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Live from Bremerton. It's Monday night. We're gonna do Revelation chapter 11. Rob's gonna do the worship, and we are gonna open with prayer. Father, we come before you and we thank you for this glorious night that we get to gather together in your name to study Revelation chapter 11 at the midpoint of the tribulation period, Lord. Twelve hundred and sixty days in. And, Lord, we we just praise your name. We thank you that you're leading, guiding our steps. Lord, we lift up our our love, our loved one, Sally, and we pray for a miracle of healing on her body. God, we we agree on this, Lord. We're gathered together. We're agreeing. We're asking you. We're seeking your face. We ask that you would do a miracle of healing on Sally's body. The doctors are saying they can't do anymore and lord, the stage is set for you to move and work that you get all the glory. We pray that you comfort Sally and James and and lord as they're waiting upon you for your perfect will to be done. We pray that you continue to comfort Linda as Joe went home to be with you last month and also to comfort pastor JD and his family as his beloved wife went home to be with you. So, lord, we just commit this night in your hands and ask that you bless lord. Pour out your holy spirit. Teach us your word lord in Jesus name amen amen amen Amen. Thanks, Rob. Alright. How many of you liked the piano Bruce did on Sunday? You guys like that? Yeah. Yay. Now which one of you had your phone set for twelve noon to take your medicine at twelve noon and it went off? It'd be better if you died next time. Don't don't don't don't set your clock to do your medicine at twelve noon. Put it on vibrate maybe. I was preaching the gospel, but I was able to persevere through that. But and you know, it isn't just a phone going off. It kept going off. Yeah. And it's like an alarm going off. And so I hope you get boils if you do that again. All over your body. Alright. So, there you go. I thought that. Hope that. Well, what if you stumbled somebody that was going to receive Christ? Yeah. What if you stumbled somebody that was going to receive Christ with the pastor finishing up the sermon by preaching the gospel, and in your air in your whatever you wanna call it, you've got your phone set for twelve minutes. Is that a message to me like church is over, pastor? You went you went past the time? You know? What is that? The best thing I can think is it's because you have to take your pills because you're got dementia or something and and you're on a schedule. There you go. I hope the person that did that is listening. And you can go to Calvary Paulsboro or Silverdale. You shouldn't come back to our church. There you go. Alright. Any anything else you wanted that wanted to talk about? Alright. Revelation chapter 11. Betty, I know it wasn't you, Betty. I know it wasn't you. We've taught you, Betty. We've taught you. Alright. Father, we thank you for your word and the sweet time of worship. And Lord, we just pray that that Lord, you would bless this night, that you'd pour out your holy spirit, that you'd be our teacher as we study Revelation chapter 11, and it's not always polyanic, Lord. There are some real evil, wicked things that go on in this world, and we thank you for the sweetness and the peace and the joy that we get to experience as family of believers when we get to gather together and we don't have to be a part of all the craziness out there. Lord, we can shut the phone off, the TV off, the radio, all that all that crazy information that's trying to get in and and steal our joy and steal our peace lord and we can worship you. We can study your word. We can look prophetically at how soon you're returning and lord, you're the answer to every every problem that we face, lord. You're the answer And so God, we just pray in Jesus name that you'd be our teacher tonight. Give us ears to hear in Jesus name. Amen. Amen. Alright. Chapter 11. Now, this is the middle of the tribulation period. Chapters 10 through fourteen and seventeen are taking place during the midpoint of the tribulation period. And then when we get over to verse 15, when the seventh angel sounds and the bold judgments are unleashed, that'll be the start of the second half of the tribulation period. That will be twelve hundred and sixty days after that. So during this period of time here, we got a whole lot of things going on and at the midpoint. The two witnesses in chapter 11 here are part of it. We've got chapter 12 at the midpoint. The devil is cast out of heaven, cast down to the earth. At the midpoint, we've also got the abomination of desolation spoken by Daniel the prophet. He needs a temple to go into. In the first two verses of chapter 11, talk about the measuring of the temple precinct there to build this temple. We've got in our lifetime, we have development of all of the things needed for the Jewish temple, including ashes of the red heifer that they're trying to put together and to cleanse and imp all the implements and everything. And and so we're living in a time right at the cusp, right at the right at the right at the merge, right at the point in time that this could all happen. And we know before the signing of the peace treaty in Daniel nine twenty seven or a covenant that's gonna be signed, we know that the rapture of the church takes place. The tribulation period starts with the signing of that covenant. The sign of the covenant is with the antichrist, the little horn of Daniel seven verse eight that's gonna emerge and and he's going to make a covenant with the nation of Israel, and that's gonna be the start. So that twelve hundred and sixty days from then to the point in time here, we saw the sealed judgments of chapter six. Chapter six, the sealed judgment is the inauguration. It's the opening of the of the tribulation period. And and then as we go through the sealed judgments, we come to the trumpet judgments, and we're at the six of them have already happened. That's at the midpoint. When the seventh trumpet judgment sounds in verse 15, then you've got the bold judgments. The bold judgments will encompass the remaining twelve hundred and sixty days, a time, time, and a half time, forty two months or three and a half years. And so God has it has it time just right. And you and I are living We're living for such a time as this, right? Amen. On the verge of the lord Jesus returning. So, he says, there was given me a reed like a rod and the angel stood saying, rise and measure the temple of god and the altar and them that worship in it but the court which is outside of the temple leave out and measure it not for it is given unto the nations and the holy city shall be tread underfoot forty and two months and so the beginning of the tribulation period, you've got this peacemaker. He appears on a white horse in in Revelation six verse one with a bow with no arrows. So, peace, peace where there is no peace. First Thessalonians chapter five. He's got his board of peace ready. He's got 10 kings who have no kingdom. Right? Each person paid 1,000,000,000 to get in is technocracy. Right? And the world's divided into 10 regions. 10 toes of Daniel two, ten horns of Daniel seven, ten crowns of Revelation thirteen, ten kings, crowns and kings of Revelation 17 and these 10 kings are going to rule over a region of geographical area of, the globe. And we've seen, in recent days, president Trump, advocating from Panama, from Venezuela, all the way up to Greenland that that America would become the North American Union, all these nations together. And and then he's forming a board of peace in The Middle East with not nine or eight or seven or 12 or 20, but 10. 10 kings, right? That are going to in Revelation 17 says, 10 kings who have no kingdom as of yet, right? And so we see the Bible, you know, now a lot of times, some of these things like the League of Nations after World War one, it fizzled out but the idea was similar to what we see in the Bible. A global government, a global body, the world is is needs to come back to Babylon, needs to come back to Revelation excuse me, Genesis chapter 11, where after the flood, the Doahic flood, one of the things of rebellion with Nimrod and the powers that be is that they try to have a one world government, one world religious system, and building their their pyramid thing and in order for god to establish nation states, sovereign nation states. Now, you ever heard that Venezuela is a sovereign nation state? Ever heard that Greenland's a sovereign nation state? You know, so who thinks they can just arbitrarily say, we're going to knock down all these borders and all, you know? God confounded the language and he made nation states and the devil wants to reverse that, another attempt to make a global government, a one world government, a one world religious system, one kingdom, not 10 kingdoms, not a 100 kingdoms, one kingdom. And and that's the counterfeit trinity that's moving that direction. And part of that is inaugurated or starts with a covenant that this antichrist makes with the nation of Israel. Now before that, before this covenant, we've talked about this before, there could already be a global government operating before the world is divided into 10 regions. So we saw that in Daniel chapter seven. I think it's verse twenty three and twenty four. And so we could we could see a global government develop, and as yet, it's not doesn't have really an antichrist emerging, but these 10 technocrats are out there, and they're working on dividing the dividing the goal the globe into 10 regions. And then the antichrist emerges with a covenant because a war breaks out where coalition of Muslim nations. I believe Ezekiel thirty eight and thirty nine. Lot of guys disagree with this. But what are you going to do with Islam? Some pastors are worried about Muslims in Texas and Muslims in Minnesota. I'm not worried one bit. Don't matter to me. I don't care. To me, it's all a distraction. It's a distraction from the taking down of the global economy. That's what everyone's being distracted from. Because as soon as you get a digital ID and a global economic system, then the other two fall right into place, which is the governance and the religious system. So the control grid is being put in place, and president Trump is being used along with many other globalist bankers and technocrats to put this in place and god says according to Revelation seventeen seventeen that he's putting in their hearts to do according to his will and so we're watching this take place. We're watching The Middle East. We're watching the coalition of nations of Russia, Iran, Turkey, Sudan, who's the other ones? Some say Gomer is Germany, could be Turkey, but a coalition of five different Islamic nations that are going to come into Israel to take the spoil, and the spoil could be a Leviathan, a huge amount of natural gas and or the minerals that are in the Dead Sea and in any event, there's a hook in the jaw that's brought into Gog, the leader of Magog and they come on in and god destroys five out of every six of that invading force and the whole world has to stand back and reassess, reevaluate what it is they're doing and and that's when the whole world glorifies god as the god of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the god that intervene and that could very well be where the lord breaks the axis of the East side of of, you know, Russia's desire of dominance, but not wiping them out completely because they're gonna come back again, but also breaking the backbone of the the notion, the idea of Islam trying to be a global dominator, so to speak. And so and what emerges from that is quite possibly a peace treaty, a covenant that this antichrist is gonna emerge at this time. He's gonna emerge as, hey. The world's in a uproar, and he's going to start this covenant with the nation of Israel and peace peace where there is no peace and then they're able to, I say all that to say this, they're able to rebuild their temple. He's going to help them rebuild their temple and now you have two temple periods. You have the Temple Of Solomon's Temple, then you have in May where it's where it's destroyed and by King Nebuchadnezzar, the Babylonians. Then, you have seventy years later where Nehemiah and Esther Ezra the priest are labeled to go with a small remnant of of Jews out of Babylon back to Jerusalem. Cyrus is now in power and he's allowing them to go back. Artaxerxes and and they're able to start with the rebuilding of the temple. They call this the second temple period or Zerubabel's Temple and and so that temple period wasn't quite finished and then a continuation of us a time of our lord Jesus they call it Herod the Great. So, the continuation of Herod the Great continuing with the temple and the temple precinct area and that's what's known as the second temple period and then in seventy AD, Jesus said, not one stone remain upon another. The fire broke out, the gold in the temple melted, and the Roman soldiers priebard each and every stone to get that gold out of the cracks within according to Josephus, his Jewish historian and so as Jesus said, not one stone remain upon another. So, ever since seventy AD, no rebuilding of the temple but you've got the dome of the rock moss there and you've got you know, where Jordan used to be in charge nineteen sixty seven war, seventy three war, and Israel gained sovereignty over the over the city of Jerusalem and yet that's always been a battle going on for who's gonna control Jerusalem and and so Moshei Dayan, he saw that a flag, the Israeli flag went up and told his guys to take it down because they were worried about the Islamic nations going crazy. All of them coming together against them. So, they've tried to have this sort of peace agreement not only with Jerusalem but also with the West Bank with Gaza and all that and and so a lot of times the United Nations and other countries of world think the solution to Israel is a two state solution, a a solution for the Palestinians and and also for Jews, and yet now we see that that that is not real clear where how that's gonna go. We see them negotiating and fighting over all that, but I don't know what's gonna happen in that regard but the nation of Israel is suffering through what's called the times of the Gentiles. Times of the Gentiles is Gentile world rule with the Babylonians and then the meats and the Persians and then with the Greeks and with Alexander the Great and then with the Romans and so the the period we're living in now still the nation of Israel, 05/14/1948 according to Ezekiel thirty six and thirty seven is in the land but regathered in unbelief and they still are fighting for sovereignty. They're fighting for their right to remain as a nation and eventually, according to Zechariah chapter 12, including America, every nation of the world's going to abandon the nation of Israel and be anti Semitic and anti Israel. But presently, there's a battle going on for Israel's right of sovereignty and so there's gonna be even with the 10 the 10 nations ruling, it's a Gentile dominated and not until Jesus returns will the nation of Israel come out from under Gentile world rule or or what's called the times of the Gentiles of Luke 21 verse 24 and and so when this Antichrist comes along, he helps them with this covenant and and they're able to rebuild the temple. Now, this isn't a temple that god's instructing a rebellious nation of Israel to rebuild. It's a rebellious nation of Israel that's rejected Jesus Christ that wants to reinaugurate the Mosaic Covenant and and so now, in that regard, prophecy lets us know it is going to happen. It doesn't mean god saying, hey, I want this. I want you guys to come back to Jerusalem and begin to worship me according to the Mosaic Law. No. The Mosaic Law is wiped out. Jesus, you know, with we have the new covenant. We have Jesus. The lord wants the nation of Israel to worship Jesus. So, in Jeremiah 31, there's an unconditional covenant that eventually the nation of Israel will enter into where the lord's going to write his word within their hearts. It's not going to be an external keeping of the Mosaic Law. God's going to write his love letter within their hearts and change them and transform them. So, one third remnant is going to be saved and blindness and part has happened unto Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles become in and so we're living during the church age and so as the church age is watching this take place, we know we're close because we have the beginning of sorrows of the nation of Israel in the land. We know that we we see the global governance trying to emerge. We see the global religious system trying to emerge and we see the global economic system of Revelation thirteen sixteen through 18 trying to emerge. We also see in chapter 11 here the technology of when the two witnesses die that the whole world is able to view their cellphones or their televisions, whatever and they lie in the street for three and a half days and the whole world is viewing that And so with that in mind, you and I should be saying, you know, we're getting close. The technologies, the times in which we're living are allowing the prophecies, many of these prophecies to be fulfilled, you know, in our lifetime. So, there was given me a reed like a rod and we see in in Exodus Ezekiel 40 through 43, a similar means of measuring and this is the temple that's that's what's called the millennial Temple. So, there is a temple that the lord is going to rebuild after the tribulation period when he rules and reigns from Jerusalem and he's king of kings and lord of lords and David is prince and the nation of Israel will be dominant and there will be a temple there and there will be sacrifices in Jerusalem and so Ezekiel's Temple sometimes what we call it or the Millennial Temple. This temple here is the tribulation temple, the temple of the tribulation period and so there was given me a reed like a rod and the angel stood saying, rise and measure the temple of god and the altar and then that worship in it and so but the court which is outside of the temple leave out and measure it not for it is given unto the nations and the holy city shall they tread underfoot forty and two months. And so at the midpoint of the tribulation period, the antichrist is gonna go into this temple. He's gonna declare himself to be god, demand to be worshiped as god. In the next forty two months, the city is gonna be trampled under the foot of the Gentiles. So the nation of Israel, for forty two months, for three and a half years, they get their temple, and they get to reinaugurate their sacrifices and all that. But at the midpoint, there's a huge change that takes place and the Gentiles are given over some think that the temple precinct area because of the dome of the rock that they're going to have to give that over quote unquote to the Gentiles. Others think that that's all going to be wiped out. Not gonna have to worry about that but the trampling is is during the second half of when the antichrist is there with all these other his armies and everybody that are trying to destroy the Jews, trying to you know, genocide them. From chapter 12, you'll see that where the the dragon pursues the woman and the woman is the nation of Israel running toward Basra, running toward Southern Jordan of of Petra of today. So, let's look at some verses that tell us clearly about this covenant, the temple, and close attention to the abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel the prophet. When you see this come to pass, if you're there in the tribulation period, it means that you didn't listen to me and you didn't get saved. You're a poser. So, you went through the tribulation period and you didn't lose your head yet and now you're seeing these two witnesses drop drop to the ground and and you're seeing that the Antichrist emerges at that point in time, declares himself to be god, demands to be worshiped as god and he goes into that temple. When you see that, you know, you're at the midpoint and you know all hell's about to break loose. God's wrath is gonna be poured out with the bold judgments and so what you wanna do at that point is and if you haven't taken the mark of the beast yet, don't because once you take the mark of the beast and you're right in your forehead, there's no plan of redemption. There's no going back from that and so, refuse the mark of the beast. Alright, so let's look at some verses. Isaiah 2,815. Who wants that? I can do it. Okay. And then Daniel nine twenty seven. I'll do that. Okay. Daniel seven verse eight. Okay. Daniel eleven thirty one. I'll do that. Daniel twelve eleven. Second Thessalonians two, three, and four. Oh, my light. Let there be light. So, let's and did I give anybody Matthew twenty four fifteen? Somebody can do that? Betty says she'll do that. Oh, sweet Betty. Sweet Betty. Because I know that wasn't your phone on Sunday, Betty. I know. I know. You learned your lesson. You learned. You did that to me several times. You almost lost your salvation over that. Oh, boy. I tell you. You know, you know, when when I when I look out the audience, I I I can see that they're praying for Cathy and I can see the women in the congregation. They're like thanking the lord. Lord, thank you that I didn't marry this guy. And then and then they're praying for Cathy. How does she do it, lord? How does she do it? Alright. So we know. I do need lots of prayer. Because if I do this in public, think what I do in private. Alright. So we're Yeah. We're Isaiah twenty eight fifteen. Look at this covenant. Look at this covenant that they do. Who has it? Okay. Because you have said you have made a covenant with death and with hell, are we at agreement? When the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us. For we shall for we have made lies our refuge and under falsehood we have hid ourselves. It's all falsehood. They're totally deceived. And so and because they reject the truth, they're given over to a strong delusion that they believe the lie and many other lies. So that's why in Matthew 24, Jesus starts out by talking about, let no man deceive you. You know, deception is the enemy's greatest weapon. And if you're not a child of light, you are really vulnerable to be deceived by the lies from the wicked ones. So the nation of Israel, they're not regenerate. They're not they don't know Jesus. And so they they're insisting upon their own way. They're demanding their own way. And and so much so illustrated in chapter 11 here when the two witnesses are killed and and the people that are there are just so angry at god. They develop a satanic holiday giving gifts to each other. And then when the Lord raises them from the dead three and a half days later, you think that would bring them to the softness of of repentance? No. With that satanic holiday and all illustrates that they'd rather live a lie than turn from their sins and turn to the truth. They want their lie, and they'll double down. They're like the men of Sodom and Gomorrah that are coming to the door of of Lot wanting the two angels, the two men that come to town fresh meat, and and they're struck with blindness and yet they're groping for the door, blind men groping for the door, trying to find the door to get at these men. That's the level of intensity they have for things that are evil. And to me, when that happens, a society is on the at the point where it's like old yeller. You gotta put them down. You know? It's got just gotta be put down. And they're so rabid, so so determined to do evil that they have to be put down. And so it's it's a this covenant, Isaiah twenty eight fifteen, you know, it's a it's a bad covenant you're making. It's based upon deception. The devil's the devil send in the AC to deceive you. So, let's look at this covenant, Daniel nine twenty seven. Nine twenty seven. And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week. And in the midst of the one week shall cause the sacrifice and the oblations to cease. And for the over is for the overspreading of abominations, he shall make it desolate even unto the consumption and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate. So the abomination of desolation, Matthew twenty four fifteen, Jesus authenticates this whole thing and it's at the midpoint, twelve hundred and sixty days in, he's gonna sign a peace treaty, a covenant, reconfirm a covenant, maybe reconfirming the Mosaic covenant with them, helping them rebuild the temple and all, starting the sacrifices again, the acid red heifer, all that, the priests, everybody there. And at the midpoint, You've been tricked. And who is this guy? Daniel seven verse eight describes him as what? The little horn? As I was looking at the horn, suddenly another small horn appeared among them. Three of the first horns were torn out by the rooks to make room for it. This little horn had eyes like human eyes and a mouth that was boasting arrogantly. And so this global government has 10 toes, 10 boards of peace, 10 guys on the board of peace. When the little horn comes along, he subdues three of those horns and he becomes the eighth. And so this this government global government becomes satanically charged with the antichrist, a counterfeit Jesus Christ, counterfeit messiah taken. And the other seven give over their sovereignty unto him, and so he starts out tricking them and all and then how about Daniel eleven thirty one? Eleven thirty one. And the arm shall stand on his part and they shall pollute the sanctuary of strength and shall take away the daily sacrifices and they shall place the abomination that makes desolation. And so there are somehow the temple is going be desecrated. So, in chapter 11 of Daniel, you got a tee keys epiphanies the desecrating the temple at at this time this was written and Joseph Maccabeus, the Maccabean revolt where they were finally revolt against the Tekes but the Tikis went in there with pig's blood and pig and everything desecrated the temple. The Antichrist can do a similar thing somehow desecrating the Holy Holies and the whole temple area there. Possibly also by going in there as the seed of the serpent and declare himself to be god and demand and be worshiped as god. He's defiled the temple. Daniel twelve eleven. And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away and the abomination to make it desolate set up. There shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days. So, you set it up at the beginning, Daniel nine twenty seven. You sign the covenant. You get it rolling and twelve hundred and ninety seven days. Would you say? Twelve ninety. Twelve ninety? So an extra thirty days. So the twelve sixty is the midpoint. Then there's thirty days after the return of Jesus they're cleaning this stuff up. Remember, there's a seventy five day interval between the return of Christ and the start of the millennium, right? Blessed Seed comes to the thirteen hundred and thirty fifth day and so there's a whole big mess going on with the whole planet and there's a restoration of the planet which the lord could do in one moment but there's a period of time involved and part of that is thirty days that are used to clean up that temple, temple area And the Lord's gonna build a whole new temple but they're gonna clean up this mess with the antichrist. So you got that new remnant of Jews that are coming into the city, the triumphal entry, and Jesus even the geography splits and the water comes out and and so maybe there's a lesson there that Jesus is teaching the Jews that are there of of cleaning up the mess from the Antichrist that deceived him. Then second Thessalonians two, three, and four. Okay. Did somebody get it? Okay. Debbie's gonna do it. That you'd be not shaken in mind or be troubled neither by spirit nor by word nor by letter as from us as the day of Christ is at hand. Let no man deceive you by any means for that day shall not come except there be a falling away first And that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition, who opposes and exaltest himself above all that is called God, or that is worshiped, so that he that sitteth in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God. And so this rebellion, this apostasy, this rebellion against god in second Thessalonians and in the day of the lord which is the tribulation period and so Paul is describing the same thing Daniel's described and the same thing that Jesus in Matthew twenty four fifteen that Betty's going to describe. Matthew twenty four fifteen. Matthew twenty four fifteen? It sounded great though. 24? You're close. Men, you're getting close. Getting close. Yep. When you see the abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel the prophet standing in the holy place, flee, baby. Oh, I gave you the wrong one, didn't I? 11. 11? 17? No. Matthew twenty four fifteen. Wait you therefore shall see the abomination of desolation. That's it. See, I gave you the right one. Daniel. Give you the right one. Stand in the holy place. When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, whosoever reads, let him understand. Then let them who are in Judea flee to the mountains. Let them who is on the housetop not come down and take away. And so Jesus letting people know in seventy AD when you see this well when you see well they interpreted it those at that time about Titus, they fled but also in the tribulation period, those that see this point, it's time to flee. In chapter 12, you'll see the woman fleeing. You'll see the Israel fleeing to to Basra, to Petra. Okay. So we have Daniel saying it. We have Jesus saying it. We have the apostle Paul saying it that there's gonna be a temple there. There's gonna be a holy of holies, and there's gonna be a person, the Bible describes as the antichrist, who goes in there, declares himself to be god, demands to be worshiped as god. Now, leading up to that, leading up to that midpoint, god puts in two witnesses and their ministry in chapter 11 is gonna be for three and a half years. Their ministry is going to end when their testimony is complete at the midpoint. That midpoint is when the Antichrist appears to be slain and then he's resurrected also. And then he and some some speculate that the two witnesses might be the ones that take out the antichrist. And then the antichrist, there's a satanic resurrection. And then when he's resurrected, the Lord allows the Antichrist to kill the two witnesses. And then the two witnesses are laying in the street, and that's part of the whole chutzpah of everybody like, can make war with the Antichrist, you know? And you and I need to keep in mind as we're reading this and they're building the antichrist up, building them way up, that Jesus destroys him with the brightness of his coming and the sword of his mouth. Amen. He's nothing for Jesus. Right? He is built up in the minds of the people because god is testing the hearts of people of whether they will worship the true and living god or worship this man, this false Christ. So, verse three, and I will give power unto my two witnesses and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and three score days clothed in sackcloth. So, the sackcloth kind of reminds you of John the Baptist, their mannerism. It could just be two Jews, two unnamed Jews that we don't know about yet. My book's coming out but others others say because of the amount of transfiguration, you got Moses and Elijah and Moses being a a you know, a representative of the law and Elijah represented the prophets And then like we mentioned on Sunday, Enoch walked with God and was not. And so you have Enoch who never dies. So then you go to Hebrews nine twenty seven. It's appointed unto all men once to die and then the judgment. Moses died. Michael the archangel when contending with the devil for the body of Moses said, the lord rebuke you. You know, Jude describes that and so why did the devil want the body of Moses? Did he think that Moses would be one of the two witnesses later? We don't know. Devil doesn't know the future but he can read he can read the scriptures and and so you've got the three main characters are Moses, Elijah, and Enoch, the Bible silent about it. So, we don't know. Some also would say according to Zechariah chapter four, let's turn to Zechariah chapter four. You got Joshua and Zerubbabel and Zechariah chapter four verse 14 We'll pick it up at verse 11. Then answered I and said unto him, what are these two olive trees upon the right side of the lampstand and upon the left side of it? And I answered again and said unto him, what are these two olive branches which through the which through the two golden pipes empty the golden oil out of themselves? And he answered me and said, knowest thou not what these are? And I said, no, my lord. And he said, then said he, these are the two anointed ones that stand by the lord of the whole earth and so their power is a perpetual power for three and a half years. It's not by might nor by power but by my spirit, Zechariah four verse six, saith the lord and so these two witnesses, some say, there's a rubbable and Joshua, a picture of the priest and a king and Jesus being a prophet, priest, and king and so we don't we don't know but a lot of speculation, a lot of books written on who are the two witnesses. Now, we also know there's another ministry of Elijah that he is coming back before the tribulation period, and he's coming back according to Malachi four, five, and six. Somebody wanna read Malachi four, five, and six? Debbie's got it. Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the lord and he shall turn the hearts of the fathers to the children and the heart of the children to their fathers. Lest I come and smite the earth with the curse. So, we've got the ministry, the 144,000 that god is using to turn the hearts of the people back toward god, not just the Jews but also Gentiles and we have Elijah being sent back to before the tribulation period to begin to work. So, blindness in part has happened on Israel. In part has happened in Israel until the fullness of Gentiles become in. So, it's an indication that god is going to start to move and work to a greater degree on the hearts of his people and he's going to bring Elijah back before the tribulation period to do that ministry. Now, those of you that know about people that have a cedar or a Passover celebration, when they have a big table like Rob and Vicky there, what do they do with that table and chairs? They put one extra chair there that's empty that's for Elijah. Elijah. They're waiting for the return of Elijah. So, we let Thomas sit in that chair right now but there's a day where we're gonna leave it empty because Elijah is coming. Thomas almost looks like Elijah, don't you think? Or John the Baptist? Right? Amen. Yeah. It's kinda like John the Baptist the way I envision John. Locust and wild honey, baby. Works for me. You're nuts. I'm nuts. You married me. Long as I can keep her still laughing, I'm good to go. I tell her how funny I am and she goes, you're the only one that thinks you're funny. You're the only one. Alright. Here we go. Okay. I gotta clean my eyes up. Okay. So we got Elijah. We got Enoch. We're speculating. We know the duration of their ministry is twelve hundred and sixty days, which is a time and time and a half time. Forty two months. Three and a half years. Twelve sixty days. Alright. So, these are the two olive trees. Ah, we just read about that in Zechariah four, right? These are the two olive trees. We just read about in Zechariah four eleven through 15. The two lampstands, lamp, the oil that feeds those lampstands. Right? Not by might nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the lord of hosts that standeth before the god of the earth. So now when we're thinking about the two witnesses, guy, it might be. It might be Joshua and Zerubbabel. It might be two unnamed Jews, prophets. Right? And if any man will hurt them, fire proceeds out of their mouth. Boy, I'd like them at Cali Bermondon. That guy wouldn't have made it out of the building, Sunday. Barbecue em right there. Nobody else would bring a phone in like that. So, if any man will hurt them, fire proceeds out of their mouth. So, James and John, the sons of thunder, riding their Harleys with Jesus, right? Roaring with Jesus and they go through Samaria and the Samaritans have no dealings with the Jews, right? And when they saw that Jesus was putting his face toward Jerusalem that he's just walking through there, you know, they were they ignored him. They're indignant to him and all and James and John said, lord, do you want us to call fire down from heaven upon these Samaritans like a, you know, like Elijah did because Elijah was able to call down fire, you at the 450 prophets of Baal. Right? First Kings chapter 18. So you remember that? So that's why some people again think that one of the witnesses might be Elijah because he's able to call down fire. Right? And Jesus said, hey, you don't know what spirit you are of. We're not of the spirit of barbecuing people. We came to seek and to save the lost, man. That's the spirit, you know? And we're not ready to barbecue them. And but anyway, sons of thunder, James and John, man. Oh, that's pretty funny. You had to be there. Alright. And so fire proceeds out of their mouth and devours their enemies. And if any man will hurt them, he must in this manner be killed. And so you're gonna reap what you sow. You try to hurt them, you're gonna be hurt. And now we're told these have power to shut heaven that it rain not. Ah, Elijah did that too. Three and a half years and no rain during the time of great apostasy that the nation of Israel is going through in one Kings eighteen forty eight. So James tells us that when we pray for Sally, that we have the same ability as Elijah had. That he was a man of like passions as we. And when he prayed that it wouldn't rain, it didn't rain. And when he prayed again, three and a half years later that it would rain, it rained. So our access to the Lord should be the same as Elijah, the miracles of prayer and asking and seeking and knocking. Right? There's nothing too hard. If you have faith as a mustard seed, you say this mountain, be thou removed, cast into the sea. Nothing would be impossible for you. My faith is building. My faith is growing. I'm asking the Lord to heal my sister Sally. He's gotta heal somebody someday. Right? Everybody just keeps dying of this cancer. I'm sick of it. But what does God think? We want her healed and he says, I've got a new body waiting for her. You guys think you know more than me. Well, Rick, shut up. Okay, I'll shut up. Alright. I'm just crying out, Lord. I'm negotiating like Abraham did. If there's 50 righteous, Lord, there's 45. If there's 10, it's okay to negotiate. Right? It's okay to be bold and negotiate in that way. I'm not being disrespectful. James tell me to pray. He's encouraged me to pray. Elijah was a man. He wasn't he was just like us, a man of like passions as we. I mean, he feared Jezebel. He he ran faster than the chariots of Jezebel could catch up with him. Right? He outran the chariots. And she threatened him. He's a man of like passions as we. When Jezebel threatened him, you're gonna be dead like those 450 prophets of Baal when I get my hands on you. Elijah went into depression. He he needed some sleep. He physiologically was wiped down. The lord let him sleep. Then, the lord fed him physiologically. He needed some food, some minerals, some vitamins. He needed some water. You know, the brook there. There's some water. The raven come and bring us some meat. He's a carnivore. And then he's thinking he's the only one left. And the Lord gave him perspective. I got 7,000 heaven bowed knees, brought a bell. Best thing for you, Elijah, is get back to work. That's the best thing for a man. Best thing for a prophet. Get back to work. When you're working here, have no time to have a pity party. Feel sorry for yourself. Get back to work, Elijah. Work's a good thing. Get back to being the prophet. Get back to being who I called you to be. But he was a man of like passions as we. Just a threat from Jezebel could throw him into a a tizzy. And so these have power. Teddy likes that word tizzy. These have a power to shut heaven that it rain not in the days of their prophecy. Three and a half years. They they can cause it not to rain in certain areas of the planet or not at all. And look at the power they have. Could you handle that kind of power? Has God entrusted you with that kind of power? I'm waiting for the Lord to entrust to me the power of being a billionaire. Do you think I handle that? I want a thousand horsepower Ferrari. Can I handle that power? No. Alright. Well, I'm on a short leash then. Yep. I just have to stick with my skateboard. That's it. Power is a tough thing to handle. Tough thing to be entrusted with. And Jesus said, you shall receive power when the Holy Ghost comes upon you. And you're gonna be my witnesses in Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, the outermost parts of the world. Can you handle that power? That dunamis, dynamic power of the Holy Spirit, a spirit filled, power filled Christian? Do you think the gospel's powerful? Right? And he's entrusted the gospel to you and not to robots and not to angels? Not yet. Eventually, one angel flying overhead. Right? Everlasting gospel. 144,000 with the gospel, but you and I have been commissioned by the Lord to go make disciples of all nations. Right? And he hasn't left us powerless. He says, it's expedient that I go. If I go, then I'm gonna send the comforter. I'm gonna send the paracletus. I'm gonna send the holy spirit and you're gonna receive power, dunamis, dynamic power. So be not drunk with wine, wearing a success, but be being filled with the Holy Spirit, to be empowered with the spirit. I love God's anointing upon your lives. I love God's anointing upon our lives. I love watching the Lord teach us and I love being with a group of people who love god and love his word and will not compromise. I love it. And that's the purity. That's that's where the power comes is when we're willing to not compromise and not give in to the world and we love the lord's word and we love him and we rely upon him. We rely upon his holy spirit. That's when he can entrust his power unto you and I to share the good news of his coming kingdom and so these have power to shut heaven that it rain not in the days of their prophecy. I like the power just to shut some people's mouths is what I like And have power over waters to turn them to blood. Oh, that reminds me of Moses. Now, one of the witnesses might be Moses because you know Moses in Exodus seven through 15, he had these plagues he put out there. Oh, another one is plagues these guys are gonna do. Diseases on people. Oh, that's Moses. I got Elijah and Mo. Okay. I'm building a case. So, take the water and turn the water into into blood and you guys are filled with blood. You filled the city with blood. You guys are murderers. You're pedophile murdering of children. Well, I'm gonna cause your water supply to be turned to blood. Waters turn them to blood. And can you imagine the hatred the people have toward these two witnesses? Intense hatred? They know these guys are the cause of it. And to smite the earth with all kinds of plagues as often as they will, anytime they want. So Bill Gates wants to smite the earth with plagues. Right? So guess what? You are gonna get reap what you sow. You're plaguing people, you're gonna get plagues. You're killing people, you're gonna get killed. You're gonna reap what you sow. The punishment, eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth. The punishment's gonna meet the crime. And the water supply. He says, and when they have finished their testimony, there you go. You are invincible until you have finished your testimony. Yeah. When he says, you'll be my witnesses, Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, and the uttermost, it's his martyrs. You're his martyrs. And when we get to chapter 12, how do they overcome the devil? How they overcome him? The word of testimony. Blood of the lamb. Right? He's gonna condemn you like you're going to hell. No, I've been washing the blood. Overcome his life with the blood of the lamb. I've been washing the blood. And secondly? Word of testimony. The word of their testimony. When these guys finish their testimony, you have a testimony. Your testimony is powerful. All I know, Guy, is I was once blind and now I see. I was once a drunk. Now, I'm sober. I was all, I was once covetous and selfish and the lord put a love in my heart, you know? God's transformed. He's changed me. I'm not that same person anymore. You have a testimony, right? And this guy's above 40 years old and he's been born blind and why did this man, why was he born blind, Jesus? Did he sin or did his parents sin that he was born blind? And what did Jesus say? We're looking for cause and effect. That's so cruel. It's so cruel for a child to be born blind. Who did sin? The parents? So, you're a parent, your kids born blind? You want that kind of guilt? Oh, my son's born blind because I'm a filthy sinner. Right? So, that's the way these guys are thinking. Who did sin? His parents? Or did he sin while he was in the womb that he was born blind? What kind of logic is that? What kind of reason is that? And Jesus said, neither. Neither. Neither one of them sinned. He's born blind. So that the power of god could be made manifest. So that god could be glorified. I'm gonna have to wait forty years to do it but when he's 40, I'm gonna help him to see. In that moment, his whole life is built to that moment that he has a testimony. He was once blind and now he can see. You see that? So, a lot of the things you're going through are planned and ordained of god that there's a purpose and a time and a place where it's all gonna come together for you. It's all gonna make sense and he's gonna be glorified. For these guys, it's three and a half years. That's it. Jesus lived thirty years in obscurity. Three and a half years was his ministry. Culminating with the crucifixion, burial, resurrection, ascension, the right hand of his father. Right? Ain't over yet for him. Whole lot more to come. And John the Baptist, crazy. His cousin waiting for the lord, waiting for his cousin, waiting for the messiah, going before him, preparing the way and all. And a guy like him that's used to being out in the trees and at the beach and the lake and outdoors, now he's in a prison cell. And now he's doubting his faith. He's doubting. Are you the one or should we look for another? I mean, all of us can be brought to that place where we have a lapse of faith. And he's a mighty giant of the faith. Jesus said concerning the Old Testament prophets, the greatest is John, and yet the least in the kingdom of God is greater than him. Right? He got the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. And yet the Holy Spirit was in him from his mother's womb with Elizabeth. Right? And people were blown away by John. Jesus gave a great treatise on John of his testimony of John. But there came a day where he would die from a party favor for a bunch of very wicked, wicked, wicked people would gloat and behead him just because he had the audacity to tell Herod that taking your brother Philip's wife was illegal, was wrong. It was against god's word and Herodius was so incensed. A woman scorned that she'd coach Salome, her daughter, who danced provocatively that when the king asks you, what you want? For the dance, tell him you want the head of John the Baptist on a charger. What a way to go for a prophet. I mean, oh, crazy. But that's what the Lord intended. He died right on time. You and I are gonna die right on time. We're gonna die how he wants us to die. All the circumstances, everything have to go through his providential filter. You are invincible until your testimony is complete. Paul knew that his was approaching. The time of my departure is at hand. It's getting close. I fought a good fight. I finished my course. There's now laid up for me a crown of righteousness and not for me only but for all those who love his appearing. Right? And all we need to do is finish our course. Finish the work that god's given you to do and Paul, the prisoner of the lord. I mean, look at Paul's calling. Look at the description. Show him what things he must suffer for my name's sake And Paul saw it as a privilege, as a badge of honor to suffer for Jesus sake. And these guys here, these two two, nothing the antichrist can do. Nothing the devil can do to them. Since God is for you, who can be against you? Right? But when that time comes, then you're in chapter 12, they love not their lives unto death. That's the third part of overcoming the wicked one. He's gonna threaten to kill you. If you don't do what I say, you're gonna die. You gotta take this mark of the beast. You're gonna die. You gotta take the jab or you're gonna lose your job. And so you and and you remember that Jesus said, don't fear him who can kill your body, but fear him who can not only kill your body but cast your soul into hell. So fear god. To be asked in the bodies to be present with the lord, you're gonna be with Jesus in a second. You're not dying. You're just moving. You're moving out of this body into your new glorified body. And so death is nothing to fear for the Christian and so these guys are bold. They're bold, exceedingly bold. So, when they have finished their testimony, the beast that ascends out of the bottomless pit. So, in chapter nine, we saw this beast ascend. The devil ascend out of this bottomless pit, right? And he shall make war against them and shall overcome them and kill them. So, the Antichrist emerges as the spawn of Satan and turn to chapter 17 of Revelation. Now, this is where the Antichrist is been given a mortal wound and he's dead. Now, watch chapter 17. There came one of the seven angels. Now, remember, chapter 17 chronologically is happening at the same time as this first three and a half years. You understand that? This what what's what's being shown here in chapter 17 is the whore, the religious Babylon. It's the false religious system that's taking place for the first three and a half years. And then at the midpoint, when the Antichrist declares himself to be god, he wipes out this apostate whore. And then the religious system becomes the worshiping of the beast, the worshiping of the devil, the unholy trinity. So here we go. And there came one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls and talked with me saying unto me, come here and I will show thee the judgment of the great harlot that sitteth upon many waters. With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication. And the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication. So, what's happening here? The picture is, it is happening right now. It's happening right now. Where government merges with the church. And the church rides the government, fornicates with the government, the apostate church to gain power. The church, the apostate church during the tribulation period, first three and a half years, they're the very ones that are killing the tribulation saints. Because they're rejecting the apostate church and and then the second half, they're rejecting the mark of the beast and all. And so, they're drunk with the wine of her fornication. So, he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness and I saw a woman sit upon the scarlet beast. So, the woman is the apostate church out of Babylon, headquartered in Babylon, riding the beast, using the beast system. And so full of names of blasphemy and have seven heads and 10 horns. And the woman was arid in purple and scarlet color and bedecked with gold and precious stones, very wealthy and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and the filthiness of her fornication. And upon her forehead was a name written mystery Babylon the great, the mother of harlots and abominations of the earth. So, this religious system originated with Nimrod with Simaramus and Tamuz in Genesis chapter ten and eleven. The Babylonian religious system that that has carried on throughout history And I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints. There's your tribulation saints being killed. And with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. And when I saw her, I wondered with great wonder. An angel said unto me, why did thou wonder and tell her the mystery of the woman and of the beast that carries her which has the seven heads and the 10 horns. The beast that thou sawest was, now here's his his his execution. The beast that was so he comes along on the scene during the first half of the tribulation period. You got the beast, and then he's executed. Now he has a satanic counterfeit resurrection. And the seven has the beast that thou sawest that was and is not, so he died and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit. So some feel like when he died, this he's coming out, like in chapter nine there, out of the bottomless pit, his satanic resurrection. Let's see here. The beast that thou sawest was and is not and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit and go into perdition, so eventually go back into perdition. We know that the antichrist and the false prophet are immediately taken to the lake of fire. The devil is taken to the abuser or the abyss for a thousand years and then eventually the lake of fire. And they that dwell on the earth shall wonder whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world when they behold the beast that was and is not and yet is. And so when they see the beast killed and could be killed by the two witnesses, and then later he kills them, we don't know. But the satanic resurrection, the antichrist is in place of Jesus Christ. So the counterfeit trinity of the devil is God the father, the antichrist is God the son, and the false prophet is God the holy spirit. And way back in Genesis three fifteen where God prophesied that the seed of the woman that is healed would be bruised but he'd crushed the seed of the serpent's head and so the spawn of Satan and so it's part of what's happening here back to chapter 11 and so after they finished their testimony, and you and I wanna finish our testimony, we don't wanna fall short. We wanna finish our course. We wanna fight the good fight. We want to hear the lord say, well done, thou good and faithful servant. You've been faithful over a few things. I'm going to make you rule over much. Enter into the joy of the lord. And husbands, our job is to help our wives finish their course, taking knowledge of them, our children as best we can to help them along this way. They're that they would have a testimony of glorifying the lord. The other day, we were able to go yesterday to the hospital to visit Sally and James, and and we were able to go there with Britney and the children, and Wayne came later, and Cathy and I. And this is a family that we've known for thirty years that came to the church when we first started, and we're like family. We're very, very close. And it was very, very heartwarming to be there with them. And and the grandkids there, and Sally and James have treated my daughter, Britney, like a daughter. And now here, her children are there, and Sally hadn't seen the little ones, The latest one, you know, Toby and we sang Jesus loves me. This I know for the Bible tells me so and and I told Brittany today and as expressed to Cathy that it was such a blessing for me that we as a family were able to minister to people who are a family. They're in the body of Christ and they're they're they're we're family. We've been family for thirty years and but just so heartwarming as a family, your family is ministering in this community. And that's the testimony we want is that we're here to minister and today, I heard that Ginny Frank's husband, Nick, went home to be with the Lord. And he finished his course, you know, and they had a great, great testimony of their marriage. And I listened to JD Frog describe his wife going home to be with the Lord after four years, three years of cancer, valiantly, courageously, and how much it hurts. It hurts so deeply. But finishing her testimony, and JD's left behind to continue with his with the children and all. And so they finished their test and when they have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them And shall overcome them and kill them. So, he's allowed to kill him finally. They're untouchable until a point in time god allowed it and it's always a test. It's always a test for the people. Just a test. When Jesus is being brought before Pontius Pilate and Herod, it's just a test. It's a test for the people. And when Pilate comes there and says, I find no fault in him. It's a test. When he says to the religious leaders, I know that you delivered him for envy, I find no fault in this man, it's a test. When he offers Barabbas or Jesus and they cry out, crucify him to Jesus, it's a test. When they say, let his blood be upon us and upon our children. It's a test. Nobody's going to hell by being sent there. They go there by choice, by refusing in John three, the light, by refusing the right way and choosing the wrong way. Choosing evil. Choosing darkness. These people here are choosing darkness. They're going to gloat. They're going to party. They're going to revel. It's like, have you ever seen a woman interviewed that's told you she's had purposely gotten pregnant so that she could have six abortions? Do you know how demonic that is? And boasting about it? That I purposely get pregnant so that I can have another abortion. That's a demonically possessed person gloating in her evil. And still the gospel's power enough to reach her. To reach a person like that. The gospel reached Manasseh and he was he was the most wicked king the nation of Israel ever had. And so what do they do? And they shall have finished their testimony. The beast that ascends out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them and shall overcome them. So you're in a spiritual war. You're in a spiritual battle. The devil's making war against you with principalities and powers. As we get into Ephesians six, you're gonna see that. And if you step out of the shadows, if you step out of a place of neutrality and you step forward and say, Lord, here am I. Use me. You better expect a battle, a fight. And as Kathy points out, the devil's always looking for the weakest link in your family. And I look at my daughter Jessica as one that's been taken captive in this battle, in this war. The devil has taken her captive. She is a tragedy. She is a prisoner of war. And we're trying to pray her out of that prison, out of that funk, out of that stupor that she's found herself in. And we're praying that God will rescue her and that she will have a testimony that glorifies the Lord. And their dead body shall lie in the street of the great city which spiritually is called Sodom. So, you've got the city of Jerusalem that the devil's trying to desecrate, degrade, and destroy. You'll see people that will tell you that Seattle used to be a beautiful city, wonderful city. San Francisco is phenomenal. A phenomenal city. I mean, you hear reports of just incredible beauty and food and mariners and ships and all sorts of beautiful things, you know, from San Francisco. And other cities around the world just beautiful at a certain point in time, and then they are degraded and destroyed and polluted and and filth, just filth, decadence. And the city of Jerusalem is a city of peace. It's supposed to shine bright and be a bright light and the devil wants to destroy it. And so this great city which spiritually is called Sodom. So the immorality. And Egypt, Egypt typifies slavery. So, the devils, this beast systems bringing everybody under slavery and Jerusalem's the headquarters of this filth, this moral filth and slavery, where also our Lord was crucified. It's a murderous city, innocent people being murdered. And it says, and they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies three days and a half and shall not permit their dead bodies to be put in the graves. And so, when you would crucify people, when the Romans would crucify people, they'd put them along the road so that the people coming into the in and out of the city could see these bodies, you know, on those crosses and fear god. When we watch our old westerns, you know, the western movies, you know, sometimes they'll have guys that have been been hung and they'll remain on the gallows as a reminder to people don't mess with them. And in this case, the antichrist sees fit to bring forth publicity. He wants to use this as a photo op. He wants it to go viral. He wants everyone to see how powerful he is that he was able to take out god's two men and to take em out and so they've got the TV cameras there. They got the satellites. They got the whatever other technology Elon Musk has. It's all there. Stargate all of it. And Trump, first day in office, signed a $0.5500000000000 dollar bill to fund Peter Thiel and these other technocrats. They get their monies from our own government. You're paying for it with the Stargate project where they'll put little satellites all over the planet, low flying satellites to watch and observe and listen to everything. When you drive down the 91 Freeway in California now, they can see into your car with the types of cameras they have now. So if you have a weapon or drugs or whatever you might have in that car, it's invisible. They can see right in when you go through the through there. In Bremerton and all the cities around here, I was watching when they were changing all the lampstands, all the lamps, all the lamps everywhere, all the lights, all the the intersections have these lamps and cameras and and not only cameras but speakers. They're able to listen to you and hear what you're saying and they're listening on your phone right now. You don't believe me. I need a new floor jack. By the time I get done with this bible study, all these ads will be coming up on my phone of floor jacks from Harbor Freight. Hey, we got a sale going on. And so they're listening to everything and track and tracing. They're building huge, huge data centers to store this information. The computers that they're using are rapidly growing and becoming faster and faster and faster, but they need to be cooled. So they need water. And Bill Gates and the guys are buying all the farmland to starve you, but also to get those aquifers to get the water to cool these data centers that are being built all over the world. And, as they're gonna use tie it in with the Stargate project. And, Peter Thiel using that technology in Gaza with, with the Israelis to identify targets. Also, using this technology presently with ICE as they identify people that need to be taken out of the country. So you might be living here twenty years and not have citizenship, and they've got you or they're trying to locate you, and ICE is receiving information from the technologies, track and tracing everybody. So it's it's gonna be a publicity stunt, and everyone's gonna see it. And remember, when this is written, they didn't have the technology to do this. Now now we do. And that should make you really excited that you're living the last of the last days that Jesus is coming, that you're not a fool, that you're not a stupid Christian, that you're not a blind faith kind of a person, that your faith, you have the more sure word of prophecy, that God who stands outside of time that knows time that's eternal, he's able to tell you ahead of time what's coming, what's gonna happen. And that's so comforting to me to know I'm on the winning team. I'm on the winning side. That I don't need to align myself with these losers who are gonna be incredibly defeated, demoralized, and cast into hell. And you know, it it can't come soon enough with the pedophiles, the pedophiles in power, our whole government, the whole global government, the global leaders are pedophiles. And the Epstein files prove that and prove that they have handlers and prove that they're leveraged, that if they don't do what the bankers, CIA, Mossad, the bankers tell them what to do, then these files come out. They're ruined. And but it's just sickening. Today, I saw one of a Ted Cruz with a little girl in his arm. And I've seen some with Trump there and Gates and Bezos and so many of these guys, so many of these politicians and Prince Harry and all these elites. And I don't even wanna go too far into what they're doing and all that because it sickens me, makes me sick to my stomach. But but it's time for the Lord to put it down. It's time for the Lord to intervene and rescue these children who are being preyed upon and have been being preyed upon for a long time. And here's the audacity of evil, the audacity of evil. It's out in front now letting you know that nobody's gonna go to jail. Nothing you can do about it. Can't vote this away. And then the second tier of evil is they're gonna legalize it. They're pushing to legalize pedophilia. We would call that the normalization to desensitize you and I of the horrific aspect of children being preyed upon. So to desensitize you and then people like Oprah Winfrey and others desensitizing the population by saying it's good for the kids if you do it right. We are a sick, sick society that allows this to continue to happen. And and what's the problem? It's the heart of man. Illustrated here. The heart of man where they're gonna throw a party, a satanic party to celebrate the death of these two righteous men who didn't do a thing wrong. But boy, they hate god, don't they? The god haters? Cathy and I call em the god haters and another aspect of this that you need to understand is as as we read in chapter 17, when you see the government merging with this satanic religious system and then halfway through becoming the worshiping of the beast, the first three and a half years being the apostate fornicating religious system. That is a picture of the merging of mega with the church. That is a picture of not Charlie Kirk there anymore, but TPUSA merging with government. Where government and the religious entities, the evangelicals, the Catholics, the Mormons, the all the different religious system merging with government to form a one world religious system. And they can mention Jesus. He's a different Jesus. He's not our Jesus. And they can talk and act like they're all Christians and all, but that's not the Christianity that we that we that we live. It's inclusive. Anything goes including pedophilia. That's not a Christianity I I I wanna be a part of. And the normalization of homosexuality in the church, same sex marriages, LBGTQ, all these things. And Rick Warren's purpose driven that's been going on a long time, grooming this. Rick Warren's and I've talked about this quite a number of years. You don't hear people talk about this. One one pastor, Brandon Holthaus, caught on a while back. But there's a three legged stool that Rick Warren has purpose driven brought out there. And this three legged stool was the merging, converging of government with religion, with business. And that's what we're seeing. Peter Thiel and the technocrats are merging with government and MAGA and TPOSA is merging with faith groups, with religion, and they're bringing it together as a one world system is what's taking place right now. And you and I are gonna wind up like these two witnesses if we keep talking like this. Alright? They're gonna kill us. So but that's okay. I'd rather I'd rather be with Jesus than compromise and try to Christianize evil, and make excuses for evil men and keep making excuses like they didn't know. And it's three d chess, and he's got a strategy. It's mindless idiocy, and I don't wanna be a part of it. I I can't be a part of it. And so their dead body shall lie in the street of the great city which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt and also the lord where the lord was crucified and they have the peoples and the kindreds and tongues and nations. So, the whole world shall see their dead bodies three days and a half and shall not permit their dead bodies to be put into the graves. And so with Martha, people are gonna be saying, Lord, by this time he stinketh. He stinketh. Three and a half days out there corrupting, their bodies corrupting, and and they that dwell upon the earth, the earth dwellers, your citizenship is in heaven. But we're coming back to this earth because it belongs to Jesus. He created it and he redeemed it. But this present system, this present world system, his kingdom's not of this world or this world system. He's gonna destroy this world system. The new world order is nothing new. It's a satanic world order. He's going to destroy the devil, the antichrist, and the false prophet and take possession of this planet, then you and I are gonna rule and reign with him. And that one of the things that's so exciting is there's a possibility that in that thousand years that we're ruling and reigning with him here on Earth and there's no more curse, that the new heaven and the new Earth in Revelation twenty one and twenty two is there, and we can see the new heaven and new Earth. And wouldn't it be cool if we can go back and forth in our new glorified bodies? That we have access to the new heaven and the new earth, and we have access here on this earth with Jesus ruling and reigning, and that's fascinating to me. Paul was caught up to the third heaven, right? The throne of God. So see their dead bodies three days and a half, not permit their dead bodies to be put into the graves, And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them, rejoice in over evil, and make merry and shall send gifts to one another. So there's no more Christmas, no more celebrating the birth of God's only begotten son. We're gonna corrupt it. We're gonna change it to a celebration that we took out God's not only God's son. We not only killed God's son, we crucified him, but now we took out the two witnesses. And the strong delusion that's come is that we're gonna believe the lie that we're never gonna die, that we're gonna be as gods. If the antichrist can be killed and raise himself from the dead, then we're gonna believe the strong delusion as we reject the truth. God's gonna give me over to a strong delusion, these people, and they're gonna believe the lie within the garden that you'll never die. That's what they're gonna that's what they're gonna move forward with, is we're following Satan. Satan's overcome death. We can and and and the mantra of the atheists, of the of the Satanists is do as thou wilt. Do whatever you want. No rules. Do whatever you want. And you and I, our our mantra, our walking forward is not my will but thy will be done. We wanna live a life that's pleasing unto the lord. The very root of sin is selfishness. Do as thou will. Do whatever you want. If it feels good, do it. It's wrong for anybody to judge you. You know, it's loving for you to do what you think is good. You know? And and so they prey upon the most innocent of society, the little children, because they think it's good for the children. Because these two prophets tormented them that dwell upon the earth. And sometimes our gospel message and our our Christianity is like tormenting people. It's oil and water. It's light and darkness. And you shouldn't try to appease. You shouldn't try to compromise. You shouldn't try to lower the word of God so as to be liked by these people because they don't like you. They don't like the light. They hate the light. They love the darkness. So be wise concerning that. And after three days and a half, the spirit of life from God entered into them and they stood upon their feet. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. And I imagine everybody's still watching, right? Mhmm. Huge, crazy and you know, maybe some of them are thinking, you know, I I had too much drugs. Is that really happening? You know, I'm drunk. But no, the spirit of life from god entered into them and they stood upon their feet and great notice, great fear, great fear. When god smote Ananias and Sapphira, great fear filled the church. A reverential, a reverential awe. Like, oh my gosh, they they they fudged on, they just fudged a little bit, you know? They they did you give so much? Yeah, we gave so much. Oh, well, wow. I was in your power. Wasn't yours do with as you will? The problem was they lied to god. They lied to the holy spirit. Boom, you're dead. Man, great fear fell upon the church. Don't think people will be lying at that point, not for a while. And great fear fell upon them who saw them. And they heard, so we got great fear, now they hear a great voice And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, come up here. A great voice from heaven. This is my beloved son in whom I'm well pleased. Listen to him, Peter. Shut up, Peter. I don't think he said shut up but listen to him. This is my beloved son whom I'm well pleased. Voice from heaven at twelve in the afternoon on the road to Damascus and Saul hears the lord Jesus saying, Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? Where art thou Lord? I'm Jesus. Whom you're persecuting? So there's a great voice and it's not the rising guy. Lord said, can you hear me now? And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, come up here. And they ascended. So, raptured up to heaven. The Ascension of Jesus. What's more powerful? The rapture or the ascension? Similar, same. Teleported, right? Ask them the body be present with the lord. Come up here and they ascended up to heaven in a cloud and their enemies beheld them. Now, when Elijah went up to heaven, how did he go? He just was not. No. That's Enoch. Enoch was raptured. And Philip was raptured. Philip was as Zodus. Boom. But what about Elijah? How is he didn't die yet. He went to heaven. How did he go? Fire. Fire. Is Elijah? Second Kings two eleven, up in a whirlwind. I'm in a whirlwind. Caught up in a whirlwind. It's the. They saw the chariots of fire but he went up in a whirlwind. And Enoch walked with God and was not. Got those two that haven't died yet. Philip was raptured, but, you know, he wound up dying. He he just got taken to a different city and we got Lazarus that was raised from the dead after four days. He died again though, right? And the widow of Nain's son, Jairus' daughter, they died again. We have some guys resurrected from the dead when Jesus was crucified. The tombs were open in Jerusalem and they're walking around in the city, right? They went back in. We have a picture of the rich man of Lazarus in Luke 16. You know, you have Moses and the prophets if they believe not Moses and the prophets, neither will they believe the one be raised from the dead. You think with these two coming back from the dead that the people would believe. They're not gonna believe. Maybe some of them will. Beheld them. In the same hour was there a great earthquake. So again, great great fear, great voice, and a great earthquake. And the tenth part of the city fell, and the earthquake were slain of men, 7,000. So tenth of the city fell, collapsed, and 7,000 died, and the remnant were terrified and gave glory to the God of heaven. The world's gonna glorify the Lord when he wipes out Magog, the five coalition of nations. The whole world's gonna glorify God knowing that God's the one that did it. Doesn't mean they believe. Every knee's gonna bow and every tongue confess one day that Jesus Christ is Lord. Doesn't mean they believe. Unbelievers are gonna glorify God. You're gonna glorify him one way or the other. Every knee is gonna bow. Every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord. The second woe is past and behold, the third woe cometh quickly. So that finishes up the the third woe and now we come to the seventh trumpet which has the seven bold judgments. So, this is going to be the start of the second half of the tribulation period. Now, when we get to chapter twelve and thirteen and fourteen, it's still the mid part of the tribulation period. We're we're jumping ahead chronologically here and the seventh angel sounded and there were great voices in heaven saying, the kingdom of this world, so after all that that happened, the kingdom of this world, this world, the devil offered Jesus a kingdoms, all the kingdoms of the world. If you bow down and worship him. The kingdoms of this world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ and he shall reign forever and ever. So triumphant, Triumphant Jesus. He spoiled all principalities and powers. And Jesus has to before he takes possession of the planet, he's got to deal with the evil, the mystery of iniquity. He's gotta deal with the devil and the evil, wicked system and the wicked the wickedness of man. When we're there in the millennium, he's not gonna allow the dominance of wickedness. There's gonna be people that repopulate that sin, but he's gonna rule and reign with a rod of righteousness. He's gonna judge sin quickly, and he's not gonna allow this chaos of the wicked one. The devil's gonna be chained in the abyss for a thousand years. And the four and twenty elders who sat before God on their thrones fell down upon their faces and worshiped God. As we saw them in chapter four and chapter five. So picture in heaven they're worshiping the Lord. Saying we give thee thanks oh Lord God Almighty. Who art and was and art to come. So, picture of the second coming telescoping to the end, who art, who was, who art to come. Look into the second coming when he takes possession of this planet. Makes his triumphal entry into Jerusalem. With great power and has reigned and so who was and art to come because thou hast taken to thee thy great power and has reign. And the nations were angry and thy wrath has come. And the time of the dead that they should be judged. Revelation chapter 20, the great white throne judgment, the wicked dead are gonna be bodily raised from the dead. Judgment is coming upon the planet. God's pouring out his wrath upon a Christ rejecting world. He's pouring out his wrath upon the antichrist and the false prophet. His wrath upon the devil and all the earth dwellers who are rejecting him in rebellion to him in this great apostasy. He's pouring out his wrath upon his own people, the nation of Israel. His wrath is gonna be poured out upon. Two thirds of them are gonna die. A one third remnants can be purified as they go through the time of Jacob's trouble. Pouring out his wrath. And the nations were angry and the wrath has come. In the time of the dead that they should be judged and that thou should give reward unto your servants, the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear your name, small and great, should destroy them who destroy the earth. So, god's gonna destroy those who are corrupting and destroying the earth and he's gonna reward at the Bema seat judgment that we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, we, the church, be lavish with gifts and he's going to gift those who are faithful and those who have been unfaithful, though those who won't believe, those who won't trust in him have a fearful looking to of judgment. And so he In John John chapter three says they're judged already. They're judged already the wicked. And For God sent not his son in the world to condemn the world, but that the world through him might be saved. Verse 17 of John three. He that believes on him is not condemned, but he that believeth not is condemned already because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten son of God. And this is the condemnation that light has come into the world. The men loved darkness rather than light because their deeds are evil. For everyone that doeth evil hates the light, neither comes to the light, lest his deed should be reproved. But he that doeth truth cometh to the light that his deeds might be made manifest that they are wrought in God. And so you wanna be in the light because you want the Lord to be glorified. You want the Lord for people to see the the good deeds, the good things. Let your light so shine before men that they may see your good deeds and glorify your father who is in heaven. Now in John 17 it says, then these words spoke Jesus and lifted up his eyes to heaven and said, father, the hour has come. Glorify thy son that thy son also may glorify thee that thou hast as thou hast given him power over all flesh that he should give eternal life to as many as thou has given him. And this is eternal life that they might know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou has sent. I have glorified thee on the earth. I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do. And now, oh father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was. I have manifested thy name under the men whom thou gavest me out of the world. Thine they were and thou gavest them to me and they have kept thy word. Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee for I have given unto them the words which thou gave me. Look at that. The lord has given you the words that the father gave to him. You've been entrusted with god's word. And they have received them and have known surely that I came out from thee, that they have believed that thou did send me. I pray for them. I pray not for the world or for them whom thou hast given me, for they are thine. And all mine are thine and thine are mine, and I am glorified in them. And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I am come to thee, holy father. Keep through thine own name those whom thou has given me that they may be one even as we are. While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name. Those whom thou gave me, I have kept, and none of them is lost but the son of perdition that the scripture might be fulfilled. And now come I to thee and these things I speak in the world that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves. I have given them thy word and the word has and the world has hated them because they are not of the world even as I'm not of the world. You feel like you fit in with this world? I pray not that thou should take them out of the world, but that thou should keep them from the evil or the evil one. They are not of the world even as I am not of the world. Sanctify them, which means make them holy. Sanctify them through thy truth. Thy word is truth. As you and I get to know god's word, we're being sanctified. We're being made holy. We're being set apart from the world. As thou hast sent me into the world even so, I also have sent them into the world. You're like the two witnesses. You've been sent into this filthy world, right? And for their sakes, I sanctify myself that I may also might be sanctified through the truth. Neither pray I for these alone but for them also who shall believe on me through their word. You're his witness. He's praying for those in the future that are gonna believe on him through the word that you pass on. That they all may be one as thou father art in me and I in thee that they also may be one in us that the world may believe that thou has sent me. And the glory which thou gave me, I have given them that they may be one even as we are one. I in them and thou in me that they may be perfect and one and that the world may know that thou has sent me and has loved them as thou has loved me. Father, I will that they also whom thou has given me be with me when I am, that they may behold my glory which thou hast given me for thou loveth me before the foundation of the world. O righteous father, the world has not known thee, but I have known thee. And these have known that thou has sent me, and I have declared unto them thy name, and I will declare it that the love with which thou hast loved me may be in them and I in them. Now reading that, and we come to this chapter and all that's happening in the tribulation period at the midpoint and all that, it's such an incredible contrast of you can see the evil. You and I don't belong here. This is a fallen world, and that's why we feel so strange here. And so the nations were angry with his wrath has come and the time of the dead that they should be judged and thou should reward unto thy servants the prophets and the saints and them that fear their name, and the small and great should destroy them who destroy the earth. And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen in the temple the ark. So the temple on the earth is a replica of the temple in heaven. And the ark of his covenant, and there were lightnings and voices and thunderings. And in that ark of the covenant there are stone tablets, the Mosaic Law. There are there is the rod that budded Moses or excuse me, Aaron's rod that budded, which speaks of the resurrection. And then thirdly, there's a jar of manna, which speaks of Jesus as the bread of life. Let's pray. Father, we thank you for the time that we could spend in your word. And Lord, my heart's at peace now. My heart is calm, and your word has a calming effect, Lord. And, Lord, we know that vengeance is mine. I'll repay, saith the Lord, and that we, the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but my dear god to the pulling down of strongholds and although we may possess at times a righteous indignation toward evil and toward the times in which we're living. Lord, we we need to be equipped. We need to be strengthened with the power of your holy spirit to overcome, to live above the the sewer that this world is becoming, Lord. Help us to live above the sewer. Help us to live the life of the spirit. Help your love to dissopermeate our hearts and lives and the fruit of the spirit, which is which is love and wisdom. We need wisdom in these days, Lord. We need discernment. Make us more and more lovers of truth. And Lord, help us to be your witnesses in these last days. That we could share the glorious good news of your coming kingdom. And that many, many, many would come to Christ. That many would hear of your wondrous love and surrender their hearts and lives and forsaking darkness, repenting, turning from the darkness of this world. And Lord, embrace your your kingdom. And we pray, Lord, your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. In Jesus name, we pray. Amen.

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Calvary Chapel Bremerton - Home Bible Study

Listen to Rick Beaudry, Pastor of Calvary Chapel Bremerton, lead our home Bible Study session in worship and teaching the Word of God. Be edified and built up in your faith with solid Bible teaching. New episodes released on Tuesdays in the Pacific Standard Timezone.

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