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Ready live from Bremerton. It's Monday night. We have the blessing of having a meal together and gathering for bible study, Revelation chapter 12 tonight. And we wanna open with prayer and we wanna start by praying for Sally. Those of you that don't know Sally's could be healed. She's she's still alive but but more than likely, the lord's going to take her home and so, that's why things are leaning but the lord at eleventh hour, he could heal her. So, we're gonna pray for god's will to be done and thank all of you that are praying for James and Sally and praying for the family and so let's pray. Father, we come before you and we lift up Sally and we do pray, Lord, that you would mitigate some of the suffering, Lord. We pray we don't wanna see her suffer. And if it's your will to take her home, Lord, we pray that you would ease that pain and just take her into your presence and send the angels to bring her into your presence for her new glorified body. But, Lord, if her ministry, as she's laying in bed there, is under the nurses and to family members and people that are coming to the hospital, and as she expresses her love for you and you still are using her, and, James, to minister unto others. We we understand in that regard. But Lord your perfect will be done. We pray for Sally. You do what's best for Sally. And James we ask. And undergird strengthen them. Give them your peace that surpasses all understanding. And comfort them, lord. Send the Holy Spirit to discomfort everyone in the room there and so lord, we lift her up. We ask that you bless the Bible study tonight. The worship, the study, the time of fellowship and prayer. Bless this time in Jesus name. Amen. Amen. Amen. Alright. Thanks, Rob. Yeah. Okay, Revelation chapter 12. Pamela's moving on Friday. So, Sunday was her last day to say goodbyes. So sweet to have her the time that we did And What else? Any other announcements? Thomas pray for his Lord, we just lift up Thomas and pray you help all of his his contacts, his phone to reappear, come back. Pray that his friend, Laura, would make contact with him and call him and be according to your will and just thank you for Thomas how much he loves you, Lord, as he tells everybody about Jesus. In Jesus' name, we pray. Amen. Alright. Verse chapter 12. So we're in the middle of the tribulation period, verses 10 through 14 and verse 17 is the middle of the tribulation. And and so and there appeared a great wonder in heaven. And this word great is also used in verse three for a great dragon. Used in verse nine in regard to a great dragon. And then in verse 12, there's great wrath that God's gonna pour out. And then in verse 14, a great eagle. And this great eagle is gonna deliver the woman, the children of Israel during the tribulation period. So so there's a great wonder in heaven and a woman clothed with the sun and the moon and under her feet and upon her head a crown of 12 stars. This is a great chapter for a Christmas morning message, I'll tell you, right here. Because we're gonna talk about the man child and the nation of Israel, the woman. And so the the moon and her feet and her head and the crown of her stars, and she being with child cried, travailing in birth and pain to be delivered. So in Genesis chapter 37 verse nine, you've got Joseph having a dream, and and then that dream he's telling his brothers, they get really angry at him that they would be subservient to him and bow down and also. He's got this dream going on. Let's see. 37 Genesis 37 verse nine. Here we go. And he dreamed yet another dream and told it to his brethren and said, behold, I have dreamed a dream, more, and behold, the sun and the moon and the 11 stars made obedience unto me. So his mom and his dad and his brothers, his 11 brothers basically came to a place of submission unto him and so a picture of the nation of Israel being built and so there's 12 boys and they're going to sell Joseph into into slavery. He's going to go with the Midianiteish band down into Egypt. He's about 17 years old. By the time he's 30, he'd been a type of Christ. He's going to enter into his public ministry of being second and only command of that of pharaoh. So, what god does in the interim there is he causes Joseph's brothers and the family to reach a point of about 70 and the 70 encounter a famine and some tough times and with that famine and the tough times, Joseph been preparing. He's a prepper and he's been preparing a grain and feed and all of the sorts of things during the seven years of plenty, getting ready for the seven years of famine. And in that time of seven years of famine, he does like the globalists are wanting to do now. Everybody loses all their land, all their everything. They give all their silver, their gold, their everything simply for food. And pretty soon, they're given everything. So so Isaac excuse me, Jacob with his family eventually are drawn all the way down into Egypt. They're gonna spend four hundred and thirty years in Egypt and god's gonna form a nation during that time and Joseph's the one that's that god's using to bring them in there And god's forming a nation, and the devil sees this. The devil sees from Genesis three fifteen, the seed of the woman, the virgin born son of god, that the messiah is gonna come forth, that he's gonna have his heel bruised and crush the serpent's head. And so as the devil's learning that God's gonna bring forth a nation from Abraham and these Jews, the Abrahamic covenant, the Jews are gonna be the people that God's gonna bring forth the Messiah from, the devil is very, very antisemitic if we use that term today. Great level of hatred against the Jews, against the nation of Israel. Even to the point in the time of the Exodus where the children of Israel began to grow a couple million people, the Egyptians weren't having that many kids. And so you see an extermination plot where the pharaoh tried to exterminate all the male children that were being born. And Shifram Pua, the mid midwives, they weren't gonna stand for that. They weren't gonna allow the baby boys to be thrown into the Nile River. And so they told the king, hey, these these kids are fast. They before we can even get to them, boom. They pop out. And and so you know the story of Moses drawn forth from the water and so we watched the 10 Commandments last week on Cathy's birthday and the grandkids are watching it with us and we saw Amram and Jochebed. Amram made a bulrush out of bulrush out of weeds. She made a basket, an ark with a with a top to it. And Miriam, his sister, helped position this this ark to strategically go toward Pharaoh's daughter. And so she raised Moses there in Egypt, his first forty years that of Egypt. His next forty years in the deserts of Midian, Jethro, the Midianitish priest, and tending another man's sheep. And then at 80 years old, the Lord appears to him in the burning bush, and it's time for the exodus. It's time for the people to be redeemed, to be baptized in the in the the Red Sea, and to come out of the Red Sea and enter into the heading toward the promised land. And and so god's forming a nation and that was the intention of forming the nation so that he can bring forth the Messiah. Our Messiah is a Jew and so the picture here is a picture in heaven of the battle, the fight that's going on. Michael the archangel in Daniel chapter 10 and also in Daniel chapter 12, we see that Michael the archangel is the one assigned to protect the nation of Israel. In chapter 10, when we see Michael battling for twenty one days as Daniel's praying, and he comes back up for air and he lets Daniel know that the prince of Persia is resisting him. So in Isaiah 14, we see Satan's fall from an exalted position as an exalted cherub angel before god also in Ezekiel 28 and it could very well be that he was a worship leader and he was beautiful, finitely perfect and beautiful and all and it went to his head. It became filled with pride We see his five eye will statements as he wants to be god and and so the lord saw that rebellion and then we see in chapter 12 here that one third of the stars of the angels of that time fell with Lucifer in that coup, that that, the mystery of iniquity, the mystery of evil that we talk about. And, and so not the opposite of God, a fallen angel, so more of the opposite of Michael the archangel, holy angel. And and so his antagonism has been to try and be as god, and he wants to thwart or stop or hurt or destroy any means of redemption, any means where man could be redeemed. And and so when he sees in Genesis three fifteen that God's gonna bring forth the seed of the woman, the virgin born son of God, that the second person of the Trinity is gonna be incarnate, and that he's gonna live a perfect life. And so the devil knows the gospel, knows the objective, knows that Jesus is eventually going to, you know, emerge as messiah, as the Christ, as the anointed one, the one that'll go to the cross. And so he's been trying to stop this from happening. So in Exodus, he tried to kill all the males and to stop it. Later with Haman, with Queen Esther, they tried to exterminate all the Jews because if you can exterminate all the Jews, then there won't be any babe of Bethlehem later, you know? And and so the devil's been doing this. And then in Matthew chapter two, when the wise men come from Babylon, again, Herod the great tries to kill all the babes two years old and under, but Jesus slipped on through. And with the gold, the myrrh, and the frankincense, Mary and Joseph were able to be directed to Egypt for a period of time until Herod the Great would die. Then they're able to come back and they're able to raise their family in Nazareth, not in Bethlehem. And so that's the first advent of Christ and that's the Abrahamic covenant that god would bring forth from Abraham's seed. If you could number your seed, Abraham, it'd be as the stars of heaven in Genesis chapter 15 and and so we have the pedigree of the natural born Jew and the true Israel of god are those who believe in Jesus. So, father Abraham is the father of us and that we are not Jews. We're the church but we come by grace through faith alone and so the faith that Abraham exhibited, the faith that Abraham lived out and the Messiah coming forth. Jesus isn't just the savior of the nation of Israel. He's the savior of the whole world. So that's where the by thee, Abraham, all nations of the earth would be blessed and that the Messiah would come forth from his loins. Alright. So that's kind of a backdrop of what's going on. And and she being with child cried travailing in birth and pain to be delivered. And so in tumultuous times, the nation of Israel is under the heel of Rome during this time of the birth of Christ. And in let's see. In Jeremiah, we read tying it into it. Matthew two of Rachel when she was having Benjamin that as she travailed, she she actually died giving birth to Benjamin in Ephrathra which is Bethlehem and so Rachel's tomb is there. And then you tie that in with Matthew chapter two with the birth of of our lord and the the antagonism that came, as I said, from Herod the Great and trying to destroy trying to destroy the Christ child. And he says, and there appeared, verse three, another wonder in heaven. So, the first one is a great wonder in heaven was the woman. The woman is the nation of Israel. So, you gotta get your terms right here. The woman is the nation of Israel and and she's going to have a son and that son that she's going to have is the Messiah, the nation of Israel. So, there appeared another wonder in heaven and behold, a great red dragon. Now, dragon is a flying serpent and if you look at Revelation chapter twenty two and three, the serpent is described as the dragon and so you tie the serpent in back into Genesis chapter three when he beguiled and deceived the woman. Right? And he deceived the woman and said, you're not gonna die. God's keeping back from you. The tree of knowledge of good and evil that you'd know good and evil. And and so a talking serpent well, this talking serpent is is the devil, and he's described as a dragon, which is a flying serpent. And behold a great red dragon having seven heads and 10 horns and seven crowns upon his heads. And and so this this counterfeit trinity of the devil seeing himself as a counterfeit god the father and then the antichrist in place of Jesus Christ counterfeit god the son and then the false prophet will see like next week a counterfeit holy spirit. Now, what's happening is a picture of Daniel chapter seven where there's going to be seven heads and 10 horns and seven crowns upon the head. So, it's talking about the global empire. So turn to chapter seven of Daniel. Very fascinating times we're living in because these 10 horns, these 10 crowns, these 10 toes, these 10 kings are possibly being formed right before our eyes. President Trump didn't have nine or 11. He's got 10 kings, 10 on his board of peace. Right? And that's that's pretty fascinating. And if you look at chapter 17 of the book of Revelation, 10 kings who have no kingdom as of yet. Right? They don't have a kingdom as of yet, but it's forming. And so and I considered the horns, verse eight, and behold, there came up among them another little horn before which there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots. And behold, in this horn rise like the eyes of a man and a mouth speaking great great things. And and I be I beheld till thrones were placed and the ancient of days did sit whose garment was white as snow and the hair of his head like pure wool and his throne like that of a fiery flame and his wheels burning fire. And so god the father there, the ancient of days, but in verse eight here, this is a picture of the antichrist and the little horn of Daniel. And these horns speak of power. So in Daniel two, when you speak of 10 toes, those were 10 kingdoms, and the world divided it into 10 regions or 10 kings. And so one kingdom but but divided into 10 regions. And behold, there came up among them another little horn. And so this is the Antichrist before which there were three of the first horns plucked up. So the Antichrist is gonna fight against three of the 10, and then he's gonna become the eighth during the tribulation period. And so if you look at Revelation seventeen ten through 13, somebody wanna read that? And he's a big mouth. He's got a huge big mouth boasting of things, and and if you look at twenty four and twenty five after somebody reads the 17, Revelation seventeen ten through 13. Somebody wanna read that? Okay. Ahead. And there are seventeen, five are fallen and one is, and the other is not yet come. And when he cometh, he must continue the short space. Unto the beast. Shall make war with the lamb and the lamb shall overcome them for he is lord of lords and king of kings and they that are with him are called the chosen and faithful. Alright. So these world empires, Egypt is one, Assyria is one, Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome, and then the sixth is Rome, the seventh is the rebirth of the Roman Empire, which is gonna be is the start of the, you know, the tribulation period, the rebirth of the Roman Empire at ten, And then the eighth is going to be a transition from the 10 down to seven or there's only seven that remain because three are wiped out, and the Antichrist becomes the eighth. So turn back to chapter seven, and I'll show you as best I can. So verse 23. So here here we are looking for the world to be divided into 10 regions, and Billy Crone's got a good thing going right now with the Trump paradox, and he's talking on Jim or Kelly. He's talking everywhere, and he's really excited of what he's discovered in regard to the Technate. The Technate is something that was developed right after World War one, and the Technate was the world divided into 10 regions. And the North American Union is what Bush called it, but it goes from Venezuela up to Greenland. And the map's a map that's been around for quite a while. That's a design of the the globalist at that time. In the seventies, Claus Schwab was instrumental in bringing forth what's called the Club of Rome map. And the Club of Rome map is the world divided into 10 regions, but it's a little bit different than that Technique one. So Billy's doing a good job to bring as we've been posting for a long time, Every time I see information pointing to the 10 toes or this new government that's forming, I always I always put at the top on Facebook, 10 toes, 10 horns. So, put Daniel two, then I put Daniel seven to teach people the 10 horns and then I put 10 crowns and 10 kings. Revelation 13, Revelation 17, and I try to get people to see that, you know, hey, this prophesied, it's gonna happen, world's gonna be divided in 10 regions, and so here's what's coming next. Verse 23. Thus he said, the fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms and shall devour the whole earth and shall tread it down and break it in pieces. And so this is the rebirth of the Roman Empire, and it's gonna be a imperial form of government. So we're watching the form of government that we have be degraded. People are losing confidence in human government, losing confidence in the greatest government, you know, of our time, the constitutional republic, the freedom and all, the government by the people for the people. The problem is corruption. Our form of government's wholly inadequate for an immoral people. If America ceases to be moral, then America will cease to survive, and that's what we have. We have the powers that be are pedophiles and human trafficking, children, the whole thing. So it's making the whole world sick of America. Dedollarization, the tariffs that Trump did were not in the best interest of America. You're paying for those tariffs with all that high inflation, the food and everything you're buying, and it's complete opposite. So really what he was doing was he's the wrecking ball, and his job is to break relationships, trade agreements, to wipe those trade agreements out, and to dedollarize, to everybody away from the dollar. We didn't need this money from the tariffs. We had distinct advantage over every other nation on the planet because we had the de facto global currency of the dollar. And so we had great we had food and very low pricing on stuff. And so then when they outsource everything and move everything to Vietnam and China and all over the world, now he's gonna come back and break all those agreements? He's gonna pressure those people? So when you buy something and somebody does pay a tariff, they pass the price onto you. You're paying for it. But we're so stupid. We're just so stupid. So so now he's wanting to bring everything to the place where America where America is the scourge of the whole world. And when that happens, when we're no longer revered and modeled and and, you know, example, then the world's gonna be clamoring for a new form of government. So king Charles king Charles in England has already stated that the world needs a leader, and he needs a trillion dollars, this leader, to emerge. And they're moving in a direction of globalism, of a of a imperialism, of king, and the world's moving back to that where there needs to be a man. One guy, not a congress, not a state, not a senate. We need one guy. We need we need in fact, we need 10 guys, 10 technocrats. So here it is. Thus he said, the fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon the earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms and shall devour the whole earth. So this rebirth of the Roman Empire, when they divide into 10 regions, these 10 kings, they're gonna be dominant. They're gonna devour the whole earth and shall tread it down and break it in pieces. So they're gonna break everything. They're gonna break the constitution. They're gonna break everybody's freedom. It's gonna be a tyrannical form of government that is governed by artificial intelligence with the technocrats, the spy gate, and Trump is putting all that into place to get it ready for this form of government. Now the next form of government is the Antichrist who comes in and signs this peace treaty or a covenant with the nation of Israel. And at the midpoint so we're at the midpoint now in chapter 12. So three and a half years, this antichrist has has been a part of this 10 toes, this 10 king government. Right? And he's he's he's a leader but he doesn't have sovereignty over all those 10 yet. At the midpoint, war breaks out and he fights against three of these kings that are rebelling against him and he subdues them. Then the other three or the other seven give their sovereignty over to the Antichrist and that's the remaining three and a half years. This is the form of government. It's the he becomes the eighth, and so it's it's basically a satanic rule of government. It's the worshiping of the beast, the worshiping of the devil, and it's government tied together with the religious system and the economic system. The three main things that the world is working toward right now, getting rid of the dollar, coming to a central bank digital currency, a digital currency, a government system run by AI to a great degree with the cameras and all the different tracking and tracing and all. And it says verse 24. And the 10 horns out of this kingdom are 10 kings, and they shall arise, and another shall rise after them. And he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings. So when we look at this in Revelation 12 verse three and in Revelation 17 that we read, as Steve read, gonna through subdue those three kings, and he shall speak great words against the most high. So this is the abomination of desolation at this point. This is second Thessalonians chapter two. So this antichrist goes in the temple, we'll see next week. He declares himself to be god, demands to be worshiped as god. But one thing we're gonna see next week in chapter three, but we'll also see it in chapter 11 here, is and even in chapter 12 is this antichrist when he's fighting against those three kings, many feel at that point he's killed. But he raises him he's raised from the dead. And when he raises him when he's raised from the dead by the devil, god allowing it, the whole world looks on that as who can fight with the antichrist and so he defeats those three that that tried to kill him and then he becomes the eighth. Everybody gives over their sovereignty to the devil. So, the unholy trinity has gained this this worship of the entire world and most high and think to change the times and the laws, and they shall be given into his hand until a time and time and a half time. So here's the deal. He signs a covenant with the nation of Israel. They're allowed to restart Judaism. They have a temple. They're able to do their own sacrifices. At the midpoint, he's supposedly killed, raised from the dead. Now he's a god. He demands to be worshiped as god. He goes into the temple, commits the abomination of desolation spoken by Daniel the prophet. Jesus spoke in chapter 24 of Matthew verse 15 of this abomination of desolation. He's telling the nation of Israel, when you see this happen, this is the midpoint. Run. Take off. Head toward Moab. Head toward Edom. Head toward Petra. Head toward Basra. Head toward Mount Cyr. So, there's going to be a region, Southern Jordan today that the Antichrist, it's hands off. He's not able to go there. So turn to chapter 11 now. Are are we grasping this? Mhmm. It's a good story. Right? Now we're in chapter 11 verses 40 through 45. And at that time of the end shall the king of the South push push at him, and the king of the North shall come against him like a whirlwind with chariots and with horsemen and with many ships, and he shall enter into the countries and shall overflow and pass through. So these are these nations coming against the Antichrist. And he shall enter also into the glorious land. So the Antichrist is gonna enter into Israel as the glorious land. And many countries shall be overthrown, but these shall escape out of his hand. Even Edom so Edom is is present day Southern Jordan, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon. So this area is off limits to the Antichrist to go into this region when he's coming in with his armies into the Middle East. And so this is where the nation of Israel is gonna flee to when they see this antichrist go into the temple and declare himself to be god and demand to be worshiped as god. Their eyes are open that they've been deceived. So the remaining three and a half years, the campaign of the devil is to exterminate every single Jew. And Zechariah thirteen eight nine says two thirds of them are wiped out, but this one third remnant along with the 144,000 Jews are able to you know, the 144,000 are untouchable, but this is a remnant, a one third remnant, is able to flee and survive. The lord's gonna feed them in this area for three and a half years until a point in time that the antichrist actually with his armies will leave Jerusalem and then head toward Basra, which is where the Jews are being held, Isaiah 63. And and that's where Jesus returns to, not the Mount Of Olives. They cry out, blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord, and the Lord Jesus returns to Basra. And the picture there in Isaiah 63 is trampling out the vintage, his the grapes of wrath, and he's he's squashing the armies of the antichrist. He destroys the antichrist and the false prophet with the brightness of his coming, the sword of his mouth according to Zach of second Thessalonians chapter two. And then he's going to we'll see in in Revelation fourteen and sixteen. We'll see Armageddon, a 200 mile battlefield with all these armies there coming to to snuff out the Jews altogether. And accept those days be shortened, Jesus said in Matthew 24, no flesh would be saved. But for the elect's sake, for the nation of Israel's sake, he intervenes and he destroys, all those armies. The blood is as high as the horse is bridled of that battlefield. And then he makes his victory ascent up the Mount Of Olives into the city of Jerusalem, his triumphal entry. And and there's a seventy five day interval there. And the antichrist and the false prophet are immediately taken to the Lake Of Fire. Michael the archangel grabs hold of the devil and puts him into the abyss where he'll remain for a thousand years. At the end of that thousand years, the the devil is loose for a season during the millennium, at the end of the millennium to tempt or to test the Gentiles that have repopulated the planet during that thousand years. And many of them side with him. And then god destroys them, that army and that leadership of the devil and all with a fire from heaven. And then the devil's taken and put with the antichrist and the false prophet and the other wicked dead into the lake of fire. So, that's the overview but presently, at this midpoint, the devil still able to go to heaven, still have access to heaven. Jesus prophetically said that he saw the devil fall from heaven like like lightning. Well, this is where it happens in chapter 12 here. The devil's cast out of heaven, cast down to the earth. He knows his time is short. So, he's intensifying his hatred toward the nation of Israel. Now, god's able to use that intensity and that hatred because god simultaneously is in this time of Jacob's trouble, the seven year period. The lord is pouring out his wrath on a Christ rejecting world but also as a purifying means of the nation of Israel. As they go through this fire, god is purifying that remnant. He's disciplining the nation for their abstinence, for the rebellion against him, and he has an unconditional covenant. He's not waiting for them to perform. He's not waiting for them to live good or do good. He's just waiting for them to exercise faith when they say blessed is he that comes in the name of the lord and when they exercise that faith and they confess as a nation that they've sinned and they recognize that they already pierced him. They pierced their brother, you know, at the cross of Calvary. That's when Jeremiah 31 kicks in. An unconditional covenant that god has where he's going to write his word on the hearts of the nation of Israel. The church does not take the place of the nation of Israel. The church is a mystery once had now revealed, born of Jews and Gentiles, barbarians, Scythian, bond, free, male, female, whosoever will let him come. The nation of Israel is distinctly Jewish and and Isaac shall they see be called. It's those who believe in Jesus that are the true Israel of god and they are the ones that are going to be saved as that one third remnant at Basra. Alright. So, back to chapter 40 or 11 verse 40 and he shall enter also into the glorious land and many countries shall be overthrown, and there shall be a none shall escape out of his hand, even Edom and Moab and the chief of the children of Ammon. So this area of Southern Jordan, Micah two twelve and thirteen talks about this area of Basra being a place that the nation of Israel's gonna flee to. And he shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries and the land of Egypt shall not escape. But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver and over all the precious things of Egypt and of the Libyans and the Ethiopians and shall be at his steps. And so the tombs of the pharaohs and all the hidden wealth of for centuries that are there, he's gonna have access to all the wealth. But tidings out of the Great East and out of the North shall trouble him. So he's got armies coming coming after him and shall trouble him. Therefore, he shall go forth with great fury to destroy and to utterly sweep away many. So Libya and Ethiopia, and these areas, Iran, are gonna be wiped out by him. And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountains. So what this means is in his military campaign, he's gonna put a tent up, a huge temporary headquarters. And this headquarters is gonna be on Mount Moriah on Calvary, the Temple Mount area between the two seas, between the Mediterranean and the Dead Sea and this is where in Jerusalem, the Antichrist is going to make his headquarters at at the at this time and shall shall come to his end and none shall help him. So, here, the last verse there, 45 B, talks about how he's going to die in this campaign. He's going to die during this battle that he's having. Now turn back to chapter 12. Because we know in chapter 13 that he's he miraculously comes back, and that's where the world starts to believe the counterfeit, because we always say the way that we follow Jesus because he was crucified, buried, raised from the dead. Well, the devil counterfeits that proof of the resurrection, a counterfeit resurrection, and he tries to counterfeit everything. So now that we're at chapter 12, here we go. Verse four. And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven. So now we're in Isaiah 14. We see Lucifer's five I will statements. He's thrust down from his exalted position as a mighty cherub angel at the throne of God, a worshiping like a a Michael the archangel. And and in his rebellion, he's able to draw in his coup, in his rebellion against god, he's able to convince one third of the angels, the stars, to fight with him. Ain't that amazing? So, he's pretty convincing. He's pretty convincing. Now, remember, he's finitely perfect until iniquity was found in him. Finitely, not infinitely. So he's flawed. He's very flawed. And but he's a far superior being than we are, but we have God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit helping us. And we have two thirds of the angels, guardian angels helping us, right? And so, I don't need to fight the devil head on. I can say the lord rebuke you, right? As Michael the archangel demonstrated when in the book of Jude, when the devil came contending for the body of Moses when he died upon Mount Nebo. Michael was there to stop the devil from taking Moses' body and said, the lord rebuke you, right? Okay. So so the tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven and did cast them to the earth, and the dragon stood before the woman who was ready to be delivered to to devour her child as soon as it was born. So the devil during the tribulation period is cast down to the earth, and the nation of Israel is almost ready to receive their messiah, the second coming. Right? Now we can look back at it in his antagonism at at through Herod the Great when Jesus was born in Matthew two. That's true too. But here, during the tribulation period, the nation has been born again. They're in the land, but they're they haven't entered into, the promises of God yet. They haven't entered into the millennium or the kingdom age. It's about ready to be birthed. It's about ready to be happened because the son is about ready to return, right? So, he wants to devour her before she can receive her Messiah in his second advent, in his second coming. So, ready to be devoured, to devour her child as soon as it's born. So he's got a prophecy in Genesis three fifteen that the seed of the woman, her child, is going to crush his head, destroy him. Now you're going to bruise him at the cross of Calvary but he's going to take the cross of Calvary and use it to crush your head. He's going to spoil all Colossians. He spoiled all principalities and powers. He triumphed over them. So, Jesus has already won already won, already defeated the devil but he's able to use the devil and the fallen angels in his plan to redeem man, to bring the nation of Israel into the land. So he's able to use the devil as sort of a hitman, sort of a means of showing people's free will of in the in the testing that comes. So as we said earlier, pharaoh, during the time of pharaoh murdering the babies, the time of queen Esther, murdering of Haman's plan, time of the birth of Christ in Matthew two sixteen, king king Herod wanting to genocide all the Jews. We've seen Hitler. We've seen other world leaders throughout history plot and scheme and plan to wipe out the Jews. How many Jews died during the second World War? 6,000,000. 6,000,000, they say. So a third of the Jews, they estimate today that there's 16,000,000. So one third, two thirds. Alright, verse five. And and she brought forth a male child who was to rule all nations. Speaking of Jesus, right? She, the woman, the nation of Israel, Jesus is a Jew, and she brought forth a male child who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron. So, who was to, the future, Psalm two, he's gonna rule and reign with a rod of iron. Isaiah 11, Isaiah two, the kingdom age, the millennial age, the curse reversed, and every knee is gonna bow and every tongue confess in Revelation 19 that Jesus Christ is Lord. Right? King of kings and Lord of lords. And and who was rule all nations with a rod of iron and her child was caught up unto god and to his throne and so he's ascending He's he's crucified, buried, raised from the dead three days later, walks on the earth for forty days. Many people see him over 500 at one time. And then on the fiftieth day, Pentecost, he's ascended up to the right hand of the father. He sends the Holy Spirit, the formation of the church, but blindness according to Romans eleven twenty five, blindness in part is happening unto Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles become in. So by and large, the Jews today don't recognize Jesus as their Messiah. They're not coming to Christ, becoming a part of the church. They're secular, and those that are religious are being groomed and being prepared for a resurgence of Judaism during the during the tribulation period and the tribulation temple that's to be built. And so and she brought forth the male child who was to rule all nations and the rod of iron, and her child was caught up unto God and to his throne. Who wants to read Mark sixteen nineteen? Mark sixteen nineteen. I guess I will. Okay. Does somebody else want to read all of Psalm two? Okay. There you go. You're right by the microphone. So then after the Lord has spoken unto them, he was received up into heaven and sat on the right hand of god. There you go. Received up. A lot of verses talk about him being received the Ascension. Psalm two. Why do the nations rage and the people plot a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves and the rulers take counsel together against the lord and against his anointed saying, let us break their bonds in pieces and cast away their cords from us. He who sits in the heavens shall laugh. The Lord shall hold them in derision. Then he shall speak to them in his wrath and distress them in his deep displeasure. Yet I have set my king on my holy hill of Zion. I will declare the decree. The Lord has said to me, you are my son. Today, I have begotten you and asked me, and I will give you the nations for your inheritance Amen. And the ends of the earth for your possession. You shall break them with a rod of iron. You shall dash them to pieces like a potter's vessel. Now, therefore, be wise, oh king. Be instructed, you judges of the earth. Serve the Lord with fear and rejoice with trembling. Kiss the son, least he be angry, and you perish in the way when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all those who put their trust in him. Alright. So, Revelation chapter 17 verse 16 and the 10 horns which you saw upon the beast, these shall hate the the harlot which is the apostate church is also part of this, and shall make her desolate. So at the midpoint, there's another aspect of this where the antichrist has used the church for the first three and a half years, the apostate false church, true church already in heaven. And and now he's gonna change the religious system from, you know, apostate Christianity or one world religious system to an actual worshiping of himself, worshiping of the devil. And shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh and burn her with fire. Verse 17, for God has put in their hearts to fulfill his will, the the global leaders. God's put it in their hearts to fulfill his will and to agree and give their kingdom unto the beast until the words of god shall be fulfilled. And so the these 10 kings are gonna give their kingdom and they're they're doing and putting together this beast system presently because god's put it in their hearts to build this. And this AI system that's been built, that's being built, it's unprecedented in history. It's a powerful tool that could be used for good. We know it's gonna be used for evil, tremendous evil. And so why is this? Why does the devil need that? Because, again, he's not omniscient, he's not omnipresent, and he's not omnipotent. He's a fallen angel, and he needs techno tech technology, and that's why they call this this form of government, this 10 toes, 10 kings, a technocracy. Patrick Woods and others have coined the phrase that you're not gonna see global leaders elected to be these kings. You're gonna see billionaires, technocrats, like Elon Musk gets a region, a technocrat from China gets a region, a technocrat from, you know, from Russia. And so it's it's these tech giants and oligarchs that are gonna have have this these positions. And they're gonna say, you know, you you normal people, you lowly people, you blue collar people, you just can't govern yourself. It's a failure. So you need our help. We're gonna govern you, and we're gonna force it. So very tyrannical. And the woman fled into the wilderness where she has a a place prepared. Now you guys know that place. Right? We just talked about that. Southern Jordan, Basra. Ancient ancient names for it was in in chapter 11 in the forties there of Moab, Edom, and Ammon, which is present day Southern Jordan. In Isaiah 63, it's it's called Basra, Mount Seir, Teman, Micah two, the sheep of Basra. Today, the most familiar name to Christians would be Petra to the rock city of Petra. So they're gonna flee and the and the woman fled into the wilderness. Now remember, in Matthew 24, Jesus told them to flee when you see the abomination of desolation verse 16 of 24. Spoken by Daniel, the prophet, said in the holy place, flee. Run. Get out of there. And you you need to get out of Jerusalem and that's what they do. They had this remnant heads over to Basra. Now, in seventy AD, when Titus surrounded Jerusalem and Jesus said, not one stone remain upon another. The Christians that were in that region, in that area in seventy AD, the early church, they fled. The Jews in that area didn't flee and 2,000,000 Jews were sequestered into the city and died And Jesus said, not one stone will remain upon another of the temple. The gold from the fires that broke out melted and went down in the crevices. And the Romans used pry bars to get at the gold and some not one stone remain upon another. And he prophesied, Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you know, often I would have gathered you together as some other hen does gather brood under wings, but you would not. Your cities left you desolate. Because why? Because you didn't know the time of your visitation. I came here to save you. And and he was rejected. So that's Daniel nine twenty seven. Messiah will be cut off. He's cut off, and there's one seven year period of time to be fulfilled, the seventieth seven of Daniel, the time of Jacob's trouble. And and we're at the midpoint of that. Now watch how the date is set. Place be prayed by God that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and three score days. So, twelve hundred and sixty days, do the math, three hundred and sixty day calendars. So, the tribulation period is seven years. The midpoint is twelve sixty days from the signing of that covenant in Daniel nine twenty seven, right? Yeah. And then what's next, Vicky? So, three and a half years. So, he steps into the temple, Right? And then you got twelve sixty days from then to the second coming. So, the rapture is imminent. Can happen anytime. So if I'm a post trib rapture guy, I could count and the rapture wouldn't be imminent because I could count twelve hundred and sixty days from the abomination of desolation, and I would know if it's if the rapture is just simply the dead in Christ and then we go up there and then he we come right back down with him right then that day. You see what I mean? Then there's no teaching of eminency that no man knows the day of the hour except my father who is in heaven. So now one thing I didn't allude to is back when we were in Daniel seven and we're talking about that one world global government, that global government can emerge during our lifetime. We could see this global government. Do you understand that? What we won't see is the Antichrist signing that agreement to bring forth that second, that last government. You see what I'm saying? So we could see the 10 toes. We could see this this world divided into 10 regions and see that one world global government because the tribulation period doesn't start until the signing of that peace agreement or that covenant agreement of Daniel 09/27. So everything's building toward preparing this system that's going to operate during that seven year period of time, And that system is being built right now. This is what we would call the birth pangs. When you see the birth pangs, the birthing of the beast system, when you see the birthing of the beast system, Jesus said, look up, your redemption is drawing nigh. Right. Right? So, we are very very close to the to the return of Jesus Christ for his bride, the church. Ain't that exciting? Amen. So, they said, feed her there. Now, how they going to feed her there? It could be manna again, right? God could send the manna, the the corn of heaven, the angel's food, angel's food cake, manicotti, manna manna cakes, Keith Green did a song about it. Right? Mana Mana burgers. So God's gonna miraculously feed them. God fed Elijah with ravens bringing meat. Not a problem. And also another thing to factor in here is Matthew 25, there are gonna be Gentiles that help the nation of Israel. Just as Corrie ten Boom and all these other Gentiles helped during World War two, and they're gonna be rewarded. They're gonna say, hey. We saw the Jews were hungry. We fed them. We gave them drink, gave them a place to hide, visit them in the hospital and the prisons. And Jesus said, in as much as you've done it under the least of these my brethren, you've done it unto me. Right? And that's gonna be the prerequisite of the Gentiles who get to go into the millennium. They are they are the sheep and goat judgment. The lord's going to judge the Gentiles that made it through the tribulation period without taking the mark of the beast, right? Yeah. Somehow, they survived. They didn't take the mark of the beast And part of the criteria is how they treated the nation of Israel. So antisemitism is always wrong. It's always wrong to hate. You don't wanna hate Iranians. You don't wanna hate Russians. Don't wanna hate Chinese. You don't wanna hate and certainly don't wanna hate Israelis, the nation of Israel. And they're believers. Right? Though those Gentiles are believers. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Their and their faith is proven by their works. Faith without works is dead. Their works are the work, the proof of their faith is helping the nation of Israel. Alright. And so a thousand two hundred and three score days which is forty two months, which is three and a half years and and so Daniel eleven forty six, we saw the death of the Antichrist and and these there was war in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon and the dragon fought and his angels and prevailed not. Ain't that good? You're on the winning team? Hallelujah. You're on the winning team. Amen. All it takes to defeat the devil is Michael. That's it. Just Michael. Amen. One angel's going to grab a hold of him and throw him into the abyss and throw him into the lake of fire. He's not the opposite of god. He's a he's a deceiver. So there's war in heaven, a war in heaven that we don't see. There's a battle going on in heaven. And his angels fought against the the dragon, and the dragon fought against his angels and prevailed not neither was their place found anymore in heaven. So, cast down to the earth and the great dragon was cast out that old serpent, so old as in Genesis three, the one that deceived Eve, right? Adam and Eve, called the devil, the devil means deceiver, and boy, I'll tell you, dragon, serpent, devil, the greatest weapon today is the lying, the deception in the media. Where you get your information, you're listening to the devil speak. And the devil knows the truth and can speak the truth. And he will mix a little bit of truth and a little bit of good things the Trumpster's doing so that you don't even see the evil, the greater evil, the deception that's taking place. And so, man, you gotta be a Berean. Man, you gotta prove all things hold fast. That was good. Gotta be fact checkers, man. Gotta check it. And the world's gonna lose confidence in truth because there's so many lies. And I have to catch myself. Sometimes I see something and I repeat it. Oh, pastor, that wasn't true. Didn't you see that? That wasn't true. They tricked you there. I see all these guys dying. The guy's dying. He's in a hospital bed. Something, oh, that it died. And, oh, no. He didn't die. That was that wasn't true. You know? And there's so many things like that right now. So the devil, he's a deceiver. Jesus said, take heed that you be not deceived. Right? We don't wanna be deceived. We wanna be truthers, lovers of truth. I hate being lied to, and I don't want to live a lie. I don't want to stick my head in the sand and live a lie like many Christians are doing. I want to know the truth. Amen. And the truth will set you free. And Jesus told in John eight that the Pharisees father was the devil and that he was a liar and a murderer from the beginning, right? And so they thought their father was god the father, Moses, but there wasn't because they were they were unregenerate. So this war in heaven, Michael and his angels fought against the dragon and the dragon fought against his angels and prevailed not, neither was their place fought anymore in heaven. Now if I was a Hollywood guy, I'd try to make a movie about that. I've got a theme right here. Angel Wars. Right? And my kids would love it. Right? My grandkids, they'd love that. What kind of uniforms? What kind of weapons? How do they do it? You know? It'd be exciting, wouldn't it? And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent called the devil and Satan. Satan, what's that name mean? Destroyer? Accuser? I think it's destroyer. He came to steal, to kill, and to destroy. In John 10, who deceives the whole world. Look at that again, who deceives the whole world. You being a truther, you knowing the truth, you're a rare group. You're in a small percentage of people. I mean a lot of people are ignorant just simply because they won't study prophecy. They don't have a clue and they're easily swayed and easily deceived by the YouTube prophets, people that allegorize, people that spiritualize, people that sensationalize, and they don't have a working knowledge of the scripture. They don't use the scripture to prove the truth. Who deceives the whole world. So, how did the whole world get deceived? What did the whole world believe that the devil deceived him on? He could be a god. Rob saying that they could be a god. Now, that's in second Thessalonians two because they reject the truth. God's gonna give them over to a strong delusion that they would believe the lie, the lie, the devil's propagating through Jared Kushner, Elon Musk, all the tech giants, right? You will never die. You live forever. You live forever. And a high income? High income. High income. Universal. Right? I mean, they're telling everything a person wants to hear. Right? You mean I'll never die? Well, I'll have to work again. Isn't that the first lie? You'll never die. You sure you want the next? Yeah. That's it. That's the serpent back. That's the lie. The lie. Yeah. That they would believe the lie. He's just he's just recirculating the old lie that he told Eve. Deceives the whole world. He was cast out into the earth and his angels were cast out with him. So when you talk about the abodes of Satan, what's his first abode? His first home. Where was he first? In heaven. Heaven. Right? Yep. And the next abode is he's the prince, the power of the air. Right? So the atmosphere, not not heaven, the third heaven. Right? But the second area and where the birds fly. The prince of the power of the air, the little g god of this world, and the usurper. So he's cast down to the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. Now some people differentiate between angels and demons. I'm of the persuasion that fallen angels are demons. That's my thought, my understanding. Some would say that the angels that left their first estate, that cohabitated with women, that the souls that were in that union, soulless, whatever, that those are demons and you differentiate demons after the flood, how they're killed with fallen angels. So, Lucifer has one third of the stars that fell were fallen angels which are spiritual beings but I see him as those spiritual beings are demons. They're they're demonic, right? I don't know if you can use the word to describe the word. Demonic, demons, evil entities, evil principalities, and powers. So anyway, that's just design. I just said that to hurt your head. Give me something to think about. Good job. Alright. You're not gonna be able to sleep tonight. You're try and do that. Cast down that old serpent called the devil and Satan who deceives the whole world. He was cast into the earth and his angels were cast out with him. So remember that Paul's warning us to not be deceived to the church of Corinth. In second Corinthians chapter 11, I've espoused you to one husband even to Christ and I fear lest as the serpent beguiled Eve, right? That you would be seduced, that you'd be drawn away from the simplicity that's in Christ, that somebody would come with a different Jesus, a different gospel, a different spirit, and then he goes on to talk about how and no marvel for even Satan is able to appear as an angel of light. So, think of these fallen angels or as a minister of righteousness. Some of the slickest people you've met in the church. Are false prophets. Amen. And they could be, they could be fallen angels. Manifesting as an angel of light, right? A minister of righteousness. Could be. We know that holy angels are able to go into the camp of Abraham and Sarah and they look like men, right? And we know that they walk into Sodom and Gomorrah and the people in Sodom and Gomorrah see them as men and we know in Hebrews 13 that we're told to entertain strangers. Any strangers here tonight? Entertain strangers or some as entertain angels unaware. So, man, we really gotta be fact checkers, baby. Fact check. Don't be deceived. Prove all things. And we're also told by John to test the spirits because the spirit of antichrist is already, you know, in the world today. So when you see people exalting Jesus Christ, and he's the only way, the exclusivity of Jesus, you know, you're you're moving in the right direction. If they try to spray the crowd like, oh, we all worship the same god. No. That's the spirit of antichrist. That's that's not the holy spirit conveying that. Who deceives the whole world, he was cast into the earth and his angels were cast out with him and I heard a loud voice. So when we're in Ephesians six and we're told by Paul that we fight not against flesh and blood but against spirits and principalities of the air. There's a grid because they're not omnipresent. So these one third fallen angels have grid area. So in in Daniel 10, when Michael finally came to talk to Daniel, Daniel been praying and fasting for twenty one days. He let him know that he was fighting over the prince of Persia. There's demonic entities who have geographical sphere of responsibility and Daniel, Michael is fighting against the prince of Persia. And as we said, the nation of Israel doesn't have a satanic principality over them. Michael's over them. Michael's, his job is to protect the nation of Israel. Alright. So I don't know what's over at Bremerton, but but I don't ever worry about that stuff because greater is he that's in me than he that's in the world. Since God's for me, who can be against me? And I just focus on being light. I focus on Romans eight, what can separate me from the love of God, not some demon from Bremerton, that ain't gonna happen. Ain't never gonna happen. I'm not gonna glorify a dark place of the planet. I'm not gonna glorify the devil. I'm just gonna turn the light on. Right? And but I don't if I look at Jude, I don't make a railing accusation against the devil. There's a respect there. But the authority where two or more gathered in his name, there he is in the midst. We have the authority in the name of Jesus, right? So, we don't need to get permission from the devil. Satan who deceives the whole world was cast into the earth and his angels were cast out with him and I heard a loud voice. Saying in heaven, now has come, salvation and strength and the kingdom of our god and the power of Christ for the accuser of our brethren is cast down who accused them before our god day and night. So the devil is the accuser of the brethren. He's holding god accountable, trying to that you're adjusting a holy god and you can't just wink at sin. You've gotta judge. You gotta judge evil. You cast me out of heaven. You cast the guys. You've gotta judge. And so when Satan's there as the prosecuting attorney against you or me, guess what? He's not lying about you. He's telling the truth about you. You are a sinner. He knows every sin. He knows your tendencies, everything you've done, and he's accusing you before god. He doesn't have to lie about me. He just needs to observe me half a day, right? Maybe even not that long. So, I heard a pastor say, I love this pastor. I love him to death. Now Cora Cora educated me yesterday. Let me say it this way. My grandparents my grandma said that her and my grandpa were married close to sixty years, and they never had one argument. Okay? Alright. Alright. Come on now. Come on now, Vicky. Alright. Yeah. Now, A pastor recently whose wife died said that he asked his wife if he'd ever hurt her feelings. And she said, no. I can't think of once, even once. Now, the only way I can see that is possible in my grandma and grandpa's life is that one of them are dead. There's this somebody's gotta be dead because if two human beings are alive, there's just no way on God's green earth that you're not gonna have a disagreement. Okay? There's no way I mean, Kathy hurts my feelings every 15 minutes. You know? Bowie. Bowie's puppies. So Now what's what I like about Kathy is she's never going to be sappy like that and ever say to people, yeah, we were married fifty years and, you know, Rick never hurt my feelings. Because she doesn't care. She she doesn't care. She's bigger than that. Alright? And she's gonna say about me. You know, like, well, well, what about Rick? Well, if he ever started to whine or complain, I just tell him, you know what? Why are you acting like a wussy? Why are you being a wussy? You know? I mean, isn't that more, you know, closer to reality, if you will? So when Satan's up there, he doesn't need to lie about us. He just tells the truth. All of us are selfish. All of us have our strengths and weaknesses and such. So he's coming there with an accusation, a legal indictment against us of why we shouldn't be in heaven, why we shouldn't be saved, and we have a defense attorney there. Right? Amen. And I don't have to defend myself or stutter or stammer or make excuses or blame somebody or, you know, God, you just don't understand the family I came from. You know? All I need do is focus upon the cross, the cross of Calvary. Right? And my defense attorney, my advocate with the father, he simply goes over to his dad and he says, dad, and he shows him the scars in his hands, dad. He's one of mine. Right? That's it. Amen. Amen. So in your head in your head, as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. And we're to take every thought captive. Why do you think so many so called Christians are defeated? Because they believe the lies of the wicked one. Mhmm. He's a liar. And he'll get in your head and he will condemn you. He will use condemnation. He will use your sin and your weaknesses, the thing that you've done wrong, and he will use it against you to drive you away from the very source of help that you need which is Jesus, which is the cross. So when the devil comes, you have to identify and people that are married can be brutal. They can bring up things of the past and and use their words and use their tongue to to almost murder, you know, to just condemn. And people can have nervous breakdowns from so much condemnation, so much belittling, so much gaslighting, so much evil, so much hatred, and vitriol, and drinking, and drugs, and and just getting crazy, and and and that's that's satanic. It's a satanic attack, and that shouldn't be what goes on in a Christian home, first and foremost. But if you're at work or the home that you grew up in or even in your marriage, whatever's happening, you're gonna have to do battle, and so you're gonna have to learn to take every thought captive to the obedience of Christ and you're gonna have to say, you know what, Satan? You're showing me the pit of hell. And you're gonna have to train your mind to listen to the Holy Spirit who shows you the cross. Because the Holy Spirit will convict you, not condemn you. So when the Holy Spirit shows you that something's wrong based upon the teaching of the word or the holy spirit's impressing upon your heart, that attitude or what you said was wrong, you simply agree with the holy spirit. You don't have to make excuses. So where is the Christian's bar of soap? If you feel filthy if you're filthy and the devil points out your filthiness, where's the Christian's bar of soap? Who's gonna say it? Thomas says first John one nine. That's it. That's it. You guys all know that. You memorize. Right? So let me help you. If we confess sins He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins And and to cleanse us From all unrighteousness. All. So the holy spirit convicts, fellowship's restored. The devil condemns, tries to make you not read your bible, not go to church, not go to the very place that you need you receive help from, and tries to make you feel like a loser. And l seven and and you just reject it. You just reject it. Right? You just reject it. He does it every day. Yeah. He tries. You just say no way because I'm not trusting in myself. I never trusted myself. I'm trusting the finished work of Jesus. Amen. So now we're gonna see how they overcame him. How do they overcome him? The cross. There you go. Devil's trying to get in your head? Overcame him? Hey, devil. The blood of the lamb. Boy, he don't wanna hear that. Don't wanna hear that. Uh-uh. Right? And then my testimony, I was once blind, and now I see. God's God's transformed me, man. And then being confident in this very thing that he that's begun a good work in me, he's gonna continue to do it, perform it until the day of Jesus Christ. Yeah. Right? Yeah. And and they love not their lives unto death, which means the devil has a heyday with me when I'm selfish. If I'm unselfish, I'm a if I'm living the crucified life where Jesus is living through me, then he can't touch me, can't get me. And I sing it with MC Hammer. Can't touch me. Can't touch me. Can't touch me. Can't do it. So can't touch me, man. And overcame him by the blood of the lamb. It's cast down that accused him before our god day and night. Now it really, really grieves me when somebody is lording over somebody else, and they're using condemnation to destroy destroy their mind, destroy their spirit, to break a person's spirit. That's why we're told fathers provoke not your children to wrath. You can be overbearing and dictatorial and lording and try to dominate another person to the point of breaking their spirit and you don't want to do that. So that's demonic. It's evil. I take very serious where Peter tells the men, husbands, take knowledge of your wives, lest your prayers be hindered. Right? And so men men tend to think like Satan that because they're the head of the home, and really you need to see that Jesus is the head of the home. He's the head. And that we're to love our wives like Christ loved the church and gave herself for. See, there's not that selfishness there. You're laying your life down. And wives be in submission under your under your husbands. It's that respect. God's made them with the need of respect. But my point is this, is that I don't impose upon any human being my will. You're free. Cathy's free to work as a career. She's free to not work. She's free to be career woman. She's free to be a stay at home mom. She's free to get up at five in the morning as an early person so that she can go to bed at 07:30, or she's free to stay up as a night owl and wake up whatever time she wants the next day. She can eat whatever she wants. She can go and do whatever she wants. I'm not her lord. Right? And I'm not gonna put her under a schedule or dominate her or break her spirit or try to make her in the image of my mom or my grandma or somebody. She's a unique person, and I'm spending my life trying to get to know her. It's impossible. I'll never understand her, but I'm I'm doing the best I can, And that's what makes it exciting. But why would I want to to to dominate somebody and create them in my own image or somebody else's image or whatever? Not gonna happen. It's not it's not right. But I see a lot of guys do it. I see them try that. I see them try to sow lord over. We're not the lord over god's sheep. We're not the lord over people. There has to be structure, things done decently in order, But the beauty is is when the husband and wife can come together in submission unto Jesus and we're both doing what Jesus wants us to do. That's where it works, the vertical authority. So I'm careful with your words. Sticks and stones break my bones but words will never hurt me. No words can stick for a long, long time. That's true. And it's condemnation. The devil is getting you in the flesh and you're using your words in a condemning manner. You're trying to win the fight at all cost. Right? And don't do that. Husbands, your prayers will be hindered. That brand new boat you want, you won't get it. You won't get it. So so they overcame him by the blood of the lamb, by the word of their testimony, and they loved not their lives unto death. So we could apply this to the nation of Israel in the tribulation period, though those who are becoming as believers. We can apply it to the tribulation saints who are refusing the mark of the beast. Right? We can apply it to you and I as the church and all those through the church age. They overcome the devil. This is how they overcome the devil. And he's always trying to condemn. He's always trying to disqualify us, always trying to make us feel that we're unworthy to even serve the Lord. And I have to trust in the finished work of Christ. I have to walk by faith. I have to believe that that the lord has poured out his grace, his unmerited favor upon me. So therefore, rejoice you heavens, you dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth. So those in heaven are stoked. They're excited. We don't have to have that scum guy here anymore. And woe to the inhabiters of the earth, earth dwellers, and of the of the sea, for the devil has come down unto you having great wrath because you know it that he has but a short time. So I'm more afraid of god's wrath than I am the devil's wrath but god can certainly use the wrath of the devil as an instrument of his wrath, as a tool of God's wrath, and and his hatred is toward the Jews. He hates the nation of Israel. He hates Christians. He hates you. And he has but a short time. So notice the sense of timing. Do you know what time it is? Do know the times in which you're living in? A lot of our young people today, they think they have plenty of time, and they wanna live a long life in a mega America entering into utopian age. They think they have lots of time to accomplish all that. I'm more of the persuasion time short, real short, and be ready. Take a light load, you know, light grip on this world because, if you have a too tight of a grip, you're gonna be deceived. Time is short, so that means I need to hide time to wake out of sleep. Our salvation is near than when we believe. It's not a time to be asleep. It's the time to be about our father's business, to occupy till he comes, to get the gospel out, to get people saved. Time is short. People are heading to hell, and the devil wants to take them to hell, as many as he can to hell. Right? And he knows, like the demons at Gadara. And we know who you are. Jesus, have you come to torment us before our time? They know there's a day of judgment, and he knows the time is short. And when the dragon saw that he was cast into the earth, he persecuted the woman. He's coming right after Israel. I'm gonna break God's heart. I'm gonna break every Jew that I can. Who brought forth the male child? The Jews brought forth the Messiah, Jesus. And Jesus is returning to rescue these Jews. Remember Matthew 24, except those days be shortened, no flesh should be saved. But for the elect's sake, Jesus intervenes. And and then as far as deception, Jesus also said, if it were possible, they would deceive even the very elect, if it were possible. The deception that's so great during this time. And so persecuted the woman who brought forth the male child, and to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle. So we had the great dragon twice. We had the great, great red dragon. We got the great, wonder in heaven, and we've got a great wrath, and we got the great great eagle that she might fly into the wilderness into a place where she is nourished for a time, a time, and a half time. How long is that, Vicky? Three and a years. Forty two months? How many days? A hundred and six months. There you go. And blessed is he that comes to the thirteen and thirty fifth day, right? Alright. So, three and a half years, they're going to be nourished. They're going to be cared for They're gonna be carried on eagle wings. Now in Isaiah sixteen one through four, somebody could read about that if they want and the location. Also, Isaiah forty thirty one. Who wants those? So Isaiah sixteen one through four. Isaiah sixteen one through four. Yep. And Isaiah forty thirty one. Thirty thirty one. I got that one. Okay. And I'm gonna get the one in Micah. Let me get the one in Micah. Micah two. Let me find it. Micah. Micah calls him he calls him the sheep of Basra. I like that one. So Micah two twelve and thirteen. Alright. So let's check it out. So if if you're looking at the nation of Israel in the land, and they're gonna rebuild the temple, they got the ashes of the red heifer, they got all the priest implements, and everything's ready to go. You've got the world developing a global currency, a global house of Abraham religious system trying to trying to emerge, and you've got a global governmental system trying to emerge. Now you've you've got the nation of Israel in the land, no replacement theology. The devil's gonna try and destroy them. The antisemitisms get so great that two thirds according to Zechariah thirteen eight nine are gonna be wiped out and you've got a one third remnant that's gonna be preserved for three and a half years and you guys know where ancient Moab, ancient Ammon, and Edom, the Edomites, Red, Red Cliffs, Esau, you know where this location is, right? Pretty exciting? Do you guys wanna go to Israel and do an extended trip to go see Petra? Yes. Let Let me Seven me churches, Petra, the whole thing. Wouldn't that be great? Yeah. Well, you're gonna need to go to a big Calvary Chapel to do that. Alright. But there are churches that go all the time. You could join em. If you want me to go, then we need 20 people. 20 people. It's one per 10. Pastor and pastor's wife get to go if you have 10. So, 20. We don't even have a church of 20 and your guys are all poor so we can't go. So, there you go. Alright. So, here we go. Isaiah sixteen one through four. Isaiah sixteen one through four. Send you the lamb of the ruler of the head from Selah. Is that right? Low the wilderness unto the mount of the daughter of Zion. For it shall be that as a wonder in her a bird cast out of the nest. So the knowledge of one shall be at the the get some light here. Course, of Ammon. Take counsel, excuse ex execute judgment. Make thy shadow as the night in the midst of a noonday. Hide the outcast. Be betray not him that one wandereth. Let mine outcast dwell with the Moab. Be thou a cup cup a covert, not a convert, a covert to them from the face of the spoiler for the entertainment is at the end. External is at the end. The the spoiler ceases the oppressions are command out of the land. I think you're good. Thank you, sir. You're welcome. I don't know a word you said but that's alright. I'm waiting to find my glasses. Okay. Isaiah sixteen one through four. If you want to reread that, anybody that wants to. Isaiah forty thirty one. But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength. They shall mount up with wings as eagles. They shall run, not and not be weary, and they shall walk and not faint. I know that by heart. I should've had that one. Alright. Okay. So, Micah two twelve and thirteen. Anybody get that? You didn't. Okay. What's about Basra? The sheep of Basra. You guys got it? It's cool verse. Cool verse. Cruiser point. Micah too. I'm there. I'm there. George has got it. Two two. Alright, George. Go for it, George. I will surely assemble all of you, Jacob. I will surely gather the remnant of Israel. I will put them together like sheep in the fold, like a flock in the midst of its pasture. They will be noisy with men. The beaker goes up before them. They break out past through the gate and go out by it. So the kings go along before them. And the Lord is their head. Amen. Amen. The sheep of Basra. I love it. And that's the location. Alright. Praise the lord. Bible just ties it all together, doesn't it? Amen. Alright. So, here we go. Verse 15, and the serpent cast out of his mouth water like a flood. After the woman. So she's fleeing from Jerusalem. She's doing what Jesus said. They're running. They're taking off. They're flying on eagle's wings, helicopters, whatever they can do, airplanes, however they can get out of Dodge and drones, whatever you can do. And that he might cause her to be carried away by the flood. So this flood is an army. The army of the Antichrist are chasing after the Jews that are fleeing. And then it says, and the earth helped the woman. God's the one that's in charge of the earth. Right? And a huge army can be subdued by the earth opening up and swallowing them. Right? And the earth opened her mouth and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth. So that entire army, the whole thing that's happening, God's subduing them. And not only that, but the Lord the children of Israel with the fear and the the advent of the antichrist armies coming at them, they finally realize they need to confess their sin, come to repentance, and cry out. What's it? They cry out. He who comes in the name of the lord. And that's what Jesus said. You won't see me again till you say, blessed he comes in the name of the lord and except those days be shortened, no flesh would be saved and so this armies are coming after them and there's a miracle that happens opening up and the days are shortened because Jesus returns. He intervenes and he saves them. And he destroys the antichrist and the false prophet how? By the brightness of his coming and the sword in his mouth. That's it. And and so swallowed up the flood with the dragon cast out of his mouth, and the dragon was angry with the woman. Too bad. Yeah. And went to make war with the remnant of her seed who keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus Christ. And so sore loser, not gonna happen and god intervenes and so you've got you've got the martyrs in Revelation six nine and a numerable multitude of people and who refuse the mark of the beast and and they're worshipers of Jesus. Alright. Well, chapter 13 will be a lot of fun. Alright, let's pray. Father, we come for you and thank you for the night that we could study your word. We're so excited to be students, Lord, to be your disciples, and Lord, we just scratch the surface, but Lord, it's just so exciting to see some of the dots connecting, some of the picture, the revelation, you're you're revealing, you're you're revealing the apocalypse, the revelation of Jesus Christ, Lord. We thank you for pulling back the curtain and helping us to get to know you better than we have and helping us to understand your plan of the last days better. And Lord, we pray that we'd hide your word away in our heart And that we'd be able to speak to people. We we'd be able to pass on to others Lord. What we're learning. That people would be excited about prophecy. Excited about your soon return. The blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great god and savior Jesus Christ. So, lord, continue to anoint and use us. Pour out your holy spirit. Lord, we didn't receive this tonight to just bury it. Lord, we want to reinvest the lives of others. So, help us lord. We pray. Let your word go forth and not come back void. In Jesus' name, 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.
