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Live from Bremerton's Monday night. We have the privilege and the blessing of studying Revelation chapter eight tonight and we're gonna worship the lord first. We've had a meal together and praying for one another and so we're gonna open prayer now. Father, come before we come before you, Lord, and we thank you for the blessing of having the word of God in our hands, Lord. We thank you that although you've all know Harari and these guys imagine vain things of AI taking over and AI religion and AI bible and all that sort of stuff. Lord, that's just silly stuff. Lord, we thank you that your word is god breathed and we have directly from you what you're wanting to communicate in this love letter unto us and we have the help of your holy spirit to teach us and tonight, lord, we just humble ourselves before you fresh and we ask that you'd bless, that you bless this time as we worship you, as we as we study, as we pray, and lord, we lift up Sally and we thank you for the good report with her that you continue to heal her. We lift up Jules, lord, and Stephan and we pray that you do miracles of healing with Jules. We pray for the healing of Richard, Doctor Richard, lord, you would help him and god that you'd comfort James, you'd comfort Linda with Joe going home to be with you and we pray for Thomas for his phone that they would find it and all of his context would be on there lord and I pray lord that not blot out his name from the Lance Book of Life that that stay in there and just bless this night lord in Jesus name. Amen. Amen. Jesus the lord. That's sweet, Andy. Sweet. Yeah. Sweet Jesus. Alright. Revelation chapter eight. Thanks, Rob. Revelation chapter eight Thomas is praying for his phone. He is the girl that he asked to marry. Her phone number's in there and he he lost it. Doesn't know if he's gonna be able to get back in touch with her. One more workout. Do like Rocky did. Just yell out the window Adrian did. Might be a blessing or a curse. That's right. Alright, let's pray. Lord, just thank you for this night, Lord. We're so excited to study Revelation chapter eight and lord, the opening of the trumpet, the last seal containing seven trumpet judgments and lord, we just thank you so much that we are not going to be here when this happens, that we're not going to be upon this planet when your wrath is poured out in this fashion and lord, it's very sobering and it just reminds us lord to count every moment of every day as so incredibly precious and occupy until you come. Be about our father's business and lord, your long suffering, you're awaiting, you're you're delaying as long as you can, long suffering, not willing that any would perish but that all would come to repentance and so lord, that's our prayer and we do pray as Bernie pointed out lord with the USS Lincoln over in the Persian Gulf and survey in Iran. We do pray for the Iranian Christians, the Persian Christians there as they're coming to faith. And Lord we pray for a surgical military effort if that's what's needed to stabilize the country and to protect the nation of Israel and the other surrounding areas and just pray lord that righteousness would prevail and lord, we pray for your wisdom that you would give wisdom to those that are contemplating these things, planning these things, lord and lord, men plan but lord, you direct the steps. So, bless we pray. In Jesus name, amen. Amen. Alright. Revelation chapter eight. And when he had opened the seventh seal, so we we've back in chapter five, who's worthy to open the scroll to lose the seal and the only one worthy is the the lion of the tribe of Judah. He's the only one worthy and then as we get into chapter six, we start to see these seals being opened and the cataclysmic events that come upon the planet. Chapter seven was parenthetic. It was a picture up in heaven and a 144,000 being sealed and the tribulation saints, the martyrs of chapter six and seven and they're praying, how long, oh lord, You know, before you judge in verse 10 of chapter six, before you avenge, you know, what's happened to us and all and and so we segway from there and it says and when he had opened the seventh seal speaking of Jesus, There was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour. Does anybody know why that silence is there? Everybody knows. Reverence. Kathy? Because of reverence. What do you think, Took a half an hour to turn it. Before. That sounds like heresy. Why did Jesus say remember Lot's wife? I I just wanted ideas. Why why is there a silence in heaven for the space of half an hour? You can be serious. What's? See what's happening next. Because of the awe of what's going to happen. The awe. The the magnitude. The magnitude? That's that's good. The reverend. So, how many angels you think are there? And if their job as we see function in chapter four was to continually be worshiping or praising god, it means there's a whole lot of singing, a whole lot of praise, and a whole lot of, I don't wanna call it noise but music and worship and. Right? And now, all of a sudden, it's quiet. The the storm. Calm before the storm. I like that. Because it's it's about to get real ugly, isn't it? Yep. And and the other aspect of it might be is there's prayers that are going up. Prayers are going up to heaven and the prayers are coming up like incense and it could very well be that everyone's being quiet in regard to those prayers. Hearing the prayers. Golden silence. Golden silence. Taking the prayers of these tribulation saints serious. So serious that everybody stops for a moment and contemplates as the as the prayers are being offered as incense unto god which is another form of worship. Right? And so I saw seven angels who stood before god. Do you guys know the names of those angels? And to them were given seven trumpets. Seven angels. Those of you that are Catholic, you've got an Apocrypha Bible and they attempt to name these seven angels. We don't recognize that but we know of Gabriel and we know of Lucifer and we know of Michael and but these are seven angels, seven number of completeness who stood before god and so we saw the the Seraphim angels in Isaiah six stand before god. We see the four beasts in chapter four of Revelation. The cherub angels standing before god and these are seven angels who stood before god and to them who were given seven trumpets. Why seven trumpets? Number of completeness. So, trumpet judgments. Pardon me? Perfection. Perfection. Yep. And the seven trumpets. Now, these are what's called the seven trumpet judgments and one of the mistakes that mid tribbers and post tribbers and a lot of people make on the timing of the rapture is they misconstrue that these trumpet judgments tie in with first Corinthians fifteen fifty verse 50 through fifty seven and first Thessalonians four sixteen and seventeen where it talks about at the last trump, the trumpet shall sound and the dead in Christ tries first and they try to connect in Thessalonians and they try to connect in Corinthians that that's when the rapture's taking place is during these trumpet judgments. Now, why is that not true? Last Trump is calling his body up. This is calling down his wrath. Is calling down his wrath, Rob says. The last Trump is calling the it's an announcement. And so the lord shall descend from heaven with a shout with the voice of the archangel and the trump of god and the dead in Christ rise first and which alive remain shall be caught up together with him in the clouds meet the lord in the air and so shall we ever be with the lord And then, in first Thessalonians chapter 15, the the long the trumpet sound. Let's see here. Get this right. Behold, I show you a mystery. We should not all sleep, but we shall be changed in a moment in the twinkling of an eye at the last trump. So you see where people do that? The last trump. We're gonna study seven trumpet judgments. At the last trump, so we're gonna go all the way over to chapter fifteen and sixteen to get the last of the trumpet judgments. And they think that's where the rapture is gonna be some some point over there. For the trumpet shall sound and the dead shall be raised incorruptible and we shall be changed. For this corruption must put on incorruption and this mortal shall put on immortality. So when the corruptible shall put on incorruption, this mortal shall put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? The sting of death is sin, The strength of sin is the law but thanks be to god who gives us the victory through our lord Jesus Christ. Now, When did the apostle Paul write the letter to the church of Corinth? When did he write the letter to the church of Thessalonica? AD ninety five. Corinthians and the Thessalonians are Gentiles. The only info they have of trumpets are the Jewish feast of trumpets. Do you understand what I'm saying? They have no knowledge of any trumpet judgments that John's alluding to in the book of Revelation. Does that make sense? So Paul must be talking about something that the church of Corinth was familiar with and which the church of Thessalonica was familiar with, and it ties right in with the, feast of trumpets, the trumpet judgments. So what happens on the when it says the definite article, the last trump during the feast of trumpets. The last trump is the tequila. The tequila is the last blowing of the trumpet and it's a long blast. It's a long blast and with that long blast and the feast of trumpet typifies the rapture and and that's what Paul saying. They would be familiar with the feast of trumpets and the sound of that last long blast. And as we see here, these trumpets, one of the one of the uses of it was is to alert people but also to declare war. It's a declaration of war. It's a it's a means of it's like an announcement also getting people ready. And so that's right off the get go. That's why we we bring that to your attention so you don't fall into that trap at some point so that you're equipped to kinda explain that to people if they say, well, I think it's I think it's during the trumpet judgments, midpoint of the tribulation period. And and you're gonna be able to explain to them, no. That's not true, and this is why. And and another another what's that? Sorry. Oh, and the other thing is if the rapture is the midpoint or post point, then it's no longer eminent. The doctrine of eminency, do you know what that is? Where Jesus said, no man will know the day or the hour, but my father is in heaven. So the church lives with an expectancy that the fetching could come at any moment. So Matthew 25, the five wise virgins are ready. They're watching for the coming of the lord. So Jesus said in John 14, I go to prepare a place for you and if I go to prepare a place for you, will come again and receive you unto myself that where I am there, you may also maybe also. And but we don't know when that's gonna happen. Now if it's midpoint, mid tribulation, then we know from the time of the signing of the peace treaty or the treaty that the antichrist signs, that's the start of the tribulation period, the '77 of Daniel. And you could count twelve hundred and sixty days from the signing of that, and you'd reach the middle of the tribulation period, the abomination of desolation where the antichrist goes into the temple, declares himself to be god. So, chapters eleven, twelve, and 13, the middle of the tribulation period and demands to be worshiped as god. So, you'd say, well, it's coming now. It's coming at the midpoint or if you said, well, it's post trib. It's gonna be at the end of the tribulation period. Then we can count 1,260 from the abomination of desolation to the end of the tribulation period, and we'd know when the rapture's coming. But if it's imminent, if it's pre trib, we don't know when it's gonna happen. There's another one too and another one circulating. It's called the pre wrath rapture. So they take chapter six and they differentiate in chapter six, the opening of the seals. They go down to verse 17 and they they say, now, this is the wrath of of of god in verse 17 of chapter six but that first part of the seals that were opening were men declaring war like tonight war could break out, right? And somebody would say, hey, the rider on the white horse is is riding. War is broken out And then food prices, scarcity of food. Oh, you know, we've got we've got the other four horsemen of the apocalypse that are breaking out. They try to say that's men producing that, causing that. And that's just the wrath of man. And then we're gonna be raptured before verse 17 though. When God puts out his wrath. Now, what's the problem with that? The problem with that is you gotta go back to chapter five. Who is worthy to open the scroll and lose the seals? There's nobody from verse one to 16 worthy to open those seals. Right? He's in chapter five, and he's the one opening this seal that brings forth the trumpet judgment. You see to me? So don't let them trick you about it's men doing this. You know? It's very poor scholarship. So if they have a better a better argument, then we we can listen and we can try and learn and we can try and see if we can discover because I'm learning all the time. There's things I'm learning all the time about eschatology. The time that we're gonna stop learning is when we think we know it all. And you guys know that we're the church of misfits. Right? We're the church of a little bit off. You're a little bit off like your pastor. And god loves the misfits. Amen. We don't fit in anywhere. Alright. So, some of you like that. It's it's peaceful to know who you are, isn't it? To try and not be something you're not. Better than everybody. So when I saw the seven angels who stood before God and to them were given seven trumpets. And another angel came and stood at the altar having a golden censor. And there was given unto him much incense that he should offer it with the prayers of all the saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne And so Psalm 141 verse two talks about may our prayers come up before you as incense, right? So the priest, Jesus is our high priest. He ever lives to make intercession for us. And he's praying on our behalf. The Holy Spirit, Romans eight is also making groanings which cannot be other. So, we have the second or third person of the trinity praying to their to the father on behalf of us. Ain't that amazing? And prayer sometimes reaches a place where you can't find the words. That's right. And you groan And you weep and you sing and you praise. All different types of ways that we pray. And God hears the cry, the groan, the mourning of our hearts. And that's the kind of prayers from these tribulation saints that are coming up before god's throne and and you gotta imagine, you gotta think for a minute. It's not just a clean cutting of your head off. It's it it'll entail your wife, your children, like in Nigeria now, like in Iran. It'll be your babies, your kids, all of that. There's great groaning. And we talked about last week about how he's gonna wipe away all of our tears. And when we say that, there's gonna be no more tears, wipe away the tears. Does that mean there were tears in heaven and then they got wiped away? Or does it mean once we go there, there's no more crying? Let me ask you this. If you're in heaven and your daughter or your son or your mom or your dad, you find out that they're not there, they didn't make it, is there any way not to cry? Is there any way not to be sad and weep because your daughter didn't make it or your son didn't make it? So Brandon told me that what God does is, like Men in Black, he's got this zapper thing and it zaps your brain and you can't remember those people anymore. Right? Doesn't it say in the bible that there'll be no tears in heaven? That's what we're trying to say. How can that be if you have a recollection of the former and the people who didn't make it? Right? But it also says the things that there's no longer concern us. Well, that's what I'm asking you. Are you gonna have your mind wiped away then? How how's that work? It there's gotta be something that makes it so I don't think about that stuff. You know? I don't know what that is. But in the other sense, he could wipe away all tears in that there isn't gonna be, you know, a cause of sorrow anymore. He's gonna wipe away all the tears that were building up. Remember we talked about how he stores your tears in a bottle, and he knows every hair of your head. And his good thoughts concerning you are numbered more than all the grains of sand and the stars of heaven. So he's intimately acquainted with us and knows every pain that we've gone through. He was tempted in all points like we and yet without sin. In Hebrews, it describes the lord as with strong crying and tears. You know? So in his humanity, taken on the form of a man, the son of man, he identifies with you and I as human beings and in our plight and in our weakness even though he's strong, but he's touched with the feelings of our infirmities as human beings in this human body and yet without sin. And and so he remembers our frame that he fashioned us out of the dust of the ground. And so I don't think god's really surprised or I don't think he's surprised at our lack of perfection or blowing it. I think he's well aware of our propensity to fail, to be filled with fear, to to sin. And there's a day coming where we're gonna be perfected, and he's gonna wipe away all tears, the tears that we shed because we blew it again. And it's not just what was afflicted upon us, but the tears that come as a result of feeling like we failed him. And and so so with prayers of all the saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne and the smoke of the incense which came with the prayers of the saints ascended up before god out of the angel's hand. An angel took the censor and filled it with fire. So, you got the censor with the incense and the prayers and now you've got the censor. It's going to have fire from the altar. So, the the throne room in heaven there is like the model that Moses was instructed to build, you know, with the tabernacle and later with the temple and so the altar of incense and and there was a time where in chapter six of Isaiah, the time in the year that King Uzziah died, the lord appeared in the temple and his train filled the temple Isaiah described and King Uzziah crossed over from being a king to trying to implement the role of a priest. And he tried to offer incense that only priests are supposed to do. And And he became a leper as a result thereof, and the priest grabbed hold of him, got him out of the Holy Holies area. So a serious infraction on his on his behalf. And Charles Spurgeon said that if god's called you to be a pastor, don't lower yourself to be a king. It's a high calling. And you and I are kings and priests in the millennium serving the Lord. It's a high calling. Right? A kingdom of priests is who we are as we serve the Lord in the millennium, the bride of Christ. So, the angel took the censor and filled it with fire from the altar and cast it upon the earth and there were voices and thunderclaps and lightnings and an earthquake. And the seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound. Let's turn to the book of Joshua. It's war. War is getting ready to sound. You guys remember the book of Joshua? Favorite book, right? Yeshua. Yeshua. What's that mean? Jesus. Is he in your context? Joshua chapter five, Joshua chapter six Joshua chapter six. Now, I have at least one Sunday school teacher in this room, at least one, and this is going to be the Walls Of Jericho falling down. And the angel of the Lord, the captain, the Lord Jesus just got done meeting with Joshua in chapter five, had to take off his shoes because he's on holy ground. And now they're gonna go as a as an army. And they're going to begin to subdue the nations that are in the land that God's giving to to Joshua and to Caleb and to the children of Israel. And and because god's the creator, he can give the land to who he wants to. Amen. And if he says this land belongs to Israel, then the whole world better listen up. Okay? So now, verse one. We're going to see the number seven used here. We're going to see seven days and seven priests and there were seven days of creation, Genesis two verse three. Six days and rest of the seventh, right? There's Noah brought seven clean animals into the ark. Genesis seven verse two. In Leviticus four verse six, the high priest sprinkled blood seven times. In Leviticus fourteen sixteen, oil was sprinkled seven times for cleansing. Leviticus 25 verse eight, seven Sabbaths of years unto the fiftieth is the year of Jubilee. Pentecost is 50. First Kings eighteen forty three, Elijah looked seven times for the cloud that was coming and calling forth the rain. Went out, looked seven times. In first Kings eighteen forty three, that was that was it, that one. In second Kings five ten, Elisha told Naaman the Syrian to go out and dip in the Jordan seven times to get rid of that leprosy. In Job 42 verse eight, Job was instructed to take seven bullocks and seven rams and Job prayed for the miserable comforters that were tormenting him. In Revelation one verse four, there's seven churches. Revelation five verse one, there's seven seals. Revelation eight verse two, there's seven angels and then there's seven trumpets of judgement. Revelation 10 verse three, there's seven thunders. Revelation fifteen one, there's seven angels and seven last plagues. Watch this. Now, Jericho was securely shut up because of the children of Israel and none went out and none came in and the lord said unto Joshua and Joshua, remember, Moses being a type of the law, Joshua being the lord is our salvation. It's the Hebrew name of the Hebrew Jesus, right? And so, he's a type of Christ. So, as the law couldn't bring us into the promised land, Moses ruined the type and smiting the rock a second time. Jesus is smitten once but Joshua, the type of Christ is able to bring us into the land, into the promised land and so Joshua here and the lord said unto Joshua, see, I have given thee into thine giving into thine hand Jericho and its king and the mighty men of valor. Remember, the nation of Israel were not men of valor yet. They weren't men of war yet. They didn't know the art of war. And God's gonna give them the victory over the world. And you shall compass the city all you men of war and go round about the city once. This shall you do six days. How many times did they go around the city of Jericho before the walls fell? Seven. Sunday school teacher. Yeah, I know but he wants you to say it. No. Nobody's giving me the right answer yet. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. What church has you guys been going to? What Sunday school pass? Your church. Does 13 sound right? Does 13 sound right? Yeah. Does 13 sound right, Sunday school teachers? Yeah. Rob will say, pastor, you always repeat yourself. Alright. I'm gonna repeat myself. All I had to do is read two two verses farther down they told me. You still didn't get it though till I told you. No, didn't. Yeah. Just so we understand. Alright. I'm a bully. And round about the city once, thus shall you do six days. And seven priests, there we go, seven priests shall bear before the ark, seven trumpets. Of ram's horns. So, the trumpets in the New Testament are typically more like the ones that Moses god instructed Moses to make which are these long silver trumpets, right? The ones that they'd use at the feast of trumpets. But ram's horns, they work just great. Seven trumpets of ram's horns and you know, there's some people that you guys know that go out and blow the shofar. They go out and blow the ram's horn periodically and Yeah. Shofar is so good. Praise the lord. Make a joyful noise unto the lord. Seven priest shall bear before the ark, the ark, seven trumpets of ram's horns and and the seventh day, you shall compass the city seven times, and the priest shall blow with the trumpets. So you got these seven priests blowing seven shofar, ram's horns, and it shall come to pass that when they make a notice that a long blast. Remember the Taqiya Gadola? The long blast of the rapture? With the ram's horn and when you hear the sound of the trumpets and all the people shall shout with a great shout and the walls of the city shall fall down. Archaeologists said the walls, if you're an invading army, aren't aren't the walls going to fall inward? Inward. Nope, these walls fell outward. God did it. God caused the walls to fall outward. They're going to fall flat and the people shall ascend up. Every man straight before him and Joshua, the son of Nun, called the priest and said unto them, take up the ark and the covenant and the and let the seven priests bear seven trumpets, a ram's horns before the ark of the lord and he said unto the people, pass on and compass the city and let him which is armed pass on before the ark of the lord and it shall come to pass when Joshua had spoken unto the people that seven priests hearing seven trumpets of ram's horns passed on before the lord and blew with the trumpets and the ark of the covenant of the lord followed them and the armed men went before the priests and blew with the trumpets and the and the rearguard came after the ark, the priest going and blowing of the trumpets and Joshua had commanded the people saying, you shall not shout nor make any noise with your voice, neither shall any word proceed out of your mouth until the day that I bid thee shout, then shalt thou shout. So you're gonna go around six days, and the enemies can be looking at your battle strategy. They're gonna try and figure out the art of war from Sung Su and all that, and they just can't quite figure that out. They've never seen that strategy. They've seen the siege, but the marching around the city, they didn't quite know that. And kinda like we're gonna think in the book of Judges in chapter seven, and we're gonna think in terms of Gideon with trumpets in a pitcher and a lamp inside the pitcher and the sword of the lord and of Gideon and the blowing of the trumpet, right? Really? Do you remember that? And it's unconventional means of the 300 rather than the 30,000 or the 10,000 down to 300 unconventional. So why? So god gets the glory. Right? God always gets the glory. Amen. And nobody can say, wow. That those guys, they were the the best soldiers ever. No. How did they do it? Well, they they circled around six times and then seven and then blew the trumpets, long blast, and the walls just fell down. No guns. So, how do you how do you implement that in warfare? You know, how are gonna duplicate something like that? Shout them and shout and so the ark of the lord came, compassed the city round about. Once they came into the camp and lodged in the camp and Joshua rose early in the morning and the priest took up the ark of the lord and so no time to waste. He's ready to rumble And seven priests beat bearing seven trumpets of ram's horns before the ark of the lord went and continually blew with the trumpet and the armed men went before them, but the rearguard came after the ark of the lord and the priest going on and the blowing with the trumpets. And in the second day, they compassed the city once and returned unto the camp. So they did six days and it came to pass on the seventh day that they rose early about the dawning of the day and compassed the city after the same manner seven times. Only in that day they compass the city seven times. And take about three hours to do that they say. And it came to pass at the seventh time when the priest blew with the trumpet Joshua said unto the people shout for the lord has given you the city and the city shall be accursed even it and all that are shall the lord only and so Rahab, we we know previously that Ray of the harlot shall live She and all who are with her in her house because she hid the messengers that were sent. And ye in every way keep yourselves from the accursed thing. And so so talking about Achan in the next chapter, they got defeated by those in Ai because Achan took some of the spoil and hid it underneath his tent. But Rahab, she hid the two spies, and she put a red thread. They instructed her out her window, and she had a home that was on the edge of the wall. So the two spies were able to hide there. She hid them previously, and then they were able to flee up into the mountains for three days, and then they they were able to survive. And it's such an interesting story because here you have Rahab the harlot. She has faith. She knows that the true and living gods, the god of Joshua and the guys. And in her faith, she secures these guys, and then she asked that that when they come to the city that they would spare her and her family. And then in Matthew one, she's in the lineage with Jesus. Right? Rahab. And so she goes on to Mary into the the family. Alright. So, seven seven seven seven, seven trumpets and and so here we go. So the first angel sounded in verse seven. First angel sounded and there followed hail and fire mixed with blood and they were cast upon the earth and the third part of the trees was burnt up and all the green grass was burnt up. So some of these trumpet judgments opening up are similar to the plagues that came upon Egypt with the hail and the water turning to blood and some of the things are similar. And so we see God's wrath judgments in that way. And so the earthquake that took place back in verse five, seven times in five verses we read of earthquakes. Growing up in California, San Andreas Fault, I could lay in bed and there'd be an earthquake, and you could watch my mom had these chandeliers, and you could watch these chandeliers just move and, you know, just swinging. And so there's so many earthquakes when I was a kid that I didn't even get out of bed. It's just like, hey. Just stay in bed. No scared. No run under the tables. No spooked or anything. But they were pretty much pretty small earthquakes. These are gonna be some big earthquakes to get everybody's attention, and they're pretty scary. Thunderclaps are pretty scary. Lightning's pretty scary. And it's if you're safe, it can be kinda cool to watch, but this is gonna be catastrophic type stuff. And and so the seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound, the first angel sounded and then followed hail, and we're gonna see 100 pound hail bombs, ice bombs, you know, coming down as we proceed. And so you got the hail and the fire mixed with blood, very similar to what happened in Egypt, ran along the ground, and they cast upon the earth, and the third part of the trees was burnt up. So all the tree huggers are bummed and one third of the foliage. And so you think in terms of global warming, you think in terms of carbon footprint. And Bill Gates, he's got some crazy idea that I think people overruled him, but he wanted to take the trees and cut them down and bury them so as to conserve and not have the trees burn and cause smoke and CO two and, you know, and all that. Total nut job. The guy's insane. Demonically possessed. Just a little off. He probably goes to the church like this one. A little off. And so when when you have a good forest and you have good foliage and and the systems working the way God intended. What did the trees give off? And what what do we give off that the trees and every everything else needs? C o two. Right? So it's a perfect cycle, and yet these nut jobs, the guia guys that are in love want to worship the the planet. And when we when we kind of mock this, we're we're not saying that there isn't an important thing to be good husbandmen, good farmers, good stewards of the resources that we've been given with the water, the air, the the food that we have is so incredibly toxic now. And we're reaping we're reaping it because we we we we're not going back to nature. And and so but what we're saying is when the trees and the rats and the worms and things like this, spotted owls, when they become above in importance than human beings, then you've inverted it. Now now you've now now you got a problem. And so and that's what happens. So, like, for instance, for me, if if I'm loving the beach and I hear that in Sydney, Australia, like, five surfers have been eaten by great white sharks, or if I go up into Montana or Idaho or try to live in out in the woods and the nut jobs have reintroduced wolves. And the wolves are systematically taking down the top of the predator. They're taking down the elk, and then they're gonna go for the deer. And so there's no means of hunters of Adam take dominion over the earth. You you've gotta you've gotta exercise dominion over these animals. So if people are gonna live in this vicinity, you know, so you don't allow wolves to get so prolific that you they attack your horses or they attack your cattle because you're at the top of the pyramid. You're at the top, and you're the one that needs the milk and the meat and all that from these animals. And so the nutjobs, they put the animals at the top, and they reintroduce the the wolves. And then they genetically altered the wolves with what's called in the litters, in the dog litters, those of you that have dogs, they have a disease that God allows to thin the herd, to thin the litter. It's called help me with this word, Povar? Parvo. Parvo. Parvo. Parvo. Well, they genetically altered the wolves so that they don't succumb to parvo anymore. So their litters are allowed to just be exponentially the growth. And that makes it so all the other animals are are so if if the globalists don't like the idea that you're gonna be able to live off the land in these areas, you're getting out of the cities, guess guess how they're forcing you into the cities? Fires too. They're lighting your forest on fire purposely and blaming it on global warming where there's proof of of them hiring people with with flares and stuff, and and they can use lasers. But these these these fires, these huge forest fires are not normal that we're seeing in the last ten years that we've been we've been watching this. And then back to the sharks. If you're in Hawaii or like in Australia, in Huntington Beach now, they've got great white sharks there. They never used to have them. The fishermen in Hawaii, if they know that there's a tiger shark in a in a general vicinity and it's, you know, bit somebody, they'll go out and hunt that tiger shark down and get it out of that general vicinity because the people are more important than the tiger shark. But these nut jobs pass laws, and you make the you make the great white sharks and these things a protected species. So no fishermen, nobody can go out there and cold the herds and cold the amount of you see what I mean? And so that's where I disagree with that sort of stewardship. It's it's a poor means of stewardship and They worship the created instead of the creator. That's good. That's right. They do. They worship and serve the creature rather than the creator. It's blessed. So whether they like it or not, you as human beings, you're not useless eaters. You're not gonna be replaced with robots, and you're at the top of the food chain. You're at the top. And, I mean, they even go so far as to say it's immoral to eat meat. The bible says there come a time where they're gonna forbid you to eat meat, you know, because it's immoral what you're doing to that chicken or doing to that cow or or the lamb or whatever. And so I like to go to Jesus where he's boiling some fish and he's eating some he's a carnivore, you know, and he's not running around eating nuts all the time. So Alright. So, they're they're gonna have a huge problem with their global warming thing here, and the smoke is gonna gonna affect the lighting. Oh, a third of the lighting is gonna be obscured. They're gonna blackouts because of this, because the volcanoes erupting and because of the the fires that are taking place. That'll also bring about blood red moons when Volcanoes. As the light goes through the smoke, it will show the moon to be red and all. And when you guys, when they had Desert Storm and they went to Kuwait and Iraq, the first one before Brandon went, the Kuwaitis and Iraqis, they they lit on fire all the oil wells, and they caused them to smoke and to billow and all that. So they had during the daytime, they had blackouts. You couldn't you couldn't see the sun. The smoke was so thick, you know? So a picture of that and enormous amount of blocking out the light. So the second angel sounded as it were a great mountain, burning with fire was cast into the sea. So how would you interpret that? Are we looking literal or are we looking as it were? John's looking at something. He's saying, as it were a mountain, a big fire there you go. Asteroid. There's a good guess. A meteor. Right? Something from space as big as a mountain has just went into the sea. Right? That's good. So now some sometimes people make the mistake of allegorizing or using like, making things into symbols when we should take it literally. When we get over into chapter nine, there's gonna be a tendency or a a temptation to interpret what's coming out out of the ground and what John's seeing with the angel's hair, the woman's hair, the teeth, and the and the scorpion tail. There's gonna be if you're doing this in the year 2000, a lot of commentators would say that sounds like helicopters, patchy helicopters. Mhmm. Right? If you're doing it today, what would you be inclined to say that is? John's looking at warfare. He's looking at the whole cataclysmic horror. Drones. Drones. It'd be drones, man. I watched a movie about drones. I watched a movie, and the president got zapped with these drones. And man, they were sending them out. They were like swarms. There was no defense, no defense with those drones. That's why I say you need an EMP. You need some sort of directional EMP to zap their electronics because there's just no way to drones are scary, man. They got guys that do light shows. Uh-huh. And there's, like, about 500 drones go up. Yeah. And it's just yeah. There's all What are you gonna do with that? You know? They come for you. And and especially if they're weaponized, if they have so, anyway, John's gotta describe some of this stuff, you know, like a a swarm of locusts, let's say. It looks like locusts. And we would present day guys would say, oh, John's seeing up in the future. He's seeing drones, and he's describing it, you know, in his vernacular as as locusts. Well, I'm inclined to look at chapter nine as these are demons. I'm taking it literal that these are demons. And man, they're scary. Yeah. And they've been held back by god. God has some funny creatures too, right? And just attend Calvary Bremerton, you'll see. So, and the second angel sounded, Nazareth were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the into the sea. And the third part of the sea became blood. There's there's the Nile River coming blood, right? And when it when it's bloody like that and it turns red and a lot of bugs and gnats and flies and other sort of things. So you've just ruined one third of the salt water in the oceans around the world. And then what takes place in the third part of the creatures which were in the sea. So we got enormous amount of food availability in the sea. And now the chicken of the sea, they're gone. They're gone. Yeah. Tuna. Gone, man. And that had life died and think of the stench and think of it rolling up on the shore and be hard to go out surfing during that during that. You know, it'd be really difficult to find some clean waves anywhere and we used to go out when it was still red tide and red tide would be kinda plankton and stuff dying. These things are dying, making it all weird and smelly and stuff. We'd still go out. It didn't matter but nowadays, you gotta be careful sewage. A lot of times these localities, municipalities have sewer leaks. Ugh. If you surf down San Diego right next to Tijuana, guess what? Tijuana sloughs, you're gonna you're gonna get a rash. You you don't wanna go there. You don't wanna go there. So so third part of the creature, you could get a rash. Alright. Just just off the top of my head. So in the third part of the creatures, which were in the sea that had life died in the third part of the ships were destroyed. Why ships? The ships, the commerce. Now, that ties into Babylon, right? The commerce in chapter 18. The mariners look on or, you know, the merchants look on and they're they're weeping because their merchandise that traveled by the mariners, by the ships. As in a moment, they're gone. You know? So, a third of the ships are destroyed and all those container ships that bring goods and the third angel sounded and there fell a great star. Now, do we interpret this literal or figurative? If we go into chapter 12, it says a third of the stars fell from heaven, right? And we interpret that figurative as their fallen angels, Right? They fell with Lucifer. Right? It tells us. And he was a star, a morning star. So that's a good interpretation to interpret that as fallen angels. In this case here, we're gonna get the name of this angel, this star named Wormwood. Oh, we know Gabriel. We know Lucifer. We know Michael. And now we know another angel. His name's Wormwood. No. It might be a literal star. Comet. That's called Wormwood or a comet, a great star from heaven burning. So a burning star getting hit by a star comes to Earth. And, you know, my whole life, people have been afraid of this happening. Every few months, people will tell you if you're in these certain circles, hey, man. We just barely missed this meteor that almost got us. You know? And, oh, this other one, Aldra comes. Did you hear about that? And I'm like, no. I'm too busy trying to follow Donald Trump. I don't have time for that. You know? And because he's a star too. You know? And I just kinda block that stuff out and I kinda joke and I say, the sky is falling, Chicken Little. The sky is falling, you know? Because a whole lot of people can really get messed up on that, like like, I don't know how to plan for this. It's coming. Did you know it's coming? And I'm like, no. I don't I'm I'm in denial. I go to a church that doesn't talk about that. We don't talk about that. From heaven, just stay with the gospel. So burning is a were a lamp and it fell upon the third part of the rivers. So now we're gonna hit the sweet water. This the drinking water. And drinking water is a commodity. More and more we're finding having good drinking water is very, very important because of the toxicity in the municipalities and what they do with the water. You know in the state of Washington, they passed a law that they can dissolve a human body and put it in the water system. Yeah. In the state of Washington, they can dissolve a body and let it go into the system and the many of these sewage systems are then converted and cleaned up to be drinking water. No. Know. Yeah. Yeah. And I mean, research that. Fact check it. Go ahead. That's what's happening. We're moving in that direction. When Bill Gates, you know, these guys are and you don't even know what kind of meat you're eating anymore. You don't even know. They find human DNA in some of the meats, some of the burgers, some of the stuff that people are eating. They're sneaking it in right now. And I want grass fed local raised stuff that I can trace back to where it came from. You know? And every time we go out now and we pray over our food, I take it serious where Paul said, you know, receive it with thanksgiving and pray over it that it'd be sanctified. And I I use my words and I say, Lord, please don't let this food have any E. Coli in it, Lord. And because I'm serious. I wanna I want the Lord to understand what I'm saying. No E. Coli. You know? No food poisoning. But it is. More and more, we're gonna take our lives in our hands by eating out. It's gonna be more and more dangerous to eat out because you don't know the water source. You don't know the food source anymore. They're mixing in a lot of weird stuff. And and even some of the stuff that you think is clean and good, it can have 500 ingredients of chemicals to make it taste good. And how does that affect you as you get older? It's called cancer. The toxicity builds up. So you've got these rivers, and I'm I'm I'm saying this, how important it is to have sweet water, to have a nice well, to have sweet water. The state of Washington here, we got nothing to worry about. They could take a third of the world's sweet water, and, man, it just keeps coming here. It never stops. We got all the water you could ever want. The fountains of waters. And and the name of the star is called Wormwood. So some old time commentators, they used to tell us that this wormwood in Russian is Chernobyl, and it means bitter. Do you guys remember the Chernobyl nuclear site that leaked and stuff and the it goes into the ground and a lot of people died. So the toxicity, the poison. And what's funny in in New York, 3 Mile Island, the Zuckerbergs and the Bezos and the Gates, they're buying up all the water. Why do you think they're buying up all the water? They're nuclear plants. They're data centers. Their data centers need cooling and they're water cooled. So when they build, when Elon and them build a huge warehouse data center to track and trace you and I Yeah. The people that live nearby say, we have no water pressure, and we don't have enough electricity anymore. They're taking it all. So they're getting lost past and stuff and ideas of maybe re restarting 3 Mile Island, a nuclear plant. They wanna take your technology and your submarines and your ships and bring general elected mini nukes to to empower their data centers because they're excited about playing god. And years ago and I've said this a few times. I don't know if it's ever gonna mean anything. But years ago when I studied this kind of stuff, there was a guy named T Boone Pickens in Texas, and he was an oil baron, billionaire oil guy, and kinda along the lines of the bushes and all them. And they went through a phase where they there's an aquifer that runs from Oklahoma down into Texas. It's called the Olalla Olalla Aquifer, as I recall. And he bought it. And then he paid politicians, and he developed his own water facility to divvy out water to people, basically saying he could make more money per gallon for water than he could from oil. Right? And then the Bush family went to Paraguay and purchased an aquifer in Paraguay, the purest, best water they could get ahold of. So I don't know what these guys looking for a new world order and globalism and going into bunkers and all were looking for, but they were ahead of their time because water is is a huge commodity that these billionaires are buying up for the purpose of you know, they're not going and taking saltwater and converting it into drinking water with desalinization plants. That'd be a good idea. Right? They're taking sweet water. They're taking the best water out of the aquifer. And for what purpose? Is it for drinking? No, it's for cooling, just to cool the data centers. Right? And there was another weird thing I learned years ago, that the Great Lakes had these huge plastic blobs that the Chinese were buying water out of the Great Lakes where it was pumped, and they would take and trail these things back to China filled with big big bubbles full of water because China doesn't China lacks the natural resources that we have. So, I mean, you are in a nut job church, this kind of stuff. You know? This is weird stuff. But, I mean, look what you're reading here. Wormwood. This is this is better than any sci fi movies we could watch. And Hollywood does that. They'll take some of these things and preprogramming and and predictive programming and let you know ahead of time what they envision, what they want, what they're gonna try and do. I love to watch The Simpsons. I learn a lot from them. They let me know what's gonna happen. I watched the six Minute Dollar Man and and I like watching that movie. It's just like watching the newspaper. There you go, buddy. Great. Alright. And the fourth angel sounded and the third part of the sun was smitten and the third part of the moon. So you got the daylight and the night the light at night. And when we get to heaven in the eternal state, is there gonna be any need for the sun or the moon? No. No. Who's gonna be the light there? The lord. Right? The Shekinah glory. Gonna light it up, baby. Alright. And I was smitten. And the third part of the moon and the third part of the stars so that the and don't you just love it. Don't you just love looking up at the stars? Don't you love a a a moon? When we lived along the water where Rich Betty lives, they had what's called a we lived on that same street about three doors down from her before she moved there, and they had what we we learned was a moonrise. That water I mean, that that moon can hit that that water there where she lives there by Brownsville, by Ilihi. And, gosh, it was so pretty. Bainbridge across the way and that water coming up off there. And we rented a house there for four years when we first moved up here. And the only thing bad about living on the water is the day you have to move off the water. That's yeah. And the third part of the stars so the third part of them was dark and the day show not for the third part of it and the night likewise. So you could either look at this as the lord diminished those sources of light or they're being blocked by all the smoke. Tons and tons and tons of smoke in that the normal amount of lumens that would normally shine bright has been diminished by one third. And remember, there's gonna be blackouts too, just total blackouts all through the tribulation period. And and I beheld and heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven saying, Same with a loud voice. Woe. Woe. Woe. So we've got four angels trumpeting war. Trumpets of war. And now, basically, what's happening now, these next three trumpet judgments, it's basically god saying, kinda like the Verizon commercial, Can you hear me now? And then he says, you ain't seen nothing yet. These next three are going be so severe. Maybe we should have a pause again, you know? So, woah, woah, woah. And Angel living through the through heaven saying. So, picture the earth dwellers listening to this angel with a loud voice. Woah. Woah. Woah. All man's technology. God has his technology, his creation, and he's got an angel that's gonna fly over and say, woah. Woah. Woah. Another angel's gonna fly over with everlasting gospel. Right? Sharing the gospel with everybody. And in Iran, in places like that where there's revival taken on, we're hearing a lot of reports of people having dreams and visions, and that's how they're hearing the gospel. Dreams and visions spreading. How how's god gonna reach these people? What if a person never heard? Well, the person that's wanting to hear, god gives them a dream and a vision. Right? Seek and ye shall find. Knock and it shall be opened to you. And those that do hear, then they use their mouth to share with others. But it's kinda like the book of Acts. The revival taking place in that way. So a loud voice. Woah. Woah. Woah. To the inhabitors of the earth. Where's your citizenship? Are you an earth dweller? Is this your home? No. Are you a pilgrim, a sojourner passing through? Yeah. K. Now we are gonna come back to the earth, but not this earth. There's a new heaven and new Earth. Right? '21 and '22. But 20, we're gonna spend a thousand years rule and reign with Jesus on this Earth because the usurper, the devil, the little g god of this world has corrupted this world. In this world, the world system is not our home, but this planet belongs to our king, belongs to our heavenly father, belongs to Jesus. And he's the creator, and now he's redeemed it. And he's purchased you. He's purchased the earth. And Romans eight says that all creation is groaning and travailing. Creation because the curse that's on it, the trees are wanting to clap their hands again. The trees and the birds and all of creation is wanting to worship the Lord again. Kinda like kinda like when I watch Bambi. You know? All those little animals, you know, running around and twerking and all that. And, you know, I know a hunter's going to come and ruin it but it's like it's like you know, you can just see creation when it when it's left alone the way that and and there's the curse part of it, the evil part of it but that evil part's gonna be reduced, be removed, be changed, and you're gonna see Isaiah 11 where children are gonna lay down at the hole of a of a poisonous stake and not gonna be worried about being bit anymore. And the lions and tigers and bears and a little child leading them. And so everything's being made right. So when we talk about the earth dwellers, these are the ones that have been left behind. They've been left behind. You're not here. You're not having to go through this. Right. And why are you not here? Why are you not having to go through this? So we gotta prove that. So let's go to first Thessalonians. First, we'll go to first Thessalonians chapter one. The Thessalonians were worried that people were that were dying weren't gonna gonna make it, that, you know, the tribulation period already was happening. And Paul is writing to them, and he says, verse nine, for they themselves show of us what manner of entering in we had unto you and how you turned to God from idols, so this is for you and your past, to serve the living and true God and to wait for his son from heaven whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, who delivered us from the wrath to come. So we've been delivered from the wrath of the tribulation period because the wrath of judgment has already been dealt with at the Cross Of Calvary. So we Christians, there's no fearful looking to of judgment of the wrath that's poured out at the great white throne judgment. So this wrath that's gonna be poured out is the tribulation period and Jesus is coming. It's an eschatological wrath, not a soteriological. Soteriological wrath is a salvation wrath. You deserve hell. We've already been saved from hell. There's no fear of going to hell. So this wrath that we're saved from, not going through, Jesus who delivered us from the wrath to come. So we're we're saved in that way, delivered from that. Now turn to second that or chapter five of first Thessalonians. Now I wanna start with verse one. In light of the in light of the board of peace this past week, I wanna read from verse one to verse 10 and and kind of thank the lord for these personal pronouns of where we fit. But of the times and of the seasons, brethren, you have no need that I write unto you. For you yourselves know perfectly well that the day of the lord. What's the day of the lord, gang? Tribulation. The tribulation period. So cometh as a thief in the night. So what that means is that Elon Musk, Jared Kushner, you've all know Harari, Donald Trump, all the globalists, it's gonna come to them by surprise, like a thief in the night. They're not gonna see it coming. Right? Yeah. Because watch. For when they Davos, Trumpsters, Jared Kushner, Elon, all the globalists, when they shall say peace and safety. I'm I'm kinda bummed they didn't ask me to be on that peace board. Then and Trump is so funny. People think, oh, you hate I don't hate him. I think he's a very funny guy. He cracks me up, man. For him to sit there and talk to these guys, it's like the way he talks too, the way his words, the way he repeats things three, four times, fantastic, fantastic, you've done fantastic job. I feel like, man, it's cuckoo for Coco Puffs. What's going on here? And he he when when we were surfers, we had our vernacular. We had our way of saying things, and it was different than normal verbiage. You know? And he's got a unique way of communicating, man. And so when he says, yeah. You know, the UN, you know, they've done a pretty good job. They they they could have done a much better job. They've never they've never achieved their potential. They never reached their potential. They could have done a lot more. He goes, you know, I stopped eight wars. I've already stopped eight wars. I'm like, who talks like that? Even if it were true, it's not true, but who who talks like that? This is insane. I mean, you'd be afraid of being labeled a narcissist in years gone by. Egotistical, prideful dude. So when they shall say peace and safety, it's arrogance to act like that. Peace and safety. We've got the board of peace, man. They're acting like they're the prince of peace. You know? And there's no peace without the prince of peace. Right? Peace and safety, then sudden destruction comes upon them. Complete opposite. So if you wanna know the truth, it's the complete opposite of what they're saying. Typically, it is. It really is. When he says, oh, the economy is doing great. You know it's bad. Oh, inflation's down, it's up. Unemployment's down, no, it's up. Complete opposite. And they do it all the time, and nobody even questions it. Destruction comes upon them as travail upon a woman. So what's that mean? Birth pangs. Pangs. Right? So we're we're talking about the birth pangs. The birth pangs of the birth of the beast system. We can see it coming. And woman with child and they shall not escape. That that baby's coming. There ain't nothing gonna stop it. The water's broke. It's coming. He's crowning. His head's out of the canal. He's coming. Somebody catch him. But ye, brethren, love that personal pronoun, but you, in contrast to them, but you brethren and brethren is, I'm your brother, brother Paul, we're a part of the church. In Christ. You, brethren, that's right, in Christ, are not in darkness. Ain't that great? You're not in spiritual darkness. Amen. Hallelujah. That that day, that day, the day of the lord, should overtake you as a thief. So we see clearly. We see that the antichrist has not signed that covenant of Daniel nine twenty five through 27 with the nation of Israel that starts that seventieth seven of Daniel. That hasn't happened yet. No matter how bad it gets, it's not the opening of the seals judgments of Revelation six. It's just birth pangs. It's just the birth pangs. It's the prelude. The real ID, biometric ID, it's not the mark of the beast. It's a prelude. The digital banking system, it's a prelude. Right? It's it's the birth pang. It's the the step in the right direction the direction they're going. And so I'll take you as a thief. Ye are all sons of light. Ain't that great? Yeah. And sons of the day. We are not of the night nor of the darkness. So, Huge, you're either in the light or you're in the darkness. It's real simple. There's no gray. No gray. Not all roads lead to heaven. The road's narrow. Only one way exclusively through Jesus Christ. You're the light of the world, church. Therefore, let us not sleep as do others. Whole lot of people sleep, aren't they? We're trying to wake them up. God, we're trying to wake them up. They don't wanna wake up. And when they do wake up, leave me alone. I wanna go back to sleep. I thought we had them awaken during COVID. I thought we had some that were finally waking them up. And what'd they do? They went right back to sleep. They opted for easy. I wanna go to a church that's easy, that doesn't challenge me to think. I don't want to think. I want to be amused and entertained, and I want to be in denial because that church over there, man, they make me nervous because, I've worked my whole life to retire and have all this stuff. What happens if it goes bye bye? It's covetousness. It's idolatry. It's I'm gonna go with Trumpster because he said he's gonna make America great. You know? And so I don't I don't wanna think in terms of the day of the lord and the rapture and the world ending and the apocalypse and the antichrist and the, you know, the beast system. Oh, that sounds terrible. The beast system? Oh, too much for him. Can't handle it. It's doom and gloom. You and I are like, hey, this world is circling the toilet. The sooner it's flushed, the better. That's our that's how we look at it. The only bright spot in this whole world is my grandkids, you know, and they're gonna get raptured too. And and the little church fellowship that we get to be together with with Jesus. So y'all sons of light and sons of the day were not of the night nor the darkness. I mean I mean, look at these pedophiles. That's not who we are. We're we're that that's totally the opposite of who we are, these men of darkness. You know? Therefore, let us not sleep as do others, but let us watch. Watch speaks of prayer. Watch speaks of, you know, praying always that you'd be kind of worthy to escape these things and stand before the son of man. When you see these things as you're watching begin to come to pass to look up for your redemption draweth nigh, looking for that blessed hope and glorious appearing for our great god and savior Jesus Christ, looking for the author and the finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him and doeth the cross body and shame and sit down on the right hand of the father. That's what watching means. You're watching. You're aware. You're in the game. Your head's in the game. And be sober minded. Sober minded. So you there's gotta be a certain aspect of being serious about the times you're living in. You gotta be thinking terms of the 10 virgins. Five are wise and five are foolish. And so you're sober minded. You've got your oil. You're ready. For they that sleep, sleep in the night, and they that are drunk or drunk in the night. No, we don't want to go back to the old world. We don't want to go back to the old life the way we used to be. We don't want to live with the world. I don't want to live in Sodom and Gomorrah. I'd rather be Abraham and Sarah living in a tent looking for a city whose builder maker is God. I don't care how nice the opera is in Sodom and Gomorrah. I don't know. I don't care about, you know, the pride of the the problem Sodom was in Ezekiel 16. It was pride number one, fullness of bread. They had a really good economy, a lot of money, idleness. So as they figured out in the city that you don't have to go and and work real hard on a farm every day, six days a week, they figured out a way to have some idle time. Hey. I just want a three day work week. Hey. I want universal basic income with a high income, Elon. I wanna stay home all day. Idleness, pride, fullness of bread, idleness, and they cared not for the poor and needy. That was the sin of Sodom. And it leads to, in your idleness, experimentation with a whole lot of wickedness. Whole lot of things. Men with men, women with women. I mean, two two guys walk into camp, walk into town, and Lot, the man of the year, father of the year, offers his virgin daughters, and these guys don't even want virgin daughters anymore. They don't they don't have an appetite for women anymore. They've had all the women they've ever won and all the children they've ever won. They want the fresh new men. That's where their that's where their lust leads toward. And that's decadence, depravity. And that's who these people are. They're demonic. That's not our home. This the world that God intended. For they that sleep, sleep in the night, they that are drunk are drunk in the night. But let us so contrast, let us, in contrast to them, let us who are of the day be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith. So we're gonna need a whole lot of faith right now because there's a whole lot of fear, there's a whole lot of lying going on, and there's a whole lot of uncertainty. We don't wanna be trusted in the world. That's what they want. They want us to trust them and their plan. Trust the plan And love the breastplate of faith and of love. Gotta be loving. And for the helmet, guard our brains, the hope of salvation. I'm looking to Jesus, the author and the finisher of my faith. For god has not, and here we go, god has not appointed you to the seal judgments church, to the trumpet judgments church, to the bowl judgments church. He hasn't appointed you to wrath. Remember, he saved us from the wrath to come, the wrath of the tribulation period and you've not been appointed under wrath but to obtain salvation by our lord Jesus Christ. So, it's a eschatological salvation saved out of the tribulation period. The wrath to come. And so let's go back to our revelation. Pretty sobering when we read all that and then we remind ourselves that we're not gonna be there. Amen. And those that wanna be a superhuman Christian and wanna go through the tribulation period, hey, all the power to you. Great. I'll be the wussy, the misfit, the the weirdo, whatever you want, but I wanna be with Jesus. So I beheld and and heard angel flying through the midst of heaven saying with a loud voice, woah, woah, woah, woah, to the inhabitants of the earth by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels which are yet to sound. Oh boy, you ain't seen nothing yet. Yeah. We sometimes we'd say, he's just getting started, right? And it's intensifying. Blood's gonna be as high as the horse's bridle. One half of the planet, seven year period of time. Think about that. 4,000,000,000 people gone. Maybe how many people do you think are gonna be raptured? If you got 8,000,000,000 now, do you think 100,000 raptured? Certainly the 50 in Calvary Bremerton, right? So another 50 maybe? So, some people think a lot of Christians in the world. Others think narrow few. So, let's just say for the sake of whatever a million. Million Christians alive today that are gonna be raptured. Boy, that leaves a whole lot of dead people. And Christie's in the best business, she's gonna be raptured, going into the funeral business, what a great business during the tribulation period. Half the planet dead. Right. Half the planet. You gotta do something with those bodies. Right? And to the inhabitants of the earth by reason of the other voice of the trumpet of the three angels which are yet to sound. Oh, man. I tell you. I I have a hard time with with nightmares if I see horror movies. I don't I don't watch horror movies. Jurassic Park gave me nightmares. So when I read this kind of stuff and you kinda put your head around it, it's like this is gonna be a horror movie. This is gonna be reality. It's gonna be a horror greatest horror people ever ever could imagine. And and it's because we live in a fallen world. We live in a world in rebellion to God, and he's doing everything he can to seek and to save those that are lost. And we're so thankful that he tells us in Jeremiah twenty nine eleven. He says, I know the thoughts that I think towards you, thoughts of peace and not of evil to give you a future and a hope. Your future is good and there's cause for hope. Hope is a confident expectation about the future. Do you have a confident expectation about your future? Amen. Amen. Alright. Well, let's pray. Father, thank you for the night. Thank you for your word. Thank you for the love. Thank you for the faith you've given us and lord, help us, lord, to glorify you Lord. We want to bear fruit for your kingdom and your glory. We pray that you continue to help us to rightly divide a word of truth, to be students of your word, but knowledge puffs up. Love edifies Lord. Help us to be a very loving body of believers who are wanting to rescue those who are lost, those who are perishing. Anoint us, Lord. Empower us. In the power of your holy spirit, give us open doors that nobody can shut. Give us divine appointments with people at work, the school, wherever you send us, Lord. People that are ready, that are ripe, that have been one has sown, one has watered, and, Lord, you bring the increase, and let us be a part of that, Lord, this harvest of souls in these last days. 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.
