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Alright. Live from Bremerton. It's Monday night. We are blessed to be able to study Revelation chapter nine tonight, and we would like to open with prayer. So we just welcome you tonight. Father, we come before you, and, Lord, we lift up, this night unto you, and we just committed into your hands, and we ask that you would bless mightily, that you pour out your holy spirit as we study Revelation nine, as we worship you. Lord, we pray for Jules that you help her through her sickness. We pray for Stefan. We pray for their friend Christopher who needs to be anointed with oil as he's passing on and and their other family member. And, Lord, we lift up doctor Richard. Lord, you help him this coming week with his surgery. We pray that you heal him, Lord. Be with Sally, healer of her cancer. Bless her and James, and be with Karen, Lord, with her spinal surgery, her tumor there at her spine. And just pour out your holy spirit upon us. Be with Paul and Melissa as they grieve the loss of his dad and his brother, and, just continue to part your holy spirit upon us and help us, Lord, to hear from you tonight. Give us ears to hear, we pray. In Jesus' name, amen. Amen. Want to see you. Open the eyes of my heart, Lord. Open the eyes of my heart. I Amen. Thank you, Rob. Excellent. Excellent. Thank you very much. Alright. We are we are here in Bremerton with the privilege and the blessing of having chicken enchiladas. So good. And lots of different good foods and all. And the fastest growing church in the world in Iran is has the US Navy outside of it and on the verge of regime change. Who knows what's gonna happen? But God does. God knows what's what's planned. And thank God that we have the board of peace to help us Yes. Alleviate these wars and rumors of wars that Jesus spoke of. And when we're in chapter nine here, there is nobody, no technology, nothing that can stop the demons from tormenting these earth dwellers. They are going to go insane. They're gonna want to die, and they can't die. And the the target is their soul. God's gonna target their soul. The center of their mind, their will, their emotion. And there's no therapy. There's no feel good messages at church. There's no shock treatment or pills or Elon Musk with neuro whatever. There's no wisdom from Yuval Noah Harari. They're all at their wits end and god is using demons to discipline them. So, if you're Adolf Hitler and you're wanting to gain a foot, you know, gain an advantage over the rest of the world with technology for warfare, you delve into the occult. If you're in Silicon Valley and you want to gain an advantage technologically over the rest of the world with, you know, with what you're trying to develop with AI technology. Many of them, you know, use LSD and do things with the occult to try and gain an advantage and all. In this case, god says, alright. You guys have been into sorcery. You've been into witchcraft. You've been into Harry Potter. You've been in Dungeons and Dragons. You've been into a lot of scary movies and horrible, horrible playing around with the occult. Well, I'm gonna let you see the occult experience the occult up real close. I'm gonna open up a compartment, and I'm gonna open up that compartment, the abyss, and I'm gonna let a horde of demons out that are gonna come at you like locusts. And these demons are gonna be able to sting you, torment you, but I'm not gonna let you die. And then if that's not good enough, after that with the next trumpet judgment and starting with verse 13, I'm going to bring some more demons, and and now we're gonna kill one third of the planet. So the first part is just torment. No killing. The second part is killing one third. So back in the seal judgments, chapter six verse eight, one fourth of the population was dead. So that means if we've got 8,000,000,000 people today and then the rapture happens and there's 7,000,800,000 left, did you get that? Only 200,000 got to go, right? Narrow is the way. Alright. So let's give them a million. So there's a million that were raptured. I don't know. The glass is half full or half empty. But anyway so you've got 8,000,000,000. $22,000,000,000 are gone. A whole lot of business for Jeff and Christie, but they won't be here to bury those bodies. And so now you've got 6,000,000,000 people. You're at the midpoint of the tribulation period. So three and a half years in, chapter nine is the midpoint. So if we go by way of remembrance of the chronologically the outline of this book, he's told in chapter one verse 19, John's told to write the things which you have seen and what he saw in chapter one was the risen lord, right? Write the things which are which is chapter two and three, the church age. We are presently in the church age. We study that on Sunday and we know that according to Romans eleven twenty five that blindness apart has happened unto Israel. Israel's in the land. The nation of Israel's distinctly different than the church. The church is first of all Jewish and Gentile and so the church is distinctly different body. We call the church the bride of Christ, the nation of Israel is the wife of Jehovah and god's going to keep all of his promises to the nation of Israel. So, we we see the church in heaven in chapter four and five. He says, then, write the things which are hereafter, Meditate after these things, after the church age. We see the church, the four and twenty elders in in chapter four, and in chapter five, we see them there. We see in the line of the tribe of Judah is the only unworthy to open the scroll and loose the seals. Chapter six starts the tribulation period with the seven seal judgments. The seventh seal judgment, we studied last week in chapter eight inaugurates or kicks off the trumpet judgments. So we saw the four trumpet judgments of war. Now we have the three remaining trumpet judgments of woe. In chapter nine is still the first part of the tribulation period, first half, and then the chapter 10 through 14 is gonna be the middle of the tribulation period, and chapter fifteen, sixteen, and 18 is the second half of the tribulation period. So six through nine plus 17 is the first half. So when we read chapter 17, we're getting a picture of what was happening with the ecclesiastical Babylon, the church, the apostate church during the time of the first half of the tribulation period where the antichrist uses the false apostate church. Then at the midpoint of the tribulation period, we know that the antichrist goes into the temple, declares himself to be god, demands to be worshiped as god and you can count twelve hundred and sixty days from that event and you'll come to the second coming of Jesus. And so, chapter nine, we again, we're in the first half of the tribulation period. And can you guys read read this? Do you guys see that? It's is it there, Vicky, for him? No, hold on. Let me get it for him. Yeah. Just lighten the way. No. Nope. You're good. You're good. I'm good. Okay. So, father, we pray that you'd open the scriptures, start understanding that you would teach us. We're so excited to learn, lord. We thank you for the many pastors, the many teachers that we've sat under that have taught us through the book of Revelation. And, Lord, now we pray that once again, the Lord, you would be our teacher and you'd open the scriptures, hide hide your word away in our heart. And lord, help us to be those who are looking up so excited about that blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great god and savior as you come for us, your bride, the church, lord. In Jesus name, we pray. Amen. So he says, and let's see here. And the fifth angel sounded and I saw a star. Now when we were in chapter eight, remember we said in the name of the star is Wormwood? We asked the question, is that an angel or is that like an asteroid? Is that a a real, you know, something that goes into the ocean, you know, like a what would you guys call it? An asteroid? Huge asteroid out of space and it comes in it it it pollutes, it corrupts the water source, and the word wormwood, Russian word for like for Chernobyl. And so anyway, in this case here, it is a it is an angel. And so we don't need to worry about that. I saw a star fall from heaven. Now we know that star because if you go over to verse 11 and you'll see, and they had a king over them who is the angel of the bottomless pit. So the star that's falling down from heaven, some say it's Lucifer. Some say it's Satan because his name means destroyer. So if you look in the Hebrew in verse 11, it says the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon and in the Greek tongue Apollyon, which means destroyer. So some feel that this is none other than Satan, the destroyer. Others would say, no. No. No. No. This is another angel. So if we say, hey, what are the name of some of the angels in the Bible? We got a new one now. Yeah. Right? We got Michael, the archangel. We got Gabriel. We got Lucifer. And now we have Apollyon or Abaddon. Abaddon. And so just a little thing to think through. And so I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth, and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit. Now Satan, he's able to be in heaven. In chapter 12, we see that he's thrust out of heaven. But this angel is coming down and given the key of the bottomless pit. And and so this bottomless pit and he opened the bottomless pit, and there arose smoke out of the pit like the smoke of a great furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit. So now we have another blackout. The sun and everything's wiped out. In Luke ten eighteen, Jesus said he saw the devil fall from from heaven and Isaiah 14 describing the fall of Lucifer, the son of the morning. Well, how art thou fallen from heaven, oh Lucifer, son of the morning. In Isaiah 14 verse 12. So we have that aspect of it, but we also want to see somebody read let's see here. Luke eight thirty one. Who wants Luke eight thirty one? Somebody? Is that is that hard to do? You want me to do it all? You want me to do it all, you guys? No. Okay. Second Peter two verse four, the second person, and the third person, Jude verse six. So when we talk about hell, hell, we have Hades. Right? Right. We have Shiel. Right? So we have Hades as a Greek word. Right? And Shiel as a as a Hebrew word both describing a compartment called hell. And if we were to look at Luke chapter 16, we see that Hades or Sheol is a holding compartment for the wicked dead and for the Old Testament saints. Right? The and one is called Abraham's bosom. Jesus described it the place of comfort as to the thief on the cross, this day will be with me in paradise. As we're studying the book of Ephesians, when we get to chapter four, we're gonna see that he that ascended at the ascension first descended in the lower part there and set those captives free. They were awaiting the cross. And so the wicked dead, they're awaiting judgement and they're in they're in a second part of the compartment where it's a wicked torment. So the rich man said to father Abraham, lift up his eyes and saw Lazarus there in Abraham's bosom, a place of comfort that the angels carried Lazarus to and said, hey, father Abraham, send Lazarus. The rich guy's still bossing around the poor guy. Send Lazarus over to the water to dip his finger into the water and to touch my tongue for I'm in grievous torment. And father Abraham said, nope. There's a great gulf between the two of us and you can't come over here. We can't go over there. Then he says, well, I've got five brothers, this rich guy. Send send us somebody back to go tell my five brothers not to come here. Do whatever they gotta do, not to come here and then, the lord Jesus said that, no, they have Moses and the prophets. If they hear not Moses, the Old Testament, nor the prophets, neither will they believe the one be raised from the dead, right? So, that's that's establishing there. Then, we have another place outside of Jerusalem called the Valley Of Hinnom And this is where we get the term Gehenna. Gehenna. Gehenna is a perpetual burning place, the lake Of Fire. So Jesus described the Lake Of Fire, the eventual abode of the wicked dead after Revelation chapter 20 verses 15 at the Great White Throne judgment 11 through 15. The wicked dead are gonna be bodily raised from the dead, and the antichrist is already there. The false prophet's already there. The devil is gonna be put into the abyss or the abuso for a thousand years. Then later when he rebels, when he's loose for a season in the millennium, then he's gonna be also put in the Lake Of Fire. But the wicked dead, they're going to be eventual abode will be the Lake Of Fire. Now there's also another place that the Bible describes in the time of Noah. You had some really, really bad demons on the planet, and they were influencing the people upon the planet. And you had a lot of these fallen angels that were cohabitating with women, the sons of God, and they were messing around with the DNA some people feel and doing a lot of things that was trying to corrupt the lineage of human beings so that the Messiah couldn't come forth as the seed of the woman. So, stopped all that and there's a place that he put some of em that's right here, a place called the abyss, the bottomless pit. Peter, if we look at the Hebrew word that Peter describes, it's a Greek word Tartarus, and so another name for another compartment. And Jude I think Jude uses the same Tartarus word or or a description similar to that of Tartarus. So there you go. There's the background. Now let's look at those passages. So the demons that were in the two at Gadera, they were legion. They were many, and they knew their destiny as they said in Luke eight thirty one. Luke eight thirty one. And they besought him that he would not command them to go out into the deep. Which is 31? He read 32. Oh, and there was there a herd of many swine feeding in the mountains, and they besought him and they that he would suffer them to enter into them. And he suffered them. Then went the devils out of the man and entered into the swine, and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the lake and were choked. When they when they that fed them saw what was done, they fled and went and told it in the city and in the country. Good. Thanks. Now that was the first instance of what? Deviled ham. Deviled ham. There you go. Alright. So this is a real heady bible study. I love deviled eggs. Okay. I got a question. They knew their destiny, the deep. Now they didn't wanna be unembodied spirits. They wanted to be inside something. Right? I asked Brandon this question. I asked my son-in-law Wayne this question. I asked Rob and Mark Dinsmore and I don't have a definitive answer. It's kind of a I'm not dogmatic. I don't have the answer. But can demons possess AI? What verse do you have to prove it? Alright. Jim was gonna. He was gonna tell you said that. I don't have a specific verse but why not? No. If the rocks could cry out and if the pigs, you know, I mean, come on. Pig pigs are alive. Now, Wayne was saying if it's transhuman, part human, part machine, then the that's the demon part can get inside the person that's part of that but as far as the operating system and all that. So, now, think in terms of Revelation 13, the image of the beast and breath is breathed into the image of the beast. Remember, counterfeit. Counterfeit. God made Adam from the dust of the ground and breathed life into him. Right? The Antichrist in the Revelation 13 has the image of the beast, the false prophet has. Everybody's to worship the image of the beast, and it would appear that the image of the beast is demon possessed. Right? Is that true? Breath comes in it so it can speak to everybody. Right? Does it have a soul? How do you define that? How do we go there? So I'm waiting for more information. But some emphatically say no, and others are like, Jim, they're open to the idea that, all right, let's prove this. But the number one thing when you're thinking about that is deception. Because when the during the time of the tribulation period, the antichrist is going to be able to wield what we call lying, signs, and wonders. So, when you see Janis and Jambres contending with Moses there before Pharaoh and the plagues are happening, they're they're able to do lying signs and wonders, but they can't duplicate the miracles that Moses was able to do with the help of the lord. So Moses' staff like a serpent, swallowed up theirs and all. So during the tribulation period, the antichrist is gonna deceive people, and in a big way, probably with a lot of use of technology, but then also with permission from god to call down some fire from heaven maybe. But everything the devil does, the devil has to get permission from god. It's lying signs and wonders because the devil is not god. Doesn't have the ability to create and to do these things. And yet, there's there's hard part as I'm looking at the authority of the devil, the power of the devil. Jesus spoke of a woman who was bent over for thirteen years whom Satan has bound these thirteen years. So what component, what part of physical infirmity is the result of the devil's fear of power to afflict? I don't know the answer to that. I don't know. You know, sometimes Jesus comes along and a person is has a physical infirmity, and he'll cast the demon out of them. And they're not only free of the demon, they're also free of the physical infirmity. Right? And a a little boy will be casting himself into the fire and the father's, you know, like, my son, you know, keeps cast himself in the fire and all and the disciples tried to cast him out and he can't and then Jesus cast cast the the demons out of him And Jesus said, this kind goeth not out but through prayer and fasting. Does that mean that was a really heavy duty demon and you need to be you need to be filled with the spirit through prayer and fasting to be able to war in that warfare against these demons? What does that mean? So we got a lot to learn, don't we? So so there you go. So the abyss and so who's gonna read the next one in Jude? Jude verse six. And the angels which kept not their first estate but left their own habitation, he shall reserve an everlasting chains under darkness into the judgment of the great day. So it's kinda hard to prove the sons of Seth for Genesis six with that passage, Ram? Because the point blank says, the angels that left their first estate, you know, they left they left what they were supposed to be doing as angels and they took and cohabitated with women, the daughters of men in Genesis six. And the Nephilim came forth from that. Right? So God's gonna God's gonna grab hold of them and put them to incarcerate them there. And then what about what Peter has to say during the times of Noah? Second Peter two verse four. Second Peter two verse four. For god spared not the angels that sinned. And so a lot of these are in chains and tartarus, and it could very well be that some of those that are in chains get released. And they've been waiting a long time to go torment human beings. You guys know me. I don't like horror movies. I hate them. And I don't I don't ever wanna see a demon or any of that stuff or mess around with that kind of stuff. But it seems people are pretty infatuated with that sort of thing, and I don't understand why that would be. So the key of the bottomless pit and this abyss is of unlimited depth. Didn't they say that one time the Russian scientists were able to put a microphone down and hear people screaming in hell that were it wasn't them that Yeah. Yeah. You think that's true? Yeah. No way. That's not true. Come on. There's too much fire. There's too much there's too much, like, heat, baby. Heat. There ain't no way. It was AI. It was It was Yeah. It's a joke, man. Yeah. I think that's true. Seven miles down Rob Rob said it was true. Rob. I just said he'd be seven miles down. And he opened the bottomless pit and there rose a smoke out of the pit like the smoke of a great furnace. And the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of of the pit. Do you think that smoke smelled? I don't know. Stench. Sulfur. Been down there and now it's now it's up in the in the sky and like Shannon mentioned sulfur so like a volcano type smell and and and it's blocking out the sun. They have another I think this is the third blackout during the tribulation right here. And and there came out of the smoke locusts. Oh. Upon the earth. And unto them was given power as the scorpions of the earth have power. And so these guys, one of the most painful stings that you can get is of a scorpion and it typically doesn't cause the person to die but it affects the nervous system and it's one of the most painful kind of stings that a person can get. And these locusts are demons for sure. And and it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth. So what locusts wouldn't wanna eat grass? Right? They loved the locusts. They got like a five month lifespan when they when they come like big clouds of them, and they wipe out everything in their way. Every. When we lived over at our house, they had these caterpillar butterflies? Tent caterpillars. Caterpillars? Tent. Yeah. Tent caterpillars. And you could sit in our yard and you could actually hear them eating When they come through, do you guys remember that? And they just eat, neat, neat, neat. I mean, they go for it. So I mean, do that again? No. And it was commanded to them, and they have power. It was commanded to them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree, but only the man. Only those men qualified, only those men who have not the seal of God in their foreheads. Satan's a counterfeit. He's gonna cause everybody to receive a mark on the right hand of their forehead. A 144,000 are already sealed. Amen. So, any believers that are there during the tribulation period who are already believers, they're sealed with the holy spirit of promise that you and I talked about, the engagement ring. So we're we as believers, the devil is it's hands off. You can't you can't hurt them and who have not the seal of God in their foreheads. So if you don't have the seal of God right now, I encourage you to get the seal of God. How do you get the seal of God on your forehead? How do you get the seal of God in your life? The seal of God. To born again. To be born again. To be sealed with the holy spirit. The the spirit of promise. Alright. So and to them, it was given that they should not kill them. So don't kill them. But that they should be tormented five months, And their torment was like the torment of a scorpion. Alright. So the next verse talks about how they try to die and they can't die. How does that work? What if somebody said, alright, buddy. I want you to pull the rope on that guillotine and cut my head off. I don't I don't wanna endure this pain anymore. Load up the morphine. Load up the morphine. Load up the hermit. Give me the fentanyl. Take that take that shotgun and blow my head off. Why can't they die? What happens if you shoot them and their soul doesn't leave their body? What's it mean? Their heart keeps pumping? How's that work? That's torture. That's another So can we can we believe this and take it for what it says? Mhmm. So they they they're there to they're there to plague the people with insanity. These people are gonna go insane. And all of their pharmaceuticals, all of their technology, all of their therapy, all those apostate Christians there with their counseling degrees and and all that stuff that they got for $67 online, none of it works. None of it alleviates the problem. And what is it we have that they don't have? Jesus. Peace. Amen. Have peace with god and we have the peace of god. Which what? Hallelujah. Which surpasses all understanding, right? Hallelujah. So, we can be going through all sorts of trouble but still have a peace, right? And the the the wicked has no peace. You know? He will keep him in perfect peace whose mind has stayed on thee. And there's no peace, sayeth the Lord to the wicked. The the wicked are tormented in their mind. And that's why they have the wicked when we live in wickedness. That's why we have to numb our faculties with alcohol and drugs and other things to so we don't have to think about the torment of our mind. And many people are slaves to their minds. They're slaves to demons. Think of how many people are gonna be demon possessed during this time. And you and I are possessed with the Holy Spirit, right? Controlled by the Holy Spirit, living and dwelling within us, but a lot of these people are demon possessed people. And and so there's no drugs, there's no suicide, there's no escape, there's no peace, saith the lord to the wicked. So they should be tormented five months, and their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when he strikes a man. So no matter how much money Elon has, no matter how smart, you've all know who Harari thinks he is, no matter how much gold Donald j Trump has, nobody can escape this torment. And in those days shall men seek death and shall not find it. We have a high level of suicide today, people losing hope, and we have a message of hope, the gospel, the glorious good news. God is not willing that any would perish but that all would come to repentance. God takes no pleasure. You see, because we could start to take a little pleasure in this. Oh, it serves them right. It serves them right, these people. These god haters, you know, and it serves them right but that's not the heart of god. God takes no pleasure in the death of the wicked but that the wicked turn from his wicked way. Turn ye, turn ye for why will you die in your sins? God cries out to the rebellious. And shall not find it and shall desire to die and death shall flee from them. Now, the mistake that many people make in this life is thinking that, well, my life is so trashed. It's so messed up. I wanna escape it by killing myself. Are you escaping anything by killing yourself? What happens once you're dead? Well, it depends if you're saved. What kind of judgement? Well, I mean I mean yeah. Yeah. There's a fearful look into a judgment. Right? You go to a place of torment, even greater torment. And there's no the lie that the devil tells people is what? Tell tell me the lie Tell me the devil's false gospel, his lie. Rob says you can become a god, you'll never die. That's one. What's another one? Oh, yeah. Yeah. You could go to heaven and have 70 virgins. Well, that I've never met a man that can have handle one, let alone 70. That can't be true. Right. First life is always 70. What else? What else? Can we ask God? Be like God. Yeah. K. Be ask God like Rob's saying. You can. So, what's it mean about hell or heaven? Hell or heaven? Is it really a hell? Yes. Yes. No, but what's the devil say? There's not. The devil says. Yeah. Devil says it's a party place. Yeah. Right? And others would say, Kirk Cameron right now, what's he saying about hell? There's nothing. There's nothing. There's There's There's nothing. Some say there's annihilation. Yeah. That a loving god wouldn't let somebody be tormented. These guys are being tormented. They're getting a taste of hell. It's hell on earth. And some say, well, god's so loving. There's no way that god would, you know, allow somebody to be tormented for all eternity, would he? And then the Hindus, they convince people that that rat running over there is their mother or their grandmother, that she was reincarnated. Okay. Right? She was reincarnated, man. So don't kill those rats because you might be killing anti anti sweetie over there or something. You know? So the rats eat all the food and the grain and the snakes come in and all these animals that are predators and and they've all gotta be careful. They don't step on on a relative. You know? So the devil tries to refute the doctrine of hell, and Jesus spoke more about hell than he did heaven. Right? Mhmm. In warning people. In his love, he's warning people. A lot of times people need to hear the bad news before they appreciate the good news. God doesn't God made hell only for the fallen angels. He didn't make hell for man. But if man persists in rejecting God's love, then God says, alright, not my will, but your will be done. Because our relationship with God is made based upon free will. He didn't make us robots like Elon's trying to do. You know? We have the power of choice. We're made in the image of God and and we can choose to have a relationship with God based upon love or we can choose not to. And and that's it's sad when people reject God when they reject his love. And so I just can't even fathom these people trying to kill themselves and not being able to kill them to die. And and the shapes of the locusts were like horses. So picture picture the Seraphim and the Cherub angels, the description of them, and now look at the unholy angels with a similar description. So the shapes of the locusts were like horses prepared unto battle. And so and on their heads were, as it were, crowns like gold. And so this is this is letting us know that there's no tech relief. There's no no way to stop these guys. And if they're the victors, that they're gonna be victorious over man, that there's nothing man can devise, nothing man can do to stop this torment. There's no COVID vaccine, no PCR test, there's nothing. Nothing. And hey, have you had your demon vaccine yet? When they sting you, it it won't hurt. You know? And and we we'll show you a video up here, and we'll teach you concerning Soylent Green. You know? And people are eating peep did you hear about the Epstein list? Pretty bad. Pretty bad stuff coming out. Now you never know what's true. Some are saying there's some cannibalism going on. So Russell Wilson's on there. Russell Wilson? Oh, god. His car back. Oh, god. So crowns like gold and their faces were like the faces of men. And so this speaks of intelligence. They had I mean, look at my face. Don't I look intelligent? They had faces like men. And they had hair like the hair of women. That means they were attractive. Could be that they're attractive. A woman's hair is the crown, a crown of her head. And so the attraction, a lot of times people depict evil as being ugly, that the devil's ugly, that and yet the description in Isaiah 14 and Ezekiel 28, he's an exalted cherub angel and beautiful, more beautiful than everybody else, you know, which stimulates pride. And if it's laws of attraction, that's where men and women are disarmed through the deceitfulness of the outward attraction outward attraction. And their teeth were like the teeth of lions, so they're able to crush crushing teeth. And and they had breastplates as it were breastplates of iron. So they they don't have a heart. There's no sensitivity. They're hard hearted, which means they don't care how loud people are screaming. There's no mercy. No mercy as they're stinging everybody. And no matter how much they're weeping. And the sound of their wings was like the sound of chariots and many horses running to battle. And so they're inescapable. There's no place to hide. I I mean, sometimes I'm watching these little shows of drones. We talked about that last week. A swarm of drones. I mean, god, if you're in a battlefield, an open field of battle, how are you going to escape that locust swarm of drones, you know, coming at you, man? They're they even got little tiny ones that can get into your house and blow you up, and they got big ones. It's it's fascinating. I don't know. Inescapable. And many horses running to battle. So you got these the sound of the chariots and many horses running to battle. So huge amount of noise. And they had tails like scorpions. And and there were stinging. There are stingers in their tails and their power was to hurt men for five months. And so their sound of flooding waters, they're flooding the earth, and the lifespan of a of a flock of a swarm of locusts is typically five months. And so they're able to do this for five months and boy, I don't wanna be there. Now in Proverbs thirty twenty seven, King Solomon said that the locusts don't have a king. So watch the next verse. What's that? And they had a king over them. That's why these are angels. And they had a king over them who is the angel of the bottomless pit whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue has his name Apollyon, destroyer is what it means. Now Satan is the chief prisoner of hell. He's not a king. He's not a king. He's not he's not in charge. He's not the leader. Not the most celebrated. If you read in Isaiah 14, when people see Satan, they're gonna say, is this the man? They're gonna be shocked at what he was able to do to the Earth. But they're looking down on him like, you've got to be kidding me. You know? And and it says, and woe is past and behold, there cometh two woes more hereafter. So you ain't seen nothing yet, man. You ain't seen nothing yet. It's gonna intensify the next woes. And and so here we have the sixth trumpet judgment. And if you've got a school filled bible, disregard the notes. Remember, the notes in your bible are not inspired by God. You guys know that? No, I do. You have study Bibles where great men of god and women who edit Bibles and help you with the Thompson Chain reference or a Schofield Bible. I have a Schofield Bible. The Schofield Bible says right here, the sixth trumpet, an army from the Far East, and then it gives the reference of Revelation sixteen twelve. Somebody want to read Revelation sixteen twelve? I got it. Okay. And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates and the water thereof was dried up that the way of the kings of the East might be prepared. Okay. So commentators years ago when I first became a Christian in the eighties, they said that China made an announcement that they could put forth an army, a standing army of 200,000,000 soldiers from the East and that they could march across the dried up Euphrates River into the Middle East, alright, during the tribulation period. But that is not what Revelation 16 is talking about. Kings of the East are from Mesopotamia, not China, and that'll be of Armageddon when that happens. And so Babylon or the Euphrates River is the unholy trinity's, the counterfeit trinity's headquarters during the tribulation period. And and so so that means that Babylon is a city, and Babylon's gonna be rebuilt. Do you believe that? Yeah. It's being rebuilt. And a lot of trade routes are being established through that area, which would tie in with the merchants and the mariners and smoke billowing from it as in a moment. All that commerce destroyed. So the six angels sounded and I heard a voice from four horns of the golden altar which is before god. Saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, lose the four angels who are bound in the great river Euphrates. So you've got these hordes of angels that are like locusts that come up. Now you got four distinct angels who are bound in another compartment. So you had the abyss, the deep. Now you have a compartment that's beneath the Euphrates River that these these guys are bound at. And it says, and the four angels were loosed who were prepared for an hour and a day and a month and a year to slay the third part of men. So why what's that numbering? What's that what's what's that up? What's up with that? Thirteen months in an hour. What's that illustrate to us? Is an hour an hour? Figures every week? I I would I would guess it speaks of God's exact timing. You're gonna die right on time. It's appointed on all men once to die and then the judgment. God knows exactly when he's taking you home. Amen. Everything you have experienced, everything you will experience is for such a time as this. Right? In the case of Queen Esther, there's a time. There's a time to be born. There's a time to die. Right? With Solomon's wisdom. And and it's important that we make use of the time that we have that we've been given because none of us are guaranteed tomorrow. Right? Yeah. Except in eternity. But this is speaking of exact time. There's an exact period of time that God's gonna allow these four angels, and they get it done in thirteen months and one hour. They kill one third of the population. So let's do the math. You got 8,000,000,000. You take away one fourth in Revelation six verse eight. Now you got 6,000,000,000. Now you're gonna take away a third. How many got now? Half the population's gone in three and a half years. Mhmm. And the board of peace is so tormented. They don't know what to do. Hiding. Hiding, man. I mean, human beings have no way out of this. Now what do you have to look forward to? Heaven, baby. Yes. The millennium. Millennium. Good. What do the worldlings have to look forward to? What what what's what it's just unbelievable. Unbelievable. Now you might think that you have it bad now. Right? Some of us, oh, woe is me. Right? I got I got it bad. I got it so bad. You know? Turn to turn to Jeremiah chapter 12. This is one of my favorite This is one of my favorite whining passages. And Jeremiah the prophet is he's whining. Mhmm. Like a lot of the prophets, they whine. They they cannot fathom that God who is holy would allow the wicked, the Babylonians, to judge God's people Israel. And it just blows the prophet's mind that you would allow this filthy, rotten, evil nation, the Babylonians, to spank your own people. And so God speaks to Jeremiah. He says, verse three, but but thou, oh lord, knowest me, thou hast seen me and tested mine mine heart toward thee. Pull them out like like sheep for the slaughter and prepare them for the day of slaughter. Judge them, lord. Judge them. How long shall the land mourn and the herbs and every field wither for the wickedness of those who dwell in it? The beasts are consumed and the birds because they they said, he shall not see our last end. These criminals. And god says, to you and I, if thou had run with the footmen and they wearied thee, so it's a picture of warfare. You're in a war, and now you're you're on foot and you're tired from the battle on foot running from the footmen. How can you contend with horses? And if in the land of peace in which you trusted, they wearied thee, so many of us as Christians, we are cream puffs. We have had it made. We we don't know what Christians in Nigeria and and, you know, in China, Iran, and other places go through on a daily basis. And if we have a ingrown toenail or just had my nails done and one of them gets flicked off, it's man it's man, I lose it. I just lose it. I can't cope. God, that's so unfair. It's so unfair. And he says, what are you gonna do in the swelling of the Jordan? What are you gonna do when the enemy comes in like a flood, Jeremiah? If you haven't steeled your mind now, if you haven't prepared for battle, what are you gonna do when reality strikes? It's gonna get worse, boys. Buckle up, buttercup. For even your brethren in the house of your father he's saying, look at look at what God's saying to him. Even your family hates you, Jeremiah. Not just the Babylonians, even your own family, the men of Anathoth, even they can't stand your breath, man. For even your brethren in the house of your father, even they have dealt treacherously with thee. Yea, they have called a multitude after thee. Believe them not, though they speak fair words unto you. Jeremiah, you don't have a friend. You don't have a friend, buddy. I have forsaken mine house. I have left mine heritage. I have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of the enemies. Mine heritage is unto me like a lion in the forest. They try out against me. Therefore, have I hated it. And so Jeremiah is talking about his own people. He's talking about his family, everyone. Everyone's against me. Now turn to Now remember, Jesus said the world's gonna see a time that's so bad. It's a time so bad. They've never seen it this bad nor will ever see again. We have a tendency to think that we have it so bad, and at times, God says, it's gonna get worse. Not the tribulation worse, but when society breaks down, when war breaks out, when evil needs to be judged, the Christians need to know that we too don't have carte blanche against suffering. We don't have immunity against tribulation, but we do against God's wrath when he pours out his wrath. So God says in Habakkuk chapter one verse five, I will work a work in your days, which you will not believe me though I if I told you. I'll raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land to possess the dwelling places that are not theirs. They are terrible and dreadful. Their judgment and their dignity shall proceed from themselves. Their horses also are swifter than the leopard and are more fierce than the evening wolves and their horsemen spread themselves and their horsemen shall come from far. They shall fly like the eagle that hastes to fly. So this this this enemy that's coming is gonna crush you. Now turn it over to chapter two. What are you gonna do when you're faced with that? The reality of adversity. In chapter two, and the Lord said unto me verse two, write the vision and make it plain upon the tablets that it may run that that he may run that reads it. For the vision is yet for an appointed time but at the end it shall speak and not lie. Though it tarry, wait for it Because it surely is gonna come and it will not tarry. He said, behold, his soul that is lifted up, you think you're immune from this, Habakkuk or Jeremiah, you prophets. Is not upright in him, so humble yourself. The just shall live by his faith. So we we walk by faith through whatever adversity that we face, but we know that we know that we know we're never going to face the tribulation period. That time that these guys have no way out of. They have no way out of it. At least we have hope that the Lord's gonna restore us and take us to heaven and and to be asked in the bodies to be present with the Lord. We have all that hope even if we face death. But these guys, God's tormenting them before he sends them to hell. They're torment on earth with with no escape. It's it's mind boggling. Now who wants to read Joel one fifteen through two eleven? And hold on to that Joel one fifteen through two eleven. You guys wanna go there? Okay. This is a parallel passage. You know, the book of Revelation is a study of the Old Testament. This passage in Joel one fifteen to two eleven. He says, alas, for the day for the day of the Lord. Now remember the day of the Lord is the tribulation period, is at hand and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come. Is not the food cut out before our eyes, ye joy and gladness from the house of our God? The seed is rotten under their under their claws. The gardeners are laid desolate. The barns are broken down for their grain is withered. So huge amount of famine during the tribulation period. How did the beast groan? The herds of cattle are perplexed because they have no pasture. Yea, the flocks of the sheep are made desolate. Oh Lord, to thee will I cry for the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness and the flame has burned all the trees of the field, the beasts of the field cry alas unto thee for the rivers of the waters are dried up and the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness. Blow the trumpet in Zion and sound an alarm in my holy mountain. Let all the the inhabitants of the land tremble for the day of the lord, the day of the lord. Now, remember, first Thessalonians five, the day of the lord, when they shall say peace and safety, then sudden destruction comes upon them as a woman in travail or as a thief in the night. Right? The day of the lord. So the day of the lord cometh for it is near at hand, a day of darkness. We've had the sun being blocked out with the pit opening up and that dark billowing smoke blocking out the sun. And of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness like the morning spread upon the mountains, a great people and a strong. There has not been ever the like, neither shall there be any more after it, even to the years of many generations. A fire devours before them, and behind them a flame burns the land as like the Garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness. Yea, nothing shall escape them. The appearance of them is like the appearance of horses, and like horses horsemen, so shall they run. Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains, shall they shall they leap. Like the noise of a flame of fire that devours the stubble, like strong people set in battle array. Before their face, the people shall be much pain. All faces shall gather blackness. They shall run like the mighty men. They shall climb the wall like men men of war and they shall march everyone on his on his ways and they shall not break their tank, their ranks. Neither shall one thrust any thrust another and they shall walk everyone in the path and when they shall fall upon the sword, they shall not be wounded. They shall run to and fro in the city. They shall run upon the walk. They shall climb upon the house. They shall enter in at the windows like a thief. Could be those swarm of drones. Right? The earth, the swarm of locusts, the demons. The earth shall quake them. The heavens shall tremble. The sun and the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their shining. And the Lord shall utter his voice before the army for his camp and very great for his strong who executes his word for the day of the Lord is great and very terrible and who can abide in it. Alright. So we come back here. So we have a picture of what's happening in nine, but we also have a kind of a a picture of Armageddon when the whole armies of the world come come against the Lord. And so the four angels are bound in the great river Euphrates and the four angels were loosed who were prepared for an hour, a day, and a month, and a year to slay the third part of men. And the number of the army of the horsemen were 200,000, and I heard the number of them. So that's where years ago they said 200,000,000. 200,000,000. So there's a billion people in China. Right? So people thought, well, but these are demons. These aren't men. And thus I saw the horses in the vision and them that sat on them having breastplates of fire and of jassing and of brimstone. And the heads of the horses were like the heads of lions and so we just read about that. We read we read in Joel the description and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone. We just we just saw that in Joel, the picture in Joel of everything burning up in front of them. By these three was the third of men killed, and by the fire and by the smoke and by the brimstone which issued out of their mouth. For their power is in their mouth and in their tails, for their tails were like serpents, their heads and with them they do hurt. And the rest of the men who were not killed by these plagues, notice this, they yet so you got those that died. You got some people finally being able to escape by dying to go straight to hell, straight to jail. And now you got some that survived that and watch what happens to them. Now wouldn't you think you would be humbled by that that god has your attention? God, you got my attention. Uncle. Uncle. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. And so godly sorrow leads to repentance not to be repented of, but worldly sorrow is you're just sorry that your plan didn't work, that you got caught. Mhmm. Like Judas. Right? And so the rest of the men who were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands. So these are the crimes against them. These are the things that they did. That they should not worship demons. So you're a worshiper of demons. You like demons. You like the occult. Okay. I'm gonna open up the abyss and let demons come torment you. Gonna reap what you sow. You really like demons? And idols of gold. You like gold? You want the Donald gold, the mega gold, the arch of gold, the gold of Gaza? I can't even believe people can stomach that kind of talk. It's so over the top, so so shameful. Just who do you think you are, mister Big Shot? You know? He he takes the hell out of them. Hell out of gold. Amen. You get god. You do. That is their god, gold. So, they worship demons and the idols of gold and of silver and of bronze, so precious metals, and stone, and wood. Notice he says, which neither can see nor hear nor walk. So let's look again at at idols. Eyes have they, but they can't see. Ears have they, but they can't hear. They have mouths and a throat, but they can't speak. So the old style idols were images. Right? Carvings, metallurgy. Aaron got caught up in doing a golden calf for the children of Israel. Right? Similar to that of out of Egypt. And he lied and he said, hey. They just gave me the gold and we threw it down. It came out like that. You know? I don't know how that happened. You know? The people made me do it. And so Paul says that which the Gentiles worship these idols, they're ash actually worshiping demons. So there's demons behind the idols, and it comes down to okay. So you have these inanimate objects. These objects that are made of silver and bronze and stone and wood, which can neither see nor hear nor walk. So with AI technology, in the image of of the beast, to what level of deception will the devil go and the technocrats to make people think with a hologram or project blue beam or with you know, I I still think that I heard Abraham Lincoln speak at Disneyland when I went there. You know? Was that really him? Yeah. You know? So four score and seven years ago, Wood which neither can see nor hear nor walk. Well, they're gonna make these these new idols. I mean, have you seen some of the robotic girlfriends for these guys? You know? It's scandalous. It's scandalous. All of the different plastics and stuff. And yikes. I don't even wanna go there. Those robot dogs look pretty cool though. They they look like really good guard dogs. They're pretty scary, man. They can jump. See nor hear nor walk. So Rob's got a verse for you. In Jonah two verse eight, we've been meditating on this week. So, what's the picture of Nineveh? It's a city given over to idolatry. The picture is they're Gentiles. They're not Jews. They're Gentiles, a Gentile nation. And God tells the prophet Jonah, and Jesus authenticates this this story by saying a wicked and adulterous generation seeks after a sign. The only sign that's gonna be given to God's people, the Jews, is the sign of the prophet Jonah. As Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so shall the son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. Right? Mhmm. The resurrection. And so Jonah is told to go to Nineveh and give him a message. I love you so much. No. It's a message of forty days and you're gonna perish. Right? And Jonah was so patriotic. He loved Israel so much that it compelled him to hate Yeah. His enemies. It's that it's that patriotic, I'm a Republican and I hate Democrats. I'm a Christian and I hate Muslims. Right? The whole world being divided. Nation rising against nation, ethnic group against ethnic group. Right? Families divided. Father against son, mother against daughter, Jesus said. A man's own enemies will be those of his own household. Right? How are we in the church ever gonna survive? How are we ever gonna love one another as God intended? With all of this division being stirred, you know, and dividing over everything. And so, Jonah goes down there and he gets in a boat headed in the opposite way and god uses and Jonah can exercise his free will. You can exercise your free will. God's given you free will but can god make you willing? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Be. So, Jonah, Jonah winds up feeling like he's in hell. A fish, he gets thrown out of the boat. He head in the opposite way to Tarshish and god causes a great storm and the the mariners, the fishermen, the the they said, hey, let's let's throw lots down. Let's throw lots down and find out why this is happening. You know, who's disobeying their god and Jonah lets them know that his god is the god of creation. And they're like, uh-oh. Why are you obey disobeying your god? And and Jonah says, throw me into the drink. Throw me into the water and this whole storm will calm. And they're like, no. We don't want your god to be mad at us. No. Throw me in the drink. And it'll all stop. And they finally do it, and then god prepared a fish. Swallow Jonah. And Jonah goes down to the very depths of the sea, and the seaweed's all over his head, and the gastric juices are making him all like Bad Bob the albino, and and he's got this terrible hairdo going on and the whole thing and he's crying out to god. He's repenting. He's hating the day he was born. And then the serpent vomits Jonah up on the shore. And the Ninevites see Jonah, they immediately repent. Holy smokes. Look at that guy. And no, they didn't. But it says in the word of the Lord came to Jonah a second time. Samson's hair Samson's hair began to grow back. And one thing I said yesterday in the sermon was, you know, we as we go through life can have things taken from us. Job lost his children, his wealth, his reputation, and his health. And we have no guarantees either. God can Lord giveth, the Lord taketh away. Blessed be the name of the Lord. Right? And so we worship God. Now one thing for me that I am thankful for, and for you the same is true. Nobody is gonna take away your calling. God's called you. He has a calling on your life. And the gifts and the calling of God are without repentance. So no matter how crazy things have been, I know that my enemies would love for me to quit. The devil wants us to quit, but we can rest assured that the gifts and the calling to God are out without repentance. And even Jonah, in his disobedience on the God, didn't lose his calling nor God's anointing upon his life, even though he's so disobedient. Now Samson, he found out that his hair would grow back. So even in that disobedience Samson demonstrated, god's grace was such that he allowed him to kill more than his death than he did while he was alive as a judge for the nation of Israel. David gave great occasion of the enemies of the lord to blaspheme god's name, but Nathan, the prophet, said, David, you're not gonna die and David continued although the consequences of his actions remain and so the only person I have to worry about is me. Right. I'm the one that can cause me to be disqualified. And so we need to remember that even then in disobedience, God can correct me and restore me, But I don't have to worry about if God gives, great. If God takes, he takes away, but the gifts and the calling of God are without repentance. And so too with the nation of Israel, he's promised them, he's gifted them, and he's gonna fulfill those promises under them. So anyway, Jonah, he declares in Jonah two verse eight, a verse that we need to really, really think about in the times in which we're living in regard to idolatry and mercy. So, what's that verse, Rob? They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy. So, do you want to exegute that verse, Rob? Explain what that verse means. I'll also say those who cling to worthless idols forfeit the grace that could be theirs. So, define what worthless idols are if we were to apply it to our lives. What's it say here? What are worthless idols here? Wood, stone, gold, gold, a person, a state, a thing, make America great. So had you they that observe lying vanities, you're tricked. Demons tricked you. You took the bait. You observe the lying vanities, the idolatry that appeals to men's heart. And what happened? You forsook god's mercy. Why? Because the message wasn't the message needed to be repent. Yeah. And because you put your trust in man, lying princes, and there are slogans and there are promises, they that observe lying vanities, emptiness, forsake their own mercy. God could have been merciful. God gave Nineveh a hundred year reprieve. The problem in Nineveh was a spiritual problem, not a leadership problem, because from the king on down, he repented. Right? Our problem is not a leadership problem, although all of our congress, president, everybody are all corrupt. Our problem is we believe lies. We're very deceived. Notting discernment. And so we if we if we would've recognized our own sin, our own idolatry, and repented and cried out to god to to be merciful unto us, he would have heard that cry. So these guys, they neither repented. I mean, someone once asked Donald Trump if if he's ever repented or asked god for forgiveness. He says, I don't know if I've ever sinned. I just tried to do better next time, he said. But I'm the one everybody hates if I expose that kind of stuff. So you see, they that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy. Mhmm. You can't build on a lie. You you can't bring reform based upon lies. And now I don't even have to talk about it because it's so over the top now. It's shameful. It's just sad. It's just sad, man. Neither repented they of their murders nor their sorcery. Sorcery is the drugs, the pharmakia, the occult, the murders, the pedophilia, the trafficking of children in our country at Epstein Island. Do you see the pictures today? Bezos is there, Clinton, Bill Gates, Epstein, and then they had this little kid there. Do you know who that little kid was? He's the new mayor of New York. York. All these guys are groomed, but we don't get it. We keep thinking we can vote. They are groomed and appointed. Mhmm. But you can't get that through to people because we have the illusion that we have some control. And what we should be doing is Ephesians five eleven, having no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them. If we would expose their lies, then they couldn't get away with it. Shine light on it, but then you'd be killed and hated and all that, and laughed at and mocked, and oh, he's just a little bit off, you know. So neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication. So fornication, physical fornication, but also the fornication of idolatry, of not honoring God, loving him with all of our heart, nor their thefts. They're stealing all the wealth presently. The one percenters are gonna suck it all away, and and we're all gonna be at the bottom. And and so the the thing that I get out of this is the hardness of their hearts. So, the gospel is described as seed, right? And the broadcaster took the seed and he threw the seed out and the seed fell on four types of soil. Okay? What's the first soil? Rocky sweat? No. The rock, the hard soil. Right. Wayside soil. Wayside. So you got a field and you prepared the field because raise a farmer and he knows you gotta plow the field. Right? Right? Gotta plow it. You don't just throw out seed without plowing it, preparing the soil. But on each edge of the field is a walkway or an area where the tractor, the wheels of the tractor go back and forth, banging more. That area, you can't keep seed from crossing over and landing on it, but it's the wayside soil. It's hard. Mhmm. And the seed just sits on top. Sits on top. That's the wayside soil. It's hard. What's the second kind of soil? The rocky soil. The rocky soil, there's no way Ray's gonna leave rocks in his field. But unbeknownst to Ray, just below the surface is a ledge of rock. And that ledge of rock, it's unbeknownst. He doesn't know it's there. So the seed germinates when he hears the gospel. I'm so excited. My best life now. My best life now. And then the roots start to grow, but it hits the rock. Hits the rock. And the rock represents the sun that shines down, which is the trials, soon as hard times come, and it exposes that the the seed doesn't have roots under Jesus. That's a shallow profession of faith that withers in a time of trial. The third type of soil is a soil that we have the hardest time with. Weedy soil. The weedy soil. What is the weedy soil? Cares. Cares of the world. The cares of this life and the. The Because I love riches. I love the riches. But you also have to know that there's the deceitfulness of riches, right? If riches increase, set not your heart on it. Some people are allowed to be entrusted with riches. Being rich doesn't mean you're evil. The problem is very few of us can handle the idolatry of riches. So the deceitfulness of riches which tells Americans, hey, I'm rich and increased with goods in need of nothing and Jesus is kicked out of your church and he says, your true condition is your naked, poor, blind, and miserable and you don't even know it. You're delusional and you're gonna fall for a guy that comes along and says, make America great. You're gonna fall for it. And you're gonna think that you're gonna get all your stuff back to normal and all that. And you don't even see the beast system coming in through your compliance. You are the you are the generation that helped bring in the beast system, you evangelicals. You did it by not exposing him, by going along with him. There's a fourth kind of soil. These guys are that wayside soil. You can't get through them. You you can't get through under them with pain. Pain's a good pain's a pain's a good way to get somebody's attention. Manasseh, when he was in pain, when they put hooks in him, the Assyrians pulled him away. Manasseh was so vile, he actually offered his own son unto Baal as a burnt offering. The guy was the worst king the nation of Judah ever had. He reigned for about fifty years. He was so bad that god says, I don't care about the reforms of Josiah or anybody else. This nation is cooked. They're ripe for judgement. They're gonna be judged but individually, Manasseh repented. And it was through pain because the Assyrians were the type where they put hooks in you, fishhooks, and draw you back to Assyria. You know? And and he he repented, man. They got his attention. And but these guys are incorrigible. These guys man, it's like in chapter 11 when the two witnesses are executed and everybody has a satanic party. These people the problem is presently that we see in this time of Vosti is that people are believing doctrines of demons. They're turning themselves away from the truth onto fables. They profess that they know god, but in works, they deny him. They won't endure sound doctrine that Vicky brings a drone up and shows you the Puget Sound. They won't endure sound, healthy, biblical doctrine but instead, they heaped themselves teachers having itching ears and I am absolutely amazed at how many pastors in our community get away with every three, four weeks doing a series on giving. Every three, four times a year, they are doing a new series on giving. That's called fleecing the flock. And the people love Jeremiah five, the people love it so. It's mind boggling to me. It's absolutely mind boggling. I I'm just like, where am I living? What time am I living in? How is it people could like to be fleeced and deceived? You know? And they won't endure sound doctrine. They don't want the truth. And so it this this that attitude leads up to this. They'll find themselves in the tribulation period. Their heart's gonna become harder and harder and harder and harder against God. And pretty soon, they're gonna love the demons more than they love god. They're gonna have a satanic party. They're gonna actually worship the devil. Satanism is coming. And they'll call it religion. They'll call it the one world religion. They'll call it worship, you know? Anyway, what we can look at is, we're not gonna be here. Amen. We may go through trials like Jeremiah, and we need to buckle up. You know? We may go through some hard times like Habakkuk, but the just shall live by faith. We walk by faith. And by faith, we know that we know that we know. It's never gonna get this bad for us because we're sealed. Right? We're sealed with the Holy Spirit. We're Christians. We're the bride of Christ, and he's coming for us before he pours out his wrath upon a Christ rejecting world. So I wish people would read this with reality and say, Elon's lying. These people are lying because this is the future right here, it's coming real soon. It's gonna be here real soon. Not fifty years from now. It's soon. Mhmm. Their their goal is 2030, you know, to have all their stuff done. So, I mean, I'm writing the book of what day it starts, but I haven't released it yet. Alright. So let's pray. Father, we come before you, and, we thank you that, Lord, we realize as we study this, there's a whole lot more than a whole lot more that we don't know than we think we do tonight. There's so much to learn. So much we don't know. But Lord, you're revealing to us that what you want us to know. And the most important thing is that our name's written in the lamb's book of life. And that you love us and you died for us and you're coming again for us, your bride. And lord, our heart breaks for those whose hearts are hard. We pray like with pharaoh, lord. Each time he rejected you, his heart had a callous grow over it and became harder and harder and harder and harder. People can come to a place of being of a reprobate mind. They can be past feeling. They can cauterize their sensitivity where where there's there's no nothing left in the in the life of the spirit. They they just their past sensation. And so God we thank you that you keep our hearts soft. Yes Jesus. That Lord you give us ears to hear and lord that we know that we can confess our sin and that you're faithful and just to forgive us of our sin and to cleanse us of all unrighteousness and that the blood of Jesus Christ, your son, continually cleanses us of all unrighteousness, lord, that we have a have not only a right standing with you but fellowship, intimacy. So, lord, help us not to be hypocrites and not be posers but to enter into all that you have for us to live the life of the spirit in the power of the holy spirit as we walk by faith, lord. Our desire is that you be glorified, that you be well pleased. Help our lives to bear much, much fruit. And, Lord, keep your hand upon this home, upon Robin, Vicky, and Brandon. Thank you for them opening this week after week and all that they do, Lord, for the body of Christ. And we pray for your anointing and blessing upon them. Keep them in good health. And Lord bless them at work. Bless them in every way. And undergird and strengthen them as they face attacks, as they're persecuted, as the enemy wants to weary them and wear them out. And but Lord, I never hear any complaining. They're always so filled with joy. Such a desire to serve you. And we pray for the folks on Facebook that they'd be strengthened also. And, Lord, we thank you for the fellowship that we get to have with people, in many different communities by the power of your spirit. In Jesus' name, we pray. Amen.
About This Podcast
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.
