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Live from Bremerton. It's Monday night. We have the blessing of studying Revelation chapter 16 tonight at the home of Robin Vicky, and we're here in Bremerton. And so those of you on Facebook or YouTube or wherever else we welcome you and we're going to open with word of prayer. Father, we come before you and lord we just commit this night into your hands and ask that you pour out your holy spirit upon us lord that you be our teacher, that you inhabit the praise of your people, that you'd just wash and cleanse us, wash away all the defilement from this world, and Lord minister to each of us, minister deep down, and Lord bring healing, bring comfort, and lord help us to not be deceived. Help us to be lovers of truth, truth seekers, lord, and please lead and guide us. We pray in these last days. In Jesus name, we pray. Amen. I gotta get it right. Let's try that again. Alright, thanks. Alright. Revelation 16 Here we go. Father, thank you. Again, Rob and Vicky hosting this and able to have a meal, able to fellowship, pray for one another, and and now time studying your word as we as we worship you lord and we just pray that you be our teacher that you would open the scriptures to our understanding lord. You reveal yourself unto us and help us to be a students of prophecy lord to take your word as you as you as you teach us lord that we would we would understand. Give us understanding by the power of your holy spirit. In Jesus name, amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Alright. Thomas has something he wants to say. I like to do the acronym light that the lord gave me. Living in god's holy timing. You know, there used to be a song called In His Time, God makes everything beautiful in his time. So, living in god's holy timing. Living in god's holy timing. Alright, everybody say it three times. Living in god's holy. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. Praise the lord. Alright. Acronyms are good. Okay. Where were we? Are we in chapter three? Where are we at? Chapter three. Okay. Alright. Okay. And I heard a great voice. I must have been singing. I heard a great voice out of the temple. Why are you laughing at me? So I heard a great voice out of the temple and so remember the temple's filled with smoke, the Shekinah glory, and no man can be in there. So, this voice must be from god, right? So, I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, go. What did Jesus tell us to do? Go. Go. Go. Now, we called the great commission, right? You guys know the verse, Matthew? 28? Do you remember? Go and what? Go and make. Go into all the world. Baptize in the name of the father, son, and the holy spirit along with you always even to the end of the age. So, some call it the great omission. Who? Because who's going to go? In Isaiah six, Isaiah says, here am I, send me, right? And so, what a privilege, what a blessing to obey the call to go and all of us can be those that are going each and every day. So, Jesus said, you're gonna be my witnesses. First of all, in Jerusalem, in your home, you're going in your hometown, in your family. Most important place is your Jerusalem, right? Jerusalem and then Judea. So, Kitsap County, right? Through the county. Maybe over in the Seattle. Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria. All over America, right? God send you around on these business trips from the shipyard, you know? And you go and you schedule a couple spa times and is there somebody rubbing your back and you share Christ with them. You just share Christ. You share Christ, man. And then you go up to Montana on vacation. You share Christ. All everywhere you go, you're bringing the glorious gospel like Bernie does, like Thomas does, and then to the uttermost, some of you guys are sent to Japan, right? And you go to Japan with the gospel. God's sending you. You are paid by the government as missionaries for the kingdom of god. Right? Everywhere you go. Amen. And so, going to all the world and so now, he's got seven angels and and we would ask one last question. What is it we don't understand about the word go? Go. We don't send out as many missionaries as we used to. We're we're not that interested in in the reach in the world for Jesus. So, go and I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, go now. So, here's the timing. Go now. Go your ways and pour out the bowls, the seven bowl judgments. So, we've had the seals, we've had the trumpet judgments, and now we have the final seven bowl judgments which gonna finish up the tribulation period. Right? The seven year tribulation period, the time of Jacob's trouble and this is gonna be of greater and greater severity if it if it hasn't been bad already. I'm not one that describes to the seven seals that, oh, when those those get poured out, you know, that's the wrath of man. It's not that bad, you know. No. As soon as that that demon antichrist signs that peace treaty, that covenant, that's the start of the tribulation period. And that rider on that white horse, that first seal there, all hell is breaking loose. It's all hell is breaking loose. The church has been raptured. The restrainer of evil has been removed. And and man, it's gonna be all hell breaking loose. So don't think the first three and a half years, I don't know where people get this. Oh, that's gonna be pretty good there in three half years. Oh, It's gonna be pretty good, you know. I'm I'm just concerned about the great tribulation, you know, The last three and a half. No. No. No. No. No. We've already got over half the population dead already and we're at the midpoint here. This is the second half. Right? So verses 11 through 14 or chapters 11 through 14 were parenthetical. Chapter fifteen sixteen are the second half of the tribulation. Fifteen's up in heaven. 16 here is is the the going of the second half of the tribulation. Okay. So, pour out the bowls of the wrath of god upon the earth. Now, if you don't take this literally, if this is allegorical or spiritual, then where's the earth? Says poured out upon the earth. Yeah. So how do you spiritualize that? Well, know, the earth is only America. It's only gonna hit America. It's only gonna hit New York City. It's not really the whole world, you know. It wasn't a global flood. It was just a regional flood, you know. And the ideas that men come up with, you know, it's just really it's really bizarre to me. I'm I'm looking at this thing, you know. It's gonna cover the whole earth. God's gonna cover the whole earth and yet there's there's one portion of the planet that doesn't get get it, that it doesn't happen. One little three little nations there in Southern Jordan. Petra, the ancient Moabites. Right? The area of Moab, it's off limits today. This is the area where the Jews are gonna flee to and they're gonna be protected from chapter 12 when the woman flees the city. And so that's an area where god preserves this remnant there. And the first went and poured out his bowl upon the earth and there fell a foul painful sore upon the men who had the mark of the beast and upon them who worshiped worshiped his image. So in chapter 14, notice verses nine, ten, 11. What's this? Why? Why is this happening? Well, he told you. He said and the third angel followed them saying with a loud voice, if any man worship the beast and the image and receive his mark on his forehead or in his hand, the same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God which is poured out without mixture upon the cup of his indignation and shall be tormented. What do you think god was bluffing? Yeah. Do you think he was just, you know, winking at you? With fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the lamb. And the smoke of their torment, again, the word torment ascends up forever and ever and they have no rest day nor night who worship the beast in his image and whosoever sees the mark of the of his name. So, back over here in verse two, and the first went and poured out his bowl upon the earth and there fell a a foul or a noisome, a noisome, and grievous sore. So, people are getting sores on their face. They're getting sores on the right hand, their forehead from the mark of the beast and it's like a it's like a cancerous tumor, if you will. And, very very painful and it doesn't matter how many gummies you eat. You're still being tormented. It's painful sore upon the man who had the mark of the beast and upon them who worshiped his image. Now you can also see why people during the tribulation period are heavily into pharmakia, why they're heavily into sorcery because they're getting beat to a pulp and they need relief and hey, I need some drugs, man. I need something to take away the pain. I need some pain management, some pain relief, and it looks like it it doesn't work. It looks like there's no medical, you know, solution to this ulcerous oozing sores. Yeah. So, man, I don't if you wanna lose your good looks, your boy's good looks and you just take it. Right? They took the jab. They did. They did. Now and again, it's limited to. It's limited to who? The one you're doing. I did the mark. Does anybody here regret not taking the jab? Nope. Nope. Nope. I I should've I should've got boosted, man. I got a boosted. So every time people get sick during COVID, their doctors would tell em, well, you need another shot. You need another shot. You need a boost. You need two boosters. Yeah. Well, doc, you first. You first, bro. And so now, all these years later, we have we have absolute proof that we heard from the lord and that we we we resisted the whole culture. We resisted everybody. Right? We didn't have a whole lot of people in our court. They were making up names about us, kicking us out of places if I didn't wear a mask. And I was a real victim, I was a real victim. I was a poster child for a martyr. It was really it was really hard. It was a really hard time in my life. And and so limited to upon them who worship his image. So god's not real pleased about people worshiping the image of the beast. And so now the second bowl of wrath and the second angel poured out his bowl upon the sea and it became like the blood the sea and it became like the blood of a dead man and every living soul died in the sea. Now back in Revelation eight:eight:nine, the trumpet judgment, one third of the sea turned to blood and onethree died back at the trumpet judgments. Now we have the bowl judgment and we've got the entirety of the sea as blood, reminds you of the Nile turning to blood, reminds you of the plagues that the lord gave against Egypt you know, through Moses and and so everything in the, you know, in the water's gonna die so you're not gonna be able to live off the fish and all the all the all the stuff that used to be able to. And so they're all dead. And the third angel poured Jacques Cousteau is really bummed about that. And the poured out his bow upon the rivers and the fountains of waters and the same and they became blood and so just as the Nile in Exodus seven seventeen through 20 and just as we saw in Revelation eight eleven, ten, eleven, where it turned to wormwood. So, you had the salt water. Now, you've got the sweet water, the drinking water is turning to blood and it could very well be. It's a really good thing to have a well, right? Have your own water source. That'd be a good thing because public water, all the public water, sweet water is is gone and turned to blood and maybe even your well, maybe all the way everywhere, all the water became blood. And the Satanists, they love to eat blood, right? They love to drink blood. Now you well, you've got your wish, you get to drink blood now. Not me, I don't I don't like that. My Lord, he can take water and turn it to wine. Right? And the first miracle he did at Cana Of Galilee in John chapter two, he took the water and turned it to wine. Here, the water has turned to blood and because of his wrath. I like a raw steak but not not like I don't like drinking blood. And I heard the angel of the waters say thou art righteous, oh lord, who art and was and shall be because thou has judged us and so they're saying, man, it's poetic justice. It's poetic justice, you know. The antichrist is slain so many people spreading blood, slaying blood, port blood being poured out everywhere, you know. Every murderous cities, murder murder murder wars, and and what poetic justice that your judgment upon the earth dwellers is that now they're gonna drink blood, you know. The nation of Israel, they were they were turning their back upon god and they kept resisting the true living god and they got into idolatry, the idolatry of Baal. So, the lord sent them into captivity for seventy years to the very center, the very capital of idolatry which is Babylon and they were just immersed, overwhelmed. Alright, you want idolatry? I'm gonna give it to you until it's coming out your nose, you know? And they were as a nation, they were kind of cured of that tendency they had toward idolatry when they when they released seventy years later when Cyrus released the Jews and some of them went back to Jerusalem and wanted to be rebuild the temple but very few. Most of them went to the area of Alexandria, Egypt, another metropolitan areas and they they fell in love with commerce. They fell in love with don't wanna go back to farming. Little hard hard life that farming and who wants to go back and build the temple and all that. They had no spiritual desire. They had a desire for the world. So, they they invested themselves in commerce and which was sad. In the book of Habakkuk, you know, some of them that did go back, the Lord or Hosea, the Lord says, hey, you know, you got your walled you know, you're remodeling your kitchen, you got your paneling, you got all that kind of stuff, but where's where's where's it for me? How come my temple isn't built yet? How come the wall's still down? You know? And they even had summer houses before they cared anything about the lord. Think he's so sad right now. She's so sad. What? Just kidding. I'm just kidding. Well, she did buy a prophet a house so she's alright. Yeah. You give a cup of cold water to profit, right? I don't know who's a prophet around here but. Sounds good. Alright. False prophet maybe. Okay. For they have shed the blood of the saints. So, there you go. Poetic justice. You guys been killing the saints. Yeah. And and the prophets and Jesus said that to the religious leaders, which of the prophets did not your fathers kill? You know what I mean? Your fathers, you're bragging and boasting about your fathers, your fathers, your fathers, you know? Well, which of the prophets that I sent unto you? Did you not kill, you know? And now you want to kill the son, you know? God's only begotten son. So, they love to shed the blood, innocent blood, for they have shed the blood of saints and the prophets and that has given them blood to drink for they are worthy and so, oh, what pathetic justice. Oh, it's right and and a big part of of themes of books and movies and things are somebody being wronged and we yearn. We want justice to be done. We want the person that perpetrated these crimes to be caught and tried and punished, you know. And so when you have innocent little children being preyed upon on on some ranch in in New Mexico or Epstein Island and stuff and these pedophiles are paraded. They paraded around the pictures of them all and nobody gets tried or convicted or don't receive their comeuppance. It grieves your heart. It's a it's a time of lawlessness. It's a time where where these predators are preying upon people but when finally, there's a new sheriff in town when Jesus comes back and he's ruling and reigning with a rod of righteousness. Now these global billionaires who act like their god in Revelation six, they're beneath the earth. They're trying to hide from the wrath of the lamb. Right? There's no place to hide and that's where those of us that are poor, those of us that are rich in the things of the lord but poor in a way of trying to protect ourselves because really, we're just sheep sent to be slaughtered. That's who we are. That's who we are as Christians. We're sheep to be slaughtered. Think of the amount of Christians that are slaughtered throughout history. And nobody's coming to rescue you until Jesus comes. Right? Nineteen year old wrestling kid in Iran, executed, hung because he had the boldness to speak out against the government. Right? I mean, over and over and over and over again, you hear these stories in Nigeria, Sudan, all over the world. We're like sheep to the slaughter. How many people did they be dead? I know. I know. Nobody cares. Nobody cared. And they they tell us the the videotape. Yeah. Yeah. And when you see the martyrs, the guys in the orange jumpsuits and all, they're not backing down. Those Egyptian Coptic Christians and all. They're not backing down. They're they're excited about their blood being shed for Jesus, you know? They're excited about being a witness for Jesus but when it comes to those guys, oh my gosh. If somebody barely touched one of them, can you hear the outrage? You know, they can say anything they want about Christians, do anything they want to Christians, but boy, if somebody even looks at them wrong, you know, you're prosecuting to be thrown in jail. I mean, free speech, pretty soon you're gonna be thrown in jail just for speaking the truth, you know, just proving them, you know. So the pirate justice, you're finally you can kinda rest like, god. We we can the kids can play out in the front yard now. We don't have to worry about the drive by shootings. You know? Don't have to worry about the gangs taking over and the drug guys taking over and the city used to be a nice city. I used to be able to go walk around Seattle and not worry about somebody come up behind me and hit me with a bat with a nail in it, just for fun or a knife, getting knifed or whatever. And they've got these guys off the street now. They put them in jail. They're in prison. They're being prosecuted. Now is it true in Idaho if they catch you being a pedophile, they're going to shoot you? Or is that just AI? No, that's I went and. Is that real? I looked it up. Well, I don't know. It's Google, right? But I looked up the actual law and the actual law is, yes, it is. Firing squad? Firing squad. Firing squad. Yes. Would you guys like to go and watch the first one? No. I'll I'll rent a bus. I'll rent a bus. I saw some people protesting on the side of the street the other day. They're driving by and it and it said, pedos equals firing squad. And, you know, I said, no pedos, and he says, equals and then he said, pedos equals firing squad. And they were on the banners on the Cypress Street in Port Orchard like, what's that? Well, I'm I'm just kidding. I'm not gonna make it a church event. I'm just kidding. I just I just I'm just gonna like, please. That's what I know. But but it would be poetic justice. And you know what else it would be? It would be biblical. Yeah. And it would also put the fear of God in anybody growing up thinking they're gonna get away with this. And it might put the fear of God on them and say, you know, I don't want to die like that guy did at the firing squad. I'm not gonna do this. Right? So if you steal something when you're a little kid and you get caught and then you get punished, it kinda helps you not to do it again. Know? And if the punishment is such that that it goes down deep, I mean, spare the rod, spoil the child. If I tried it was really weird when I was younger. I used to get caught every time the first time I tried to do what my friends were doing, I'd get caught. And and then I wouldn't do it again because I knew that crime didn't pay, that I would always get caught. So we did go into Montgomery Wards and some of the, you know, the sporting goods sections. And the worst that we would do is I'd go in there and we'd take the lids off the stink bait for the catfish. We'd take the lids off it and and but a lot of my friends would steal bicycles and they'd steal candy, steal stuff, and and I knew the very first Christmas light bulb, everybody was doing Christmas light bulbs, you know. The very first one I ever unscrewed, the guy come out the screen door and ran me down. And I don't know how that old fat guy caught me, but he was faster than me. He caught me. And he was huffing and puffing. He almost had a heart attack, but he cut the side of the corner and he got me. So that tells you how slow I was. But man, so I got caught and he took me home, made a big deal out of it and I can't remember ever stealing anything again, know. So that's that's why the Lord gives the right of capital punishment is because lawless people, those who are lawless need the law to stop em and that's why Paul told Timothy that the law is for the lawless. You and I, we're monitored. We're we're regulated by love. We don't do it not because I don't think I can get away with it because I know that god sees everything I do, even my thoughts and I don't wanna break his heart. So, love is what regulates our life is is the love of Christ constrains us and even if I could get away with something, never would I imagine something that bad, but I mean just anything. It wouldn't be worth it because it would infringe upon and hinder my walking relationship with the Lord. And so, I mean, what am I gonna do? I'm gonna go steal a candy bar and then not able to sleep all night because I feel so bad, you know? What did I gain? Alright. So and we wanna teach our grandkids and our kids, you're not to lie, don't steal, don't do those things. Typically somebody that winds up being a murderer or whatever, there's years leading up to it where they've been doing a lot of things that they been getting away with before they finally do something like that. So so that's the importance of the law. God gave the right of capital punishment to Noah when they came out of the ark and it grieved god that he made man because the thought and intents of man's heart were only evil continually. So, the lord caused a great flood to wipe em all out, you know? Got the animals in there and they ate and Noah found grace in the eyes of the lord and Noah was perfecting his generation and he gave the right of capital punishment. So, Romans 13 says, the government has bears the sword and they bear the sword to maintain order, to maintain the good. That's their job. Not to be communist, not to be tyrants, not to genocide everybody, but to punish evil. That's that's their job. And if they punish evil, then it keeps the rest of us safer, right? And so, and here, god is judging the entire world. The world has reached the place of lawlessness because the antichrist is called the lawless one. He's in radical rebellion against god and boy, you wouldn't want to have children during the tribulation period because your kids are gonna be preyed upon by the antichrist and his dudes, you know. And so anyway, people are rejoicing that they don't need to live under that the most tyrannical form of government ever where it's the devil himself, the seed of Satan, the Antichrist that's in charge. And so the true and righteous are your judgments and the two witnesses were were witnesses of god and true and righteous. And then in Revelation six verse nine, the souls of them that were slain and so they they took the blood of the two witnesses. They took the blood of of the Revelation six nine, the innumerable multitude of people that they slew and so now it's poetic justice that they're gonna be drinking blood. He says in verse eight, and the fourth angel poured out his bowl upon the sun and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire. Well, you've been lying about global warming. Now you got some global warming. Here you go. And people being scorched by the sun. And I like the sun. We like the sun. We need vitamin D and get it from the sun, walking around, grounding, take your shoes off, take a swim, the sun is good, and sometimes in Washington, I learned a term when I first got here. I never heard before. They called it a sun break and I'm like, what the heck's a sun break, you know? And the sun would wake me up where I was from, you know, it'd be so bright in the morning. Oh, man. You can't sleep any longer and and then the doves, the doves are outside your window, cooing and everything and it was time to get up around 06:37 and now, I can sleep till noon. It's so dark and cold. You get out of bed. It's so freezing, you know? I'm just kidding. I can't sleep till noon But but your metabolism gets so slowed down and everything. Well, this case, you might be in Phoenix, Arizona and it's a 125 in the shade and you've had enough sun. You're getting scorched. Now you want you want electricity so that you can have air conditioning. You need the AC but these guys, they're being scorched. It's it's getting really hot and men are scorched with scorched men with fire, man. Whoo. And and men were scorched with great heat. And what was their response? Oh. They blasphemed the name of god. So, don't you hear that at work a lot? People blaspheming, cursing god, and how come they never say, Buddha, damn it. How come they never say that? You ever heard someone say that? No. Boy, we hear the other one, don't we? Yeah. And you you know the curse words. It's always in Jesus. It's always Jesus or god. They take the lord's name in vain. Well, now, they're really taking his name in vain, right? Right. Great heat and and blasphemed the name of god and the the writers of the Masoretic text, the Old Testament, they so revered god's name that they didn't even include the vowels. They would only put the continent, the consonants there. Y H V H, right? They so revered his name and they so revered god's name that as their as their copy on one scroll to another scroll, one parchment to another parchment. If they made a mistake, they'd start over. They so revered God's word. And here, these guys are using God's word as as a cuss word, as a means of blasphemy God. Now God of heaven because of the of their pains and their sores and so these sores that they're getting from getting that mark of the beast, I mean, hey, you you had a choice. He warned you. He told you. He told you. He had he sent the angel over to to share the gospel. Nobody can say they didn't hear the gospel. The everlasting gospel reads the whole world. You guys knew. But you did it anyway. And that's one of the hardest things as a parent. Is when you warn and warn and warn and and beg. You almost beg your kids when they're older. To not do what they're doing. And they do it anyway. And it's just so it's so hard to watch them reap the consequences of what they've chose to do. And you you just keep waiting and waiting and waiting for them. How much pain do you want? How much pain do you want? What's your threshold of pain? And because god's given you space to repent. You don't have to keep going this way and so god takes no pleasure in the death of the wicked but the wicked turn from their sin, right? We saw that Ezekiel 33 and and it's breaking his heart but it's time to judge. There's a time to judge. He's held back. He's held back. He's held back. And now they are what we call ripe for judgement. They're going to reap what they sow. God is not mocked. Whatsoever man sows, that shall he also reap and so, if you haven't been judged yet, it's because god is long suffering. It's because god is merciful. It's because god has given you space to repent. Time. But when that time's up and it's a time of judgement. Because Moses said be sure of this. Your sin will find you out. Right? Mhmm. And so I I like when when I don't like sinning but when I do I remember three weeks ago, I sinned once. And and when I do when I do, I wanna listen to the Holy Spirit. Right? I wanna listen to the Holy Spirit. I don't wanna cover it or make mistakes or be like David, oblivious to what I've been doing. I mean, David was clueless. David, you just murdered your best friend, one of your mighty men, Uriah. David, you just you know, you lied, David. You committed adultery. You murdered and you took you took the Ahithophel's granddaughter. You don't mess with the guy's granddaughter. And Ahithophel was one of David's wise men. Remember? So I mean, how connected that is in a time when kings go out to battle. There's a woman on the roof and she's bathing and David's got a harem of women. He's idle and idleness is the devil's playground. Right? And so now you're messing around and you tell, who is that woman? It's Bathsheba, you know. I want her. And you're the king and so, bring her over and you know the story but I mean, he's he's sinning and looking. He's sinning and demanding. He's sinning and going unto her. He's she says, I'm pregnant. He's sending in sending her husband out to the war, you know? Sitting and bringing him back lying to him, sending him trying to get him drunk, send him, send him back again with a note, you know, put him up by the wall so he gets killed. Now, now, you complicate it with murder. You know, and then and then it escalates from there to a later with Absalom siding with Absalom and all and so god in his mercy sends a friend named Nathan. Amen. David, you're the man. Amen. You're the man, David and you're not gonna die. When he got done telling the little parable, David said, that man will surely die and Nathan says, you're the man, David. You had a whole harem of women. You had anything you wanted and you took your neighbors one little you lamb, a little you lamb that used to come into the house, live in the house, sleep in his bed and all and you know the story and and if you wanted more, do you should've just asked, you know? And and so and the and the tragic thing is our sin doesn't just affect us. It affects our whole family. It affects our whole community. It affects people around us. So Nathan told him, David, you've given great occasion for the enemies of the lord to blaspheme his name and that's what we have here. The enemies of the Lord are blaspheming his name. Now, let me ask you this. The devil made a bet with god in regard to Job. If I snuff Job, if I take away and kill his kids and take care of all of his stuff from all of his wealth and everything, he only serves you because you've blessed him so much. Is that why you serve the lord? Is that why you love the lord? Because he's blessed you so much? Is it the stuff? Is it the things? Are you part of the prosperity gospel? Well, if you lose those things, will you blaspheme god's name? No. That was the bet that that Satan made with the lord. Well, skin for skin. He didn't do it. You know, he he he got thumped on and naked came I into the world, naked come and go, the lord giveth, lord, take it away, blessed be the name of the lord. He's worshiping the lord instead of blasphemy his name. Well, skin for skin, take away his health and he'll and that's what these guys got. They've lost their health. They got boils that are oozing. They got pain and and they're very very angry because they thought when they got that jab, when they thought when they kept their job because I'd lose my job if I don't take that mark of the beast, if I don't do that stuff. I'm gonna I need to prosper. I don't wanna lose my house. I don't wanna lose everything. And I don't wanna lose my health. And so they lean on their own understanding and and not only that, they complicate it through unbelief. They're not believing in god. They're worshiping the devil. They had a choice. Now, they're blaspheming god and so you see the contrast of Job. You see the contrast of so many genuine Christians throughout history that choose to worship god no matter how hard life gets. No matter how difficult things are. Christians are like tea bags. You don't know what flavor they are till they're put in hot water. From the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks. Sunday, I told you about throwing a rock in a pack of wolves, the one that gets hit, the one that's whining, yelping, right? And so, we Thomas was talking about when he and I go to prison that we're gonna sing at twelve midnight and bring the house down, you know? Right. Right. And and that's how Paul and Silas rolled. That's how they did it, you know? And the other prisoners are so blown away because it goes against human nature. It goes against the natural man that you would be whipped unjustly, unjustly treated, and and then your reaction is, I'm gonna worship the lord. Hey, let's worship the lord, you know, and Job's wife came up to him and said, why don't you curse god and die? Now, is that the holy spirit speaking through her? No. Second question. Why didn't the devil kill Job's wife too? Killed the boys, killed the family of those. Was she a greater tool alive than death? She was part of the test. Oh. And he's and Job said, you speak as the foolish women speak. Right. Right. Shall we receive good at the hand of the lord and not evil? You see? We got this notion, when I become a Christian, he's gonna fix me. He's gonna make me so healthy. He's gonna make me have really good kids. They won't need braces. Their teeth will be straight again. And, you know, my hair's gonna grow back if I'm bald. I get I get it all, man. And I'll have money in the bank and the whole thing and, oh, man. Oh, man. Oh, man. And then you find out that all hell's broke loose, that you're a threat to the kingdom of darkness and they won't leave you alone, you know? But then you ask yourself, how is Jesus treated? How are the disciples treated? How are how are they treated? So we learn to become worshippers. We learn to worship. And and that's our escape is worship because we deny ourselves. We take our cross up. We follow him and we worship the lord. He gives us a song in the night. He gives us a song in the pain and the sorrow and we begin to experience the fellowship of his sufferings being made conformable unto his death and that's the Christian life and people know that's a life of the spirit because the natural man, he's freaking out. He's I mean, people Gerald Celente, he's a secular guy but he he's been prognosticating for twenty years that have been following him that when the economy drops and hasn't dropped and they always say it's because they can kick the can down the road. They got new tricks. So they proxicitate when the economy is gonna crash and he says, remember, when people lose everything, they lose it. So anarchy on the streets, you know, you're getting ready for martial law because when things do collapse, you're gonna see the true nature of people. You're gonna see the worst in people come out. They're gonna lose their civility. Right? And and then you're also gonna see the best of people rise to the top. They're gonna rise to the top in a time of crisis because they're truly genuine believers and they've got the love of Jesus in their heart. I got the love of Jesus in my heart. Heart. Heart. There you go. Where? Down in my heart. Where? Down in my heart. Okay. So they blasphemed the god of heaven because of their pains and their sores and repented not of their deeds. So there's no gummies. There's no marijuana. There's nothing that can alleviate that pain. And they're trying to puff the magic dragon. All that stuff, it won't go away. They're just miserable. They can't sleep. They can't sleep at all, man. There's so much pain. You ever been in so much pain you can't sleep? I've had that happen. Kathy's had it happen. Lot of us have happened. And people that we love that get cancer, fortunately there's a medication that you can give so the loved one can get a little sleep because that sleep deprivation just wipes them out. And it's brutal to watch people be in that kind of pain. And so you'd hope that they believe in God now, but they don't. They double down with their their evil. You'd hope that the pharaoh, the first of two or three or four plagues would finally say, alright, I'll let the people go. But no, you gotta get all the way up to 10 plagues and your son be killed before you finally agree to let the people go, you know? Why didn't you just let them go at the beginning? You could've avoided a whole lot more pain. Why do some people love so much pain? I don't like pain. And when god uses pain in my life to spank me, I say uncle. I tap out quick. Okay. Okay. Alright. Alright. I'm not going that way. Why would I persist? Why would I be rebellious? Why would I want to sometimes I say to Kathy, I says, well, you don't wanna fight God. Can't fight god and win. Can anybody fight god and win? So a lot of times when things are happening that I don't like, I don't like it. Well, I've gotta humble myself and I've gotta die to self and I've gotta say, alright, Lord, not my will but your will be done. And we I guess we don't know anything like this time of period because Jesus said it'd be a time that the world has never seen nor ever seen against. We're talking a type of pain that none of us and these guys are all gonna be saying, wait a minute, I got PTSD. Yeah. You got PTSD. It's gonna be far worse than PTSD, bro. And and so they repented not of their deeds which rebellion. It's one thing to sin. It's another thing to be rebellious. Harden not your heart as in the day of provocation in the wilderness, right? Don't harden your heart. If you sin, confess it quick. Humble yourself. Admit wrong. Get right with god. Don't guard your heart. Cultivate your heart. Don't let your heart be embittered. Don't allow that bitterness to turn into rebellion against god, you know, And he that hardened his heart, you know, not going to prosper. So, you fall upon that rock, you fall upon Jesus, and you'll be broken before him or one day that rock's going to fall upon you and in judgement and grind you to powder And so Man, I'm so afraid for these guys. I wanna preach the gospel so they don't have to go through this kind of pain. I want people to get saved. I don't want them to spend eternity in hell. I don't want them to go in the tribulation period. I like the doctrine of the rapture. I don't know why the doctrine of the rapture is so under fire. I don't know why so many professing Christians want to go into the tribulation period to prove to people how much faith they have. How strong they are. What warriors they are. They're warriors. And where are the rest of us? We're just chickens. Chicken littles. Well, yeah, I'm chicken little. And Jesus said, pray always. He'd be kind of worthy to escape these things and stand before the son of man, right? Why would I wanna be mister prideful and say, I'm a spec op Christian, man. I'm gonna go into the tribulation period, man. I'm gonna whoop on the devil. I'm gonna whoop on the antichrist. Why? You can't whoop on him. You can't fight demons. You're you're gonna lose. So why would you want why would you wanna envision or encourage your bride to go fight the devil, you know? Or why would you teach your bride that, yeah, this is part of being a Christian. God's gonna part his wrath upon us. God's not pouring out his wrath upon his bride. He's pouring out his wrath upon a Christ rejecting world and and that's where his wrath. So we've been saved from the wrath to come and we need to let people know that. We need them to sense the urgency to get right with god now so they don't have to go in the tribulation period. Yeah. And ultimately, they don't have to go to hell. So, going into the tribulation period doesn't mean you're going to hell. It just means you're going to go through hell on Earth. So, I want to be saved from both, right? And I want to save people from both and we have a glorious doctrine called that blessed home and glorious appearing of our great god and savior, Jesus Christ. So, and Paul says, comfort yourselves with these words. He's wanting you to be comforted in knowing that the dead in Christ arise first and we which life remains to be caught up together with him in the clouds meet lord near so shall I ever be with the lord. That's that's a beautiful doctrine. Amen. So I I don't I don't understand. I just don't understand why there's so many YouTube people and bozos out there that are acting like they're theologians acting like this. And if if you're gonna try and steal somebody's joy, if you're gonna try and take away the hope of the rapture, the pre trib rapture, then you need to have the scriptures to back it up. You need to be able to present your case scripturally because none of us want to be deceived quote unquote. So if I'm wrong about this, I'm open to rebuke, I'm open to correction, but every time I look at the arguments of these guys that they might have a pre wrath rapture, meaning that that we're going to go through the first few seals of Revelation six and that's the wrath of man but in verse 17, it's the wrath of the lamb and it's it's real simple to refute. It's real simple. The seals, who's worthy to open the seals and lose the scroll? It's in chapter five. Christ, come on. It's not man opening those seals in chapter six. Only Christ is the only one allowed to open those seals. It's simple. But for some reason, people, the guy was Joel Rosenberg in the eighties that came up with that false doctrine and the doctrine of eminency. So I'm I'm very excited when I see this and it sobers me, the mark of the beast and all that kind of stuff. I'm I'm sobered. I'm I'm I'm thankful that Jesus already died upon the cross of Calvary and he suffered the wrath of his father and first Thessalonians one verse 10 says that he saved us from the wrath to come. Speaking of eschatological wrath, the wrath to come during the tribulation period because there's no fearful looking to of judgment for the believer because Jesus already took that wrath of the great white throne judgment wrath of the judgment of the wicked dead. Okay. So they repented not of their deeds. So that's the key issue there. Unbelief demonstrated in unrepentance. We talked Sunday about those that profess to know God, professors, and then there's possessors. The way that we know the possessors is the obedience of love. Love is the fulfillment of the whole law, right? The possessors, I mean, the professors profess that they know god but then in works, they deny him. Their lifestyle doesn't add up to their profession of faith. And so, your BC days, you sinned habitually, BC because you weren't born again. When you become born again, your body, soul, and spirit and the holy spirit within you helps you to not be dominated by sin, to live that lifestyle of sin. And there's the fruit of repentance, you turn from your sin. And the sixth bowl of wrath and the sixth angel poured out his bowl upon the great. Now, notice the word great through here. You've got the word great. Heat in verse nine. You've got the great river in verse 12. You've got the great day of god almighty in verse 14. You've got the great voice in verse 17. Didn't I have a great voice in verse one? Yeah, we had a great voice in verse one. And then we got a great earthquake in verse 18. We've got a great city in verse 19. We've got a great and so great, mighty and earthquake. So the earthquake and so great and a great city and great Babylon and exceedingly great, great hail. Man, this hail is 100 pound hail bombs. Great hail. Right. And exceedingly great. So, great is a big word. Big, big, big. It's not little. This is great. This is big. This is an inordinate mouth. Alright, now we have and the sixth angel poured out his bowl upon the great river Euphrates. And its water was dried up. That the way of the kings of the East might be prepared. God is helping. God is making it easier. For the armies of the world to get to Armageddon. He wants them to get there. He wants them to gather in one place. Much easier to get them all right there than the although god good all over the world, right? He could give them all cellphones that blow up in their ear, right? If he wanted to. Whatever he wanted. He can make little flies that fly to each one. Right? He could use Palantir to find out where they're at. They have a little fly that flies there, little drone flying, blows up in their ear, you know, whatever he wants. Couldn't he? But he gathers them all there because he's dramatic. It's gonna be dramatic. It's gonna be climactic, you know, because Jesus is coming. Epic. So the epic. So the Euphrates River, it's about six feet across. It's two inches deep and it it just like a little trickle. It's like it dries up now and then. So to dry it up, it's not that big a miracle. It's not that big a miracle. I'm kidding. It's 1,800 miles long. It's 3,000 in some places 3,600 feet wide. Some places. It's 36 feet deep. So, to bring all your armament, your tanks, all your trucks, all your everything. The lord's going to drive that up for them old boys so they can get across real easy, Right? Come on. Come on. We're having a party. We're and in chapter 19, when it describes Armageddon, it's a feast. Come, let's have supper. I'm gonna bring the birds to feast on your carcasses. Yeah. Right? The birds are gonna feast upon the kings of the earth. Right? Isn't that humiliating for these great men? So think in terms of what's happening now. Everything is converging. The word convergence. Everything is happening according to god's will and in Revelation seventeen seventeen, when we get there next week, it says that god's putting in their hearts to do according to his will. God is setting the stage. Everything's falling into place for the return of Jesus Christ. And in that return, he's gonna punish evil. He's gonna punish the devil, the antichrist, the false prophet, and all the globalists, all of the pretenders, all the Christ rejecters. He's gonna deal with evil, all the demons, all evil is gonna be removed and cast into the abyss, right? In the millennium, when he's ruling and reigning, he's gonna let Satan lose at the end of the millennium to demonstrate the problem of man's heart once again. The unbelief of some of them that grow that that repopulate the planet during that thousand year reign. So, he's demonstrating once again the propensity of man to rebel against him but but during the millennium, he's gonna reverse the curse and you're not gonna have the the occult activity of the principalities and the powers anymore. Presently, you've got global leaders who are getting their marching orders from the devil, the little g god of this world. He's the influencer. He's the one that's with the fallen angels that are influencing the planet. And we are salt and light. We're fighting against that darkness. And so that's why our lives are difficult in many ways. You're taking the hard road. If you go with the flow, everyone's gonna leave you alone. So he drives up the So his six angel poured out his bowl upon the great river Euphrates and his water was dried up that the way of the kings of the East might be prepared. So the kings of the East now in the past, a lot of commentators still today when you study this passage, they'll take you to chapter nine verse 16. Go to chapter nine. Now, it used to be that I even learned this before. This is how I was taught but I've since I've since listened to Thomas and he taught me more clearly and the number of the army of the horsemen were 200,000 thousands and I heard the number of them. And I saw the horses in the vision and then that sat upon them having breastplates of fire and of chest length and brimstone and heads of the horses were like the heads of lions and out of their mouths issued a fire and smoke and brimstone. And these three was the third part of men killed and threw them by the smoke and by the brimstone issued out of their mouths. And so Now, notice verse 14 says, and to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, lose the four angels who are bound in the great river Euphrates. So there's a place of incarceration beneath the River Euphrates. And the four angels were loosed who were prepared for an hour, a day, and a month, and a year to slay the third part of men. So they got one third of the planet dropping dead there. And and these this army in verse three, and there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth and then them was given power as scorpions of the earth and power and it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth neither any green thing neither any tree but only the men who have not the seal of god on their foreheads. So we understood that these are demons that are being released from the inner compartment and they have power to sting man And notice it says they they there's no alleviation of that and no way of die they wanna die but they can't die and to them was given that they should not kill them but that they should be tormented five months and their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when he strikes a man. And in those days shall men speak death and shall not find it and shall desire to die and death shall flee from them. And so now people interpret where we're at over here in chapter 16 that this the number of them Let's see here. And the sixth angel poured out his bowl upon the great river Euphrates and it's and it's where as it dried up that the way of the kings of the East might be prepared. Now these are the kings of Mesopotamia. Now what I was wanting to find over here is the number of them was 200,000,000. This is in chapter nine. Right? Chapter nine. And where's the number of them? The souls. Let's see here. The number 16? Yeah. And the number of the army of the horsemen were 200,000 thousands and I heard the number of them. Okay. So chapter nine is the demons. The number of these guys people used to say these this was China. The kings of the East is China, and China said that they had an army capable of 200,000,000, you know, foot soldiers. That's the way a lot of the guys used to interpret that. Then when they see the kings of the East, they're saying this is India, this is China, this is Japan, and they'll put their industrial ability, they'll put their manpower, they'll put their nuclear power, they'll put it all together, and they're all coming to Armageddon. And I I disagree with that. I think this East here, these kings of the East are those of Mesopotamia, which is the area of Babylon. So Babylon in the next chapter is gonna get hit. Three of the Gentile the three of the 10 are gonna fight against the Antichrist and they're gonna snuff out Babylon. The Antichrist rather than going toward Babylon to go after them, he instead goes towards Basra to wipe out the the the woman, the Israelites. So, this war is preparing this 200 mile battlefield in the Valley Of Jezreel in the Galilee Valley there. Megiddo is a mountain and then Jezreel is the area of the Valley Of Jehoshaphat is the area closer to the Mount Of Olives and this is the battlefield where all these armies are gonna converge and gonna gather and so the lord is removing the water from the Euphrates so that these these Mesopotamia in the area, these armies of the area of Babylon that they can come across and move in the direction towards Southern Jordan toward Israel and then Southern Jordan and and that's that's how I see it now. So this is these are the those of Mesopotamia doesn't say what their number is, but when they hear kings of the East, then they they think, oh, I better go back to chapter nine verse 16 because the guys told me that that's the the Chinese. And now it doesn't say anywhere in the Bible that it's the Chinese, it just gives a number of the army of the horseman were 200,000. And then in the newspapers, the Chinese people are saying, they got a billion people, they have a army standing ready of 200,000,000. Well, how's that connected? Just the newspaper can't connect that. What You I mean? So you're conjecturing. So I would I would back off of that and I would say that what's happening in chapter nine are demons and and so a lot of demons are coming out of the ground to come after people, coming out of the sky wherever. So the this is the kings of the East might be prepared and I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon. So now we're gonna have the unholy trinity. Somebody wanna tell me what the unholy trinity is? First of all, the word trinity is not in the Bible. The word bible is not in the Bible. Bible means book. Right? So one God in three persons. The doctrine, the truth of the trinity is all through the Bible. So the who's the who's the dragon? Counterfeit what? Father. Counterfeit God the Father. And who's the counterfeit Christ? Who's the counterfeit Holy Spirit? False prophet. False prophet. Okay. So watch this. Watch this. And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon and out of the mouth of the beast. The beast is the got two beasts. You got the one beast is the antichrist. The other beast, the false prophet. And out of the mouth of the false prophet. So the unholy trinity here, the counterfeit trinity. For they are the spirits of demons working miracles that go forth under the kings of the earth and of the whole world to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty. God wants them all there. He wants all their technology. He wants their best. Bring your best. Bring the best you got because this is the time of God being glorified and and earthlings and principalities and powers being humbled. Now in Colossians two, we're told that Jesus spoiled all principalities and powers he triumphed over them. The cross is already the victory and you and I, as I said, we're being slaughtered but we're also more than conquerors to him that loved us because to be asked in the bodies to be present with the Lord so we don't fear death. So, don't fear him who can kill your body but fear him who can only kill your body but cast your soul into hell but in your body, don't think that you that you are not subject to being slaughtered, to being murdered, to being wiped out. Because when God removes that hedge of protection like we saw with Job, anything can happen. And so the martyrdom of Christians, 6,000,000 Christians were killed in the first two centuries. And Christians are being in the twentieth century, there were more people genocide and killed than all the other centuries combined. And the primary genocidal agent is government. University of Hawaii did a study. They called it government side and they they said that the Chinese killed 60,000,000 of their own people to bring in communism. Stalin killed 20,000,000 of his own people. He starved them in Ukraine by denying them food. Vietnam, all throughout the twentieth century, it was governments that were genociding not other people but genociding their own people. So that's your so during the tribulation period, it's gonna be government and the church, the apostate church doing this to people. What's happening in Iran right now? That's right. In Iran. Yeah. That's a good point. For they are the spirits of demons working miracles that go forth to the kings of the earth and the whole world to gather them to the battle of that great day of god almighty. So the battle of Armageddon, here's the real name. That great day of god almighty. The battle of that great day of god almighty. That's the name of this war. Behold, I come as a thief. So, now again, he's given warning to people. I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watches so you're praying and keepeth his garments lest he walk naked and they see his his shame. And so believers are ready. Believers are already robed in a robe of righteousness. Unbelievers, those that are here during the tribulation period, it's gonna come as a huge surprise to them, the second coming of Jesus. Right? Although the antichrist and these these people are gonna try and stop Jesus from returning. So there are there are there is an awareness of the second coming of Christ. You know, from the antichrist and all. And and as they're going after the nation of Israel, they're going to try and stop Jesus from returning. The devil wants to stop Jesus from returning. So, you see that, you see that picture that in Psalm two, all the hidden rage, imagine a vain thing against the lord and against his anointed. And she'll hold him in derision, right? God's going to laugh from heaven, hold him in derision. He will be an agency of a man. Yep, the kings of the earth and the whole world to gather them to the battle of that great day of god almighty. So, the board of peace is not gonna be able to keep peace. And when they say first Thessalonians five, when they say peace and what? Security. Security, then what comes? Send the church. And what's gonna happen? He's gonna come as a thief. Right? First Thessalonians five, and we study that. They and we. We and they. We and they. They, the unbelievers, are not gonna be aware, but we're children of light that that day and what day is that burning? Prayer. No. The day of the lord. The tribulation period. The tribulation period doesn't come as a surprise to us because we see the sorrow. We see the birth bank. We see the beast system being developed. So we're watching and we see it's happening. The beast system is being developed. The rapture is eminent. So we know the rapture is coming. We don't know the day or the hour but we know it's soon and it's gonna be before the signing of that that covenant that the Antichrist make in Daniel nine twenty six and twenty seven with the nation of Israel. But that day of the Lord, people living during that tribulation period, they they believed the lie. They're given over to the strong delusion that they believed the lie. And so because they suppress the truth, rejected the truth. So, the this turning against them is like a thief in a night. It's like it's like, I didn't see this coming. A good movie. I didn't see this coming. Right? And so if we looked at first Thessalonians five verse two, we're told it comes at the thief. First Thessalonians five verse four. Who wants to read first Thessalonians five one through four? Anybody? Who wants to read second Peter three ten? I'll read it. Alright. Who wants to read Revelation three verse three? Three three. Three three. And we've got Luke twelve forty. Luke 12 alright, I must start over. Who's got first Thessalonians five? I do. Okay. One? Probably one through four. Wait. Second Peter three ten. Who wants that? That's me. Okay. Revelation three verse three. Got it. Alright. Luke twelve forty. I'll get it. Okay. Joel three nine through 11. I'll take it. Psalm two one through six. I'll do it. Psalm two three one. Psalm two one through six. Acts four twenty seven and twenty eight. I'll take it. Alright. And There we go. That's that's good to start. Okay. So, as a thief, first Thessalonians five one through four, Mike. You know, as the times in the in the brethren, you have no need of anything to be written to you. For you yourselves know full well that the day of the Lord will come just like the thief in the night. While while they are saying safety peace and safety and destruction will come upon them like labor pains on a woman with a child, and they will not escape. But you, brethren, are not in darkness That the day would overtake you like a thief. For you are all sons of light and sons of day. We were not at night nor of darkness. So what's happening is the board of peace is setting the stage for all the global trade routes to be reorganized for the new global economy. Babylon's gonna be rebuilt and all these trade routes and all. So they're with the mindset that they're in for a time of utopia, a golden age where everything's gonna be great. And the surprise is he's coming as a thief in the night. They don't even see it coming. And so presently, the global technocracy, the trade routes have you heard of the IMEC? The IMEC corridor? That's something to write down and check out the IMEC corridor. It's a corridor that's being built for India, The Middle East, Europe, and it's a quarter of trade. So goods from India are gonna go all the way through the from India through The Middle East over to Europe, and that's one of the trade routes being built right now. The other one is the in Gaza, they're going to build they're building the Ben Gurion Canal through Gaza. What was in the way of that? People. They had to get rid of the people. Right? This is gonna be one of their pride and joy, their big jewels with a golden statue of Donald Trump there and Jared Kushner with his mansions in the water and all. And but they need to get that Leviathan. They needed to get that natural gas over to Europe and so they're building the Ben Gurion Canal through Gaza that'll go down to the Mediterranean Sea so they can connect trade. There's also the China Belt Road and there's a maritime silk Road, the ancient Silk Road that Marco Polo used to bring trade where they're rebuilding the Marco Polo Silk Road, Chinese Silk Road. They're called the China Belt Road and that's the maritime part of it with you know, with ships and then there's also the road part of it with rail that's being built presently that's going to go to the the Silk Road one's going to go to the Suez Canal and and then there's the Babylon one. Babylon, we're gonna see Babylon at the latter part of this chapter and then seventeen and eighteen next week, chapter 17 then 18. Babylon is literally being rebuilt right now and there are transit canals and rail systems and roads for trucks but one of the largest ports in the world is being built in Babylon. It's called the Alpha Port and it's bringing the trade route through the Persian Gulf. So this Strait Of Hormuz that's being stifled right now, we're working on the Strait Of Hormuz. That's what this war is about, to settle the Strait Of Hormuz because the globalist can't have a portion of the trade routes to be compromised by anyone. They can't have Houthis taking little inexpensive drones. They can't have the Iranians. It's a choke point. So they've gotta either make a an agreement with a new regime in Iran to to comply with a global means of distribution of goods, or we're gonna have to take you out and and and whatever. So in order for the global banking system to work, they've gotta have every country in compliance. So when a country's invaded like Iraq, it's invaded because Saddam Hussein is wanting to sell oil in something other than the petrodollar. The petrodollar is dead now, but at the time, it was alive and you'd be invaded if you sold barrels of oil and something other than the conversion to the dollar. So he wanted to sell it in euros and then Qaddafi and him both had an idea of a gold dinar, a new global gold currency. So, Qaddafi was invaded and regime change and immediately, what happened is their banks come into the Rothschild Bank of International Settlements in compliance. They don't care who on the ground is destabilizing the people. They don't care about that. So the Iranian people, it's not about rescuing the Iranian people. It's for the bankers in conjunction with all of these trade routes that they're putting together because all the money has to flow through the global banking system, the digital system, and the goods, the physical goods have to comply be in compliance with these things. So when we look at Babylon, we're in chapter seventeen and eighteen, and we see the world looking on and there's billowing smoke and it's been destroyed and all that wealth and the mariners and everybody's just moaning and moaning and moaning. The reason it's a thief in the night is these people really thought they were entering into the golden age. As they're going into the tribulation period, they're told this is the board of peace. We're gonna have peace through war. We've gotta have some wars so that we can obtain this peace, this peace where everybody's gonna have a universal basic income, a high income, you know? And all you gotta do is get your global digital ID and then your digital bank account. You can be a part of this, you know? Alright. So Be not deceived. There you go. Alright. So, Mike did his second Peter three ten. But the day of the lord will come as a thief in the night. In the which in the which the heaven shall pass away with a great noise And the elements shall melt with fervent heat. The earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. So the times of the Gentiles is going to end with the second coming of Christ. The day of the lord is a campaign extending all the way to the end of the millennium when a new heaven, a new earth comes. He's going to burn up. Ultimately, he's going to burn up this earth. At this point over here, the chronological thing, it's the signing of the peace treaty or covenant. Got a seven year period there, the seventy seven of Daniel, time of Jacob's trouble, and then after that seven, no, not that's the day of lord but it doesn't end with the second coming. It extends cause the time of the Gentiles is over. Now Jesus is ruling and reigning upon the earth for a thousand years. And at the end, Peter's passage deals with not just the earth being restored so you can have a millennium. There's a certain restoration because of all of the junk that happened for the seven years. But at the end of the millennium, you've got the destruction of the earth by fire. Chapter twenty one and twenty two is a new heaven and a new earth coming out of out of heaven, right? And the new Jerusalem coming down. It's called the eternal state. So, this campaign of Armageddon or this day of the lord, there's an extension. Right now, we're in the time of the church age, right? The day of the lord is a time where the Gentile world rule which the Babylonians, the Meets, the Persians, the Greeks, the Romans, the rebirth of the Roman Empire during the seventieth seven of Daniel that ends with the second coming to Christ. Not the rapture, okay? Okay, Revelation three verse three. Yeah. Remember, must have said it one time before. He wanted us to remember. Remember, therefore, how thou hast received and heard and hold a fast and repent if thou thou for shall thou not watch. I will come on thee as a thief and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee. So, it's going be a surprise. If you're not watching, if you're not ready, if you don't have oil, he's going to come at an hour and you're not ready like a thief in the night. Basically, you're an unbeliever. Luke 12 verse 40. Luke 12 verse 40. You also must be ready because the son of man will come at an hour when you do not expect him. Amen. Yep. Be ready. Yep. Yep. And those that were ready, they're blessed. Those that weren't ready were going back to their righteous living and all that. They're going be beaten with many stripes, right? Alright. Joel three nine through 11. Proclaim you this among the Gentiles. Prepare war. Wake up the mighty men. Let all the men of war draw near. Let them come up. Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weak say, I am strong. Amen. Assemble yourselves and come, all ye heathen, and gather yourselves together round about. Thither cause thy mighty one to come down, oh lord. Jesus is the prince of peace but he said he didn't come to bring peace but a sword. There's no peace until he deals with evil And he's gonna deal with evil during the time of the day of the Lord. Right? And so, don't think that you're gonna be able to confiscate all the guns you human beings and put all your weapons and mothballs and everything. Think that you're gonna have a utopian age. No. Not going to happen. Take your take your plows and your pruning hooks and turn them into weapons because we're going to rumble. We're going to fight. We're going to you're you're going to engage because it's it's time to subdue you. Psalm two one through six. One, two, one, six. Why are the nations so angry? Why do they waste their time with futile plans? The kings of the earth prepare for battle, the rulers plot together against the lord and against his anointed one. Let us break their chains, they cry, and free ourselves from slavery to god. Amen. That's what they're plotting. That's what they're scheming. That's where they're thinking. I don't know if any of you guys have been watching Alex Carp from Palantir. He's he's a blasphemous dude But on the other side of it, his other partner is Peter Thiel of Palantir, and they have a a software. I think they call it Maven. And this Maven software, in conjunction with the whole Stargate thing, is something that our Department of War has embraced and is paying for and all. And basically, it's a pre crime the dream of these guys is to be omniscient and have pre crime software that everything you do on social media as they're watching and listening everything and then they say they could have stopped that shooting at that Catholic church. They could have. It's all speculation and they're trying to profile and and stop people from committing crimes. So they're offering to people lower crime rates, get rid of guns, and we'll storm your doors and we'll blast them in and, oh, I got the wrong guy. You know? And as Whitney Webb would say, there is a very small percentage of accuracy, but they are able to do some surgical strikes on, you know, targets in Iran and stuff with this software because as people use these phones, these phones will ping and then they can find out where these guys are and pagers and things like that and facial recognition software. So they're trying to perfect it and all, but but they're gonna fail miserably. They're gonna fail miserably in their attempt at achieving a utopian age. So Peter Thiel is running around talking about the antichrist and he's giving lectures on the coming antichrist and he's gaslighting people saying, if we don't build this AI system, you see, precrime, then the antichrist is gonna come. He's saying what he's doing is hindering the antichrist from coming. You see what I mean? But it's the opposite. He's building the system to hand over to the antichrist. So we'll see how stupid Christians are. We'll we'll find out. We already know we're pretty stupid. Alright. So. Okay. Acts four twenty seven and twenty eight. Against his Christ. For the truth against thy holy child Jesus whom thou hast anointed both Herod and the Pontius Pilate with the Gentiles and the people of Israel were gathered together for to do what so ever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done. So Armageddon is First time the kings of the earth have gathered together to do their evil. They gathered together, Peter saying as he's preaching to him there in Acts. You you all gathered together to kill Jesus, to crucify his son at the cross. Right? And so, behold I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watches and keeps his garments. Lest he walk naked and they see his shame. So you don't want, you know, filthy rags of righteousness. You're you're righteous as filthy rags. You don't wanna be clothed in religion. Adam and Eve had to leave the garden in coats of skins. You need the blood of Jesus, a robe of righteousness. You need to believe in the savior. Otherwise, you're naked and open and your your your sins have not been forgiven. And he gathered them together in a place called in the Hebrew tongue, Armageddon or it's Megiddo, the valley, the Mountain Of Megiddo. And and there's a valley valley area there. The North side of the Plains Of Jezreel and this is a place where there have been battles fought in generals and and people before that have like Deborah when she fought with against Sisera in the book of Judges. This is the area that she fought the armies of Sisera and when jail gave King Sisera, Sisera was fleeing from the battlefield and came to the tent of of a jail, a woman, and he was tired and she she did two things you men need to be careful of. If you see a woman holding a sharp object wanting to give you warm milk, flee. Keep running. Because he he drank the milk and fell asleep and she took a tent stake and nailed it through his temple, nailed him to the ground. Alright. So that was a battlefield there that Deborah, one of the judges, a woman, fought because none of the men wanted to. And then also when Gideon fought against the Midianites, it was the same battlefield. When Pharaoh Necho killed Josiah, it was on the same battlefield. Napoleon and other generals throughout history have looked at this battlefield and imagined kind of like a general Patton, know. They imagined this battlefield that they were born to fight here, you know. And so they they envision themselves in the in this in this field of battle. And so it's a well known place of battle. Now when the Department of War tells the soldiers today that we're doing God's work and we're ushering in Armageddon by going to the Iranians and stuff. You know, gonna bring in the return of Jesus. The Islamic ideology, they think in terms of if we get destroyed, it'll bring in the Mahdi, right? The Islamic, the Muslim, you know, Christ and all. So a whole lot of crazy stuff going on. I don't know why you would tell the soldiers that they're doing, you know, this is ordained of God. We're anointed of God to go in here and usher in arm again, you know. The anybody understand that? What they're saying there? I don't even understand that. What what are you what are you getting at? You mean, we're gonna bring an Armageddon? I thought God is gathering Armageddon. I thought God is gathering these armies of the world to battle them. You know? Why does he need America to go there and start, you know, bombing to bring in Armageddon? I hope they don't bring back the draft and draft all our wonderful children and grandchildren, you know, for their stupid wars. Okay. So they gathered them for together in the place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon. And the seventh angel poured out his bowl into the air and there came a great, there's our word in it, a great voice out of the temple of heaven from the throne saying, it is done. Armageddon, it's done, man. It's done. It's over. Jesus has taken the kings of the world. He's taken the times of the Gentiles. He's ended it and he's come back to the Earth to be king of kings and lord of lords, right? Amen. And it's done. When he's on the cross, what did he say? It is. Finished. Finished, right? What's finished? What was finished? His word. Sin wrath. Work of redemption. Work of redemption. His work of redemption. Finished. His blood. Has paid for the sins. To Talastai means paid in full. It is finished as the Greek word to Talastai. It's paid in full. He paid for your sins, my sins. It's finished. Because remember, if there's any other way, Lord, remove this cup from me. No other way. So the wrath had to come on him. He took the wrath on himself. His blood's poured out and his blood paid for the sins of the world. It is finished. Paid in full. Well, on the ledger, when the devil looks up your name, there's no balance due. Paid in full. Past, present, and future. There's no debit. You have no debt before god. Rehab a king. He says in there, justified just as if you've never sinned, righteous, right? Okay. So, it is done. And there were voices and thunders and lightnings and there was a great earthquake such as was not since men were upon the earth. This is the big one. You ever heard about the big one? Someday, the big one's coming. The Cascadia, you know, the Mount Saint Helens and Mount Rainier and the brothers up there by Vancouver or that whole thing is a volcanic earthquake fault type thing that one day is gonna blow. Right? You ever heard of that? Someday the big one's coming. And in California where we live, we lived on the San Andreas Fault and they always would say, someday the big one's coming. Well, here it is. And there was great earthquakes such as was not since men were upon the earth. So mighty an earthquake and so great, the big one. And the great city was divided into three parts, ripped apart in three parts and the cities of the nations fell and great Babylon came in remembrance before god to give her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath and chapter seventeen and eighteen, we're gonna see Babylon describe that ancient city that Babel, the Tower Of Babel and Nimrod back in Genesis ten and eleven and the whole religious system, the occultic religious systems of today are originated in Babel, in Babylon, ancient Babylon. As we said, it's been the center of of this idolatrous worship of Val and Astrith and all the different worshiping of the devil and so this great Babylon, remember Nebuchadnezzar said, is not this great Babylon which I have built and the words are barely out of his mouth in chapter four, Daniel and he's out there eating grass, right? For seven years and so the nations, cities of the nations that fell in great Babylon came into remembrance before god to give to her a cup of wine of the fierceness of his wrath and every island fled away and the mountains were not found. Now, this is, I wrote in my notes in the margin here. Finally, flat Earth. That's exactly what we said. Did you? Yep. Finally. Great minds think alike. Yep. I mean, god, this whole panic. Finally, you want a flatter, Lauren? There he is. There's booms down. No. No. Now somehow, I I thought during the millennium I was gonna get a surfing island, but maybe he'll re re redo some things, you know? He'll let me he'll let me be a king and a priest over Hawaii somewhere or one of those places. And and all the really cool loving Filipina and Hawaiian people will still be there. And boy, they love to party, don't they? They love Jesus. Boy, they love Jesus. They love one another. And they know how to do it. I'll tell you. Fellowship. So, a cup of wine of the fierceness of his of his wrath and so, father, will and remove this cup from me. Nevertheless, not as I will, but thy will be done. And so we here we see the cup of the wine of his wrath that's being poured out of the tribulation period. He poured out the cup of wine upon his son. That's why you and I, there's no fearful looking to of judgment, and there's no cup of wrath upon us in the tribulation period because we won't be there because he saved us from the wrath to come. Right? Yes. We're not subject under that wrath. We're not appointed under wrath and every island fled away and the mountains were not found and there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven. Every stone about the weight of a talent. So, a talent, the Hebrew talent is can be measured of 60 to 100 pounds, I'm told and that's a big rock, right? So what do you think is gonna happen to your cars? The ranch. So can you see why all the globalists are building these huge underground cities? Do you see why they're all going underground with their bunkers and everything? There's something they know it's coming. They know it's coming and people, the earth dwellers are gonna be the most vulnerable but they need to read Revelation six, right? They were hiding themselves in the dens and the caves and the rock calling for the rocks to fall on them so that they could hide from the wrath of the lamb. There's no place to hide from the wrath of the lamb. Where am I going to go from your presence? I ascended to heaven, you're there. If I go into hell, you're there. There's no place to flee from god's presence. He's omnipresent, right? Amen. And so, there's no place to hide for for these guys, you know? And you and I, we're secure, we're safe. So who wants to read Job thirty eight twenty two and twenty three? I will. Alright. Big hail bombs. Wow. 100 pound hail bombs. Now I saw in Texas, they've got these coverings in their driveway for their cars. And how much do you think that those hail bombs weigh? A pound? Half a pound? Maybe there's just as big as a golf ball maybe? Six ounces? And it does great damage, doesn't it, to a car? Man, 100 pounders? Maybe maybe a meteor shower? What do you think it is? Job what? Another Job. Job. 38, 22, and 23. Chapter 38 verse twenty two and twenty three. There's some hail reserved for the end. God's asking Job. You there? Job thirty eight twenty two and twenty three. Have you entered the storehouses of the snow, sorry, or seen the storehouses of of the hail, which I reserve for times of trouble, for the days of war and battle. What is the way to the place where the lightning is despaired or the place where the east winds are scattered over the earth? Who cuts a channel for the torrents of rain or the path of the thunderstorm? So god says he uses this for war in a time of war. So when you think of Ezekiel thirty eight and thirty nine, the war of Gog Magog, that's coming. Right? Five out of every six of the invading army that's coming against Israel is destroyed and God implements hail. Right? He uses hail to wipe out. So even if you have tanks and it says in Ezekiel, they're gonna use horses, you know, to come up over the mountains on them in Ezekiel thirty eight thirty nine. So anyway, these the the god god uses hail to just crush these armies, right? And what kind of defense would they have? Where could they hide? What kind of preparation can they make to hide from 100 pound hail bombs coming in? And god's gonna protect the nation of Israel from Russia and from Turkey, Germany, from The Sudan, from Ethiopia, and from Persia, which is Iran. And they're going to come in with a hook in their jaw, god drawing them in again. And the reason god is for that war is so that the whole world will glorify god. That they'll identify him as the god of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. And that's when the world is softened up, I believe, for the antichrist to emerge and to offer a covenant of peace is after the Ezekiel the Ezekiel war that's coming. So Persia is being thumped on now. Regime change. The globalist system getting in place. And then there's a a, you know, getting ready for it. And and then as this trade routes and the Ben Gurion Canal and Gazprom Russia's wanting to sell their oil to Europe and now all these other countries selling oil and natural gas energy, energy is a big deal right now. And so this these nations come after Israel to grab the spoil, and that's where God intervenes. And so as he says in Job, he uses it in time of war. And he fell upon men a great hail out of heaven. Every stone about the weight of a talent and men blasphemed again, blasphemed god because of the plague of the hail For the plague was exceedingly what? Three. Three. And I don't know what it would be like for meteor showers for things to come out of space and the kinetic energy of the speed of these the the weight of the speed, the kinetic energy of these objects, 100 pound 100 pound ice balls, whatever it is, hail, and hitting the planet. I mean, we've seen Hollywood depicted in some of the movies. Right? Greenland or whatever, big things out of the sky coming. But to actually and then the sound of lightning, the sound of thunder, the sound of earthquake, and the fires that break out, the electrical grid that goes down, everything being destroyed that man has built, God destroying it. And over over half of the planet wiped out in a short seven year period of time, and I I said to Christy, you know, who's in the funeral business. I said, well, Christy, sorry but I've been praying and letting everybody know nobody else in our church is going to die, alright? And we're going to go in the rapture and then Jeffrey says, no more death. No more death. We're going to stop death and so think about being in the funeral business. You can never stop death. You're going to always have business. You're always going be on call because it's appointed into all men wants to die and then the judgment. So, alright. Well, let's pray. Father, we pray as Palm Sunday is approaching as resurrection Sunday approaching, and things are crazy in The Middle East, things are crazy around the world, so many things brewing, and the birth pangs are intensifying, and Lord, we're not the type of people that attend church to escape reality and to you know, to watch Sesame Street. Although I do like Bert and Ernie. But but lord, we wanna know the truth and we want to be aware. We don't want to be watching. We don't wanna be those who experience your coming as a thief in the night. We want to be as children of of light that are watching, that are ready. We see in Luke 12. It's important that we're watching, that we're ready, and like the five wise virgins who are watching, who are ready. So, the exhortation that you tell us to watch, to be ready. When you see these things begin to come to pass and look up knowing that your redemption draws nigh. Praying always that we would be kind of worthy to escape these things and to stand before the son of man. So father, we're yearning. We're watching for the rapture. We're wanting the rapture, wanting you to come for us your bride. We're sobered by what the world's going to go through, Lord. And we thank you, Lord, that that you're not going to subject us to this kind of a wrath that's happening. Lord, we know that we're promised suffering. We're problem promised tribulation which means pressure but but not this time, not to this degree, not to this measure where it's your wrath being poured out and so father, we just thank you that you're there to help us through the trials, through the tribulation, but not the tribulation. And so thank you for your help Lord. Thank you for your love. Thank you that Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego when they were faced with a fiery trial. They didn't blasphem you Lord. They fellowship with you. They enjoyed you in the midst of the the fire and lord, I thank you for Job, his example. I pray that more and more that we would mature, that we'd grow up, that we'd not be so selfish and self entitled but lord that we take our cross up daily and follow you and know what it is to be dead to self and be alive unto you lord and to truly to truly be worshippers lord. Help us to pass the test, each and every test, Lord. Lest we have to retake it. In Jesus name, we pray. Amen.

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Calvary Chapel Bremerton - Home Bible Study

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

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