, the commandment came forth, and I am come to show thee. So he's a messenger according to Hebrews one verse 14. He's a ministering spirit sent to and and our kids, even all of us, have Jesus said they're they're angels. You know, there's guardian angels. Right? And some of you, you know, their your angels are worn out guarding you. It's been a lot of work guarding you. So give them a break. Commandment came forth, and I've come to show thee for thou art greatly beloved. Don't you love that? Jesus said he called us his friends. In John thirteen twenty eight, John the beloved. You know he's John the beloved? Because John, when they're see seated, they don't sit in chairs when they have their their Agape Feast or the upper room or when they'd eat. They lie down on the ground there, and they got oriental style. You know? You ever go in a restaurant like that? You kinda sit down? And John the beloved's got his head right here on Jesus' bosom. And John describes it in third person, the one whom Jesus loved. He's getting at Peter, isn't he? He's getting at the rest of the guys. The one whom Jesus loved the most, you know, John the beloved, you know, greatly beloved, Daniel. Therefore, understand the matter and consider the vision. So test it. Test it. Prove all things. Hold fast to that which is good. Check out Jeremiah. Check out Jeremiah. Make sure, you know, check the scriptures. And and even if an angel Moroni, the moron, that's another name. Angel Moroni comes to you and shows you got you gotta wear these gold glasses and and golden books and I don't know what else, secret underwear, and and he's gonna give you a different Jesus and a different gospel. Paul says even if an angel comes and preaches a different gospel, let him be anathema. You know? There's fallen angels. There's angels that can come and appear as angels of light, but they're really darkness. Right? There's guys that come along and appear as a minister of righteousness, but they're tools of the devil. Mhmm. So you've got to prove, hey. I know it's true because an angel came and told me. Well, do you know that's a holy angel? You know? And and so this is Gabriel identified, sent from God. And so Daniel test it, Daniel. And so verse two of chapter nine, and then seventy years, and, you know, prove all things, hold fast that which is good. You know, test the spirits. Don't just believe every spirit even even like like, hey, think the Holy Spirit's directed me in this way. Well, is really the Holy Spirit or is it deceiving spirit? You know? And so just make sure, be not deceived, Jesus said. Test all things. Prove all things. Hold fast to that which is good. So I would say pray and be a Berean. Take the scriptures and see whether those things be so. Acts seventeen eleven. Make sure that what you think is being revealed to you from YouTube or some crackpot or harbinger or whatever it might be, test it with the scripture. Make sure it's aligned with the scripture. And don't sell your house and sell everything, and go live on top of a mountain waiting for Jesus to return because some guy said he's coming, you know, on September 23. You know? Just be careful. Or eighty eight more days. 88 reasons. Oh, man. So seventy weeks. I want I want three dozen doughnuts. Right? How many is that? 36. Kathy bought three dozen doughnuts last week. That looks really good. Do you see a picture of three dozen doughnuts? So seventy weeks, 70 are determined upon thy people. So is this a church? No. Israel. Oh, Israel. So the church hasn't replaced Israel upon thy people. Okay. Well, I thought God was done with Israel. They've got sixty nine weeks, so they've got a final seven year, don't they? We'll find that out. It didn't happen in seventy AD like a lot of these clowns say. It's not allegorized. It's not symbolic. It's real. Seventy weeks are determined. God keeps great records upon thy people and upon thy holy city. Jerusalem. God done with Jerusalem? Jerusalem is going to be a burdensome stone according to Zechariah 12. Everyone's going to hate Israel and hate the Jews one day. Everyone's going to turn their back upon Israel one day according to Zechariah 12. Upon thy people and upon thy holy city to finish the transgressions, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness and to seal up the vision and the prophecy and to anoint the most holy. So you've got the first coming of Jesus to make an end of sins. 69 sevens. Right? Four hundred and eighty three years from the command to go and restore and rebuild Jerusalem under the coming messiah the prince. Messiah Xerxes gave that command in Nehemiah two verse one on March fourteen four forty five BC. And then a hundred and seventy three, eight hundred and eighty days later, Jesus walked into Jerusalem riding upon Zechariah nine nine riding upon a donkey. He didn't walk. He rode upon a donkey. People are shouting out, Hosanna, Hosanna according to Psalm one eighteen one ten. And, Hosanna, Hosanna, which means save now, save now Palm Sunday. And then four days later, they're shouting out, crucify him, crucify him, let his blood be upon us, so for the reconciliation of iniquity. So that's that's 69 of the sevens. And to bring an in everlasting righteousness and to seal the vision of the prophecy. There's the second coming. Hasn't happened yet, but it's gonna. And then the second coming to seal up the vision and the prophecy and to anoint the most holy as king of kings and lord of lords. Daniel, there's 70 sevens determined. Daniel, we made it 69 sevens, we would say. He's not there yet. Written five hundred years before Christ is gonna come. Right? But we we we we see it looking back historically. This has happened. It happened. And we've got prophecy, the more sure word of prophecy, over 300 prophecies fulfilled in his first coming. He's certainly gonna come again. Right? Mhmm. Mhmm. And to anoint the most holy, the Christ, the holy one. He says, no, therefore. So he establishes there's seventy sevens determined, seventy weeks determined upon your people. So God hasn't cast aside Israel. 05/14/1948 according to Ezekiel thirty six and thirty seven, Israel was reborn in one day. Right? And so we see Israel in the land. We see them there. They're there, reborn one day. And the people before 1948, the Martin Luther's and the some of the other church fathers, different different leaders, they said, oh, no. The church has replaced Israel. God's done with Israel. And Martin Luther was actually anti Semitic. He didn't like Jews. Hated them. And Augustine was the other name I was trying trying to find in my head. Augustine, same thing. They were replacement theology people. So to make and and how do they get around that? They just say symbolic. It's symbolic. It doesn't it doesn't apply. It's not literal. Or they do this. They say, well, it's historical, but it all happened in seventy AD when Titus destroyed the temple. It was over. God was done with Israel. Well, how do you explain the rebirth of Israel? How do you explain the ashes, the red heifer? How do you explain the regathering blindness in part? They don't believe yet. They're going back to Judaism, but they're setting the stage for the greatest deception. Jesus said, I come in my father's name, you receive me not. Another shall come in his own name, him you will receive. John chapter five. So God's setting the stage for his own people to be greatly, greatly deceived. And at the midpoint, their eyes awaken when this guy declared himself to be God, demands to be worshiped as God. And that one third remnant is purified through the fire of the tribulation period as they flee from the Antichrist, flee from Jerusalem, and, head toward, Moab, ancient Moab, Mount Seir, Basra, Isaiah 63, Petra in Southern Jordan today, and they flee there to flee the Antichrist. And except those days be shortened, no flesh should be saved, Matthew 24. But for the elect's sake, not the church, Israel, for the elect's sake, Israel, Jesus intervenes, lest there be no none of them left. And so to bring in an everlasting righteousness and seal up the vision of the prophecy and to anoint the most holy, won't that be glorious? Know therefore and understand that from the going forth of the command, which we just went through, Nehemiah chapter two verse one four forty five BC, March 14. The command went forth to restore and to build Jerusalem unto Messiah, the prince. This is one of our favorite prophecies that we we go over all the time. Right? You guys know it by heart. So I'm gonna let you tell me what comes next. According to Luke chapter 19, what did Jesus say? If you'd have known in this thy day, this very day. Not not ambiguous, not a this day. Not a day. This day. The day prophesied. Hundred and seventy three, eight hundred and eighty days later from the command to go on forth and rebuild on April six thirty two AD, Jesus walks into the city. He said, have you known in this thy day of your visitation, he even said, But your city has left you desolate. How often I would have gathered you as mother hen does gather her brood under her wings. I'd have protected you, but you would not. So now your city has left you desolate. And so Jesus is prophesying, letting them know that within forty years, the Roman general Titus would surround the city, besiege it, and close to 2,000,000 Jews would be wasted. And the Christians that knew these prophecies, they fled. They fled Jerusalem to save their save their lives. So the prince shall be seven weeks. Seven weeks, so forty nine years. And threescore, which is sixty, and two weeks, the street shall be built again on the wall even in troublous times. So seven weeks is forty nine years, and within forty nine years of the command go and restore, the city was built. The rebuilding of the temple is Zerubbabel's temple, Nehemiah, Ezra, and them. And then when you take the sixty and two and you add in the seven, you got your four hundred and eighty three years total. So after threescore in two weeks shall because the other ones already happened. The other seven of weeks, the forty nine. So after threescore in two weeks, shall Messiah be cut off. So you add it all together, four hundred and eighty three years from here, from the command to go to the time Messiah is cut off. The cutoff means crucified. He's gonna he's gonna be killed. So a hundred and seventy three, eight hundred and eighty days, April six thirty two AD, Jesus walked into Jerusalem. This thy very day, according to Luke chapter nineteen thirty through 44, Zechariah nine verse nine, Psalm a 118 verse 20, 20, and, Hosanna, Hosanna, Hosanna, save now. Save now. That's exciting. That's a revival. People are revived. They're excited on the campus of Texas. Or are they truly born again? How do we know? You know about their roots. Gotta give it a little time. Right? Yeah. Gotta see if there's a change. Gotta see if there's an inward change that's evident outwardly with a changed behavior. Right? That Jesus said, you know them by their fruit. Fruit of the spirit is love. Do they love God more than themselves? Do they love God more than their sin? You love God more than everything else. There that's an evidence that, there's something going on inside of you. But not for himself. He's cut off for himself. He's cut off. He's crucified for you. And the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary, and the end of it shall be with a flood, under the end of the war of desolation be determined. So let's watch there. Let's let's watch this. So the people of the prince that shall of the sanctuary excuse me. There we go. Where's my glasses? The people of the prince that shall come. So speaking of the prince that shall come, it's a masculine singular. He's the he of verse 27, the antecedent, the prince in verse 26. So the identity of the prince with the definite article the is Daniel seven verse eight, the little horn. So this is speaking of the antichrist. His people his people that destroyed the sanctuary were the Romans in seventy AD. At the end of the age, the Antichrist is going to emerge from the Gentiles, not a Jew, but a Gentile, as he's going to come from these people that destroyed you see, the '77 of Daniel is the rebirth of the Roman Empire. So the antichrist is gonna come we don't know from where. I'm not looking for him, But he's going to be a gentile, and he's going to emerge, out of the rebirth of the Roman empire, the 10 toes, 10 horns, 10 crowns, 10 kings. He's coming out of that imperial kingdom the same way Rome was imperial. And, so a Gentile, the prince that shall come, shall destroy the city and the sanctuary, and the end of it shall be with flood, and the end of wars and desolations are determined. So seventy AD, the the these people destroyed the city. That same people are gonna produce, verse 27, and he, this antichrist, as he's coming forth from them, and he shall confirm, and this word confirm isn't like reestablish an old covenant. No. He's going to forcefully, powerfully make a covenant, a treaty. What what have they been doing over there in Gaza this week? Are they making a treaty? Are they making a peace deal? Think it'll stick? Are they crying out peace and safety? Negotiating? Boy, a lot of different presidents, a lot of people tried that over the years, Abraham Accords, all other stuff. Has any of it stuck yet? One day it's gonna stick. One day the nation of Israel is gonna welcome a peace treaty. Now I'm not sure about this, but it could very well be that at a certain point, as Turkey is moving into Syria right now and as Iran is yoked up with Russia and as Germany is is also one of them and Ethiopia, as these allied nations, as they're allying themselves, out of Ezekiel thirty eight and thirty nine, we know from the north, Gog, the leader of Magog and these other one one of them is Turkey, one of them is Iran, Germany, Ethiopia. These these nations are gonna attack Israel. They've got unwalled. They're unwalled, meaning they can't defend themselves anymore. Could be America got wiped out, we're not there to defend them. Our technology and the Palantir and all those all the Elon Musk satellites to identify targets and wipe stuff out like they've been doing. And they they're invaded. And that invading force, God has to intervene. And five out of every six of that invasion force, is destroyed. But now they gotta come back to the bargaining table for a peace treaty. And it could very well be that that's when the Antichrist emerges, because Israel's enemies, they're always motivated to make a peace treaty when they lose the war. That's when they wanna make a peace treaty with Israel. And a peace treaty with Israel is just time to rearm because you're you're you're gonna attack them again is what keeps happening. And so, but, hey, we got seven years to rearm before we go attack them again. And, and that could very well be as it emanates, Ezekiel thirty eight thirty nine. So I don't think what they're doing right now is necessarily, the earmark of the seven year tribulation period. Couple reasons in that regard. Ezekiel thirty eight thirty nine, you're gonna have to, bury the bones. You have to mark the bones, and we're not gonna be marking bones and burying bones into the millennium. So it has to happen before the tribulation period, not Armageddon and not during the tribulation period because they they have now the bones, marking the bones and burying the bones, guys have said before that maybe it's nuclear fallout and all that, but but, it could very well be that it would render you unclean. Because if the nation of Israel has the temple and the people are now practicing Judaism, then you're gonna mark the bones, lest you be defiled around the corruption of dead bones and all. So that might be that might be, part of it. So this covenant people are talking about this covenant, confirming this covenant. And I've heard other guys say that he's gonna confirm the old covenant, the Mosaic law. So reinaugurating of the Mosaic law and allow them to practice their Judaism that way. But the language here doesn't seem to allow that. It's a new covenant, and it comes with force. This antichrist has the power to make it happen. So he shall confirm the covenant with many. Now with the many, who's the many? We gotta find the many in Isaiah twenty eight fourteen through 22. Let's go there. Let's find out who the many are. Because we could say, hey, the many is all these other nations. Who are the many? God gives an opinion of this covenant in Isaiah 28. So it's a cross reference of what's happening here in this verse, and God spoke through Isaiah in regard to it. And so beginning with verse 14, wherefore hear the word of Lord, you scornful men that rule the people who are in Jerusalem, because you have said we have made a covenant with death and with hell. See, they think they're gonna live forever. Jared Kushner said they're never gonna die. These guys are thinking that if we tie in second Thessalonians two, they're going to believe the lie when they reject the truth. Right? And that lie is the lie that the devil told them in the garden. You shall not surely die. So they think they can actually and especially when the Antichrist is is executed, when he's assassinated, and he is lying on the ground, he comes back up, they're all gonna think that he can give them that power to overcome death, a false resurrection. Remember we talked about the devil's the counterfeit? And so these people are gonna who can make war with the antichrist? You know? And Jesus destroys him just with the brightness of his coming the sword of his mouth. No big deal. So he says, because you have said, we have made a covenant with death, with hell, and our agreement with the overflowing scourge shall pass through it and shall not come unto us. For we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves. So I can see them making covenants with the devil. The devil's deceiving them. They've come they succumb to a strong delusion that they would believe the lie of the wicked one. Now the many are the leadership of Israel. That's who the antichrist is making this deal with. Of the many, it's the leaders of Israel. Therefore, thus saith the Lord God, behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation of stone. So the Lord's saying, I'm putting I'm putting a stone there. The stone that the builders rejected has become the head of the corner. And a foundation stone, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone, a sure foundation. He that believes in him will not make haste. So I'm letting you know according to first Peter two verse six, Zechariah 10 verse four, Ephesians two verse 20, you know, that this stone that's why when Moses was told to speak to the rock, first Corinthians 10 verse five, Paul said that rock that followed them was Jesus. So speak to the rock. Smite the rock. Hebrews nine, he was smitten once. Once. Now Mo, speak to the rock. Right? On the great day of the feast, the Lord Jesus stood up and said, but any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink. He that believes in me out of his belly shall flow torrents of leaven water. Moses, speak to the rock. You don't need to go have Jesus crucified at mass every week when you sin. Just speak to the rock. Speak to Jesus. Confess your sin. He's faithful and just to forgive your sin, cleanse you of all unrighteousness. Justice also will I lay to the line and righteousness to the plummet. And the hail shall sweep away and refuge of lies and the water shall overflow the hiding place. And your covenant with death shall be annulled. You're gonna die at this point. An old man wants to die and then the judgment. And your agreement with hell shall not stand when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then shall ye be trampled down by it. From the time that it goeth forth, and it shall take you from morning by morning shall it pass over by day, by night, and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report. So you start out for three and a half years thinking it's a great thing, you leaders, but those last three and a half years are gonna be hell on earth. It's gonna be it's gonna be brutal. And except those days be short, no flesh should be saved. For the bed is shorter than a a man can stretch himself on it. The covering narrower than he that wrap himself in it. So there's no rest for the wicked. You get no rest. What you're plotting and scheming with is inadequate. You don't even have a restful night's sleep. Jesus said, come on to me, all you that labor and are heavy laden, I'll give you rest. Right? Take my yoke upon you and learn of me from meek and lowly in heart, and you shall find rest under your soul. Do you see what a disciple is? Do you see how the religious leaders can get the people so off track? And they don't know nothing. The people don't know anything. And when they heard Jesus speaking, said, man spake like this. He speaks with authority. You know? It was starting to connect. They were starting to get it to a great degree. For the Lord shall rise up as in Mount Perazim. He shall be angry as in the Valley Of Gibeon that he may do his work, his strange work, and bring to pass his act, his strange act. And so his strange work is his judgment. Now therefore be not scoffers, lest your bands be made strong for I have heard from the Lord God of hosts a destruction even determined upon the whole earth. God's gonna destroy the whole earth. Give ear and hear my people. And so we we see the god's perspective on all this pie in the sky that these guys are planning. They think they can they think like they think like Nebbe, is this not great Babylon, Chai, built or like Nimrod. You know, they're building a their own religious system, and they don't need god and trying to get to heaven with religion. And he says, cause the sacrifice excuse me. And he shall confirm the covenant with them for one week, one seven year period of time. And in the midst of the week shall he cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease for the overspreading of the abomination shall make it desolate even until the consummation to be determined shall be poured upon the desolate. And so at the midpoint of the tribulation period, Revelation eleven two says it's forty two months. Verse three of chapter eleven, first half of the tribulation period, twelve hundred and sixty days. We could look at some of those verses. Who wants Revelation chapter 11 verse two and three? We can do that. Okay. Revelation 12 verse six. I can do that one. Revelation 12 verse 14. I'll do it. Daniel seven twenty five. I'll do that one. Matthew twenty four fifteen. Anybody? Matthew Matthew twenty four fifteen. I'll do that. Revelation 13 verse five. I'll do that one. And let's see. Second Thessalonians two verse eight, Revelation nineteen twenty. I'll do it. Revelation 20 verse three. 20 verse three. How about Joel three one through three? I'll do that one. Zechariah fourteen one and two. Fourteen one and two. There you go. Isaiah twenty six nineteen. Twenty six nineteen. Daniel twelve two. Daniel twelve two. I'll do it. Say what? I'll do it. Britney will do it. Make it listen. John three twenty nine. Revelation 24 through six. Twenty four six. Yeah. Twenty four six, you said? Revelation 20 verse four through six. Oh, 20. Isaiah twenty five six through eight. Matthew twenty five thirty one through 46. We're just gonna study the whole bible tonight. That's why people don't attend this church, but you that do, you grow. Do you know that what's on my side is number one? Paul lets us know that they won't endure sound doctrine. What we're presenting here tonight is sound doctrine, healthy doctrine, healthy teaching from the Bible. But the people won't endure it. So am I supposed to give in to the people just so we can grow the church and not numerically? No. We're not gonna do that. So that's why we're going to do what the bible says and and pray that we grow. I get to grow. We all get to grow through the study of God's word. It's the food for our spirit. And, doesn't matter how many millions of dollars they have or how many buildings or what people or whatever. The question comes back, who's saved? Mhmm. Are these people saved? What's the evidence thereof? And and the other one, this Sunday that was impressive upon my heart, it has at other times, but certain things hit me in waves. But what hit me this Saturday when I was getting ready on Sunday was the blood. You know? Who do they have blood on their hands? Because they didn't teach sound doctrine. They didn't teach the people. Paul says he's innocent of the blood. He's innocent of their blood because for the space of three years, night and day, he warned them, the church of Ephesus, and, built them up, strengthened them, and helped them. So that's the job of the pastor. Jesus said to Peter when he was restoring Peter after Peter was going to go back to fishing, Peter, do you love me? Feed my sheep. Tend my lambs. Feed my sheep. Right? That's what a shepherd's supposed to do. So I'm not worried about seeing Jesus face to face because what we're doing here right now is what he's called us to do, that is to study his word. Alright. Revelation eleven two and three. But the court which is without the temple leave out and measure it not. It is given unto the Gentiles, and the holy city shall be tread under forty two and two months. Forty and yeah. Forty two months. Two months. Yeah. And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and three four days clothed in sackcloth. Isn't that amazing? Like, how exact? Twelve hundred and sixty days from the sign of the peace treaty, you go twelve hundred and sixty days there, and that's the midpoint of the tribulation period. You can look at another way. Forty two months is the midpoint of the tribulation period. It's fascinating. Just so exact. Revelation 12 verse six. And the woman fled into the wilderness where she had a place prepared of God that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days. How long is that? Midpoint of the tribulation period, two witnesses are killed in chapter 11. Chapter 12, the woman flees. The woman is Israel. Mhmm. It's the remnant. They're fleeing from the Antichrist out of Jerusalem to Petra, and they're fed by the Lord for the second half of the tribulation period. And except those days be shortened, no flesh would be saved according to Matthew 24. Right? But for the elect's sake, the Lord Jesus intervenes when he hears them say, Vicky. Blessed is he who come to the name of the Lord. There you go. Amen. Alright. So Revelation twelve fourteen. To the woman were given two wings of a great eagle that she might fly into the wilderness into her place where she is nourished for a time and times and half a time from the face of the serpent. And so what's what's that language there according to Daniel seven twenty five, a time, time, and half time? Three and a half years. Three and a half years. Yeah. Daniel nine 07/25. He says that. Right? Time, time, and half time? Yep. Okay. Revelation thirteen five. And there was a great excuse me. And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies, and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months. So midpoint of the tribulation period, this blowhard poster, big things. I can't picture anybody like that. He gets forty two months. What a short period of time. Yeah. Very short. Right? Very short, but he gets it. And, Matthew 2four 15. Anybody help? Therefore shall see the abomination of desolation spoken on by Daniel the prophet stand in the holy place, whoso readeth, let him understand. Amen. Second Thessalonians two verse eight. What holds him back from emerging presently? The restraint of the holy spirit working through the church. When you're raptured, that restraint isn't gonna be there anymore. The holy spirit's gonna still be here, but that restraint work that the holy spirit does through us by simply having no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness and exposing them by being light and you expose darkness, you expose lies. Do you know how much time I spend trying to expose lies? And people just hate me for it. But that's that's what happens. That's what happens in John three. They love darkness rather than light because their deeds are evil. They hate to be exposed. They cry, you know, Jesus, what have you come to do to torment us before our time? You know, they don't want you around them. You know? Flee. Get out of here. Leave us alone. And but we have a job to resist evil, to restrain evil, to expose evil. And the antichrist is also called the lawless one. There's a time where iniquity will abound, the love of many will grow cold. So the the lawlessness and going against God's law, going against the Mosaic law, going against the law of love, that iniquity that's gonna take place. And so I don't wanna be here during during the tribulation period. Revelation 19 verse 20. And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet and brought the one who brought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark and the beast and them that were worshiping his image. These both were cast live in the Lake Of fire burning with fire and brimstone. Amen. So we know the destiny. The demons know their destiny. We know who you are, Jesus. Have you come to torment us before our time? They know their destiny, their eternal destiny. They're being used of God to present an option to human beings so that free will is exercised. So that God hasn't made robots that he's programmed, preprogrammed to love him. He gives you, he's made you and I in his image, which means we have, the power of free choice. We're predetermined beings. We can think, we can reason, we can decide, we can choose. And, now he can influence my choosing. He can prepare a fish for Jonah. He can prepare, he can get you willing, you know, if you belong to him. You'll say uncle. But but he, he'll come with the pharaoh, and he'll say, let my people go, and he'll respect pharaoh's decision. And as pharaoh continues to say no, to say no, to say no, to say no, then the Lord confirms that decision. He hardens pharaoh heart where pharaoh is staunch in that rebellion against God. And so the sun that softens the wax on your heart, the Holy Spirit softening your heart, hardens the clay. Mhmm. So people that hear the gospel over and over and over again and refuse, reject, reject, reject, it's like a callus on your hand, and it it it becomes where it's past feeling. And that's the callus on your heart. And it's a it's a dangerous, dangerous place to be where a person might find themselves years, a lifetime of rejecting God's love, and it's a sad thing to watch. Revelation 20 verse three. And cast him in into the bottom of his pit and shut him up and set a seal upon him that he should receive the nations no more till the thousand years shall be fulfilled. From after that, he must be loosed for a little season. Alright. So there's the devil's destiny. And, he's not gonna be god like he says in Isaiah 14. I will be as the most high. It's not gonna happen. He's the liturgy god of this world. Joel three one through three. For behold, in those days and in that time when I bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem, I will also gather all nations and will bring them down into the Valley Of Jehoshaphat and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage, Israel, when they have scattered among the nations and parted my land. And they have cast lots for my people, and they have given a boy for a harlot and sold a girl for a wine Oh. That they might drink. And Zechariah 4102. Mhmm. That's what would I think I can do. Okay. Sure. Zechariah 4102. And the angel that talked with me came again and waked me as a man that wakened out of sleep. And he said unto me, what seest thou? And I said, I have looked, and behold, a candlestick, all of the gold with a bowl upon the top of it, the seven lamps thereon and seven pipes to the seven lamps, which are upon the top thereof. Did I say four, one and two? Or 14? I have 12. I'm sorry. Was that correct? Fourteen, one and two? Fourteen twelve? I have 1412. I'm dyslexic. It's 1412. I have 14. Yeah. 14 okay. Remember, I'm doctor. I'm doctor. This shall be the plague wherewith the lord will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem. Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their I saw that, Raiders of Lost Ark. That's spooky, man. Yeah. That's spooky. Alright. You wanna keep going? Isaiah twenty six nineteen. So that's the Old Testament saints that's speaking of the resurrection. And Daniel twelve two speaks of the resurrection. And John three thirty 29 is John the Baptist's friend of the bridegroom. And so we see where, Israel is the wife of Jehovah and the church is Isaiah twenty five six and eight, the wife of Jehovah and the church. Matthew twenty five thirty one through 46 is the bride of Christ. And in the millennium, the marriage supper of the lamb, we return with the Lord in the second coming. And the blood is as high as the horse's bridle in Isaiah 60 Revelation 14, but also in Isaiah 63. His outer garments is covered in blood, and he's trampling out the vintage. And so we have the prophetic picture. Now back at verse 27. Daniel seven twenty seven. Well, do you guys saw Matthew 24, the abomination of desolation spoken by Daniel the prophet. Right? Matthew twenty four fifteen. Somebody read that? Yep. Somebody wanna read it again? Matthew twenty four fifteen. And we're gonna see where Jesus is quoting. So some people say the book of Daniel is so accurate that it's written after the fact, after the fact of the Babylonian empire, the Medo Persian empire, you know, the, Grecian empire, the Roman empire is so accurate. But Jesus authenticates it by quoting it five hundred years after all that all that happened. Right? Alright. So go ahead. Yeah. Please. When you therefore shall see the abomination of desolation spoken about by the Daniel the prophet stand in the holy place, whoso readeth, let him understand. And so what's happening, he shall confirm the covenant with the many with leadership. We saw that in in, Isaiah 28, that death covenant, for one week, seven year period of time. In the midst of the week, we saw that 1,260, forty two months, three and a half years, he shall cause the sacrifice of the oblation to cease. So that new temple that they built, the new temple that Pete Hegseth said that they should build, you know, the temple institute and all, the red heifer, Asher red heifer, he's gonna stop the, the ablation to cease and for the overspreading. So now he's gonna be like a Tiochus Epiphanes, which we're gonna read about, and he's going to cause the abomination of desolation. Tiochus Epiphanes took pig blood and pig and desecrated the temple by bringing pig blood into the temple. And the Maccabean revolt, Joseph Maccabees and his sons, you know, overcame Atticus, and they kept the festival of lights and that they kept the menorah with no oil, and they kept burning. Jesus celebrated the festival of lights in John chapter 12, we said last week, and commemorating that. And he's so he's going to stop it, overspreading the abomination, and he shall make it desolate, the abomination of desolation, even until the consummation till the very end of the tribulation shall be determined, shall be poured upon the desolate. So Jesus is gonna come and desolate the desolator, the one that did that. And the picture there is he's going to take an idol, and he's gonna put it on the pinnacle of the temple. And if we tie that in with revelation 13, he's gonna have the image of the beast, idolatry. And, boy, when we're hearing about AI technology and holograms and all this different stuff, that image is gonna speak in Revelation 13, you know, and gonna try to cause it to come to life. You know? And it's gonna be really, really spooky. And so Jesus let us know about that. And this past week, you know, I saw where the Baptist pastor took Charlie Kirk's voice and then made a AI video and message to the church that he pastors. And it's Charlie Kirk talking to them in the present tense from the grave. That is spooky, man. You know? That is I mean, ugh. You know? I mean, that's just so spooky. It's just I mean, if that's a prelude to what they're gonna do with this technology, the to I mean, can you imagine pretty soon you're not gonna need pastor Rick up front there? You're just gonna have a hologram of whoever you want, and and, you know, the guy's not even there. You know, some of these churches, or they have multiple campuses. The guy's at one campus, but now he's got a hologram or a AI image of himself on the I don't know. On the screen. They do it on the screen already. Right. But but it's just it's just kinda spooky to me. Anyway, I don't like horror movies. Alright. Any other comments or questions? You can read my book later because I am doctor. I'm doctor now. Yeah. Alright. Father, thank you so much. Thank you that we can laugh, that we can study, that we can cry, that we can pray and intercede. Lord, we do lift up Sally again, healer of her cancer. Lord, please, you're the great physician. Please eradicate all that cancer, all those cancer cells, and just bring Sally to perfect health again. And help Joe, Lord. He gained weight last week. Help him to continue to gain weight. And be with Linda also as she's on prednisone for for her, I think, liver or something. Lord, I pray that you help her and just help Sally with her liver given her trouble. And help Steven with his hematoma in his back and the vertebra there as he fell off the ladder. Help him to get get all healed up and be with Thomas with his feet. Lord, nobody likes their feet to hurt hurts to walk. And so, you know, the man that had the palsy, Lord, his friends couldn't get to you. And Lord, they climbed upon the roof, and they opened the roof up, and they let the guy down with ropes. That's how much they, as friends of this guy, wanted him to be healed, Lord. And, Lord, we wanna be like those men, those women. We wanna intercede on behalf of Thomas and Sally and Joe. And we and Stephen, Lord, we pray that you hear our prayer and that you heal right now, Lord, that you would heal, that you would take away all of that sickness. And, Lord, the woman with the issue of blood for twelve years, she just touched the hem of your garment, and it's stenched. It stopped right there right there and then, Please touch these people, Lord. Touch them even now and heal their bodies and save those who are lost. And Lord, be with my daughter Jessica. Help her pregnancy to go full term and with a with a healthy, baby, that you've set apart for your kingdom, for your glory, a child, Lord, that'll serve you all the days of their life. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. 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.
