Romans 11:25,36 -Glory Forever- Pastor Rick Beaudry 2023-09-17

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Romans 11 beginning with verse 25. For I would not brethren that you should be ignorant of this mystery lest you should be wise in your own conceits that blindness in part has happened unto Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles be come in. And so all Israel shall be saved as is written there shall come out of Zion the deliverer and shall turn away unguideliness from Jacob for this is my covenant unto them when I shall take away their sins as concerning the gospel they are enemies for your sakes but as touching the election they are beloved for the Father's sake.

For the gifts and the calling of God are without repentance for as ye in times past have not believed God yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief even so have these also now not believed that through your mercy they also may obtain mercy for God has concluded them all in unbelief that he might have mercy upon all. Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God how unsearchable are his judgments and his ways past finding out for who has known the mind of the Lord or who has been his counselor or who has first given to him and it shall be recompense unto him again for of him and through him and to him are all things to whom be glory forever amen. Father we thank you for your Holy Word and Lord we it's just such a privilege to be able to meet here at the seven day Venice Church and their love for us and their caring and treating us like a ministry they let they let us meet here Lord we're just so thankful Lord we pray for your blessing your continued blessing upon them and the church that meets after us that the churches in Kitsap County would flourish Lord that we'd be a great light in a very dark County in a very dark era in time Lord we lift up our loved ones who have been sick we lift up Daryl thank you that his successful heart surgery and Jason and Karen Menard and Lord we lift up Mike and others who have gone through traumatic things this past year continue to bring healing to their bodies continue to undergird and strengthen the families represented here thank you for the example of Mike and D 18 years of bliss 18 years of great marriage and others in the room here thank you Lord that you're a God that takes broken people and broken lives and puts us back together for those of us that have fallen Lord you've been there to help us back up and keep us going undergird and strengthen our children our grandchildren Lord we want to make it to the finish line we want to see each one enter into all that you've intended all that you desire for him anoint and bless this time as we study your word be with Sue be with Marlene as a minister in Hawaii and Lord just pour out your Holy Spirit upon each of us give us ears to hear and eyes to see Lord that our spiritual faculties would be adept at discerning the times in which we're living Lord so bless now we pray be our teacher in Jesus name amen would you please be seated in Jeremiah chapter 9 verse 23 thus sayeth the Lord let not the wise man glory in his wisdom neither let the mighty man glory in his might neither let the rich man glory in his riches but let him that glory glory in this that he understands and knows me that I'm a God that exercises loving kindness and judgment and righteousness in the earth for in these things I delight sayeth the Lord in it isn't it a blessing that you know God isn't a blessing that the thing that you can boast in that you can really you know lift your arms up in praise and worship is that I know Jesus I know where I'm going and the reason you know him is because he revealed himself to you you didn't you didn't choose him he chose you and in that election God electing you there came a point in time where God revealed himself to you through the gospel the glorious gospel is the means by which the message by which that he reveals himself you know unto us and so so you know how is it you know so many people don't know him it frustrates me when I watch people that are in unbelief I know that the devil is blinded their eyes and you know and you have to sow in another water and God has to eventually bring the increase but the the gift of watching God save somebody is just such an amazing miracle when you see the light bulb go on and you see their lives begin to be transformed and changed you know right before your eyes it's a very exciting to be in a church that has a birthing room a place where new believers are birthed the little babies are just so incredible this week Brittany you know posted a little video of Ruthie with a little place where she says dude you know and and it was so hilarious it's so funny but that we love being around babies we love being around these infants and watching that new birth take place so too with spiritual infants with people being born again if you're in a church that doesn't evangelize it's been said that it fossilizes and there's a sterility very sterile and you know a dry orthodoxy if you will anytime you share the gospel with somebody at work or play or wherever and you have that blessing of inviting them to church or you have the blessing of sharing the Romans road that we had you write in your Bible Romans 323 and Romans 58 Romans 623 and Romans 10 verse 13 whosoever calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved it's a huge blessing to be a part of that process a part of God's moving and working because at this point in time he's enlisted you and I we're in the Lord's army we're in that we're fulfilling the Great Commission and in this church age in which we're in there's a point in time where the fullness of the Gentiles will be come in and the church age will end and it will end with the rapture where the Lord will come for us you know for his bride and so it's for God's glory that this is taking place that a man should come to understand it says in verse 36 of him and through him and to him are all things to whom be glory forever amen to God be the glory Paul's theme Romans 1 16 and 17 the theme of this book I'm not ashamed of the gospel of Christ are you ashamed of the gospel Christ no I'm not ashamed the gospel is Christ for it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believes to the Jew first the priorities to the Jew and then to the Gentile for therein where within the gospel for therein the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith as it is written the just shall live by faith and so here we have the glory that's due unto the Lord's name and that we can glory we can praise the Lord because we know him and we know him because he first knew us we love him because he first loved us and so it's through the gospel the gospel reveals the glory of God as seen in four areas the glory of God is seen in his marriage secondly his Messiah thirdly his mercy and fourthly and in his matchless wisdom notice first of all his glory seen in his marriage verse 25 for I would not brethren that you should be ignorant of this mystery lest you should be wise in your own conceits this word mystery speaks of a truth something that was once concealed and now revealed so in the Old Testament we could see the wife of Jehovah we could see that the Lord had a relationship that he likened to marriage with the nation of Israel even with Hosea you know given a writing of divorcement and all that in their in their idolatry and their lack of faithfulness on the God divorce them for a time but his promises them are yay-nay men and he's going to fulfill those promises and Jeremiah 31 we see that he's going to write his his law within their heart there's gonna be a remnant that's going to be preserved through the tribulation period that's going to come to know him all of Israel all the elect you know shall be saved but the mystery that was hid from the Apostle Paul and Peter and all the rest of the Jews was the mystery of the church they never saw the church in the Old Testament it's a mystery something once concealed now revealed this church age that we're in at Pentecost when you know when the the Holy Spirit was poured out upon that hundred and twenty people and then it's exploding to five thousand three thousand and continuing on into Samaria and all the way to the house of Cornelius in chapter 10 to the Gentiles and Paul all the way to Damascus in chapter 9 and it begins to spread all over the world and the the largest most prominent cities in the Roman Empire that of Rome and Corinth and Ephesus and others are just exploding in growth with the the church churches being planted in all and so that which was once concealed now revealed a divinely given insight God's plan of salvation as pertaining to Jews and Gentiles so the church is made up of Jews and Gentiles starts out with the Jews and then as the Jews of you know continue to reject the gospel goes forth in a broader way to that of the Gentiles and so in Ephesians 3 verse 6 Paul in writing about this he said that the Gentiles should be fellow heirs and of the same body and partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel this is this is just unheard of in the mind of the Jew they'd wake up each morning thanking God that they weren't born a slave that they weren't born a Gentile that they weren't born a woman the males these chauvinistic males that's how they'd wake that's how they'd roll they saw the Gentiles as simply fuel for the fires of hell so when the Gentiles started getting saved it provoked the Jews to jealousy they're all jealous like you you guys can't come you can't come we're the doorkeepers you can't come unless you you're proselytized and become a Jew you got to be circumcised you got to follow the law you got to live like us and all and and and so no no no no salvation is by grace through faith alone the judge shall live by faith Colossians 126 even the mystery which has been hid from ages and from generations but now is made manifest to his saints to whom God would make known that is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles which is Christ in you the hope of glory the indwelling of the Holy Spirit that the Holy Spirit would indwell if you have not the Spirit Romans chapter 8 you're none of his and so the dispensation of the Holy Spirit being given Nicodemus you must be born again and so not just body and soul but body soul and spirit Christ in you the hope of glory the indwelling of the Holy Spirit the birth of the church in this regard the Old Testament saints did not have the indwelling of the Holy Spirit but we in the church do because Jesus was crucified buried raised himself from the dead he said expedient that I go to the father because I'll send the comforter I'll send the Holy Spirit who's going to be with you in you and upon you the EP experience the power of the Holy Spirit the baptism the Holy Spirit empowerment for service and Jesus spoke of that in Acts chapter 1 verse 8 his witnesses his martyrs in Jerusalem Judea Samaria and the uttermost how are we going to do the job he's given us in the power of the Holy Spirit can't do it in the arm of the flesh but he hasn't left us alone he's given us the comforter the Holy Spirit to God be the glory great things he has done notice it says that blindness in part is happened to Israel so only in part and only temporary the church does not take the place of the nation of Israel the nation of Israel's been set aside they're awaiting the 77 of Daniel the time of Jacob's trouble the tribulation period pertaining to the nation of Israel where Zechariah 13 verse 8 and 9 indicates that only a one-third remnant will be saved so if there's 16 million Jews on the planet today if it were to happen the tribulation period only one-third would come through that fire purified coming through that fire and would be waiting for the Lord there a Basra in Isaiah 63 waiting for the Lord to come as they cry out blessed as he that comes in the name of the Lord and they're running from the Antichrist there they're there in the rock city area Petra southern Jordan Basra Mount Seir and prophesied by the Lord and so that's that one-third remnant that's going to come through the time of Jacob's trouble two-thirds are going to be destroyed by the Antichrist and by the cataclysmic events that the anti-semitism that comes against the apple of God's eye in Revelation 12 the devil sees his time is short he's cast out of heaven and he runs after he goes after all this effort for the second half of the tribulation period against the woman which is the nation of Israel and so blindness in part has happened to Israel only in part and temporary we're not replacement theology people we don't think the church is taking the place of the nation of Israel and so Jews are being still safe in the church age in Matthew 1125 Jesus said I think the old father Lord in heaven because that was hid these things from the wise and prudent and as revealed them unto babes the Gentiles were just babes in understanding the Jews should have far greater understanding they have the Old Testament they've been studying the Old Testament but they didn't see the prophetic keys they didn't see Isaiah 53 is pertaining to Messiah that would be crucified they didn't see although they read Psalm 22 they didn't see it in the time where the Lord was born in Bethlehem there you know in time when the tax went out from Caesar Augustus and all the world be taxed and Mary and Joseph have to trek toward Bethlehem from Nazareth area you know the wise men come all the way from Babylon and so Daniel and the boys left some sort of information there in you know Babylon concerning the king of the Jews and they're following the stars his star of specific sore star the star of Bethlehem that stood over the house that he was in two years after his actual birth but you know the the religious leaders along with King Herod there's another king where is he to be born and all and they they said Bethlehem was only six miles from Jerusalem but they wouldn't even go see for themselves and so there's no room for him in the end there was no room in the hearts of these people in the nation he came on to his own his own received him not but to as many as received him to them gave he the power to become the sons of God whosoever will let him come but blindness in part has happened under Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles come in notice it says until the fullness of the Gentiles be come in that word until speaks of a set time or dispensation so you'll hear people talk about dispensationalist what's that mean it's a big word it just means God deals with us in a period of time in a certain way this is called the dispensation of the church age so we're in the church age and tell the fullness of the Gentiles be come in now there's a set number when it talks about this dispensation it's not it's not just a timing thing but also the fullness and we'll see that in a second so this present dispensation is the church age a dispensation of grace whereby the Holy Spirit is gathering a bride for Christ it's not the Luke 21 42 which is the times of the Gentiles so don't confuse the fullness of the Gentiles with the times of the Gentiles Luke 21 excuse me Luke 21 24 speaks of the time where the Gentiles to be dominant over the nation of Israel so where do we see that we see that in the book of Daniel with Nebuchadnezzar God raising up King Nebuchadnezzar to wipe out the Jews and wipe out Jerusalem and also they became dominant a world-dominant power over the Jews and destroying Jerusalem in 586 BC and then later in the times of the Gentiles we see the Medes and the Persians led by Cyrus in Daniel chapter 5 Belteshazzar the grandson of Nebuchadnezzar he's their party and with all the implements and the vases and the and the goblets and all the stuff having a having a huge party and there's a siege going on outside the city gates with the Babylonians excuse me the Medes and the Persians coming and they think it's impregnable they got food they got water they got everything there's no way into this impregnable city but Cyrus and Darius come up with an idea of damming up the Euphrates River causing it to flow in a different direction and then his armies were able to come underneath the levied gates which Isaiah prophesied of and come up into the city as in a moment and Belteshazzar seeing the handwriting upon the wall many many Tekel Eupharsin and so what's that mean Daniel it means your kingdoms taken from you you've been weighed in the valance and found wanting given over to the Medes and the Persians the Medes are the present-day in Iraq the Kurds and still the present-day those in the Kurds and then Iran is the present-day Persians and so the Medes and the Persians then after that you know historically that Alexander the Great came and subdued the Medes and the Persians and they had a world dominating Empire he dies at about 33 years of age and the kingdoms divided to his four generals and then this goes through a period of time and then we have the Romans in the time of Christ the Romans conquer the Greeks the Greek culture permeates all of Roman culture and is dominant the Bible is written in Koine Greek so the Lord setting the stage for not only the Romans to rule and reign with a with a with law in the Pax Romana the various streets and bridges and all the means of travel during that particular time and boats and stuff because he wants the message to get out but also the Greek culture has a language a very powerful language called Koine Greek and the Bible is penned in Koine Greek the New Testament and the Masorettes with the Old Testament in Hebrew and so we have we have something very very precious that's been given us to in that era and so the Romans in their government they're cut off later divided east and west and we talk about this times of the Gentiles we're going to see the rebirth of the Roman Empire during the tribulation period where a person's going to emerge some feel out of the European community we don't know but going to emerge it's part of that group that crucified the Lord and part of the ten toes many feel that this guy's alive today but we don't want to bring attention to him but he's going to sign a peace treaty with a nation of Israel this Antichrist in place of Jesus Christ in the type of government in that ten toes is going to be imperial in that it's going to be a rebirth of the Roman Empire in that they had conquered various parts of the world and then they would have various garrisons and forts and Roman soldiers governing those areas so an imperial rule over the planet and we see 10 toes 10 crowns 10 kings 10 different possibly technocratic corporate type rulers where the world is divided up into these 10 regions and that is going to be the final phase of the times of the Gentiles what's going to cause the end of the times of the Gentiles the return of Jesus Christ some would say in 1967 when Israel took hold of Jerusalem that that was the end of the times of the Gentiles but no no no no the Gentiles still dominate a policy over Israel and the Antichrist certainly he will he's going to go into the temple that he helps rebuild declare himself to be God demand to be worshipped as God and he's going to destroy as we said two-thirds of the Jews so when Jesus returns that times of the Gentiles will end we're going to see Israel in the land Israel in all of their borders that have been promised to them to Abraham Isaac and Jacob they've never realized all of the geographic area that was that they were blessed with and that they were bequeathed and we're going to see them in the land David's going to be ruling and reigning as a prince the twelve apostles going to be ruling and reigning upon thrones you and I ruling reigning as kings and priests and Jesus ruling and reigning as kings of kings and Lord of Lords for 1,000 years he's going to rule and reign so that's a picture and understanding of the difference between the until the fullness of the Gentiles and the time of the Gentiles on into the Millennium Ephesians 5 32 says this a great mystery but I speak concerning Christ in the church and so the intimacy the communion the two becoming one in marriage in Acts 15 14 James is quoting Simon quoting Peter he says God at the first did visit the Gentiles to take out of them a people for his name and so there was a there was a discrepancy in Acts 15 they had a meeting a church meeting of the religious leaders the brother of Jesus James was there and Peter and and Paul and Mary and Ringo no Peter and and Peter's there and he's standing up you know why put a burden upon them that neither we nor our fathers were able to bear and that they were debating over with the Gentiles should be circumcised or not circumcision speaking of the keeping of the law and so the grace that's extended toward the Gentiles the grace is extended toward the Jews and that's what they came up with and so stay away from things that offend from things that are strangled and fornication because it offends the Jews you filthy Gentiles you know stay away so they had a they had a meeting there a tribunal if you will and so they're describing the way that the Lord's bringing in these Gentiles as they brought in at the house of Cornelius and the Holy Spirit was poured out upon the house of Cornelius 2nd Corinthians 11 2 Paul says I've espoused you to one husband that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ so the picture is that the church is the bride of Christ the nation of Israel's the wife of Jehovah there's an intimacy if you lived in a family like I did where your mom's married seven times one of the things that wells up inside of you is a desire to have what's taken away from you so you want a family you want to be successful at marriage in the sense that you don't you know go through different spouses and partners over a lifetime and put your kids through the the craziness you know that that you know that many of us have to endure and so for me I was looking around at people that were married people that had homes and families and all and it was evangelistic toward me it was something I yearned for but also was something that I definitely knew I didn't have the ability that I wasn't going to be able to accomplish that it wasn't in me it wasn't something that I'd be successful at and and so the Lord began to work in me and when he saved me I began to discover that it was his intention all along as he said within the garden it's not good for man to be alone that the two would come together and become one that picture in the garden is a picture of the intimacy that Jesus prayed for in John 17 that we'd be one with the Father even as he and you know the son are one that one is the communion we're going to partake of communion that intimacy on the spiritual level but on the human level the greatest the greatest intimacy that we can experience is the two becoming one male and female he made them and they come together in that oneness and so that is that is the foundation of society is that of the family and it begins with marriage and so the Lord wants you and I to recognize that we're the bride of Christ husbands love your wives like Christ loved the church and gave himself for her so all through the scriptures we see you and I as the church described in this manner and there's a marriage involved this this this marriage if you will and so we we thank the Lord for that you know evangelistic persuasion when you and I we think in terms of a lot of times you know hey I got to get in the ministry I got to be a great missionary I got to be a Billy Graham just be who God's made you to be be a husband be a wife be a family be a grandparent profound why do you think the devil hates the family so much why do you think the devil is trying to skew and destroy what is male what is female what is marriage and trying to destroy it with you know redefinition of marriage that it's not just between a man and a woman can be toward you know anything nowadays and so it's because it's powerful there's a powerful picture in that of marriage of God's desire that we be one with him that we know him intimately and in the life of the Spirit and so so he describes his church as as his bride and notice it says until the fullness of the Gentiles become in so we looked at the timing of it in this word fullness speaks of full number a full set number or unto completion until the fullness of the Gentiles be come in so there's a set number of Gentiles during the church age God knows what that number might be let's say that number is when that tenth million no it's narrow a few there be that find it all right let's when that 27,000 person no I don't know I don't know what the number is whatever that number is that last person when the fullness comes in that last person then it's the rapture now if you're here and you're holding back you get saved today we're ready to go quit holding it back the fullness that completed number the full number that God determines he knows the end from the beginning he knows exactly who that last person is you know and he's he's long-suffering not willing that any which perish but that all would come to repentance that's why he's waiting so long so that he could bring you and I into the fold into the family and and he's gonna love us for all eternity he's never gonna divorce us he's never gonna throw us away you're never going to be orphaned on into the kingdom in the ages to come as kindness going to continue to be poured out upon us only God knows that exact number at the end of the age when that last Gentile responds to the gospel the rapture the church going to take place at that point and we're going to be raptured up he's going to come for you and I his bride now the Jewish marriage is in four stages for you and I to understand the scriptures a Jewish marriage is what this is pictured after and you and I may not have a picture of what entails you know in a Jewish marriage there's four stages the number one is the arrangement or betrothal and the father would go to another father and he'd say hey I got a son and this son of mine he's brilliant you know they might just be little babies you know and and why don't we arrange ahead of time that your daughter and my son would be married one day it could be a year before the marriage it could be as as their children in a range marriage with if you will and the father would have to pay the bride price which in the case of Jesus is blood it's his own blood that was paid he's the kinsmen redeemer the go well it's his blood he came not to be ministered unto but to minister and give his life a ransom for many and so you and I are blood bought that's why Paul's talking to the Ephesian elders in Acts 20 saying take heed take heed over these sheep some are gonna come in from among you some from the outside but you pastors take heed because they were purchased with his blood these are blood bought they're very precious you know in his sight and that's why Paul said I'm jealous over you with a godly jealousy to the church of Corinth because you know I've espoused you to one husband and I fear less as the serpent beguiled Eve so to you could be seduced from the simplicity that's in Christ Jesus that you would be seduced and you'd come to a different Jesus you'd come to a different gospel you'd embrace a different spirit don't do that don't do that don't listen to the to those that are trying to sway you and take you away for the simplicity you know that's in Christ so the father of the groom he pays the bride price that's the arrangement and then secondly comes the fetching the fetching and then the fetching what would happen is the son would go to prepare a room off of his dad's house or build a house and everything and the arrangements would all be made but the bride would be like we see in Matthew 25 the ten virgins five with oil five without they're they're they're getting ready they got their garments that he could come at any moment they don't know when he's gonna come when the grooms gonna come but there be a fetching it could be at night could be midnight could be anytime and and so the emphasis upon being ready and that's the emphasis you and I have Jesus can come to fetch us at any moment that's why he tells us to be watching to be ready to be looking up knowing that your redemption draweth nigh and so Jesus told you and I and John 14 1 through 3 he said let not your heart be troubled you believe in God believe also in me in my father's house are many mentioned you see he goes to the father's house and my father's house are many dwelling places if it weren't so I tell you I go to prepare a place for you and if I go to prepare a place for you I will come again and receive you unto myself that where I am there you may be also location location location where is he heaven heaven and he's promising to come again and so he said pray always that you be counted worthy to escape these things what things in Luke 21 the tribulation period the things that you see the cataclysmic events as we said earlier what problem do you have that the rapture won't solve so pray always that you be counted worthy to escape these things and stand before the Son of God location location location where is he he's going to take you back to heaven so you're going to be raptured you're going to be caught up taken to heaven you're going to be there for seven days this would last and in many cases seven years and when you're there you have the marriage ceremony that would be the next phase is the marriage ceremony you'd go to heaven before the second coming before the end of the tribulation period you would stand at the beam a seat judgment where the Lord is going to reward you he's going to pour out his blessings upon you and you see in Revelation chapter 19 the first 10 verses is the church in heaven and 11 through to the end 11 to verse let's see Revelation 6 through 8 is the ceremony 1 through 10 in heaven 11 through 21 is our return with him so we're going to be raptured he's going to come for us in the cloud so Jesus or excuse me the Apostles Paul said the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout with the voice of the archangel with the Trump of God and the dead in Christ shall rise first that we would that are alive and remain shall be caught up together with him in the clouds and forever be with him and so to meet the Lord in there so shall ever be with him and so he's going to catch us up in the clouds he's going to come for you and I he's not going to as the post tribulation guys that say take us up in the clouds and then come right back with us in the second coming this isn't the second coming this is the rapture of the church and it's before the tribulation period because the tribulation period is a period of wrath and so Revelation chapter 1 verse 19 John the Beloved was instructed to write the things which you have seen write the things which are right the things which shall be hereafter metatauta after these things after the church age so write the things which are the the outline of the book of Revelation chapter 1 is the risen Lord in his glory of vision of Jesus in chapter 1 of Revelation write the things which which you have seen write the things which are in the present tense is Revelation 2 and 3 the church age and you see the word church church church church of Smyrna church when you get to chapter 4 no mention of the church but the 4 and 20 elders are in heaven because in chapter 4 verse 1 that Greek word again metatauta shows up after these things speaking of time and so John says there was a door opened up in heaven he looked up in heaven he heard a voice say come up hither and I'll show you things which shall be hereafter metatauta in the Greek after these things so the church is in heaven in chapter 4 and in chapter 5 because who is worthy to open scroll loose the seal only the line of the tribe of Judas worthy to open the scroll loose the seal John saw him as a lamb that had been slain now from chapter 6 under 19 18 particularly but into 19 because Armageddon is the tribulation period no mention of the church church does not mention the tribulation period you don't go in the tribulation period you're not going to be there why because we're not subject unto God's wrath it's a time of wrath where God pours out his wrath upon a Christ rejecting world to the church of Thessalonica he says wait for his son from heaven whom he raised from the dead even Jesus who delivered us from the wrath to come we're delivered from the wrath to come at the cross of Calvary but he's coming again to grab you and I to take us out of here to deliver us from the wrath that's going to come upon the earth the eschatological wrath that's coming in the tribulation period first Thessalonians 5 verse 10 we were told that we're not appointed under this wrath now there are those who think in in Revelation 6 that there's a pre-wrath you know sort of a judgment that we're going to suffer the wrath of men and not down to verse 17 of chapter 6 you know then it's the wrath of the Lamb problem with that is who's opening the seal it's Jesus in chapter 5 he's the only unworthy to open the seal right and so the other problem with that is if you're gonna if you're gonna try and say well the the seal judgments or trumpet judgments you know that the trumpet when the trumpet sounds the last of the trumpet judgments you know that's when the rapture is going to take place well that's found in first Corinthians chapter 15 verse 51 and 52 and it says I'll show you a mystery we shall not all sleep but we shall be changed in a moment and twinkling night the last trump the trumpet shall sound and the dead shall be raised incorruptible and we shall be changed for this corruption must put on incorruption this mortal must put on immortality that word trumpet is a is familiar to those in Corinth and Thessalonica in that it refers to the feast of trumpets feast of trumpets the very last blast of the trumpet is the tech yet Godola which is a long you know our blast of the trumpet it's at the last Trump the Trump of God that's when the rapture is going to take place with Michael the Archangel Jesus given the command go get him then Michael you know is submissive to Jesus and gives the command and set that point now if it were the trumpet judgment that brings on the rapture how did the Church of Corinth and Thessalonica know about the book of Revelation and that trumpet because it wasn't written yet wasn't written till 95 so in 65 when Thessalonians and when Corinth is being written he's teaching them something any and they were familiar with the feast of trumpets the feast of trumpets when the rapture is going to take place is what he's alluding to here and so the rapture of the church and the ten virgins five are wise they have the oil five are unwise they don't Jesus said pray always that you'd be kind of worthy to escape these things and stand before the Son of Man Luke 21 28 when you see these things begin to come to pass look up for your redemption draweth nigh so the five wise have the oil which is the Holy Spirit which is their safe so you get saved during the church age and you'll be ready those that are not say just going through the motions they don't have the oil if the oil is representative of the Holy Spirit if you have not the Holy Spirit you're none of his and Romans 8 you're not a believer so the key to being ready and watching is to be a spirit-filled believer to have the Holy Spirit and be in the church that teaches prophecy and be a student of prophecy yourself to be watching connecting the dots and be ready it's ludicrous to demonize the doctrine of the rapture the preacher of rapture and and not teach and not encourage one another as you see this day approaching it's called the blessed hope not the bummer hope in Titus 2 13 you know looking unto Jesus you know the author and the finisher of our faith or that that the looking for that blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ and so we're looking we're watching in 1st John chapter 3 verse 2 now are we the sons of God it does not yet appear we shall be but we know that when he shall appear we shall be like them for we shall see him as he is and he that has his hope in him what hope the hope of the rapture he that has his hope in him purifies himself I want to be ready I don't want to live like I used to live thinking hey I'm saved and I can live anyway I want once they've always had no I want to be ready I want to be growing the grace and knowledge of the Lord and be empowered by the Holy Spirit be about my father's business to occupy telecoms and so it's a doctrine of not escapism in the sense of you know hey I'm out of here at the end although we will escape you know I like the idea that we're gonna escape these things that are gonna come upon the planet you know but it's more of a an awareness of how short time is and the Pentecostals used to say it this way to pastor Chuck when he was growing up in these holiness churches you really want to go to the movies what if Jesus came while you're in that movie theater so they put the fear of God in these kids you know that hey he could come at any moment and you know what it what's he gonna find you doing you know and so but there is a certain truth to that and that he could come at any moment what do we want to be found doing I want to be about my father's business I want to be doing what God has called me to do to the Church of Philadelphia in Revelation 3 verse 10 the Lord says because thou has kept the word of my patience are you keeping the word of his patience are you long-suffering are you patient you keep looking up the Tim LaHaye series the left-behind series all the movies all the stuff did it did it erode your desire for the soon return of the Lord did you look but then it didn't happen have you kept the word of his patience are you patiently waiting knowing that he's long-suffering not willing that any would perish but that all would come to repentance you don't want to fall into the prophetic picture of fulfilling prophecy by saying oh where is the promise of his coming as Peter says since the beginning of time everything continues as it always has you know he's never coming again you know and that's where Peter says out of this they're willingly ignorant they're ignorant one day is a thousand years thousand years is one day with the Lord he's long-suffering God's long-suffering unwilling that any would perish but that all would come to repentance so 1900 years the nation of Israel hasn't been in the land and then on May 14 1948 they're reborn as a nation and the Lord waits for me in January of 1980 the Gospels preached I respond and my name's written in the Lamb's Book of Life but God knew from the very beginning that I was one of them that I was part of that fullness if you will that complete completed number which is not complete just yet so because I was kept the word of my patience I also keep thee from the hour of temptation which shall come upon all the world to try them that dwell upon the earth the entire earth is going to go through that tribulation period from Revelation 6 under 19 under 19 in that the Lord Jesus returns with his bride and she's got her white garments on Jude says he comes with ten thousands and thousands of his saints and he's going to come back with us not we don't need to help him we're just with him and we come back having the arrangement the fetching the ceremony in heaven and now we come for the fourth phase of the Jewish wedding that is the marriage supper the marriage supper of the Lamb when Jesus returns we return with him the bloods as high as the horses bridle the only way we get to the peace is that the Prince of Peace pull out his sword of his mouth and the brightness of his coming is your kind of glory and wipe out the Antichrist the false prophet all the globalists all these pretenders Oh how the heathen rage and imagine a vain thing against the Lord and against his anointed in Psalm 2 God holds them in derision God's laughing from heaven at the machinations the strategies of Klaus Schwab and Noah Yuval Harari and the Council on Foreign Relations and Black Rock and State Street and Vanguard and these trillionaires that think that they can control and become as gods you know and you know they're gonna they're going to experience abject failure abject poverty they're found in Revelation chapter 6 hiding in their billion-dollar bunkers trying to hide from the wrath of the Lamb I mean he's the one that can shake the planet and cause whatever kind of bunker they build for it to collapse with an earthquake he can cause radiation to permeate him he can cause anything he wants and by him and they don't get this by him all things consist what that means is everything you see everything you don't see the atoms the neutrons the protons everything is held together by Jesus he's the creator and it's all held together because he's a god of order and they try to diminish his glory as you see in Romans 1 where they worship and serve the creature rather than the creator and they diminish the glory that's due him as creator with their so-called climate you know religious system their climate change stuff which is not science which is a total religious system a false religious system if you will the worshipping of the planet and then secondly they diminish his glory by not worshipping them as Redeemer they don't recognize or value his going to the cross his burial his resurrection and and his soon return and so they're actually concocting plans putting plans together to stop Jesus from returning and take possession of the planet that he made and the planet which he purchased with his own blood when our first federal head Adam fell being usurped by the serpent and so crazy crazy insane rebellion against God and God says he laughs from heaven God has a plan it's all happening according to plan the stage is being set for God to be glorified he's going to pour out his wrath upon these Christ rejecters he's not going to pour out his wrath upon you and I why because he already poured out his wrath upon his son upon the cross of Calvary there's no fearful looking to of judgment for you because God judged your his son in your place you're not going to be judged but um you're going to be rewarded at the Bema seat judgment so the marriage supper at the start of the Millennium John the Baptist who's the friend of the bridegroom Abraham Isaac Jacob Noah all the Old Testament patriarchs are going to be there now they're not they're not being married to Jesus you have to make distinctions you have to make distinctions between different groups and different time periods you have the Old Testament Saints the Old Testament Saints were held in a place where we see in Luke 16 where the rich man and Lazarus were Abraham's bosom they couldn't even be in their resurrected bodies until after Jesus resurrected so the rich man was in a place of grievous torment in Hades Sheol a double compartment of the center of the earth but there was a place that Jesus told the thief on the cross this day will be with me in paradise in Ephesians 4 he that ascended first descended in the lower parts of the earth he emptied that compartment out those are the Old Testament Saints and then you have New Testament Saints who are who is the church a distinction from the time of Pentecost to the present the church age if you will this dispensation what group is after the church age you have a group called the Tribulation Saints Revelation 6 and 7 an innumerable multitude of people beneath the throne of God who refused the mark of the beast are you refusing are you getting ready are you being conditioned to receive the mark of the beast is the world being conditioned to receive the central bank digital currency of fulfillment of Revelation 13 you know 18 16 through 18 where no man's gonna be able to buy or sell without a marketer's right hand or his forehead are you gonna take the mark you allow him to chip you and I don't I don't I don't care if you wear a mask the mask isn't gonna send you to hell I don't want to give into compliance so if I have to if I'm electing and I know it's a lie I'm not gonna do it but as I've talked to many I wouldn't die on that hill at work and I wouldn't give up your job for you know not wearing the mask if they do sue you then excuse me fire you from your job or whatever you know you got assume and you've got a you've got a go for it against them you can't just passively give in but I'll walk away from a restaurant because I'm not gonna wear the mask I'll walk away from the gym because I'm not gonna wear a mask but you if you need a medical procedure or at work or whatever you have to wear that mask wear the mask I don't care I mean you're giving in your compliance they're teaching you compliance if you can tell them no and get away with it fine but determine what hill you want to die on bring the literature in be a student be ready to let them know that that these masks hurt people that they make you sick they make you sicker you get all sorts of respiratory problems and they don't they don't do what you're telling them to do it's a psychological brainwashing a means of compliance is what it is but you're awake you're ready but by no means would you ever ever ever ever allow them to put something in your body that's the line in the sand that's the line you're not gonna chip me Bill Gates we're not gonna do it Biden not gonna happen well I'm gonna sneak it in through the food I'm already sneaking it in through the food and you don't know it well I'm gonna spray you with it Stanford University came with a with a air you know one one within the air they can just spray this room and all of you but you receive well I can't control that as much as lies within me I'm gonna do what's right not violate my conscience and try and resist if I have to come to church with a gas mask oh maybe I'll have to do that then but but I'm not I'm not gonna give into it and I'm not gonna eat the Costco meat on the little toothpick that Alan had that was synthetic meat I mean they're coming hard I'm buying more meat I'm buying more meat more freezers more meat all the time I'm a carnivore got to stay healthy so there's a whole lot of rebellion in my heart against the evil and against what's going on and we cannot be passive I would use the word coward the church that is passive toward this evil is led by pastor cowards and we cannot be cowards our children our grandchildren deserve better they deserve more so as much as lies within us as much as we can we resist the evil at every turn and the early church six million of them died in the first two centuries simply because all they had to do to stay alive and keep their job was to pinch a little incense once a year in a pagan temple and say Caesar is Lord they would not do that they wouldn't diminish the glory that was due God's name and so they're willing to be ostracized willing to be persecuted you know and wiped out in that way so you have the tribulation saints you also have a group called 144,000 12,000 from each of the tribes of Israel you which and then you also have another group of Jews who are the one-third that are preserved at the rock city area of Petra a one-third remnant according to Zechariah you know 1389 you also have some Gentiles in Matthew 25 Jesus going to separate the sheep from the goats all the Jews that enter into the millennium are saved but the Gentiles that enter and they too were saved separated sheep from the goats the sheep of the Gentiles that make it through the tribulation period without being chipped and somehow they make it through which is a clue for you and I because we need to live if this communism that's coming not the tribulation period communism this communism that's trying to envelop the planet enveloped China at one point in time and Chiang Kai-shek got stabbed in the back by her own government and our government funded Mao Mao killed 60 million of his own people so somehow some way if we work together and we live according to Matthew chapter 6 where we seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness all these other things be added unto us he feeds the birds he used ravens to feed and bring some meat to Elijah right carnivore and some bread that was weird some bread too so if we walk by faith the Lord is going to provide and I encourage you to watch that Catherine Austin Fitz video that I posted because she thinks that we can really stall these guys and slow them down you know be in salt and light through prayer and also through our unwillingness to comply to go along with it and to use a gardens and networking locally with our food bartering all different ways that we don't embrace the cashless society so cash why do they hate cash they're gonna demonize cash cash is freedom they don't know what you're buying what you're doing cash is privacy and cash is king right they want to get rid of the cash they want to have a digital footprint for every single thing you purchase and control every single thing you do so we need to be aware that at the end of the tribulation period we come back with the Lord knee he has the marriage supper of the Lamb upon planet earth here after a 75 day interval and somewhere in there is the that's the beginning of the millennial rule and reign and Jesus and Luke 12 is going to gird himself he's going to be ministering to you and I if you can believe that Zephaniah's me singing and to just celebrating as a groom the blessing of being with his bride and and again only 2% of the present-day church studies the rapture what a beautiful doctrine beautiful beautiful picture of being married to Jesus that he would arrange ahead of time that you would be his that he'd pay the bride price for you his blood willing to pay that price that would take to buy you out of slavery out of sin out of death that he would wash away all your sins in his blood that he blot out the handwriting ordinances that was contrary to you and nailing it to his cross right what a wonderful savior what a wonderful husband if you will husbands love your wives like Christ love the church no woman could resist a man that loves in that way that's the secret guys love her supremely love her laying your life down she's supposed to submit why don't you submit to Jesus first why don't you submit to God why don't you give up your life you give up your life and you see what an easy time she has living in submission to your leadership within the home because she sees that you're in submission to Jesus and she doesn't fear Jesus she fears you but not Jesus so the marriage ceremony taken to heaven who knows what's going to go on there you know what he's going to say how he's going to reward you he's going to say well done now good and faithful servants you've been faithful over a few things I'm going to make you ruler over much you know your position in the Millennium is going to be predicated based upon your faithfulness now simply be faithful what he's given you to do and he's going to reward you for your faithfulness not what you accomplish but your faithfulness with what he's called each of us to do so the gospel reveals the glory of God as seen in his marriage secondly as seen in his Messiah verse 26 and so all Israel shall be saved as it is written there shall come out of Zion the deliverer notice the deliverer and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob so this is the promised Messiah in Isaiah 59 20 he's called their Redeemer the deliverer the Savior the Christ the anointed one and Jesus asked his disciples who do men say that I am some say you're John the Baptist some say you're Elijah some say you're Jeremiah who do you say that I am thou art the Christ the Son of the Living God blessed art thou Simon Barjona for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you but my father who is in heaven has revealed this to you what can you and I glory in that God's revealed himself to you and I right that's all we can glory it I know God because I love him and he first loved me he revealed himself unto me blessed art thou Simon Barjona for flesh and blood the natural man understands not the things of God neither can he know them they're spiritually discerned eyes not seen or heard neither has it entered into the heart of men the things which God has prepared for them that love him but God has revealed them unto us by his spirit God is revealing unto you and I what's coming God's revealing in your heart he's stirring your heart let you know that he's coming that the best is yet to come not your best life now the best is yet to come and I say unto you that you are Peter Littlestone and upon this rock this massive rock I'm gonna build my church and the gates of hell will not prevail against it and so he's the Redeemer the deliverer the Savior the Christ the Anointed One his second coming after the 77 of Daniel is when Jesus is coming after the 77 and so how do we how do we know this and his first coming is predicted and second coming Daniel 9 24th through 25 we're told in Daniel that there be 69 weeks or weeks of years 69 times 7 is 483 years determined of 360 days of a Julian calendar would be 173 880 days from one event one event from the time of the command to go and restore and rebuild Jerusalem the temple in Jerusalem to the coming of the Messiah the Prince shall be 173 880 days so when do we know historically in Nehemiah chapter 2 verse 1 the command went forth from Artaxerxes on March 14 445 BC that Nehemiah Israel all them could go back to Jerusalem after being in bondage and for 70 years in Babylon they're able to go back to Jerusalem and begin the building of the walls and the big hill rebuilding of the temple the sample is rubbles temple second temple period and so so this command went forth on March 14 445 BC and 483 years later 173 880 days later on April 6 32 AD these numbers are Sir Robert Anderson far more brilliant than me he's the one that computed this years ago and Jesus walked into Jerusalem and they're crying out Hosanna Hosanna Hosanna save now save now this is his fulfillment of Zechariah that he'd be riding on a donkey he's riding on this donkey he's coming in the people are shouting Hosanna Hosanna quoting psalm 110 psalm 118 save now save now is what Hosanna means and the early in Palm Palm Sunday laying palm branches down receiving him as the Messiah the religious leaders stop these people stop them from what they're saying you know they're they're worshiping you in that way and and he says if they refrain if they don't worship the rocks are going to cry out the very rocks would cry out within four days the same people are shouting out crucify him crucify him let his blood be upon us and upon our children the nation had officially rejected the Messiah the deliverer so in Isaiah chapter 9 here it says that Messiah would be cut off in that he'd be rejected he came unto his own his own received him not and they did not receive him he was in the world the world was made by him the world knew him not and so in John 1 and so in Daniel 926 Messiah's cut off and Jesus said in Luke 1942 if thou had known even thou nation of Israel at least in this thy day this very day the things that belong unto your peace but now they are hid from your eyes so this blindness and part is happening to them they couldn't see they couldn't see the fulfillment of the prophecies they weren't in the 2% of those who study prophecy and went over their head you don't want to be in that 98% that aren't students of prophecy you want to be a student of prophecy you want to be like Simeon you know and and Anna who are there in the temple waiting for the Redeemer waiting for the Messiah to come they knew the prophesied Messiah was coming there in the temple her from a very young age her husband died and you know whole life long just waiting for the Messiah of Israel to come are you the one should we look for another you know and praise the Lord that all throughout history God's always had his remnant he's always had that 2% of people that are watching that are waiting but Daniel 926 he's cut off if people wouldn't been students of prophecy that understood that the back would be plowed that his beard in Isaiah 50 would be pulled out that in Isaiah 53 52 and 53 his visage his face was so marred more than any man more than the sons of man and that he would be beaten beyond the recognition of a man that he be crucified in Psalm 22 also and they could they could have seen this as as a students of prophecy verse 27 for this is my covenant unto them when I shall take away their sins not just cover their sins the day of young Kapoor is a covering of sin the Kapoor just cover sin the great day of atonement of at one minute of reconciliation with the nation but Jesus is the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world no longer covering no need of covering it and year by year the priesthood we have a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek and and so Jesus spoke of before after this cutting off that there be a point in time in Matthew 24 verse 15 that when the temple is rebuilt and the Antichrist goes into that temple and declares himself to be God demands to be worshipped as God that that would be at the midpoint of the tribulation period and 1260 days thereafter the Lord Jesus is going to return after that 1260 into it the Antichrist is going to go into that temple declare himself to be God demand to be worshipped as God and Jesus described it as Daniel did the abomination that makes desolation and so on Isaiah 43 25 I even I am he that blotted out thy transgression for mine own sake and will not remember thy sins verse 28 as concerning the gospel they are enemies for your sakes but it's touching the election they are beloved for the Father's sake and so that of election when you look at Matthew 24 be very careful to make distinctions again because the preterist and a lot of the post-tribbers and stuff they don't make distinctions between the Saints remember when I took you through Old Testament Saints I took you through the church Saints I took you through tribulation Saints those are distinctions very important to make those distinctions there's Saints in a general way but in this epoch of time this dispensation of time the Lord's dealing with the church in a particular way an administration of grace the time of God's grace being poured out when the fullness of the Gentiles become in there's another period or dispensation of time it's called the tribulation period 77 of Daniel the final seven-year period in dealing with humanity and dealing with the nation of Israel it's a time of Jacob's trouble a time of purifying the nation of Israel and for the nation of Israel to enter into all that the Lord has has given so in Matthew chapter 24 when he uses the word elect there's going to be great tribulation and he says except those days be short no flesh should be saved but for the elect's sake the Lord Jesus intervenes to save the nation of Israel lest everybody upon the planet be wiped out including the elect also in Matthew 24 verse 24 he said if it were possible that they could deceive the very like these these false prophets if you will during that time if it were possible but the Lord's not going to allow that to happen and and so also he talks about how he's going to send the angels in Matthew 24 verse 30 together his elect at the end of the tribulation period from the four quarters you know of the earth and so that of election elect there are for the Father's sake so his elect then shall appear the sign of the Son of Man in heaven then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn and they shall see the Son of Man coming in the clouds of heaven so this is a second coming everyone's going to see every eye is going to see Jesus coming we're going to be coming with him with power and great glory and he shall send his angels with a great sound of the trumpet and they shall gather together his elect Matthew 24 verse 30 from the four winds from one end of heaven to the other and so the elect remember it's not you and me there it's the nation of Israel verse 29 for the gifts and the calling of God are without repentance so God's not changing his mind he keeps his promises you see again as we get to Jeremiah 31 is unconditional promise that he's making the nation of Israel to bring them in being born again you and I being confident of this very thing that he that has begun a good work in you that he's going to perform it God is not going to throw you aside as a piece of trash and say I'm tired of this you're too obstinate you're too whatever he's going to complete the work that he's begun in you and I he's going to perfect you and I and so when we see him we're going to know even as we are known and we're going to have our new glorified bodies and overcome this old sinful nature so the gospel reveals the glory of God has seen in number one his marriage number two his Messiah and number three his mercy verse 30 for as ye in times past have not believed God so the Gentiles you guys in the past didn't believe God yet have now obtained mercy so mercy is not getting what you deserve you deserve judgment but you're getting mercy so I'm not going to give you what you deserve I'm going to be merciful to you in fact I'm be gracious to you I'm going to give you unmerited favor through their unbelief because of his mercies we become his bride verse 31 even so have these also now not believe that through your mercy they also may obtain mercy so you and I are able to provoke them to jealousy as they see during this church age so many of us celebrating Christmas the Messiah celebrating Easter his resurrection celebrating the rapture of the soon return and we we rejoice with the nation of Israel fully recognizing that God according to Genesis 12 1 through 3 is going to bless those that bless Israel curse those that curse Israel so we are totally favorable toward the nation of Israel because our Savior is a Jew our King of Kings and Lord of Lords is a Jew and you and I've been as we saw last week we've been grafted in you know to the true vine so there's nothing really special about us except in this dispensation he decided to to save us verse 32 for God has concluded them all in unbelief that he might have mercy upon all so there you are in Romans 3 23 all have sinned and come short of the glory of God all means all so if everyone's guilty what then God can be merciful God can be gracious salvation is a free gift if you could earn it you'd be good enough then there would be boasting there's no boasting is there let not the wise man glory in his wisdom let not the mighty man glory in his might let not the rich man glory in his riches but let him that glory is glory in this if he understands and knows me how'd you get to know him he revealed himself to you so there's no there's no boasting and you you know doing it or working it or thinking it he put those thoughts within your heart everything is from him all the glory is due unto him not us and so all have sinned and come short of the glory of God none righteous no not one Psalm 103 verse 10 he has not dealt with us after our sins nor awarded us according to our iniquities for as the heaven is high above the earth so great is his mercy toward them that fear him so if you're being condemned by anybody if you're sensing condemnation that's not coming from the Lord that's not coming from God that's not the voice of God when I hear people demonizing somebody when people have demonized Kathy and I and us and say oh they're just evil I know that's not God speaking through them that's not God that's that's that's the accuser of the brethren in Revelation 12 that's the devil who's trying to condemn and get people to quit get people to be discouraged and say you know I'm out of here I don't have to take this anymore that sort of thing you know it's very unloving unkind but you know it's never been my experience in Kitsap County over 28 years it's never been the world I won't say never to some degree the state when we got our daycare shut down definitely an attack from the world but but the the church became sick there was a sickness that developed in the church and that sickness was a spiritual sickness it was a spiritual problem just like in America the problem is not a political problem the problem is a sickness it's a spiritual sickness and we can quench the Holy Spirit we grieve the Holy Spirit when we when we you know when we walk in in sin and practicing of sin and if we don't love one another we quench the Holy Spirit it's real simple love one another you love one another the Holy Spirit's tickled Holy Spirit's excited and the Holy Spirit wants to pour out more and more of his spirit upon us and bless us in greater and greater greater ways and so I saw where in that sickness there were people that saw that as their mission to try and you know destroy the church destroy the work that was going on and it was so incongruous it was so strange it was like who am I dealing with who are my enemies who what's going on here you know and I'm so thankful those years those lessons those things are behind me but Jesus warned us that people in our own family would be our enemies Homeland Security is funding snitches that if you hear Pastor Rick say something that's contrary to the Biden contrary to the New World Order you snitch on them you know and they're gonna pay people like the Nazis did you know like the Communists did to turn people in they're gonna turn their doctor in they're gonna turn in you know whoever to try and get your doctor's license revoked and lose your job and and all those sorts of things kind of pressures and leverage and stuff to try and silence us they're afraid of the truth aren't they that's why you have to have fact-checkers because they're afraid of the truth right they don't like the truth but I love it I love it the way you guys are posting truth this past week ton of you were posting truth about 9-eleven there's still a ton of so-called Christian ministries that believe the official story 9-eleven if you don't understand the 9-eleven then you know you're still in the dark you still don't know the devil's playbook and understand what's at stake here but once that light bulb goes on and you realize your own government did that to you now things start to make sense from the standpoint of fool me once you know shame on me or whatever how that goes but not a second time so it's it's there's that cognitive dissonance that being in denial of acting like Pollyanna that everything's so great and that's where we want to be because ignorance is bliss but when your comfort zone is invaded when the hedge of protection is taken down the Lord shows you clearly that building 7 fell at 540 in the evening without any airplanes hitting it how that happened a controlled demolition is how it happened now you may not want to go there because how could my own government and that's where you're gonna be you're gonna go find a church that doesn't talk about these things that trying to evade the truth but you guys the gloves are off it used to be I couldn't talk about President Trump you guys like this if I said anything about him you know grind your teeth you know he's the Messiah why are you talking like that about him you know well the other day he he you know he may not agree with the changing of people's you know gender as children but he wants the adults to make their own choice you can't have it both ways bro you can have to make a decision you can't promote the warp speed jab and then act like nobody should wear a mask and not be jab now you got to go back to where you started where you were where you were influential as a salesman trying to convince everybody that this was a gift from God and you need to cite you need to reveal the amount of people that have died from these jabs but he's gonna win by a landslide why because people have no hope they have nobody else they can hope in so it's called the Judas sheep you evangelicals are gonna be sucked in to following this Judas sheep and he's gonna lead you to the central bank digital currency he's gonna sell you of an ID so that we don't have fraudulent elections anymore so that we don't have you know health problems anymore everyone will have an ID all your medical stuff will be on that ID and we don't have that ugly dirty cash anymore we're gonna have a central bank digital currency and you're all gonna get $15,000 put in your Fed account we're gonna incentivize you and move you into the cities he's gonna be the salesman if he's elected that's the only way they'll allow him to deceive the evangelicals they they say it's like this it's like a tea kettle and they get it all hot you get angry at the Bidens and you get angry at all them and you're about ready to go insane and Klaus Schwab is saying you people don't understand you know your servitude is going to be a good thing for you why are you starting to fight us why are you fighting us and then they turn the kettle down a little bit before you blow and then they pick it back up again you know at another point in time and so don't think they're done with us there they're not and so before you blow and you go crazy they're gonna put out a fake one to calm you all down but he's gonna take you to the same zone he's gonna take you to the same place which is globalism it's where they're all going it's globalism and the Bible prophesies it and so don't be deceived so not by works of righteousness that we had done but according to his mercy he saved us by the washing a regeneration and renewing of the Holy Ghost Titus 3 verse 5 to God be the glory forever his mercies are new every morning and so the reveals the glory of God is seen in the his marriage his Messiah his mercy and fourthly and finally his matchless wisdom verse 33 Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God how unsearchable are his judgment and his ways past finding out you guys that are out there you gals that are out there are you a fixer you'd like to fix the problems not to analyze and figure out what's wrong how can we fix this how can we fix America it's a spiritual problem seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness all these other things to be added unto us that's that's how you fix it how are you gonna get people to do it though that's the hard part that's really difficult to get people want to repent and turn unto God the city of Nineveh did from the king on down they all repented sackcloth and ashes and God repented the evil that gave him a reprieve of a little over 100 years are we worthy of that if there's 50 righteous Abraham prayed to God there's 45 there's 40 if there's 35 is 30 if there's 10 righteous will you not judge we do not pour out your wrath wouldn't even 10 righteous was there but before the judgment came the Lord what the Lord delivered and just lot before the wrath is poured out upon this planet God's gonna deliver you and I in the rapture of the church isn't he and so we see his matchless wisdom you know how unsearchable are his judgments and his ways past finding out man I'm always trying to figure things out I'm always trying to fix it I'm always trying to pray in such a way that I direct God I used to pray this one I used to mock him and I I'm not proud of it but we had millions of dollars of equity and we were losing everything and I would I would gather on Sunday nights and worship and prayer and I would I would mock so much with other people around but I'm gonna open up to you in my private time I reached a point where I was like just sell a building read my lips God sell a building you know because there was so much equity it's the way everybody does it right but nothing would sell so I'm trying to figure this out save the house save this save that and I can't get anything done and so the Lord taught me he answered my prayer he said no you let go my grace is sufficient for you for my strengths perfected and weakness so we had to learn to let go you're gonna have to learn to let go we're gonna have to all of us be letting go of things that own us things that move us in a direction so I thought I thought man hey I'm I'm I'm in the zone man I'm working for God there's no way the Lord will remove the hedge of protection take us down what he that's I've never heard of that happening before and so there was a great deal of difficulty in trying to understand the things of God and what he was doing and his ways aren't our ways they're past finding out I still don't know Christy might be trying to explain to somebody new in the church hey what happened when you're down there and I told her I said don't even try it there's no way they can understand and quite frankly I still don't understand you know I just have to walk by faith I have to continue to walk by faith so his salvation who would know in first Peter 1 verse 12 the angels desire to look into it the angels are blown away at God's plan of salvation it's so blows their mind to watch Lucifer in Isaiah 14 and Ezekiel 28 usurp authority against God and try to do a coup against God and for one-third of the stars in Revelation 12 are cast out of heaven one-third of the angels fell with Lucifer and so now they're watching human beings who are violent wicked people and he's got a plan of salvation he's got a way to say there's no plan of salvation for angels but he's got a plan of salvation for these human beings who are faster than the dust of the ground who are lower beings than the angels and not only that but his son would go back not as an angel a higher being but a lower low life as a son of man he would take on the form of a man the God man and he would allow himself to be crucified buried and then raise himself from the dead he'd actually allow his creation to abuse him in this way oh the depth of the riches both the wisdom and you know majesty of God I mean it's insane who could come up with these angels are blown away in first Peter 1 verse 12 he says let the wicked forsake his way in the unrighteous man his thoughts and let him return unto the Lord Isaiah 55 verse 7 and he will have mercy upon him and to our God for he will abundantly pardon for my thoughts are not your thoughts neither are your ways my way saith the Lord for as the heavens are higher than the earth so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts and so his matchless wisdom who can know the mind of God now I look at Revelation 17 17 you a student of prophecy that's a verse that you want to go to over and over and over again to try and understand what's happening now the Lord is putting in the globalist hearts what he wants them to do God is using them to set the stage for the return of Jesus Christ he's setting a trap God is setting a trap we're at the end of the church age we're getting ready for the tribulation period the earth dwellers you and I aren't earth dwellers our citizenship is in heaven the Lord's coming for us his bride but he's setting the stage for the Antichrist the B system the economic system the food the famines the pestilence all the stages being set these guys are insane wanting to cut down all the trees and bury them they're absolutely insane with the Maui massacre they're smart city God is allowing these guys to get away with this we're always saying when is one gonna be arrested God's allowing them because God has something greater something bigger that he's gonna do which is he's gonna return we want to fix it we want to stay here longer we want a better place for our grandkids but God says no the shelf life is up put a fork in it it's over it's time for my son to return and you know what if his reason for returning is nothing more than to stop these guys from their adrenochrome and their pedophilia and preying upon little children come quickly Lord Jesus we don't seem to be able to stop it do we it's escalating it's growing it's becoming more and more dangerous to be a be a child you know in this world in which we we live verse 34 for who has known the mind of the Lord or who has been his counselor man I try to counsel God all the time like I said Lord just do it this way Lord I got it figured out man I got it figured out Lord this real easy real easy easy-peasy Lord easy-peasy here step one here I'll talk slower I'll talk slower do you get it you know and I'm so irreverent you know so prayer what is prayer for what's the purpose of prayer to get my will done or God's will done for me to come into conformity with God's will so let's pray this our Father go ahead our Father who art in heaven hallowed be thy name thy kingdom come thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil for thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever amen right I'm not carrying the burden anymore I just gave it to him he's gone and I'm not right but I will be done praise the Lord verse 35 or who has first given to him and it shall be reckoned to him again do you try to make God your debtor you try to give to him and he's gonna give back to you isn't that how the faith guys on the Christian stations do it seed given man seed given give you'll get back you give you pressed overflowing you'll get more you know they try every manipulative means of getting money out of people but you know how are you gonna make God your debtor really God you owe me you owe me God really it says to for of him and through him and to him are all things everything you have has come from him even your ability to work even your ability to think everything has come from him so how is he your debtor and how would you pay for your sins if it wasn't for his son's blood his price of redemption to redeem you so for him it's all for him it's all through him it's to him are all things it's all about him the volume of the book is written of Jesus history is his story it's all about the son it's all about Jesus Christ it's not about you and I it's about him so eyes off of myself eyes on him Lord how can I glorify you Lord here am I Lord use me Lord you want me poor okay I'll be poor Lord you want me sickly okay you're sovereign I'll be sickly what do you want Lord your will be done not my will but thy will be done as we surrender unto him and yet somehow we got it back that we can order God manipulate God in debt God we can bounce him around we can rub him like a genie and get our three wishes and things like that I mean that's a lot of work you're working it man just walk in love let it be a love relationship to God be the glory forever great things he has done in revealing himself unto us through how through the gospel in first Timothy 117 now unto the King eternal immortal invisible the only wise God be honor and glory forever and ever amen post-tribulation rapture preterist not teaching prophecy diminishes the glory that's due God's name we're living in a time where we can be students of prophecy we can be watching we can be looking for the Lord Jesus to return in his glory for you and I and then to come back with him when he comes in his glory to destroy the Antichrist to set up his kingdom and unite rule and reigning with him I mean how is that doom and gloom unless you're in love with this world if you're in love with this world and you don't want it to end and you don't want to hear about prophecy and the soon return of Jesus and the globalists and all the stage being set for God to judge then you know what you're gonna agonize in the arm of the flesh you're gonna be a person that's very very unhappy there's no joy but if you're with those that let go and you're looking you're watching for that blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and Savior and you're set free you're free coming to church is the worship him it's the worship him and to be encouraged and to be built up and strengthen and to become aware of just how close we are how close we are to the soon return of Jesus who wouldn't want the Lord Jesus to return that's ludicrous it's crazy to be a Christian and say oh Lord just wait a little while I want to I want to get married use really if you could go back there would you say come now come quick well Lord wait a while I want some kids are they teenagers yet really you want some kids I mean is there anything as good as what he has planned for us you know and so I'm not ashamed of the gospel of Christ for is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believes to the Jew first and also to the Gentile for therein is the rights of God revealed from faith to faith as it is written the just shall live by faith are you going to continue to live by faith the emphasis in Romans on justification the emphasis in the Church of Galatia the just shall live by faith they were they were falling away and they were trying to avoid persecution they were mixing the law with grace and then to the Church of the Hebrew believers the just shall live by faith they were trying to avoid persecution they're falling back into Judaism so you know all right I'll wear the mask I'll live under the radar I'm a Christian but a secret agent Christian and the Jews won't persecute me if I look like a Jew and live like a Jew and all I won't eat any you know any pig I won't have any bacon you know stuff like that and and so the writers letting them know that no that's a falling away don't fall away the just shall live emphasis in Romans on the just and Galatians on shall live and the emphasis in Hebrews by faith by faith by faith chapter 11 without faith it's impossible to please God for they that come to him must believe that he is and that he's a rewarder of those who diligently seek him are you seeking him for his glory is that why you're seeking him is that why you want to know him you want to bring glory and honor unto him to him be glory and honor forever and ever and ever amen let's pray father thank you thank you for the simplicity Lord it's just so simple it's about you it's not about me not about us it's about you and Lord when we get out of the way when we surrender and we realize that you want to live your life through us that we're dead men walking Lord is so much easier there's such a greater peace such a greater joy and blessing to allow you to live through us Lord as I'm crucified with Christ nevertheless I live yeah not I but Christ liveth in me and the life that I now live I live by the faith of the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me thank you Lord I don't have to do it I don't have to fix all the world's problems I can look up knowing my redemption draws nigh I can surrender to your sovereignty to your desire to come for us in preparing a place for us Lord we're watching even so come quickly Lord Jesus and if you're here this morning and you're that person that's holding out on all of us we're waiting for the fullness of the Gentiles to become in quit holding out give in now we're ready to go give it up quit fighting God if that's you if you don't know Jesus as your Lord and Savior and he's working on your heart and is revealing himself unto you he's telling you how much he loves you and that his son died in your place and the blood of his son has washed away all your sins past present and future and there's now therefore no condemnation to those that are in Christ Jesus but you're not in Christ Jesus yet you need to be you need to get into the boat get in get in Christ he's the groom you're the bride he wants he wants you to be drawn to an intimate rich relationship with himself on the spiritual level that nothing else on the human level can compare the bride of Christ that's you this morning and Jesus is asking you will you marry me will you marry him will you say yes just lift your hand up anyone here this morning come on man father thank you thank you Lord thank you for saving us thank you that we're sealed we have a seal of the Holy Spirit upon us nobody can snatch us out of your hand Lord you're gonna play for keeps you never fail thank you Lord that it's not our job it's not our responsibility to fix everything and carry that load and that burden of all the wickedness that's happening Lord you're the only one that could subdue them you're the only one that could stop the wicked one as we fight not against flesh and blood but against spirits and principalities of the air greater is he that's in us than he that's in the world since you're for us who can be against us Lord we're more than conquerors through him that loved us help us to not walk and defeat but to walk in the victory that's already ours Lord enjoying so great a salvation enjoying it right now as we relinquish control as we set aside that desire to be in control as we surrender to you in your sovereignty even so come quickly Lord Jesus amen