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Alright. Live from Bremerton. It's Monday night. We are privileged to study in Daniel chapter 11 tonight at Rob and Vicky's home, and we just thank the Lord for this opportunity. We're gonna worship the Lord, open with prayer, and we just welcome those of you that are watching on Facebook. So, father, we thank you for this night, this Monday night, that we can gather together as a home fellowship and, Lord, that we can study your word, that we can look prophetically we can look back to what you prophesied through Daniel is gonna happen Lord and then as we move on through chapter 11 to 12 we get to look to the future of what's gonna happen very very soon here in our lives in the world that we're which we live in Lord. So we just ask that you bless and you open the scriptures to understanding and you teach us. We pray that you bless this time as we worship you. We pray that you would be with Sally and heal her body of the cancer that she's enduring, Lord, and, heal Joe and help him to continue to gain weight and and, be healed of his cancer. And, Lord, we pray for my daughter, Jessica, that she'd go to full term with, her baby, and, we just pray that you'd heal everybody, Lord, that's that's that's suffering some sort of physical ailment and all your God who heals and that you comfort us and that you build up our families and watch over our kids. And Lord, we pray that you'd be glorified, that you'd save many, many people in these last days, Lord. In Jesus' name, amen. Amen. Will celebrate. Sing unto the lord. Alright. You ready? Okay. Thank you, Rob. Okay. We are in Daniel chapter 11. Daniel 11. And just wanna thank everybody that is praying and reaching out to Wayne and Brittany. Wayne, they're just so blessed by everybody on their GoFundMe and people blessing them, and they're kind of in shock. They're kind of blown away, very much blown away. And so a huge surprise, and we just thank everybody for praying for them and all. And we'll see what happens, see what the Lord's will is, and hopefully Kitsap County, the state, whatever, resolve this, and they'll begin to help Wayne recover from his traumatic brain injuries and his PTSD and all that. Because as he's under pressure, it can escalate. It can get worse under that anxiety and pressure of of not having any income and not having any insurance and having seven kids and you can't go get a job. You you can't do anything. You have to just wait for the lawyer to engage with L and I and you're hoping and praying that you'll be accepted, not denied again, you know. So six doctors are saying he has a problem. And one doctor that the county or the state produced said, no. No. He doesn't. So so anyway, he's they're praying, and so let's just pray for them. Father, come before you, and, what a huge trial for them, this young family of seven kids, and we just pray that you would undergird and strengthen them, that you lead and guide them, that, Lord, they know they don't have to go through this alone, that they have the body of Christ around them, and your Holy Spirit lead and guiding. And Lord, I pray that you give them favor with all those that review and make these kind of decisions, Lord, and that everything will be done right, decently in order, and that Wayne and Brittany be compensated as a Kitsap County sheriff for seven years. And Lord, he'd get the treatment, he'd get the help that he needs to recover and to continue to raise that family. In Jesus name, amen. Amen. Yeah. Okay. Today at work, as we were working, one of the rad con technicians had a heart attack. Oh my lord. While we while we were stand I was standing right there in front of him. He dropped to the ground with a heart attack, so I called 911. He survived? He survived. He he was alive when they took him. But so FedFire took him, and then Bremerton came and got him, but it was standing right there. Just Why don't you pray for him? I don't recall his name, but, you know, he's he's Lord knows who he is. And both his parents passed away last year, so he's alone. So but I can't remember his name, but I pray You wanna pray for him? Dear Lord, I just pray for this young man. I just ask that in Jesus' name, you would just give him peace and give him recovery, Lord, and these people would come into his life that would share your love with him, Lord. And we just ask that you would just be with him, heal his body, father, whatever may be going on, whatever caused this heart attack, we just pray that you would heal him. And Lord that you would bring sweet salvation to him, Lord, that he would see you in all of this. And we just pray for opportunity, Lord, if he was to come back, then I just pray that I can speak to him and just love on him and give him your love, Lord. And we just know that you love him so much, and I just pray that he'll have another opportunity to hear your name and to accept you as his Lord and savior. Just bless him and his family and the doctors that are working with him and his whole health care team. We just pray for them now in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. And this is why I I go insane when I hear this because these are young people dropping suddenly, and and you got this whole mega cult in denial of how it's happening. And it makes me absolutely insane with the clot shot, the jab, and all the proof that this is a weapon of population reduction. Unprecedented. You've never seen young people dropping off strokes and heart attacks like this or athletes in the prime of their life, and yet everybody acts like they can't talk about it. I can't talk about it. So I'm very thankful for doctors and people like Doctor. Peter McCulloch and people exposing what happened in hopes of what? In hopes that it won't happen again. Yeah. Right? We just don't want it to happen again Yeah. Because they're ramping up to do it again. Alright. So, father, we pray that you bless us. We study your word and that you'd you'd open the scriptures to us. In Jesus' name, amen. Amen. Alright. We came to chapter 11 verse one. The angel spoke about something that happened previously in the time of Darius. And in these first or in verse two, there's a mention of four Persian kings, and then we're gonna come to a Greek king in verse three and four, and then we're gonna move in the direction of Egyptian kings against Syrian kings from verse five under verse 20. And, boy, there's a lot of going back and forth, I'll tell you. And I I got a chart here on my phone that I took a picture of because there's so many and I don't have any room in my bible to write the notes in the margins because my bible's full of notes. So so if you see me looking at my phone, I'm looking at a chart that systematically lays out the names of these guys and which I can't memorize them, so I'm gonna have to rely upon the chart. Okay. So four kings here it says, and now will I show thee the truth? Behold, there shall stand up yet three kings in Persia and the fourth so the the the previous king is in chapter 10 verse one which is Cyrus, right? So we see chapter 10 verse one that Cyrus is the the first king. Now he's gonna show three and then a fourth. And and now I will show thee the truth. Behold, there shall stand up yet three kings in Persia, and then the fourth shall be far richer than they all. And by his strength and through his riches, he shall stir up against the realm of Greece. And so the first king that's here in chapter two verse eight is Cambyses, and he ruled from five thirty BC to May. He's also known in Ezra four six as a Haserus, and so that's the first king. The second king is Pseudosmerdis, better known as Artaxerxes, and Ezra four verse seven. And then we have Darius the first which is Histepsis five twenty two to forty six BC and he's described in Ezra four twenty four. And the fourth ruler of Medo Persia is Xerxes the first, and we have him from April to January. And again, in the book of Esther, he's known as Haserus, and and he's gonna go to war at the latter part of this verse verse two. He's gonna have the greater strength and his riches, and he shall stir up all the the realm of Greece. So one of the things when Alexander the Great comes on the scene, he's angry at the at the Persians because they've attacked Greece already when his father Philip of Macedon was ruling. And about April, with about three hundred three hundred thousand army, Xerxes, Ahasuerus, in time of Queen Esther came against the realm of Greece, and then they won to a certain degree, they won. And then and then it says, and a mighty king so he's gonna get he's gonna get vengeance on behalf of his his father. When we read the book of Philippians, the book was written and named after Philip of Macedon. That's the region when Alexander the Great came into the Holy Land. Josephus says that they opened up the book of Daniel and they showed him how he was mentioned and everything and the high priest with the other priests were there all dressed in white and all and they came to him and and one of the priests asked him why he was showing such respect under the high priest, and he said, not to the high priest, but the god of the high priest. And so he recognized that distinction. And then the next day, he came back and said, what would you have me do for you, Alexander the Great did? And the high priest said that you would you would make it so that there isn't a taxation in the seventh year and that you allow the word of God back in the land here, the Mosaic Law, the Mosaic, and also for the people that are in the outlying areas of Babylon, some of the remnant that's still out there, that they too would be able to reimplement the Judaism with with the Mosaic Law. And so he said, you know, he he allowed that, Alexander the Great did, so he was favorable toward the Jews. It says, and a mighty king shall stand up that shall rule with great dominion and do according to his will. So three things here. Number one, he's gonna stand up, so he's gonna have a powerful army. And secondly, he's gonna rule with great dominion, so he's gonna he's gonna go all the way from all the way up to India. He's gonna go from Asia Minor, Babylon, Egypt. He's just gonna take over, and he's gonna move like the leopard like we saw in chapter seven with the with the skill and the speed of a leopard. And he's gonna he's got leopard with wings. He's got his four generals there and all. And and so he's gonna he's gonna rule for about twelve years, and it's gonna culminate with conquering the whole known world. This is gonna be the second or the third the third global empire in the times of the Gentiles, Babylon being first, the the the picture of the head of gold, and then the second one being the chest of silver, the Medo Persia, and then the arms and the thighs of of brass is the Grecian Empire, and in chapter two of Daniel, and then we see the Roman Empire, the feet and the thighs of iron, the iron mixed with clay. And so that's the fourth world empire, and the tribulation period is the rebirth of that fourth empire, and the return of Jesus at the end of the times of the Gentiles is that fifth world empire during the time of the fourth excuse me, let's see, third yeah, fourth temple period, the temple being rebuilt in that in, the millennium. And so, so Alexander the Great, he, he's gonna stand up, he's gonna rule with great dominion, and do according to his will. And they said, historically, that's that's his personality. He did whatever he wanted to do. He was so dominant. And Daniel seven six with the speed of a leopard and the big horn of chapter nine five through eight, that that billy goat, that big horn between his head, and and he died at the age of 32. And when he died at 32, he had a son, Alexander the second or third or whatever, but he was killed by Cassandra one he was just a little guy. He was later killed, executed. They had another son, Hercules or something like that, and it was kinda not clear if it was his real son or not. But and anyway, that guy also was eliminated, didn't become to follow suit, and it says says this here. And it says so, and when he shall stand up, his kingdom shall be broken. So he wins. He stands up. He's powerful. He conquers them all. He's conquered them all so quickly. He doesn't know what to do yet, and, and he shall be divided. So he died, and they said that he died of, like, pneumonia and possibly over consumption of alcohol and, kind of under weird circumstances. And one of the things, as I was studying this today, it's so peculiar, is there's so many assassinations. There's so many people dying from being poisoned and executions. When it comes to politics like this, getting at the top and the kings and all that kind of stuff, They they they don't have any rules, you know, and just fascinating the way Ptolemy has a daughter named Bernice and Bernice winds up being married, but then but then as kind of a political liaison to be married to Atticus, and so he has a wife named Laodice. And so he divorces Laodice, he takes on Bernice, and then, pretty soon when Ptolemy the first or second, whenever he first dies, then, he gets rid of Bernice, and then he brings back Laodice, and then Laodice, kills Bernice and all of her companions and everybody else that's with her. And everybody's getting poisoned. Everybody's getting killed. It's just it's just bizarre, you know, as you look at it. So it shall be divided toward the four winds. So the four winds, they're not flat earthers. They're just saying that's four directions, north, south, east, and west. And so he's gonna divide the kingdom. The kingdom divided with his generals. So the first general is that of Cassander. He gets Macedon in Greece, and Lysimachus is the second general. He gets Asia Minor. Asia Minor is present day Turkey, and also Thrace. And then Seleucus gets Syria and Upper Asia, Babylon, and he gets the area of the East. And then Ptolemy, now that name Ptolemy is gonna be Ptolemy one, Ptolemy two, Ptolemy three, Ptolemy four, Ptolemy five, and you're gonna see he's a king of the South which is Egypt. So we're gonna watch after the Grecian empire, we're gonna watch the Greeks go against the Syrians all the way to chapter to verse 20, back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. And there's a fascinating portion of this where Cleopatra's in there because she's the daughter of Attiacus. And and I don't know about Julius Caesar and all that kind of stuff, but the Romans come in there, just the beginning of the Roman Empire as they're gaining gaining strength. And the other thing that Alexander did is he built a city in Egypt called Alexandria, and Alexandria became a place of incredible learning and culture. As Alexander would conquer countries, he was able to assimilate their culture and a blending of culture, a multiculturalism. You know? He was very good at that, And, Alexandria, Egypt have one of the largest libraries of all antiquity, of the whole world. And the, I think it's, Origen. Origen came out of Alexandria, Egypt. He's an old older church father and wrote a wrote a bible, the Hextala, which had five different versions of the bible. He was an allegorist, though. He he allegorized much of the scriptures and all. But Alexandria, Egypt is also where the Hellenistic Jews that took on more of a Greek culture, the Greek culture permeating the Roman and the Hebrew culture at the time of Christ, same things happen. You've got the Hellenistic Jews in chapter six, and they're worried about, you know, the distribution of the goods there in chapter six and saying that the Hebrew women were getting the widows were getting favor. So they came to the disciples, and the disciples brought Philip and Stephen and several others to help with the distribution of of these goods. And so what was happening is there were many Jews that adopted more of the Grecian culture and spoke Greek. So in Alexandria, Egypt, what had happened after the after they were released after seventy years, many of the Jews traveled down to Alexandria, Egypt, and so they began to adopt commerce and adopt the Grecian culture. So they did what's called they wrote the Hebrew Bible in Greek, and it's called the Septuagint. You've heard of the Septuagint? And the Septuagint was written by 70 scholars in seventy days, so that's the Greek portion or Greek version of the Old Testament. And we have with the King James Bible, it isn't from the Septuagint. The King James Bible is from what's called the Masoretic text, which stays with the Hebrew scribes as they recorded the Bible for us. So the family and manuscripts. So Alexandria, Egypt prolific, and Alexander the Great was a big portion of that. So his kingdom is divided toward the four winds of heaven and and not to his posterity. So like I said, his son, he had a he had a son, Alexander, that was young, but I think it was Cassander, the general, had him killed because they don't wanna lose their power. And these guys begin to fight with each other, these four generals, and then they begin to divide up the territory so then they don't fight anymore. But not to his posterity, so Noah none of his family, nor according to his dominion which he ruled, for his kingdom shall be plucked up even for others besides those. And so it's it's gonna go to the generals. They're gonna have it. And and the king of the South shall be strong. And so this is the king of Egypt. This is Ptolemy the first. So anyway, Alexander the Great, his his domain was divided up amongst the generals, now we're gonna see Egypt emerge with Syria in this battle that's going on. Then from chapter verse 21 to the end of the chapbook, you're gonna see a guy named Attiacas Epiphanes, and he's the one that's prolific in, the abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel the prophet where he desecrates the temple by putting a pig in there and, you know, tears down the altar and all and causes a huge zealous fervor from Joseph Maccabees. So we're gonna look at that next week. It's called the Maccabean revolt, and now it's because of Tiakis Epiphanes. He thinks of himself as a god and this glowing, this bright shining epiphany kind of a dude. So alright. And the king of the South, which is Ptolemy the first, shall be strong and one of his princes, and he shall be strong above him and have dominion, and his dominion shall be a great dominion. So it goes from Ptolemy to Seleucus the first of Nicaator about 03/23 to February. And in the end of years, they shall they shall join themselves together for the king's daughter. So you're gonna take Ptolemy the first, and he's gonna work with Seleucus of of the northern of northern king, and they're going to do a political alliance, like I spoke about, that of Syria. And so this Ptolemy is gonna take his daughter Bernice and have her be married to Seleucus of Syria, a political alliance. Now Seleucus of Syria is already married to Laodice, like I said, this woman Laodice. Probably not saying it right, but you don't know that. And she's gonna be divorced rather than having a harem or more than one wife. Ptolemy thought it thought it was best to have him divorce her, and he did. They make this political alliance. There's a dowry where Seleucus is gonna receive the wages of Judea. So Judea is conquered, and they're paying taxation. They're paying taxes to Egypt. And so he's saying, as a dowry, I'll let you have the taxation of Judah. So he says, sure. I'll do that. Now a woman scorned. Watch out for a woman scorned. So in the end of the years, they shall join themselves together for the king's daughter of the South, shall come to the king of the North, to make an agreement. But she shall not retain the power of the arm, neither shall, he stand nor his arm, but he shall be given up, and they that brought her, and he that begot her, and he that strengthened her in this time. And so Ptolemy is gonna die, and and when that happens, in so the end of the years, they shall join themselves together for the king's daughter of the South. So it's I'm sorry. It was Ataechaeus' daughter, married to Ptolemy, and shall come to the king of the North, which is Syria, to make an agreement. But he shall not retain the power of the arm, neither shall he stand nor his arms. So he's gonna die, but he shall be given up, and they that brought her, and he that begot her, and he that strengthened her in these times. So they're all gonna be executed as Laodice sees is gonna be remarried to Achaeus and and Ptolemy the first is gonna be gone. And then Bernice is gonna flee to, like, a temple area to try and of of of Apollo to try and save her life, and it's not gonna work. She's still gonna die. She's still gonna be executed. But out of a branch in her roots, so her brother, Ptolemy the second, he's gonna emerge out of Egypt, and he's gonna want revenge because of Laodice killing his sister. So but out of a branch of her roots shall one stand up in his estate, who shall come with an army and shall enter into the fortress of the king of the North Of Syria and shall deal against them and shall prevail. So Egypt's gonna win over Syria, and Ptolemy the second is doing this out of revenge because his sister Bernice was not only, you know, divorced but also executed by Laudice. And shall also carry captives into Egypt, their gods, their idols, and their princes, and their precious vessels of silver and of gold, and he shall continue more years than the king of the North. So he's gonna go with a 40,000, talents of silver he's gonna leave with, 2,500, idols, and four talents of gold. That gold will be worth a lot today. And, so he's gonna plunder them and, take away, you know, their treasure that they've been amassing. So the king of the South shall come into his kingdom and shall return in it into his own land. So he's gonna go back into, into Egypt. And, boy, this goes back and forth. And, and so now in regard to Syria, but his sons shall be stirred up and shall assemble a multitude of great forces and one shall certainly come and overflow and pass through and then shall return and be stirred up even to his force fortress. So now you got the Syrians, the sons of of Attiakis, you got Seleucus and then Attiakis the third. So you keep going Ptolemy the one, Ptolemy two, Ptolemy three, Attiakis the first, Attiakis second, Attiakis third, Attiakis Epiphanes, and so it goes back and forth like that, And they're gonna they're going to prevail over Egypt at this point in verse 10. And and then the king of the South, Egypt, shall be moved, with anger and shall come forth and fight, with him even with the king of the North and he shall set forth a great multitude, but the multitude shall, be given into his hand. And so given over to the Syrians, so he comes with 72, thousand, man army and and and the Syrians, should be given into his hands, so he's gonna be given over to Syria. So, again, they're they're fighting back and forth. And when he had taken away the multitude, his heart shall be lifted up. And he shall cast down many 10 thousands, but he he shall not be strengthened by it. So he's gonna be blown off. There's gonna be 40,000 Jews that are gonna be killed in this in the in this thing. He's coming with elephants and and 5,000 cavalry, 72,000 men, and and a whole herd of elephants after him. And when he had taken away the multitude, his his heart shall be lifted up and he shall cast down, many or 10 thousands, but he shall not be strengthened by it. So he's gonna have to back off. He's not gonna be able to totally prevail. He's gonna have to back off with that attack. For the king of the North shall return and shall set forth a multitude greater than the former. And so going to come again fourteen years later and shall certainly come after certain years with a great army and with much riches. And so these guys are going back and forth back and forth and and meanwhile, the Jews, you know, are out of Babylon. They've been released. You got a you got a remnant of them in in Jerusalem, wanting to rebuild the temple. You got Nehemiah. You got Ezra. And then it's the time between the Old and the New Testament. And then Assyria Assyria tries to go after Greece again, and the Romans come in and try and help them. Now it's the reemergence of the Roman Empire, and they're defeated. So we'll get to that in a few minutes. But but just back and forth. And in those times there shall many stand up against the king of the South, also the robbers. So this is Ptolemy V, about 02/2004 to January, against the king of the South. Also the robbers of the people shall exalt themselves to establish the vision, but they shall fall. And so back and forth. So the king of the North, and this is Seleucus the fourth, about 01/1987 to January. So the king of the North shall come and cast up a siege mound and take the fortified cities, and the arms of the South shall not withstand, neither his chosen people, neither shall there be any strength to withstand. So defeated by Seleucus IV is what's happening here. But he that cometh against him shall do according to his own will, and none shall stand before him and he shall stand in the glorious land so the glorious land is where? Israel, yeah in Jerusalem so they're gonna they're gonna make their base camp in in in Israel Judea and in the glorious land which by his hand shall be consumed so they're gonna plunder and waste the glorious land and he shall also set his face to enter in with strength of his whole kingdom and upright ones with him, thus shall they do and he shall give him the daughter of women corrupting her but she shall not stand on his side neither before him. And so Cleopatra, the daughter Seleucus IV, he's going to want her to be married to Ptolemy the fourth, who's about seven years old at the time, and as an alliance alliance with Egypt. And Attiakis is hoping that she'll kind of steal the kingdom on his behalf, but it says here that she's not. She's not gonna do that. And so he also that set his face to enter in with strength of his whole kingdom and upright ones with him, and thus he shall do. And he shall give him the daughters of women, corrupting her, trying to corrupt her, trying to get her to turn on. This is about January. But she shall not stand on his side. So she's not going to give into that. She's not going to betray the Romans, neither be for him. So, and maybe there's a movie about Cleopatra, right? And her father Atticus, she wasn't going to side with her father Atticus, and so she's not going to do what he wanted. And after this shall he turn his face under the coasts and shall take many, but a prince of his own behalf shall cause the reproach offered by him to cease without his own reproach he shall cause it to turn upon him. So she is married to this seven year old kid, Ptolemy V, and, and so Taeuchus gets angry that she's not working with him, so he's gonna go attack along the coast of the Mediterranean. There's 300 ships and he's coming toward Greece, and he's looking for the heyday, back earlier when they did win, but this time they're they're gonna lose because, the Romans are gonna help them. This is about January, Scipio. And and so he they lose. The Romans the Romans are able to help the Greeks to not let this happen. And and so in his in his loss, now he's gonna go back and take it out on he's gonna have to pay taxes now. He's gonna have to pay taxes, under Rome, and he's gonna try and exact these taxes from his own, treasury. And then also, if he can, if he can get away with it, he's gonna try and exact us from, from the Jews, and, and he loses. So he shall cause it to turn upon him. And then he says, verse 19, then he shall turn his face toward the fortress of his own land, but he shall stumble and fall and not be found. So as he heads back home, to plunder his own temple, he's killed, wanting to collect the taxes that he's gotta pay to Rome. And then, and then after him, then shall stand up in his estate, in his place, a raiser of taxes in the glory of the kingdom. So this is Seleucus, Filipinor, and so in the place of the the previous king, this guy stands up taxes in the glory of the kingdom, but within a few days he shall be destroyed neither in anger, nor in battle. So again, he's poisoned. So you you just wipe them out. They're they're all they're all being poisoned and and wiped down. Well, we might as well keep going. Right? Got through that pretty quick. It's what is it? 06:30? What time is it? Seven 07:12. We can keep going. Yeah. Keep going. K. So now we come to Achaia Achaiaki's Epiphanes, the Syrian king who's gonna hurt Israel. Now this king is a type of the Antichrist. This king in Daniel chapter eight is described, and he's the one, like we said, that, goes into the temple and desecrates the temple. And then the Antichrist in the future is gonna go into the temple according to second Thessalonians tap chapter two, declare himself to be God and demand to be worshipped as God. Right? And Jesus in Matthew 24 called that the abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel the prophet. So when, as Debbie said earlier, when critics, scoffers, when they mock, Daniel's prophecy because this is so accurate, if you study history, what's laid out here in chapter 11 is exactly what happened in the future, and it's so accurate that the Bible critics said, no. Daniel Daniel wrote that after the fact. That was written after the fact, you know, after it happened. We're looking at it historical now, but at the time Daniel wrote it was prophetic. And so Jesus authenticates it the same way he authenticates the book of Jonah. You know, bible critics will say, oh, yeah, a whale, a big fish swallowing a guy, and and, yeah, that's that's crazy. That's a child's sword. There's no way that could happen. And then all you guys go on submarines. Right? You know, you guys were able to do it, but, God can't do it. Right? So when Jesus said it in the as as was in the days of Noah, you know, he's authenticating as he says, as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, he's authenticating. He's he's saying this is a real story. This really happened, you know, to Jonah. So too with Daniel, the abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel the prophet. The Lord is looking back to the prophecy of Daniel and saying that the when you see this, this is the prototype here. This is a symbol of it. This is an example of it, and the Antichrist is going to do the very same thing. So in this estate shall he stand up a vile person. I've met some of these guys, I'll tell you. 01/1975 to January, and a vile person, whom they shall not give the honor of the kingdom, but he shall come in peaceably and obtain the kingdom by flataries. And so this guy has been known as a madman, and he's a take his Epiphanes, and he's he's going to seduce his own countrymen to gain the kingdom. And with the army with the arms of a flood, and they shall be overflowed. So he's gonna bring about a coup, a big coup there before him and shall be broken, yea, also the prince of the covenant. And so he's he's gonna kill the high priest, and he's gonna replace him with Onias the third, and he's gonna be allied in a in a ungodly way with them. And so after the league made with him, he shall work deceitfully for he shall come up and shall become strong with a small people. So a small society and redistribute the wealth and spread it around and try and gain a following in that way. And he shall enter peaceably even upon the fattest places of the province, and he shall do that which his fathers have not done nor his father's fathers. He shall scatter among them, the prey and spoil and the riches, yea, and he shall plot against the stronger holds even for a time. So he's gonna go redistribute the wealth, he's gonna go down to Egypt, he's gonna grab hold of a few cities. So he's working and trying to build his kingdom, trying to build his power, if you will. And and he shall stir up his power and his courage against the king of the South, against the Egyptians with a great army. And the king of the South shall be stirred up the battle with a very great and mighty. So Egypt with Ptolemy again great and mighty army but he shall not stand for he shall plot against him so he's gonna commit to his brother's gonna commit treason yea and they that that feed of the portion of his food shall destroy him. So, destroy he's gonna commit treason against his brother, Atticus, of his food, and shall destroy him, and his army shall overflow, and many shall fall down, slain. And so as he goes against Egypt, his younger younger can't read that word. But anyway, he shall fall down slain. And both these kings hearts shall be to do mischief and they shall speak lies at one table, but it shall not prosper for yet the end shall be at the time appointed. So we're looking future to the tribulation period possibly and allied conspiring in an allied way at the end of wars. Then shall he return into his land with great riches, and his heart shall begins the holy covenant, and he shall do exploits and return to his own land. So this is where he's gonna desecrate the temple. He's gonna plunder. He's gonna put the pig blood upon the altar. And this is the abomination of desolation of desolating the temple. And at that time appointed, he shall return and come toward the South, but it shall not be as the former or to the latter. So he's gonna fail when he tries to come against Egypt this time. Egypt's united against him. And then it says, verse 30, for the ships of Kiddom shall come against him. The Rome helps out. Rome helps Egypt out. The ships, the navy of Egypt or excuse me, the Romans. Ships of Kiddom shall come against him. Therefore, he shall be grieved and return and have indignation against the holy covenant. So he's gonna lose as he goes down to Egypt. The Romans are gonna help him out, and he's a sore loser, so now he's gonna go back to the Holy Land and start slaughtering Jews. He's he's really, really angry, a sore loser. So he's gonna he's gonna return and have indignation against the holy covenant, so shall he do, and he shall even return and have intelligence with those who forsake the holy covenant. So he's gonna desecrate the temple. He's going to go after the Jews. He's going to remove their holy covenant, the Mosaic Law that they're wanting to follow. He's gonna come into Jerusalem, and forces shall stand on his his, art, and they shall pollute the sanctuary of strength. So his soldiers, his guards, they're gonna come into Jerusalem into the into the sanctuary. They shall pollute the sanctuary, the abomination of strength, and shall take away the daily sacrifices and they shall place the abomination that makes desolate. So he's gonna put a pig blood in there. He's gonna stop the daily sacrifices, and the the antichrist is gonna do the same thing. He's gonna go into the temple and declare himself to be God. Some feel that the covenant in Daniel nine that the Antichrist makes with the nation of Israel, is not necessarily a peace covenant, but a covenant for them to, reenact their law, the Mosaic Law. And others say, no, it's a brand new covenant, not a reconfirming of an old. So and such as do wickedly against the covenant shall be shall he corrupt by flatteries. So he's gonna he's going to get the priests and the upper echelon to try and corrupt and work with him. But the people that do know their god shall be strong and do exploits. So the hierarchy, the priesthood and stuff is going to be corrupted, but the people, the average people like you and I, that do know their God and we're watching today, we're watching the separation of sheep and goats, we're watching the professors and the possessors, and more and more it's getting more and more evident that a sifting is taking place. And a lot of people claim to know God, you know, but in works they deny him. They don't live, you know, like Christians, you know. It's very sad to sometimes what I say is, you know, would you do us all a favor and not tell anybody that you're a Christian? You know? Because you acting like this, living like this makes it bad for all of us, you know, and makes it a lot harder on us. When we're going out to try and witness to people and share with people, they say oh you Christians, you Christians, oh I know a guy that says he's a Christian you know it's like oh man really did he do that yeah yeah and so but the people that do know their gods shall be strong and do exploits. And so they're gonna pressure. They're gonna look for opportunities for about three years period of time. They're gonna pray. They they are angry. There's these traitors, these people betraying them. And and it says, and they that understand among the people so who are they that understand among the people? The wise. People that have wisdom. The sons of Issachar, they were more noble because they understood the times they were living in. We have a very difficult time awaking people to the times we're living in today. There's a huge resistance against the pre trib rapture, against the last days teaching of eschatology and prophecy and all. And there's a lot of people that just are tired of hearing it and they prefer a false eschatology of a seven mountain mandate, a golden age, moving the bar forward, you know, to the goal of the age of Aquarius and make America great again sort of a thing. And and they just don't wanna hear that wars and rumors of wars. They don't wanna hear about a tribulation period. They don't wanna hear about a one world government. They want to know how we can clean the world up, get rid of all the bad people, so to speak. In their eyes, they're the good people. And and so move in a direction of an ecumenical one world religious system, one world economic system, one world governmental system, and it's being sold to the people through the words peace and safety. And the Antichrist is gonna come along as a peacemaker on a white horse. Right? And and first Thessalonians five, when they say peace and safety, then sudden destruction gonna come upon them like a woman in travail. Right? And so we we're not being tricked. So we have to have that understanding. They that understand among the people shall instruct many. Boy, that's what we're trying to do. We're trying to make disciples. We're trying to instruct many. We're trying to teach people. And it's sometimes it's just absolutely impossible to awaken people. They have their mind made up. And I guess we have to wipe the dust off our feet and move on to the next one that maybe they are open, they're teachable, they're willing to study, willing to understand. The last thing in the world I wanna be is foolish or stupid or miss the opportunity or not know the time of his coming. You know? Jesus kinda chided him a bit. He says, you guys can discern the weather. You know? You can you can look at the news and know that a big storm's coming in the Pacific Northwest. You see that, and you believe those guys. You know? But you don't believe me. You don't know the time that you're living in, you know, and, he came on his own and his own received him none. So you remember we talk about, his riding into Jerusalem according to Zechariah nine upon the donkey. If you'd known in this thy day, this very day of your visitation, they didn't have understanding. They didn't have understanding of the scriptures. How many people do you know that have an understanding of the scriptures and understanding of prophecy? Can you sit down with them and describe the times that we're living in? Can you do that Bernie? But I mean you're able to at least try, right? Bernie's dad kept telling about the rapture when he was growing up, and Bernie didn't wanna hear it. Now Bernie, man, he's all over the rapture. Right? All over prophecy. All over. All over it. He's excited. Right? Yeah. On my tippy toes. Yeah. On his tippy toes looking up. Anybody else you you attempt to help people understand the times we're living in? Like the sons of Issachar? Do they think you're crazy? Oh, yeah. Wait. What are you talking about, rap? Yeah. I think it's I think I I'm in a cult. What cult are you in now? So what if you told them today what if you told them that we're fast approaching a digital currency and the bible has prophesied about this? See that. Do they does that an easy one to get through to them? Yeah. Yeah. Now can you show them that it's evil or do they see this good or neutral? I had that conversation today with a coworker, and she grew up in a Christian home. And she's I don't think she sees the deception of all sorts of things. Yeah. So their eyes are opening to a lot of deception? Just one person One person? Yeah. I see every now and then on the social media says, they're awakening, awaken, people are awakening. So I don't know what they're awakening to, but but that's a good thing. So we we can use some of these things that the Bible prophesies. Peter said the more sure word of prophecy, and we can use like Revelation thirteen sixteen through 18, no man's gonna be able to buy or sell without a mark on the right hand of their forehead. And then you can say, well, you know, they're coming with a real ID, and if you look at China today as a beta test, watch watch how look at their control grid, how they're controlling the people, you know, and getting rid of the dollar and going to digital and people that refuse the mark of the beast, and that's what it's speaking of here, the beast, the antichrist, that don't bow down and worship him and take his mark, compulsory, they're gonna have to, then Revelation 20 verse four says, you know, they're gonna lose their heads, you know. So in Revelation six and seven, there's an innumerable multitude of people beneath the throne of God who gave up their heads. They were awake. They understood the times, and they refused the mark of the beast because they knew it was eternal damnation if they took the mark of the beast. So we can preempt people and get people ready so that they can make an intelligent decision of whether or not they want this chip to be put under the skin of the right hand or a tattoo, barcode, forehead, whatever, and and try and help them understand that it you know, that it's coming. And so when you see these things begin to come to pass and look up knowing that your redemption is drawing near, is time is short. Are you ready? Do you have the oil? You know? Do you have the holy spirit? And so I wanna be a person that's that's wise, that has understanding. Now I don't need understanding of all the things of the world, but I definitely want as much understanding as I can of God's word, the prophetic picture, and and I want to know the Lord. Paul said that I might know him. And so Hosea says my people perish for a lack of knowledge, and biblically illiterate people are easily controlled and made afraid. And when you get them afraid, you know, you can control them. And so we as we're enlightened, as we're aware, as our eyes are open, that's that's one of the ways that evil cannot prosper is when the people are aware, when the people have understanding. You can't trick them. The greatest weapon of the enemy is deception. He's got to be able to get your compliance, and he gains your compliance through deception. But if you're awake, if you're aware, if you know where it's leading, I'm amazed at the deception concerning vaccines for children today. It's just absolutely mind boggling the way they keep doubling down, wanting to jab these poor children. Follow the science. All the science says they're killing them with the mercury, the adjunct and all, and the fruit of it. What's the fruit? Autism raised by five thousand percent. But man, they're gonna just keep doubling down, you know, keep doing this, these poor kids. It just breaks my heart. Sometimes they'll show a picture of a little baby getting a shot, and it's just so sad to watch their eyes and to watch what happens and just overwhelmed with that toxicity. It's just crazy. Crazy. But that's the world we live in. And you you just you just crying out. Don't they understand? Don't they know what they're doing to their own child? You know? And a lot of them don't because the propaganda, the misinformation, the how crazy people get. So, And they that had understanding among the people shall instruct many. And that's what we need to do. We need to learn, be teachable, and be disciples, and then that we may be able to teach others also so we pass on what we learn. So study to show yourself approved unto God, a workman that need not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth, and all scriptures given by inspiration of God is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be equipped, thoroughly furnished for every good work. So you don't want to be in a church that doesn't teach the Bible. You don't want to be a Christian that doesn't know God's word. You want to study God's word to be approved. Man, you can be so manipulated by charlatans and false prophets and religious gurus or whatever because you don't know the truth, because you're you're you're being played. So and they understand among the people shall instruct many, yet they shall fall by the sword, and by the flames. So, the Jews are gonna come under attack and and yet they shall fall by the sword, by the flame, by captivity, by spoil many days. So they're gonna be slaughtered. They're gonna slaughter the Jews. So why can there be 57,000 Nigerian Christians murdered, killed, and nobody cares? Why why can there be in Syria right now slaughtering Christians, parading their dead bodies, holding their heads up and all? Why doesn't the world care? Why doesn't anybody care? If you if you were slaughtering Muslims, would the world care? They'd go crazy. They'd be outraged. Right? And the Jews aren't being slaughtered now, but the devil hates the Jews. And two thirds of the Jews are gonna die during the tribulation period being slaughtered, being wiped out as God pours out his wrath upon a Christ rejecting world. And according to Zechariah 12, the whole world is going to turn against Israel. Every nation's going to turn against them. So they're going to be the target of the devil and the Antichrist and the false prophet. And for some reason, there's this intense hatred. The devil's always hated the Jews, and the devil hates Christians and wants to stop us from instructing people, from sharing the gospel, from discipling people. And the devil can't stop the Christians in China. The devil can't stop the Christians in Iran. The blood of the martyr is the seed of the church. The more of the frontal attack you try and stop it, the more it grows. Two more, three more four more pop up you know so can't stop it it's word-of-mouth just word-of-mouth it's not these big crusades in those countries it's word-of-mouth and they might have just two pages of the bible you know in their little groups, in their little home groups, and they pass them around, you know, because Bibles are precious. And so so by captivity and by spoil many days, and so they're gonna be slaughtered. Who wants to read Hebrews eleven thirty five through 37? Let me do it. Okay. Women received their dead raised to life again, and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance that they might obtain a better resurrection. And others had trial of cruel mocking and scourging, GA more over of bonds and imprisonment. They were stoned. They were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword. They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins being destitute, afflicted, and tormented. The others. The others that pleased God. That's what happened to him in a time of persecution, a time of slaughter. And so now when they shall fall, they shall be helped with a little help, but many shall cling to them with flatteries. And so the antichrist is coming along with these flatteries, and God's gonna purify through the fire, the nation of Israel. And some of them of understanding shall fall to test them and to purge and to make them white even to the time of the end because it is yet for a time appointed. Who wants to read Zechariah thirteen eight and nine? I will. Okay. Sure. Zechariah thirteen eight and nine. Fourteen eighty nine. Okay. And it shall come to pass that in the all the land, saith the lord, two parts therein shall be cut off and die, but the third shall be left therein. And I will bring the third part through the fire and will refine them as silver is refined and will try them as gold is tried. They shall call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say, it is my people, and they shall say, the Lord is my God. Amen. So at TK's Epiphanes, He actually did this in the temple and now, the Holy Spirit shown us the end of the age. It says, and some of them of understanding, so one third remnant, a one third remnant shall fall to to test them. So they're gonna go through the time of testing, the time of Jacob's trouble, the Bible calls it. The seventieth seven of Daniel, the tribulation period. And, this period is a period of time where God is pouring out his wrath upon a Christ rejecting world, but he is also purifying the nation of Israel, a one third remnant. The true Israel of God are those who believe. And you remember Jesus said, you're not gonna see me again till you say blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord. And as they flee from the Antichrist to Petra, they're gonna have that moment. They're gonna cry out to Jesus. They're gonna recognize that they had previously, as a nation, they had rejected and crucified their Messiah, the one whom they pierced. So and so as to test them, so there's the testing that's going on. You and I are tested. The Lord allows the testing to purify us and to purge, so he's purging the unbelief, he's purging the impurities and to make them white and even to the time of the end. So like you you like you refine silver, like you refine gold, the Lord's gonna put them through the furnace of the tribulation, through the fire to cause them to come to the place of Jeremiah thirty one thirty one where they believe, where they're born again, and they enter into that unconditional covenant that God has ready for them. So unto the time of the end, so and to make them white even at the time of the end, 77 of Daniel, because it is yet for a time appointed. So the angels letting Daniel know this is a time appointed. This is future, that God's gonna do with his people. And he says, and the king shall do according to his will. So this is the self will, the willful king of the future, the Antichrist. And he shall exalt himself and magnify himself above every god. Boy, I know some guys acting like that. There's a few times this week where I'm like, I'm putting King Nebbe or is this not great Babylon which I have built? There's such boasting going on. A lot of boasting. A lot of building of arcs and monuments to self, you know? And I just keep thinking, man, the guy's gonna become a vegan if he's not careful, you know? And only Rob gets that. So according to his hair is gonna grow real long, his nails gonna grow real long and he's gonna be eating grass for seven years. Right? And the king shall do according to his will. So he's he's autocratic. He's a king. He gets to do whatever he wants. He's got no constitution. The constitution limits authority with checks and balances. And you and I are submissive to the higher power in our land, is the constitution. The politicians make a mistake in our country when they think that they're that they have unlimited power, unlimited authority. Obama used to say, I've got equity. I've got political equity because the majority of the people voted me in. Well, you just got voted in. You're you're only a president. You're not a king. Right? Yeah. And and you've you've gotta follow the constitution like anybody else. So the king shall do according to his will, and he shall exalt himself and magnify himself. Well, that's what that's what happened to the guy that's inspiring him. That's what happened to Satan as he magnified and exalted himself. Jesus said if you humble yourself in the sight the Lord, he'll lift you up. Whosoever exalts himself shall be abased. He that humble himself shall be exalted. The way up is down. And God hates pride. God resists the proud. And this is the epitome of pride. And can you see these guys, how incredibly intoxicated they are with themselves, the god complex they have? Unbelievable god complex. It makes me it makes me cringe when I hear it like, oh, they're gonna get hit. God's gonna smack them down. So the king shall do according to his will, and he shall exalt himself. I wanna do according to God's will. Even Jesus said, not nevertheless, not my will, but thy will be done. Even God the Son is in submission to his father. How much more, you and I? And the Lord puts in me both to will and to do of his good pleasure. The Lord puts his desires in my heart. Paul said to work out your own salvation. Work it out. Live it out. Work out your no. Work for your salvation. Work it out. Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. For it is God who is working in you, God's working in me, both to will and to do of his good pleasure. Well, I wanna tap into that. I wanna I wanna wait upon the Lord and say, Lord, hear my send me. What's your will for me today? What would you have me do today, Lord? And what's the direction of our lives, Lord? Where do you want us to go? What do you want for Calvary Bermington? You know? And he's kept it pretty simple for me. Rick, just just keep teaching my word. Just keep teaching my word, Rick. And I'm like, Lord, thank you. Thank you so much. You don't make it complicated. You know, that's something that's something I enjoy doing. That's something I'll attempt to do. And if you help me, Lord, I can do it. I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me and it's not complicated and yet how come so few people that call themselves pastors don't know their job description? How come they don't know we're supposed to feed the sheep? How come the sheep don't know that the pastor's supposed to feed them rather than fleece them? Why do they allow the fleecing? It's mind boggling. Here, they come, fleece me. Sell the wool. It just grew back, shave it again, you know, it's mind muggling, you know. Now they're cold, they're naked. So he shall exalt himself and magnify himself above every god and shall speak every god. So little g gods, a lot of different gods out there, idols. There's only one god, the true and living god, but they have these false gods and shall speak marvelous things against the god, big G, of gods and shall prosper until the indignation be accomplished. So God's gonna allow him a period of time where he's really, really thinking he's it and the people are thinking he's it. He's even gonna put in there an assassination and a resurrection for him, you know, with the wound that he gets in his arm and his eye And the antichrist is gonna, pull off a false, you know, resurrection. And the people are gonna think, wow. This who can who can war? Who can fight, you know, with the antichrist? And he's a big mouth. And his his demise comes when the Lord comes, when the Lord returns with the brightness of his coming, the sword of his mouth. Boom. You're dead. No big deal. And the angels take and throw the antichrist and the false prophet into the lake of fire, and then the devil's taken and thrown into the abyss for a thousand years. And at the end of a thousand years, the devil winds up also in the lake of fire where all the wicked dead are gonna wind up. So, but meanwhile, the Lord allows him, he shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished for that which is determined shall be done. And so the man of sin, the son of perdition, the lawless one, some of his names, he's a big mouth. And let's turn to second Thessalonians chapter two. Second Thessalonians chapter two. And we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and by our gathering together unto him, the rapture baby, that ye be not soon shaken in mind, so don't be alarmed or be troubled, neither be by spirit nor by word nor by letter as from us. They're worrying about did they miss the did the people that already died miss the, you know, the going to heaven, going to the rapture and all that? Are they gonna have to go through the tribulation period? Nor by word, nor by letter from us as that the day of the Lord is present. So some are telling him you're already in the tribulation period. Not true. The day of the Lord. Let no man deceive you by any means for that day, the tribulation period, shall not come except there come a falling away first. And I don't like the idea of a departure of the church right there. I like the idea of the Greek word apostasia. The falling away is a rebellion, a falling away from the truth of God's word. And that's what we see today. And because the church, the professing church, is falling away from the truth and not being salt and light, not exposing lies, not exposing error, and falling for the doctrines of demons and resisting sound doctrine and heaping them up to themselves teachers, having itching ears, that deception that's coming into the church leads the people toward a rebellion against the truth. That's why only 2% of the people pastors teach prophecy and refuse a desire for we just read about an understanding. They don't want an understanding of the times they live in. They reject prophecy. 2% of the pastors teach prophecy today. One third of the Bible's prophetic and we're living in those days, and they don't want to alert people of the times we're living in. So what's what's the what's the modus operandi? Keep them dumb? Let them live in denial like it's not happening? Not gonna happen. So they this apostasia, this departure from the truth, this rebellion against God, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition. So he's it's getting to the place where the church is losing the salt and its light. We're raptured out of here, when we're raptured out of here, man, oh, man, it it escalates. It and it it it accelerates the wickedness and how quickly the antichrist is gonna be emerged because as we read here, the restrainer's removed. The restraint is the Christians that are spirit filled that expose the evil and stand against evil and stand up against it. That pushback slows down the putrefaction, the corruption. That's why you're salt. You salt the animal so the animal doesn't corrupt so quickly, and you're a salty influence. You make people thirsty for Jesus. That's why they put so much salt on the popcorn at the movies, so you'll buy that $5 drink there, you know? Makes you thirsty. So the man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition, which means damnation, the beast the antichrist the lawless one who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God so he's gonna oppose the great big God the true living God or that is worshiped He doesn't the devil doesn't like for us to worship king Jesus. The devil wants to be worshiped. So that he, as God, sits in the temple of God showing himself that he is God. This is the abomination of desolation. And, remember ye not that when I was yet with you, I told you these things. So Paul's saying, you know, remember three weeks ago, four weeks ago when I was with you? How'd you how'd you how'd you, you know, forget this so quickly? And this eschatology that I was teaching you, baby Christians, you know. And today, the the pastors say, well, you know, they're they're just brand new believers. They can't understand prophecy, and I've never studied the book of Revelations. I can't understand prophecy. Well, start now. Start studying. Right? And so remembering not when I was yet with you and I told you these things, and now you know what restraints that he might be revealed in his time. So the Antichrist can be revealed in his time. The Antichrist isn't on the scene yet. You're not in the tribulation period. As people are getting persecuted, they're starting to think, are we already in the tribulation period? For the mystery of iniquity does already work. Only he who, now hinders shall continue to hinder. So this is the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit's not gonna be taken out of the way that the Holy Spirit's not going to be around during the tribulation period. No, the church is going to be taken up and the influence of the Holy Spirit through the church is going to be taken away. And so only he who now hinders will continue to hinder until he be taken out of the way. And then shall that wicked one be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming. There you go. Even him who is coming after the working of Satan, so the Antichrist, the working of Satan, the unholy trinity, with all power and signs and, notice, lying wonders deceiving people, and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish. Why did they perish? Because they received not the love of the truth. I can't force people to love the truth. I can't force people to want to study the Bible. But I have the blessing of the Holy Spirit drawing people and bringing people that do. I don't need to waste my time on people that don't and try to appease them and build a church with people that don't? Really? I want to be a pastor of a people that don't want the word of God? Really? We're gonna use one or two verses today and then I'm gonna twist it into an appeal for money again. How many times you wanna hear about money? How many times? You're put up with that. But they do. They do. It's fascinating. Just so fascinating. Paul said to the church at Corinth, the more I love you, the less you love me in return. You guys like being beaten. You like the false prophets. You like the false prophets using you, you know? It's mind blowing. And so he even him is coming to that working of Satan with all power and signs, line, wonders, with all deceivableness of unrighteousness and them that perish because they receive not the love of the truth that they may be saved I hate being lied to I love the truth I want to know the truth I don't want to be deceived And yet people still are scamming and scheming and and lying. And for this cause, God shall give them the people that have rejected the truth, god shall give them strong delusion. God given them the strong I don't know how it could be any stronger than it is today. There are some real delusional people out there today, zombies walking. Shall they should believe the lie? And we've talked about this. The lie is the lie in the garden that that the devil told Adam and Eve, you shall be as God. And so Jared Kushner and others are saying that their generation is never going to die because they have technology and they're going to figure out a way to never die. That they all might be judged who believe not the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness. And and so we stop there with that and go back to chapter 11. So that's the the picture of the antichrist. And and I stood upon the sand of the sea and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and 10 horns, and upon his head 10 crowns, and upon his head the name of blasphemy. And the beast which I saw was like a leopard, and his feet were like the feet of a bear. The beast and the false prophet. Oh, boy. And his mouth like the mouth of a lion, and the dragon gave him his power. Dragon is the unholy trinity, the devil. And his throne with great authority. And I saw one of his heads as though it were wounded to death, and this deadly wound was healed and all the world wondered after the beast. So he's kind of a fake assassination. And I won't I won't go there. Okay? People get really mad at me when I say this. I won't say it, but those of you that know me, you know what I'm you know what I'm thinking right now. You know what I'm thinking right now. And they worshiped the dragon who gave power under the beast. And they worshiped the beast saying, who is like the beast? Who is able to make war with him? You know, this guy's a heavy. And there was given unto him a mouth. Remember back where we just saw that? Remember he's a boaster? Given him a mouth, speaking great things and blasphemies, and power was given unto him to continue. Forty and two months. How long the Bible's precise. That's three and a half years. That's twelve hundred and sixty days. So when he signs the peace treaty, you can add twelve hundred and sixty days to that. That's the midpoint of the tribulation period, and that's when he's gonna go into the temple and declare himself to be God. You number twelve hundred and sixty days after that, and that's the second coming of Jesus. That's a seven year tribulation period. So we've got, a time, a time, and a half time. Right? We've got three and a half years. We got forty two months or twelve hundred sixty days for the half of it. And when we get into chapter 12, we're gonna see blessed he that comes the thirteen hundred and thirty fifth day. So and he opened his mouth in the blasphemy against God to blaspheme his name and his tabernacle and them that dwell in heaven. I'm a heaven dweller. Lady said to me today on Facebook, are you a Democrat? And I said, no. I'm a political atheist, and I'm not on either side at this point. I don't trust either side. And what you're alluding to is the left right paradigm, the two sided coin, the same coin but two different sides. And I said, I'm a monarchist. I'm looking for the king of kings and lord of lords to return. That's what I'm looking for. I'm not putting my hope and trust in any of these guys especially with AI technology. I don't even know what the truth is anymore. They're posting so much stuff and I bite, I take the bait, and I'm like somebody says, you know, that was just AI. That wasn't real. And I'm like, it wasn't? Oh, it looks so stupid. Boy, it looks so stupid. I gotta be I gotta be better. I gotta get on my game. Gotta fact check. Gotta know if this is real or not, you know. But, no, I'm not a Democrat, and I'm not a Republican either. They don't represent they don't represent my God. But, boy, people sure wanna be on one side or the other and divide the country, you know? How about we're all Americans? And we're not written the book of so we're of the saints and to overcome them and power was given on him to overcome kindred tongues and nations and all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him whose names are not written in the book of life of the lamb slain from the foundation of the world. There you go. Is your name written in the lamb's book of life? If any man have an ear, let him hear. He that leadeth unto captivity shall go into captivity and he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints. So God is is going to judge. Back to chapter 11 here. And so and so he's gonna be a boaster and, talk big words. And the king shall do according to his will and he shall exalt himself and magnum himself above every god. He shall speak marvelous things against the god. We just read that in Revelation 13. The gods and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished for that which is determined shall shall be done. Neither shall he regard the little g gods of his fathers nor the desire of of women, nor regard any god, for he shall magnify himself above all. So he's gonna see himself as a as a Messiah. And but in his estate or after him shall be honor, the god of fortresses. So he's he's gonna honor war, the god of fortresses. He he wants to be prolific with war. And the god of whom his fathers knew not shall he honor with gold and silver. So he wants the wealth and the precious stones and the and the pleasant things of the gifts that'll bring. Thus shall he do in the strong strongest fortress with the foreign god, little g god, whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory, and he shall cause the ruler over many, and shall divide the land for gain. And so he's gonna want gifts for the land, to offer the land for sale and all, and, with Syria and with Egypt. And at the time of the end shall the king of the South out of Egypt push at him, and the king of the North shall come against him like a whirlwind against Syria with chariots and with horses and with many ships and he shall enter into the countries and shall overflow and pass through And so, when they shall say peace and safety, then sudden destruction comes upon them as a woman in travail and they shall not escape. And he shall enter also into the glorious land, into Jerusalem, into Israel, and many countries shall be overthrown, but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom and Moab and the chief of the children of Ammon. So the Antichrist is going to cover the whole world, it's going to chase the Jews, and watch this. This is so interesting. What place does he not have jurisdiction over? What place can he not overthrow? What place is off limits to him during the tribulation period? Petra. That's here, right here. Edom Moab, the chief of the children of Ammon. Now why is that? The Israel Jews flee there and That's where they're gonna flee. That's where they're gonna go. That's ain't that fascinating? That's fascinating. They know where to go. They're like birds with a homing instinct or something. So he shall today that's Southern Jordan. So Southern Jordan is where the Jews are gonna flee, to the rocks of the area of Petra. And we read about this, another picture in Isaiah 63. Right? Basra. Isn't that fascinating? And that's where the Antichrist is gonna be killed as he chases after that remnant that's fleeing Jerusalem. Right? They lose the battle against him as he comes into the Holy Land and and they lose and and they flee. And he shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries and the land of Egypt shall not escape but he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver and over all the precious things of Egypt. Man, they're not mentioning anything about bitcoin. Isn't there some bitcoin in this kingdom? They still want silver and gold, don't they? Silver and gold. You Do know what China's been buying and Russia's been buying for for decades? Gold. Knowing the dollar's gonna paper's gonna go bye bye. And so it's not gonna all be digital. There's gonna be some tangible assets that that those digits are tied to, apparently. They gotta have something tokenization. So the bankers wanna tokenize every tangible asset, the trees, the ground, your house, and everything has a value that a tangible value that they can then tax and and loan more money out, give more money out in in exchange for assets. So a US government's going broke and they need more money? Well, we're gonna tokenize Yosemite and we're gonna take your national park and we're gonna establish a value for that national park, and we'll loan you this money, America. We'll open up your and and cause your budget to pass, Democrats and Republicans. But in exchange for that, we don't just want you to owe us the money. We want the assets tokenized of Yosemite. And if you want to borrow money from China, America, you've got to tokenize and give them tangible assets. That's how it's going to work going forward. The one percenters are going to own everything. Everything. Remember Joseph when he was in Egypt? As people get starving, starving Marvin, and they don't have anything, Joseph setting the king of Egypt up, the pharaoh up. He's getting all the wealth. Everybody's coming into Egypt because of the famine and given all their gold, their silver, their land, their everything just to have food. Just to have food. And the bankers are moving in that direction of controlling food, of removing all the migrant workers and allowing all the fruit and all the vegetables and all the food to just fall to the ground and just perish. Right? And they're spraying a peel and they're and what happens is these small farms, these family farms in America that made America great, these small family farms are going out of business. They're not getting water in California in the San Joaquin Valley because the politicians are sending the water out into the ocean. And then these small family farms that have aquifers, they're doing the best they can to get water from their wells. But then Bill Gates is the largest farm owner in the world. Why? Couple reasons. One is famine. Number two, he wants the water because the water's needed for these data centers. These data centers with all these computers they're building to track and trace, they require water for cooling the computers so municipalities and people that are around there aren't gonna have water for planting of food and for drinking. That's crazy. And then the other thing is robotics. As you get rid of these people on these farms, the farms are gonna be run with GMO crops and robotic tractors, harvesting of the apples and everything. They're not going to need people. That's what they're working toward. It's crazy. And you're not going to be able to buy food because on your social credit score you've already bought too many steaks or apples or whatever it is they they they gauge for you to have. So, have a garden. Have some chickens. Go back to living like the Amish, I guess. So he shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries of the land of Egypt and not escape, but he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver and over all the precious things of Egypt and the Libyans. What what's in the tombs? What's in the Pyramids Of Egypt? What's King Tut's tomb? What kind of, you know, what kind of, treasures, you know, do the Jews have? What kind of treasures do the Babylonians have? When one army would overcome the other, they would take the spoil, all of their hidden treasures. Is there any gold in Fort Knox? And he shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries and the land of Egypt shall not escape, but he shall power over the treasures of gold and of silver and over all the precious things of Egypt and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps. So the tombs of the pharaohs, but tidings out of the East and out of the North shall trouble him. And therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy and utterly to sweep away many. So Libya, Jordan, Ethiopia, gonna come against them. You remember the Antichrist has a base in Babylon, the rebuilt Babylon, and also in Jerusalem. And as he's in Jerusalem dealing with the Jews, guess what happens in Babylon? The mariners, everybody sees it up in smoke. So he does have enemies. He does have those that are attacking at his flank, that of Babylon. It goes up as in a moment. All the merchants, everybody says, wailing the kings of the earth, Babylon The Great, and at one moment it's destroyed, you know, and the Antichrist can't keep it all together at this point. It's crisis time. Things are falling apart. His kingdom's almost over. It's almost at an end. And he shall plant, the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountains. So Daniel nine twenty seven, that of Jerusalem and as a base camp there. And and yet he yet he shall come to his end and none shall help him. And so we said this in second Thessalonians two verse eight, the Antichrist and the false prophet as they're chasing after the Jews, that remnant, that one third remnant that's trying to get down to Southern Jordan, to Moab, to Mount Seir, to Petra, to Basra, Jesus returns because he hears the nation of Israel not the church the church is already with Jesus. Jude says he comes with 10 thousands and thousands of his saints that's us and so except those days be short no flesh should be saved but for the elect's sake the nation of Israel, Jesus intervenes when he hears them say blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord and he wipes out the Antichrist and his armies with the brightness of his coming, his Shekinah glory and the sword of his mouth and the blood is as high as the horse's bridle in a 200 mile square battlefield called Megiddo, Armageddon. And as Jesus slays them and tramples them, like trampling the vintage, He comes across that battlefield and he makes his victory ascent up the Mount Of Olives into the city of Jerusalem. The same Jesus that you've seen go shall come in like manner, which is what? In the clouds, not to that location, but coming like in the same manner. He's coming in the clouds, gonna set feet in Basra, gonna come across there and make his victory ascent going uphill into Jerusalem and the city is gonna split. It's gonna heave in two parts and water's gonna come out. One part's gonna go to the Dead Sea and another part into the Mediterranean Sea and seventy five days later, we're gonna see in chapter 12 is the start of the millennium celebrating the marriage supper of the lamb, the church is the bride of Christ, the nation of Israel is the wife of Jehovah, and baby I'm glad that my name is written in the lamb's book of life. I can sleep well tonight. Alright let's pray, father thank you. Lord, we just pray that you just bless and thank you for the overview, thank you for the understanding that you've given us and Lord, ask for more understanding. Lord, when Solomon became king early on, boy, he had it right. He asked, as you told him, as as you said to him, ask me what you will, what do you want? And Lord, he asked for wisdom to rule over your people. He asked for understanding. And Lord, we need understanding. We need wisdom in these last days, Lord. So many tricksters out there, so much AI lying to us and so Lord help us to have ears to hear, help us to be students of your word, help us to be able to test the spirits, to prove all things and hold fast to that which is good Lord and to not just fall for every slight of hand of of these of these people that are just so so wicked Lord such a wicked time that we're living in. Lord rescue the lost, people who are perishing we ask in Jesus name 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.
