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Alright. Live from Bremerton. It's Monday night. Welcome. We are in Daniel chapter 10 tonight, and, we wanna pray and open this time, under the lord. Father, we thank you that we can gather together tonight to have a meal together and to fellowship and to worship you, to study your word, and to pray for one another. Lord, we lift up Joe as he's gonna have a procedure done to him tomorrow, the next day, and we pray that you prepare him for that screen they're gonna put in with the complications of his cancer. And we pray for Sally, the calmer heart as she's gonna get an MRI as they're gonna check her out in regard to her cancer and just watch over and protect them and heal them, Lord, totally and completely. We just lift them up. We love them so much. And, Lord, we lift this night up to you and ask that you would bless, that you pour out your holy spirit upon us, that you lead and guide us in all truth, Lord. And, Lord, we rejoice that, Lord, the hostages were released and on both sides and people getting to go home. And, Lord, we do pray for a lasting peace, a lasting peace without any more conflict there in the Gaza region, Lord. We ask for this in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Alright, thanks, Rob. Alright, Daniel chapter 10. Daniel 10. And by way of announcement, as we proceed in the book of Daniel, we're gonna get into some very controversial, a very in-depth prophecies in chapter eleven and twelve. And Daniel is receiving some of this in chapter 10 and or about to and very powerful section within the Bible so much so that many critics of the Bible try to say that it happened afterwards because it's so accurate. And so but also telescoping to the future, the time we're living in. We'll see in in verse 14 of chapter 10 here that the vision that he's gonna get that the angel's gonna speak to him of is for the the latter days. And so twenty five hundred years ago, Daniel's getting this vision and two thousand years ago in Hebrews one, god who had sundew time in a diverse manners spoke through the prophets has in these last days. So, we're in the last days from the time of Jesus forward spoken to us through his son And so we have the blessing of having the word of God and the prophetic word of God, 27% of the Bible. And there's an emphasis upon here of understanding. And Daniel wants to understand, and the angel's been sent to help Daniel understand. How many of you like being stupid? Anybody like being stupid? You know? Anybody like being ignorant, uninformed? Nobody caught that and raised their hand, but one of the ways people can be manipulated who call themselves Christians in the church or professing church is for them to lack understanding, to not have an understanding of the bible, especially being rooted and grounded in the foundational truths of the bible. Very important for a new believer to be rooted and grounded, to have plenty of milk and veggies and meat here and there, and to grow in such a way that the seeds go the roots go real deep to be grounded in Christ because when the trials come, the seed and the sower, the sun beats down, the plant, the germination, that excitement will wither if you're not rooted in in Christ. And so very important that we not be ignorant of the enemy's devices, his strategies that are against us, because whether we're ignorant or informed, we're gonna go through trials. We're gonna go through attacks and battles where the principalities and the powers are trying to defeat us and steal our joy and can't take our salvation away from us, but, we're sealed with the Holy Spirit. But they can certainly neutralize a professing Christian and cause them to not live the life of the spirit, not have victory, and much of it has to do with, ignorance. As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. My people perish for lack of knowledge, the prophet Hosea says. And so, the Bereans in Acts seventeen eleven were more noble because they searched the scriptures to see whether these things be so. A book of Revelation where we're going to after this book, at the very beginning, God promises a blessing to those that read and and study that book. Paul told Timothy to study to show yourself approved unto God, a workman that need not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. We're told that all scripture is given by inspiration. It's God breathed. Inspiration of God is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God be thoroughly equipped for every good work. Right? And we also know prophetically that in the last days there would be a great apostasy, which means a rebellion against God or a falling away from the truth, that men would not endure sound doctrine, so they won't endure it. They don't want it, but will heap to themselves teachers having itching ears. So what it means is they will change the whole focus from being on to Jesus and bring it upon themselves. And so self centered churches, pastors becoming life coaches, and motivational speakers, and watering down the gospel, and the people lack understanding. And they're easily manipulated as the charlatan up in front, the false prophet, the wolf in sheep's clothing. One of the monikers, one of the ways to know is he's always building his kingdom, but he needs their money. And he's always, always, always presenting another case, another gimmick, another scam to get more money out of people. And I don't understand it, but it has to be these people lack understanding. It's got to be. Because why would they fall into that trap? But they love it so. They they love in many ways, they they just love it so. It's they're ignorant, but they love it so. So ignorance is bliss, I guess. Alright. So Daniel wants to be informed, and he really, really wants to hear from God so much so that he's willing to afflict himself. He's willing to leave the pleasure of the feasting time of the Passover and the season of unleavened unleavened bread in the month Nisan, Nisan, in the first month. And rather than that, he's gonna fast and pray and seek the Lord for twenty one days. And it takes twenty one days for him to get an answer. And God removes the curtain and shows us beyond the veil, what's happening in the spiritual realm. Wouldn't you like to see beyond the veil of what was happening with Job? You know? Have you considered my servant Job, a man perfect and upright in all of his ways, a man that fears God and excuse evil? God asked Satan, where have you been, Satan? Well, I've been walking to and fro, you know, throughout the earth, and and God challenged him. Have you considered my servant Job? And and, you you know, so we get a picture of behind the veil of what's happening in the heavenly realm. But Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar, they didn't have that example, so they assumed. They assumed that Job was a bad guy and all these bad things happened to him because he was bad. You know? And and so we go through the book of Job, and we we hurt for Job, but we recognize that he was afflicted, that God allowed him to be afflicted by the devil, and and God was to be glorified in and through that. And when the Lord spoke directly to Job, he said, I abhor myself, and I repent in dust and ashes. You know? Throughout the book, he was trying to justify himself, his goodness, all that. This is unfair and all that. He needed a daysment and all that. And then when God really began to bear down on him, he realized that it was all because of God's grace that God was able to bless him so and and that God used that breaking to bless him even more later. Alright. So let's pray. Father, so blessed. Be our teacher. Open the scriptures to understanding, and, help us, Lord, to go away from here refreshed and strengthened and better informed, Lord, and not just facts and figures, but knowing you better, that you'd reveal yourself to us, Lord. In Jesus' name, amen. So in the third year of Cyrus, wow, I think there's another Cyrus now. I've got a coin with this this image on it. Cyrus. So in the third year of Cyrus, king of Persia, that's Iran. Lot of good people in Iran. Fastest growing church in the world right now in Iran, in Persia. I know a few Persian people. Nice people. Bad leadership. Bad leadership gets them in a lot of trouble. But there's a demon that is overseeing Persia, at least one demon. There's demons, plural or one or two or whatever, overseeing America. There's demons over every country in the world, as we're gonna see here, principalities and powers, rulers of darkness. Wonder how many were in the state of Washington. I don't know. Witchcraft and all that kind of thing. And the Lord's called us to be in the state of Washington to be a remnant of salt and light and a message of hope. So many people losing hope and commit suicide, and we'd seen nothing yet. I mean, I'm talking to I'm hearing from some people that are just now experiencing the second weekend of the government shutdown, what it's like to not get paid in two weeks, you know? And for some, it's just a radical, radical thing. It's like over the top. If this goes to the third week, the fourth week, you know, they're projecting and they got bills to pay, a lot of bills to pay. And but what happens if the bank shut down and we have a major economic shutdown to break the will of us as the people of America so that we'll take the real ID in the digital currency. There's 86,000,000 people in Vietnam, and they demand a real ID, and 83,000,000 of them said no. So their bank accounts were shut off until they would go to their local bank and have their iris scanned and biometric image and sign up for the real ID. How long can you resist, you know, with no food and all that? And and so we ain't seen nothing yet. But so Cyrus, the the Persian, and Darius the Mede, they overthrew in Daniel five, Belteshazzar, the Babylonians. And now Daniel, he's been serving it that whole period of time with the Babylonians, and now it's May at this point in time and three years about after after Daniel chapter nine. And interestingly, I wanna give you a heads up. We're gonna go to chapter 11 verse one, and chapter 11 verse one is also in May. So Daniel is from going from chapter nine into chapter 10, like three years later, and then he's gonna show you three years previous of of what the angel's talking about in verse one of chapter 11. Pretty interesting. So in the third year of Cyrus, king of Persia, a thing a thing was revealed unto Daniel whose name was called Belteshazzar. This is the name that Nebuchadnezzar gave him. Remember Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego? They're new names. And the thing was true, but the time appointed was long. And so it's it's out there. It's gonna be out there. And and he understood the thing. Look at that word. He understood the thing and had understanding of the vision. It's great when God reveals something to us and we have understanding. Now if the people around you don't have understanding, does that change your view of the truth? Do you look for confirmation in your truth from other people? If you know that you know that you know that God's revealed something to you, no matter how many people believe or don't believe, your position doesn't change because God's revealed it to you. What cost, what price have you paid for your discernment? Ignorance is bliss. But to discern, in many cases, as Daniel's gonna find out here, he's he's been in captivity, you know, over seventy years. That's a huge price to pay for the for the the revelation and the discernment and the wisdom that God's given him. You know? If he was all fat and happy back in Jerusalem, chances are he wouldn't enter into such depth of understanding and visions and dreams and all. And these 21 here, this is no pleasure. This is this is sacrificial, again, wanting to know the truth, wanting to know, you know, possibly, one of the commentators said, possibly, he's wanting to know why only 49,000 people went back to Jerusalem to rebuild the temple. Why didn't more people go? We've been here seventy years, and now Cyrus has given a decree a couple years earlier that we could go, and only 49,000 went. Nehemiah and Ezra, the priest, are there and and Hosea talks about how the people that did go built their cedar lined houses and everything, but but they left God's temple. See, the spiritual life, they weren't concerned about the spiritual life anymore, and it didn't matter to them. They became so incredibly worldly being in Babylon all those years that they began to enjoy the pleasure and the blessings of prosperity, so to speak. They became very good with with money and and commerce that they learned there in Babylon. And many of them didn't wanna go back to the arduous, very difficult job of rebuilding the temple and rebuilding Jerusalem. And so a butler a butler named Nehemiah had it really strong upon his heart to go. And Daniel, it's very, very strong upon his heart in regard to the temple. The building of the temple stopped. It started that it stopped, started and stopped. And so that could be one of the reasons why he's seeking the Lord. At this time and the lord's going to give him a bigger picture than he's asking for. Excuse me. I'm sorry. And and so there's a time of point. And so in those days, I, Daniel, was mourning three full weeks. Have you ever had something that you've been willing to fast and pray and mourn for three full weeks to get an answer from the Lord? We're like microwave Christians. Right? We pray and we want it quick. If it's if it's longer than thirty seconds, we're not waiting, you know? And we'll be like Abraham and Sarah and Hagar. We'll go out and fix it ourselves. Right? I'll go do it. I'll get her done. And sometimes there's a battle going on that you don't realize. There's a battle in the heavenlies, and you don't see the curtain isn't pulled back for you, and so you don't quite understand in the natural what's going on. Should have the answer sooner. And I've had seasons in my life where things that were happening were very illogical. They were irrational. They were inexplicable. You couldn't reason and understand why these things were happening. It shouldn't be happening this way, but it is. And then we will conclude, it's demonic. There are demonic entities that are stifling, holding back, not allowing things that are normal for most people to happen. It's a no brainer. But in our case, you have faith as a mustard seed and you're saying to this mountain, be thou removed and cast into the sea, but you can't get the mountain to move. You're pushing hard and you're seeking, you're asking and seeking and knocking and praying and praying and praying. You can't get you can't get the big the big ball to move, you know? And as you're pushing on the ball, as you're praying, as you're seeking the lord, you're certainly getting stronger spiritually. So you can't give up. And how many of us have prayed for our children, grandchildren, family members to be saved, and to walk with the Lord? It can be a lifetime of prayer, a lifetime of praying, and petitioning and begging God, and there's so many obstacles and things that get in the way, and and it's not just a slam dunk. Some things are just not a slam dunk for the Christian. And and this is mighty Daniel. Three full weeks. So when these guys come up with the Daniel diet, remind them of this diet right here. No food at all. This works. This is a great detox. This is a great way to lose some weight. If you don't eat any food, you're gonna lose weight. And and there you go. So in those days, I, Daniel, was mourning three full weeks, and I ate no pleasant bread. So no no donuts, No bagels. None of that spices. None of that sweet sweet bread sweet stuff. So I ain't no pleasant bread. Neither came flesh nor wine in my mouth. So no meat. No lamb nor wine to refresh me in my mouth. Neither did I anoint myself at all. So, he put on the stinky. He was willing to be stinky and and and a rash. You get rashes. You need oil when you're not taking showers every day and all that. You need you need to calm the rashes down and calm the the skin down. The skin could get sunburned and all that other sorts of thing. Till the whole weeks were fulfilled. And so, no pleasure is what this means. He didn't allow any pleasure. He's so he's he's eating the bread of affliction, but not even eating any bread. And the four in the twentieth day of the first month, so this is the time, as I was by the tide of the great river, which is head to Cal. So he's along the Tigris River. He's 20 miles from Babylon, And it's the first month, which is the month Nisan, and it's in the twentieth day. So he's he's doing this during the time of a feast called Passover. But since he's not in Jerusalem, where the Ark of the Covenant should be, the the law of Deuteronomy would tell him that he's not supposed to partake of Passover unless he's there. So that could be one of the reasons why he wasn't. But it's during the time of feasting and he's fasting. And Jesus told his disciples, I have food to eat that you know not of. You know, that you don't you're unaware. And master, come and eat. I have food to eat that you know not of. And so it's that spiritual nourishment. I'm going to address the spiritual side of my being rather than the physiological fleshly side of my of my being. So, I'm going to deny the flesh for a period of time so that I can emphasize the spirit. How many of us do that? How many of us shut our cellphones off? Anybody shut their cellphone off? Shut it all the way off? I hear one. There's one. Just went. But that's a tool right now. That's a tool. That's a bible right there. So don't shut it off. But I find that if you shut it off, man, your concentration increases. Great much better concentration. If you get away from all the electronics and fast from all that stuff and get off of Facebook and all these things that compete for our attention, I mean, do we want an answer or not? Do we want AI's answer? Do we want it real quick with chat GPT? Or do we wanna wait upon the Lord and allow the Holy Spirit, you know, to answer us? And and so, boy, we we're in a dangerous place today in our culture. There's so much stimulation. One of the guys said that I I think I told you last week that a pastor of a megachurch said that the sermons need to be shorter than thirty minutes now. Shorter than thirty because of TikTok, people's attention span has eroded. It's so short. They want short little bites, and they don't wanna invest the time. And I find myself when I'm listening to some people, get to the point. Just get to the point. You know? And so it happens to me too. So in the April of the first month, as I was by the side of the great river, which is Hedikel, the Tigris River, then I lifted up mine eyes and looked, and behold, a certain man. A certain man. Notice seven characteristics of this man. He's clothed in linen whose loins were girded with with the gold of Euphaz. His body also was like the burl and his face like the appearance of lightning and his eyes like lamps of fire and his arms and his feet in color like polished bronze, and his voice of his words like the voice of a multitude. So we have Christophany here, a certain man, Jesus, appearance of Jesus, very similar to what John saw in Revelation one or we have an angel that's appearing as a man. And in my study here, I believe this is an angel appearing as a man. And the reason is over in verse 13, notice verse 12, then said he unto me, fear not, Daniel, for from the very first day that thou did set thine heart to understand and to chasten thyself before thy God, thy words were heard, and I am come for thy words. But the prince of the kingdom of Persia, so a demon whose sphere of responsibility, as we see in Ephesians six principalities and powers, withstood me twenty one days. But lo, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me. That's why that's not Jesus. Jesus doesn't need help. But it is an unnamed angel with a great appearance. And so let's look at that appearance. The linen speaks of purity and this was what a priest would wear. And we see Revelation nineteen:eight wearing linen garments in Ezekiel eight forty two, the priest would wear linen. Linen speaks of not sweating. It's not by might nor by power, natural might or natural power, but by my spirit saith the Lord of hosts in Zechariah four:six, right? So the work that you and I do in serving the Lord as kings and priests, it can be sweaty in the natural, but really we're not to strive. The servant of the Lord must not strive. So we're to yield to the Holy Spirit, allow the power of the Holy Spirit to move and work through us and and not try to in the arm of the flesh, try to do the work of the spirit in the arm of the flesh, which would which would be the picture of wearing, you know, more of servant garments that are that are like like wool as a and you know that wool is gonna get all sweaty. The apostle Paul, when he was ministering, he would sweat and he had handkerchiefs and he would he would work as a tentmaker working with leathers and stuff and he would he would sweat during the day, and then those sweat rags people would take and get healed from. You know? So there's a but the picture here is is that it's a work of the spirit, and god doesn't want his priests to be sweating, so to speak. And yet cutting up animals as a butcher and getting all that ready, that's gonna be real sweaty work. So you gotta look at the the metaphor of the picture in such a way that it's gotta be in the power of the Holy Spirit. And so but it speaks of purity, the purity. Then his loins, there's a sash around his loins which is gold and that speaks of royalty, Revelation one thirteen. His body is a burl which is a color that's transparent and so it speaks of strength. And his face is like lightning, brilliant lightning, the brilliance of a light shining forth, which speaks of the Shekinah glory of God. And in Matthew seventeen:two, his face shown. Moses got the afterglow and wore a veil, you know, his face was shining bright. His eyes of fire speaks of discernment and penetrating insight, the omniscience of God. He knows everything, you know. And so this is an angel, but these are these are attributes of of of God here. His arms were feet of brass, which speaks of judgment of sin. And the in Exodus chapter 27 verse 12, the altar and the laver were made of of of brass. His voice is the voice of heaven, the voice similar to how God speaks, Revelation nineteen six and Ezekiel forty three two. So again, I think this is an angel, an unnamed angel, could be Gabriel, we don't know, but this is the messenger. Hebrews one fourteen tells us that God has ministering spirits, angels that have been sent to minister unto us. We're told in Hebrews chapter 13 verse one to entertain strangers. Boy, that's easy to do today. A lot of strange people. For some have entertained angels unaware. So it used to be in the day of the Jesus movement when it first started that a lot of people used to pick up hippies, up hitchhikers. Right? And Cathy and I, when we first got saved at the end of the Jesus thing, there were there were people still around like that. And I I met a man and a woman and let them come stay at our house a few days. Now they weren't angels, but it kinda kinda wonders sometimes when people are that strange. But but, no, they were they were beautiful people, wonderful people in love with Jesus. I'd say that tongue in cheek. Alright. Now Daniel alone saw the vision, so he's with other men, kinda like the apostle Paul in Acts chapter nine when he gets a vision when the Lord appears to him and there's other men there and they hear a voice but they don't see what Paul sees and they don't hear the articulation of the words where the Lord's saying, Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? They can hear a noise but they can't hear what's being said. And so too with these guys, these guys are there with him. They know something's happened. For the men that were with me saw not the vision, but a great quaking fell. So these guys became what's been known as the Quakers and, quaking on the ground, you know, so moved by the Holy Spirit and basically moved with fear, so overwhelmed with fear that they're quaking. And at the tomb of Jesus, remember when the stone was rolled away, the angel came and moved the the stone? The keepers of the the soldiers that were keeping the tomb, were quaking. They fell as dead men on the ground just shaking and a whole lot of shaking going on. And so that can happen. We can be overwhelmed with fear. Today, we hear of panic attacks, stress. We're told the Lord tells us that during the tribulation period, leading up to the tribulation period, there would be perilous times, times of no way out, no solution. People can't figure any way out. Men's hearts failing them for fear. So anxiety and heart attacks, men's hearts failing them simply overwhelmed with fear. Now God hasn't given you and I the spirit of fear, but a power of love and a sound mind. Right? So Timothy was timid. There's times where he was overwhelmed with fear. Fear is the opposite of faith. So when COVID happened, many, many people were overwhelmed with fear. And it's fear that paralyzed them and inability to think and to reason. All they could hear was the propaganda. All they could hear was what the people were saying on the big tube. And, you know, today, I know that people are still addicted to Fox News. It's a habit they can't break. Fox and all the news guys and boy, they can really get into your home and stimulate and cause so much fear. And that's the conservative station, the supposed conservative side of it. And so wanna be the men and women of faith, and we want to rely upon the Lord and trust in the Lord. And I just encourage you to cultivate in your relationship with the Lord a Matthew six, just Matthew six, give us this day our daily bread, you know, and learn to just take this day and trust the Lord for this day. Don't project out of what's going to happen in two weeks or three weeks or if I don't get paid in three weeks, oh my gosh, you know, and all that, and you can't sleep and all that stuff. Just trust the Lord like he lines it out for you in Matthew six. He says he takes care of the birds. He says he closed the fields, and he's going to take care of us. We're of far more value. Oh, we have little faith, you know? And so we learn. The faith is a muscle and we learn to trust the Lord as we go through the trials, we're stretched, as we go through things, and health reversals and financial reversals, relationship problems. We get stretched and stretched and stretched, and God's allowed in our lives so that we'll come to the end of ourselves and where we'll trust him more. Trust him. And Daniel, his guys, they're quaking. They fell upon them. Now if I saw an angel, if he appeared to me, and he looked like what we just described there, I'd hit the ground. I give him 40 real quick. Alright. I just hit the ground, and I'd be I'd be filled with fear. No doubt. But I tried to overcome that fear as best I could by getting my eyes back on the Lord. You know? And so they that so that they fled to hide themselves. So, yeah, they wanna hide. And it's interesting when whenever you see somebody have an encounter not with an angel but with Jesus, whether it's Peter. Peter had an encounter with Jesus where he finally clicked that he's god. Hey, children. You caught no fish? Cast your net on the other side. Hey. We fished all night. Caught no fish. But at your word, we'll we'll push back out and cast the nets. And then the nets were full of fishes and all. And Peter said the realization of that was a miracle. And Peter said away from me from a sinful man. Right? And John the beloved and in the book of Revelation twice an angel appeared to him and he started to worship him as God and and then he says no. No. Worship God. You know don't worship an angel not supposed to worship angels and again Job he said I bore myself repent in dust and ashes when the Lord showed up Job saw his filthiness so the light and the brilliance of God's holiness exposes our filthiness. So when you meet a holy man or a holy woman, one of the characteristics should be great, great humility. Humility. God resists the proud and he gives grace to the humble. So anybody that's spends time close to God is humbled. They see more and more of their own sin rather than being puffed up and prideful and thinking they're better than everybody. The Pharisee prayed thus with himself. Right? So don't get caught up in that. And and so recognize that that the closer we get to God, the greater we see ourselves like Paul did the chiefs of sinners, a blasphemer in me that is my flesh dwells no good thing. Right? O wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from this body of death? And that's the condition of you and I apart from Christ. But when Jesus comes into the equation, it's no longer us living, but Christ living through us. So the solution, God's prescription for the old us is death. He's not gonna reform the old you and I. If any man be in Christ, he's a new creation. The old things are passed away, all things have become new. And so being born again. Therefore, I was left alone and saw this great so so it's like, hey, thanks, guys. Y'all bailed on me. Therefore, I was I was left alone and saw this great vision and there remained no strength in me. It's just exhausting. It you're gonna see where he fainted here. At our wedding, when Kathy and I got married, we had a ring bearer, little Ryan, and and all of a sudden, he crashed through the candelabra and fainted right there. And there were some neighbors that Kathy had that were Pentecostals, and they thought it was the most powerful thing they ever saw, that God was slain in the spirit right there, you know? Pastor Chuck says, well, it happens. People lock their knees and it's hot and those candles are hot and the lights are hot and then they they pass out, you know, from time to time. Thank God I haven't had that happen to me, but Daniel is gonna face plant. You ever face plant it? Anybody face plant? And I don't want that to happen to me either. So he's left alone and saw this great vision, and there remained to me no strength in me, for my comeliness was turned in me into corruption. It's not going real well for him. And I retained no strength. Watch what happens next. Yet I heard the voice of his words. And when I heard the voice of his words, then was I in a deep sleep on my face. He fainted. He fell down. And now he's hearing a voice, and the angel's gonna help him up onto his knees. We're talking Panixville here. We're talking this is this is overwhelming him. Voice of his words when I was in a deep sleep on my face and my face toward the ground. And so, the apostle Peter, he fell asleep at the house of Cornelius at about lunchtime and the Lord caused him to be in a trance, you know. And so you can be asleep or in a trance and God can give you a vision and speak to you, you know, this face plant. And Abram was in a trance on his face in Genesis chapter 15 verse 12 when the Lord was ministering him, confirming the covenant, the Abrahamic covenant that he was making with him. And, and when Daniel saw Gabriel in chapter eight verse 16 and chapter nine verse 21, he had the same sort of experience in seeing an angel. So, again, I've never seen an angel. I've never heard the audible voice of God. I've met people that claim they have and praise the Lord. But and I also know people that delve in the occult or have dealt in the occult, and they say that they've seen demons, they've heard demons, and there's reports, I don't know if it's true, of demons touching people and stuff like that. So those are those are I don't want no part of that. I want no part of that. You know? No part of it. I locked the door on Halloween. I don't give out any candy. Nothing. I don't like horror movies. I don't like horror stories or none of it. So I don't wanna allow any of that occultic stuff into my heart and mind. I know it's real, and I know that greater is he that's in me than he that's in the world. God's given me a bold faith, a courageous faith, but that I think I you know, at this juncture, think it is. But if he started to ramp things up, I just wonder if I faint and do a face plan. Probably. Probably I would. If the great Daniel if this would happen to Daniel, the spiritual realm opens up to him to that degree, and that's his reaction, that's I I don't know that I'd probably be like those other guys, and I'd run and I'd take off. Alright. Verse 10. And behold, a hand touched me. And so these angels, they could appear as men, not women, but as men. And those sons of God that left their first estate in Genesis six appeared as men, and they cohabitated with women. And it was the devil's attempt to ruin the DNA of human beings. The Nephilim came forth, and so the angels that left their first estate. And so that's where the gene pool was getting all messed up, and the Lord brought forth the Noahic flood to stop that. And it says that Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord. And Noah was perfect in his generations. He wasn't perfect morally because we saw him naked after the after the flood and so he wasn't a perfect man but perfect in his gene. His gene was not polluted. His family, the eight of them that went on the ark, their genes were not polluted. So the Messiah, the seed of the woman, Genesis three fifteen, could come forth through Noah's family. Alright. So when you think in terms of an angel, this isn't these Christmas chubby bubbies, you know, cherubs, little tiny chubby things. They're brilliant, bright, shiny guys that are that are men. And so he beheld his hand and touched me and which me upon my knees and upon the palms of my hands. So he's down on all fours. He's been on his face. Now he's on all fours. Now you're trying to breathe, trying to catch your breath. It's overwhelming. What's going on? Your heart rate's going up. And he said unto me, Daniel, O Daniel, a man greatly beloved. Now the seven sons of Sceva, they they tried to they tried to do exorcisms and all, and a demon came out of one of the guys and said, Jesus, know. Paul, we know. But who are you? You're a nobody. Not even the demons know who you are. In Daniel's case, the demons know who he is. But more importantly, the holy angels know who he is. And from the very first day that he began to pray, his voice was heard. And his voice and who he is was such that the devil dispatched a certain demon to stop Daniel from hearing the message that God had for him. A very, very important message. Very, very important prophecy. And the devil did not want Daniel to get that message so that Daniel couldn't write it down so that you and I could have it here today. Do you see that? The devil knows. The devil knows this Daniel. The demons know this Daniel. And this angel, this holy angel now remember, we have to back up a little bit. In Revelation chapter 12, we're told that one third of the angels fell with Lucifer. So the Lucifer, once a holy angel, Isaiah 14 and Ezekiel 28 describes his former role as an exalted cherub angel before the throne of God. And he had his five I will statements in Isaiah 14 that he would be God, and he got cast down. Well, one third of the angels went with Lucifer in that coup, in that rebellion against God. I mean they must have thought that somehow Satan could have pulled it off if they're gonna do that. So we got two thirds of the angels that are what we call holy angels that serve the Lord And the unholy angels, which we call demons, they serve Satan. They serve the devil, Lucifer, the dragon, Satan. And and the other thing is I want you to know is these demons, they they wanna thwart the purposes of God, like in Revelation sixteen twelve through 16. The demons gather the people, the kings of the earth and the people to stop Jesus from returning. So they want to fight against the purposes of God. When Mary is going to have a baby, the demons are dispatched through Herod, the king, to kill all the babes of Bethlehem to try and stop this king from coming into, you know, God's only begotten son to come in in, through the birth canal and conceive the holy spirit and all and trying to stop it. The plot that Haman had against, all the Jews later, with queen Esther and all and Mordecai, it was a plot to eradicate all the Jews. If you can eradicate all the Jews back then, then Jesus couldn't be born later in Bethlehem through Mary. So the devils had a huge, huge hatred and constant attack against the Jews, the nation of Israel, and and also against Christians. Who wants to stop you? So you're gonna have great resistance. You're gonna have great and the closer you get to the Lord, the close the more you wanna serve the Lord, the more resistance from the devil, from the kingdom of darkness coming against you and your family. And and you learn to rely upon the Lord. His grace is sufficient. His strength is perfected in weakness. And then in Ephesians two one and two, you have the demons working for the devil in that in that they try to blind people and hold people captive and deceive people. The greatest weapon the devil has is deception, always attacking truth. And then the third function of the demons, and I told Kathy this in the car on the way here, and she says, that's crazy. The third function of the demons or purpose of the demons is they serve God. They do his bidding. God sends them out as his hitmen. Who do you think thumped on the apostle Paul, that messenger of Satan that was buffeting him? It was a demon. And the demon was dispatched by God to go humble Paul, to give him a thorn of the flesh, a physical infirmity to keep him humble. Because Paul was caught up in the third heaven, unless he be exalted above measure, the Lord gave him a demon, a buddy, to give him a physical infirmity that kept his feet on the ground. What about Job? The demons served served the Lord in in afflicting Job, Satan. In first Kings, we have other instances of the Lord sending lion spirits to lie to kings and with Ahab to lie to him and all. And and so God's on the throne. He's almighty sovereign, and God uses the devil to expose people's hearts. In the millennium, at the end of the millennium, Satan's loosed after a thousand years in the abyss and people live in the perfect environment, and they can't go to the psychiatrist and hear the psychiatrist say, you're a wretched person because the home you grew up in, the city you grew up in, and you you have you didn't have white privilege, and, you know, it's all everybody else's fault. No. You had a perfect environment. You had a perfect king, perfect government, perfect identic conditions. The problem is your heart. And at the end of the millennium, Satan's loosed and he's able to entice. He's able to tempt people and they rebel against God. Their hearts revealed. So God gives us the power of choice. We're not robots that our hearts might be revealed. Are we gonna love God for who he is, or are we going to rebel against God and follow the dictates, the schemes, the plans of the wicked one enticing us, appealing to our flesh, our lust of the flesh, lust of the eye, and the pride of life. And so so Daniel, greatly beloved greatly beloved, which means he's living a life that's well pleasing unto God. Daniel, you are well pleasing. You really pleased the Lord. He's well pleased with you. It's what we wanna hear when we meet the Lord. Well done, thou good and faithful servant. You've been faithful over a few things. I'll make you ruler over much. Greatly beloved. Greatly beloved. And I like when I think of this, think, you know, of Hebrews eleven six, without faith, it's impossible to please God. Daniel is very pleasing to God. God is well pleased with Daniel. What's Daniel doing? He's believing God, trusting God, walking by faith. All these seventy some years he's been there in Babylon, he's been serving the Lord, not in the best situation, but he's been serving the Lord like Jeremiah and the other prophets, doing what God's called him to do, and God says, Man, you've been faithful. You really pleased me. But without faith it's impossible to please God, They that come to him must believe that he is and that he's a rewarder of those who diligently seek him. So in chapter 11 of Hebrews, the writer, I believe it's Paul, gives examples of in the hall of faith of people like you and I that pleased God by faith by faith by faith by faith by faith. That's what pleases God when we walk by faith. Now the Holy Spirit edits out all of the instances of unbelief of those people listed. The Holy Spirit doesn't put in Hebrews 11 when when, Abraham, the father of our faith, when he lied and said, tell them, you're my sister, Sarah, you know, you're you're you're my sister. David's thing with Bathsheba and Uriah and Ahithophel and numbering the people, none of that's in Hebrews 11. But all their exploits, all their great things they've done, are listed there, and it was by faith, by faith, by faith, by faith. And so in chapter 10 of Hebrews, the Lord it says he says, the Lord has no pleasure. You think in terms of faith that pleases god. What's the kind of faith that pleases god? What's the kind of unbelief that breaks god's heart? Hebrews 10 talks about how those who draw back, God takes no pleasure in those who draw back, those who quit believing. So you and I start believing, get saved, and we're excited. But ask yourself, have are you neutralized? Are you lukewarm? Are you part of the lukewarm church today? Are you still believing? Still trusting the Lord? Or are you fat and sassy saying, I'm rich and increased with goods in need of nothing, and Jesus is on the outside of your home and the outside of your life and you're making all the decisions doing all the stuff, you know, but you don't have real fellowship with Jesus. That's the Laodicean Church, the last days church. The people rule church where the people are in charge. Where's their faith? They don't have any faith. They're they're in apostasy. They've fallen from faith. But Daniel, he's greatly beloved. I want the Lord. I wanna be a Lord pleaser. I don't wanna be like King Saul and be a man pleaser. If the Lord puts upon my heart something, I'm stubborn. I'm not backing down. I don't care how many awards the guy gets. I don't care how many people applaud him. I don't care any of that stuff. I still remember the warp speed jab and more people dying than all the wars put together. You can't persuade me. I still see meeting with Albert Borla, a Pfizer, the other day and coming back around to fund more vaccines, mandating, enforcing vaccines upon everybody. That's what's coming. I see a real ID, a digital ID. How do I get this discernment? Because I'm not in love with the world. But if you're in love with the world, you give a free pass to all the evil, and you're just hoping that we get to go back to normal. That's all you care about. You need to understand something else. I'm a patriot. I love patriotism, but not at the expense of truth. So Daniel here, all he needs to concern himself with is what is he hearing from the Lord, is it truth, and is he pleasing God by being faithful unto God? That's all that matters. So greatly beloved, understand, and this word is gonna be used over and over. Understand the words that I speak unto thee. That's a good thing. Do you understand the word to you? Do you understand the words that are coming out of my mouth? You know? And people wanna spiritualize. Words have meaning. You you can't take and come up with your own truth. You gotta take God's word for his word. Words that I speak unto thee and stand upright, front of thee am I now sent. And when he had spoken this word unto me, I stood trembling. I would too. I wonder if this is Gabriel. Then said he unto me, fear not, Daniel. So being told to fear not, watching the guy that's trembling, watching the guy that just fainted, now you gotta tell him, fear not. When you hear the Lord say, fear not, little flock or fear not, it means you're afraid. And he's telling you to fear not, and he's giving you a reason to fear not. He says in Revelation one seventeen, fear not, I am the first, I am the last. It's all about me. I'm the alpha, the omega, the beginning and the end. I'm the absolute all powerful God. And if God before you, who can be against you? 63 times in the Bible, we're told to fear not. Fear not. The devil wants to lie and the devil wants to get us filled with fear and the propagandist Joseph Goebel or the Rabshaka that was coming to Hezekiah and mocking and all the propaganda ministers that try and get everybody afraid. And Goebel said, once you get them afraid, you can get them to do anything. Why? Because they lack understanding. Because they're easily manipulated. Because they have no faith. But somebody with faith? Why do you think people with faith are such a threat to communist? Because they hear from the Lord and they follow the Lord. That's a threat to a communist regime that wants total control of the people. Right? That's why you gotta get rid of the Christians because they they will work hard. They'll do right. They'll be honest at work and the whole thing even in a communist, you know, society, but they will not sell themselves out. They will not sell Jesus. They won't give in to the lies. They'd rather please the Lord. And so they overcome him by the word of their testimony, by the blood of the lamb, the word of their testimony, and they love not their lives unto death. They overcome the devil by the blood of the lamb, the word of their testimony. I was blind and now I see. I was a wretch and God saved me. And then they love not their lives unto death. They're willing to die for the truth. What what do you do with people like that? Nothing you can do. You you can't you can't control them. So fear not, Daniel, for from the very first day that thou didst set thine heart to understand and to chasten thyself before thy god, thy words were heard. God hears your prayers. He hears every word. He sees every tear. He knows every heartache, everything you've gone through, and he stores your tears in a bottle. And your prayers, your words come up to him as incense, as sweet incense, a sweet aroma in that you want to talk to him. And he has a throne of grace for you. The veil of the temple is rent in two, and you have access to the very throne of God to meet with God. Right? And you're very, important to him and not one little sparrow falls to the ground that he doesn't acknowledge it and he knows all the numbers of hair of your head, you're far more valuable. You're the one he sent his son to die for and he's heard. And so when you don't get immediate answers, remember prayer is what? Is prayer a monologue or a dialogue? I'm not getting any answers. My prayers are monologue. It's just me talking. But also Jesus told the churches in the book of Revelation, he that has an ear to hear, let him hear. So prayer is not just speaking, but listening. How good are you at listening? How good are we at reading the scriptures, allowing God to speak to us as we read the scriptures? Do you have an ear to hear? I I know for me that for many people, they have selective hearing. And if they don't hear what they wanna hear, then they're out of there. Well, some of what we study is a bitter pill. It's going to rock your world. We're going to attack your sacred cows. We're going to attack your idols. We're going to attack the things that are causing you that's blinding you and hindering you from really hearing. And we're not going to allow the culture to dictate what a church is, or what a message is. We're simply going to study the Word of God and allow the Word of God to say what it says, words have meaning, and allow the Holy Spirit to speak to us. And then as we look into the mirror of God's word and we see ourselves in relationship to who Jesus is, say, Lord, help me to apply these truths to my life. And as we apply these truths, this light, this revelation in Mark four, the Lord gives us more understanding. But if you don't apply according to Mark four, the light, the revelation that God's revealing to you at church, revealing to you in your devotion time, revealing to you as you're studying, as you're trying to listen, then you're gonna be at a place of arrested state of development. You're not gonna grow till you apply till you apply what he's shown you. And as you begin to trust and apply what he's shown you, now he can reveal more. That's called growth. God's gonna give you growth. And so be doers of the word, not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. Right? You wanna build your house on the sand or build your house on the rock? The guy that builds his house on the rock, he's a doer of the word. Alright. I'm gonna apply this to my life, Lord. Lord, I don't understand. As, second Chronicles 20, Jehoshaphat says, Lord, that's a big army coming against us, huge army. We don't have the might. We don't have the power to fight them and neither know we what to do. You ever been in that situation? You don't know what to do and you don't have the might, you don't have the money, don't but, Lord, our eyes are on you. And the Lord fought for them. Stand still. Even like with David. The battle belongs to the Lord. Stand still and see the salvation of the Lord. And as they began to worship, two Chronicles 20, you go home and read that, as they began to worship the Lord, get their eyes off themselves and their circumstances, begin to praise Almighty God, their enemies were discomfited and defeated. Right? There's no room for a panic attack when you live like that. Right? They didn't have any Xanax at that moment or pot to smoke or things to cope. They had faith, and they worshiped the true living God. I mean, this can be operative in our lives. We can live like the Christians we read about in the Bible, you know? It's possible. He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. And we got more bells and whistles and smoke machines and things to entertain and spark emotions and all. But do we have an ear to hear? Do we have a heart that wants to spend time with God? And so he says, thine heart understandeth chasten thyself very first, your God. Your words were heard, and I am come for thy words. And so Jesus said, ask, seek, knock. And the Greek is keep asking, keep seeking, keep knocking. Keep asking, keep seeking, keep knocking. Don't give up. Don't give up. I mean, I don't know that any kid is able to go to hell if they have a godly mother praying for him. Keep asking. Keep seeking. Keep knocking. Thy words were heard, and I have come because of your words. But the prince, prince of the kingdom of Persia, so this is a demonic entity. This is a fallen angel. So the fallen angels led by Satan have taken a similar structure as God inaugurated. The devil is the counterfeit. He counterfeits everything that God does. And and this is one of his counterfeits in that he has different ranking demons. God has different ranking angels. Michael is the lone archangel. Michael the archangel. And so Michael's responsibility according to Daniel 12 verse one is to watch over Israel, but also when Satan was taken the body of Moses, as Moses died there at Mount Nebo, Daniel came and contended with him and said, the Lord rebuke you. And Satan wanted the body. And and so Michael the archangel is more powerful than all the other angels, including the devil. And so he's the archangel, and we know of Gabriel. We have Seraphim in Isaiah six. We have cherub or cherub m plural. And then we have just plain angel angels as the lower ranking. Hebrews one verse 14, angels ministering spirits. In Matthew 18, we have these lower ranking angels as guardian angels, guarding over. And we have demonic angels with the same sort of a ranking, rulers, kings over certain nations and stuff, and and then just plain old demons. So Jesus asked the two at as he's speaking to the demons that were there, they said our name's Legion for we're many. So there are many demons inside of these two Agadera. Mary Magdalene had seven demons that were tormenting her, and the Lord delivered her of those seven demons that were there. Best way I know to deliver somebody of demons is to lead them to Christ. You don't have to have the exorcist movie in your mind or your ministry of self reformation of trying to, you know, force a demon out of somebody, and the demon leaves, and then that person goes through reformation. I'm gonna reform myself. I'm gonna stop smoking, drinking, drugging, and all that. I'm gonna make myself better. And that demon goes out and finds seven worse demons and they come back and the last state of that man is worse than before. Right? Self reformation, trying to reform yourself or getting the help of the world, the rudimentary behavioral sciences of the world. Rudimentary, lower. No. God says, I'll transform you. Again, the devil counterfeit. Transhumanism. Transforming people with technology, whatever. Right? And but Satan always plays off of the truth of God's word and tries to counterfeit. So this but the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me one in twenty days. So it's a battle going on. It's a battle royal. There's a spiritual battle going on. There's a spiritual battle going on right now. The devil doesn't want you to hear this truth. Right? We saw on Sunday, the devil shut off the technology. There was a battle going on. And Rob was really frustrated with that technology. Now we have to rely on technology. Well, why? We don't know why. It shouldn't have done that. Well, there's an answer. There's a spiritual battle. Every time Rob and Vicky try to host a bible study, expect an attack. Every time the sound people try to get the the sound to work and all that, expect an attack. And on Saturdays, when Kathy and I are getting ready for Sunday, expect an attack. You're gonna get attacked. Everything's gonna go wrong as you're trying to get ready. And I've discovered that if you wanna prosper in my life, I don't know about your life. In my life, every time I didn't serve the Lord or move in a direction to go to school, bible college or school of ministry, the devil allowed me to prosper. No pressure on me. Just prosper, baby. Now I could I could misconstrue and say, hey. That's god. Every good and perfect gift comes down from the father of lights, man. I'm in the Bless Me club, baby. And, man, it's fun. It's fun to be a part of Christian Disneyland and to have every ride and attraction and to be prospering. Right? But then God begins to do something in your heart, and you're trying to listen, trying to learn, trying to discover where you fit within the body. And so you say, well, you know, I'm gonna I'm gonna try and teach Sunday school. Say they need somebody, so alright. Kathy and I'll volunteer, and now an attack is coming against you. There's kind of a conflict that's developing. And then you go from there to try to go to bible college and your business doing really good. And you go to bible college and man, your business gets slammed, get slammed, everything starts falling apart. The devil wants you to quit. So what are you to do? And so I've discovered in my life every time I try to serve the Lord there is opposition. And as a Christian, as a pastor of a church, if you don't have opposition, then you have to recognize you are not a threat to the kingdom of darkness. When the devil leaves you alone, you are no threat to the kingdom of darkness. You have nothing to say that he's trying to stop you from saying. Daniel, this angel, is being stopped because God has something he wants to say to Daniel, and the devil knows I don't want Daniel to say that. Right? The devil knows the Bible better than than you and I, and and he's trying to stop. And if he can get you to stop teaching the Bible, teaching your children, praying with your family, all the spiritual things you do, the devil will reward you. You make lots of money. Because what's a profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his own soul or what would a man give in exchange for his life? So our value system is so different than Daniel's right here. So the first day that thou went to chasten yourself thy thy God thy words were heard and I am come for thy words, so a messenger. But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me one and twenty days. But, lo, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me, and I remained there with the kings of Persia. Now when it says kings of Persia, the demons of Persia, the ones that were the rulers over Persia, I stayed with them. So now he's got help with Michael and their tag team, and they're a tag team in wrestling, WWF, right there. And they're fighting against these other demons. And the picture that I see is the Apostle Paul chained to a soldier in Ephesians six in prison, and now he takes the armament of the of the soldier, and he begins to describe the spiritual armor that you and I have for you and I to do battle in the spiritual realm against the demons. Right? So let's turn there right now. Or no. We'll wait. We'll wait on that. But you you got a picture of it. Okay. We'll come back to that. So I'm come and doesn't want them to know. So remember, the devil doesn't want people to know prophecy. So the pastors don't teach prophecy today, 27% of the Bible. Devil doesn't want people to understand and to know the last days things of the times in which we're living. The devil wants to keep them ignorant. So the devil fills the churches with false doctrine and doctrines of demons so that the pastors will keep the people dummy down and not avail them of all that the the riches that are ours in Christ Jesus. Many, many churches consider prophecy to be doom and gloom, to be a bummer. It's only a bummer of people that are in love with this world. The second coming of Christ or the rapture of the church is only a bummer to people that are content and satisfied with this world. And telling Jesus, wait, wait, not yet. Don't come back just yet. I wanna get married. I wanna have kids. We did that. And then after we had teenagers, we're like, come quickly, Lord Jesus. Right? What's what's the holdup? What's the holdup? Now in the world in which we live, people get angry at me, but that's okay. Get in line. But I say silly things like, well, if they're gonna go to nukes, I hope a nuke hits banger because then it'll take us all. If we're not gonna go in the rapture, let's go because of a nuke because then all my grandbabies are safe. You know? I'm I'm concerned about my grandbabies and the kind of world they're gonna live in if things continue the direction they're going. So I have a greater sense of reality prophetically of what's happening and where we're going than the Pollyanna churches that don't wanna even address what's happening, that don't wanna even even look at it. So they wanna have a cognitive dissonance, which means they want to live in denial prophetically of what's coming, and they want to hear smooth things like in the time of Jeremiah. So people I've discovered that are already dead to self and are looking for that blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and Savior they're excited about a soon return they're excited that the groom is coming for his bride it's not doom and gloom and so we live in a time where a lot of people don't want to hear about the rapture anymore. The rapture the word rapture is not even in the Bible, you know. And, God, it's just sad. It's sad to see, you know, people not in love with Jesus, you know. The testimony of Jesus, the spirit of prophecy. Right? I mean, he's coming. It's his word. And and God's given Daniel a prophecy, a prophecy that we get to read. So one of the chief princes came to help me and I remained there with the kings of of Persia. So he continues to fight, continues to battle it out. Now I am come to make thee understand, so there's that word again, understand, what shall befall thy people, the nation of Israel, in the latter days. For yet the vision is for many days. So there's no mention of replacement theology here. There's no mention of all millennialism or covenant theology where Israel's replaced. Non existent. No. God has a plan for Israel. He has a plan presently formed here. He's disciplining them. He has a plan formed in the sending of the Messiah in his first coming, five hundred years after this. And then now two thousand years later, the Lord has a plan of coming again, and the stage is being set for the 77 of Daniel we saw last week, and the Antichrist, the false prophet, and the devil, the unholy trinity, with the kings of the earth, the technocrats, and all of them in Psalm two, oh how the heathen rage imagine of anything against the Lord and against his anointed, God last from heaven where these guys are gonna play God, they're gonna cause, people to reject the truth, people are gonna reject the truth and because they reject the truth, God's gonna give them over according to second Thessalonians two to a strong delusion that they would believe the lie, and we know what the lie is, that they can be as God. Satan's gonna come back with the same lie that he brought to Adam and Eve, you can be as gods. You're not gonna die. And people are gonna buy into that. And yet over half the planet, billions of people are gonna die in a very short period of time through the seal, trumpet, and bowl judgments when God pours out his wrath upon a Christ rejecting world. And God also uses that time as the time of Jacob's trouble according to Zechariah thirteen eight nine to purify a remnant, a one third remnant that's going to come through the tribulation period and be purified. And as we said on Sunday, Jeremiah thirty one thirty one, an unconditional covenant, God's word written in their hearts where they come to know Jesus and they cry out, blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord as they're in the area of Petra, Basra, Mount Seir according to Isaiah 63 and the Lord Jesus said except those days be short no flesh be saved but for the elect's sake for Israel. Jesus intervenes on behalf of his people Israel who are the wife of Jehovah and the church has already been raptured which is Jew and Gentile, male, female, barbarian, Scythian bond, or free, and we're with Jesus in heaven and we have the merits, we have the fetching, the merits ceremony, and we have the Bema Seat judgment, the gifts bestowed upon us in Revelation 19, bride is clean and bright and wearing it, and then we have the marriage supper of the lamb, we come with Jesus in the second coming, he doesn't need any help that's why this is an angel because Jesus doesn't need any help because he destroys all the demons all the principalities and powers the antichrist the false prophet with the brightness of his coming the sword of his mouth And we come with 10 thousands and thousands of his saints. He comes. We come with him as observers and as those who are going to spend all eternity with him, but he's gonna set up the marriage supper of the lamb, the millennial one thousand year rule and reign. And all of these truths all of these truths are prophetic truths that God wants his people to know. And in his first coming, we're told in John one, he was in the world, the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. He came unto his own his own, meaning the Jews, and his own received him not. But to many as received him, to them gave he the power to become the sons of God. And so the gospel going out and you and I years later. And so blindness apart has happened unto Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles become in. We're in the church age. And, Paul in Ephesians, he's gonna talk about the church age as a mystery once hid. So as we're looking here, we're looking at the nation of Israel. There's no mention of the church. Paul, he realizes the church what do you mean the church? I didn't see that prophetically. A mystery once hid, now revealed. The church snuck up on all of them because they were looking for the Messiah to come and for the nation of Israel to have their Christ, their Messiah. They didn't see that he'd be cut off in Daniel nine twenty seven. They didn't get that. And they didn't get and understand five hundred years earlier in Isaiah 53 that the Lord would describe the crucifixion that he'd go through. And in Psalm 22, written a thousand years before he would come, where he'd cry out, My God, my God, why has thou forsaken me? Why art thou so far from my roaring? They didn't see it. They didn't understand it. And you and I are privileged in these latter days to see it and understand it as we study it. God's given us understanding. Oh, it's a spiritual battle, isn't it? Why don't people wanna know? It's gotta be a spiritual darkness hindering him because it's so glorious. It's so exciting. And when he had spoken such words unto me, I set my face toward the ground and I became dumb. Peter, when he saw the Lord transfigured, he didn't didn't act dumb. He didn't stop his mouth. He kept talking. Hey, it's really good that we're here right now. Peter couldn't shut up. Let's build a booth. One for Moses and Elijah, one for let's stay here. Oh, how we'd love to stay in a mountaintop experience. Right? And then the voice from heaven, this my beloved son whom well well pleased, you know, hear him. Listen to my son. And and behold one like this similitude of the sons of men touched my lips and opened my mouth. Remember when Isaiah his lips were touched with the coal in Isaiah six? And the king that the year the king Uzziah died, Isaiah saw the throne, he saw a vision of the Lord, and his throne filled the temple. And he says, I'm undone. I'm a man of unclean lips. Every time somebody sees and has a vision of the Lord, they're undone. I'm undone. I'm a man of unclean lips, among a people of unclean lips. And the angel took a coal from the throne and put it on his lips to purify his lips. And he says, here am I, Lord. Send me. And that's the phrase that Charlie Kirk used. Here am I, Lord. Send me. Be careful of people counterfeiting that. It's a beautiful phrase. Charlie meant it from his heart, but be very careful of the people that wanna market that phrase now because they will. They'll be on t shirts and everything playing the role. And behold, one like the similitude of the sons of men touched my lips, then I opened my mouth and spoke and said unto him who stood before me, oh my Lord, by the vision my sorrow are turned upon me and I have retained no strength. So we have to be careful here again of saying that this is the Lord Jesus we can put Jesus with a question mark and then we can come back and we can say well this word Lord here is in the lowercase a d o n I which means sir in Hebrew not the capital a, d o n a I, Adonai, which means lord. So he's saying, sir, there's a respect there. My lord, by the vision, my sorrows are turned upon me, and I've retained no strength. For how can the servant of this my lord talk with this my lord for as for me straightway there were remain no strength in me neither is there breath left in me And so again, he's wiped out. He's wiped out in the spiritual experience that he's had, and physiologically it's spent him. His heart's racing. Then there came again and touched me one like the appearance of a man and he strengthened me. Now you and I we don't need to wait upon the Lord sending us an angel to do this for us. Why is that? Jesus. We have the holy spirit. Jesus said, it's expedient that I go away because if I go away, I'll send the comforter. So the old testament dispensation, these guys did not have the indwelling of the Holy Spirit because Jesus was not crucified yet. They would have the api experience where the Holy Spirit would come upon them for service and power, but they didn't have the indwelling relationship with the Holy Spirit. That's why Jesus said it's expedient, it's profitable that I go to be with Father and I'll send the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit will bring to there you go. So we don't necessarily need angels being sent to and fro to keep revealing stuff. We have the Word of God and we have the Holy Spirit revealing to us the Word of God and bringing to remembrance the Word of God. So the Psalmist says, Thy Word have I hid in my heart that I might not sin against thee. So as we read the word of God, as we study the word of God, every single time you study the word of God start with a prayer, Lord please reveal yourself to me. Please open the scripture to my understanding because God's word spirit can't do it in the natural. And when we ask the Lord to be our teacher and we ask the Lord by his spirit to reveal himself, do you think he's gonna withhold? If you being evil, you fathers being evil, if your son asks for bread, would you give him a stone? Really? If he asks for, you know, a fish, would you give him a scorpion? If he asks for an egg, you know, I would forget what the other one is, but but you being evil know how to give good gifts to your kids. What was it? A serpent? A snake. A serpent. Yeah. And a scorpion. If you being evil, he says, you're not good. Psychiatrist said you're good. No, on your best day you're evil. If you being evil know how to give good gifts to your kids, how much more your heavenly father give the Holy Spirit them and ask. So keep praying, asking, seeking, knocking. Avail yourself of the help, the helper, the paraclete, the comforter that's come to comfort help us grow in our walking relationship with Jesus. The role of the Holy Spirit the third person of the Trinity is to bear witness of the Son to reveal Jesus. That's that's his job to that's his function is to reveal Jesus to bear witness of Christ. And so he sent the Holy Spirit to convict the world of sin, of righteousness and judgment, of sin because they believe not on me. So when we teach the word of God, it's important that we teach the word of God in such a way that people are convicted of sin. And we can mention specific sins and all, but really it comes down to there's only one sin that'll keep you out of heaven and that's rejecting Jesus Christ. Blasphemy of the Holy Spirit. Of sin because they believed not on me, of righteousness because I ascend to my father. So that's the standard. If you if you can ascend to the father then you're perfect. You want to be righteous then show me ascend to the father. If you can't then you got to go through me, got to go through Jesus. Right? And of judgment because the prince of the this world, the devil, has been judged. He's been defeated. So in Colossians two, 15 fourteen and fifteen, you know, he blotted out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us. It was contrary to us and nailed it to his cross and he spoiled all principalities and powers triumphing over them in it. So the cross was a great victory and then he went to the lower parts of the earth where these demons are and all these people being held incarcerated and he preached victory. He didn't preach the gospel, give anybody a second chance. He preached victory. He proclaimed a proclamation of victory that he just defeated the devil. The second Adam, the last Adam has succeeded. The first Adam blew it, and the devil became the prince of the power of the air, the little g god of the world. And man became subservient to the devil, the unregenerate man, who are taken captive against their will by him and so and blinded. And so I had no strength. No strength. No strength. Then there came again and touched me, one like the appearance of a man, and he strengthened me and said, oh, greatly beloved. I love that again. You well pleasing, dude. You're really well pleasing to god. Fear not. So we see he was afraid. Fear not for I'm I'm the first and the last. So, again, he's gotta tell him to fear not. Peace be unto thee. Peace. Peace treaties. My peace I give unto you, not as the world give unto you. In the world, you will have tribulation, but be of good cheer. I've overcome the world. Right? A real peace, a lasting peace. The antichrist is gonna come on the scene as a rider on a white horse offering peace to the world. The peace treaty of Daniel nine twenty seven, the treaty, the covenant for one week, many feel is a a peace treaty, a covenant. And we applaud, president Trump or anybody. I hope they do the same in Ukraine. Why are we sending Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine? Why why don't we stop this idiocy? Why do we wanna fight with Russia? Why do we wanna support Ukraine? Is Ukraine becoming another Gaza, another Lahaina, another Pacific Palisades where the globalists are gonna build these black rock smart cities? Why is Trump telling all the Palestinians to leave Palestine? Why is Jared Kushner wanting to build a Riviera on the Gaza Strip? More money in projected gonna go into Gaza than all of Dubai. Crazy stuff going on. Crazy stuff. So I look at first Thessalonians five verse three, where when they say peace and safety, get ready because sudden destruction's coming. Anybody post that today? I post it all over. That's why I'm so hated. Because I don't buy it. It's a ceasefire. And these bombs these bombs are gonna be dropped on Iran real soon here. And Ezekiel thirty eight and thirty nine is yet to be fulfilled. And the Turks right now, Turkey, they're annihilating people right now. In Syria, killing the Kurds, there's war all over. Jesus said, nobody mentioned this today, wars and rumors of wars would be part of the birth pangs of his coming. I applaud the hostages being released. I applaud this peace. You know? But is it a lasting peace? If it lasts ten days for the hostage to be praise the lord. The hostage got released. But as I understand, America's gonna go there and help destroy all the tunnels, all the everything, demolish everything, and then rebuild. And Trump's telling the the Palestinian people, you need to leave. Don't don't stay here. We're gonna he he said, we're gonna build you housing tracts. We've got nations that'll receive you, and we're gonna fund it and pay for it for you to have houses, nice houses. You ever heard something like that before? I've never heard anything like that before. And Jared Kushner, Trump's son-in-law, has plans, previous plans to build a house on the water there. And you know what they're calling it? They're gonna call it the Golden Trump zone. He's gonna be able to do golf courses and the whole thing. The Trump development. Oh, I just I just does anybody understand? You know? And, I'm a patriot. I love patriotism. Yeah. There was a there was a video today. Someone was filming out of Air Force one flying over the strip right along the water and the video, and someone said, look. This is the new gold the golden strip of land. There it is. They were filming out of the airplane. You can see the engine of that. Air Force one said, this is the new golden strip, and they have taken thick pictures of the coast. They're not hiding it. Jared Kushner's been developing brokering this for for years, since other times. So the golden age, the golden strip, golden Gaza, the golden Trump, golden Donnie, it's all about gold, isn't it? So Yeah. Old man greatly beloved. I know the haters are gonna hate me. Oh, it's alright though. Butterfly kisses. Peace be unto thee. Be strong. Yea. Be strong. And when he had spoken unto me, I was strengthened and said, let my Lord speak for thou has strengthened me. We need to be strengthened. They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength. They shall mount up their wings as eagles, they shall run and not go weary. Right? Not run and not be weary. They shall mount up with wings as eagles. Okay. Then said he, though why I come unto thee, and now will I return to fight with the prince of Persia? So the battle's not over. The battle's still raging. And when I am gone forth, lo, the prince of Greece shall come. So the next nation has come with Alexander the Great. This guy can this guy can see the future there. Right? He knows he knows the Greeks are coming. The Greeks are gonna destroy the Medo Persian empire, so I'm gonna have to fight against the rulers, the principalities and powers that are over Iran, that are over Persia, and then, those that are over Greece. So there's a spiritual battle that's going on. That's why the devil is little g god of this world, the prince of the power of the air, the ruler of darkness. So there is darkness against light, light against darkness, and, there is a spiritual battle, that takes place. But I will show thee that which is noted in the scripture of truth, and there is none that notice that scripture of truth, the book of truth. So but I will show thee that which is noted in the scripture of truth. Does God have a book in heaven that that that the angels are all going from? The book of truth, the scripture of truth? Is this book that we have in our hands as scripture of truth, the book of truth? The volume of the book is written of Jesus. It's about him. Jesus said, search the scriptures. In them you think you have eternal life, and they are they which testify of me. The whole book's written of Jesus. That's crazy. It's so over the top. It's it's glorious. So exciting. But I will show thee that which is noted in the scripture of truth and there is none that holdeth with me in these things but Michael your prince. So my Michael, they're they're to help me. He's the only one that's gonna help me and and get this truth to you, this book of truth in this battle and all. And, you know, the devil's holding me back, so I couldn't bring this truth to you. Twenty one days you've been praying, but, man, we broke through. We had a breakthrough. You ever had a spiritual breakthrough? Man, I've been praying for some spiritual breakthroughs for a long time. Lord, Lord, give us a breakthrough. And we've had little victories all along the way, little victories, but sometimes we want some big things, man. And sometimes I say, Lord, you know, Lord, cause the victory to be as big as the smackdown, you know. Give us Job two point o. If you gave us Job one, alright, we weathered it. Now give us Job two point o. Let's let's have a victory here. Let's have a breakthrough. And, but I will show thee that which is noted in the scripture truth and is none that holds me in in these things, but Michael, your prince. Now notice chapter 11 verse one. So you got a tag team there. You got this angel, maybe Gabriel, tag teaming with Michael, fighting against the principalities and powers. He says also I, in the first year of Darius the Mede, so this is May, and so three years previous, two years previous, he's talking about this angels letting Daniel know, I had a previous fight. I had a previous fight. Michael came to help me then. He says also in the first year of Darius the Mead, even I stood, to confirm and to strengthen him. So he stood together in battle, with, Michael, and, that's when Babylon fell. And so in the first year of Darius. So talking about a previous fight that they engaged in it, previous boxing match. Now turn to Ephesians chapter six and we'll have somebody read let's see here. So Ephesians chapter six, and I'm gonna read to you first Corinthians fifteen twenty four. Resurrection chapter. Then we want Okay. Fifteen twenty four. Then cometh the end when he shall have delivered up the kingdom of to God, even the father, when he shall have put down notice this is what Satan has. So Jesus resurrected. In Colossians two fifteen, he spoiled all principalities and powers. He triumphed over them. Now so he destroyed them. And he's not only created us, but he's redeemed us and he sealed us. But we're waiting for our redemption. We're waiting for the purchased possession. He's purchased us, but we want him to come for what he purchased. So meanwhile, the devil is ruling and reigning, delegated authority, not not almighty sovereign. God's the one on the throne in control. But on the earth here, God, the true living God, allows a certain latitude to the devil to be the little g god of this world. And he's mimicking the Lord with a counterfeit system until Jesus comes, and he's gonna hand the kingdom off to his father in his second coming after the rest excuse me. When god, even the father, when he shall have put down all rule, all authority, and power. So Jesus is gonna completely defeat the devil. Gonna angels gonna grab hold. Michael Largreens is gonna grab hold of the devil, throw him into the abyss. The false prophet and the antichrist are gonna be laying in the street dead and taken to the lake of fire. Revelation 20, the great white throne judgment, all of the all of the wicked dead are gonna be bodily raised from the dead. And then all the demons, the demons that are released during the Revelation nine, the demons that are being held right now incarcerated in Tartarus and within the earth are gonna be released during the tribulation period and all hell's gonna break loose upon humanity and people are gonna be stung, they're gonna wanna die. They can't die. They're gonna come like locusts after them. Man, that's a horror movie. And, man, Jesus is gonna put that all down. And now in Ephesians 10, Paul, as I said, tied or chained to a Roman soldier recognizes the spiritual battle that we're in. Now one point earlier, Paul told told the church in Thessalonica that I wanted to come to you once and again, but Satan hindered us. So sometimes we have plans and we're in God's will and we're wanting to go and serve the Lord, but there can be opposition against us where the devil's hindering us. When I first ventured out from California and we went to Oregon, we were asked, invited over there to do a church. And we we started, the Bible study grew, and we were we were, you know, excited. But there was a check-in our spirit about about there, and weren't quite sure. We're trying to discover, you know, gain confirmation of where we should be. And then some friends of ours from California, from our bible study had moved up here and had been invited us like the Macedonian vision, you know, inviting us to Bremerton. And so we we were doing the one in Oregon, and we came up here, and we started a bible study here, and we're doing both. And the very first day that we got to Bremerton, and we're over at Joe and Anita's house, we were driving in Kathy's van and over there by where the trails is in Silverdale. It used to be different. They they changed the the structure of the whole intersection. But a lady did a head on on us, head on crash, and it broke Kathy's sternum, and my daughter Jessica broke her elbow. And so it was pretty good pretty good hit through my back out and all that sort of stuff. So nice, strong whack a doodle. And so when we went back that weekend to Oregon, the people down in Oregon said to us, see, God doesn't want you there. And I said, oh, no. No. No. No. No. It's an indication that's where I'm supposed to be. The devil doesn't want me there. Now who would think like that? Who would think like that? You know? But that's what I read in the Bible. That's what I see. Going back in the There's opposition. There's opposition. Yep. If you don't have opposition against you, then you're not a threat to the kingdom of darkness. If the devil leaves you alone, then you're like a dead man. So the demons told the seven sons of Sceva, Jesus we know, Paul we know, but who are you? And then they gaped upon him and stripped them of their clothes and stuff. So we don't want to go that far, like in Portland riding around naked or something. So yeah, that's where they last saw those seven sons of Skeva down in Portland riding around naked, fighting against ice. Alright verse 10 so he says finally brethren be strong remember how the angel strengthened Daniel strengthen him strengthen him strengthen him so be strong in the lord and the power of his might. So you're in a spiritual battle, it's gotta be in the power of the Holy Spirit. It's not by might nor by power but by my spirit, say it the Lord of hosts. The Lord is my strength. We are no match for the devil. We are no match for the demons. And Michael gives us a good example where you keep the devil you keep Jesus between you and the devil. Now Michael's can contend. He's a contender. He could fight the devil, but he's smart enough to not make a railing accusation, Jude says, against the devil, but says, the Lord rebuke you. And we have that authority too. In the name of Jesus, I rebuke you, the devil, in the name of Jesus. Right? And so sometimes you may take that authority and if the devil or demons or people sometimes you say it to people the Lord rebuke you and how's that working for you? So strong in the Lord and in the power of his might. Put on the whole armor of God. So you're gonna put on. You're gonna put on the whole armor. So he's watching this Roman soldier. That he may be able to notice and I want you to underline her a circle. Stand, stand, and Stand. Stand. Daniel, stand up. And remember, it's a frontal attack. Upon this rock, I'm gonna build my church and the gates of hell not prevail against it. It's a picture of storming the gates of hell, rescuing people that the devil talk about hostages delivered, you know, rescuing the hostages. Jude talks about your reaching your arm out and you're snatching them out of the fire. Right, Jude? Okay. So put on the whole armor of God that you may be able to stand, the ability to stand against the wiles of the devil. The devil's a liar. That word wiles means strategies. He's strategizing against you. And he's gonna try every which way. He's gonna offer the world, offer money, fame, power, all the enticements of the flesh. What the flesh was? The lust of the eye, lust of the flesh and the pride of life, and, the love of the world. All these things, the wiles, the strategies of the devil. And remember, he's the accuser of the brethren. He's gonna condemn you. He's gonna show you the pit of hell when you failed, and and you you can't listen to his lies. You can't give into his strategies. Presently, the strategy is to join the church. Join the church. Mention the name Jesus. His ministers, Paul said, are can appear as angels of light and administers of righteousness. So if you saw a Harris or an O Biden or a Jeffrey Epstein or somebody that you perceive to be evil, you wouldn't go along with it. They could never sell you the evil of the beast system. You wouldn't tolerate it for a minute. So they've got to present their puppets as angels of light, as ministers of righteousness. And they know the devil knows the Bible real well and they can get up there to the Charlie Kirk Memorial, which was bombs bursting in air and the whole thing, and they can can preach parts of the gospel, and they can have a Catholic up there praying with the bees, and they can have a Hindu person, and they can have a Mormon person, and they can have a real Christian, and they can have they can when have you ever seen politicians get up there and do their best with the gospel? And somebody might even get saved from it. But the real danger is everybody joining the church, the devil joining the church, like with Constantine in three thirteen. So the wiles of the devil, the strategies of the devil. It's not a frontal attack. Hey. Let's join the church. Let's corrupt it. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, so our battle is not against the flesh and the blood, the physicals, the physical realm, but against principalities. So notice these different ranks. So you got principalities, you got regions, you got grid, and there's various grid. Like when I came to Bremerton, everybody says, oh, it's really dark. It's dark. It's dark. This is a really dark part of the country. Dark. Dark. Dark. Oh, there's witches here. There's goblins here. There's everybody's, you know, praying against you and all that. They had Dungeons and Dragons across the street from us at the Roxy, and they had a they had a pole with a with a skull on it. They'd chant with their black coats on, you know, whatever. And everybody's, oh, you know, and then got the gays and the lesbians and pornography, the art people putting their stuff all around us. And then you had a guy from the college come from one of the art things, and he created the church of sodium chloride, and he mocked us as he came to all the kids and said, we'll baptize you over here in the fountain. There used to be a fountain there with a lion. And and then they were throwing salt everywhere as we were ministering to the kids with a concert, and they had a pamphlet they gave out and the whole thing. So they're mocking us, a satanic group of people, but just confused people, just confused kids. And never once did I call the police or complain or get intimidated? All I said to our people was, Just flip the switch. Turn the light on. And that's what we did. And they were powerless. They're absolutely powerless. It's so exciting when when you see the Lord move and work in that way. It's so simple. Greater is he that's in us than he that's in the world. So against the wiles of the devil for we wrestle not against flesh and blood but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of darkness of this world. So this is the the region. These are the these are the different levels of spiritual activity that the devil has arranged, and, and that's what we saw with Daniel, the the prince of Persia, the prince of Greece, the kings of Persia in the bottom there. So these powers against the rulers now and the reason is is if one third of the angels are demons, there's a whole lot of fallen angels and a whole lot of why? Because the devil can't the devil's not omnipresent. He can't be everywhere at once. So he's got a whole lot of his army out there of all different regions. And yes, I agree. The Northwest is dark, which for you and I means turn the light on. Not all of us are supposed to run down to be a part of the party in in the very conservative Republican Orange County. There are pockets in California that are phenomenally blessed pockets of people that love Jesus and fight real hard to maintain their lifestyle there. Right? Some of us can be like Philip where the Lord tells us to go down to Gaza, down where you leave the party, which is desert. It's a spiritual desert. And it's been years and years and years of Christians holding the line here in the Northwest. It's been really tough. It's it's a tough place. And Franklin Graham or Greg Laurie, you never see them guys once in my lifetime, once here, twice, I should say, where they wanna come to the Northwest and do a crusade because it's hard. Very few people show up. I had guys come from California at the Roxy doing concerts and stuff, and and, I had some of our kids there that used to come, and they were heckling them. Well, he's a big star. You don't heckle him. And he's heckling him and guys flipping him off and people interrupting him and things like that. And and they lose their composure. They can't handle it because everything's just just a slam dunk for them, you know, so easy, so easy for them. There's a battle here. There's always been a battle here. And and I've I've lost many times. I've got my butt kicked. I've got beaten in in many ways, beaten. And but we didn't quit. Right? And so the apostle Paul, he said that he reached a place where he despaired even of life. Right? That he shouldn't trust in himself but in God who raises the dead. Paul got beaten, buffeted by the devil, brought to a place where he didn't want to live anymore. That's what it can be like serving the Lord. You have really good seasons and fun and exciting God saving people then you have great opposition great great opposition coming against you and so blood against principalities against powers against the rulers of darkness of this world against spiritual wickedness in high places. Oh, baby. Catherine Austin Fitz asked the question. Charlie Kirk died on September 10. Do you know what else happened on September 10 that nobody noticed? Congress voted to bury the Epstein files, to close the files for good, and nobody saw it. Oh, boy. And Trump's going, why are you still talking about that guy? He's a no good guy. Why are you still talking about him? Well, he's your friend. One of your best friends. Spiritual wickedness in high places, the pedophiles, the most dirty, filthy people on the planet are our politicians. If their lips are moving, they're lying. And but it's a spiritual wickedness in high places in the spiritual realm. So when I see their strategy of divide and conquer, trying to get Republicans, Democrats, Americans fighting, my thought is, let's just why not just cut off the head of the snake? Why don't we save all of ourself the problem of hating each other and fighting against each other and somebody realize who's the head of the snake? Well, the devil's the head of the snake. But he also has his layers of people, men, who are the globalists. And so it really bothers me when I see pastors still caught up in their left right paradigm. Do you know what the left right paradigm is? You got the left, which is the liberals, and you got the right, which is the conservatives. Left right paradigm. But they're the same coin, just a different side of the same coin, heads or tails. But picture a triangle, and I'm not a Mason. At the top is globalism. Globalism is the goal. Globalism. Because the bible tells me it's globalism. It's a one world government, one world religion, one world monetary system, and we're there. How do you get there? Republicans and Democrats, left and right. They're all moving all the time toward the goal. Doesn't matter who's in office, they're always moved by the bankers toward the goal. So don't fall for the trap of left against right, that somehow you're gonna vote in and stop this. You're not. You're not gonna you're not. It's prophetic. We're moving that now. You can be salt and light. You maybe slow it down, but watch this. Every time they talk about no more income tax or property tax, they sign the first day in office the Stargate bill to put low flying satellites everywhere and to track and trace. And what's needed is a real ID now. Right? And they create the problem. They bring in all of the people, the immigration in here, flooding us. They steal an election. Problem, reaction, solution. The solution now is a real ID, which is gonna tie us to the banking system, which is globalism. Trump's a globalist. Biden's a globalist. Obama's a globalist. Both sides of the left right paradigm. So when you see the right demonizing the left, that's the game. Demonize the left. They're the bad guys. They're the ones the death cult. Look what we're doing. Well, there's just as many abortions going on as there was before, even though you removed Roe versus Wade, individual states. Oh, and the LBGTQ met at Mar A Lago, and the LBGTQ is in favor in the Republican Party now. Oh. And people in office are gay and lesbian. Right? And the cabinet oh, it's just disgusting. What it is is that your love of the world. You're afraid of losing America. That's where your patriotism come in. You're afraid that America's gonna collapse, and it will. It has to. It's it's mind boggling. You're fighting against the principalities and the powers, the spiritual wickedness in high places, and they're laughing at us. They're laughing at the evangelicals are the ones helping them bring in the beast system. They're laughing. We're the ones bringing in the beast system, not a peep from evangelicals, and we're bringing it. The most tyrannical system the world has ever known is being funded and brought in by the technocrats in America. Peter Thiel, Palantir, Elon Musk. We're the ones. Wherefore take unto you the whole armor of God that you may be able to withstand. So there's a battle. In the evil day and having done all to stand. Stand, stand, stand. Don't run. Stand. Stand against, withstand. So be steadfast and movable, always abounding the work of the Lord for you know that your labor is not in vain. Be like a lighthouse all the opposition comes against you but don't budge you're not quitting you'll never quit the devil wants to get you to quit discourage you make you insane I'm already there. Alright. So stand therefore having your loins gird about with truth. So you're gonna have a belt of truth on. Truth is essential. Be not deceived. You gotta be truth. Everything's gotta be based upon truth. The devil's a liar. Jesus said in John eight he's a liar and a murderer from the beginning. And he told the religious leaders, the lust of your father you will do. And having on the breastplate of righteousness. So it's important that you understand that you're righteous to guard your heart, to guard your vitals. The devil's gonna go for a kill shot through condemnation, and, and you don't want him, to be able to do that. So there's offensive weapons against you and but you are staring the devil down toe to toe like David. You're not afraid of Goliath. You're not afraid. And you don't you don't necessarily have the armor of the flesh. It's a spiritual armor. David couldn't go into battle with Saul's armor. He had to go in spiritually. And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace. So the Romans would stand and withstand. They would line up and then they'd have their shields down and above and then their shoes were like sandals but they had spikes. So they were able to withstand a rush. If the enemy rushed them, they were able to stand and just just withstand an assault and then continue to move forward, move forward, move forward. And so your feet shot with the preparation of the gospel peace. So, the best defense is a good offense. Get the gospel out. Spread the gospel. Use your feet to move and spread the gospel. And the devil hates the spreading of the gospel. The devil hates the people that spread God's word and you're no good if you're compromised. If you don't have a breastplate of righteous and you're compromised, how many pastors in Texas right now are disqualified? One guy got put off to jail, big mega church guy because he's with a 12 year old girl. You've lost you've lost your whole witness. You're disqualified. The devil the devil tricked you, and you took the bait. And so they always had a saying when I was in school. It's it's the three g's. The glory, the gold, or the girls. That's what takes pastors out. And I never have to worry about the gold, but but these guys get really rich. And so the gold compromises them. They're always about the money, the glory. They take god's glory under themselves. That'll disqualify them. And then the girls or little boys nowadays. So your feet shall with the preparation of gospel of peace above all things, the shield of faith. Without faith, we're nothing. Without faith, we can't please God. We're gonna we're gonna be filled with fear. We're gonna be neutralized. So the shield of faith. So the devil's gonna be shooting fiery darts, and you're gonna have the shield of faith and their their shields were like a leather that they'd water and so it could quench the fiery darts that would come. And so above all taking the shield of faith with which you shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one. So the wicked one wants you to doubt, wants to send lies. He loves to send people with lies. And so these fiery thoughts, these fiery lies, I've discovered that the devil doesn't need to whisper in my ear. He sends people. So when you say that, hey, we fight not against flesh and blood. Yeah. That's true. It's a spiritual battle. But many people in the church work for the devil and are sent by the devil to try and destroy the work. And the greatest weapon the people have is their tongue, slander, the gossipers, the ones that talk behind your back, the ones that develop clicks and things like that. So without love, we're nothing. Gotta have the love. And so all the which shall quench all the fiery darts of the wicked and take the helmet of salvation. So you got your head your head covered and the helmet of salvation. You're saved, can't take your steal your salvation from you and the sword of the spirit which is the word of God and this is the one we need to pull out and use use the word of God, speak the word of God and so Hebrews four twelve says the word of God is living and powerful and sharper than an intuit sword, dividing asunder of soul and spirit and joint marrow and as a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. So your sermons, your preaching, your teaching should be filled with the word of God. Not your opinions, not your ideas, not other men's ideas. Read the Bible. Read the Bible. Read the Bible. And pull the you know, don't sit there and, they talk about how sometimes people will just talk talk talk about the word of God or talk about Christianity. They'll pull the sword out and use it. Use it. Let the let the lion out of the caves, lion of the tribe of Judah, and and you'll find that it will prick people's hearts. The word of God will prick people's hearts and the word of God will expose people's hearts and it'll make some people come to the place with the fear of the Lord and and repentance and others it'll harden them and make them angry at you because you come with the word of God. So it's not your word it's his word. He said it. You're going to get mad at somebody? Get mad at God. I'm not the one that said it. He's the one that mentioned hell not me and take the helmet of salvation the sword of the spirit was the word of God and then here we continue praying always so prayer with all prayer and supplication in the spirit not a fleshly prayer but in the spirit in the power of the Holy Spirit and watching. So we're watching, we're warning people according to Ezekiel three and Ezekiel 33. We don't want their blood on our hands and we're also watching prophetically for the soon return of the Lord. We're the we're those that watch, watchmen on the wall, watching, observing the times, causing everything to be filtered through the word of God, taking every thought captive to the obedience of God's word. Thereunto with all perseverance, so you can't quit. Kathy and I have been here thirty years and we're we're, you know, we have no plans to retire. We want to continue. We love serving the Lord Jesus and the devil's been wanting us to quit for quite some time but it's always too soon to quit. And supplication for all saints. So, your intercessor, interceding and Paul's asking them for prayer also. So stand with Stan. Stan. Stan. Stan. Stan. Alright. Father, we thank you for this night that we could study your word. We pray that you fill us to overflowing with the holy spirit. Pray that we'd be able to apply these truths to your life And Lord, build your church, Lord. Build us up in this most holy faith. And Lord, I just love hanging out with people that are in love with Jesus and that keep the main thing the main thing. And help us not to be distracted. Help us not to be deceived. Help us, Lord, to be led and guide by you into all truth, Lord. And, Lord, we do pray for our president. We thank you for the brokering of the hostages being released. We pray for the peace of Jerusalem. We pray for Israel. And Lord, we pray that, Lord, that the gospel go forth and that many would come and and hear of your wondrous love. We pray for the Israelis. We pray for the Palestinians. The most important grace is that they come to know you, Lord. They come to know you, Lord Jesus. In your name we 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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