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Live from Bremerton. It's Monday night. Welcome. We are gonna be studying Revelation chapter 19 tonight. Jim's gonna lead us in some songs. Vicky's traveling, kinda jet setting around the country a bit, and going to the spa and stuff, you know. And so Rob and Brandon are are doing it and Brandon hurt his ankle so we're doing the best we can and we want to commit this time to the Lord in prayer. Father, we come before you lord and we thank you for this night. Thank you for Vicky. We miss her. Pray that you bless her as she's doing work related things and and out of town. Lord, we ask that you continue to heal Brandon's knee and ankle and help him to recover. Thank you that Julie's recovering. Help her to go all the way Lord and get get her energy back. And we lift up Steve Wilcox Lord as he's going to have his throat looked at tomorrow. Pray that you'd be with him. The doctors help him get better. And continue to help Rob to improve with what he's been battling. And this virus and and Cora with pneumonia. Help Cora to overcome the pneumonia. Be with James Lord as he's got a stuffy ears. And concerned about flying in the morning as he's going to fly it down to Florida. So be with James. Help him to continue to recover. And and Linda also with the loss of their their spouses. And just bless James. Give him a great time of family reunion down in Florida. With his mom and all of his brothers and sisters, nieces, nephews, and everybody. Let it be a blast and lord, we just ask that you bless tonight as we study, as we fellowship, as we spend this time sitting at your feet, Lord. In Jesus name, amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Alright. Here we go. Unto thee, oh lord. Unto thee, oh lord. Do I lift up my soul unto thee, oh lord. Do I lift up my soul, oh my god. I trust indeed. Let me not be ashamed. Let not my enemies triumph over me. Yea, let none that wait I trust in thee. Let me not be ashamed. Let not my enemies triumph over me. Show me thy ways thy ways oh lord teach me thy paths thy paths oh lord oh my god I trust in thee let me not be ashamed let not my enemies triumph over Remember not the sins of my youth. Remember not the sins of my youth. Oh my god. I trust in thee. Let me not be ashamed. Let not my enemies triumph over Amen. Amen. Amen. This is an older one we haven't sang in a while. The old rugged cross. Exchange it someday for a crown Amen. I will finish up with amazing grace. Alright. Thank you, Jim. You're welcome. Alright. Praise the lord. Aloha. Yeah, that was that was from Hawaii, right? Hawaiian flare on the gospel. There we go. Beautiful. Beautiful. Alright. We are in Revelation chapter 19 tonight. Revelation 19. And You good? Everybody okay? So, we have the war of Armageddon. The end of the war of Armageddon ends with the return of Jesus Christ. But first off, John is gonna show us a picture of the church up in heaven. And the church went to heaven in chapter four. The outline of the book, John was told to write the things which you have seen, the things which are, and the things which shall be hereafter, after these things. In chapter one verse 19, remember? Let's let's look at that. One. So, the outline of the book, we're getting to the closer to the end. So, verse 19, write the things which thou hast seen which is a vision of Jesus in chapter one which John's gonna allude to in chapter 19 here. Write the things which are in the present tense which was the church age chapter two and three the Lord Jesus given a progress report for the church but also telescoping throughout church history and then in chapter beginning with chapter four verse one, we see where John's instructed. After this, I looked and behold, a door was opened in heaven and the first voice that I heard was as it were of a trumpet walking with which said, come up here and I will show thee things which shall be hereafter. It's the same word that we see in chapter one verse 19. It's the Greek word after these things. So, after the church age, we as we go through chapter four here, we see the four and twenty elders which we're also going to see in chapter 19 that they're in heaven and then we see that in chapter five the church there in heaven and John's crying out you know who's worthy to open the scroll and to loose the seal and there's nobody in heaven or earth or under the earth or anywhere and and John's told not to weep that the line of the tribe of Judah that he's prevailed and all and so Jesus has the title deed to the earth in chapter five and and so there's rejoicing in that regard and saw him as a lamb that had been slain and then with chapter six from six to nineteen is the tribulation period and the tribulation periods of 77 of Daniel. It's the seven years of god pointing out his wrath on a Christ rejecting world with the seal, the trumpet, and the bowl judgments. The last of the bowl judgments, the seventh bowl judgment is the end of the war of Armageddon and it it culminates with a huge earthquake. It culminates an earthquake that splits the Mount Of Olives. It culminates with a huge blackout. Everything blacked out. And and that's the seventh bowl judgment and meanwhile, up in heaven, the church is in heaven and Jesus said, I go to prepare a place for you and if I go to prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you unto myself that where I am there, you may be also. So, the church has been in heaven for seven years. Thereabouts, it could be even more because the rapture of the church does not start the tribulation period. The start of the tribulation period starts with the signing of the covenant in Daniel nine twenty five through 27 that the Antichrist signs with the nation of Israel. So basically we could get raptured right now and three weeks from now or three years from now ten years from now could be the signing of that peace treaty. But meanwhile we're up there for an extended period of time up in heaven and we have to remind ourselves of the Jewish style of the wedding. The wedding starts with step number one is the betrothal or the engagement. Mary and Joseph were betrothed to each other, right? And so that would be an arrangement of the father with the other, with the father of the groom, with the father of the bride. And the father of the groom would pay the goel price the the bride price and the price was for us was the blood of Jesus and and then we're sealed there's an engagement ring that's given So, we as the church, the bride of Christ are sealed with the Holy Spirit and in second Corinthians chapter 11 verse two, Paul said that he espoused us, the church, as a chaste virgin under Christ, you know, the one husband and so that's the that's the the arrangement if you will, the espousal, the betrothal. And then the second phase of the Jewish wedding is the fetching. And so we see the picture of the fetching in Matthew 25 of the five wise virgins who had oil. Oil be indicative of being believers. They have the Holy Spirit. And five foolish that are not believers. And so the groom can come at any time. Anytime. You don't know. So, you have to be watching up, be ready, and that's the fetching in the Jewish wedding. The rapture of the church and notice that in the rapture of the church, it's it's not something that we do. It's something that we're grabbed by the back of the neck, the definition, and violently taken out. You know, there's a there's a emphasis of god taking us out. It's not some, hey, I'm going to go show up at the rapture now. They're having the rapture tonight and so it's it's against our will. It just happened anytime. I mean, we're willing. We're watching. We're ready but it's not something that he needs us to do anything. We're we're just you keep watching, be ready. So, so the you got the fetching and then you go up to heaven and in heaven, you have the Bema Seat Judgment. You have the reward ceremony and so everything that's wood hay and stubble according first Corinthians chapter three is going to be burned up all that's you know done for the for the Lord the good things is going to be precious stones going to make it through the fire of of god's judgment and and it's not judging of sin. It's judging for rewards and so you got second Corinthians five, you got first Corinthians three, and and so this would be the bema, the reward. We must all appear before the Bema Seat of Christ. First Corinthians three ten through fifteen, second Corinthians five verse 10, Romans fourteen ten and twelve and and that's the church in heaven being decked out with gifts and we have an incorruptible crown that fades not away. We have five different crowns that the church, the bride of Christ is going to wear and so a crown of rejoicing, a crown of life for the martyrs, crown of righteousness, crown of what else? You got an incorruptible crown. You got two of them that are the crown of of life. You've got the crown of rejoicing, crown of righteousness, and crown of glory is the other one. So five crowns and in chapter four the four and twenty elders lay their crowns at the feet of the Lord when they're worshiping. So chapter 19 verse one, Father be our teacher, help us Lord as we we sought to have sort of an overview. Please lead and guide us in all truth now and help us to hide your word within our heart and Lord be so excited about your soon return in Jesus name. Amen. Amen. Alright. So after these things, I heard a great voice of many people in heaven. Now you're gonna have four hallelujahs here, a fourfold hallelujahs. Hallelujah in Hebrew 15 times. Alleluia in Greek four times. But in this section here there's going to be four hallelujahs. The hallelujah. There's a song right? Hallelujah. What do you call that? Chorus. That's it. Chorus. That's the word I was looking for. Hallelujah chorus. So, the church up in heaven, they have cause for rejoicing and the first hallelujah is because Babylon has just fallen. Babylon has fallen. The second hallelujah is Babylon is destroyed. The city and the system is gone and so there's great rejoicing in heaven as they're watching this take place the whole Babylonian system that the Antichrist developed that the devil is behind in the city are are wasted that we saw in chapter seventeen and eighteen and the third hallelujah is in verse four it's they're worshiping, they're worshiping the Lord. And the fourth hallelujah is in verse nine and again they're praising the Lord who's omnipotent and so great multitudes and voices. So notice it says there's many people narrow is the way that leads to life eternal and few there be that find it. How many lord? How many are going to make it? Here, we're kind of blessed many people. There's many people there. A great voice of many people in heaven saying, hallelujah, salvation, and glory and honor and power under the Lord our God. So they're they're praising him for salvation. They're praising him according to his glory. They're honoring him. They're thanking him for his power that he's more powerful than the devil, the antichrist, and the false prophet that was enslaving the whole world, right? And, under the Lord our God. For true and righteous are his judgments. True and righteous are his judgments. Everything's gonna fit. Everything's gonna be like, yeah, that fits. The punishment fits the crime. And true and righteous are his judgments. And I'm inclined sometimes to question God in his judgments in my life. I say, well, that's unjust. That's unfair. That's that that that's bad. True and righteous are his judgments. Right? So, if you want him to take you to the woodshed, he'll take you like he did Job and he'll say, where were you when, Job? And And Job won't have anything to say, right? Because his ways are past finding out, as high as the heavens by the earth, so are his ways from our ways and his ways past finding out. So we don't know. Now we do have a promise that all things are working together for good, for those who love God and are called according to his purpose. So if we don't understand something, we're told in Proverbs three, five and six to lean not on our own understanding in all our ways acknowledge him and he'll direct our paths. So we walk by faith. We walk by faith trusting that there's a show that Cathy watches a lot called Fathers Knows Best, alright? And Father Knows Best. So for true and righteous are his judgments for he has judged the great harlot so that's back in chapter 17, right? The great harlot, the woman that rode the beast, the apostate church that was assisting government, government that merged with religion and with business. And that's the three legged stool of Rick Warren, the purpose driven life. Do you understand that? And the seven Mount mandate. The seven Mount mandate, that's the Kingdom Now dominion theology where they're continuing to go with it, right, to usher in the kingdom, which is again heretical. But there's a system that's being put in place that the globalist has been working toward. So the Charlie Kirk thing, you got to be careful because it's a religious effort with a government effort, right? And all different kinds of religions, right? And a political effort of conservative political system with all the different religions that were there represented Catholics, you know, Mormons, everybody at his deaths and the beads, you know, that everybody's doing and all that. And also along with government, not just the US government, the Israeli government and all. So that's something you gotta be really careful of when you do that. So when I hear the the term separation of church and state, I don't want to be uniquely yoked with the state, right? I wanna make sure that if I if I were to receive money from them or any kind of privileges then there might be strings attached, right? So, if I'm the Salvation Army and I'm able to feed people and share the gospel with them But my funding's coming from the state now instead of the guys on the corner getting the can with the coins in it, right? Now, I'm told at Christmas time and other times that I can't force the gospel or that I'll lose my funding. Right? Same with Catholic services. Same with all these groups that are getting funding from the government as a welfare. It means a welfare to help the poor and all. What you give up if you take that money is now you're told that people that come in there to get the food they don't want to hear the gospel. Well it used to be we're going to do the gospel first then you get fed. Well now Salvation Army is told you can't force them to do that, right? So be very careful of this marriage, the harlot that rides the beast, right? The beast, the governmental system is going to help you know prostitute the church and the church is gonna prostitute the government along with business, these technocrats and all. So up in heaven they're saying thank God that demonic system's over. Thank God there's true and righteous are your judgments oh Lord. So all this time we've been being deceived and distracted by Republican Democrat arguments, right? By MAGA and whatever, liberals, conservatives, and different countries, different religions, and all this other stuff. We've been so distracted. And then ultimately the beast goes into the temple, declares himself to be God, demands to be worshiped as God. Now there's compulsory worshiping of the devil and I've gotta take his I gotta give my allegiance to him by taking his mark and all. So the people up in heaven, they're just so incredibly rejoicing that this is coming to an end. And for true and righteous are his judgments that he has judged the great harlot who did corrupt the earth with her fornication. And so the tremendous corruption that's taking place just like as in the days of Sodom and Gomorrah, the filth, and you and I are supposed to be salt and light, we're supposed to slow down the filth, down the corruption, and all we need to is be lovers of truth and speak up. Lovers of truth and speak up. The devil hates to be exposed. Devil hates for people to speak up and we're not there to argue, debate or fight with people. We just simply expose them. Use the Bible. Expose it as heretical. And you know that was God's will for the greatest of the prophets to be beheaded? That's God's will for John the Baptist was God's will for him to be beheaded. What did John do wrong? He just spoke up. He spoke up and let him know that it was illicit, it was wrong for Herod to have his brother Philip's wife Herodias And a woman scorned man, woman scorned. She got that toothbrush out, I'm telling you, she got it out there. And just the great harlot who did trump the earth. You're not. I know, honey. I know. But you're funny. I like how you're so funny. Shame my sweetheart. Okay. I only use brand new toothbrushes now. Has just the great harlot just the great harlot who did corrupt the earth with her fornication and has avenged the blood of his servants at her hands. So all the tribulation saints that were wasted, the innumerable multitude of people beneath the throne in Revelation six and seven and the two witnesses that were executed, you know, you've avenged their blood, The Lord's going to cause the blood to be as high as the horse's bridle. He's gonna cause it to empty into the the Gulf Of Aqaba. There's gonna be so much blood that God is gonna bring in that 200 mile battlefield called Armageddon. And it's amazing. And again, they said, Hallelujah. And her smoke rose up forever and ever. And so just thankful that Babylon fell, the smoke that was billing from it, and you had the monarchs that were wailing, the kings were wailing, the 10 kings, right? The seven kings plus the antichrist, the eighth king that was wailing and crying because as in a moment, they've lost their kingdom. You have the merchants, all of their goods, all of those that were made rich with the IMEC, the India, Middle East, economic corridor, the canal, a Ben Gurion Canal in Israel, and the Alphah Port of Babylon in Iraq today, and the belt the belt corridor, the old silk trade routes of China, all of these different countries coming through and being a part of this whole economic system that was centered in Babylon. So the merchants are crying and the mariners, the ones that were shipping the goods, the ones in these big container ships that were taking them all over the globe, all of them are weeping and wailing because this isn't a moment Babylon is billowing smoke it's destroyed so not just fallen but the second hallelujah is it's been destroyed and the four and twenty elders there's your representatives of Revelation chapter four there's your there's your church in heaven and the four and twenty elders and the four living creatures fell down and worshiped God. On his throne saying, amen. Hallelujah. And so, the worship leaders are the four worship leaders and the four and twenty elders they're singing hallelujah and a voice came out of the throne saying praise our god all you his servants and you that fear him both small and great so give honor unto him praise him worship him there's a day coming where every knee will bow and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord even unbelievers are going to say Jesus Christ is Lord the demons are all going to say Jesus Christ is Lord right Everyone, everything. And and I heard verse six and I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude and like the voice of many waters and like the voice of mighty pales of thunder saying hallelujah for the Lord God omnipotent all powerful reigns he's all powerful and what are the three attributes we keep reminding ourselves of that the Antichrist and the beast system does not possess as Lucifer's just a fallen angel. I'm president. I'm omnipresent. So, our god's omnipresent. He's everywhere. Omnipotent. He's omnipotent here, all powerful. Omnipresent. And he's omniscient. He knows everything. So, all these data centers, those data centers are accumulating information for the Antichrist system with cameras and right now everything that we're saying is going on social media, Facebook, Twitter, all that kind of stuff. It's all tabulated, recorded, and put into a database and they're wanting smart cities and they want to utilize the technology to play God. They're trying to play God. They're trying to take Satan's doing the best he can to try and take the attributes of God and he's the counterfeit. The counterfeit God the Father, counterfeit god the son, the antichrist, counterfeit holy spirit, the false prophet but our god's omnipotent. He's all powerful and you know, when Jesus was being interrogated, he went through six different trials. Court appearances. And the first was before Anas who was the father-in-law of Caiaphas and he was the he was the real power broker if you will of the high priest. He was the former high priest. And then before Caiaphas, Caiaphas' house, and then before the Sanhedrin. And then after that, he was sent over to Pilate. And Pilate didn't didn't want the jurisdiction. He didn't want to deal with Jesus. So then he sends him over to Herod and Herod, him and his boys, they they always wanted to see Jesus as a circus, know, performer and all. And he answered them not a word but they were beaten on him in a bag over his head and and just brutalizing him. Then he went back to Pilate and Pilate's wanting Jesus to speak, wanted to say something, defend yourself and as a sheep before his shears is dumb so he opened out his mouth. Then Pilate tried to say, don't you know that I have power? Oops. Like Nebuchadnezzar, is this not great Babylon which I have built? Oops. You know, don't you know that I have power to crucify you? And Jesus said, no, you don't have no power except that which is given you, from above. Jesus had previously said, I have power to lay my life down and I have power to take it again. That's real power, right? And power over death. And so he's all powerful. And so now we come to the marriage up in heaven, the marriage ceremony, the fourth or the third the third stage of a Jewish wedding after the betrothal and the fetching is the ceremony. And the ceremony is at the father's house. Jesus said I go to prepare a place for you. So, there's a room that's built off of the father's house for the groom, the son, and his new bride. So, in my father's house, there are many mansions. If it weren't so, I'd tell you. I go to prepare a place for you and if I go to prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you unto myself that where I am, there you may be also. And so, when we're in heaven there, we, the bride of Christ, because we're not subject unto the wrath of God that's being poured out during the tribulation period. We're there in heaven and we go before the Lord for reward for the Lord to first the ceremony the marriage ceremony which is a small type of a ceremony and then the fourth stage is we come back with the lord and we'll see that in chapter 19 as Jude says, Jude, Enoch said, Jude records, Jude fourteen and fifteen, the lord comes back with 10 thousands and thousands of his saints. When the lord Jesus comes back, he comes back with two armies. One army in Matthew 16 is that of angels and the second army is the church, right? And Jesus doesn't need us just as in the Garden Of Gethsemane he didn't need any help from Peter cutting off Malchus' ear, right? Don't you know I could call down 12 legions of angels, Peter? In King Hezekiah's time with Senecarib. Senecarib came and surrounded the city and and one angel slew 185,000 of Senecrib's invading force in Isaiah 34. So 12 legions, 6,000 legions, 72,000 angels can do a lot of whooping, you know? And so here we have armies of angels. Satan is simply a fallen angel, right? And one third of the stars fell with Lucifer. There's two thirds more holy angels that are assisting God and serving God and I can kind of picture them like now now now you know wanting to go wanting to go you know and but how how is it the Lord destroys the devil? Shekinah glory. And the sword of his mouth, right? Second Thessalonians two, right? Okay. Well, I'm ahead we're ahead of ourselves but I'm glad that you're a good student of the Bible here. You guys are good. I just say the questions. You guys fill in the answers. You guys know all the answers. But it's so fun to see this recorded for us here. You know and we've been studying all these things and the dots are connecting because we're using other parts of the Bible to fill in to help us you know see the consistency of what God's saying here and so so let us be glad and rejoice and give honor unto him for the marriage of the lamb has come and his wife has made herself ready. So, people argue here. Some will say, hey, this is the nation of Israel. No, no, no, no, no. The nation of Israel is the wife of Jehovah. The His wife here is the bride of Christ and Saturday when we study about husbands loving their wives in Ephesians chapter five we'll see the picture there the correlation of the Lord of him loving his bride and we're to love our brides guys as Christ loved the church and gave himself for her, right? And so the church is Jewish, starts out all Jewish and then Gentile. So the priority is to the Jews. So we differentiate between Jews that are saved and are part of the church and the nation of Israel and so the nation of Israel, a one third remnant according to Zechariah thirteen eight nine is going to make it through the tribulation period along with a 144,000. Twelve, zero from each tribe and and you've got two witnesses also but they're they're they're resurrected and already and so this remnant this one third remnant they're the Israel of God and they're going to confess their sin they're going to mourn about their sin They're going to say blessed is he that comes in the name of the lord and I'm getting ahead of myself again and then that's when the lord Jesus intervenes. That's when he as he said oh Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you know, how often I'd gather you as a mother and gather her brood under her wings but you would not in your cities left down to desolate and you'll not see me again you know until you say blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord and so they they're gonna awaken to their sinful condition and there's an unconditional covenant in Jeremiah thirty one thirty one where God's gonna write his word upon their heart but meanwhile in Israel today there's a real hard heartedness toward Jesus and it takes the tribulation period, the fire, the time of Jacob's trouble to soften a one third remnant. Two thirds of them die during the tribulation period and so let us rejoice and be honored to him for the marriage of the lamb has come and his wife has made herself ready and Luke, who wants to read Luke twelve thirty seven, Luke twelve thirty seven and who wants to read Luke twenty-one 30 four-thirty six. I got twelve thirty seven. Okay, twelve thirty seven. Blessed are those servants whom the Lord when he cometh shall find watching. Verily I say unto you that he shall gird himself and make them sit down to meet and will come forth and serve them. So when Jesus comes back with his bride the picture there in Luke is Luke 12 is we're gonna be seated at the fourth stage the marriage supper. At the marriage supper is where you can invite the friend of the bridegroom. You can invite John the Baptist and all the Old Testament patriarchs. All the Old Testament saints and tribulation saints are gonna be guests at the marriage supper which starts the millennium. That's what starts the millennium, the thousand year rule and reign of Christ. And then Luke twenty-one 30 four-thirty six Jesus said that we're to be watching and to pray always that you be able to escape these things, what things, the tribulation period and to stand before the Son of Man location, location, location on into heaven. And Marlene's going to read verse 36. Luke 34, that's twenty one thirty four through 36. Go ahead. And take heed to yours to excuse me. Take heed to yourselves, lest at any time now bears be overcharged and Drunkenness. And drunkenness. And and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unaware. Whereas a snare shall it come on all of them that dwell on the lot late on the face of the whole earth. Watch ye therefore and be pray that you may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass and to stand before the son of man. So you're like in Matthew 25, you're the five wise virgins with the oil and you're watching. You're you're not backsliding going back into the world and you're not those now that hate the doctrine of the pre trib rapture and the left behind series and all that and everybody's against a pre trib rapture. Say, well, you know, where is the promise of his coming? Well, that's a prophecy that Peter said, the scoffers would come. So, you're not like that. You're watching it ready. You're up on tiptoes like Bernie. You're letting everybody know. His coming's at the door. It's it's soon. Be ready. He's coming an hour that you know not, you know? He's coming like a thief in the night for those in first Thessalonians five, right? The children of darkness but the children of light we're watching because we see the birth pangs. We see the day of the Lord approaching which is the tribulation period. We know we're not going into that tribulation period but so we know that the rapture comes before that and so his coming for his bride is at the very door. So you want to be ready. She made herself ready and I believe one of the best ways for you and I to be ready is to be studying prophecy, to be students of prophecy. 27% of the Bible's prophecy and as we see the dots connecting the Holy Spirit's going to bear witness with our spirit and stir our hearts that you know what you guys are close you're close And he says verse eight, and to her was granted that she should be aired in fine linen, clean and white for the fine linen is the righteousness of the saints. So as she's up in heaven, the church at the Bema Seat Judgment, first Corinthians three ten through 15, and then second Corinthians five ten, we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ and it's Bema, it's not the great white throne judgment that we're gonna see in chapter 20 of the wicked dead. This is a reward ceremony to award his bride for her faithfulness. And so if he's given you a little influence and use that influence, whatever kind of talent or investment he's made in your life and you don't bury it as long as you reinvest in the lives of others, there's a reward for you. If you did it to be seen of men, you already get your reward. If you did it and you know as under the Lord then there's rewards awaiting you as you did it for him. So Romans 14 ten-twelve also is alluding to the Bema Seat judgment. And now the image so there's the ceremony and the Bema Seat she's getting decked out and her white garment is a result of being washed in the blood of the lamb, right? Our righteousness is filthy rags we can't sew and make that that white linen robe for ourselves. It's it's granted unto us, given unto us because of the blood of Jesus that's poured out and washed away all of our sin. The blood of Jesus Christ, god's son, continually cleanses us of all sin, all filthiness and he say it unto me, right, blessed are they who are called. So, now the invitations are going out. The invitations are going out for those who are going to be invited to the marriage supper here on earth they don't get to come up to heaven for the ceremony we're coming down for them and we're going to the reception hall So Kathy and I were married at Calvary Costa Mesa, pastor Chuck did the ceremony, family and friends and everybody there, the witnesses and everything. And then we drove our cars over to the Meadowlark Country Club on Graham Avenue in Huntington Beach and we rented that place for our reception and we had a band there and we had food and rather than champagne and alcohol coming out of that thing that goes like that and the punch bowl we had milk we had white milk coming right out of there. I'm just kidding, I'm kidding, I'm kidding. We wanted it to be one of the things that most of our family and friends were frustrated with is no alcohol and no smoking and boy that really makes them nervous, And but that was that was the way we wanted to roll and a lot of praise and worship music that they'd never heard before. In those days you didn't have like praise and worship music being mixed with contemporary music. It was one or the other. And so a lot of them in the secular world they never heard these kind of tunes. They'd never gone to churches that sing these in 1981, these praise and worship music. And I had family members say, you know, I've never heard, you know, hymns or music like that before, you know, but it was very powerful. God used the music, that alone at the wedding to minister and be a witness. And that was our whole intention is we wanted to be a and so Jesus spoke parables in Matthew twenty two one through 14 of a father inviting people and they all had mistakes. They all had excuse me. They all had excuses of why they couldn't come to the wedding. And so he goes said go to the highways and the byways and invite whosoever will. Let them come. And that's how I got invited. I was one of the whosoever wills. Nobody special. And he saith unto me, right, blessed are they who are called. So the Old Testament saints and the tribulation saints, the invitations go out and they've been waiting beneath the throne of God saying how long oh Lord you know are you gonna avenge us way back in Revelation six and seven? Well now it's at the end of the tribulation period. Here you go guys it's almost time under the marriage supper of the lamb because at the end of the tribulation period there's a resurrection completes the first resurrection of the old testament saints and the tribulation saints. So you and I are a part of the first resurrection but the dead in Christ shall rise first in first Thessalonians four sixteen through 18, right? Those in Christ that phrase are those in the church age and so that's the bride of Christ. And the second resurrection is of the wicked dead that that we'll see in chapter 20 of the book of Revelation. So they're invited under the fourth stage to the marriage supper of the lamb and then that's when we tie in where we read in Luke 12 where Jesus girds himself and he begins to serve his bride. It's also the place when Jesus was implementing communion when he said that he wouldn't drink of the fruit of the vine till he drinks it afresh with you and I in his coming kingdom. At this marriage supper, he's and wine in that context speaks of joy, the rejoicing and you know the Jewish culture is far more passionate and festive if you will the feast and all. So you could see David there dancing. You could see people dancing at the marriage supper of the lamb. I still can't dance but I could fake it I guess. And I'm going dance with Cathy though. I won't step on her feet. I I promise. So, the marriage supper of the lamb and he say it say it unto me, these are the true sayings of god. True sayings of god And I fell at his feet. Uh-oh no no no no no. Why is this wrong? Why is it wrong for John to fall at this guy's feet? Right, so he's fallen to the feet of an angel right? Not supposed to do that. So we are not to worship angels. The whole world is gonna worship an angel. Right? They're gonna worship Lucifer. He's an angel, fallen angel and we're not to worship angels. And Hebrews one talks about how the Lord, our Lord Jesus was made a little lower than the angels, right? And so he has no plan of redemption for the fallen angels and when the lord wanted to restore you and I back to fellowship with himself, he took on the form of a man, the son of man to identify with us, not with angels, right? And so, but John's so blown away because these angels a lot of time, you know, they can glow, they've got to shine to them, they're reflecting the glory of being around the throne of God. And you know, you see when people have an encounter with an angel they drop down to the ground, they're afraid, just overwhelmed with fear. The soldiers at the tomb when the angel came to roll it away, they're like dead men, they're like Quakers, you know flaking on the ground and all, they're so afraid. So John here, he's just so overwhelmed with what he's seeing. He's just so excited, you know, the marriage supper, oh, the end of the end of the, you know, the tribulation period, the end of, you know, the demonic activity, the Lord Jesus returning and setting up his kingdom and he's just getting so excited that he goes beyond and I fell at his feet to worship him and he said unto me, see thou do it not. Now, Satan would receive that worship. Right. Right? And when you meet somebody that receives worship, you know they're heretical. Nobody should receive that adulation and worship. Now nor and we have to be very careful because I believe in some ways to a certain degree the Lord denied Moses access to the promised land because the people love to worship a man. They love to worship somebody that they can see and hold. That's why it's so powerful in these election cycles where people want to worship a man. They don't have the faith to worship God and trust in Him. Even the Christians they don't have the faith to do that. They idolize men and prop men up and raise men up And that's why I've warned you guys about if you want you can kiss my ring and I'll sign your Bible. But I tried to use a little hyperbole to show how foolish it is for people to exalt a potpourri or any of these guys because it's not good for them and it's not good for you. So keep your eyes on Jesus, King Jesus. Now we respect the office. There's respect in the chain of command and that sort of thing. And and because of love, we can appreciate one another how we minister one to another but it's very very unhealthy when people begin to exalt a Christian celebrity. It's unhealthy for him and it's unhealthy for us. So, and he said unto me, see thou do it not. I am thy fellow servant and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus and so he's got the testimony of Jesus you know and he says worship God for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. Jim always likes to quote this verse it's a great verse. So all of prophecies written by Jesus, the volume of the book is written of him. This whole book, the Book of Revelation is the apocalypse. It's the word unveiling. The unveiling of Jesus Christ. The day of the lord is the unveiling of Jesus Christ. The campaign of Armageddon, the campaign of the tribulation period. It's all culminating in climaxing with the return of Jesus Christ and the setting up of his kingdom. How could any church not teach prophecy? How could any pastor not want to testify of Jesus and and educate the people, disciple the people in prophecy. He fulfilled 300 prophecies in his first coming. Amen. The first time he came. And now prophecy after prophecy is being fulfilled. The volume of the book is written of him. Jesus said, search the scriptures and them you think you have eternal life and they are they which testify of me. Right? The testimony of Jesus. And notice he calls him Jesus, right? We know who he is. And of thy brethren and have the testimony of Jesus. You got the word of God. You got testimony of Jesus. It all testifies of him. And prophecy is a great way for you and I to share our faith. Peter said we are eyewitnesses of him and we handled him. But he said, which in a court of law that's good. A eyewitness testimony, right? How many people saw him resurrected? Over 500 people at one time, you know? Lots of people. But we have the more sure word, even greater testimony of prophecy. Because God who's eternal even the devil can't tell the future. The devil can be a student of the Bible and have a generalization of what's going on but the devil doesn't know exactly when these things are going to happen. He doesn't know. But our Lord does. He's eternal and he's written this two thousand years ago. Two thousand years ago for you and I to be ready during the church age. That the testimony of Jesus worship God for the testimony of Jesus the spirit of prophecy. 27% almost one third of the Bible is prophecy. And that's so exciting. There's no other book in the world like the Bible. AI can't do this. AI can't tell the future. None of that's none of them can tell the future. Right. But the Bible. Yeah. Our God. And our word, his word is God breathed. All scripture is given by inspiration of God. I mean it's God breathed. He breathed it. He spoke it right? And it's profitable for doctrine, for proof, for correction, for instruction and righteousness that the man of God be thoroughly furnished unto every good work. Right? And so we hide God's word in our heart. We're students of God's word tonight. And I'm so thankful that Rob and Vicky for so many years have opened their home to Bible studies. The church started with Bible studies. The church pastor Chuck thinks will finish finish up in homes, home bible studies and to prioritize the word of God. I think it's the only reason Kathy and I are still here in Bremerton is that our ministry has been reduced. Our ministry reduced to one thing now. We used to do a lot of things and a lot of churches have a smorgasbord of things they do and you know that's exciting in a lot of ways it's exciting but there's really only one thing that's needful, Martha. There's really only one thing. You're doing a lot of good things, right? But there's only one thing that's needful and that's to sit at the lord's feet and hear his word, right? Amen. Choose that one thing. I could do all everything else and not do this and it all be wood hay and stubble it all burn up wouldn't be worth anything we love to be entertained I love Christian entertainment I love evangelism I love to encourage but the most important as Paul points out is edification to build the body of Christ up edify so you build one another up with the word of God And so so the worship so now we come to the second coming of Christ. Now we have the second coming from verse 11 forward. And I saw heaven opened and behold a white horse. So the second coming is different than the rapture, right? Yep. And I saw heaven open and behold a white horse and he that sat upon him was called faithful and true and in righteousness he does judge and make war. So before we talked about a wedding now we're talking about a war, right? And at the end of this war is going to be the marriage supper. We're going back to the wedding, right? Got the wedding ceremony up in heaven but in order for the lord to return and to set up his kingdom, he's gotta go to war. He's gotta go to war with the devil, the antichrist, the false prophet, all the tech giants, all the trillionaires, the techno heirs, all their technology, all their drones, all their EMPs and their nukes and hydrogen bombs and all that stuff are absolutely useless. Useless in trying to fight God right? It's just absolutely useless and he puts a severe whooping on these guys. Oh my gosh. And they're all gathered. They're gathered at Armageddon, the Valley Of Megiddo, and they are they know they know that Jesus is coming again and they want to stop him. They're gonna try and stop him from returning and taking possession of a planet that he created and a planet in Revelation five that he had a title deed to that he redeemed with his blood and why did he do that? Because he needed another planet, no? Billions of planets because of you, because you are that treasure in that field that he went and sold all that he had so that he could purchase that field to gain you that treasure, right? Amen. He gave it all. So I saw heaven open and behold the white horse and he that sat upon him called faithful and true. Has he ever been unfaithful in your life? Has he ever told a lie? Faithful and true. And in righteousness he does judge and make war. So he's gonna rule and reign with a rod of righteousness. Everything he does, the angels of heaven and the onlookers and everybody go holy, righteous and true. Oh, your righteous judgment. They're so perfect. It fits the crime, you know. Eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, just and true. In chapter 15 verse three, the same thing, just and true. And I don't know about you, that one of the names for the antichrist is the lawless one. And the age in which we're living is a time of lawlessness. And it's so disheartening to see our children in jeopardy because these guys are praying, they're plotting, they're scheming to do horrific, horrific things to God's people. And it just breaks my heart the stuff that they're legislating to give them access and to subvert and undermine the authority of the family of the mother and the father and the state wanting to take possession of these kids and from the womb to the tomb to groom them to become a part of their unholy kingdom. And the kids are the ones that are going to suffer the most at the hands of these guys and they already are you know. His eyes were like a flame of fire so that takes us back to chapter one John's vision of him. In the eyes of flame of fire what's the old word that speaks of that? Eyes of flame of fire. He sees everything. So he's omniscient. He sees everything. Hebrews four says, everything everything is naked and open before the eyes with whom we have to do. Nothing's hidden from him. Now think about that. Nothing's hidden from him. He sees everything. He knows everything about your heart. Oprah's telling you to trust your heart. And the Lord's saying, no, don't trust your heart. Your heart's desperately wicked above all things, right? Who can know it? I know it, I know your heart, but I'm gonna give you a new heart, right? Because I know your heart's filthy. I'm gonna give you a new one. And the stuff I know about you, I could write books, negative things about you. But you know his thoughts concerning you are numbered more than all the stars and all the grains of sand and that means good thoughts. His good thoughts concerning you are numbered more than all the grains of sand and so God meditates on you, he thinks on you and he has plans for you and in the ages to come plans for you. This is just the beginning. And so his eyes are like a flame of fire and his head and on his head were many crowns, diadem crowns, royalty, royal crowns. This is king of kings and lord of lords. This is this is Jesus and he had a name written that no man knew but he himself and so his his authority, his royalty, King of Kings and Lord of Lords and every knee will bow and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord. At Gadara remember how we talk about the two at Gadara, the demoniacs And when Jesus is coming that direction they were cutting themselves, breaking chains, naked, shrieking, all that. And there were a legion of demons inside of them and when they saw Jesus come, we know who you are Jesus and they know their destiny. They know his identity. He's the just one. They know who he is. These fallen angels, these demons, and they know their destiny. Have you come to torment us before our time? Right? Well, it's time. It's coming. It's time. Time's up. And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood. So he's got this outer royal garment but it's dipped in blood, it's bloody, there's blood everywhere. He's coming back as a warrior, as a conquering king. So he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood and his name is called the Word of God. The Logos, the Word of God. He's the incarnate Word of God, the God man, fully God, fully man, the incarnate word of God. So now we go to not Genesis one, we go to John chapter one, right? In the beginning was the word, the word was with God, the word was God. The same was in the beginning with god. All things were made by him and without him was not anything made that was made. Right? And we beheld his glory as of the only begotten of the father full of grace and truth and the word became flesh. In verse 14 and dwelt among us the incarnate word of god right so exciting the word of god and the armies that were in heaven followed him remember we talked about two distinct groups of armies. In Matthew sixteen twenty seven, the angels of heaven, the holy angels of heaven are coming with them, right? And and then in Jude fourteen and fifteen Jude quotes Enoch as saying that he's coming with 10 thousands and thousands of his saints which is the church, the bride of Christ that's coming with him. And they followed him upon white horses clothed in fine linen white and clean. And so there's your wedding garment, there's what you received up in heaven and now you're coming back to earth with him in your wedding garment getting ready after this war, after the subjugation of the of the devil, the dragon, you know, and the beast, the false prophet, and all these armies of the world, all the kings of the earth, their blood's going to be four and a half feet high according to Revelation 14, right? Four and a half feet high, 1,600 furlongs which is a 200 mile region in this battlefield. Four and a half feet high of blood and that blood's gonna break forth and flow down into the Gulf Of Aqaba. But picturesque of all the blood that they've shed, all the blood over the years that man has shed, Your greatest threat as a human being is your own government. Your own government genocides its own people throughout history. So you think in terms of, all right, we're gonna go kill Iranians? No. Stalin will kill more of his own people, 20,000,000 people than he does against Hitler and them right. Mao will kill 60,000,000 of his own people to bring about his form of government. And so the Antichrist can do the same thing. Your own government, those in the tribulation period is your greatest threat, you know? And I mean, think of how presently people are so insane right now. Your own government is allowing pharmaceutical companies to make vaccines that genocide people. There's reports of boxes of ticks being put in farmers' field and spread all over America right now with a pharmaceutical company developing a vaccine for Lyme's disease, right? Our government admits that they're spraying us with all sorts of chemicals and barium and aluminum and metals every day we're being sprayed. Our government allows Bill Gates to use appeal in the avocados and all the fruits are sprayed with toxicity, allowing him to genetically alter the vegetables and the food you eat to make them toxic, right? Putting fluoride in the water to poison our children when they're young and all. That's your government doing that to you. They're buying up all the farmland. They're stealing all the water. They're forcing the farmers inability to farm this year, the diesel prices, lack of nitrogen, purposely choking the Strait Of Hormuz to manipulate the global economy and energy. And I mean, it's your own government that's doing it. They're gonna start to tax. The state of California is proposing a bill where there's free healthcare for the 40,000,000 people there. And Bill O'Reilly did a talk on this the other day. And in order to do that, they're gonna go bankrupt. So in order to pay for it, they're going to tax anybody that makes $80 a year or more, a new tax, and then that's still gonna go bankrupt. You can't do it even there, taxing the rich. Then they're going to tax assets. They're going to put a tax on everybody's house, the value of the house. So the tokenization's going to bring your house into a digital ledger and whatever that house is worth a certain percentage of it's going to go to fund socialism in the state of California. Your retirement, every asset you have is going to be taxed. It's already been taxed. All you have is what's been left over after the taxes. And that's your own government, the enslavement of man. Claus Schwab said, You'll owe nothing to be happy. The majority of the people will owe nothing. And then the design of the globalist is to remove the middle class, to depopulate the planet so that they can have robotics and their technology to serve them and have 500,000,000 people to be a part of their servanthood. So that's the design. That's your own government implementing laws and allowing these technocrats, these globalists to do that. And so when Jesus comes, he's the greatest emancipator ever. He's the greatest savior. He's the one that takes human beings and sets them free from the tyranny of the devil. His strategy is to steal, to kill, to destroy. And Jesus said, but I've come that you might have life, the life of the spirit, and that more abundantly. So he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood, a whole lot of fighting going on. So we take that, we tied in with Isaiah 60 three:one-three. Somebody wanna read Isaiah 63? Actually read one-six, Isaiah 60 three:one-six. And we want we want to at this point say, where is he coming? Where is he gonna come back? Where does Jesus come back to when he comes? You guys already know the answer. You don't know that answer. You know the answer. Pardon me? Okay, I'm going let you read the Mount Of Olives passage and we're gonna do a little teaching on that, okay? Acts chapter one. And then I want people to read Isaiah 63, basically one through three, Micah two twelve. So who wants to read Isaiah 60 three:one-six? Okay, and then Micah two twelve-thirteen, who wants that one? No? Oh, was Micah 12. Two twelve. Matthew twenty-three 30 seven-thirty nine. Matthew what? Twenty three thirty seven through 39. Okay. Okay. Hosea six one through three. Anybody? No? Okay, it's okay. I'll I'll bet. I got so many verses. We'll just do a few of them. Okay, so who wants Joel three, twelve, and 13? Okay, alright and I think I can explain the verses. Alright so first we want to read someone to read Acts one nineteen is it one nineteen the same Jesus which you've seen go shall return in like manner? Any? Do do you have that? It's like a it's just it's 19. 9. Okay. 10. Yeah. 1910. Go ahead. Yeah. Now when he had spoken these things while they washed, he was taken up. The cloud received him out of their sight. And while they looked steadfastly towards heaven, as he came, went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel, who also said, men of Galilee, why do you stand up gazing into heaven? The same Jesus who was taken up from you into heaven will so come in like manner as you saw him go into heaven. Amen. Now we wanna look at the words there. The way that he went is the same way he's coming back. He's gonna come in like manner. So he went up into the clouds and he's coming back in the same manner with the clouds, right? And in his Shekinah glory is a cloud, right? And so he's coming to second Thessalonians two and as we as we look at the Matthew passage, Matthew 23, 37 through 39 and Matthew 24, no, who's got Matthew 23? I do. Okay. Go ahead. Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you are not willing. Look, your house is left to you desolate. Okay. That's good. Now Matthew 24, he's coming with the clouds. So that's that's his his warning there and that's that's part of the confession that they're gonna make for him to come for them. Let's see it's Matthew 2four 29 there's gonna be a blackout immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened and the moon shall not give its light and the stars shall fall from heaven and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken and then shall appear the sign of the Son of Man in heaven and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn and they shall see the Son of Man coming in the clouds like he left from the Mount Of Olives coming in the clouds in like manner remember coming in the clouds of heaven with power and with great glory and he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet and they shall gather together his elect which are the Jews that are scattered, not the church, church already in heaven. So he's gonna gather his elect, Israel, from the four winds, four corners, one end of heaven to the other. And then when we go to Isaiah 63, what's happened what's happened is the fight breaks out in Babylon with Revelation seventeen and eighteen and Babylon's destroyed the Antichrist and his armies defeat the Jews that are in Jerusalem according to Zechariah 12 and the Jews that are there some remain but the remnant flees and they flee to Basra which is present day Southern Jordan which is ancient Petra, you've heard of Petra, it's also called Mount Seir is another name or Edom and Edom is the general area but the specific city is Petra or Basra And so notice what Jesus is doing in Isaiah 63 in Basra when he returns, the nation cries out blessed he comes in the name of the Lord and that's their confession of sin and in their confession of sin the Lord returns to rescue them because in Matthew 24 it says, except those days be short no flesh would be saved but for the elect's sake Jesus returns to preserve that remnant. So the Antichrist and his armies, they've all come into the Valley Of Megiddo and they're moving south, they're moving toward Basra and you have the children of Israel there, many of whom have been there for, some of whom been there quite a while, the Lord's been nurturing them and caring for them, providing food for them, and made it off limits to the Antichrist during the tribulation period interestingly, because the Lord prepared you know a remnant to be saved. So in Isaiah 63 our country sings a song, He'll be tramping out the vintage where the grapes are at their store, right? You guys know that song? And glory glory hallelujah so our revolutionary heroes 1776 they sing that song so who is this it comes from Edom so the Lord Jesus returns to Edom is where he returns not the Mount Of Olives. He's gonna make it to the Mount Of Olives which is gonna be his victory ascent into the city but first he's coming to Basra to wipe out the Antichrist, the beast, the false prophets, and all those armies that are there wanting to destroy that remnant that's fled Jerusalem. So who is this that comes from Edom with dyed garments from Basra this that is glorious in his apparel, travailing in his greatness and his strength. I speak in righteousness, mighty to save his apparel and his garment like him and who treaded who treads in the wine fat. So remember though Revelation 14 says the blood is as high as the horse's bridle. So the imagery here is of trampling the grapes. He's crushing the grapes. I have trodden the winepress alone. Remember second Thessalonians two he comes back and destroys the Antichrist with the brightness of his coming and the sword of his mouth he's coming with two armies the armies of the saints and the armies of the of the angels but they're not there to fight they're there to observe and of the people there was none with me for I will tread them in mine anger and trample them in my fury and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garment and I will stain all my raiment for the day of vengeance. So the day of vengeance is the day of Lord, the tribulation period. And the day of vengeance is mine in mine heart and the year of my redeemed has come. The second coming of the Lord. He's coming for the nation of Israel and He's coming with those who've been redeemed the church age. And I looked and there was none to help. And I wondered that there was none to uphold. Therefore with mine own arm brought I salvation unto me and my fury it upheld me. And I will tread down the people in my anger and make them drunk in my fury and I'll bring down their strength to the earth and then Micah two twelve Somebody else can read Psalm two verses one through six. Go ahead. Go ahead. Micah two twelve. Hope for restoration. Someday, oh Israel, I will gather you. I will gather the remnant who are left. I will bring you together again like sheep in a hen, like a flock in pasture. Yes. Your land will again be filled with noisy crowds. That's it. Sheep of Basra? Did he say Basra there, or is that chapter four? Okay, he calls them the sheep of Basra that he's coming for and Micah four eleven through five one is part of it. Okay, so he's we see the picture here in in 19 is clothed the vesture dipped in blood and his name is called the word of God and his armies that were in heaven followed him upon white horses clothed in fine linen clean and white and out of this mouth goeth a sharp sword so again that ties in with second Thessalonians two the sword of his mouth brightness of his coming and this sword in the in the Greek is a Greek word which means it's a large, a very large two handed executioner sword. He's me cutting some heads off. He's me taking some people down, right? And that with he should smite the nations and he shall rule them with a rod of iron. So he allows the Gentile nations to repopulate during the millennium. Those that come into the millennium will get into this next week. They start out by all being believers. The sheep and goat judgment of Matthew 25 but during the course of a thousand years, there's generations that come out later that do not believe and at the end of the thousand years the devil's loosed to tempt those and they again want to fight you know and rebel against God and he consumes them with fire remember? Okay but all of the nation of Israel that goes into the millennium they're all saved and Jesus is king of kings and lord of lords and David rules as prince and you and I rule and reign with him as kings and priests during the millennium. Okay, so the nations and he shall rule them with a rod of iron. So, he's because he's omniscient, because he's omnipresent, because he's all powerful, he don't need any computers. In the kingdom age, he's gonna reverse the curse, no more curse like in the Garden of Eden. So Isaiah 11 describes the kingdom age where you're not gonna have like in Southern California right now, there's a bunch of rattlesnakes biting people. And they've got great white sharks that are stopping the surf contest because they're aggressive and no more crocodiles, you know, no more no more aggressiveness of all these these beasts, you know, and everything's gonna be brought to a place where children are safe near a wolf and near these carnivorous predators, if you will. But there's people still and the people that are populating, they can still sin. There's gonna be sin in the millennium, but it's gonna be stopped quick. He's going to rule and reign with a rod of iron and he knows ahead of time what people are going to do and he's going to stop them before they even get started, right? Isn't that amazing? And that's the dream of the devil right now. They're trying to figure out who's gonna go rob a bank next. And they're trying to study people and listen to people and arrest you before you even commit the bank robbery because the things maybe you said, you know, and that's the kind of power they want but they're not going to get that kind of power because that's only power that God has. So they but God's gonna be able he's ruling with a rod of iron and he treads the wine press. So we saw that in Isaiah 63. He treads the wine press of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. And so and he has on his vesture and on his thigh a name written King of Kings and Lord of Lords. Amen. And every knee will bow according to Philippians two verse 10. Every knee will bow and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is lord. In Philippians two describes the kenosis, the emptying themselves of the free exercise of his deity and he humbled himself and took on the form of a man and he humbled himself unto death even further even the death of the cross which is very humiliating form of capital punishment, right? And But you humble yourself in the side, he'll lift you and then it speaks of his exaltation. His exaltation is coming now where every knee is going to bow and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord. Presently people use his name as a curse word but not in the future and don't know you have you ever heard anybody say Buddha? No you don't. It's always Jesus name right? It's always, it's, that's, that's the one the devil wants to ruin. And so, so yeah, does it says verse 17, I saw an angel standing in the sun and he cried with a loud voice saying to all the fowls, birds, all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, come and gather yourselves together under the supper of the great God. This is not the wedding supper. So who wants to read Psalm two one through six now? Okay. Why do the nations conspire and the people plot in vain? The kings of the earth rise up and the rulers band together against the lord and against his anointed saying, let us break their chains and throw off their shackles. Amen. And so they're gonna try and rebel against them and the Lord's gonna laugh from heaven. He holds them in derision. It's funny to him. Comical that man, little tiny finite man that he created from the dust of the ground that man would think that he could even even come up with something like that. But see the devil's a tool of God. The devil his rebellion against God that we see in in Isaiah 14 and Isaiah 28. His rebellion against God his I will statements to be as God and all but he's a liar and he wants to try and get Jared Kushner and Elon Musk and all these guys to think that they can be gods and that they're gonna never die and the world's gonna be given over to a strong delusion. God's gonna give the world over where they're gonna believe that lie, you know, and it's a strong delusion but how foolish they look, how foolish. It's a point that an all man wants to die and then the judgment. And so this supper the Lord's bringing all the carnivorous birds to feast upon the bodies strewn in the Valley Of Armageddon, the Valley Of Jehoshaphat. So Armageddon is is Megghetto, Valley Megghetto of a mountain area there, Armageddon in the Greek, Hebrew, and but the Valley Of Jezreel is another valley that's closer to the city of Jerusalem, closer to the Mount Of Olives and it's the Valley Of Decision. And so let's see here. All right, so that they may eat the flesh of the kings, the flesh of the captains, the flesh of the mighty men, and the flesh of the horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men both free and enslaved, Both small and great. So the Bill Gateses, all of them, all these people, there'd be no place to hide, no preferential treatment for anybody. They're all just men and they can't make a deal with the devil and save their soul, they're done, they sold their soul. And I saw the beast and the kings of the earth, so here you have the Antichrist, the beast and the kings of the earth and their armies gathered together to make war against him that sits on the horse and against his army. So here we would say Psalm two:one-six we'd say these people are delusional, the new world order is delusional, these people are psychotic, too much pharmaceuticals, too much something, but they are gathered in the field of battle. And again, Revelation 14 describes the field of battle as 1,600 furlongs or 200 miles in this area and four and a half feet deep the blood as high as the horse's bridle Revelation fourteen nineteen and twenty. The vultures are coming there and the birds to feast upon the bodies. And so and the beast was taken with him the false prophet. So we got to tie in second Thessalonians two:eight-nine that the Lord destroyed the Antichrist with the brightness of his coming the sword of his mouth and then now we want to jump over to Isaiah chapter 14 and and look at Isaiah 14. Now in Isaiah 14, the bodies of the Antichrist Let's see here. This is Isaiah 14 starting with verse 16. He says, How art thou fallen from heaven O Lucifer, verse 12, Son of the morning, how art thou cast down to the ground that did weaken the nations? For thou hast said in thy heart, I will ascend into heaven. I'll exalt my throne above the stars of God. The stars, the other angels. I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation on the sides of the north. I will his I will statements. I will ascend above the heights of the clouds. I will be like the most high. Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell to the sides of the pit. They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee and consider thee saying, is this the man who made the earth to tremble who did shake the kingdoms? So this is the Antichrist his body's gonna drop there at Basra, his body's gonna drop dead right there with the sword of the Lord's mouth and who made the world like a wilderness and destroyed its cities and opened not its prisoners. And let's see here, it describes, let me find it. 14 verse three, and it shall come to pass in that day that the Lord shall give thee rest for thy sorrow and from thy fear and thy hard bondage in which thou may disturb. Thou shall take up this proverb against the king of Babylon and say, how has the oppressor ceased, the golden city ceased? City's dead, Babylon's dead. The Lord has broken the staff of the wicked and the scepter of the rulers, the Antichrist. He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, he who ruled the nations in anger and persecuted none hindered the whole earth is at rest and is quiet they break forth into singing yea the fir trees rejoice thee in the cedars of Lebanon saying since thou art laid down so as it come upon us and so the destruction of the of the Antichrist his body and the false prophet lying on the ground and then their soul, those in hell wondering what is it about them, you know, are these the ones that cause the whole world to tremble, you know? And so the beast was taken with him, the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, which was deceived them and received the mark of the beast and then that worshiped the image, they both were cast alive in the lake of burning with fire and brimstone. So the Antichrist and the false prophet are immediately put in the lake of fire Gehenna. The devil is taken and he's put into the abyss where he's gonna be incarcerated for a thousand years, right? The wicked dead are still in hell or Sheol, they're not in Gehenna yet. They're gonna await the great white throne judgment of chapter 20 where the lord causes all the wicked dead to be raised from the dead and to stand before god then after that sentencing he'll sentence them to the place where the antichrist and the false prophet are already there and also the wicked angels, all the other wicked angels and everyone are already there. And he says, And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse which were proceeded out of his mouth and all the fowls were filled with their flesh. And so the birds are there, the birds are consuming them and now part of the picture also is that the Lord causes Zechariah fourteen:three and 4a let's turn to Zechariah 14 Zechariah 14. So Zechariah fourteen:three and four. Well, I'll start with one. Behold the day of the Lord cometh and the spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee for I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle and the city shall be taken. So the city of Jerusalem goes down, Babylon's down and then there's a remnant of those that flee to Basra and the battle and the city shall be taken and the house rifled and the women ravished, the women being raped and all and half of the city shall go forth into captivity and the residue of the people shall be cut off from the city. Then shall the Lord go forth and fight against those nations as when he fought in the day of battle. So Matthew 24 verse 30 and and at Basra and and shall the Lord go forth and fight against those nations as when he fought the day. So from Basra all the way back to the Mount Of Olives the Lord is trampling the vintage. He's he's stomping them and then it says and his feet shall stand in that day upon the Mount Of Olives so now he's going to make his victory ascent through the Valley Of Jezreel and go into the city of Jerusalem this is called his triumphal entry So he returned to Basra, saved the remnant except those days be short no flesh be saved but for the elect's sake the Lord Jesus intervenes and now Jerusalem East and the Mount Of Olives shall cleave in the midst toward the East and toward the West and there shall be a very great valley and half of the mountain shall remove toward the North and the other half toward the South and you shall flee to the valley of the mountains for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Aziel. Yeah, you shall flee as you fled from before the earthquake. So, the earthquake is coming too from Matthew 24 and the blackout. This was another earthquake that they had in their history of Uzziah and my God shall come and all the saints with thee and it shall come to pass in that day that the light shall not be clear nor dark, so kind of a twilight, but it shall be one day which shall be known to the Lord not the day nor the night but it shall come to pass that every time it shall be light. And so then it goes on to talk about how living waters is gonna come out from the temple area and flow down into the Dead Sea. That's part of what's gonna happen in the millennium. But this Valley Of Decision is in Joel three fourteen through 17 when that earthquake hits there there's gonna be huge cleft at the Mount Of Olives opening up and that's part of the way that part of those that are in Jerusalem are gonna be able to flee from the Antichrist and it's called the Valley Of Decision, the Valley Of Decision and Billy Graham and others use it as a means of many in the Valley Of Decision to use it as a means of, you know, evangelization. But so it cuts in half and then the Lord makes his victory ascent up up the Mount Of Olives into the city and that's his triumphal entry and then there's according to Daniel 12 there's gonna be a seventy five day interval they're going to clean up the temple because the abomination of desolations in the temple and then they're going to the Lord's going to put like a restoration upon the earth because of the events of the tribulation period has decimated the earth and blessed is he that comes to the thirteen hundred and thirty fifth day so after the twelve sixtieth day he is returns on the December from the abomination of desolation spoken about Daniel the prophet the coming of the lord is twelve sixty days from the midpoint and so his return's exact and then blessed he comes at thirteen thirty fifth day so there's a seventy five day interval where he's also Matthew 25 going to judge the nations and he's going to determine who's going to go to hell and who's gonna enter in to the millennium and we'll talk about that some more tomorrow. So I hope that's clear for you. Matthew twenty four twenty nine speaks of the blackout that's gonna take place and and the huge earthquake that splits the Mount Of Olives. And then as we read in Zechariah, it's splitting east to west and then Joel let's find Joel. We'll we'll firm that up with Joel. Joel three. Here we are. Joel three fourteen through 17. Multitudes, multitudes in the Valley Of Decision for the day of the Lord is near the Valley Of decision. The sun and the moon shall be darkened and the stars shall withdraw their shining. Remember Matthew 24 it said that? There'd be an earthquake and a blackout, the sun not shining. The Lord also shall roar out of Zion, the lion of the tribe of Judah, and utter the voice from Jerusalem and the heavens and the earth shall shake, but the Lord will be the hope of his people and the strength for the children of Israel. So shall you know that I am the Lord your God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain, then shall Jerusalem be holy and there shall be no strangers. So, transitioning into the millennium but that that whole valley, brand new valley broken up, cleft in the rock there, the water flowing out if you continue to read in Zechariah from there and water watering down into the Dead Sea making it come to life and and that's gonna be part of the healing of the nations part of the restoration that's taken place and so there we go any questions or comments or anything else? Come Lord Come Lord Jesus come. Maranatha. Maranatha. Julie? I have a question who is Babylon in Revelations? Who is Babylon? In Revelations. In Revelation? Babylon originates in in Genesis ten and eleven. So, it's an ancient city that Nimrod built with Semiramis an unholy trinity or counterfeit immaculate conception. They had a son named Tammuz and it was the originator, the progenitor of a false religious system that Nibrod developed and that religious system trying to reach God that no longer are we going to be afraid of the flood anymore. We're going to be so high up. If god ever judges, we're none of us are going to, you know, drown anymore and and the city of commerce and a and a one world city. The lord confounded the languages, Babel, and made nation states sovereign nation states and spread them out and the attempt of the antichrist and and the devil is restore Babylon which is the center of idolatry that religious system of that originated in Babylon continues into the tribulation period continues even today throughout the world much of Catholicism has a lot of pictures of it and all the worship and Mary the Queen of Heaven things like that and that's directly taken from from the Babylonian religious system so you got Aphrodite and Isis and a lot of different names for the false deity of the Babylonian religious system. So basically Revelation chapter 17 Babylon is a city in present day Iraq. It's it's being rebuilt but it's also a system. It's a system of religion and then chapter 18 is the Antichrist capital city for its political and economic center. Chapter 17 for three and a half years is the religious system of the tribulation period. The remaining three and a half years the beast is going to wipe out the woman, that false religious system halfway through, and then at the midpoint the devil's the antichrist is going to go into the temple declare himself to be God, demand to be worshipped as God. So then the the second half of the tribulation period's full blown worshiping of Satan of of the dragon and the false counterfeit or unholy trinity, the antichrist and the false prophet. So Babylon is a literal city we believe it's literally going to be rebuilt but it's also a religious system that originated in Genesis chapter 11 and is going to be used as part of the apostate Christianity during the tribulation period. Hope that helps. Yeah. Thank you. Alright. With all those birds coming on and saying, you know, the the ones that are going to eat there will probably be a sign saying, no hunting. No hunting. Maybe. Maybe. The vultures, the carnivorous birds that feed upon flesh, right? You're right, right. No hunting. Yeah, I mean, what a humiliating way for the kings of the earth to meet their end. You know, first of all, the Antichrist, the false prophet, they just dropped dead and they don't even get a burial and then they're taken their souls go into in the Gehenna and the people are looking at them and and then the rest of the wicked dead they're the blood's as high as horses bridle and the Lord brings the carnivorous birds to come in and feast upon them you know and typically a soldier should have a honorable burial right but these guys are all being eaten by Don't you wish you were a bird? No. Alright. Alright. Alright. Well, let's pray. Father, we come before you and lord, we just scratch the surface but thank you for stimulating us, for helping us to dig into the old testament to understand what's happening in the book of Revelation Lord and you've through the prophets you let them know and Lord we have a greater picture by having the book of Revelation and as we go back to Daniel and as we go back to Zechariah and Joel and Micah and Isaiah Lord we're thankful that we can connect the dots to what John is seeing and how it chronologically plays out and Lord as we look to the future knowing that the church is going to be in heaven there with you very very soon for that marriage ceremony and the the Bema Seat judgment and the gifts and all that and and this world is going to be plunged into a time that you said lord the time of the world has never seen nor will ever see again with how wicked it'll be how how tough it'll be how evil the evil that's going to take place during that time and Lord we thank you that we're not subject under your wrath we're thankful Lord that we have a blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and Savior on the horizon and Lord we thank you that you're our God and that you've already saved us you redeemed us you've sealed us and we're looking Lord for the fetching. We're looking up our watching and waiting for you to come for your bride Lord for us the church. And meanwhile Lord we occupy till you come and Lord we pray the anoint us and help us to share the good news of your coming kingdom with a world that's perishing and Lord again we lift up Steve Wilcox Lord with his appointment tomorrow for his throat we pray for your healing touch upon his body we pray that you'd heal our beloved Cora thank you that she's getting the antibiotics for her pneumonia pray for James that you'd clear his ears so he could fly tomorrow morning and just just the joy and the blessing a bittersweet loss of Sally but the sweetness of being reunited with his mom and his family and all that in Florida So bless him Lord and be with Linda as she recovers and Lord just continue to help Karen Waller with her sickness be with Shelley Dinsmore with her sciatic problem. Give her peace Lord. Give her joy blessing. Help her to be able to sleep and and get the right kind of kind of rest that she needs and Lord if there's any other unspoken requests for people we've forgotten about Lord you know we just lift each and everyone up to you and ask that you move and work by the power of your holy spirit in Jesus name amen

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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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