Latest / Faith by annm2705 / 716. Bible Study: Isaiah 24 (What will happen to the ENTIRE world Prophecy!)

Transcript

716. Bible Study: Isaiah 24 (What will happen to the ENTIRE world Prophecy!) · Faith by annm2705

• 0:00
  Chapter 24 from the book of Isaiah.
• 0:03
  This is 1 chapter that you do not want to miss and you will
• 0:07
  want to share this with everyone you care about because it
• 0:13
  basically will summarize the entire end times and some things
• 0:19
  are probably contrary to what you may have heard or been
• 0:24
  taught, but I have scripture that will back up everything
• 0:28
  that I speak about. So to begin, dear Lord God,
• 0:34
  please be with us as we read through this chapter.
• 0:38
  Please let the Holy Spirit give us wisdom, insight, Let the Holy
• 0:43
  Spirit speak through me. Don't let me say anything that
• 0:48
  you don't want to be said. Fully surrender to you Lord.
• 0:53
  I want everything that comes out of my mouth to be acceptable to
• 0:58
  you and I ask for this in Jesus name.
• 1:03
  So let's start here. The Lord's devastation of the
• 1:06
  earth. This is why it's important for
• 1:08
  everyone. In the chapters we've been
• 1:10
  talking about certain areas or nations or countries and now we
• 1:16
  are talking about the entire earth.
• 1:18
  So no matter who you are, this applies to you.
• 1:23
  So here is what Isaiah said in chapter 24.
• 1:26
  See, the Lord is going to lay waste the earth and devastate
• 1:31
  it. He will ruin its face and
• 1:34
  scatter its inhabitants. It will be the same for priest
• 1:40
  As for people, for the master As for his servant, for the
• 1:45
  mistress As for her servant, for the seller As for the buyer, for
• 1:51
  the borrower As for the lender, for the debtor As for the
• 1:55
  creditor. The earth will be completely
• 1:58
  laid waste and totally plundered.
• 2:02
  So God is not, he doesn't have any favoritism here.
• 2:08
  Did you notice there was priests and people?
• 2:10
  It doesn't matter titles about people.
• 2:12
  What matters is the relationship with God and whether or not He
• 2:17
  truly is our Lord. Many people will say they
• 2:21
  believe. Many people will say they
• 2:24
  believe in Jesus, but is Jesus the Lord of their life?
• 2:28
  Is Jesus King of their life? Do they obey Jesus?
• 2:32
  Those are the things that we really need to ask ourselves and
• 2:37
  make sure that we are prepared for this day comes.
• 2:40
  So another thing to point out is this devastation is going to be
• 2:44
  the entire earth. So all these people who are
• 2:47
  building bunkers to withstand future times of turmoil, that's
• 2:55
  not going to help them because the entire earth is going to be
• 2:59
  destroyed. This is God's word.
• 3:02
  What God says will happen. This was given to Isaiah in like
• 3:07
  the seven hundreds BC. So we all have to look at
• 3:12
  ourselves and what are we working for today?
• 3:15
  What are we spending our time on?
• 3:17
  What is our are we building wealth, power and all these
• 3:22
  things for ourselves, for our families?
• 3:24
  Is that all we're focusing on? Or are we focusing on God first?
• 3:29
  And what can we do with the resources that God has given us?
• 3:33
  And what we should be doing with the resources that God has given
• 3:37
  us is informing other people of God's Kingdom, because that is
• 3:43
  eternal. That's an eternal consequence.
• 3:45
  Everything that we build here on earth, you know, whatever, it's
• 3:50
  just like when Jesus was on the mount and he was telling his
• 3:53
  disciples that all of this stuff is going to be turned to runes
• 3:57
  after his death, how Jerusalem was destroyed.
• 4:00
  The same is going to happen for everything that we've built here
• 4:04
  on earth. It is going to be completely
• 4:06
  destroyed eventually. And so if we are spending all of
• 4:12
  our time just to make something, I mean, how defeated will we
• 4:17
  feel when something that we worked our entire life for is
• 4:21
  completely obliterated? I mean, that's what this is
• 4:25
  talking about. And yet it is still some future
• 4:28
  time to come. But the one thing that you know,
• 4:31
  like the only thing that remains is our soul, our spirit, which
• 4:38
  we will also be given new bodies too when Jesus returns.
• 4:42
  But those are the things. Our soul is what's important.
• 4:46
  The spirit that we have, the spirit that is in US is what is
• 4:50
  important. If we don't have the Holy
• 4:52
  Spirit, if we are not born again, if we have not become a
• 4:56
  new creation, then we are not born again.
• 5:00
  If we have not become a new person, if we have not put away
• 5:03
  the sins of the past and our, you know, it's not like we
• 5:08
  never, ever, ever sin again because we will mess up because
• 5:12
  we are not perfect. But there's a difference between
• 5:16
  messing up and continually doing something that you know God does
• 5:21
  not approve. Because if you're doing
• 5:24
  something that you know, God does not approve of, you are in
• 5:28
  rebellion. And the only thing that's
• 5:30
  remains for somebody who is in rebellion is judgement.
• 5:35
  And so if Jesus returns and you're still in rebellion,
• 5:39
  you're the way that I read the Bible, you are going to be going
• 5:44
  through the wrath of God. Now, you may be able to come out
• 5:49
  of it afterwards, but you are going to go through it because
• 5:55
  you have not surrendered. You need to be tested and
• 5:58
  refined if you have not surrendered it now to God and if
• 6:03
  you are not living in obedience to God.
• 6:05
  God's not playing around with us.
• 6:07
  He came, you know, thousands of years ago to let everybody know
• 6:12
  he came to save people. But the next time he comes, it's
• 6:18
  for the separation of good and evil.
• 6:21
  And then it'll be the entrance into the Kingdom of God.
• 6:26
  So it's not like a, a second chance opportunity.
• 6:29
  When it comes again, our fate will be, you know, we, we decide
• 6:34
  our fate, but God gives us all the rules.
• 6:37
  God gives us all the information and it's up to us what choices
• 6:41
  we make. So we are responsible for our
• 6:44
  own choices. In this world today, a lot of
• 6:46
  people like to put the blame off of somebody else or well, it's
• 6:51
  because of, you know, this family that I grew up in, or
• 6:54
  it's because I had hard times or because of blah, blah, blah.
• 6:58
  Whatever it is. There's no excuses because no
• 7:02
  matter where you are in life, you can turn to God.
• 7:05
  God is omnipresent. He is everywhere on this earth.
• 7:10
  I mean, He is. He sees everything on this earth
• 7:13
  and we can communicate with Him through Jesus because Jesus made
• 7:18
  that possible. So we have no excuses.
• 7:21
  We are 100% responsible. We have no one else to blame for
• 7:27
  our circumstances. We are 100% responsible and we
• 7:31
  can turn anything around with the help of God.
• 7:33
  God is strong where we are not. So it's just a matter of turning
• 7:37
  to Him and asking for the Holy Spirit to change our lives
• 7:42
  because God says that He will do that.
• 7:45
  He wants us to do that, wants us to trust in Him, just like he
• 7:49
  mentioned to the Israelites. He stated to the Israelites over
• 7:52
  and over and over again, You haven't trusted in me and that's
• 7:56
  why this comes upon you. The same thing holds true.
• 8:00
  You can see in these first few verses, God is not, He doesn't
• 8:04
  have favoritism. The Prince and the people, you
• 8:07
  know, the leaders and the, you know, it doesn't matter.
• 8:09
  The master and his servant, everybody, the seller and the
• 8:12
  buyer, the borrower, the lender, the debtor and the creditor, I
• 8:15
  mean, everybody will be treated the exact same way.
• 8:19
  So he will ruin its face and scatter its inhabitants.
• 8:22
  The earth will be completely laid waste and totally
• 8:26
  plundered. Now He gives us a reason why.
• 8:29
  So that's what's coming up next. The Lord has spoken this word.
• 8:34
  The earth dries up and Withers. The world languishes and
• 8:39
  Withers. The heavens languish with the
• 8:41
  earth. The earth is defiled by its
• 8:44
  people. So you ask why?
• 8:46
  How is the earth defiled by the people?
• 8:48
  Well, He tells us they have disobeyed the laws, violated the
• 8:53
  statutes, and broken the everlasting covenant.
• 8:58
  Well, it's probably pretty, you know, important to know what
• 9:04
  this is. What are the laws?
• 9:06
  So if we go to Exodus 20, we can have a reminder of what the laws
• 9:12
  were. Or maybe it's not a reminder.
• 9:13
  Maybe this is the first time you've ever heard it, but God
• 9:16
  gave the 10 commandments to Moses and these were directly
• 9:21
  from God. These were the laws that God
• 9:24
  gave and I'm going to read them. It says the 10 commandments.
• 9:29
  This is in found in Exodus chapter 20.
• 9:33
  And God spoke all these words. I am the Lord your God brought
• 9:40
  you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.
• 9:45
  You shall have no other gods before me.
• 9:49
  That's the first thing that God said.
• 9:52
  You shall have no other gods before me.
• 9:55
  In fact, one time someone asked Jesus, you know, what are the
• 9:58
  greatest commandments? And he said the greatest ones
• 10:01
  are to love God and love your neighbor.
• 10:03
  So if you're loving God, that means you don't have any other
• 10:06
  ones that are before you. There's nobody that's a party
• 10:09
  above God. You know you have no other gods.
• 10:13
  Well, when we talk about other gods, it could be other
• 10:16
  entities, it could be other spiritual things, It could also
• 10:20
  be other things in our life as priorities.
• 10:22
  They could be a human being that we could have placed on a higher
• 10:26
  level than we do God. That's idolatry.
• 10:29
  We could have our money be an idol to us if we place that as
• 10:35
  more important to serving God. We can.
• 10:40
  Gosh, there's just so many things.
• 10:41
  I mean, there's things that your attention goes to, things that
• 10:45
  you don't want to do without that are to you more important
• 10:51
  than God. Anything that you use as an
• 10:54
  excuse instead of, you know, serving God or I don't know, I
• 11:00
  guess serving God in an in any way or listening to God or
• 11:04
  obeying God. Anything that keeps you from
• 11:07
  obeying God or following his commands.
• 11:11
  That is something that is obviously a higher level than
• 11:15
  what God is. It's, it's more important that
• 11:18
  you do that one thing or that one thing that is more important
• 11:21
  than you spending time with God. If you feel convicted by that,
• 11:27
  that's good because you have an opportunity to change that.
• 11:32
  I'm not saying this to condemn anyone because while we're
• 11:36
  living, no matter what we've done in our past, except for
• 11:40
  blasphemy of the Holy Spirit, we can be forgiven and we can have
• 11:43
  a new life. So the first commandment was,
• 11:46
  you shall have no other gods before me.
• 11:48
  Then you shall not make for yourself an image in the form of
• 11:53
  anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the
• 11:57
  waters below. So in the past people worshipped
• 12:01
  images and I just find that this really seems like I would even
• 12:08
  include statues like this. So you shall not make for
• 12:12
  yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on
• 12:15
  the earth below or in the waters below.
• 12:17
  I wouldn't have wanted wanted to be the first person who made a
• 12:20
  statue because I don't know whether it's commemorating
• 12:24
  something, but it's certainly elevating something.
• 12:28
  Would you, would it be normal if you made a statue of yourself
• 12:33
  and put it, you know, out somewhere on display?
• 12:36
  Isn't that kind of weird when you think of it that way?
• 12:39
  So why would you take a statue of a human being or anything
• 12:43
  else or even whatever, it doesn't matter, and put it out
• 12:48
  somewhere? Isn't that kind of like
• 12:49
  worshipping it? So I would, I don't know who was
• 12:54
  the first person, but I would be very concerned about my future
• 13:01
  if I was that person or if I make these statues and
• 13:04
  everything. Because it seems clear to me
• 13:07
  that God says don't do this. And it says you shall not bow
• 13:11
  down to them or worship them. For I the Lord your God, am a
• 13:16
  jealous God, your children for the sins of the Prince to the
• 13:19
  third and 4th generation of those who hate me.
• 13:25
  So if somebody hates them and passes that on to their
• 13:28
  children, then they get punished.
• 13:32
  This is what it says, but showing love to 1000 generations
• 13:38
  of those who love me and keep my commands.
• 13:43
  If you love God, you can't separate keeping His commands.
• 13:47
  So when those two greatest commandments, love God and love
• 13:51
  others love God is keeping His commands.
• 13:54
  In fact, Jesus even says that too.
• 13:57
  And I don't think I pulled that one up, but I am going to do
• 14:00
  that right now because that's important because I think a lot
• 14:04
  of people believe that you don't have to obey the commandments.
• 14:09
  They it's again, it's like, I guess it's like a doctrine of
• 14:14
  demons that comes out that people just, they twist God's
• 14:20
  word and then lead people away. In fact, it is talked about.
• 14:27
  It says don't let anyone deceive you in any.
• 14:30
  Well, no, that's not it. That's not the one I was looking
• 14:33
  for. OK, so this is I was going to
• 14:36
  cover this later, but I urge you, brothers and sisters, to
• 14:40
  watch out for those who cause divisions and put obstacles in
• 14:43
  your way that are contrary to the teaching that you have
• 14:46
  learned. This is Paul talking.
• 14:48
  For such people are not serving our Lord Christ, but their own
• 14:52
  appetites. By smooth talk and flattery,
• 14:56
  they deceive the minds of naive people.
• 15:01
  So if you don't, if you're not in the Word, then you are naive
• 15:05
  because you don't know what the Word says, you don't know what
• 15:09
  Scripture says. And if you are just listening to
• 15:12
  some person who's on a pulpit, they may not have an accurate
• 15:17
  interpretation of the Word. They may be telling you lies
• 15:21
  from there. Wouldn't that be the greatest
• 15:23
  way that the enemy, God's enemy, could deceive people by putting
• 15:28
  someone in a high position of power in a religious role where
• 15:32
  people look up to him and listen to him, But then he's not even
• 15:36
  saying what's in the Bible. So know the Bible, get into the
• 15:41
  word of God, know it for yourself, because the enemy can
• 15:45
  use leaders of churches, leaders of synagogues, leaders of any
• 15:50
  religion to turn people from God.
• 15:53
  I mean, that's a excellent strategy.
• 15:56
  If you wanted to bring somebody down, wouldn't it be best to
• 15:59
  bring it down by the leader of whatever that is?
• 16:02
  So, and don't elevate a leader in an idolatrous position.
• 16:05
  A leader is just another human being who's been either called
• 16:09
  by God or called by the enemy to do a job, and that's all.
• 16:13
  They are just another human being.
• 16:15
  There is nothing like perfect about them.
• 16:18
  They are sinners just like the rest of us and they may or may
• 16:23
  not be submitted and surrendered to God.
• 16:25
  You don't know unless you know the Bible and you can compare
• 16:29
  their fruit to the fruit of the Spirit.
• 16:31
  If the Holy Spirit is working in somebody, then you will see the
• 16:35
  things that are listed in Galatians chapter 5.
• 16:37
  I will not read through that because I have a lot to cover
• 16:40
  tonight. OK so but God said he'll show
• 16:44
  love to thousands of generations.
• 16:46
  Do not misuse the name of the Lord your God for the Lord will
• 16:49
  not hold anyone guilt guiltless who misuses his name.
• 16:54
  Yes, that refers to saying Jesus of when you're not talking
• 17:01
  addressing Jesus or all the people who will say God and then
• 17:05
  followed by another, you know, like damn or something like
• 17:09
  that, those things. I mean, we cannot talk about the
• 17:13
  most holy like that. And look at how that has
• 17:17
  infiltrated our culture. And and yet, you know, we don't
• 17:22
  because we're so used to hearing it that we don't think anything
• 17:27
  of it. But this is one of the 10
• 17:29
  commandments that God says don't misuse the name of your God, for
• 17:34
  the Lord will not hold anyone guiltless who misuses his name.
• 17:40
  Then it says, remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy.
• 17:45
  So what he's saying is keeping it holy.
• 17:49
  Then you probably want to know like what does holy mean?
• 17:52
  So holy is I'm going to the blueletterbible.org and it's
• 17:59
  Kaddash is what it looks like Kadash.
• 18:02
  And it says that to consecrate, sanctify, prepare, dedicate, be
• 18:09
  hallowed, be holy, be sanctified, to separate, to be
• 18:13
  set apart, to be consecrated, to show oneself sacred or majestic,
• 18:19
  to set apart. Yeah, there's a lot of things to
• 18:24
  set oneself apart or separate. So to be holy, to set that aside
• 18:30
  is that we want to keep the day of the Lord holy.
• 18:34
  And that's another thing that someone decided to do that God
• 18:38
  did not suggest. But the Sabbath day, listen to
• 18:42
  when the Sabbath day is. And it isn't a requirement
• 18:47
  necessarily to go to church. It's to remember God, to keep it
• 18:52
  holy, to observe his ways to, I don't know, to give glory to
• 18:57
  God, to honor God. But it says 6 days you shall
• 19:01
  labor and do all your work. So for us that would be Sunday,
• 19:06
  Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.
• 19:09
  That's six days. OK, but the 7th day is a Sabbath
• 19:15
  to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work,
• 19:19
  neither you nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your female,
• 19:23
  nor your male or female servant, nor your animals, nor any
• 19:26
  foreigner residing in your towns.
• 19:29
  Four, in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the
• 19:32
  sea, and all that is in them, but He rested on the 7th day.
• 19:36
  Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.
• 19:41
  So the holiness about the about Saturday for us is an actually,
• 19:48
  I guess in for Jewish people. It starts Friday at sundown and
• 19:52
  continues Saturday till sundown. But this is supposed to be a day
• 19:56
  of rest for us, not a day of obligation for anything.
• 20:02
  It's a day to give honor and glory to the Lord.
• 20:05
  It was Jesus said it was. It was made for mankind.
• 20:09
  It wasn't supposed to be something that was a burden to
• 20:13
  mankind. It was we are supposed to work
• 20:16
  for six days and then we get a day off.
• 20:19
  And we should be thankful to God for that day off.
• 20:24
  So this is what the commandments say.
• 20:27
  Then the commandments say, honor your father and mother, so that
• 20:30
  you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you.
• 20:36
  You shall not murder, you shall not commit adultery, you shall
• 20:41
  not steal, you shall not give false testimony against your
• 20:46
  neighbor. You shall not covet your
• 20:49
  neighbor's house. You shall not covet your
• 20:51
  neighbor's wife or his male or female servant, his ox or donkey
• 20:58
  or anything that belongs to your neighbor.
• 21:02
  And that's, that's the end of them.
• 21:04
  So those are the 10 commandments that God gave us.
• 21:11
  Those are what we were supposed to keep.
• 21:13
  And it says the earth is defiled by its people.
• 21:18
  OK, I want to talk about like you shall not murder.
• 21:21
  Murder includes killing an unborn child.
• 21:26
  So abortion is murder. And if you just use critical
• 21:31
  thinking, you will realize this. Because if you do nothing and
• 21:37
  just let it alone, then it will grow into a baby.
• 21:45
  The whole way that you get to that you get not the whole way
• 21:49
  that people stop that from becoming a baby is by
• 21:52
  destruction. So that is killing.
• 21:57
  Destruction is killing. And you know, I hear, you know,
• 22:02
  I've heard the argument, well, that's just a clump of cells.
• 22:04
  It isn't OK if it's just a clump of cells, leave it alone.
• 22:08
  Because if it's just a clump of cells, it'll just go away.
• 22:12
  But it's not and you know it because if this clump of cells
• 22:17
  turns into a baby, then it's not just a clump of cells.
• 22:24
  So anyway, there's like, this is what I think about like with the
• 22:28
  US and I'm, I'm thankful like within the last year or so that
• 22:32
  some things have been for changing in a positive level, in
• 22:37
  a positive way back towards the Bible, back towards what God
• 22:41
  commands. But we're still far from it.
• 22:44
  We still have a lot of people who are blind to, they don't
• 22:48
  even know the 10 commandments. They don't even know the
• 22:51
  ramifications. Like I think it's Deuteronomy
• 22:54
  chapter 3028, I think where he talks about, where God talks
• 22:59
  about there's the blessings and curses, blessings for following
• 23:03
  and curses for not following. So when you break these things,
• 23:09
  you are open to curses. And it's part of the law that
• 23:13
  got established, the law that got established to keep order.
• 23:18
  The 10 commandments are basically guardrails.
• 23:21
  If we follow them, then we will, you know, we'll be protected.
• 23:27
  If we break them, we are coming into agreement with God's enemy.
• 23:32
  And then there's destruction that can occur in our lives.
• 23:35
  So God gave us these things to protect us, but people don't see
• 23:40
  it that way. And it's been distorted into
• 23:42
  things. If we live by them, that is
• 23:45
  freedom because we don't have to be concerned about opening up to
• 23:49
  evil to affect our lives in, you know, taking over our lives and
• 23:55
  completely destroying our lives. So it talks about the ever the
• 24:02
  everlasting covenant. So it says why this destruction
• 24:05
  is coming on the earth. The earth is defiled by its
• 24:08
  people. They have disobeyed the laws.
• 24:11
  This is a future tense. This goes way beyond because the
• 24:15
  earth has not been destroyed. So this means that it even
• 24:19
  though Jesus died on the cross, it doesn't matter.
• 24:22
  We still need to obey the laws. The Holy Spirit helped us obey
• 24:27
  the laws, but our intent should be on obedience laws.
• 24:32
  Jesus did not wipe out the laws. He didn't change anything from
• 24:36
  the Old Testament. The only thing that he did was
• 24:39
  fulfill the laws, and he gave his life so that as a substitute
• 24:45
  sacrifice so that we don't die from the law.
• 24:52
  That's what Jesus did on the cross, an everlasting death.
• 24:57
  OK, so obedience is important, OK?
• 25:04
  It says that the earth is defiled by its people.
• 25:07
  They have disobeyed the laws, violated the statues, and broken
• 25:09
  the everlasting covenant. Therefore, a curse consumes the
• 25:13
  earth. Its people must bear the guilt.
• 25:17
  Therefore, earth's inhabitants are burned up and very few are
• 25:22
  left. There will be some that will be
• 25:24
  left, but very few. So that's why it's so urgent
• 25:29
  before Jesus returns that you take action, that we all take
• 25:35
  action, that we live every single day being guided by God,
• 25:40
  surrendering to God, letting God, praying to God, asking God
• 25:44
  to give us strength, give us purpose, lead us in the right
• 25:49
  way every day. We need that.
• 25:52
  We can't be, we can't be LAX about that.
• 25:56
  In Jeremiah Chapter 11, he talks about the, you know, the broken,
• 26:02
  broken, the everlasting covenant.
• 26:03
  So Jeremiah is another prophet and he has the same thing to say
• 26:08
  about broken breaking the covenant.
• 26:11
  So I'm going to read that Jeremiah Chapter 11.
• 26:14
  This is what this is the word that came to Jeremiah from the
• 26:17
  Lord. Listen to the terms of this
• 26:19
  covenant and tell them to the people of Judah and to those who
• 26:24
  live in Jerusalem, tell them this is what the Lord the God of
• 26:27
  Israel says. Cursed is the one who does not
• 26:32
  obey the terms of this covenant, the terms I commanded your
• 26:38
  ancestors when I brought them out of Egypt, out of the iron
• 26:42
  smelting furnace. I said obey me and do everything
• 26:48
  I command you, and you will be my people and I will be your
• 26:51
  God. Then I will fulfill the oath, I
• 26:56
  swear to your ancestors to give them a land flowing to the
• 27:00
  flowing with milk and honey the land you possessed today.
• 27:04
  I answered, Amen, Lord, The Lord said to me, Claim all these
• 27:08
  words in the towns of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem.
• 27:12
  Listen to the terms of the covenant and follow them.
• 27:14
  From the time I brought your ancestors up from Egypt until
• 27:18
  today, I warned them again and again, saying Obey me.
• 27:25
  But they did not listen our pretension.
• 27:26
  Instead they followed the stubbornness of their evil
• 27:28
  hearts. So I brought on them all the
• 27:32
  curses of the covenant. I commanded them to follow, but
• 27:36
  they did not keep. So again this is they have
• 27:45
  returned to the sins of their ancestors, refused to listen to
• 27:50
  my words. They have followed other gods to
• 27:54
  serve them. Both Israel and Judah have
• 27:56
  broken the covenant I made with their ancestors.
• 28:00
  So other gods remember anything that we put as a priority on
• 28:05
  top, you know, above God, that is, that's our God.
• 28:10
  It could be a lot of different things.
• 28:12
  It could be drugs, it could be sex, it could be another human
• 28:16
  being. It could be power, it could be
• 28:19
  money, it could be another religion, it could be another
• 28:23
  God. You know, if you're worshipping
• 28:25
  another God other than the one true God, then you know, it
• 28:28
  could be that other God is has become an idol to you.
• 28:31
  It could be a statue, all sorts of things.
• 28:34
  Like different people have values on different things.
• 28:39
  It could be fame, it could be fortune.
• 28:41
  It could be I can't even think of all of those, all the
• 28:44
  different things that could be. But each one of us has to
• 28:47
  examine if if we were made a choice like go serve God or do
• 28:52
  this for God or, you know, worship God at this moment.
• 28:57
  We said, oh, but I've got to do this.
• 28:59
  OK, well, pay attention to that because is that your idol?
• 29:03
  Ask that question. OK, so then it continues on.
• 29:08
  Let's see. Oh, I did like in John.
• 29:14
  I don't know if I did read this one to you.
• 29:17
  So John chapter 14 said, if you love me, commit, keep my
• 29:22
  commands. So this is with Jesus and when
• 29:25
  he's promising the Holy Spirit, he said, if you love me, keep my
• 29:31
  commands and I will ask the Father and he will give you
• 29:34
  another advocate to help you and be with you forever.
• 29:38
  The spirit of truth, the world cannot accept him because it
• 29:42
  neither sees him or knows him. But if you know him, but but you
• 29:48
  know him, for he lives with you and will be in you.
• 29:53
  This is the Spirit of God. Because Jesus was speaking this
• 29:57
  to his disciples and he had the Spirit of God within him.
• 30:03
  He was conceived by the Spirit of God and and this is what he
• 30:09
  was promising to those who love him, to those like it said, if I
• 30:15
  will show my love to thousands of generations for those who
• 30:18
  love me. And Jesus says, if you love me,
• 30:22
  keep my commands. If we are not keeping the
• 30:24
  commands, that means we don't love him.
• 30:27
  Think about this. A lot of people like to go to
• 30:29
  that verse, like all you have to do is, you know, believe in
• 30:32
  Jesus. So just, you know, if you speak
• 30:33
  it and you say it with your mouth that you believe in Jesus,
• 30:38
  you know, that's like a great deception.
• 30:40
  Yes, it's in the Bible, but it's not complete because do you
• 30:44
  think Satan believes in Jesus? He's seen him, he's talked to
• 30:49
  him. Would he not believe Jesus?
• 30:52
  Is Satan going to be in God's Kingdom?
• 30:55
  No, the Bible tells us that he is going to be thrown into the
• 31:00
  burning lake of sulfur and he so that's, you know, that's the
• 31:06
  thing that, you know, you hear these people who sound like they
• 31:10
  know what they're talking about and they said, well, you just
• 31:12
  have to believe and just, you know, stay with your mouth that
• 31:14
  you believe in Jesus. But Jesus says, if you love me,
• 31:19
  keep my commands. Jesus knew he was going to die
• 31:21
  on the cross. He knew he was going to be
• 31:24
  resurrected. He knew the way that it was
• 31:27
  going to have to happen. That's why he came to earth.
• 31:30
  He came to earth to do that. He'd had the purpose when he
• 31:33
  didn't just come here to just like meet people and talk to
• 31:35
  people. He did come to tell about God's
• 31:38
  Kingdom. But he came with a purpose, and
• 31:40
  his purpose was kind of hidden from the enemy.
• 31:43
  He told, he often told his followers, don't tell anybody
• 31:47
  about this until I have resurrected or until you know
• 31:51
  the the appropriate time. But he was wanting to keep it
• 31:54
  secret because he needed to be killed on the cross to make it
• 31:59
  happen. But he had to keep it quiet
• 32:00
  because if anybody knew that he needed to die on the cross, they
• 32:04
  might not do it. Like the enemy might not have
• 32:06
  him killed if he thought that he could break the curse by doing
• 32:10
  that. But God outsmarted the maker of
• 32:14
  all laws. Imagine that, you know,
• 32:15
  outsmarted the enemy. I mean, that's just shows how
• 32:19
  foolish pride is to think that you're better than God, which is
• 32:23
  what the enemy did, does. And so anyway, then there's also
• 32:33
  Deuteronomy. I wrote this down, Deuteronomy
• 32:36
  Chapter 11. So I want to go to that 'cause I
• 32:40
  didn't have it called up Deuteronomy.
• 32:51
  DUT OK, it says love and obey the Lord.
• 32:58
  Deuteronomy 11 Love the Lord your God, and keep His
• 33:02
  requirements, His decrees, His laws, and His commands.
• 33:05
  Always remember today that your children were not the ones who
• 33:09
  saw and experienced the discipline of the Lord your God.
• 33:12
  His Majesty, His mighty hand, His outstretched arm, the signs
• 33:17
  he performed and the things he did in the heart of Egypt, both
• 33:19
  to the Pharaoh king of Egypt and to the whole country.
• 33:22
  What he did to the Egyptian army, to its horses and
• 33:25
  Chariots, how he overwhelmed them at the waters of the Red
• 33:27
  Sea as they were pursuing you, and how the Lord brought lasting
• 33:31
  rune on them. It was so anyway, this is going
• 33:35
  on about, you know, remembering people that in in the let's see,
• 33:43
  I think it was on. OK, so it's this is turn around
• 33:48
  me 11 Chapter 11 verse 13. So if you faithfully obey the
• 33:54
  commands I'm giving you today to love the Lord your God and to
• 33:59
  serve him with all your heart and with all your soul says,
• 34:05
  then I will send rain on your land in its season, both autumn
• 34:08
  and spring rain so that you may gather in your grain, new wine
• 34:11
  and olive oil. There's like all these blessings
• 34:15
  that he starts to list at that point, but it's about loving
• 34:18
  God. And then in verse 22, he says,
• 34:23
  if you carefully obey, observe these commands I am giving you
• 34:28
  to follow Desh, to love the Lord your God, to walk in obedience,
• 34:34
  and to hold fast to him. Then the Lord will drive out the
• 34:38
  nations before you, and you will dispossess nations larger and
• 34:42
  stronger than you. And it goes on, and you know it
• 34:44
  says about, okay, every place where you set foot will be
• 34:47
  yours. Your territory will extend from
• 34:50
  the desert to Lebanon and from the Euphrates River to the
• 34:53
  Mediterranean Sea. You know that chant that
• 34:56
  everybody was like from the river to the sea, and they're
• 34:58
  trying to get Israel out of that.
• 34:59
  Well, this was actually being spoken to Israel.
• 35:03
  Like if they would obey, they haven't because they don't have
• 35:07
  the land, obviously, right? But if they were, God was saying
• 35:12
  your territory would extend from the desert to Lebanon and from
• 35:15
  the Euphrates River to the Mediterranean Sea.
• 35:17
  See how the enemy can twist the words in Scripture and make it
• 35:23
  mean the opposite of what God said.
• 35:26
  So this is again why we need to be in the Word of God so that we
• 35:31
  are not misled by social media, by what people are saying on a
• 35:35
  platform, by all this stuff that you know comes from the mouth of
• 35:40
  others that will tell you lies. They'll tell you lies to deceive
• 35:45
  and it's really to harm you and because they have the spirit of
• 35:48
  the enemy within them. So I will continue on in Isaiah
• 35:53
  what what God was saying, the joyful timbrels are still the
• 35:57
  noise of the revellers has stopped.
• 36:01
  There's going to be a point in time where this, the joy is
• 36:03
  going to be taken away because these horrible things are going
• 36:05
  to be coming on the earth. When this disaster, the
• 36:08
  destruction of the earth, comes about because people broke God's
• 36:12
  commands. The joyful harp is silent.
• 36:17
  No longer do they drink wine with a song.
• 36:20
  The beer is bitter to its drinkers.
• 36:23
  The ruined city lies desolate. The entrance to every house is
• 36:27
  barred. In the streets they cry out for
• 36:30
  wine. All joy turns to gloom.
• 36:35
  All joyful sounds are banished from the earth.
• 36:39
  Doesn't sound like a pleasant time.
• 36:41
  Everything, all happiness is going to be taken away from the
• 36:45
  earth. These things begin to happen.
• 36:48
  This is a warning for everyone because if you will listen to
• 36:53
  the words, if you will turn to God and ask for forgiveness and
• 36:57
  agree that you will follow or be willing to follow the commands
• 37:01
  and ask God for the Holy Spirit to help you follow the commands.
• 37:05
  And then every little decision that you get to make will you
• 37:08
  make it in alignment with God wants.
• 37:12
  God bless you. I've I experienced that I was
• 37:16
  more rebellious in my past than I am today.
• 37:20
  And every time I did a little thing, it was thing I didn't
• 37:23
  really want to do. I wanted to do my own way, but
• 37:25
  instead I thought about God and I thought, I'm going to do this
• 37:29
  because this is what God would want me to do.
• 37:32
  And I wasn't ever expecting anything from it.
• 37:35
  It was just that I agreed to follow God.
• 37:39
  And when I did, there was something shortly thereafter
• 37:42
  that it was like a present, a reward, a blessing.
• 37:47
  And I knew it came from God. And I, it's, it's never like the
• 37:51
  same thing. It's just something.
• 37:53
  And all of a sudden it's just like, wow, where did that come
• 37:56
  from? And that's because God loves to
• 37:59
  give gifts and he loves when he sees that we love him.
• 38:04
  And we, you know, maybe decide against something that we
• 38:09
  personally want for ourselves, but instead we surrender it and
• 38:15
  just say, OK, God, I'm going to do, you know, I have a choice
• 38:17
  right now. I'm going to do what you want to
• 38:19
  do, not what I want to do right now.
• 38:21
  And God sees that and he blesses those people.
• 38:26
  The city is left in ruins. The gate is battered to pieces.
• 38:29
  So it will be on the earth and among the nations.
• 38:33
  As when an olive tree is beaten. So when an olive tree is beaten
• 38:39
  I was I know that the olive tree represents Israel in many times
• 38:46
  in many parts of the Bible and it says or as when gleanings are
• 38:50
  left after the grape harvest. Now that's significant too, But
• 38:54
  let's talk about the olive tree in Romans Chapter 11 verse 24.
• 38:59
  This is a good reminder. After all, if you were cut out
• 39:04
  of an olive tree that is wild by nature and contrary to nature
• 39:10
  were grafted into a cultivated olive tree, how much more
• 39:15
  readily will these, the natural branches be grafted into their
• 39:19
  own olive tree? Now this is very symbolic.
• 39:24
  So the olive tree are God's chosen people and God's Yeah,
• 39:29
  chosen people and God's chosen people were Israel to start.
• 39:34
  They are wild by nature. So yeah, they were very
• 39:37
  disobedient. They were wild by nature and
• 39:40
  God, you know, somebody who didn't fruit and was rebellious,
• 39:45
  they were cut off from the olive tree and then God opened it up
• 39:49
  to the Gentiles, the non Israelites.
• 39:54
  And you know, we don't see this in nature, but God grafted in
• 40:00
  the branch of the Gentiles or the non Jews and that olive tree
• 40:07
  and made it grow together. That's what he's done to all of
• 40:10
  us. He so when a branch is broken
• 40:14
  off of the Israelites. It can be grafted back in.
• 40:19
  That's what that's what Paul is saying here.
• 40:22
  He's like, you know, we have been grafted in.
• 40:25
  If we're not Jews, then we have been grafted in to the olive
• 40:29
  tree. We are part of Israel.
• 40:32
  And if Israel, somebody from Israel, has broken God's
• 40:36
  commands or disobeyed God or whatever, and their branch is
• 40:39
  broken off, they can also be grafted back in when they turn
• 40:44
  to God. And they were like part of the
• 40:46
  original tree. So we shouldn't judge among each
• 40:52
  other because God is giving us this blessing, all of us, that
• 40:57
  we can be brought into the Kingdom of God.
• 41:00
  We can be part of Israel, We can benefit from the blessings of
• 41:03
  Israel because God opened it up to us.
• 41:08
  So that just, you know, when an olive tree is beaten.
• 41:11
  So yeah, there's, there's sometimes when it when it is
• 41:14
  beaten and all the olives fall off of it, it's bearing fruit.
• 41:19
  And do we bear fruit? Do we show the fruit of the
• 41:24
  Spirit? Go to Galatians chapter 5 to
• 41:26
  read about that. Are we doing those things?
• 41:29
  Is there evidence of the Holy Spirit working in our life?
• 41:34
  If not, that's something to God about.
• 41:37
  Because that means that if there's no evidence of the Holy
• 41:42
  Spirit working in your life, changing your life from being a
• 41:45
  sinful person to be more like God.
• 41:49
  If that isn't happening, then you may not be saved and you
• 41:54
  need to pray to God about that because God will change people.
• 42:00
  If you are not being changed, you need to talk to God about
• 42:04
  it. I'm not in a place of judgement.
• 42:06
  I'm not going to say who's saved and who's not saved because I
• 42:08
  don't know, but God does. So direct it to God, Go to God
• 42:13
  with it. But here's the interesting
• 42:16
  thing. Or as when the gleanings are
• 42:18
  left after the grape harvest. Now harvest is really
• 42:23
  significant when it, especially when it comes to the end times.
• 42:28
  And I've noticed a couple different things that there are,
• 42:33
  there's like a, there's two significant harvest that come to
• 42:38
  mind from Scripture. And one of them is the wheat
• 42:42
  harvest, and that's an earlier harvest.
• 42:44
  And then there's the grape harvest that's later in the
• 42:47
  year. And this is just this is just
• 42:51
  really interesting. When you go to Matthew chapter
• 42:55
  13, he's talking about it's sometimes called the wheat and
• 43:00
  the tares, and sometimes it's called the, you know, the, the
• 43:05
  let's see, what is it called? Yeah, the wheat and the weeds.
• 43:09
  So there's depending on what translation, there's different
• 43:12
  words used. But in Matthew chapter 13, verse
• 43:15
  30, he says let both grow together until the harvest.
• 43:21
  At that time, I will tell the harvesters first collect the
• 43:25
  weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned, then gather the wheat
• 43:32
  and bring it into my barn. So again, those are all parable
• 43:39
  thing. Yeah, parables.
• 43:42
  And so there's something about parables in here too, Matthew
• 43:50
  chapter 13, verse 35. And it says So what?
• 43:54
  So was fulfilled what was spoken through the prophet.
• 43:58
  I will open my mouth in parables.
• 44:00
  I will utter things hidden. Since the creation of the world
• 44:05
  that's in Psalm 78, verse 2, Jesus was fulfilling again,
• 44:10
  another prophecy. I will open my mouth in
• 44:13
  parables. I will utter things hidden since
• 44:16
  the creation of the world. So he spoke in these parables
• 44:21
  and a lot of people didn't understand because they're like,
• 44:24
  OK, it's all these like agricultural things and what
• 44:26
  does all this mean? He explained to some, He
• 44:30
  explained to his disciples. So if we are God's disciples, if
• 44:35
  we are learning from Jesus, if we are in the Word of God, we
• 44:39
  will understand things that others don't.
• 44:42
  So here's the parable of the weeds.
• 44:44
  The wheat and the tares are the weeds and the wheat explained.
• 44:49
  Then he left the crowd and went into the house.
• 44:51
  His disciples, Jesus's disciples, came to him and said,
• 44:55
  Explain to us the parable of the weeds in the field.
• 44:58
  He answered, the one who sowed the good seed is the Son of man.
• 45:03
  That's another word for Jesus. The field is the world, and the
• 45:09
  good seed stands for the people of the Kingdom.
• 45:12
  So people who receive, yeah, grow and produce fruit, and they
• 45:19
  have the Holy Spirit. That's the people of the
• 45:21
  Kingdom. The Wades are the people of the
• 45:24
  evil. 1 Not everyone is going to be, you know, a holy person, or
• 45:31
  willing, I should say willing to be a holy person.
• 45:35
  The weeds are the people of the evil, 1 and the enemy who sows
• 45:39
  them is the devil. This brings you back to Genesis
• 45:43
  where God says, I will put enmity between your seeds
• 45:48
  speaking to the woman and his seeds speaking to about the
• 45:52
  serpent or Satan or the devil. So there are different seeds,
• 45:57
  there are different offspring, some of God and some of Satan.
• 46:03
  So the harvest is the end of the age.
• 46:07
  So that hasn't happened yet. And the harvesters are angels.
• 46:12
  So the angels are the one who are going to be gathering.
• 46:15
  And remember, the weeds were first gathered together and tied
• 46:19
  up in a bundle. They were going to be burned,
• 46:22
  and then the angels gathered the weight and took it into the
• 46:26
  barn. The Son of Man's, the storage
• 46:29
  place, some place hidden, some place safe inside the barn.
• 46:35
  As the weeds are pulled up and burned in the fire.
• 46:38
  So it will be at the end of the age.
• 46:40
  The Son of Man will send out his angels and they will wait out
• 46:45
  His Kingdom. Everything that causes sin and
• 46:49
  all do evil. So we need to not be sinning,
• 46:53
  right? Otherwise you're a weed and
• 46:56
  you're going to be tied up and burned.
• 46:58
  In the end. They will throw them into the
• 47:01
  blazing furnace where there will be weeping and gnashing of the
• 47:04
  teeth. Well, that's not just any
• 47:07
  burning furnace. Blazing furnace, weeping and
• 47:10
  gnashing of the teeth. That's what it talks about.
• 47:13
  Like eternally separated from God.
• 47:15
  OK, Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the
• 47:20
  Kingdom of their Father. Whoever has ears, let them hear.
• 47:25
  So that's a pretty important thing.
• 47:28
  So this is, you know, again, I said there are a couple
• 47:30
  different harvests. So this is one with the wheat
• 47:32
  and the tares. The angels separate the good
• 47:35
  from the bad and they put them into store, you know, like a
• 47:39
  storage place. But then this verse in Isaiah
• 47:43
  talks about the grape harvest. There's another harvest that's
• 47:46
  being talked about. There's the wheat harvest, and
• 47:48
  then there's the grape harvest. And I find this really
• 47:52
  significant. So in let's see, Revelation,
• 47:59
  yes. So Revelation chapter 14 talks
• 48:02
  about the grape harvest. So listen to what happens here.
• 48:07
  I looked and before me was a white cloud, and seated on the
• 48:11
  white on the cloud was one like a son of man.
• 48:17
  OK, so that's what Jesus is referred to often, with a crown
• 48:22
  of gold on his head and a sharp supple in his hand.
• 48:28
  Then another Angel came out of the temple and called in a loud
• 48:32
  voice to him who was sitting on the cloud.
• 48:37
  Take your sickle and reap, because the time to reap for the
• 48:43
  harvest of the earth is ripe. So he who was seated on the
• 48:48
  cloud swung his sickle over the earth, and the earth was
• 48:51
  harvested. OK, so now there's gathered,
• 48:54
  people are gathered. And again, these are two
• 48:57
  different times. There's the wheat harvest that
• 48:59
  these happen at different times of the year.
• 49:01
  And that's why I think this might be significant.
• 49:04
  Again, this is just observation from what's written in
• 49:07
  Scripture. So the, the wheat harvest comes
• 49:10
  like in the springtime, the grape harvest comes in the fall.
• 49:15
  Just pay attention to that, OK? Because I think it might mean
• 49:18
  something. Another Angel came out of the
• 49:20
  temple. So first of all, the Son of Man
• 49:23
  is gathering these and another Angel comes out of the temple,
• 49:26
  and he too had a sharp sickle. Still another Angel.
• 49:30
  So here's a third Angel who had charge of the fire came from the
• 49:34
  altar and called in a loud voice to him who had the sharp sickle.
• 49:36
  Take your sickle and your sharp sickle and gather the clusters
• 49:40
  of grapes from the earth's vine, because it's grapes are right
• 49:43
  from the earth's vine. Notice that from the earths
• 49:47
  spine, because its grapes are ripe.
• 49:50
  The Angel swung a sickle on the earth, gathered its grapes, and
• 49:54
  threw them into the great winepress of God's wrath.
• 50:00
  Those are not obedient people. Those are the earths vine.
• 50:05
  If you go to Galatians chapter 5, you will see people who are
• 50:10
  worldly people because there's a paragraph that's dedicated to
• 50:15
  identifying the behaviors of people who are worldly, people
• 50:18
  who are on the earth's vine, if you want to call it that.
• 50:21
  And then there's another one about people who have the spirit
• 50:24
  and what their characteristics are.
• 50:26
  So that's a good place. I mean, go to Galatians chapter
• 50:29
  5 and read it and ask yourself, where do I fit in?
• 50:33
  Am I on the earth's vine? Am I destined to the wrath of
• 50:38
  God? Or am I filled with the Holy
• 50:42
  Spirit? And do I is, is God going to see
• 50:45
  fruit in my life? Is he going to see the fruit of
• 50:48
  the spirit in my life? Because it's really important
• 50:51
  because when Jesus returns, that's your that's going to be
• 50:55
  your outcome. So the other thing that I
• 50:59
  noticed was that this, you know, Jesus is on this cloud, but then
• 51:08
  it seems like there's another point because there's multiple
• 51:11
  times where it talks about for both the, the, I don't know, the
• 51:16
  in Matthew 24, it also talks about the Lord being seated on a
• 51:20
  cloud and gathering his people at that time.
• 51:23
  So he will be gathering his people and you know he's
• 51:29
  protecting like he. If you are in Christ, you are
• 51:33
  not subject to wrath when Jesus returns.
• 51:37
  Wrath is coming. So if you that's when we will be
• 51:42
  gathered when Jesus returns. Anyone who has prepared
• 51:46
  themselves, anyone who is no longer rebellious to God, who is
• 51:49
  turned to God, who has the Holy Spirit, who is showing fruit of
• 51:53
  the Spirit. Do you remember a a story in the
• 51:56
  Bible where it said Jesus saw a fig tree that was producing no
• 52:00
  fruit and he cursed it? There's several different
• 52:03
  parables that are often off also talked about where God is
• 52:06
  patient and he comes back to a tree that's not producing fruit
• 52:10
  and he's the person who's in charge of it says, hey, just
• 52:13
  give me a little bit longer and it'll grow some fruit.
• 52:16
  And so he's like, he goes away, OK, I'll try it again.
• 52:18
  I'll come back later and giving opportunity.
• 52:21
  God is patient with us. He doesn't want anyone to go
• 52:25
  into that wine of wrath. But we can't just play around
• 52:30
  with our beliefs and ignore God because there will be a day when
• 52:37
  Jesus returns when we will be subject to either being gathered
• 52:43
  by Jesus to be protected and out of the harm of God's wrath, or
• 52:49
  we will experience God's wrath. And so all I can do right now is
• 52:54
  really stress this to people because it's so important that
• 53:00
  people really turn to God right now.
• 53:04
  There's way too much going on in the world that indicates Bible
• 53:09
  prophecy being fulfilled that we, you know, it's like if you
• 53:13
  see these signs and you don't warn people, then you will be
• 53:16
  held accountable while I'm trying to do what God says in
• 53:20
  there. Like if you see these things,
• 53:22
  warn other people because hopefully keep anybody who hears
• 53:27
  this will turn to God and and then their life will be they
• 53:31
  will be in the Kingdom of God and have all these blessings
• 53:33
  that God promises those who turn to him.
• 53:37
  OK, so going back to let's see what else is there in Scripture.
• 53:41
  I think I've read those references going back to what
• 53:45
  Isaiah said. They raise their voices, they
• 53:47
  ship. OK, so after the great harvest,
• 53:49
  OK, so that happens. And then it says they raise
• 53:52
  their voices, they shout for joy From the West, they acclaim the
• 53:57
  Lord's majesty. Therefore in the east give glory
• 54:01
  to the Lord, exalt the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.
• 54:06
  In the islands of the sea, from the ends of the earth, we hear
• 54:11
  singing glory to the righteous. 1 So this is showing that there
• 54:18
  is going to be a celebration like some people will hide
• 54:23
  because they know they are not right with God when he returns
• 54:26
  and Jesus returns around the 6th seal and I can show you some
• 54:31
  evidence of that. So and then people will hide in
• 54:35
  caves. There's going to be a really big
• 54:36
  earthquake at that point, but at that point, if you are not right
• 54:41
  with God, you're going to go through the wrath of God.
• 54:44
  The wrath of God will also refine and purify some as they
• 54:48
  go through it. So some will go through the
• 54:51
  wrath of God. And I would say, I mean, I don't
• 54:53
  know this for sure, but I would say it's probably lukewarm
• 54:56
  Christians, those who say with their mouth that they are a
• 55:00
  Christian, but there's no fruit of being a Christian in their
• 55:05
  lives. So let's read about the glory of
• 55:11
  God because after that happens, after the wrath of God, people
• 55:16
  will be celebrating. They're going to be happy and
• 55:19
  giving glory to God. So in Revelation chapter 19, it
• 55:28
  says after this I heard what sounded like the roar of a great
• 55:34
  multitude in heaven shouting Hallelujah, salvation and glory
• 55:39
  and power belong to our God. So after this, that was after
• 55:46
  the fall of Babylon. OK, so that's something that we
• 55:50
  don't. There's a lot of speculation
• 55:53
  about what is Babylon, and this is after.
• 55:58
  So Babylon falls and people are saying Hallelujah, Babylon has
• 56:03
  fallen. I do believe that Babylon is
• 56:07
  symbolic of a spiritual entity, basically the enemy of God, who
• 56:12
  has gone out to deceive other people.
• 56:15
  But Mystery Babylon does get confusing because it describes
• 56:20
  it as a city, city, but the description of it doesn't quite
• 56:24
  match because it seems surrounded by water and people
• 56:27
  out in the sea look and can see Babylon being destroyed.
• 56:33
  I don't know if it's in the Middle East or not.
• 56:35
  I'm not sure. I mean, there's sometimes where
• 56:37
  I question is Mystery Babylon the United States?
• 56:42
  I don't know because the United States is not mentioned.
• 56:45
  So does that mean that judgement is brought on the United States?
• 56:49
  I mean, thankfully this past year or not even this past year,
• 56:53
  but these past seven months of the year, we're in July 2025,
• 56:58
  right now, there has been a turning towards God.
• 57:01
  And in our government, God's name is being held up.
• 57:05
  There are prayer, prayer for people who are in the government
• 57:09
  offices praying, which is absolutely wonderful because our
• 57:13
  nation needs to turn back to God, because we have been
• 57:17
  disobedient to God and we are deserving of wrath.
• 57:22
  And if we don't turn to God, we are going to receive wrath.
• 57:26
  Another thing, there's a lot of people, it says in the Bible
• 57:29
  that people will have dreams and see visions in the end times.
• 57:32
  And if you're not aware of that, go on YouTube and search dreams
• 57:37
  and visions. There are people all over the
• 57:39
  world who are having dreams and many of them are having dreams
• 57:43
  about the, you know, destruction of America.
• 57:46
  It's just, you know, these people do, you know, many of
• 57:50
  them do seem like they are spirit filled.
• 57:54
  And so I don't know, we can't, we can't go by what people say.
• 57:59
  We have to go by the word of God.
• 58:01
  The word of God is kind of silent on the United States.
• 58:05
  It's not mentioned at all. Of course, it wasn't around at
• 58:07
  the time, it's 700 BC, but still there could have been some
• 58:12
  reference to it. And I don't, I don't know.
• 58:15
  Or maybe it could be multiple places.
• 58:17
  Maybe it could be everything that has accepted the spirit
• 58:21
  that originated out of the area of like where Iraq is now.
• 58:25
  That's where Babylon was. Maybe it started there and it
• 58:29
  spread. Out to other.
• 58:31
  Countries and cities and things like that.
• 58:34
  So maybe there's going to be more that are affected.
• 58:38
  I really don't know. We're probably not going to.
• 58:41
  No one's really going to know. Everybody's going to speculate
• 58:44
  and have ideas until it's over, until it's happened.
• 58:48
  But the thing that is important, we don't know what Mystery
• 58:52
  Babylon is, but I found in the last several weeks that Mystery
• 58:57
  Babylon is destroyed before Jesus returns, is destroyed
• 59:04
  before the Antichrist is revealed.
• 59:08
  So it's everybody. 'S expecting.
• 59:12
  Antichrist to be coming up soon and who knows if the Antichrist
• 59:18
  will be revealed, but if so, there is going to be some major
• 59:23
  destruction because whatever this Mystery Babylon, it's going
• 59:26
  to shake the whole earth when it's known that this has been
• 59:32
  destroyed. So again, the main players in
• 59:40
  the Middle East conflict, I would say not.
• 59:43
  Well, the main aggressor would probably be Iran.
• 59:47
  Iran hates the United States. Iran has alliances with China
• 59:52
  and Russia. They have pretty big armies.
• 59:55
  There's a lot that can be done. They want to destroy Israel.
• 59:58
  They want to destroy the United States.
• 1:00:01
  They refer to the United States as big Satan and Israel as
• 1:00:05
  little Satan. They have it in their hearts to
• 1:00:08
  destroy. And just last chapter, I think
• 1:00:11
  it was, wasn't it? It didn't say Elam attack media
• 1:00:15
  or Medes attack or something like that.
• 1:00:17
  Kerr I think it was. Well, those are those are places
• 1:00:20
  of Iran. So is God going to use Iran to
• 1:00:25
  bring about this destruction of Babylon?
• 1:00:30
  And is it going to be the city of Iraq or is it going to be the
• 1:00:33
  United States or is it going to be Rome, Italy, the Vatican?
• 1:00:38
  People have mentioned that could be Mystery Babylon as well.
• 1:00:41
  So there's a lot of different theories out there and we don't
• 1:00:45
  know. But now is not a time to be
• 1:00:47
  playing around with your spiritual condition, your
• 1:00:50
  spiritual relationship with God. Because if we suddenly in the US
• 1:00:56
  get taken out by some means that we're not expecting, acting
• 1:01:00
  destroyed in an hour, if that happens and we have not prepared
• 1:01:05
  ourselves, all we can expect is to be eternally separated from
• 1:01:09
  God. I don't think it's worth it.
• 1:01:12
  So anybody who hears this message, turn to God now and for
• 1:01:16
  the rest of your life, however long that may be.
• 1:01:19
  If you have hundreds of years left, you know, or hundreds,
• 1:01:22
  that's not appropriate anymore. But if you have, you know, many,
• 1:01:26
  many years left, then you're not going to hurt yourself by
• 1:01:30
  turning to God now. You're just going to be prepared
• 1:01:32
  so that you have nothing to worry about.
• 1:01:35
  OK, so these people are shouting Hallelujah to God because
• 1:01:39
  Babylon's fallen. And then these are just a
• 1:01:43
  search. I word searched on
• 1:01:45
  blueletterbible.org glory and I'm reading the the ones the
• 1:01:51
  verses from Revelation, various chapters.
• 1:01:54
  So Revelation 19 seven says let us rejoice and be glad and give
• 1:02:00
  him glory for the wedding of the lamb has come and his bride has
• 1:02:06
  made herself ready. So I think that's really
• 1:02:10
  interesting. So Babylon falls 1st and the
• 1:02:14
  wedding of the lamb has come after Babylon's fallen.
• 1:02:20
  Then it just talks about. The glory of the Lord.
• 1:02:26
  So anyway, those are a couple things that I think it's really
• 1:02:30
  important to remember. I'll continue now back in the
• 1:02:34
  prophecy. Of Isaiah.
• 1:02:35
  Chapter 24 But I said, I waste away, I waste away.
• 1:02:40
  Woe to me. The treacherous betray with
• 1:02:42
  treachery. The treacherous betray.
• 1:02:45
  Terror and pit await you. People of Earth.
• 1:02:50
  Whoever flees at the sound of terror will fall into a pit.
• 1:02:53
  Whoever climbs out of the pit will be caught in a snare.
• 1:02:57
  There's no escaping the wrath of God.
• 1:03:01
  That's what this is saying, is that when God's wrath comes
• 1:03:04
  about, there's no escaping. You can try to hide in your
• 1:03:07
  bunkers. It's not going to matter because
• 1:03:09
  you are battling against the God, the God of the earth.
• 1:03:15
  So there is yeah, nothing to to help you in that way there was.
• 1:03:26
  I don't know where I didn't. Know what it I wanted to talk
• 1:03:30
  about Oh this grape harvest. I think I wanted to do this
• 1:03:34
  chapter 2 and I forgot going back to the grape harvest that
• 1:03:39
  we talked about, there's this thing about these people that
• 1:03:43
  are being sealed. And I believe these are, these
• 1:03:46
  are the Jews that will be sealed.
• 1:03:48
  And and this happens. There's a sequence of events
• 1:03:51
  from that too in Revelation Chapter 7.
• 1:03:55
  And this also happens in Revelation chapter 6.
• 1:04:00
  We see this so after this I saw 4 angels standing at the corners
• 1:04:06
  of the earth. So let's say what's after it?
• 1:04:08
  What's it after? So this is what it says.
• 1:04:12
  Let's let's start with the I said that Jesus is returning at
• 1:04:17
  the 6th seal. So Revelation chapter 6, verse
• 1:04:23
  13, we'll start there. I watched as he, Jesus opened
• 1:04:27
  the 6th seal. There was a great earthquake.
• 1:04:30
  The sun turned black like sackcloth made of goat hair, The
• 1:04:35
  whole moon turned blood red, and the stars in the sky fell to the
• 1:04:42
  earth as figs drop from a fig tree when shaken by a strong
• 1:04:47
  wind. So again, I wonder if this
• 1:04:51
  relates to the midpoint of the the week.
• 1:04:58
  The week. As it's referred to the.
• 1:05:00
  Week of years as referred to in Daniel where the dragon, you
• 1:05:05
  know, knocks 1/3 of the angels down to earth and he has 3 1/2
• 1:05:10
  years remaining for his for the wrath, which I also think that
• 1:05:15
  Satan, this is a new thought that came to mind recently about
• 1:05:19
  Satan. But he has 3 1/2 years that he
• 1:05:24
  is doing these things to people or going against the people of
• 1:05:28
  God or the people who, you know, maybe say that they follow God,
• 1:05:33
  but maybe they don't live that way.
• 1:05:35
  But I believe or I'm thinking this is a theory of mine.
• 1:05:39
  I'm thinking that maybe God is going to use Satan to implement
• 1:05:44
  his wrath. I mean that would follow
• 1:05:46
  history. In the Bible.
• 1:05:47
  God used the Babylonians who worshipped another God.
• 1:05:52
  God used the Assyrians who worshipped another God to
• 1:05:56
  implement his wrath. His judgement on people, on his
• 1:06:00
  own people like he. The thing is, he lets people
• 1:06:05
  have their own free will, but it's still under the power of
• 1:06:09
  him. Like it can't go too far.
• 1:06:12
  So if God has used Babylon and Assyria in the past to implement
• 1:06:20
  his wrath, why would he not use Satan to implement his wrath?
• 1:06:26
  Because I've heard it taught before.
• 1:06:27
  Well, this is Satan wraths and then God's wrath comes later.
• 1:06:31
  Well, I think God might use Satan's wrath to implement his
• 1:06:37
  own wrath. Like there's going to be Satan
• 1:06:39
  and him coming against everything.
• 1:06:42
  So that's just a a theory and just read scripture and go
• 1:06:45
  through it and see what you can find out.
• 1:06:47
  But anyway, at the 6th deal when Jesus returns there there's the
• 1:06:52
  earthquake, The sun turns black, the moon turns red, the stars
• 1:06:55
  from fall from the sky, the heavens receded like a squirrel
• 1:06:58
  being rolled up, and every mountain and island was was
• 1:07:01
  removed from its place. Then the kings, the earth, the
• 1:07:03
  Princess and the generals, the rich, the mighty, and everyone
• 1:07:06
  else, both slave and free, hid in caves and among the rocks of
• 1:07:13
  the mountains. They called to the mountains and
• 1:07:16
  the rocks fall on us and hide us from the face of him who sits on
• 1:07:22
  the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb.
• 1:07:26
  Jesus is going to be putting out this wrath.
• 1:07:29
  So those people who deny Jesus, they're going to their eyes will
• 1:07:33
  really be open when Jesus is the one putting out the wrath for
• 1:07:37
  the great day of their wrath has come.
• 1:07:39
  And who can withstand it? So as it was saying, you know,
• 1:07:43
  people are going to be trying to flee and hide.
• 1:07:47
  They, you know, trying to cover up and running and all this
• 1:07:52
  stuff. They're not going to be able to
• 1:07:54
  escape. There's no escape from the wrath
• 1:07:56
  of God. It's just final.
• 1:07:59
  It's, it's judgment, you know, it's, you're getting the wrath.
• 1:08:04
  So. Let's.
• 1:08:06
  Continue what Isaiah said. The floodgates of the heavens
• 1:08:09
  are opened. The foundations of the earth
• 1:08:12
  shake. Just talked about an earthquake,
• 1:08:14
  right? The earth is broken up.
• 1:08:16
  The earth is split under split asunder.
• 1:08:21
  The earth is violently shaken. The earth reels like a drunkard.
• 1:08:25
  It sways like a Hut in the wind, so heavy upon it is the guilt of
• 1:08:31
  its rebellion. Remember, the whole reason why
• 1:08:34
  this is happening is the guilt is not really the guilt, the
• 1:08:38
  rebellion, but people are feeling the guilt.
• 1:08:42
  It's very heavy. They realize it's they realize I
• 1:08:46
  should have, you know, turned to God.
• 1:08:48
  I should have changed my ways. I should have done all these
• 1:08:51
  things. Well, should have is going to be
• 1:08:53
  a bad feeling to have when the wrath of God starts getting
• 1:08:57
  back. Right now the wrath of God is
• 1:08:59
  not happening. So you have time to turn to God.
• 1:09:04
  Let's see. So heavy.
• 1:09:06
  Upon it is the guilt of its. Rebellion that it falls never to
• 1:09:10
  rise again. So it's talking about the earth
• 1:09:12
  that it falls never to rise again.
• 1:09:15
  Again, the earth is going to be fully destroyed.
• 1:09:18
  If you are trying to build up treasures here on earth.
• 1:09:22
  Jesus even said that in a parable.
• 1:09:23
  He said don't, don't build for yourself treasures here on
• 1:09:26
  earth, things that the moths can eat, but store up for yourselves
• 1:09:31
  treasures in heaven. That means do what God wants you
• 1:09:35
  to do. Serve God with everything that
• 1:09:37
  you have, all the resources that God has been given to you.
• 1:09:41
  Use your resources to serve God to, you know, provide for
• 1:09:46
  others, to bring others into the Kingdom.
• 1:09:50
  Find out what God's purpose is for you.
• 1:09:52
  Every single person that God creates has a purpose, and it's
• 1:09:56
  up to us to find out from God what is our purpose.
• 1:10:01
  He doesn't use everybody for the same thing.
• 1:10:03
  So you have to have a relationship with Him.
• 1:10:06
  You have to pray about it and ask God to show you what your
• 1:10:08
  purpose is. God will lead you if you allow
• 1:10:11
  Him to lead you into your purpose.
• 1:10:14
  OK, so in that day the Lord will punish the powers in the heavens
• 1:10:19
  above and the kings on the earth below.
• 1:10:21
  Isn't that interesting? There are heavenly beings that
• 1:10:24
  are going to be punished. Did you ever think about that,
• 1:10:28
  that you know, he's he's going to punish those that are in the
• 1:10:32
  heavens also and also in the the earth?
• 1:10:38
  So that I think is I wanted to talk about that and I don't
• 1:10:42
  remember where I saved that part.
• 1:10:46
  Shoot, it's let me see if I can find that.
• 1:10:54
  OK, it's. Ephesians.
• 1:10:57
  Chapter 6 verse 12 I don't even know if I actually say had that
• 1:11:02
  called up, but I'll read it to you because I do quote this
• 1:11:05
  quite a bit but I always I don't.
• 1:11:08
  Quote it properly. Because I don't know why, but I
• 1:11:12
  know what it says. But I don't often say the
• 1:11:16
  correct order of words from Scripture, but I I know what it
• 1:11:21
  means. OK, so Ephesians chapter 6,
• 1:11:24
  verse 12 For our struggle is not against flesh and blood are
• 1:11:30
  humans, OK, but against the rulers, against the authorities,
• 1:11:35
  against the powers of this Dark World.
• 1:11:38
  OK, that's evil. And against the spiritual forces
• 1:11:43
  of evil in the heavenly realms. So did you know that there were
• 1:11:48
  evil spiritual forces in the heavenly realms?
• 1:11:53
  Did you know that Ephesians chapter 6, verse 12, against the
• 1:11:59
  power. So that's what we're struggling
• 1:12:00
  against. People can't see spirits unless
• 1:12:05
  they manifest into something that looks like a person or
• 1:12:12
  looks like an Angel of light. So they can, they can the
• 1:12:18
  spiritual realm can manifest like something here on earth.
• 1:12:23
  And you know, it's, it's said like show hospitality to
• 1:12:27
  strangers because in doing so, you may have entertained an
• 1:12:31
  Angel. So the spiritual realm can come
• 1:12:35
  to Earth and can be visible to people, but it doesn't have to
• 1:12:41
  be visible to people. It is often unseen.
• 1:12:45
  There are spiritual forces that are affecting us and that's why
• 1:12:48
  we need to be in the world. That's why we need to pray to
• 1:12:53
  God every day. That's why we need to talk to
• 1:12:55
  God. That's what it is.
• 1:12:56
  Talk to God every every day and and.
• 1:13:02
  Just have a relationship. So that we can be protected.
• 1:13:08
  So OK, in that day the Lord. Will punish the.
• 1:13:14
  The powers in the heavens and on the earth below.
• 1:13:16
  They will be herded together like prisoners bound in a
• 1:13:20
  dungeon. They will be shut up in prison
• 1:13:23
  and punished after many days. So I'm going to read what the
• 1:13:28
  study. Bible says.
• 1:13:29
  About it talks about it asks the question, is this a description
• 1:13:34
  of the end of the world? In chapter 24 verses 18 through
• 1:13:39
  20 it would appear so. Isaiah borrowed a description
• 1:13:44
  from the early days of history to describe the last days.
• 1:13:49
  Floodgates of the heavens is reminiscent of the flood in
• 1:13:53
  Noah's day. Isaiah was not likely thinking
• 1:13:56
  of a worldwide flood here, for God had promised that such a
• 1:14:00
  flood would never happen again. But the and that's, you know,
• 1:14:05
  the symbol of that is the actually the rainbow.
• 1:14:07
  That's God's promise that it will never flood the earth
• 1:14:10
  again. But the language of the flood
• 1:14:14
  was appropriate to represent pictorially God's final act of
• 1:14:18
  judgement. The weight that crushes the
• 1:14:21
  earth is the guilt of human rebellion against God.
• 1:14:26
  As a result, creation itself is marred and must eventually be
• 1:14:31
  replaced. So then about these, you know
• 1:14:36
  like I read Ephesians chapter 6 verse 12 about the spiritual
• 1:14:40
  forces and the heavenly the evil forces in the heavenly realms
• 1:14:44
  that affect us. The study Bible says who are the
• 1:14:48
  these powers in the heavens? The powers in the heavens might
• 1:14:52
  refer to the stars. However, since Isaiah was
• 1:14:56
  speaking about punishment, he was likely referring to fallen
• 1:15:01
  angels. So yes, fallen angels.
• 1:15:05
  So it also talks about Revelation chapter 12, verses 7
• 1:15:09
  through 9. So I will go to that one too
• 1:15:12
  because I didn't have that called up, but I want to get to
• 1:15:16
  that if I can. My computer's running really
• 1:15:18
  slow, oddly enough. Revelation 12/7.
• 1:15:29
  OK, it says through nine. OK then war broke out in heaven.
• 1:15:37
  Michael and his angels fought against the dragon.
• 1:15:40
  The dragon is Satan and the dragon and his angels fought
• 1:15:43
  back, but he the dragon was not strong enough and they lost
• 1:15:49
  their peace of heaven. The great dragon or Satan was
• 1:15:53
  hurled down. It says that that ancient
• 1:15:56
  serpent called the devil or Satan who leads the whole world
• 1:16:01
  astray, he was hurled to the earth and his angels with him.
• 1:16:08
  So this is when Satan is hurled to the earth with fallen angels.
• 1:16:15
  So he took the angels just like the dragon swept 1/3 of the
• 1:16:18
  angels down to earth, so they lost their place in heaven.
• 1:16:22
  I think that's at the at the midpoint it sounds like to me.
• 1:16:25
  Again, that's my speculation about it, but Satan is a
• 1:16:31
  deceiver because he he lead who leads the whole world astray.
• 1:16:38
  So I want to talk about a deceiver and one of the
• 1:16:43
  commandments that says are actually an explanation in
• 1:16:47
  Leviticus chapter 19 verse 11 says do not steal.
• 1:16:52
  That's one of the commandments, do not lie.
• 1:16:54
  That's another commandment and it says do not deceive one
• 1:16:58
  another Leviticus 19 verse 11. So deceive, that's something of
• 1:17:05
  the enemy. Now I want to read this Allah
• 1:17:09
  the best deceiver from the Quran chapter 3 verse 54.
• 1:17:16
  The Quran openly states many times that Allah is known as the
• 1:17:19
  best of Illinois Macarena. I don't know how to say it.
• 1:17:23
  A word sometimes mildly translated as planners, though
• 1:17:27
  also as schemers are Potters. The Arabic word used here is and
• 1:17:33
  it shows what that is and it's like maker coming from the root
• 1:17:37
  MKR with the word MAKR primarily meaning deceit.
• 1:17:47
  Or guile. Or circumvention.
• 1:17:51
  OK, so that's why it's that's why it's really.
• 1:18:00
  Scary to me. About is Allah actually Satan
• 1:18:08
  who is appearing like the Angel of light, like you know, like
• 1:18:13
  actually, you know, the thing about it is if you read the
• 1:18:16
  Quran, it doesn't talk about it talks about Allah, but it's
• 1:18:20
  angels are telling Muhammad this stuff.
• 1:18:24
  If if you look at you know, it always says like, well, God said
• 1:18:26
  all these things. Well, no, God didn't say that
• 1:18:29
  there were angels who gave this information to Muhammad.
• 1:18:34
  And the Bible was written like the last book of the Bible was
• 1:18:37
  written in 90AD. And it also gave warnings like
• 1:18:43
  do not be deceived by anybody and especially those who say
• 1:18:46
  something that Jesus, you know, is not the Son of God, because
• 1:18:50
  that is the deceiver. That is the Antichrist.
• 1:18:53
  And it says even if an Angel comes and tells you something
• 1:18:56
  other than what we've told you, do not believe it.
• 1:18:59
  So that all that stuff was written in the Bible no later
• 1:19:03
  than 90AD. But then Muhammad in 637 AD, you
• 1:19:10
  know, like about you know, 500 plus years after the Bible was
• 1:19:16
  written, he gets this new revelation from angels and it
• 1:19:23
  denies that Jesus is the Son of God if Jesus is the way the
• 1:19:27
  truth. And the life into God's.
• 1:19:29
  Kingdom. Don't you think that's just a
• 1:19:31
  perfect deception by the enemy to get people to not make it
• 1:19:38
  into the Kingdom of God? Now if Allah is called the great
• 1:19:42
  deceiver, then wouldn't you be a little concerned that maybe it
• 1:19:49
  is Satan in disguise making people blind and telling them
• 1:19:55
  that Jesus is not the Son of God?
• 1:19:58
  To me it sounds like a perfect strategy for God's enemy, so I'm
• 1:20:03
  not here to like. Dashed another religion,
• 1:20:08
  although anything deception I'm not you know for that and God
• 1:20:12
  will God will do the judgment. What I'm here to do is to warn
• 1:20:16
  anybody who is believing this lie and trying to show people
• 1:20:22
  where the truth is. The truth is found in Scripture.
• 1:20:26
  Jesus is our Savior. He died on the cross so that all
• 1:20:30
  of us, it doesn't matter who you are, it doesn't matter what
• 1:20:34
  nation you are. If you turn to God and confess
• 1:20:39
  your sins and turn away from them and acknowledge what Jesus
• 1:20:45
  did, then you can be in the Kingdom of God.
• 1:20:49
  You need the Holy Spirit like we were talking about being born
• 1:20:51
  again. So my only reason for saying
• 1:20:56
  this is to save other people so that you can come to faith about
• 1:21:04
  the truth and therefore be saved.
• 1:21:08
  It's a if you look at anything about the religion, just pay
• 1:21:12
  attention to how like cruel everything is in Islam.
• 1:21:17
  They talk about peace, but then you look at what is happening
• 1:21:20
  over in the Middle East and the terror that comes from that
• 1:21:26
  religion. And even Muhammad himself went
• 1:21:29
  out in like, slaughtered people. And then if people say, OK,
• 1:21:32
  well, there were the Christian crusaders, Well, those again,
• 1:21:35
  were the ones who call themselves Christians but
• 1:21:38
  weren't Christians. They're, you know, the enemy
• 1:21:41
  infiltrated the Christians just like he has infiltrated other
• 1:21:46
  religions. Didn't we talk about in the
• 1:21:47
  beginning of this podcast about even like versus people?
• 1:21:52
  Just because somebody has an elevated position in a religion
• 1:21:57
  does not mean they are good and does not mean that they are not
• 1:22:01
  spewing deception. The enemy will use something
• 1:22:07
  that people look up to, something that people consider
• 1:22:10
  holy. He will use it.
• 1:22:13
  If you are naive, you will be blinded by it, you will be
• 1:22:18
  deceived by it. So I am just speaking to people
• 1:22:21
  to open your eyes, look into scripture, test it.
• 1:22:24
  Because if you seek God and you ask God, he will make you aware
• 1:22:28
  of this. And if you read the Bible, you
• 1:22:31
  will find out. I mean, I, I would think that
• 1:22:33
  just what I told you now that the Bible was written and warned
• 1:22:37
  people about this 500 years before it happened and then
• 1:22:42
  people believed it anyway. Maybe they didn't have the
• 1:22:45
  Bible, you know, and, and God's not going to hold you
• 1:22:48
  accountable if you go to him and say, I didn't even know about
• 1:22:51
  this. But now I know and now I want
• 1:22:54
  to, I want to be in your Kingdom and, and guide me and show me
• 1:22:57
  and reveal yourself to me. God wants to be revealed.
• 1:23:00
  In fact, there are many Muslim people who are having dreams of
• 1:23:03
  Jesus and then turning their lives over to Jesus.
• 1:23:07
  That point. Now that's pretty radical for
• 1:23:09
  someone who is a Muslim to do that because they will be
• 1:23:12
  completely fun from their family.
• 1:23:14
  And if they're in the Middle East, they will even be killed
• 1:23:16
  if it's found out. And some people are being killed
• 1:23:19
  for their beliefs. But God says if you love your
• 1:23:22
  life and if you love your life, you will lose it.
• 1:23:26
  So if you don't want to lose your life, but if you lose your
• 1:23:29
  life, you will. I don't remember what the other
• 1:23:31
  part is, but you will be in God's Kingdom and there are so
• 1:23:33
  much in store for you and it's a matter of your actions will your
• 1:23:40
  actions will be because of your beliefs.
• 1:23:43
  So if you don't believe this, you're not going to risk your
• 1:23:45
  life for something you don't believe.
• 1:23:48
  So you need to get your questions answered and think
• 1:23:52
  critical. Don't listen to what people say,
• 1:23:55
  even what I'm saying, except I'm backing it up with scripture.
• 1:23:58
  So go to the scripture though, look at God's word and study it
• 1:24:03
  in detail and and compare it, but don't be deceived.
• 1:24:09
  In John chapter 10 verse 10, it says the thief comes only to
• 1:24:14
  steal, kill and destroy. I have come that they may have
• 1:24:19
  life and have it to the full. That's Jesus talking.
• 1:24:23
  He's saying like his enemy is, he's trying to steal people from
• 1:24:27
  him. He's trying to kill them, he's
• 1:24:29
  trying to destroy them. But Jesus came so that we will
• 1:24:32
  have life in God's Kingdom now. People didn't believe Jesus back
• 1:24:37
  then, and some will not believe it now, But those who do, great,
• 1:24:42
  because then we will see one another in God's Kingdom.
• 1:24:46
  And those who don't will, they will regret it.
• 1:24:49
  But you can't force anybody to do anything.
• 1:24:52
  And God gives us free will. So the only thing that we need
• 1:24:55
  to do is be responsible for. Ourselves and.
• 1:25:00
  Try to help other people, try to open up other other people's
• 1:25:04
  eyes, give them resources so that they can see it for
• 1:25:07
  themselves, so they can come to their eyes can be open.
• 1:25:11
  They can come to the knowledge of the word of God and the
• 1:25:15
  wisdom of applying that knowledge so that they can be in
• 1:25:18
  God's Kingdom. Now here's what second John
• 1:25:21
  chapter one verse 7 says. I say this because many
• 1:25:25
  deceivers do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as coming in the
• 1:25:31
  flesh have gone out into the world.
• 1:25:34
  Any such is the deceiver and the Antichrist.
• 1:25:39
  Now there are multiple Antichrist anybody against
• 1:25:42
  Christ, but that person is a deceiver if they are against
• 1:25:47
  Christ, against Jesus being the Messiah.
• 1:25:52
  If they are against that, they are a deceiver.
• 1:25:55
  Do not trust them. OK.
• 1:25:59
  And there's. No, like you know, in.
• 1:26:01
  In other religions, you know, to say that they do talk about
• 1:26:06
  deceivers and they turn it around and make it like the Jews
• 1:26:09
  and the Christians and Islam they say are the deceivers and
• 1:26:12
  all of that. But that's just like the enemy.
• 1:26:15
  Just think about it. The enemy twist the truth turns
• 1:26:17
  it around to the opposite. But in Islam it basically says
• 1:26:22
  that they're going to be like either they're going to convert
• 1:26:25
  to they're going to be forced to believe Islam or they will be
• 1:26:29
  killed. That's what Islam says.
• 1:26:32
  You will either believe, and if you don't believe, you will be
• 1:26:35
  killed. And Christianity, the true
• 1:26:40
  followers of Christ, say this is your choice.
• 1:26:45
  You will either. Believe.
• 1:26:48
  And be in God's Kingdom or don't believe, and then you'll be
• 1:26:53
  subject to judgement. You'll be eternally separated
• 1:26:56
  from God. So it's important to know what
• 1:27:01
  the truth is. And it's very interesting that
• 1:27:04
  one of the phrases or one of the quotes that is attributed to
• 1:27:08
  Jesus says I am the way, the truth and the life.
• 1:27:13
  Truth and life is Jesus and no one comes to the Father except
• 1:27:17
  through me. So anyway then let's see what it
• 1:27:22
  says. OK so it talks about in that day
• 1:27:26
  the Lord will punish the powers of the heavens above and the
• 1:27:28
  kings and the earth below. They will be herded together
• 1:27:31
  like prisoners bound in a dungeon.
• 1:27:33
  They will be shut up in prison and punished after many days.
• 1:27:37
  So after many days I was wondering what does that mean
• 1:27:40
  and when is that there is AI? Guess something that came to
• 1:27:46
  mind was 10 days and that's because in Revelation chapter 2
• 1:27:50
  verse 10 it's talking to believers and it says do not be
• 1:27:54
  afraid of what you are about to suffer.
• 1:27:57
  I tell you the devil will put some of you in prison to test
• 1:28:04
  you and you will suffer perception for 10 days.
• 1:28:10
  Be faithful even to the point of death, and I will give you life
• 1:28:19
  as your victor's crown. So Jesus is saying that even if
• 1:28:24
  we get into prison for 10 days, be faithful even to the point of
• 1:28:28
  death and you will receive life. That's what the Word of God
• 1:28:33
  says. I also wondered if there were
• 1:28:36
  other parts, you know, like how many days or whatever that
• 1:28:41
  people would. Well, I looked up the OK, like
• 1:28:45
  prisoners bound in a dungeon, they will be shut up in prison.
• 1:28:50
  So that also made me think about the abyss because the abyss is
• 1:28:54
  the place where it says that people I guess I think it's the
• 1:28:58
  angels, the actual the fallen angels like I maybe the Nephilim
• 1:29:02
  from Genesis chapter 6 that they were put into the abyss.
• 1:29:08
  So the abyss is a holding place for evil.
• 1:29:12
  And here's what's interesting after the seals happen.
• 1:29:18
  So there's something else that you know.
• 1:29:20
  Like people have. This is important too.
• 1:29:24
  So we talked about Jesus returning around the 6th seal
• 1:29:28
  because last of descriptions about the day of the Lord.
• 1:29:31
  When he returns for judgement. It happens at the 6th seal.
• 1:29:34
  Then the Book of Revelation in chapter 8 goes on to the 7th
• 1:29:40
  seal and listen to what happens then.
• 1:29:42
  OK it says when he opened the 7th seal there was silence in
• 1:29:47
  heaven for about 1/2 hour and I saw 7 angels who stand before
• 1:29:54
  God and seven trumpets were given to them.
• 1:29:57
  So first the 7th seal is open, next there were. 7 angels that
• 1:30:04
  were before. God and seven trumpets were
• 1:30:06
  given to them. So the seals happen before the
• 1:30:10
  trumpets. There are a lot of people that
• 1:30:11
  are mixing all these things up but the word of God says this
• 1:30:14
  way. He says he opens the 7th seal.
• 1:30:18
  Jesus said there was silence in heaven for 1/2 hour and I saw 7
• 1:30:23
  angels who stand before God and seven trumpets were given to
• 1:30:26
  them. This is when the trumpets were
• 1:30:28
  given to them after the 7th seal was opened.
• 1:30:34
  So then it. Goes on to say.
• 1:30:37
  It gives more details and it says then in verse 6 of chapter
• 1:30:43
  8, then the seven angels had the trumpets prepared to sound them.
• 1:30:49
  And then here's where the trumpets start happening.
• 1:30:52
  All of the there's like destructive forces that are
• 1:30:55
  coming about. And so that was that was
• 1:30:58
  something significant that I thought.
• 1:31:02
  But I know there were these days that I don't know the order that
• 1:31:08
  I had these in which OK, I think I might have.
• 1:31:14
  Forgotten to. Put these things so there's
• 1:31:18
  other things. Like in.
• 1:31:20
  Revelation Chapter 11 verse 3 and Revelation chapter 12 verse
• 1:31:25
  6. It's a reference to 1260 days,
• 1:31:29
  which is 3 1/2 years in the book of Daniel chapter 12 verse one.
• 1:31:35
  These are the ones I have written down.
• 1:31:37
  I've got 12 verse 1 chapter 12 verse 7 and Chapter 11 verse 20.
• 1:31:44
  I don't know what that one's 29. I think where it talks about
• 1:31:50
  times times and half a time, which is like 3 1/2 years.
• 1:31:54
  So I don't know. Like they'll be shut up in
• 1:31:56
  prison and be punished after many days.
• 1:31:59
  Is that 10 days? Is that the 1260 days?
• 1:32:03
  Are these relevant at all? Who knows.
• 1:32:06
  We will only know in the aftermath of it all.
• 1:32:10
  But The thing is that we should just know that we should just be
• 1:32:17
  prepared in terms of our relationship with God.
• 1:32:20
  And you know, God will give us the strength to go through
• 1:32:25
  whatever we need to go through. We will rely on the Holy Spirit
• 1:32:29
  of God to have the strength to go through whatever it is that
• 1:32:33
  comes. So I did a word search on
• 1:32:37
  blueletterbible.org Abyss and I'm going to read kind of like
• 1:32:41
  the ending parts of that because again, this is that place of
• 1:32:47
  where angels are imprisoned. So it says the 5th Angel sounded
• 1:32:53
  his trumpet. So remember the seals open, then
• 1:32:56
  the trumpet and I saw a star that had fallen from the sky to
• 1:33:02
  the earth. Star is representative of
• 1:33:05
  angels. The star was given the key to
• 1:33:10
  the shaft of the abyss. So judgement is coming.
• 1:33:14
  Remember when Jesus returns, judgement is coming.
• 1:33:18
  So this is all under God's control.
• 1:33:20
  And at the 5th trumpet, he's given a key, a star that had
• 1:33:27
  fallen. So he was given a key.
• 1:33:31
  When he opened the abyss, smoke rose from it like the smoke from
• 1:33:36
  a gigantic furnace. The sun and sky were darkened by
• 1:33:39
  the smoke from the abyss. Then it says they had as king
• 1:33:43
  over them the Angel of the abyss, whose name in Hebrew is
• 1:33:48
  Abaddon and in Greek is Apollyon, that is Destroyer.
• 1:33:54
  So think about all these names like I don't know if it's a
• 1:33:57
  separate Angel or if it's actually another name that Satan
• 1:34:00
  goes by. And you know, like these fallen
• 1:34:03
  angels. Angels can appear like the ones
• 1:34:05
  of light and so do they appear to these people and tell people
• 1:34:11
  there's a different name is, you know, there's certainly 1/3 of
• 1:34:16
  the angels. So maybe there is there is this
• 1:34:19
  one Angel who is the destroyer and maybe this Angel is not
• 1:34:23
  Satan, but he's part of the alliance with Satan.
• 1:34:28
  So these prisoners had a king over them, the Angel of the
• 1:34:32
  abyss, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon and in Greek is
• 1:34:36
  Apollyon, that is Destroyer. Then in Chapter 11 verse 7, it
• 1:34:42
  says now when they have finished their testimony, this is about
• 1:34:46
  the two witnesses, the beast that comes up from the abyss.
• 1:34:52
  So now we know the source of the abyss, the beast that comes up
• 1:34:56
  from the abyss. So these are like fallen, fallen
• 1:35:01
  angels from Genesis 6 that come up from the abyss.
• 1:35:05
  You know, maybe they, I don't, I don't know what their spiritual
• 1:35:09
  entities that are down there that possess human beings, or if
• 1:35:13
  it's actually spiritual entities that are coming up and form this
• 1:35:19
  beast. This 7 headed beast that comes
• 1:35:23
  up from the abyss will attack them and overpower them and kill
• 1:35:26
  them. So eventually the beast that
• 1:35:30
  comes up will attack them. So the two.
• 1:35:35
  Witnesses are speaking about God and they are pronouncing
• 1:35:42
  judgement. People don't like them because
• 1:35:45
  they're telling people the truth.
• 1:35:47
  But people don't want to hear the truth.
• 1:35:48
  They want to hear good things. And these people are saying
• 1:35:51
  things they don't want to hear, and it says fire comes from
• 1:35:54
  their mouth. I think fire is symbolic.
• 1:35:58
  It could be literal. It could be like these pretty
• 1:36:00
  wild, crazy things, but I think it's probably symbolic.
• 1:36:03
  And that's like the word of God fire.
• 1:36:06
  So the actual like God scripture is coming out of their mouth and
• 1:36:09
  that's how people are being destroyed because they're not
• 1:36:12
  listening to the word of God, they're not being obedient to
• 1:36:14
  the word of God. So that's how they are destroyed
• 1:36:17
  from the fire that comes from one's mouth.
• 1:36:19
  It's the words that come out of the two witnesses mouth and
• 1:36:23
  they're finished their their testimony.
• 1:36:25
  They're giving their testimony and the beast comes up out of
• 1:36:27
  the abyss and attacks them, overpowers them and kills them.
• 1:36:31
  And it says the beast in chapter 17 verse 8, the beast which you
• 1:36:35
  saw once was now is not yet will come up out of the abyss and go
• 1:36:43
  to its destruction. So this is something from
• 1:36:46
  ancient times. So a lot of times in the United
• 1:36:50
  States, I see people trying to figure out who is, who are the 7
• 1:36:54
  kings of the again, they could be human beings that are
• 1:36:58
  possessed by the spiritual entity that's in the abyss.
• 1:37:01
  Who knows? That could be but or it just
• 1:37:06
  could be this beast that comes up.
• 1:37:08
  It says, I think it one comes up out of the land and the other
• 1:37:12
  comes up out of the sea, which among the people so will it'll
• 1:37:16
  come out of the abyss and go to its destruction.
• 1:37:19
  The inhabitants of the earth whose names have not been
• 1:37:23
  written in the Book of life from the creation of the world, will
• 1:37:26
  be astonished when they see the beast, because it once was, now
• 1:37:31
  is not, and yet will come. So notice these are the people
• 1:37:36
  who are not written in the Book of Life.
• 1:37:38
  They have not surrendered to God.
• 1:37:41
  They are rebellious to God. They're going to be astonished
• 1:37:45
  when they see this beast and then it says in Revelation 20.
• 1:37:49
  Verse 1 and I saw an. Angel coming down out of heaven,
• 1:37:53
  having the key to the abyss, and holding in his hand a great
• 1:37:58
  chain. So now there's an Angel coming
• 1:38:00
  down from heaven. It doesn't say a fallen one.
• 1:38:02
  It doesn't say the one who had fallen from the sky like it in
• 1:38:06
  the 5th trumpet, but it says this is an Angel coming down of
• 1:38:10
  heaven having the key to the abyss and holding his hand a
• 1:38:13
  great chain. And then it says he threw in in
• 1:38:17
  verse three he threw him into the abyss and locked and sealed
• 1:38:20
  it over him to keep him from deceiving the nation's.
• 1:38:24
  This is referring to Satan anymore until the 1000 years
• 1:38:28
  were ended. After that he must be set free
• 1:38:31
  for a short time. So during the Millennium reign
• 1:38:34
  of Christ, Satan is going to be in the abyss.
• 1:38:38
  He's going to be locked up and it's going to be sealed and it
• 1:38:41
  is going to keep him from deceiving the nation's anymore,
• 1:38:45
  not giving them a fair chance where they can actually come to
• 1:38:49
  faith or or not. So that is, I think, very
• 1:38:55
  important. Things.
• 1:38:56
  The two witnesses. I want to read about them in
• 1:39:01
  Revelation Chapter 11. I was given a Reed like a
• 1:39:04
  measuring rod and was told go and measure the temple of God in
• 1:39:07
  the altar with its worshippers, but exclude the outer court.
• 1:39:10
  Do not measure it because it has been given to the Gentiles.
• 1:39:15
  They will trample on the holy city for 42 months.
• 1:39:18
  That's 3 1/2 years. And I will appoint 2 witnesses
• 1:39:22
  and they will prophecy for 1260 days clothed in sackcloth.
• 1:39:27
  That means they're mourning their warning.
• 1:39:31
  These are the 2 olive trees and the two lampstands, and they
• 1:39:36
  stand before the Lord of the earth.
• 1:39:39
  It the two lampstands could be the churches in Revelation
• 1:39:43
  because that's what they were, representations.
• 1:39:46
  Representations of the two olive trees.
• 1:39:49
  You know, these could be, you know.
• 1:39:53
  Jewish people or. Gentile people or both, We don't
• 1:39:56
  know. If anyone tries to harm them,
• 1:39:59
  fire comes from their mouth and devours their enemies.
• 1:40:02
  Again, that could be the word of God.
• 1:40:03
  This is how anyone who wants to harm them must die.
• 1:40:07
  They have the power to shut up the heavens so that it won't
• 1:40:10
  rain during the time they are prophesying and they have the
• 1:40:14
  power to turn the waters into blood and to strike the earth
• 1:40:18
  every kind of plague as often as they want.
• 1:40:23
  So I think that these, these two witnesses, there's oh, there was
• 1:40:29
  something that, and I think they are actually like the holy ones
• 1:40:35
  from God that are, it's oh, I know I looked it up on the 2
• 1:40:41
  witnesses and they are actually called martyrs.
• 1:40:44
  So God is a couple people that they will be giving their life
• 1:40:47
  up. And I don't know if they're,
• 1:40:51
  they're holy ones or if they're human beings will be the two
• 1:40:57
  weak witnesses or if they are two witnesses from heaven.
• 1:41:00
  I'm not sure. But he just says I will appoint
• 1:41:02
  my 2 witnesses. So they're going to be a couple.
• 1:41:07
  They have. And you know, they, they're
• 1:41:09
  going to be striking the earth lights too.
• 1:41:14
  Now when they have finished their testimony, the beast, they
• 1:41:17
  when they finish their testimony.
• 1:41:18
  So after the 3 1/2 years, the beast comes up from the abyss
• 1:41:21
  and will attack them and overpower them and kill them.
• 1:41:24
  Their bodies lie in the public store of the great city, which
• 1:41:27
  is figuratively called Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was
• 1:41:31
  crucified. So that means they're going to
• 1:41:33
  be in Jerusalem. Figuratively, it's called Sodom
• 1:41:35
  and Egypt because they're, you know, Israel worshipped or
• 1:41:40
  didn't worship God and turned away from God and were immoral
• 1:41:45
  and worshipped other gods and that's, you know, it.
• 1:41:50
  Yeah. It says it'll be in the public
• 1:41:52
  square. It says where also their Lord
• 1:41:54
  was crucified. So the Lord was crucified
• 1:41:56
  outside the city of Jerusalem. So that's apparently in the
• 1:42:00
  public square. These two witnesses will be
• 1:42:03
  killed there for 3 1/2 days. Some from every tribe, language,
• 1:42:09
  and. Nation will gaze on.
• 1:42:10
  Their bodies and refuse them burial.
• 1:42:13
  The inhabitants of the earth, probably the people that are not
• 1:42:16
  written the Lord's book of life will gloat over them and
• 1:42:20
  celebrate by sending each other gifts.
• 1:42:22
  Because these two prophets had torment those who live on earth.
• 1:42:28
  But after 3 1/2 days, the breath of life from God entered them
• 1:42:33
  and they stood on their feet and terror struck those who saw
• 1:42:36
  them. Then they heard a loud voice
• 1:42:39
  from heaven saying Come up here and they went up to heaven in a
• 1:42:45
  cloud while their enemies looked on.
• 1:42:48
  At that very hour, there was a severe earthquake and a tenth of
• 1:42:52
  the city collapsed. 7000 people were killed in the earthquake
• 1:42:57
  and the survivors were terrified and gave glory to the God of
• 1:43:01
  heaven. So the second.
• 1:43:04
  Woe is past. The third woe is coming.
• 1:43:06
  In it then the you know, the 7th trumpet comes after that so on.
• 1:43:13
  Let's see if there's anything in Daniel chapter 12.
• 1:43:18
  It talks. About this is something else to
• 1:43:21
  reference at that time. Michael, the great Prince who
• 1:43:25
  protects your people, so Michael is the Angel who protects the
• 1:43:30
  people of Israel will arise. There will be a time of distress
• 1:43:34
  such as not such as has not happened from the beginning of
• 1:43:39
  all nations until then That sounds just like what Jesus said
• 1:43:43
  in Matthew 24. There was great distress that
• 1:43:46
  had never been seen before and will never be seen again.
• 1:43:49
  And that's right before the Antichrist is revealed.
• 1:43:54
  But at that time, your people, everyone whose name is found
• 1:43:58
  written in the book, will be delivered.
• 1:44:00
  OK, so it says. Multitudes who sleep in the dust
• 1:44:04
  of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, others to
• 1:44:08
  shame and everlasting content. Those who are wise will shine
• 1:44:12
  like brightness of the heavens, and those who lead and those who
• 1:44:15
  lead many to righteousness, like the stars forever and ever.
• 1:44:20
  But you Daniel, roll up and seal the words of the scroll until
• 1:44:25
  the end, the until the time of the end.
• 1:44:29
  Many will go here and there to increase knowledge.
• 1:44:33
  So again, this is what? And then later on it says
• 1:44:44
  Daniel. Says I heard but I did not
• 1:44:45
  understand so I asked my. Lord, what will the outcome of
• 1:44:48
  all this be? He replied.
• 1:44:49
  Go your way, Daniel, because the words are rolled up and sealed
• 1:44:52
  until the end. Until the time of the end, many
• 1:44:56
  will be purified, made spotless, and refined, but the wicked will
• 1:45:01
  continue to be wicked. None of the wicked will
• 1:45:04
  understand, but those who are wise will understand.
• 1:45:10
  And then it says from that, from the time the daily sacrifice is
• 1:45:13
  abolished and the abomination that causes desolation is set
• 1:45:17
  up, there will be 1290 days. So that's 3 1/2 years plus
• 1:45:22
  another 30 days. And then it says blessed is the
• 1:45:25
  one who waits and reaches the end of 1335 days.
• 1:45:32
  And then it says, As for you go your way till the end, you will
• 1:45:38
  rest. And then at the end of days, you
• 1:45:42
  will rise to receive your allotted inheritance.
• 1:45:46
  So Daniel was told just wait about this.
• 1:45:50
  This doesn't this is going to be in the end, you're going to rise
• 1:45:52
  up, you're going to get your inheritance.
• 1:45:54
  But just these are the words seal them up.
• 1:45:57
  In the end, people are going to be talking about this so.
• 1:46:07
  Then I do want to read this about because.
• 1:46:09
  This is really important because I think people get things out of
• 1:46:12
  order. There's a lot of people that,
• 1:46:15
  you know, say nothing needs to happen for the rapture to
• 1:46:18
  happen. You know, like we are rapture
• 1:46:20
  ready and all of this. They just haven't read the word
• 1:46:25
  of God carefully enough to see this, because if you study the
• 1:46:30
  Word carefully, you will find out that Babylon is fallen
• 1:46:33
  before hand and this hasn't happened yet.
• 1:46:38
  And then in Thessalonians 2, chapter 2, verse one, I'm going
• 1:46:43
  to read this, OK, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ
• 1:46:49
  and our being gathered to Him. We ask you, brothers and
• 1:46:54
  sisters, not to become easily unsettled or alarmed by the
• 1:47:01
  teaching allegedly from us, whether by prophecy or by word
• 1:47:04
  of mouth or by letter, asserting that the day of the Lord has
• 1:47:07
  already come. So he's telling like there was
• 1:47:10
  some time back then where there were deceivers going out saying,
• 1:47:14
  oh, God's already come. But he says, this is Paul.
• 1:47:18
  Don't let anyone deceive you in any way, for that day will not
• 1:47:23
  come until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness is
• 1:47:31
  revealed, the man doomed to destruction.
• 1:47:37
  So there's going to be rebellion and the man of lawlessness is
• 1:47:41
  revealed. Have we has the Antichrist been
• 1:47:45
  revealed yet? No.
• 1:47:47
  Has Babylon been destroyed yet? No.
• 1:47:50
  Those are two things that have to happen before the Lord will
• 1:47:53
  gather because in in verse one, it said our being gathered to
• 1:47:58
  him. So then it it goes in verse 4,
• 1:48:01
  it's talking about this man of lawlessness.
• 1:48:03
  He will approve and exalt himself over everything that is
• 1:48:07
  called God or is worshipped, so that he sets himself up in God's
• 1:48:13
  temple, claiming himself to be God.
• 1:48:19
  Don't you remember that when I was with you, I used to tell you
• 1:48:23
  these things? And now you know what is holding
• 1:48:25
  him back, so that he may be revealed at the proper time.
• 1:48:31
  For the secret power of lawlessness is already at work.
• 1:48:36
  But the one who now holds it back will continue to do so till
• 1:48:42
  he is taken out of the way. I recently heard something that
• 1:48:46
  like taken out of the way. Is is is a bad translation
• 1:48:49
  isolation for it? So I will go to what that verse
• 1:48:52
  says. For the mystery of Lawless is
• 1:48:54
  already at work. Only he who now restrains will
• 1:48:58
  do so until he is taken out of. The way is what it says.
• 1:49:03
  But until he is taken, let's see what taken stands for to become,
• 1:49:11
  to come in existence to perhaps a happening of events to be made
• 1:49:16
  finished, to become, to be made. So it doesn't mean like raptured
• 1:49:21
  or anything like that or taken out of the way.
• 1:49:23
  It just means like until he is present.
• 1:49:26
  So I think again, people are not studying the word of God
• 1:49:32
  critically or you know, we don't have until the blue letter
• 1:49:36
  Bible, blueletterbible.org. You can click on the tools
• 1:49:42
  button and find out the original Greek or the original Hebrew and
• 1:49:46
  then go deeper and look into the descriptions.
• 1:49:50
  And, and that's a good way to just study and get really
• 1:49:54
  detailed about when you hear a verse or you have a question of
• 1:49:57
  a verse, go back to the original language and see what was stated
• 1:50:01
  there. And also search through the
• 1:50:03
  entire Bible. And you can do that in an
• 1:50:06
  electronic Bible to look for the keywords that you're searching
• 1:50:09
  and see all of the references to it.
• 1:50:11
  I mean, we need to apply critical thinking when we hear
• 1:50:15
  these things and not just believe everything that
• 1:50:17
  everybody says. So it says the coming of the
• 1:50:20
  lawless. One will be in.
• 1:50:22
  Accordance with how Satan works. So obviously Satan is empowering
• 1:50:26
  this one. He will use all sorts of
• 1:50:29
  displays of power through the signs and wonders that serve the
• 1:50:33
  lie and all the ways that wickedness deceives those who
• 1:50:39
  are perishing. So wickedness is deceiving those
• 1:50:42
  who are perishing. They perished because they
• 1:50:47
  refused to love the truth and and so be saved.
• 1:50:56
  Jesus is the way, the truth and the life.
• 1:50:57
  Remember, they refused to love the truth and so be saved.
• 1:51:05
  Think about that. Jesus said He is the way, the
• 1:51:07
  truth and the life. No one comes to the Father
• 1:51:10
  except through me. For this reason God sends them a
• 1:51:14
  powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie.
• 1:51:18
  He God turns us over to our wishes, and so that all will be
• 1:51:23
  condemned who have not believed the truth, but have delighted in
• 1:51:29
  wickedness. So.
• 1:51:33
  Again, this is. Really important to know what's
• 1:51:38
  in the Bible and I think the I think I've covered all the
• 1:51:42
  Scripture that I wanted to outside of Isaiah and but we
• 1:51:49
  have a little bit more another paragraph or so it says, not
• 1:51:53
  paragraph. The moon will be dismayed, the
• 1:51:55
  sun, ashamed for the Lord Almighty will reign on Mount
• 1:51:59
  Zion and in Jerusalem and before its elders with great glory.
• 1:52:04
  So this is the start of the Millennium that it talks about.
• 1:52:08
  And what's interesting is the moon will be dismayed.
• 1:52:10
  If you look at that word like I was talking about, do deeper
• 1:52:13
  dive research into it. It says it's like paper or
• 1:52:18
  something like that. And it means to blush.
• 1:52:21
  So it could mean red. Like if you're, you know that
• 1:52:25
  word, if you're dismayed, you're embarrassed, you turn red, you
• 1:52:29
  get red faced. So the moon will be that the
• 1:52:33
  moon turns to blood. Is that like a symbolic way
• 1:52:37
  about it? The sun will be ashamed.
• 1:52:39
  And if you look up the root of that word, it's not the same
• 1:52:42
  word as dismayed that's used in the original Greek, not the well
• 1:52:46
  in the Greek words, but it it talks about being pale or maybe
• 1:52:51
  dimmed. So the light of the sun is
• 1:52:54
  dimmed by God Almighty, who's going to be reigning.
• 1:52:59
  So the sun will no longer give its light.
• 1:53:01
  It's going to be dimmed because the Lord God, So the study Bible
• 1:53:06
  says, will God literally reign in Jerusalem?
• 1:53:09
  Some believe this prophecy will be fulfilled by Christ returning
• 1:53:13
  to earth and reigning over the world.
• 1:53:15
  That's what I believe. Others view this prophecy
• 1:53:18
  symbolically as a description of the New Jerusalem after the
• 1:53:22
  destruction of the earth, in that case, Isaiah's.
• 1:53:26
  Observation that the moon would. Be dismayed and the sun ashamed
• 1:53:29
  would be a reference to the fact that they don't shine when the
• 1:53:33
  Lord is the everlasting light. So there's, you know, certainly
• 1:53:38
  things are open to the I. Don't know to understanding.
• 1:53:45
  And there might be many theories.
• 1:53:47
  The very last thing that I'll say is the last verse.
• 1:53:50
  How and when will God devastate the earth?
• 1:53:53
  To this point, Isaiah warnings have been about God's judgment
• 1:53:57
  on specific nations, but here he broadens the Word of doom to
• 1:54:01
  encompass the entire world. Destruction will come to all who
• 1:54:07
  sin. The picture he paints is
• 1:54:10
  devastation so complete that it will rival the flood God sent in
• 1:54:15
  the time of Noah Ruin. Its face suggests a disaster
• 1:54:19
  that will change the contours of the planet much like the flood
• 1:54:23
  did. Natural disasters such as
• 1:54:26
  earthquakes, droughts and crashing meteorites have the
• 1:54:29
  potential to do that. This much is clear.
• 1:54:33
  God, not human beings, will lay waste to the planet in judgement
• 1:54:39
  for sin. We don't know when this
• 1:54:42
  destruction will happen, but Isaiah seems to say that after
• 1:54:46
  the earth is laid waste, God will make a new creation.
• 1:54:51
  Perhaps this will be in the last days of human history when God
• 1:54:55
  defeats evil once and for all because many scholars have
• 1:54:58
  interpreted this message this way.
• 1:55:02
  Chapters 24 through 27 are known as the Apocalypse of Isaiah.
• 1:55:09
  Well, in Revelation chapter 20 and 21, which I won't read, but
• 1:55:14
  that talks about like the new heavens and the new earth coming
• 1:55:17
  down out of heaven, like God is going to restore.
• 1:55:20
  We will be living down here on earth.
• 1:55:22
  We're not going to be like up in heaven.
• 1:55:23
  God is his intention is to live here on earth as he did
• 1:55:27
  originally when Adam and Eve first started out.
• 1:55:31
  But when they chose sin, he left and has not physically been
• 1:55:36
  here. But in the future, God will be
• 1:55:39
  with us here on earth and it'll be a new earth.
• 1:55:42
  And the only reason why I say it's a new earth and not this
• 1:55:45
  earth, it says, you know, Isaiah just got finished saying the
• 1:55:47
  whole thing is going to be destroyed.
• 1:55:48
  It's going to burn up. And then there's a description
• 1:55:52
  of Jerusalem, and the city of Jerusalem is as tall as it is
• 1:55:57
  wide, and it gives dimensions in there in cubits.
• 1:56:01
  But when that's translated to feet, because that's all I can
• 1:56:04
  understand are miles, but it basically is going to be about
• 1:56:08
  half the size of the United States.
• 1:56:11
  Think about that this, you know, Israel is about the size of New
• 1:56:16
  Jersey. It's been compared to that, but
• 1:56:19
  Jerusalem itself in the future is going to be half the size of
• 1:56:23
  the United States, that wide and as tall.
• 1:56:28
  There's going to be multiple levels.
• 1:56:30
  So this is going to be like a place that we have never seen
• 1:56:33
  before. This is God's creation,
• 1:56:35
  something new and something that is going to be absolutely
• 1:56:39
  beautiful. If you want some hope in the
• 1:56:41
  future, read chapters 20 and 21 are 21 and 22.
• 1:56:46
  The last couple chapters of the of Revelation because that's
• 1:56:50
  what we have to look forward to us.
• 1:56:52
  This is going to this has been my longest podcast ever and I
• 1:56:56
  hope another one isn't this long, but this is so important.
• 1:57:01
  Please share this with other people because this effects each
• 1:57:05
  and every one of us. Turn to God.
• 1:57:09
  Ask God to reveal himself to you.
• 1:57:12
  Ask for forgiveness. Ask for the Holy Spirit become
• 1:57:15
  born again.