Transcript | Revelation 14

Live from Brammerton. It's Monday night. Welcome. We are in Revelation chapter 14 tonight, and we're gonna open with prayer. And those of you that are watching that were unable to make it here, we have Sally Jackson, her interment service this Thursday at 1PM at Mountain View Cemetery in Silverdale off of it's between Clear Creek Road and Silverdale Way and anyway, it's Mountain View Cemetery, 1PM and so you're welcome to come up for that and then March 21, Lord Willen at 3PM will have her memorial service at these Bremerton Seventh Day Adventist Church at 3PM Lord willing. We'll see if if we can confirm that that time and everything. So, that's just let you know and and we just want to thank all of you for praying, for Sally, and praying for James and continue to pray for James and continue to pray for Linda as last month Joe went home to be with the lord also And now we're going to put a moratorium now on no more death. Alright? Nobody else gets sick and die. Because I'm sick and tired of it. Alright? Alright. So let's pray. Father we come before you. And Lord we just ask that you bless this Bible study tonight. Thank you, lord. We know where we're going. We know where Sally is. Lord, a lot of times people say, I'm sorry for your loss and lord, we didn't lose Sally. We know right where she is, lord. She's with you And we do understand though it's our loss. So we sorrow, Lord, but not as those who have no hope. We miss Sally, knowing she's with you to be asked in the body, be present with the Lord, and Joe's with you. And we just pray that you bless all the arrangements, everything going on. Help James as he's putting things together, give a great time of of comfort with James and his sister and his brother Bobby and just be with them and thank you lord that we're a family of believers that when we go through things like this, we have each other to be our encouragement and the comfort of the Holy Spirit. And we have the body of Christ over Facebook and a lot of people reaching out and and loving on us, Lord, and loving on James. And so we thank you for the body of Christ. I don't know what we'd do if we had to go through this alone, Lord, any of us. So blessed, we pray, pour out your holy spirit, bless his time in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Amen. Praise the lord. Alright. Thanks, Rob. Alright. Okay. Revelation 14. Alright. I was talking to Bernie beforehand and he mentioned that he's a turncoat and he goes to another Bible study tomorrow night tomorrow night. No. That's a good thing. But he attends a bible study that's a anti rapture bible study. Oh, just a person. Oh, just one person. Okay. Alright. How many of you encounter people that don't wanna hear about the rapture? They don't they just don't wanna hear about it. They don't wanna hear about prophecy. They say it's doom and gloom. Right? And and Bernie is really on fire about the soon return of Jesus and the rapture doctrine. He's just letting everybody know. And in chapter 14 here, Book of Revelation, god is the same way as Bernie. He wants everyone to know that the devil loses. Amen. Because in chapter 13, you've got the beast, the false prophet, and you got the mark of the beast, and you got him killing the two witnesses, you know, and and he looks so ominous and everybody's running around going, who can fight? Who can make war with the beast and all? And it's like, oh my gosh, you know? And and so the lord in chapter 14, it's parenthetical and then it's up in heaven he's gonna give you a a view from heaven of at the midpoint of the tribulation period in that verses 11 through 13 and also verse 17. So chapter 17 is the midpoint of the tribulation period. Then 14 is a connector from chapter 13 at the midpoint. 14 connects to fifteen and sixteen which is going to be the second half of the tribulation period. So back in chapter 11 chapter 11 verse 14, we had the seventh trumpet judgment and that seventh trumpet judgment opens the door for the seven bowl judgments. So chapter 15 verse one is the opening of those bold judgments which points us back to the the last of the trumpet judgments. So this is a connector. This chapter 14 is a connector and the lord's going to show us that although the Antichrist appears to be invincible that hey, where are the 144,000 bro? You copied, you know, you counterfeited the marking, the ceiling of the Christians and the ceiling of the 144,000 in the the counterfeit trinity is wanting to put a seal, the mark of the beast on the right hand of the forehead of all the earth dwellers, but the Lord always has his witness. He's got the one third of the Jews that are gonna make it into heaven. Two thirds are gonna be wiped out during the tribulation period. It is the time of Jacob's trouble, but God's gonna preserve and purify a one third remnant. And he also has an innumerable multitude of people that we call the tribulation saints that in the first and second half of the tribulation period who refused the mark of the beast. We have a group of people that go into the millennium somehow without having taken the mark of the beast and they get through that seven years somehow with how great the technology is with Peter Thiel and Alex Karp and everybody with all their technology everywhere. Somehow there's people that can evade that technology. But the 144,000, they're so equipped, they're so sealed that the antichrist can't even touch them. Can't even get near them. Can't can't you know, go ahead and sing that song, Bernie. Can't touch me. MC Hammer. And that's what they do. They just can't touch them. Can't touch them. And so the Lord's letting you know, hey, look. I got the hundred and forty four thousand into the millennium. In verse one, where are they? On Mount Zion. Look at that. The Lord's gonna get you and I home. We're gonna make it home. All this condemnation, all this craziness, and this wickedness, it's not doom and gloom. Prophecy is not doom and gloom. Prophecy is there for the Lord to remind you that you're gonna make it. That he's he's not gonna fail. God's not gonna fail. The devil's not gonna win. You know? And sometimes these globalists act like they're invincible. They act like, you know, there's nothing you can do about it. You know, you're gonna you're gonna own nothing and be happy. Or Bill Gates will say stuff like, you don't have a choice. You're gonna have to take the jab. You don't have a choice. You know? Like, who died and made him God? You know? And so we sometimes we hear that kind of stuff and we're like overwhelmed. Like, man, I'm just a, you know, puny little guy in Bremerton. What what sway do I have? Well, you have the sway of all of heaven. The Lord the Lord is for you. He's not against you. And since God's for you, who can be against you? And so, he says and I looked and low, it says, A, in the King James, but it's the lamb stood and so this is Jesus, right? The lamb stood on Mount Zion. Mount Zion is in Jerusalem. Right? It's where the king is gonna rule and reign from for a thousand years. And with him, a 144,000 having his father's name written in their foreheads. So in chapter 13 verse 16 through 18, we saw the counterfeit trinity enforcing a mark on everybody's forehead. But back in chapter seven, the Lord put took 12,000 from each of the tribes of Israel and he marked them out and made it made it seven three through four, chapter seven three and four. He marked them, he sealed them, and and and remember the devil's a counterfeit. He's he's he's a fallen angel. He would be tantamount or equivalent to maybe Michael the archangel as far as his power and abilities and such, but he's not god. And and so he he has to counterfeit. He has to fool people. He has to trick people. He has to prey upon people in the churches that don't know their bibles. And we got a show here called Be Not Deceived that Robin Vickie developed a podcast. Jesus said Matthew 24, take heed that no man deceive you, and you could do a concordance check on be not deceived or how many times in the bible in chapter six first Corinthians, know you not that the unrighteous inherit not the kingdom of god. Be not deceived, you know. And over and over again, the bible's making us aware that a lot of us are going through life with a false sense of reality and and that's what the devil wants to do. He wants to enslave you to lies, enslave us, and this Sunday when we're gonna look at the book of Ephesians again, one of the things in there is liars. You know, some of us were liars in the past and so as Christians, we're not to be liars. We're not to be like Jesus said in John eight, your your father is the devil and he was a liar and a murderer from the beginning. That's not our father. You know, our heavenly father is holy and we're being being transformed and changed into his image. And so we're lovers of truth. We're truth lovers. I read where in in China in the in the revolution, the Chinese communist revolution with when they overthrew Chiang Kai shek and brought Mao in, the numbers I heard is that he killed 60,000,000 of his own people, and many of them are what we call truthers. They were educators. They were teachers. They were people that knew the truth, that knew history and all. And they were a threat to the communistic government because they needed to reeducate the planet. They need to reeducate the people with their erroneous false doctrine. And so it's a means of brainwashing of getting the people to and we're watching today. We're watching history with AI. We're watching the rewriting of history, what you and I know to be to be true, being questioned and changed and and and such so that the people can be prepared for a whole new paradigm, the tribulation period where they're gonna worship, you know, the beast. So in chapter thirteen's the beast, it looks it looks paramount. Looks like nobody's gonna be able to overcome this guy. And it says in verse four, you know, who is able to make war with him? You know, this guy wipes out three of the 10. We're watching the planet go through a change right now. And with the wars that are taking place over The Middle East, the preparation for all the different various governments and economies around the world are failing. So we're on the verge of a new economy, a new blockchain digital system that's described in Revelation thirteen sixteen through 18. But we're also watching all forms of government fail and the emergence of what the Bible describes in Daniel two, Daniel seven. Revelation 17 were 10 kings, so one world government, Daniel seven twenty three, is gonna emerge. Now that can happen before the rapture. We could see America, as we know it, a constitutional republic, join with all the way from Venezuela up to Greenland, and we're hearing it, and we become a part of a coalition of a global government with 10 technocrats maybe over it. President Trump put together his board of peace with Jared Kushner and himself, and he's number one dude on that thing. And there's 10 of them. Right? There's ten ten kings ready to go. Revelation 17 says that they're kings but with as of yet, no kingdom. And then the next kingdom that we learned about was Daniel seven twenty four where the antichrist, the little horn, makes war with the 10 or three of the 10 and overcomes them, and then the other seven give their sovereignty over. So that's the last form of government, human government before Jesus comes is gonna be the satanic, and that's chapter 13. It's gonna be the satanic worshiping of the dragon with the antichrist in place of Jesus Christ and the false prophet that so the unholy trinity. That'll be the last form of the times of the Gentiles of human government. Three and a half years later, forty two months later, twelve sixty days later, twelve ninety days later, if you look at the temple, but twelve or sixty days later is the second coming of Christ and the setting up of his kingdom and and so that's if you know this this prophetically, then you're not gonna be deceived by the new apostolic reformation or the kingdom now or, you know, Christian nationalism, and and you've got the Department of War in America saying that the to the soldiers that reason we're fighting this war is because we're gonna usher in Armageddon. Really? You think you're gonna usher in Armageddon? Chapter 14, we're gonna talk about Armageddon. The blood's gonna be as high as the horse's bridle. I don't think you want that. And it's they're so they're they're so sketchy. They're just where do they come up with this stuff? We're gonna bring in Armageddon. Well, you know what? You gotta build Babylon first. Gotta build the temple. You gotta come up with a leader that the Bible calls the Antichrist. You're gonna go through all kinds of hell with the seal judgments and the trumpets and the bowl judgments. Do you really want to usher in Armageddon? You know? Do you really think you'll even get there? You know? Because that's at the end of the tribulation period. Right? And so we see when the seal judgments open, one fourth of the planet's dead, 2,000,000,000 people gone. Then we see a little bit later another one third. So now you've got half the population gone just with seal judgments. Right? And he's just getting started. So I I don't think you wanna be speculating that you're doing something good ushering in Armageddon. Because why? Because after Armageddon, Jesus returns. So, hey, we're getting we're we're we're we're facilitating bringing in the return of Jesus, you know, and that's the kingdom now mentality is that they're going to usher in the return of Jesus because they're going to take over the planet and get rid of all unrighteousness. That's what Kingdom Now theology is. It's it's dominion. They call it dominion theology also. They take dominion over the earth, which you're watching them do over Iran. Dominion. And once they take dominion, gain control of the whole planet and implement their righteousness, then Jesus will return. So it's peace through what? Peace through war. The board of peace. Jesus said there'd be wars and rumors of wars. But we just want peace. Right? We just want peace. We don't we we we don't we don't want you guys to start these wars. Was it organic? Did did Iran do something? Did Venezuela do something? Are we gonna go invade Iceland? Are we gonna invade Greenland? Where are we going next? Where are we going next with this dominion mentality? Gaza? Cuba? We're going Cuba next. That's what they said. Cuba's on the verge almost. And you know we're going there as emancipators. We're gonna go there and rescue everybody. And so they spin it to the good. But in this case here, this is good. This is the way the Lord Lord lays it out. And this is his plan. I don't need to go make war to get Jesus to return. My job is to preach the good news, to watch the holy spirit transform and change people from the inside. I would like to put more attention on the fastest growing church in the world is in Iran. Right? I'd like more people to realize people are leaving Islam. They're leaving and embracing Christ. That that's the more exciting more exciting component is that if America get the gospel out all over the world again, you know. So he's saying that they're sealed, that 44,000 having their father's name written in their foreheads. So the first declaration is that god wins. God's coming back to rescue the planet. He's coming back to rescue and the proof of it is a 144,000 made it out of the tribulation period and they're standing on Mount Zion and so god wins. It's the first thing to look at that they're sealed, that god wins and I heard a voice from heaven like the voice of many waters and like the voice of a great thunder and I heard the voice of the harpers harping with their harp. And they sang as it were a new song before the throne. So you got those that are sealed. Secondly, there's a new song. In chapter five, there's a new song that the church was singing. Right? Chapter five verse nine. But this song and they sing as it were a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and the elders. And no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand who were redeemed from the earth. I know the song. I'm gonna let you guys know it later, but this is this is a song that only they know. And and so part of part of what comes with victory is singing, happiness, joy, blessing. The millennial kingdom's a joyous period of time where the Jesus can rule and reign with a rod of righteousness. You can read about in Isaiah two and Isaiah 11 just how exciting is the kingdom age where the curse is reversed and where people are safe and where you and I are ruling and reigning with Jesus as kings and priests. And so up in heaven there, they're singing a new song and they got harps. We could bring back harps. When I was a little kid in second grade, I had a teacher that had an auto harp, and she'd she'd play that thing. You know? And when I watched when I watched I think it's when I watched Ben Hur, there's a gal in there that has a harp. She's strumming the harp. So it's always caught my attention. But they've got some kind sort of a harp. I think Jim plays a mouth harp, right? A harmonica. Rob plays a guitar. It's kind of a harp, I guess and stringed instruments, Psalm a 150, all the different stringed instruments and and cymbals and drums. So I heard the void. God's not anti music. God's the inventor of music. And when we talked on Sunday, be creative. You you should be the type of people we should be the type of people in rejecting the world and rejecting the flow of the world and the trends and the popularity of the world. We should be what we would call trendsetters. We should be those who lead the way, especially if we're leading people to Christ. And so we don't need to mimic the world or act like the world or Christianize the world to be popular. I I made some comments about piercings and tattoos and things like that. And and I thought, you know, I'm probably gonna get in trouble with that because the church is so inundated tattoos and piercings and all. But I'm a father of two beautiful daughters, and when they got pierced and they tattooed themselves, it broke my heart because they're beautiful. You don't need to cheapen yourself. You're just cheapening yourself. Some of them look beautiful maybe. Some of them are artistic or whatever. They put pictures of grandma on them. They my one daughter's running out of space. You know, she's almost got the whole body, and and that's my opinion. And if I put that on Facebook and you don't like me, I'm gonna block you. I'm just gonna block you. It's my opinion. And I can say it because I'm the father of the two. But, you know, come up with something. At least Britney put some Hebrew stuff on her arm and all that. But why can't the Christians be the one that set the trend? Why why when the world culturally is moving back to a paganism and you don't realize how pagan our culture is reverting back to, and then the Christians mimic that, and you get caught up in this whole thing of emulating the world. But I will say this, if you knew your Bible, you could have refuted me real quickly. You remember when Rebecca met Eliezer to go be with Isaac? He put a ring in her nose. I guess they used to do that. Right? Beautiful ring in the nose. Oh, well. And a bondservant a bondservant comes to the to the priest and puts his ear against the post and puts an awl there, a hole, and then they put a pirate ring there. That's an earring. Right? So I guess there are some piercings that are biblical, but these guys are doing a song that nobody else knows about. They didn't get it from the world. They didn't get it from chapter 13. They didn't get it from the devil and the sorcery and all that everybody else is into. You know? So we as Christians, we can write some worship songs that emanate from the Holy Spirit, that originate with the Holy Spirit. We can we can have theology. We can have a knowledge of the Bible. We can use words that have profound meaning. Maybe we wanna include the word blood, atonement, reconciliation, the cross, you know, things like that, rather than my baby left me, you know, and and I was sad, you know, or something. The country the country guys got all that stuff covered with the truck breaking down, the dog leaving them, you know. So you don't don't need to do Christian country or any of that. And so I may alienate myself. That's that's fine though. So they sing as it were a new song. I like to hear those songs. I like to hear. I've heard somebody use singing in the in the tongues of angels and in their prayer language and it's just beautiful, really, really beautiful. And I'm sure that Satan can counterfeit it also and make make a a counterfeit sound beautiful. So before the throne and and the four living creatures and the elders of and no man could learn that song but the 144,000 who were redeemed. So in Revelation five verse nine, we're redeemed by the blood. You know, we're we're the ones that let me read that. Who's worthy? And they sang his a song saying, thou art worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals, and thou was slain and has redeemed us to God by thy blood and every kindred tongue, people, and nation. And so there's the redeemed, the the church that's in heaven, chapter four and five, they've got new songs. They wanna express worship. They wanna express their adoration and words just, you know, with put to a tune, put to a with the harp and the whole then put to music, which God invented, which God gave us gave us, you know, gives us a whole other dimension. And we we're gonna do an interment service on on Thursday at one. And James and I were talking about it about the the you know, how it goes, the pro the the order of service and all that. And and I saw, you know what? Probably good to have some worship there. Probably good to have some worship in a hospital room when somebody's dying. That the last thing we do is worship, and and we should recognize that in heaven, they're worshiping right now. Right? And they're gonna worship with a 144,000. And so we're we're gonna worship Jesus at the where we've dug a hole to put a body in, knowing Sally's not in that body anymore, that she's with the lord. But our response to all of this to to death is, oh, grave, where is thy victory? Right? The grave's lost. The grave can't hold Sally. Sally, to be asked that the bodies be present with the Lord, and and that should elicit. That should produce within us worship. We should be excited about singing about that to the Lord. And so my comment to James was is is, you know, worship adds a whole other dimension. We don't have to make it just mechanical. Now Rob's gonna cancel his plans and be there, or I'm gonna sing acapella. So I'm gonna sing a couple songs acapella. Right? You'd have to be a heathen not to be there now, you know. So I know you're getting the root canal. Alright. So the four living creatures, elders, and and the and they redeem. So you've got the the new song, and you've got the redeem which are the saved. So you've got those that are sealed. You got a new song. Now you have the saved. Those those who redeem. And what can wash away my sins? Nothing but the blood of Jesus. So so greater price of redemption, your blood bought, and exclusivity only under the redeem who were redeemed from the earth. And so remember the parable in chapter 13 of the kingdom parable, you know, where he went and sold all that he had so that he could buy that treasure that was in that field? That's a picture of redemption of the blood of Jesus. This planet in chapter five, we remember who's worthy to open the scroll and loose the seals, and only the lion of the tribe of Judah was worthy because the devil, the little g god of this world, the prince, the power of the air, the usurper, He usurped authority over the earth from the first Adam, and Jesus is the son of man. He's identifying with man. He's the last Adam, and he he came to destroy the works of the devil. And so Jesus is the only one worthy to open the scroll and loose his seal. So he went and he sold all that he had. He left the splendor of heaven, the free exercise of his deity, took on the form of a man, the babe of Bethlehem, lived a perfect life, and then went to the cross of Calvary, his blood being shed to redeem us from the curse, from the curse that came as a result of Adam's sin. So someone had to pay the price for our redemption, and that price is Jesus. And why did he do that? It said that he he saw a treasure in this field. And in order to get that treasure, he had to redeem the whole planet. He had to pay for the penalty that Adam brought on us, which was forfeiture of dominion of the earth. And so he considers you and I a treasure. So these are they who were not defiled with women for they are virgins. And so here it speaks of those who are sanctified, who are set apart, who are made holy. And in a literal practical way of of interpreting that, they choose to be like the apostle Paul for the time that they're gonna spend in the tribulation periods can be a very difficult time. Right? And if you had a wife and children, that'd be really difficult. So they don't have relationship with women. They're virgins, and they're serious. They're single-minded. It's all about getting the gospel out. They're preaching the gospel to people the first half of the tribulation period. These are they who follow the lamb wherever he goes. So they're seekers. They're seeking the lamb. That's all they care about. They're looking for Jesus. They're want they're followers of Jesus and telling people about Jesus. These were redeemed from among men, the first fruits unto god, and to the lamb. And so this speaks of more to come. First fruits is more to come. Jesus is the first fruits of the resurrection and the sequential order of military campaign, and then the dead in Christ shall rise first, and we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with him in the clouds and meet the lord in the air so shall ever be with the lord and so that's the second stage of the first resurrection. Remember the second resurrection is chapter 20 of the wicked dead. And in that first resurrection at the end of the tribulation period, you've got in the midpoint actually, you've got the two witnesses who are resurrected. At the end of the tribulation period, you got the Old Testament saints, the friend of the bridegroom, John the Baptist, them at the marriage supper of the lamb, you and you have the tribulation saints who are resurrected, and that completes the first resurrection. And the second resurrection is of the wicked dead in Revelation chapter 20 and they stand at the great white throne judgment. So death is separation from god but we are eternal in our soul. The soul of man is eternal and the place that you spend eternity is to be predicated upon if you receive Christ or rejected Christ. And that's that's the what did you do with my son? Blasphemy of the Holy Spirit is the only sin that cannot be forgiven, that will not be forgiven because blasphemy of the Holy Spirit is the rejecting of Jesus Christ. That's it. If you receive Jesus Christ, all your sins are forgiven. All your sins are paid for. So so these were redeemed from among the first fruits from among among men, the first fruits unto god and to the lamb. So and in their mouth was found no guile. So they're spotless. For they are without fault before the throne of God. Now one of the greatest doxologies that I love is Jude 24. Jude 24. Now unto him who is able to keep you from falling and to present you how's he present you? Faultless. Faultless. Before his Faultless. Throne was singing. Right? So God's able to present you faultless, spotless, unblemished. That's the one we look to. Amen. How unto him is able to keep you from falling. Right? And to present you faultless before his presence was singing, the only wise God be glory and honor both now and forever. Amen. Right? Now if you take those verses and you make them into a song, you never forget them. Right? That's why we take scripture and we make children's lullabies out of them. They'll never forget it. They'll never forget Jesus loves me. Their whole life long, they'll remember Jesus loves me. Right? Do you understand that? Because you put it to a song. You can't get those songs out of your head. I have a hard time getting all the Catholic dogma from making my first communion out of my head. It's it's in there, and it just won't go away. You know? Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou. I mean, it's there. And I had to learn those those prayers and recite those prayers to get my red jacket. Alright. And I saw another angel in the midst of heaven having the everlasting gospel. So you got the 144,000 who share the gospel. They're evangelists. Right? Now you have an angel that's gonna fly overhead and give the everlasting gospel. Now God is giving the earth dwellers a chance. They have a choice. They can choose the dragon, the devil, and worship the devil and take his mark as a means of allegiance and worship on the right hand of their forehead. Chapter 13 makes it real clear. Now the connector is chapter 14. So God letting them know before the bold judgments come, I'm letting you guys know, any of you that are still alive, that you still have a choice. You can still choose eternal life. You rather than eternal damnation. And so these angels and there's different aspects of the gospel. It's it's it's always been salvation by grace through faith. Right? It's always been by grace. But another aspect of the gospel is the good news of his coming kingdom. It's the good news of letting you know Satan loses. The devil loses. That's good news. The devil loses. So when we proclaim prophecy to people, we're letting them know that all of this is for vanity and futility. All of these chips and all the stuff they're building in the data centers, all it's predestined for failure. If I was a stock market guy and I wanted to become really rich at the end of the tribulation period going into the millennium, I would bet against everything. I bet against it all. Right? I bet against all the it's I put a put bet in it. It's all gonna fail one day. And of course, I'm not gonna need money in the millennium, so no big deal. But I know ahead of time it's all gonna fail. So why would I base my life on the lies of the wicked one and go against the more sure word of prophecy? God let me know ahead of time that it's all gonna fail. So he's letting the earth dwellers, letting those that find themselves in the tribulation period know you still have a decision. Nobody's forcing you into hell. Only people that go to hell are people that choose to go to hell by rejecting Jesus. So an angel's overhead with all the technology that's happening during that time. There's an angel overhead, and I can hear Trump now. I can hear him saying, they're aliens. Those are aliens. You know? The UFOs. Those are UFOs. You know? Don't listen to them. You know? And and I can hear I can hear president Trump over in Gaza with this huge statue that's built with him. It's a Trump statue. And he's gonna say, is this not great Babylon which I have built? Because he sees himself as Nebuchadnezzar. Right? That's what Nebuchadnezzar said. And man, he's close. He's really close to to mouthing that, you know, because that's that's where he's moving. He's moving in that direction. They are gonna rebuild Babylon. And I thought of that today. Oh my gosh. He's gonna say it, isn't he? Don't say it. You're gonna eat grass for seven years, dude. Don't do that. But the good news about Nebby is he got saved. Amen. Maybe that's what it take to save Trump. You know what I mean? I don't know. He's not saved now. But but it's fascinating how bombastic, how boastful characteristics of the antichrist. I don't say he's the antichrist. I think he's closer to Nebuchadnezzar, you know? The golden statues, you know? And everything's gold with him. Alright. And the streets are made of golden heaven. So, I'm not worried about it. What's gold? So, they're coming overhead with the everlasting gospel and let them know that judgment's coming. Part of the gospel is judgment's coming. Part of the good news is is knowing that god is going to deal with all the Epstein guys, all the pedophiles, all the wicked are gonna stand before god. Vengeance is mine. I'll repay, saith the lord. There is justice. He's a just god and he has to punish sin and he's going to punish their sin. Know you not that your sin shall find you out. Whatsoever man sows, that shall he also reap. God's not mocked. And so, the gospel entails it's a gospel of grace. It's a gospel of the coming kingdom. It's an everlasting gospel and that we have eternal life. The gospel entails salvation available to these people and and the gospel of judgment. In this case here of divine judgment that's coming. If we're in a time of suffering, living in China or living in North Korea, living in a totalitarian under a totalitarian regime, Islamic nations in Nigeria and all, one of the things that we that comforts us is in knowing that this light affliction, it's but for a moment. It's it's almost over. It's almost over. And then the king of kings and lord of lords coming, and he's going to defeat the devil. He's gonna defeat all the fallen angels, and he's gonna destroy sin and death, and he's gonna set up his kingdom wherein righteousness dwells. Right now is the testing period of to see who will love him and who will not, of who's gonna believe and who will not believe. And this is the time of testing. This is the time where your lifetime, you have your whole lifetime to determine and to decide because you're made in the image of God. He didn't make you a robot, and he's not putting a neural link in you and trying to chip you and make you mimic what he wants you to say unless maybe you're Jonah, he hasn't making a way of making you well in. But no, Jonah made his own decision, own decision. So, god's sovereign. He's on the throne. He's in control and we may not be willing. We might be fighting against. We may be rebellious but you know, in my life, he has a way to make me willing. You know? He has a way to make me willing. And I'm glad he chose me because if it would've been left up to me, who knows how many more bad choices I could've made. Right? And so the everlasting gospel overhead in the midst of heaven having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and our citizenship is in heaven, but we're gonna be earth dwellers one day. Our politic is in heaven. Citizenship is politic. I believe in politics, the politics of heaven. I'm looking for the king of kings and lord of lords to return. Right? Jesus said, my kingdom's not of this world. Not yet. He's gonna bring his kingdom and set up his kingdom at this present kingdom on the earth. That's not his kingdom. It's the kingdom of the wicked one, of the devil. So preach unto them that dwell on the earth and to every nation, kindred, tongue, and people. Everyone gets a chance. Everyone's gonna hear it. So if you're speaking Farsi, if you're speaking Spanish, if you're speaking whatever language you have, this this angel is going to communicate in a way that every single person on the planet, before he judges, every person on the planet's gonna hear the gospel. This gospel of this kingdom in Matthew 24 must cover the whole earth. Right? And if we fail at it, it's still gonna be done. It's still getting done. The whole earth. Right? Every group of people. And there's the point here, is he loves group of people, every person. There's no favorite group of people. Right now, there's a big debate about, you know, the nation of Israel being his favorites, you know, god's chosen people and all that. Chosen in the sense of the messiah coming forth from him, but they're also the most rebellious people upon the planet, and they're gonna go through the biggest smackdown of any people upon the planet. You know? Two thirds of them are gonna die. It's called the time of Jacob's trouble. Because of their rebellion, god's gonna spank them as a nation. So I don't I don't think that's super favorable except in the sense that whom the lord loves, he chastens and scourges every son or daughter in the point of saving them, of saving a remnant, of purifying a remnant. And so and so this everlasting gospel, Romans 10 who wants to read Romans ten fourteen ten twelve through 15. Who wants to read that? And somebody else, Isaiah fifty two seventeen? I'll do Romans. Okay. And Nahum one five. I'll do Nahum. Alright. You got it? So we've got Eddie gonna do Romans. That's ten twelve to 15. Does that sound good? Yeah. For there's no difference between the Jew and the Greek for the same Lord overall is rich unto all that call upon him. For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. How then shall they call on him whom they have not believed, and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher? And how shall they preach except they be sent? As it is written, how beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace and bring glad tidings of good things. That's good news. Amen. That angel's overhead. Good news, all you people that are suffering. There's good news, right? Right? Okay and name one five. Hold on. Hold on. Name one five. The mountains quake before him and the hills melt away. The earth trembles at his presence. The world and all who live in it. Shaking. Shaking. Shaking. Whole lot of shaking going on. Isaiah fifty two seventeen. I can read that. Whole world's gonna shake. Oh, go ahead. Two seventeen? Is that right? No, because there's no 17. Oh. Nope. Isaiah fifty two seven. Seven. There we go. How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings that publish keys that bringeth good tidings of good, that publish salvation, that saith unto Zion, thy god reigneth. Good. Thank you. And you and I are the preachers. He's entrusted the glorious gospel to you and I in this present dispensation. Right? Right. In this church age, we've been privileged with going to make a disciples and preaching the gospel in the tribulation period. He's got a 144,000 that are gonna do it. He's got tribulation saints are gonna do it. He's got an angel overhead that's gonna share the gospel and praise the lord. What a what a blessing. And so so in their mouth was found oh, excuse me. And I saw another angel in the midst of heaven having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell, the earth dwellers on the earth, and to every nation, kindred, tongue, and people saying with a loud voice, fear God. How many people are afraid of government? How many people are gonna be afraid of the antichrist? Right? Government postures itself wanting to be God, wanna be worshipped as god. Right? And they don't want you to trust in Jesus Christ. And this is heightened during the tribulation period where, the devil is posturing himself, declaring himself to be god as he goes into the temple of the Antichrist, declared himself to be god, demands to be worshiped as god. So, the good news is fear god. Worship the true and living god, you know, and give glory to him. For the hour of his judgment is come. So, this is what we would call the last call. It's last call. All you earth dwellers, it's the last call. It's almost over. It's almost over. You better get it right now. There's only three and a half years left. The bold judgments are going to be, coming after you, and the the Antichrist of chapter 13 is gonna come after you. He's gonna he's gonna kill all you people that refuse the mark of the beast. That's okay. Revelation 20 verse four, those tribulation saints make it. They make it through or they make it to heaven so to speak or not so to speak, but they do. And they're beneath the throne of God. So do not worship the beast is the is the message. In contrast to worshiping the beast, your life's narrowed down to one decision, worship God. Sometimes we've got 20 different decisions we gotta make. What am I gonna do? What am I gonna eat tonight? What am I what am I gonna wear? Where where am I gonna go? And your life come down to one decision. God's gonna ask you one question. What'd you do with my son? Just one simple what did you do with my son? You're responsible for the gospel. You're responsible. Knowledge brings responsibility. What did you do? Well, I put it off, you know, and I thought, well, you know, I'll I'll do it another time or I'll be reincarnated or how's that working for you? I'll be annihilated. I don't believe there is a god. I don't believe in you. I I didn't think you were real. Well, I am. So you're gonna have to choose. In Joshua twenty four fifteen, Joshua said, choose you this day who you will serve. The gods on this side, you know, all these little g gods or the true and living god. But as for me and my house, Joshua's making a decision. You can finish that sentence. Right? But as for me and my house, what? We will serve the lord. There you go. And there's no confusion in his brain, is there? There's no confusion, like, no brain fog. He's real clear about what he's doing. Though and identifying the true and living God is the God of creation. We looked at redemption, but he says here, worship him that made heaven. The devil didn't make heaven. The beast didn't make heaven. The false prophet didn't make heaven. That's why in Romans one, when the godless suppress the truth of the god of creation, god says, no. For my creation, the whole world's without excuse. So let's say for a minute, there's a person that says, well, you know, what about the people that live in parts of the world that have never heard the gospel? What then? In this case here, you know, the angels overhead letting them all know. Okay. But what about all those people that that have never heard? Romans one says, they know him from creation, And they're without excuse. And so let's say in Iran today, there's people there that have never heard the gospel. God's given people dreams and visions who have the gospel to go to coffee houses and meet with a woman in red and go tell that woman with the red jacket on about me. So God has a way. If a person seeking, seeking, you shall find. So even people out in the bush or whatever, if they're seeking the true and living God, what's to say couldn't give him a dream or a vision or an angel appear or whatever it takes, you know? He spoke through a donkey. Right? He's unlimited in the ways that he can communicate. So basically, faith is imputed or righteous imputed for those who acknowledge, hey, this God of creation, he's made everything. Not creation is God, but the creator is God. So those that reject that knowledge, that revelation on that level because we're have a greater responsibility because Jesus has come and he's been crucified, buried, raised, and we have a Bible makes us more responsible and we've heard the gospel many times. So this person, they're simply responsible for the level of revelation they have and that he's the god of creation. Paul says in Romans one, if they reject that knowledge and they suppress it like a Darwinian dude and they make an idol out of it, then they suppress the truth and god's gonna give them over to base desires. He's gonna give them over to their degenerate mind. They're gonna become of a reprobate mind and he says they are without excuse. Right? There's no excuse. So he's a God of creation. And so incredibly important for us to teach our children and to make sure that we know who God is. He's the creator of the universe. He's also the redeemer. Right? He's redeemed us that which we forfeited, he repurchased with his own blood, and that shows his love. And the sea and the fountains of water that made heaven and earth and the sea and all the fountains of water which during the tribulation period, it's all getting wiped out. Everything's getting wiped out. The water supply, everything's getting wasted and cataclysmic events. And now we come to another declaration that the beast is lost. And there followed another angel saying, Babylon has fallen, has fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication. So Babylon, literal Babylon, is the capital political capital city for the Antichrist, and and the city has fallen. So, we get to chapter 18. We'll we'll see how the Mariners and the merchants and the monarchs, everybody's wailing and crying and just blown away because at a moment, the smoke that's billowing from Babylon is it's it's wasted. It's it's destroyed. So, what's that mean? Where you and I are living right now? Babylon needs to be rebuilt. The city of Babylon is right now being rebuilt. Right now, it's being rebuilt. All of the infrastructure, the port is being built, the roads are being built, all that president Trump and these guys are accomplishing for commerce is being built right now. They're they're taking rogue nations like Iran that's not in the global banking system, and they're breaking them, regime changing them, and forcing every nation into this blockchain, Rothschild. Think of international settlements, XRP. Now the Trump family's already worth 13,000,000,000 since September. They've already increased their personal wealth by 13,000,000,000 from zero to 13,000,000,000 because they formulated a cryptocurrency that they produced that now with their influence, they're getting countries like Pakistan to take the dollars that they have and connect them to the Trump crypto. So it's making value. It's making their cryptocurrency extremely valuable. And the Trump boys are running around telling people, Eric, Trump, and the other one, they're telling people you can get on this too. You can get wealthy from this. And it has to happen. It's a better system. You can buy a house and it can happen immediately. It doesn't have to happen in three days. You know? So they make all the reasons why this is so important. But the the infrastructure is also being rebuilt, not just the economic part, the financial part, the chain is there, but the the like I said, the roads, the trains, the canals, the the Gulf area there. So Babylon, present day Iraq, the city of Babylon, gonna be literally rebuilt. Now, we go backwards to Babylon. The first global government with Nimrod in chapter ten eleven of Genesis, Babel, the Tower Of Babel, a religious a global religious system, and everyone of the same language at the time. So they had a they had a the first effort of the devil putting together a global government, a global religious system, and I don't know what their economic system was, but God confounded it, made sovereign nations, different ethnic groups, different languages, and scattered them all over the world because it wasn't the time, you know, of the end. It wasn't the time of the tribulation period where the god would allow the world the rebirth of Babylon. Now another thing that emanated from Babylon is the religious system. The religious system that began in Babylon continues to this day, and and there's gonna be resurgence of that of that religious system during the tribulation period. So Babylon has fallen, has fallen that great city because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication. So the nations are going to come together as one, global governance system, global economic system, and a global religious system. Chapter 17 is the religious part of Babylon. And chapter 18, the political and economic part of Babylon. And and so the first part of the tribulation period, the church, the apostate church rides the beast. The beast is the governmental system, and the church rides the beast, and they're the ones that are kind of the enforcers of enforcing as the counterfeit holy spirit tells everybody they need to worship the beast. It's the counterfeit religious system that begins to kill all the tribulation saints and cuts their heads off and all. So the church rides government. You're watching you're watching the three legged stool that Rick Warren spoke of of government, religion, and business merging together. The technocrats, it's their technology merging with the money of government. They're getting funded from government. The 500.5 a $500,000,000,000 Stargate project the first day Trump was in office with Peter Thiel and Palantir. The technology the technology is even developed by the government because when this technology starts, the CIA chooses these guys to develop the technology that they want to use with the government. So they're getting funding from the very beginning from from our government, and so the merging together. Now a lot of churches a lot of churches are looking for funding and accepting funding also from the government. So that's a means of compromise. So when you think in terms of a separation of church and state, the separation of church and state is so that we wouldn't have a state run church. Not that the church wouldn't be involved in politically in the in the culture. So our our founding fathers, when we came from England, they had a state run church. So Thomas Jefferson wrote a letter saying there'd be a wall of separation. And the reason being is that the dark ages is where Constantine merged the church with government, and it became dark because it was corrupted. It's the corruption that comes in. So that's what's gonna happen at the end of the age too. And the apostasy is a rebellion against God, the falling away from the truth, and we're in that we're we're watching that already. But in the tribulation period, the apostasy is gonna be even more acute, more powerful against God, this great falling away. And but we see the the beginnings of it religiously, people falling away from the Bible, falling away from the truth, and the wrath of her fornication. So the the seduction that takes place with the sorcery and the seduction of government with religion. Alright. And the third angel followed them saying with a loud voice, if any man worship the beast, So you've you've you let them know that the beast is lost, you got his shoes, and then now we come to wrath. Here's where the wrath is is coming. And the third angel followed them and saying with a loud voice, if any man worship the beast in his image so who's the beast? The beast is the antichrist. Antichrist means in place of Jesus Christ. Right? So Why would anybody worship the beast? The beast is also a man. Right? And this number is 666. Right? Why would anybody worship a man? Gives him their stuff. Pardon me? Gives them their stuff. Gives them their stuff? Gives me a free phone. Gives you a free phone? Yep. Do you do you know anybody right now that's demanding themselves to be worshiped, declaring themselves to be god? Then that seem pretty preposterous? Like, how could how could a group of people fall for that? Are they really gonna be that deluded? Is that strong delusion that god gives them over to gonna really be that strong in second Thessalonians two when they reject the truth of Jesus Christ. Now they're open to great deception. You and I believing in Jesus Christ and following Jesus Christ restrains evil in our lives, protects us from evil, protects us from being deceived, being slaves. And the devil's pretty powerful in this seduction, beguiling Eve, you know, in the garden. And Paul was worried about the church at Corinth be that a similar thing would happen to them that they'd be seduced, you know, by the devil. But my in my mind, for me, I have a very strong aversion of exalting men. I don't I don't go that direction. I don't I don't go the direction of exalting men. Now to take that even further that I'm gonna worship a guy, that to me is just preposterous. There has to be something really, really wrong with society if they come to a place where they're actually going to let's use a different word, idolize. We go to stadiums and we have the Seahawks and people idolize the Seahawks. And they idolize ball players. They idolize billionaires and idolize, idolize, idolize. Do you hear the word idol in there? You're not supposed to have any idols. You know? Not supposed to idolize. And so it's it's not healthy for people to exalt Christian celebrities as I was saying on Sunday. It's not good for them. It wasn't good for Moses when the people were exalting him. God had to humble Moses. Right? And Moses smoked the rock a second time and broke the type and the whole thing. He didn't get to go into the promised land and all. But imagine if he did. He'd he'd have been worshiped. There's a tendency people when they have small faith, when they don't have very much faith, they want to worship what's closest to them. But per people with real faith, with real strong faith, they worship Jesus even though they don't see him. Thomas said, if I don't touch him, you know, and Jesus said, but blessed are they that believe and haven't seen. Right? And so we our faith is strong enough and growing and continue to grow that we're not gonna fall for Aaron making a golden calf, are we? We're not gonna make a golden calf and go back to Egypt, you know, and we're not gonna blame, you know, hey, everybody. Give me your earrings. Give me your gold. Everybody throw it throw it in here. And then when Moses comes back, you know, and he breaks the 10 commandments, breaks the the stone tablets, and grinds it to powder and makes them drink it and all that. You know? And and Aaron says, it's the people. And, oh, it's it was a cultic. We just we just threw the gold down into the we were melting it, and it came out it came out like a calf. You know? We didn't make a mold. None of us made a mold, you know, the golden calf. So but we're very, prone to idolatry. We're prone to worship men and and make a man into an idol. And so we gotta be careful of that. The thing that wakes the Jewish people up at the midpoint of the tribulation period is when the antichrist declares himself to be god, demands to be worshiped as god. To them, that's an abomination. That's not gonna happen. That's what wakes them up to flee because they refuse to worship him. Had they worshiped him, he wouldn't be trying to kill him in chapter 12, right? But they they're awakened to it and and so, The early church, six million of them died because they refused to pinch incense to Caesar, right? What, Vicky? I was I was reading yesterday Habitat. Two eighteen and it's that's what it says. It's talking about idols being the idol carved by a craftsman and the image that teaches lies. The one who makes it trust in his own creation and he makes idols that cannot speak. Now, tell me about the idol that they make in chapter 13. Revelation 13. Right? You know, off top of your head, it speaks. It does. Speaks, right? It's got and Demands to be worshiped in God. And they try to they try to trick the people and that they're saying it came to life. Right. So it has a likeness, a lifelike ness, and and we're still we're still wondering how that happens. But but it's it's again, it's a grand deception. But it's we we can keep things real simple. I'm gonna worship the God of creation. I'm gonna worship Jesus. Right? So whatever alternative they have to try and get me to steer away from that. There's a verse in Deuteronomy where the Lord says I don't know exactly where it is, but it's along these lines of he'll test the people from time to time and allow a false prophet among them to see whether or not they'll continue to believe in god or give sway to, you know, a false prophet that comes in. And I believe we're tested continually with whether we're gonna believe or not believe. The trials that come into our life, we're gonna believe or not believe. And so, though he slay me, yet will I trust in him, Job said. And so he continued to believe. The devil wants to destroy your faith and wants you to believe in idols. Believe in yourself. That's that's the the real lie in the garden is you can be as god. So people, oh, I'm a god. So they worship these and the image and receive his mark on their foreheads or in his hand. And the same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation, and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels in the presence of the lamb. So there's two consequences of rejecting Jesus and choosing the beast. One is torment during the tribulation period. You're going to you're at the midpoint. If you choose to reject Jesus and embrace the the beast and take his mark from chapter 13, then you're gonna have three and a half years of hell on your hands. The bold judgments that come out, the wine of the indignation of his wrath. God's wrath during the tribulation periods can be poured out upon you. And the second component is the lake of fire. Eternal damnation, that of the lake of fire. So if you receive that mark, there's no going back, there's no means of redemption, there's no salvation, There's no second chance. That's the line you cross. That's the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit. And if you're gonna drink the wine of the wrath of God. Now Jesus prayed Matthew twenty six thirty nine. He prayed, father, if you're willing, remove this cup from me. And we've we've talked a lot about what that cup was. It was the cup of his wrath. Right? He prayed three times, sweating as it were great drops of blood. Father, if you're willing, remove this cup from me, but nevertheless, not as I will, but thy will be done. Now when the devil tempted Jesus, Matthew four, he showed him all the kingdoms of the world. And if you bow down and worship me, the devil said, I'll give you all these kingdoms of the world. You can have the kingdoms. You can be king of the world with no cross. You can have the crown without the cross, Jesus. And that's what the devil says to you and I. I'll give you the crown without the cross. You don't need to die. You don't need to die to self. Deify self. Deify self. You'd be more important than everybody else. Love yourself. That's the lie of the wicked one. Right? And that's the the selfishness that he tries to stimulate and, you know, go take it. The the strong, you know, Hitler and them, the those who are strong over the weak and and and such. And so we remember that Jesus drank that cup because there was no other way to redeem mankind and it's the cup of god's wrath. So, god's wrath was poured out upon his son as Jesus upon the cross of Calvary and he's crying out Psalm 22, my god, my god, why has thou forsaken me? Why art thou so far from my roaring? And at that moment, for the very first time, Jesus experienced separation from his father, right? We're thinking in terms of time, outside of time and eternity, he and the father are one there enjoying sweet fellowship. Right? So he comes as the babe of Bethlehem. He leaves he leaves eternity, comes into time here on earth as the seed of the woman, the virgin born son of God. Thirty three years, he's living in that body, identifying himself as the son of man, identifying with man. He's not an angel. He's the God man, fully God and fully man. He's the last Adam, and he lived a perfect life. He's the bread of life. He's the only one that could be that propitiation or that substitute for us. When we look at the word atonement at one man, the day of Yom Kippur, the great day of atonement, The ashes or excuse me, the blood of the goat that would come in and be sprinkled at the judgment seat, the mercy seat, they'd be sprinkled once a year. Then they have another goat, a scapegoat, where the priest would confess the sins of the people upon that one would be set out into the wilderness. A picture of forgiveness. But it was the Kafar in the Hebrew. Kafar only covered sin year by year but sin wasn't dealt with. Sin wasn't paid for yet. There was no because without the shedding of blood, there's no remission of sin and it's possible that impossible that the blood of bulls and bullocks of animals could take away sin. So there was a looking future that one day the lamb of God, as John the Baptist said, behold the lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world. So in Ephesians four that we studied two weeks ago, there's a whole group of Old Testament saints in hell, but hell is a double compartment. One side is Abraham's bosom or as Jesus said, the thief on the cross paradise, a place of comfort. The other side is a place of torment where the rich man was in Luke 16. Right? So this group here was waiting for payment for their sin, actual payment for their sin. Now, righteousness was imputed to them, credited the account based upon the faith that they placed in Jesus that he would come looking future Like in Genesis 22, the picture of Mount Moriah of Calvary, the picture of Abraham, God the father, going to offer his only begotten son, his only son, not Ishmael, his only son Isaac upon that mount there. Right? And so that's a picture of the cross. That's a picture. The gospel was before preached to Abraham. So Abraham believing this, righteousness was imputed to him because in Hebrews 11, Abraham said, well, there's no other there's no other way and he's got the knife and he's ready to go for it and God stops him because it was a test and he said, can see that you won't hold anything back. But more importantly, righteousness was imputed to him but Abraham's bosom, he couldn't go immediately be with the father because the actual payment for his sin wasn't there yet. So his faith was imputed. It's an accounting term in the ledger that, hey, you've got righteousness here, but your righteousness needs to be actuated and paid for by the lamb of God that you believe in to actually pay for your sin. So he that ascended after his crucifixion, he went in that lower part, Jesus did. Peter says that he preached victory to all those spirits that were there from from the time of Noah's flood that were incarcerated. He preached victory. He spoiled Colossians said he spoiled all principalities and powers announcing this triumph over them and then he emptied out Abraham's bosom. He emptied out paradise including the thief and got all those guys out of there because now they actually had the actual payment for their sin because Jesus, the wrath of his father was poured out on him and payment for the sin and and so that's the wrath of salvation. The sotological wrath. Now, there's another wrath that he now you and I have been saved from the wrath of judgment. There's no fearful looking to that you and I are gonna stand before God and answer for our sins. There's no record of wrong. Paid in full. You're never going to have to answer for any sin because Jesus already answered for you. He already paid for it. So you're saved. You're freed. You're redeemed. But there's another time of wrath coming, and that's the wrath of the tribulation period where God's gonna pour out his wrath upon a Christ rejecting world. The seventieth seven of Daniel, the tribulation period. So these people here that reject at the midpoint of the tribulation period, god's saying to him, you're gonna suffer torment, wrath being poured on you if you take the mark of the beast. If you don't take the mark of the beast, you're you're it's gonna go much better with you. And because some of them here, we're gonna see that that notice verse 13, and I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, write, blessed are the dead who die in the Lord, from henceforth, yea, save the spirit that they may rest from their labors and their works to follow them. It'd be better for you to reject the antichrist, and when my wrath being poured out for you to be executed by the beast, the false prophet, and them, blessed are the dead, because you're gonna be a tribulation saint, and you'll be blessed. But if you refuse to believe in me and receive the mark of the beast to preserve your life for three and a half more years so that you don't lose your head, you're gonna suffer under my wrath because the bold judgments are coming, and it's gonna be hell on earth. So that's the what we call the eschatological wrath. So somebody wanna read first Thessalonians one verse 10. And we can turn to first Thessalonians. I wanna teach us something there. I wanna remind us of something. We've we've we've studied this so many times, but, you know, it's good to be reminded. So, one verse 10. I can read. Go ahead. And to wait for his son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus which delivered us from the wrath to come. Okay. So all that I just previously said, you understand the wrath that we spoke previously about. Soteriological means salvation wrath. You're saved from from the wrath of judgment. You've already been saved. Salvation means deliverance and healing. You've been saved from the past penalty of sin. You're being saved. Romans six from the power of sin. And in the press in the future tense, you will be saved from the very presence of sin. Okay? But as far as penalty for sin, you've already been saved from that. You've already the wrath is it's payment in full, paid in full. You're never gonna ask for that. So this wrath to come is the wrath of the tribulation period. And who delivered us from the wrath to come in that you're gonna be raptured. You are going to be raptured before the tribulation period. Wrath comes upon this planet. You've been saved already from the wrath to come. Now when we go to chapter four, we see the the teaching on the the rapture of the church for the lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, with the trump of god, and the dead in Christ rise first. Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with him in the clouds to meet the lord in the air, so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words. Comfort you because you aren't subject under God's wrath. So now we go to chapter five. Now chapter five, he says, but of the times and of the seasons, brethren, you have no need that I write unto you. For you yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord So the rapture is not the day of the Lord. The day of the Lord is the tribulation period. And it's a campaign. It's a campaign that intensifies from the signing of the peace treaty to the second coming. So the day of the Lord is is the tribulation period. You know that the day of the lord so cometh as a thief in the night. For when they so again, we we teach our grammar and we say, now watch these pronouns because he's gonna do a contrast of pronouns. When they So this is the Pete Hecht says, this this is the the they are the dominious right now. The the they are those that think they're gonna usher in the return of Christ, and Jesus is gonna come as a thief a knight unto them because they're gonna be surprised. You're not gonna be surprised. You see the birth pangs. You see the time of sorrows already happening leading up to the day of the Lord. And those birth pangs alert you to the rapture, the imminency of the rapture, because you know according to Daniel nine twenty seven that the tribulation period starts with the signing of the covenant that the Antichrist makes with Israel. And that's the start of the tribulation period. So for yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so comes that the thief in the night, for when they shall say peace and safety, the board of peace, the board of peace man. We got peace here. We got peace in The Middle East. Just a few more wars, then we got peace. Few more wars. Right? My board of peace. And I'm gonna be the head of the board of peace forever, and then my successor, I get to choose. And Jared Kushner gets to be it's a billion dollars to join. And now six months ago, a year ago, you and I, none of us could ever conceive of this. Never in a million years there any prophecy guy said, yeah, I think Trump's gonna come up with a board of peace. I think Trump's gonna do something in Venezuela all the way up to Greenland. I think he's gonna rescue Cuba. I think he's gonna rescue you know what I mean? None of us ever saw this coming, but the Bible did. The Bible did. These are the birth pangs. These are the more sure word of prophecy. Now a lot of people started these kind of things and they fail. The League of Nations failed. Right? The United Nations is failing right now. Right? But it still has the earmarks of trying to form trying to form. Now if it doesn't form, then we're gonna see in second Thessalonians two, why not? Because it's being restrained by the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit can say, no. Not yet. Not yet. But we're looking at it going, oh, I think it's time. I think it's happening. Isaiah 17 could happen. Isaiah 17 is Damascus. It can be made of ruinous heap. That could happen. That could happen real quick here any day now. And so for when they shall say peace and safety, then sudden destruction comes upon them. So their mantra is peace and safety, peace and security, peace and security. That's their mantra. That's their theme. Then sudden destruction comes upon them as travail upon a woman with child. So there's your birth pangs. They don't even see, boy, that baby comes out. The baby pops out. Shiframpuah, that's what they told the the pharaoh. Man, these these Hebrew these Hebrew women, those babies just pop out, man. They just pop out. A travail upon a woman with child and they shall not escape. So you're not gonna escape this wrath. Now, god's showing these people in chapter 14 a way to escape. A way to escape is salvation in Jesus. You can escape the lake of fire by believing in Jesus right now. Right? And death is better than living three and a half more years in the wrath of the torment of the tribulation period. Death is an escape. Chapter nine, he wouldn't even let people escape through death. Remember? They tried to die and they wouldn't die. At least now he's the second half he's saying, alright. I'm gonna let some of you die. I'm gonna let you know, you people that are dying by refusing the mark of the beast, you're gonna thank me in second. You're gonna thank me because you're gonna be in my presence. Right? So the destruction comes upon them as travail upon a woman with child and they shall not escape. But you saw a change in pronouns, right? But you, so who's Paul talking to? He's talking to Christians. He's talking to the church of Thessalonica. But you, brethren, are not in darkness that that day should overtake you as a thief. You don't attend an anti rapture church. You don't attend an anti prophecy church. Your your church is trying to make you aware of what's coming of what's happening. Amen. So that you aren't one of they so that you are ye, you know? And he's gonna broaden it, he's gonna let you know, you're children of light, you're not in darkness, you're a child of light. Travail upon a woman, but ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that at that day, that day, what day? The day of the Lord, the tribulation period, should overtake you. Not talking about the rapture here. Talking about the tribulation period. Should overtake you as a thief. So some people would use a thief in the night as the rapture, but this is the tribulation period. It's gonna come upon them like a thief in the night and that, wow. How'd this happen? It happened so quick. The shutdown. I went to the bank on Monday, and BlackRock shut down all the banks. I couldn't get my money out, And I had to take a mark. It happened quick. It can happen so quick. Everything changed as in a moment. The stock market crashed, and the day should overtake you as the thief. You're all sons of light and sons of the day. We are not of the night nor of darkness. Therefore, let us not sleep as do others. Hold a of people asleep. And we've got a lot of churches today that wanna remain asleep. And if you try to wake them up, they get angry. They get so angry. They just they wanna find a church where we can be asleep because ignorance is bliss. We don't want to know. It makes me it makes me afraid, all that talk about the rapture and the talk about the end of the world, the talk about how am I gonna raise my kids? But wouldn't your kids be better if they're raptured into heaven? What's why is it doom and gloom? So therefore, let us not sleep as do others, but it's high time to wake out of sleep, for now is our salvation nearer than when we believe. Right? So therefore, let us not sleep as do others, but let us watch and be sober minded. I wanna be one of the 10 virgins that are wise. Right? I wanna be watching. I don't wanna be the five foolish putting it off, putting it off, putting it off. Jesus exhorts me to watch. He said, when you see these things begin to come to pass, the birth banks, then look up for your redemption draws nigh. He also said Luke, he said, pray always, and watching means praying. Pray always that you'd be accounted worthy to escape these things, what things, the things of the tribulation period, and to stand before the son of God. Now, Vicky's gonna finish my thought. She knows my thoughts now. Location, location, location. That you may be counted worthy to stand before the son of man. Location, location, location. Where is Jesus? In heaven. And that's John 14. Right, Vicky? John 14. Yep. Let not your heart be troubled. You believe in god, believe also in me. In my father's house are many mansions. If it weren't so, I'd tell you but I go to prepare a place for you and if I go to prepare a place for you, I will come again that where I am, there you may be also. Isn't that comforting? Yeah. Isn't that comforting? Alright. We could make that into a lullaby. No. We don't want them to go to sleep. And I could hear Betty out there. Betty knows all my thoughts too. She's That's right. She's been around long enough now. She knows. For they that sleep, sleep in the night. And they that are drunk are drunk in the night. But let us who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith, and love, and for a helmet, the hope of salvation. Better be ready. It's gonna be a battle. Be ready. Now, here's our verse. For god has not appointed us to wrath but to obtain salvation by our lord Jesus Christ who died for us that whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him. Wherefore, comfort yourselves together and edify one another even as also you do. So, we've been already saved from the wrath to come. We're not appointed under wrath, the wrath of the tribulation period, the day of the lord that's that's coming upon this planet. Right? That's why we believe in a pre trib rapture. We're his bride and we're not subject under wrath. So, we have four types of saints just in case you misinterpret with your friends or your friends misinterpret. What are the saints? We have to differentiate between periods of time and saints. In the church aid, in before Pentecost, we had John the Baptist, the greatest of the Old Testament saints. Means he's a believer, right? Those are Old Testament. New Testament is the church, right? Okay? After the rapture, that's the end of the church age. So, Romans eleven fifteen, blindness and partisan on Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles come in, right? It's eleven twenty five. It's eleven twenty five and so blindness part is happening on the Israel. No replacement theology. Israel's just blind right now during the church age and the church is made up of Jew and Gentile, male, female, barbarian, Scythian, bonder, free, whosoever will let them come. Right? But Israel there's a distinct aspect of Israel as a nation. Promises given to Israel in the Old Testament with the Abrahamic covenant, the Davidic covenant, and Jeremiah 31 unconditional covenant where God's gonna save the remnant and write his word in their heart. They're gonna be born again. Right? In Zechariah thirteen, eight, nine, two thirds of them are gonna be wiped out during the tribulation period. A one third remnants can be preserved, purified during the tribulation period. And and so the next saint is the tribulation saint. So the mistake people make is these saints that are tribulation saints in the book of Revelation, they misconstrue and say, see the church is in the tribulation. No. You misconstrued. Those are tribulation saints. And there's a fourth saint. What's the fourth saint? Millennium. The millennium, which is another epoch. Epoch's a word for time or dispensation. People don't like us because we call ourselves premillennial dispensationalists, which means we're not in the millennium yet. And we don't think the seventy AD when the temple was destroyed, you know, ended the church age and and started, you know, started the millennium or whatever. We're we're not all mill, which means no mill, nor are we post mill that it happens or millennium happens after the tribulation period. So we're premill. We're not there yet. And and pretrip in our understanding of time, the time we're in. We're in the time of the Gentiles right now, Gentile world rule. When the fullness of the Gentiles comes in, that's Romans eleven twenty five, that's the rapture. Alright. So back to chapter 14 now. Okay. So now verse 14 or no, 13. Nope. Not even there. Let's see. So I'll I'll go to verse 10. The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of the indignation, which he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone. So here's the second part of the of the wrath. You got the wrath of the tribulation. You got the second penalty or bad news about the wrath is the wrath of hell, the wrath of damnation. With fire and brimstone, and Jesus said, where the worm died not and the fire is never quenched that of Gehenna, the lake of fire. With fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels. The holy angels are gonna be there watching. And in the presence of the lamb, Jesus is gonna be there at the great white throne judgment. And the beast and the false prophet are taken and immediately thrust into the lake of fire. The devil is put into the abyss for a thousand years, and at the end of that thousand years, the great white throne judgment where the wicked dead are put in there because presently they're in a different holding compartment. Right? They're in a place called hell, a place that's torment. But eventually, the last abode, the last place will be the Lake Of Fire. So these people from the tribulation period are gonna wind up in the Lake of Fire and brimstone presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the lamb. And the smoke of their torment ascends up forever and ever and they have no rest day nor night who worship. Notice, here's the problem. You worship the beast. Yeah. And his image. And whosoever receives the mark in his name. Here's their problem. This is your problem. Choose Christ. Choose Christ. He's given he's given you a chance. It's last call. This is the wrath. This is what you're choosing. And and you can't say that god doesn't love you because his son took the wrath that you deserved at the cross Of Calvary. He died in your place. So if you reject so great a salvation, then there's a fearful looking to of judgment. The only thing that remains is judgment. So no rest day nor night who worship the beast in his image. So that means no annihilation. There's no rest. You you don't cease to exist. You don't fall asleep. There's no soul sleep. You are aware. Your soul is aware. You feel the pain. There's weeping and gnashing of teeth. How can we even conceive something like this? Whosoever receives the mark of his name and here is patience. Here's the patience of the saints. So, these are the tribulation saints. Here's the patient of the saints, the tribulation saints. They are they that keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus. So the obedience of faith and those that rejected Jesus, they're the condemned. They're the ones that are given over to the strong delusion, and they believe the lie, and they worship the antichrist. But the exhortation is for us to choose Jesus. You're safe. You keep the commandments of God. You're walking in obedience unto him, and and the the obedience of faith, of trusting in him. So you're gonna face death. You're gonna face martyrdom. You're the martyrs, but you continue to believe. Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him. And now the blessing, those who are blessed. And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, write blessed are the dead who die in the Lord. Not the dead who die outside the Lord, but who die in the Lord. So heaven is better to ask that the bodies be present with the Lord. I hated to say goodbye to my dad this year. I hated to say goodbye to my grandma. I hated to say goodbye to Joe. I hated to say goodbye to Sally. I enjoy my relationship with each of them. Right? But what's best? I pray for God to heal them. God chooses what's best for his kingdom and his glory and what's best for them. They're better off than us. Right? Do you believe that? They're better off than us? And if we knew that all hell was gonna break loose in America, that our way of life is just gonna drastically change over the next six months or a year, and if your loved one, if you're James and you have forty year relationship with Sally and god's entrusted her to you to get her to heaven, to be faithful unto her in your marriage, to be faithful in providing and protecting her and doing everything you can to preserve her under his kingdom. And you've done that. And now, according to Isaiah 57, somebody wanna read that? Somebody wanna read Isaiah fifty seven one and two? Debbie's got a fast sword. Her sword comes out of its sheaths like really quick. Fifty seven one and two, right? Yes, please. The parrot, the righteous perisheth and no man layeth the to heart and the merciful men are taken away then considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come. He shall enter into peace. They shall rest in their beds, each one walking in his uprightness. You see that? If all hell breaks loose on this planet in the next six months, a year, all those that have died and are already in heaven, they've been saved from the wrath to come here. They've been saved from the hell, from the from wars and famines, pestilence, whatever might come, a stock market reversal, whatever it is. I mean, how high was your electric bill this time? Ours went up to a thousand dollars. What? Yep. All the people in the Seabeck area where I live, all of them are screaming because our bill's twice as high as it normally is. So what if gasoline prices go up to $10 a gallon? What if I have to choose between paying this, that, or the other? Food. Now you start to understand why you can't have a car, you can't afford the insurance, putting tires on and all that. Well, Sally's already in heaven. Right? So don't have to worry about any of that. And if you have little ones, if you have children, imagine if a time up ahead, it becomes so catastrophic that children are separated like the Jews with Hitler's Germany, where children are separated from their parents. And here you were in a Lutheran church unwilling to speak up because you're afraid that that, you know, something might happen to your kids, and now it is. Now it is happening. Now your kids are taken away from you. They become the Hitler youth. And so I'd much rather get my kids ready for eternity and get my kids ready for whatever might happen and pray that the Lord Jesus come and rapture us out of here before all this. And so anyway, they these these ones notice that I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, right, blessed are the dead who die in the lord. You just escaped the most cataclysmic time that Jesus said the world's never seen nor will ever see again. You've escaped it through death. From henceforth, yay, saith the spirit, and they may rest from their labors and their works do follow them. So they overcame the devil by the blood of the lamb, the word of their testimony, and they loved not their lives unto death. They're willing to be martyred. And when COVID happened, we were so afraid of losing our job. We're so afraid of losing. They threatened us with mandates, and we didn't we didn't know just how much they were lying, you know? Some of us did. And and I've never heard anybody say that they regret not getting the jab. You think someone's gonna regret not taking the mark of the beast? Oh gosh. I wish I'd have taken that mark of the beast. No. My life would have been so much better. I've been so much better off. Those crazy people that refuse the mark of the beast, they they got their heads cut off. The guillotines came out. But they're in heaven. They don't know they yet because they're the wicked. Right? They're the ones in darkness, living in darkness. But there's a day where they're gonna know. Right? Mhmm. Within three and a half years, they're gonna know. And so blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from henceforth, yea, saith the spirit, they may rest from their labors. So you're not gonna have the the effects of the curse, the working so hard and trying to make ends meet and how difficult life can be. And their works do follow them. So your rewards. You're gonna be before the beam judgment of the Lord, and he's gonna reward you for your faithfulness. You're gonna hear him say, well done, thou good and faithful servant. You've been faithful over a few things. Enter into the joy of the Lord. You're gonna enter into his rest. You're gonna rest from your labors. Right? So rest and reward. And now we come to the reaping. And I looked and behold a white cloud and upon the cloud one sat like the son of man 84 times. This is the last time this phrase is used. It's used in in Daniel chapter seven but it's the name that Jesus incorporated in the gospels, the book of Acts. It was his favorite favorite term. I mean, he could have said, you know, I like the I like the lily of the valley. That's my favorite phrase describing me and you see the lily of the valley 84 times or I like the lamb or I like I like king of kings but he chose to identify with you and me, the son of man. Right? So the the humility, he's the last Adam. He's identifying with mankind. He took on the form of a man. He became a human being, and he's the son of man. Having on his head a golden crown. He got the crown and in his hand, a sharp sickle. Oh boy, it's a time of reaping. It's a time of harvest And first of all, he's gonna reap the wheat. The dandel, the fake tares that were sown among the wheat, they've fallen down now. They sprout up quick and they get real proud and they're up there build a statue of me, you know. But the time of harvest, they've they've wilted and the the wheat, golden bright wheat is up and ready to harvest. He's gonna come for those who are saved. So in Revelation or Matthew chapter 13, the lord's gonna allow the tares to grow up with the wheat but then at the end of the age, he's gonna send forth his angels and they're gonna harvest they're gonna harvest they're gonna harvest the wheat. They're gonna harvest the the believers from among the unbelievers And the son of man having in his head a golden crown and his hand a sharp sickle, and another angel came out of the temple. Now this temple's temple in heaven. The earthly temple is a a model of the of the real temple that's in heaven. Crying with a loud voice to him that sat on the the cloud, thrust in your sickle and reap for the time has come for thee to reap the harvest of the earth is ripe. And so on the one hand, the the harvest of separating the wheat from the chaff, the wheat from the the tares, but also a time the world is ripened under judgment. It's time to judge the world. And he that sat upon the cloud thrusting a sickle in the earth, and the earth was reaped. And so this is that first reaping there is the reaping of the of the saved. Here's the here's another angel came out of the temple. Verse 17, which is in heaven and he also having a sharp sickle. So this is the sickle of judgment, the reaping of of the the treading the grapes, the trampling of the vintage, the Isaiah 63 with the blood all over his garment, his outward garment. Right? That's what's happening here at Basra. And another angel came out of the temple which in heaven also having a sharp sickle. And another angel came out from the altar who had power over fire and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle saying, thrust in thy sharp sickle and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth for her grapes are fully ripe. And so, god is so long suffering. When it talks about the patience over here in verse 12, and here's the patience of the saints, that's the long suffering of the saints that they're willing to endure suffering for a long time. But there's also the long suffering of God. He's not willing that any would perish, but that all would come to repentance. Right? First Peter three, right? Where people are saying, where is the promise of his coming? Everything continues as it always has. And so mockers at the end of the age are a fulfillment of prophecy. Peter said, of this, they're willingly ignorant that one day is a thousand years and a thousand years is one day with the Lord. The only reason he delays his coming is because he's long suffering. He has to suffer watching the putridness of this earth, the the corruption and the pedophilia and the trafficking and the just the evil that's so prevalent that's coming out. And so we're so made aware of it now. Never a time in my lifetime have we seen such filth, such corruption, and god seen it from the very beginning and god's god's, you know, there was a time in Genesis 19 where Sodom and Gomorrah were ripe for judgement and god sent in two angels to go scope it out, check it out, and and the only reason he didn't bring the judgment immediately because they were right for judgement, the cries of Sodom and were were up to the lord of Savioth. You know, he was hearing the cries of the people. He's hearing their cries suffering because of evil, because of their own evil, right? And every time this kind of stuff happens, there's always the children who are preyed upon. Always. When Jesus says, as it was in the days of Lot, as it was in the days of Sodom and Gomorrah, so shall it be? That's what's happening right now. This this corruption, this just and you and I are the salt of the earth. We're to slow it down. We're to reserve the culture before it just completely, you know, corrupts. And I don't know how good a job we're doing, but but I'm sure it's gonna be much easier to sin and whole lot less restraint when the restrainer is removed. In second Thessalonians two, things are gonna wax worse and worse at a much more alarming pace. But when it's finally a time ripened, the Lord delivers the just. The Lord and and Abraham was doing it. There are 50 righteous, 45 righteous, 30 righteous, all the way down to 10. There weren't even 10 righteous people. So you know the story Lot and his two daughters wound up making it. Remember Lot's wife, she looked back turned a pillar of salt, and so that's a that's a picture of God delivering the righteous before he brings judgment. And and he's gonna deliver you and I as the church before he brings judgment upon the earth during the tribulation period. And and so here's the time. Here's the time of Armageddon. Here's the time of of that that time we're gonna read about chapter sixteen and nineteen. And another angel came out of the temple with a with heaven also having a sharp sickle. Another angel came out of the altar and had power and fire and cried with a loud voice to him that had the sharp sickle saying, thrust in thy sharp sickle and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth for her grapes are fully ripe. It's time to tread the grapes. It's time to gnash them. So the picture, I don't know, I've I've said this before, but there's a woman on YouTube. I've probably known about this for ten or fifteen years, and there was a there was a a TV cameras and a whole presentation in a time of stepping on the grapes to make wine at a wine festival. And this woman, kind of in the San Francisco area, this woman got inside of this big wine barrel, and she's she's starting to stomp on the grapes. And the news cameras and everything are going. Next thing you know, she falls. And she's and and all you can hear is, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, you know, because she hit her ribs and everything. And and we really laugh at stuff like that and we replay it over and over again. But I'm sure we can find it. But we're sick. We're sick people. And so it's a great wine press here. So the grapes are fully ripe. And the angel thrust in his sickle onto the earth and gathered the vine of the earth and cast it into the great wine press, the wrath of God. So who wants to read Isaiah sixty three one through three? And the winepress was trodden outside of the city and blood came out of the winepress even under the horse's bridle by the space of a 600 furlongs. Alright. Now is the appropriate time to read Isaiah sixty three one through three. And then we're gonna sing the song that we sing. He's trampled out the vintage and the rainforest, Lord. Truth is marching on. Glory, glory. No. We won't sing that. Did you used to sing that? It's a patriotic song. Right. So what are they what are they singing about? They knew their Bibles back then to make a song like that. Right, Rob? Yep. It's a victory of the the revolution. Right? Alright. So Isaiah sixty three one through three. Who's my reader? I'll read. Alright. Rob's on it. Who is this that cometh from Edom with with dyed garments from Bozar that is glorious on his apparel, traveling in the greatness of his strength? I that speak the righteousness might and mighty to save. Therefore, art thou red in thine apparel and thy garments like him that treaded in the winepress. I have trodden the winepress alone and the people there was none for me for I will tread them in mine anger and trample them in my fury and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments and I will stain all my raiment. So who's that talking about, Rob? God's God's God's vengeance. He's he's flipping on. Oh, spirit. I I heard I heard something there. God's vengeance. I heard Jesus return. Right? Turn the battle along again. Joel three thirteen and fourteen. Put in the sickle for the harvest is ripe. Come, get down for the press is full. The vats overflow for their wickedness is great. Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision. Billy Graham loved that valley of decision. Right? Perfect verse to use to get people to choose Christ. Right? Gospel message. Alright. He's talking about the Valley Of Jehoshaphat. So here's what's happening. You guys already know this. The picture is, except those days be shortened, no flesh should be saved. So the antichrist sees that Babylon is destroyed and there's a billowing of smoke going up. And rather than taking his armies of seven kings with him, he being the eighth and heading over, you know, over toward Babylon. He chases the woman in chapter 12 and as he's chasing the woman toward Petra, Basra, that's at the midpoint of the tribulation period. And this one third remnant makes it successfully in the area of Petra or in Isaiah 63, this place, this location, Southern Jordan today, or Basra, another name for it is Mount Seir. And so this one third remnant's there, and they're able to be preserved for 3.5. And at the at a certain time, the Antichrist converges and and is coming closer and closer and closer. And Jesus said, you won't see me again till you say blessed is he that comes in the name of the lord and they begin to mourn for their sin. They begin to recognize that they already crucified their Messiah. Their eyes are starting to open that Jesus is their Messiah. Well, right now, there's blindness on them. They can't see. So, there's a national conversion that's taking place with the nation of Israel and Jesus, when he returns, in his second coming, he's coming with 10 thousands and thousands of his saints. We're coming with him but he's not coming to the Mount Of Olives. The same Jesus which you have seen in Acts chapter one, right? Acts chapter two, shall come, shall come in like manner, not to the same location. What was the manner he left? In Acts one. He he ascended up into the clouds. The same Jesus shall come in like manner and every eye is going see him, right? Everyone's going to see him coming but where he comes is to Basra and that's where he rescues. He stops. He gets between the Jews and the Antichrist armies. And second Thessalonians two comes in where he destroys the Antichrist. You finish my sentence? Right. The sword of his mouth and the brightness of his come, his Shekinah glory. So, the antichrist and the false prophet dropped dead right there. Their bodies don't even get a burial. The angels take them immediately to the Lake Of fire, right? And then Jesus begins to tramp, crush all of these armies. And the distance in chapter 14 here says, even under the it says the winepress trodden outside the city and blood came out of the winepress even under the horses bridled by the space of a 600 furlongs. So 1,600 furlongs is a 200 mile battlefield. 200 mile square. So if you take from Basra, what he's doing is he's stomping them. The blood is four and a half feet high and then we're gonna see later when we read in in chapter 16 or 19, we're gonna see where the carnivorous birds come and feast on the flesh of the kings. There's so many bodies strewn But the blood, the river of blood. Now he comes as he's approaching Jerusalem. There's a valley there called the Valley Of Jehoshaphat, and Joel calls it the Valley Of Decision. Right? People got it in sight. And this is what we call his triumphal entry. So he makes his triumphant entry through the Valley Of Jehoshaphat there. The blood is four and a half feet high. And now he's gonna come into the city up the Mount Of Olives into the city. And then we're told that it cleaves. It splits in geologically and water comes out and and comes into the Dead Sea and and he comes into the city and there's a thirty day, a seventy five day interval, but in the first thirty days, they're gonna cleanse the temple of the abomination of desolation. Blessed is he that comes the thirteen hundred and thirty fifth day, which means that's the start of the millennium, the marriage supper of the lamb, and you and I are gonna be there. And the friend of the bridegroom is the Old Testament saints who are there. The tribulation saints have been resurrected, and they're there. And but for the wicked dead, they're all wiped out. Now, there can be some Gentiles because all of Israel saved. All that remnant, they all start up. They're believers and Jesus is gonna rule and reign from Zion as king of kings and lord of lords. David as his prince, the nation of Israel is no longer gonna be subjugated at the times of the Gentiles. It's gonna be Jewish world rule. There's gonna be Gentiles repopulating the planet for a thousand years. People have according to Isaiah 65, they have a hundred years to decide to receive Christ or not, and they're generation after generation like the time of Genesis, they begin to repopulate the planet. The first group of Gentiles are all believers. They have children, some of whom are refused to believe and it's made aware. It's made evident when they ant when the devil is loosed from the abyss to tempt the Gentiles after seeing the Lord for a thousand years and then the temple is rebuilt, the millennial temple, and there's sacrifices from Ezekiel 40 to 48 and the nations have to come each year to Jerusalem to celebrate these festivals, these feasts. And the knowledge of the Lord covers the entire planet. Even cows have bells on, you know, holy holiness to the Lord, you know, everybody. It's it's like they they drive around like like Bernie with signs all over their cars and everything and about Jesus and all over them, you know. And so everybody knows about the Lord, but at the end there, the the heart of man is revealed and Satan tricks them and gives them a choice of whether they'll of what they wanna do and he he brings forth a, you know, a rebellion against them. So 200 mile area, this is the Valley Of Of Megiddo. It's Armageddon, and and the Valley Of Jehoshaphat is a valley that's closer to the city, but the battlefield is is a 200 mile areas. And our Department of War is telling our soldiers today that what they're doing is they're ushering in Armageddon. Do they really understand Armageddon? The blood four and a half feet high. You know? So the good news, you and I don't have to be there. Amen. Because we chose Christ. He chose us. Right? So, father, we thank you for tonight and we just thank you that we we enjoy the study of your word and we just pray that your word would sink down deep within our hearts and lord that we would be able to retain it, that you would, by the power of the holy spirit, give us remembrance. Bring it to remembrance and help us to be able to share with others around us who are unaware. They're unaware of prophecy. They're unaware of your prophetic plan for this planet. And Lord use us. Use us. Equip us. Help us to share with neighbors and friends. Wherever divine appointment. Wherever you send us Lord. And may it prick. May it may it cause them to wanna know more. May it provoke them, Lord. May it provoke them to jealousy or may it may it just cause them to to hunger, to develop a hunger to know, a hunger for knowledge, a hunger to know the truth, a hunger to know you. And Lord, help us to come alongside him like Philip did with the Ethiopian eunuch and help us to preach Christ unto him, Lord. In Jesus name, we pray. Amen.

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