Bible Study: July 6, 2022

There you go. Yeah, so last week we're in chapter two. We completed chapter two.

And today, you know, we'll get through chapter three, maybe chapter four because it's a very brief, very brief chapter as well. But here we're in the midst of the first five chapters of Isaiah.

And in it God sends quite a warning, you know, to his people. It's, you know, Isaiah was alive during the times, those four kings that we've talked about. He's there at the time of Israel before it goes into captivity. He's writing it to Judah in Jerusalem, but really it's a message for all time and for God's people who he has given blessings to that turn away from him.

And as we've been going through these verses, we find that he is quite detailed in the things that that displease God. He's also quite detailed in how life will be when Jesus Christ returns, and all the world will be living under his reign, his rule, his law of love, and that people will flow. We see all that beautiful verses in Isaiah too that are also in Micah 4, but talk about people flowing up to, you know, Jerusalem, which will be the world headquarters, if we can use that term at that time. The law will go forth from there. But before that time, we have Israel and we have people who are just who just turn away from God. And so we read that in chapter 2. Chapter 2, we read about how, you know, people turn away from God, what they what they look at. We talked about the times in chapter 2 when the day of terror comes from God, that people will flee into the rocks, flee into the caves, the very same thing that it says in Revelation 6 at the end of time. And that's in chapter 2, there's a verse there that talks about the people who would flee from the terror of God. And as we looked at Revelation 6 last week, and we talked about it, these are people who they know it's God, they know they displeased Him, they know that there's no physical explanation for the events that are happening around them, the things, the signs of the heaven. These aren't anything that's predictable, that's happened before. Man has no explanation for it, and yet they will not repent. They will not turn to God. That's just how hard the heart of man becomes toward God. And so we end in verse 22 where it says, Severe yourselves from such a man. Don't be company with him, don't learn his ways, whose breath is in his nostrils. All of his faith and all of his trust is in himself, and the physical things around him, a very misplaced trust, a very misplaced place to be.

If our trust is in the world, if our trust is in ourselves, if the trust is in the things of the world, then boy, we're going to be severely disappointed. So God says that. You know, if this is who you're hanging around, then who's your companion? Well, what account is he? What account is he? You and I know the difference, right? You and I know our trust needs to be in God going forward, and that's the only. That he is the only way to salvation. Jesus Christ is the only way to salvation. So Isaiah 3 is where we come into, and remember, these are just chapter breaks.

So as we're reading these things from Isaiah, you know, they didn't stop like we do and say, oh, we'll get to chapter 3 next week. They just continued reading the scroll, right?

Severe yourselves from such a man whose breath is in his nostrils. For of what account is he?

Chapter 3, verse 1, For behold, the Lord, the Lord of hosts, takes away from Jerusalem and from Judah, the stock in the store. Well, you know, again, we look at the verses that are here, and we see a pretty vivid picture of pretty vivid picture in the upcoming verses of the land or the type, the times that we live in today. It happened in Israel before, happened in Judah before, but here we are living in these same things. When God is when when people turn away from God and land that he has blessed, this is what he does. And we know that in the land we live in, we turn further and further away from God. You know, people might not come out and say, you know, we don't want God, we don't want any part of his being, but by all the actions they take, that's what they're saying.

Someone sent me a video last week, and on it there was a very articulate, long lady who was who was just standing up and saying, I don't want to hear about the Bible. I don't want anything about the Bible. I don't want to do anything the Bible says. You can look at the Bible all you want.

I don't count it as any inspired word, and I'm not doing anything the Bible says. And I thought it was a pretty blatant display of what the attitude of so many were, but here she was standing up in front of a microphone, and that was her clear message. I think that's a clear message that God gets from the actions of the world around us today. We have to be cognizant, too, of the things that we do to God. When we reject His way, we may not be out protesting for abortion rights. We may not be joining the protests in the world, but we have to watch what we're doing because we send a signal to God for what we do and how yielded we are to His will when He makes that known to us.

Well, anyway, so all of a sudden, it says, Behold, it's God. God takes away from Jerusalem and Judah.

He's going to withdraw His blessings from people who reject Him. He takes away from Jerusalem and Judah the stock and the store. You know, we live in a world, and I'll have to say, you know, from the time that I was in college, when I was, you know, learned accounting, learned finance, took economics, learned about supply chains and everything, in years and years, I never thought of the word supply or the term supply chain until the last seven or eight months, right? That all of a sudden, supply chains are in the news. It's like, this is something that automatically works.

There's never been a problem with it in our lives, and now all of a sudden, there's a supply chain issue. I think it was around Thanksgiving last time, the last time we heard about it, and there's supply chain issues with baby formula and some other obscure things, and it keeps happening.

We might look at it and say, well, do we have someone incompetent that's running that show?

Did every other, did every other, did every other transportation department head just know what he was doing? And this one is incompetent? Or is it God beginning to withdraw the blessing from America that have always been there, where these things just worked right? Is that what we're seeing, especially in light of what has happened in the last two years, and we see determination upon determination, upon statement after statement that takes us further and further away from even normal human morality and decency. He takes away the stock in the store, and so we have all these these issues. He takes away the whole supply of bread and the whole supply of water.

You know, we've... Mr. Kirby? Yes, ma'am. I just wanted to comment. I happened to see a video of somebody in Russia today, and they were showing their stores, and their stores are fully stocked in baby formula. Isn't that interesting? Yeah. And bread. It was very strange to see. I just, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt you. Oh, that's okay. That's okay. We get, you know, we get one story here, and there's quite a different thing happening when you look around, when you look around the world, right, from what we hear. But, you know, we've been hearing about food shortages here. I was just on a meeting today with the Beyond Today magazine people, and they were talking about something that had just come out, where, again, food shortages predicted for later on in the year. Something America hasn't, hasn't experienced before. We keep getting these little tidbits and these little warnings. So, you know, something, something is happening. It's a strange world we live in. Again, God-withdrawing is blessing. Yes, there's people that are doing things that, that aren't, you know, aren't wise, aren't prudent, aren't, you know, the way they should be done, baby. But God takes away that too, as we're going to see here in a few verses. You know, God takes away stock and store. The whole supply of bread and the whole supply of water, you know what that means, right? That means famine. That means, that means complete, completely different life than you and I have ever been part of. You know, I mean, it's baby formula now. It's something else a little later. But when it's the whole supply of food and the whole supply of water, what becomes of a nation when that happens? Verse 2, God takes away the mighty man and the man of war. You know, we can relate back to Deuteronomy 28. We won't take the time, you know, to turn back there. But in there, God will talk about the blessings and cursings that He will give to Israel, His people. And in there, He'll say, here's the blessings if you obey me, but if you turn against me, here are the detailed things that will happen to you in the time of the end and in the time of the ancient Israel as well. And one by one, we see those things happening, things that never happened in ancient Israel that are beginning to happen in our world around us today. One of those is He will break the pride of our power. And America is always along with it. Yes, someone's... Yeah, it's Xavier. I saw last night that the American Air Force is going to lose or is losing 700 pilots because they don't want to be in the ring to be jabbed. So it's as if the country wants to cut off their nose to shame their face. 700. That's ridiculous. Isn't that ridiculous? Yeah, it's like crazy. So, you know, so I know what's happening. It's like all for things that you don't even make sense, right? It's not like someone has come in and dropped a bomb on us. We're doing it to ourselves. You know, God will take away the mighty man and the man of war.

You know, for decades, I had no idea who the commander, not the what they call him, the overall commander or whatever. But I know Mark Milley's name. And I think the fact that I know Mark Milley's name is not a good thing because I've listened to Mark Milley talk over the several months. He's got a whole different mindset than what a military man should be. And I think what do people around the world think about Mark Milley and his white rage and his guilt and all this other stuff and what he wants to teach the Navy? It's kind of like silly stuff that's out there, right?

Is he a mighty man? Is he a man of war? Do people around us look at and say, oh, you know, America, they are right on top of things. You know, we had some botched military things over the last year and a half. You can just see the things that are happening. Is it because of incompetence or has God taken away his blessings from a land that has so thoroughly turned against him? He takes away the judge and the prophet. You know, we've talked a little bit about what judgment in this country and this nation is. It's become so politicized that, you know, do you get a fair trial anymore?

It all depends on whether you side with this side or that side. And that's kind of what the role of the dice is if you go to court anymore. There is no justice when you look at things. We read that in, you know, where you read that later on in Isaiah as well. The judge and the prophet, the one who would, you know, the one who should be able to say, this is the way walk you in it, there is none of that. That wisdom is taken away. And in verse 2, he takes away the diviner and the elder. You know, the diviner, these are people who, you know, it talks about being, you know, given the divination and stuff like that, I guess I would be more like religious leaders.

Let me see what I wrote down about that. No, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing much, obviously, on that. So, but he's taken that away, too. So whatever we relied on before, that diviner and the elder. I mean, really, when we think of our elder statesmen, they should be the ones who are wives. They are the ones who should know, you know, know the things that are there.

And yet, and yet, you know, we do have some elders in power today that don't seem to know the answers to many things that are going on. He's taken away, verse 3, the captain of 15 and the honorable man. And so we look around and the leaders in our world today are not the way, you know, not what we would expect them to be. He's taken away the counselor, you know, that would give good, solid and sound advice to someone, you know, who's advising, who's advising our leaders today that we have the mess that we're in. Where's this, you know, where is the cabinet that's supposed to be wise that helps the president to make wise decisions to keep the country in the forefront of the world, to keep the country moving along? Do we hear when we hear them talk? Do we hear words of wisdom? Do we hear direction? Do we hear answers? Do we hear plans, even, on how to solve the many problems that are facing us today that just keep escalating in time? He takes away the counselor and the skillful artisan. That's even the the crafts, right? The buildings, that type of stuff, the skillful artisan, exactly what it says. And he takes away the expert enchanter. Now, that's an interesting one because when you look at what enchanter, it means he takes away the eloquent orator. So you don't even have someone who speaks that can inspire people. And I don't have to go into any detail there, but we look at where we are today. Where's our eloquent orators?

Where do we look for someone who can stand up and say, this is the way that can inspire, that can bleed, and that you want to follow? And you think they're in control. They're in control. I might disagree with them, but they've got a plan and they know where we're going. Even that's not there.

Now, we live in a time that is just completely unlike any other time. I know we have many, many people on the line from us, from Canada and some other other nations, but here in America, it is a time unlike any time in American history. It is obvious God is withdrawing and has withdrawn many of the blessings that he has given America in direct response to what America has said to God, we don't want you. I was listening to a little bit of the news just a little bit before I came in here, and in it they had a clip of, it wasn't Harvard, it was another one of those leading university professors that were on there, who was talking about how the Constitution is outdated. We don't need this Constitution, it's out of date. It was written, as they always say, by a bunch of white men who were slave owners. It was for their time. It's not for our day. We need to rip it up. We need to get rid of it and write a Constitution for our time. They weren't, I don't care if I'm phrasing some, but that was where they were going with it. And that's where they're at is, you know, we know that the original Constitution people believed in God, and they even made comments like, if a nation ever departs from God, this will never work. This Constitution will not work for people who do not believe in God and the Bible. And that's what we're seeing. A whole bunch of people who don't want God is any part of it, and so the Constitution goes against their grain because they don't want any part of it. I remember years ago, and I think it might have been Cushion, but I've never forgotten it. He said, we won't have to worry about destroying the United States. They will destroy themselves. Isn't it? Here we are. Here we are. Yeah, I would, you know, there's that verse that I go back to in Ezekiel and some other place in the Bible that God says they will loathe themselves. And when we wake up and realize what we've done to ourselves, you know, how could you do anything but loathe yourself or when you just kind of threw it all away? So Mr. Shaby? Yes. Yes, this is Tracy. So is America and England and Israel supposed to be the first to fall? It just seems like I'm listening to what you're saying. It seems like America is going headfirst into famine and obviously falling in respect. And Mr. Myers, I think it was, was saying that they, or maybe I heard you on Fox News, that they did a survey and America has lost respect among the G7 countries and they no longer see them as a leading power. So are we supposed to fall first into famine and like that? You know, the Bible indicates that it would be the Israelites nations that would go into great tribulation first, right? There's that verse in Ohio say, a five that talks about Israel, the Manasseh, Ephraim, Stumble, and Judah, a new moon devours the three of them. And we know the great tribulation, you know, the time of Jacob's trouble precedes the time of tribulation on the whole world. So yes, it appears America falls for those three countries very quickly, quickly fall. And when they fall, it throws the whole world into complete chaos and panic because no one really fully understands what happens when the American economy finally breaks and disintegrates. But apparently the Bible gives us a pretty good picture in Revelation 13 of what that's like because the whole world is in complete chaos and then you see this beast power arrive and promote itself as the savior of the world. So I think it's only being right around the corner then. It could be very quickly or it could be a while, right?

That's where it's saying that our economy is on the verge. Others think that, you know, the world, it's just being held up by toothpicks now. We don't have a solid economy by any, you know, economist definition. It's just kind of like a miracle that it's being held up. So whenever God finally decides that it's time for it to fall, it'll just fall and it'll fall and the crash will be here, you know, around the world. It'll wake up and everything will be different.

Okay, well thank you. Okay, so we've got, you know, here we're in chapter three. We hear God is saying, this is, I'm taking all this away is what he says, but God takes away these things from the nation. And then in verse four here he goes on, I will give children to be their princes. Now, again, the actual translation is boys, I think of that. And it doesn't mean actual 12 and 13 year old boys. It means people, immature people that don't have the answers, that don't have the experience, that don't have the skill to lead the way, you know, they should. As, you know, one of my, one of the verses I remember is in Psalm 78 and verse 12. And it talks about David and it says, he led them with the integrity of his heart and the skillfulness of his hands. You know, he was prepared for everything that he needed to do physically to lead that country. And he had integrity and the deep loyalty to God. He had it all so he was a very capable leader in God's eyes.

But today we have leaders that aren't skilled, maybe in anything, right? I mean, sometimes you look at resumes and think, well, what have you ever done? What, you know, whatever you've done, where did you ever build your skill that you would be qualified to run a nation like this?

I will give children to be their princes. Doesn't spell well for a country that has boys, you know, boys and children in those places of, in those places.

Yes. Hi, it's Rosalinda. We just, we just heard from our son, that was in Wisconsin.

And he was telling us that walking on the streets, the policemen, now our children are just kids, like they said, they look like out of high school, very young people. He's 35. So for him to say, these are young people. Yeah, the police that had the experience was rejected.

They retired, they left the city, and now they have been forced to recruit babies, basically, to be in charge of security for the city. And it reflects on all that.

That is, yeah, it's a sad world we live in. But, you know, I mean, would any of us voluntarily be a policeman these days? I mean, they get themselves in more trouble by just doing their, they can't do their job anymore. Yeah. So how would they react to a situation that needs them to be mature? Yeah. That what kind of training they could have gotten if they're just, you know, been there one or two months of training and thrown in the streets. So who knows what chaos that's going to bring? Yeah. Yeah. That shooting in Texas, great. That wasn't apparently handled as well. It could have been, you know, the shooting at school in Texas.

That took place a long time, a long time to even go inside.

Yep. The lack of experience is going to affect those places.

Not too many. Not too many things are, you know, not too many things are being handled or responded to in the correct way anymore. So. Christian, Brother Jibi, in verse 4, does it say, one word comes up to princes? What kind of children does it say? Here, mine says capricious. If I say that correctly. Yeah. Meaning changeable. They're fickle.

Capricious, yeah. What, is that in your actual translation or? Yeah. Oh, okay. I will give children to be their princes and babes shall rule over them. Capricious children. Oh, capricious children. Isn't that interesting? Okay. Yeah. That's unstable. Yeah. Babes, right? Babes is what it is in the New King James, which is also unstable. You wouldn't, yeah, you wouldn't have a babe. Capricious changed their mind on everything, right? Yeah, very good. So.

Babes shall rule over them. Yep. Verse 5, you know, we might not have understood this, but we can go back a couple of years into, you know, the time when COVID started, we had these lockdowns and limits of how many people could be in your house and how many people in a gathering.

And I remember even here in Orlando, hearing, you know, boy, if your neighbor's got more than 10 people, pick up the phone and call the police. Call the police, right? Don't, don't let them have more than 10 people in their house or a gathering if you see that. So, and here we have it. The people will be oppressed, every one by another and everyone by his neighbor. Now that's a very mild thing that we had happen, but you have to wonder when the next pandemic comes or the next health scare or the next whatever it is where everything government's learned back whenever and how fear can work and they put in their, they put in their little edicts again, you know, here we'll be again, right? People will be oppressed, everyone by another, everyone by his neighbor. The child hiding our bibles, the hiding our bibles come next? We won't hide our Bible, right? We won't hide our Bible, but um I mean we're yeah I mean when they don't allow us to have bibles. Yeah, well we have iPads, right? I mean some people bring iPads, maybe that's when an iPad in a photo will work out very well. You still got your Bible on your phone unless they outlaw those little apps as well, so.

Right, right. But okay, people will be oppressed, the child will be insolent toward the elder.

I mean wow, that's the world we live in, right? And when you talk about no respect, you know, children today do rule over their their parents. They can hold things over their heads, schools. Well, it's even hard to even talk about schools, but even before this whole stuff in the last two years with children, you know, should be able to determine what sex they are on any day of the week and whatever.

They can overrule their parents who say, no, we don't want that. And a parent can turn a, or a teacher can turn a parent in because they won't allow their children to... it's just, it's stuff that is so mind-boggling, you cannot say it. But before that, even, you know, you had children who could go in, if they were mad at their parents, say, you know, they got hit by this one, they got hit by that one, all of a sudden you've got some governmental authority on you.

You've got kids who are not being taught respect. You have, you know, and boy, we see that all around us. And some of these altercations that we see in the, um, the O on TV, I find myself thinking, people would just respect the law. If they would just respect the law, this could have turned out so differently, right?

And yet, and yet that seems so simple. If we were all taught that, you know, I, I mean, I'm all of us in my age range, we were always taught, you know, respect the people in your neighborhood, respect your elder, respect the policemen. You would never run. You would never talk back. You would never talk back to a teacher. And today, it's so totally different. It's like, it's like, do whatever you want. You don't have to accept anything any authority figure says.

You know, you project yourself 30, 40, 50 years down the road with this, than this, uh, younger, and I mean younger, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 year old generation, if they were to become the leaders of the world, how could any, how could society be anything other than what, you know, God was talking about before the time of the flood, when the world was so corrupt and so violent and so out of hand that he said, it's, you know, I'm sorry I didn't created them and he just, you know, just ended it all except, except for Noah.

We see, we see the hopelessness in our children. This isn't doing them any good. They have no direction. They have no, they have no purpose. They have no, nothing in their life they're working toward. And then we see things like these mass shootings that we've been seeing for the last month, you know, where we had these 18, 19, 20, 22 year old people who, you know, the meaning in my life is go out and get an automatic weapon and shoot people up.

I mean, what, what's wrong with that picture? And I was reading an article or reading or listening to something where we're talking about the percentages of young people who are on all these psychotropic drugs for depression or, you know, the mood, the mood enhancers and things like Zoloft and Prozac and how all of these, all these that do these things are on those and no one is really understanding what these type drugs can do to a young mind that how it affects some people, not all people, but what it does.

We've really, you know, we've really messed up society, you know, and the pharmaceutical industry plays a big part in that, you know, we've got a lot going on with the pharmaceutical industries and, you know, and, and some of the things they've done in the last several years that have created a mess that we have yet to understand, you know.

Mr. Shaby? Yes, ma'am. I'm sorry to interrupt, but I wanted to let you know. I used to have a cleaning business and I used to clean for a woman who had her company was a major company and what she did, her company did was train the doctors how to sell the drugs and I said, so basically you're a drug pusher and she said, yeah, basically.

And they got pay off from the pharmaceutical industry because they taught them too and then they got payoffs from everybody else as well. It was crazy. It's a big industry. It's a big industry and there's a lot of rewards out there, a lot of rewards out there. I don't remember the name, but there's a mini series on, I don't think it's Netflix. I think it's like Prime or something that talks about the whole opioid opioid crisis and how it began. And when I watched it, I thought back to the time when I was in healthcare and I thought, oh, those are the guys who did that.

And the whole thing was beginning to change around that time and drugs were being pushed in ways they weren't before. It was always illegal to even advertise any of these things on TV, but that changed and doctors' offices were getting that and everything became about money. I didn't like the industry anymore. I was very glad it was around that time that, you know, they asked if I would be a pastor and I was glad to get out of it. But it all went back to one company that changed all that stuff and it was just criminal, criminal what they had done and how they pushed it off here.

And we're still seeing that, you know, we're still seeing that in the world around us today with some of the major pharmaceutical companies and the influence they have over the government.

So Mr. Shaby, this last issue, I was reading it today. Absolutely amazing. I've never even seen a cover like this before on our magazine. Oh, is that the, you got the new Beyond Today magazine?

Yes, and I read it and I'm just shocked. It's absolutely shocking. That's a very good, that's a very good cover. Yes, it is. Never has seen it. We need to catch attention, right, of people and I think that I haven't, I saw the things I have, we haven't gotten the magazine yet, so, but I'm looking forward to seeing it. What is on the cover? This is the cover of it. What's on the cover?

It's called the Sexual Revolution. Yeah, some stuck figures. We've never done a cover like that on our magazine before. Amazing. The, and the information, Scott, actually, is a first article.

Wonderful. So, it's coming. You'll get it any day. It's in the mail.

I'm not sure twice what that cover means. It caught his attention.

Yes, it does. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, wanted to mention, you know, what you said a while ago about extrapolating what is happening now, what has happened in the last, you know, 10, 15 years, if you extrapolate into the future, it's, when you're taking consideration what is happening, which is basically, basic elements of society are being changed, are being perverted, like, you know, love is being perverted, marriage is being perverted, gender is being perverted, family is being perverted. So, they're going to basically establish new standards for all those basic elements of society. And it's going to be unrecognizable, I think, even what we can see now, when they really find all those basic elements of any society, the bedrock, it's just, you know, downhill faster from there. Yeah. The thing to remember in all of it is, Satan hates mankind, right? He hates mankind for what God created the potential of mankind to be, so he will attack everything about man and pervert everything that God created. And that's exactly what we see happening on earth today. And he will try to destroy the earth. And that's why it says, in Revelation, that Christ will come and he will destroy those who would destroy the earth. He hates the earth. He hates mankind because it represents everything that Satan doesn't want God, you know, to have and to the purpose for what it was created. So, when we see these attacks, we know where they come from. They seem unnatural to us. They wonder, well, how can the natural mind ever before that?

Well, the natural mind can't, right? Well, the natural mind is enmity against God. The natural mind, apart from God's Holy Spirit, that's what it goes to under the influence of Satan.

Mr. Chévie, I was going to mention about the drugs. It's not just the legal drugs, it's the illegal ones. Because those are coming and nobody knows how much it really is. But if they speculate, it is billions and billions of dollars every month in coming to our children, to our neighbors, and people are dying every day from them. So, yeah. Well, we got it. I just read someplace or saw the graphic that last year there were 33 billion dollars in marijuana sales, legal marijuana sales in states. That's a huge, it's a huge industry. And of course, we got all the illegal drugs, right? The fentanyl that we hear about every day on that's coming across the border. So, yeah, we live in a society that's, you know, where drugs and pharmaceuticals are destroying us, you know, sort of. So, okay, well, one of the things among the many things that are going on, like everything, is falling apart. Okay, verse six we were in, in chapter three. So here God, you know, talks about He's the one who's doing it. He's withholding the blessings. You remember, you know, in Genesis 49 and Deuteronomy 34, He says, these are the blessings I'm going to bestow upon Joseph, but when you disappear, when you leave me, I take them away.

And God says, I'm the one taking away all this from you. It's me doing this. And verse six, you know, talks about a time that's yet ahead of us. When a man takes hold of his brother in the house of his father saying, you have clothing. You be our ruler. Well, what we're seeing is, you know, here's a time that things have fallen apart, especially when you look at the last sentence there, and let these ruins, or let, you know, ruins, the Hebrew word there is something that's been overthrown, and let these ruins be under your power. So God takes all this away, and then we have this verse six that, you know, something has been overthrown. Everything is gone. The system that's in place was gone. It's like, okay, we don't have a little reader anymore. Hey, you've got clothing. Now, when we read clothing, we just think, you know, we all have clothing, right? We probably all have too much clothing. We look in my closets, and it's like, I don't even wear half of what is in this closet, you know, half of our time. But back in those days when the Bible was written, clothing was a matter of wealth. If you had a lot of clothes, you were a wealthy man. And I go back to, you remember the story about Samson? Hold on. Excuse me. Remember the story about Samson, and he had this riddle.

Now, there were 30 of the Philistines that were there, and he said, hey, if you can solve this riddle, I'll give you, if you can't solve this riddle, you give me your 30, I'll give you 30 sets of clothing.

If not, you give me 30 sets of clothing, because that was a symbol of wealth. Today, clothing isn't so much a symbol of wealth, but when you read about it in the Bible, it was a symbol of wealth.

Remember, even at Christ's crucifixion, they cast lots for his robe. Having those clothes were valuable. So here we have someone saying, here we have someone saying, well, you've got money, you're wealthy, you've got clothes, you be our ruler. We need someone to lead us. Let these ruins, let this thing that's been overthrown be under your power. We just need someone to lead us. We don't know what to do. We have no leadership. There's some complete dearth of leadership around here. Everything has fallen apart. In that day, the one that goes to that says, says he will protest, saying, I can't cure your ills. I'm not a physician. I don't know how to solve this mess that we're in.

Everything is gone. Who am I to be looking at any of these? The original there says, I'm no physician. I'm no physician. I can't heal this country. I don't want to mess with any of it.

And then he says, in my house, there's no food, there's no clothing. Don't make me a ruler over the people. I don't want that job. I'm not going to rule over this. So we get the picture of we got a ruin that's told, something that's been overthrown. We've got no leadership. Everything that has been established, it has all been washed away. It's the time that we were talking about when economy falls and the whole world falls apart into a state that the world has never been in before, that no one knows. And I mean, literally no one knows except God. And we know from the pages of the Bible that it's something that we can't even imagine that the whole world breaks. And there is nowhere to turn. There is nothing to do. It is a very dark world. And when we look at Revelation 13, we see that world that we're looking at that here in Isaiah 3, likely he is speaking of. In Revelation 13, you know we have John. God is giving John the vision of what it will be like before the return of Jesus Christ. And in verse 1, he says, I stood on the sand of the sea and I saw a beast. Well, we know this is a governmental power. I saw a beast rising up out of the sea. You can imagine, the alliteration here, here's a sea. It's nothing going on. And this beast coming out of it. We also see the same picture in Daniel. So the Old Testament and New Testament speaks to the same thing.

I saw a beast rising up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns. And on his horns, ten crowns, and on his head is a blasphemous name. We went through the book of Revelation. We talked about all those things. That was around the Bible studies back there. And then in verse 2, he talks about what the beast was like. He's talking about the power that it has. Again, it relates back to Daniel and the four same descriptions that are back there. Daniel related to those four world-ruling powers. His fourth one that has all these resurrections, it is terrible, a cruel empire.

Verse 2 tells us the dragon, Satan gave him his power, his throne, and great authority. And it says, I saw one of his heads as if it had been mortally wounded, and his deadly wound was healed.

So here we have out of the sea something coming up out of the sea, and we have this new government appearing out of nowhere. And it's alive, and it looks like something from before, because one of these mortal, these one of the these wounded things, it's another resurrection of the Roman Empire, if I can touch on the chase on that, his deadly wound was healed, and all the world marveled and followed the beast. Why did they do that? Because they had nowhere else to turn. The world was in complete chaos. There was no economy. There was absolutely nothing there, completely broken. And when this power comes out of the earth, they have no choice in their minds to do anything but follow it. And so they worshiped first four, the dragon, who gave authority to the beast. So they worshiped the beast, saying, who's like him? Who's able to make war with him? He's the power of the earth. We all are subservient to him. And of course, as you go down through chapter 13, you read about the small beast, the brides, the larger beast, and the mark of the beast, where it says, no man will buy or sell unless unless he bows himself to that beast, that power. So we have a world ahead of us where everything breaks. The whole world feels, you know, America will fall. The Bible says, you know, and the whole world around it, and then you'll have this beast power that arises. Isaiah 3 is talking about this. No one else can take the reins. They don't have any answers. But here, Satan's government arises out of the sea saying, I've got the answers. I'm the savior of the world. Worship me and follow me. And that's what the world wants. Yes, ma'am. So is that when, in what you're saying in Revelation, that's when that mark comes about is during that time? Now, can you answer, is that mark, is that supposed to be like a chip or something like that? We don't know exactly what it is. You know, I mean, I, you know, you see some of the beginnings of that whole mentality, right, in the world around us. We have these vaccine mandates for a while, and you couldn't do this, and you couldn't do that in some areas of the world. And those have all been relaxed right now.

But a precedent has been set. So we know that's coming in whatever form it is, you know, so.

Because I can't, I've listened to, I mentioned it in what I wrote you back, but it was also that saying something about the Sabbath being a sign that we are, because we'll keep Sabbath, so we'll stand all like a sore thumb. But that that would also be a mark, because we won't be keeping Sunday, which they'll demand. I think it all, I think it all plays together. I, you know, it appears, yes, I think the Sabbath will be a test commandment. I think that's certainly true. I think that there will be probably some kind of identifying sign. We know now that they're going to be able to look at bank accounts and withhold the ability to allow you to even use money if you have any money anymore.

They're going to be able to control all that. We saw in Canada, we have several people on with us here from Canada, and I heard the Prime Minister up there, you know, when they were having that, the truckers in Ottawa saying, you know, we're going to just take your bank accounts. You don't comply with what we want. We'll take your bank accounts. So we know those type of days are coming.

Governments have that power since we're so intertwined with computers and the whole technology field we have now. So just a matter of how does it all unfold. So, but we see the writing and we see the writing on the wall. So, Mr. Shaby? Yes. Yeah, we. Yeah. It appears from reading in Isaiah and again, the 13 in Revelation, that at least at first the people will actually probably accept the rulership and want it because down here where it says nobody wants to be a ruler.

Yeah. But they're all upset. So I would think that at first they'll probably accept that new beast government until they start cracking down on everything. Also, jumping back to verse one, about all the food being, the whole supply of ground water being disappeared. It's hard to find anything about what the reasons are, but in the news for the last two or three months now, there's been over 200 food processing plants either have explosions or fires all over the country. Meat processors, grain processors, all different facilities who seem to be sabotaged. Yeah.

Hard to find any information about what's going on. Yeah. Is it just, is that really an accident?

Is that guy we're throwing his blessing or is there something going on deliberately? Yeah, you don't know. Mr. Shaby? Yes. I get my, I get a lot of my food from Azure Standard and that's one of the places that got hit. Their headquarters was burnt down, but that's also where they did their oil, where they bottled all their oil. It's where they did many different things, their carob chocolate that they do and stuff. But the fire marshal, the woman that came out, she said it was because of a batch of corn that was stored and it was stored properly, but she said the dust from the corn must have gotten into the electrical outlet and that was her official ruling on the fire and nobody believes it. Yeah, sounds manufactured to me. So, yeah. Mr. Shaby? Yeah.

Lynn, the look-ander has had her hand up for quite some time. I don't know if that's necessary or not. Hi, Lynn. Do you have your hand up?

Hello. Hey, Mr. Shaby. Oh, yes, I had put my hand up much earlier when we were going through the first verse. It's just because I wanted to add something to that from the news that I had.

Partially, one thing that Dr. Naomi Wolf, she was doing an interview that I was listening to. Now, she's a Democrat that she actually helped get Clinton elected. She was on his team, on his staff.

Her degree is in technology or something, but she's an author and a journalist as well. Anyways, she was saying that when President Obama had redone the health care and Obamacare, whatever. I don't remember the official title of what it was changed to, but she said, actually, they took funds out of the money that went to elderly people and they put it into young people.

So they invested that into young people when it's actually the older people that, of course, need more money for health care than the younger. That was one of the things that she said.

Another thing she said that she says she knows all about the speeches that they write for the presidents and everything. She noticed that in President Biden's last speeches, she said they always end with, you know, may God bless the country and everything. She says he's removed that from his speeches. She says that's not by accident by any means at all. So that was removed.

Let's see, there was a few things. Another thing I was listening to an interview, Judge Napolitano and Colonel Douglas McGregor, and he was asked about he saw that the British General, the British General, not journal, who, you know, he was in charge of the British military, was saying that they now need to train NATO forces. They need to join the UK and NATO forces to prepare for World War Three. And he was asking, this was Judge Napolitano, was asking Colonel Douglas McGregor about that. He's like, what do you think about that? Why would he? He's like, well, he wouldn't have said that. He wouldn't have been allowed to say that, unless he was told to say that. And so he said that, you know, and he so he went on to say how Boris, and I can't remember his full name, but he was saying that that came from Boris. And he said he's quite the foolish man. But just goes to show you more how our leaders are foolish and trying to get us into World War Three. Yeah, they're doing something. Yeah, Mr. Mrs. Tuttle? Yes, I just wanted to say that, you know, irregardless of what conspiracies we face, we have to remember that God is in control of it all. And we've got to, we spend a lot of time letting Satan get into our minds whenever we dwell on these things, instead of dwelling on the things that we need to be dwelling on to get our lights in order. I agree. This is God's will, right? I mean, you're absolutely right. And that's we understand, we've seen what's going on. He says to be aware, but this is his will, and you're right.

Okay. Okay, let's go on then. Chapter, where are we? We were in verse eight, right? Okay, so here in verse eight, again, God repeats, this is the reason this is happening. He says, Jerusalem stumbled, Judah is fallen. Why? Because their tongue and their doings are against the eternal, to provoke the eyes of his glory. Now, pay attention to that word, eyes, for a moment.

It says they provoke the eyes of his glory, because we're going to see these words, eyes, show up a couple times. You know, sometimes over, it's interesting in the wake of this Highland Park shooting, as I was listening to some of the news reports on that, a couple of the commentators talked about the look in that young man's eyes. And if you looked into his eyes, that you could see something. And I'm sure we've all noticed that over the years. We meet someone, I think there's something about their eyes, you know, they got kind eyes or whatever. Well, here, they provoke the eyes of God's glory. And then in verse nine, he says, to look on their countenance, witnesses against them, and they declare their sin as sada. They don't hide it, woe to their soul, for they have brought evil upon themselves. You know, again, I don't want to pick on the young man. I mean, I shouldn't call him to be a young man, but the man who committed that atrocity, you know, in Highland Park, Illinois, you look at him, and you think that isn't someone I'd want to meet as I'm walking down the street alone, right at night, just has this look about him that you would be afraid. And sometimes you see that in people. And as some of these pictures of these people who commit these crimes, there's a look. There's a look. And that's what God is talking about. The look on their countenance, witnesses against them, they declare their sin as sada.

Gloria or Bud? Bud. Okay. I'd like to, my Bible comments on verses eight and nine.

The fall of Jerusalem in 586 BC was only a partial fulfillment of this prophecy.

The final fulfillment awaits the times just prior to Christ's Second Coming. And against the eternal, the root of Zion's problem surfaces over rebellion against the eternal. The people sin shamelessly. They made no effort to conceal their sins. I thought that was a pretty good statement.

I was surprised that it was even in my Bible. Yeah. Well, probably when you read it, it wasn't a time like we are today where we don't conceal our sins at all, right? I mean, you're right. We just kind of blast them out of the news waves that's their news. That this is the right thing to do.

So yeah, so you read these verses, and they are alive here in 2022. We're seeing this.

You know, God has some words of hope here. He says, say to the righteous, that would be all those who follow God, right? I hope all of us here would, you know, are living righteous lives, looking to God and not looking to the world. Say to the righteous, it will be well with them, for they shall eat the fruit of their doings. You know, you will reap what you sow. It says in Galatians 6, verses 7, 8, and 9 there, you will reap what you sow. God will watch over his people. Say to the righteous, it'll be well with them, for they shall eat the fruit of their doings. Let's look at Psalm 37 there.

Psalm 37 is there. You know, David has some words about that as well. I think they're encouraging words. Psalm 37, verse 7, and this says, Rest in the eternal, and wait patiently for him. Don't fret because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who brings wicked schemes to pass. You know, there will be a time that we are enduring living in a land where we don't support at all what the leaders of the land say, and it may, it will cause us pain, it will cause us, you know, suffering will feel the left-wound ones, the oppressed ones. Don't fret because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who brings wicked schemes to pass, cease from anger, and forsake wrath. Don't fret, it only causes harm.

For evildoers shall be cut off, but those who wait on God, they will inherit the earth.

Now, that's what we have to remember as we go through times that are ahead of us.

And down in verse, down in verse 23, it's not the same chapter, It says there the steps of the good man are ordered by the Lord, and God delights in his way.

When we follow God, you know, he delights. In fact, when we yield to him, though he fall, he won't be utterly cast down, for the Lord upholds him with his hand. I've been young, and now I'm old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his descendants begging bread.

God will always provide. He says he promises us he will never leave us or forsake us.

And when we walk through those times of trouble, when we walk through those rivers where they're going to look like they overflow and will drown us, God is always there. David says, I haven't seen the righteous forsaken. I haven't seen his descendants begging bread.

God will provide. Sometimes we'll be put to the test. Got to have faith in God. Never give up on him. How is the time to be building that faith in him? Because that faith will be tested in times ahead. Take the top opportunities I say now to build that faith in God and never, never doubt him.

God, verse 26, is ever merciful and lends. His descendants are blessed. And he tells us, Depart from evil, do good, and dwell forevermore. For the Lord loves justice, and he does not forsake his saints. They are preserved forever, but the descendants of the wicked shall be cut off.

So they'll endure for a while, but justice, righteousness will prevail. And God will see that ultimately those who endure the end with him will be saved and inherit everything that he wants us to give us. Just always remember that, right?

So if we go back to chapter 3, look at my time here, we're going to get through chapter 3. So some of these verses are self-explanatory, so I don't want to spend a lot of time expounding on them.

But say that the righteous, it will be well with them, for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.

Always remember, what you sow, make sure you've got what you sow, you will reap. You reap what you sow.

Woe to the wicked, it will be ill with him, for the reward of his hand shall be given him. Again, what you sow, you will reap. If you sow to God, you will reap rewards, inheritance, life, the whole everything that God promises. If you sow to the world, if you sow to the flesh, you will reap the rewards of the flesh, and it is not a pleasant future. Verse 12, as for my people, now we'll be talking about physical Israel, but maybe us as well in society we live as for my people, children are their oppressors. Again, this is talking about the immature.

We have some governmental figures who are kind of immature, and some of them are very young, and they think we've got all the answers in the world, and they're what the media would call the leftist extreme, and you think that can't possibly work, and everything like that.

But people, they do that. They're the ones who want complete control and everything. As for my people, children are their oppressors. Women rule over them. Now, that's a verse, even from the time I was very young, always asking, women rule over them. What does that mean? Back when I was a teenager, we had this, but boy, I look at the world around us today, and you look at the squad, and we've got the squad they call it out in Washington that seemed to wield quite a bit of influence on our government. We've got Nancy Pelosi, we've got AOC, we've got a woman vice president, we've got all sorts of women there who aren't at the top, but at the very top, but they seem to be wielding a lot of influence. And then you listen to some of these college professors and teachers of our children who are women, and some of the things that come out of their mouths defy the imagination, right? Women rule over them. Oh, my people, God said, those who lead you cause you to err, to err. You're following these people, they cause you to err and destroy the way of your paths.

It's our leaders that are leading us astray. The same thing happened with the kings of Israel.

When their righteous king would rule, I mean, God says that what in Proverbs, was it Proverbs 29, that he says when the righteous rule, the people thrive, but when the wicked rule, they are their led astray. We see the same thing. Our leaders lead us astray is what he's saying here. Verse 13, God stands up to plead and stands to judge the people. Turn back to me, how many times we read in the Bible where God says, turn back to me? Why would you die, O Israel? Why would you want the fate? Why would you want to walk down that road you're doing? Turn back to me, but no one does it.

And, you know, God's church today needs to be and should be teaching, you know, saying, you know, crying aloud, swearing, not showing the sins. Turn back to God. Turn back to God and away from the path that's going to lead to complete ruination, you know, and, you know, as we read back in verse 6 there, the Lord stands up to plead and stands to judge the people. He will enter into judgment with the elders of his people and his princes. He will judge them. You know, one of the commentaries, not probably more than one of the commentaries, indicates that God will deal with the leaders who lead the people astray first. You know, they may be the first ones to feel the brunt when the whole, when the whole, you know, the whole system just comes falling down. For you, he says, you leaders, the elders of the people, the people in power, you've eaten up the vineyard. You've wasted it all. You haven't spread it around. You consumed it. You just got rid of it. You have eaten up the vineyard and the plunder of the poor is in your houses. You've done everything for you.

I know that, I mean, this is no longer in my mind a conspiracy theory, but, you know, beyond today, talked about the Great Reset. When you look at what's going on in the world around us today and going on this World Economic Forum, you begin to see and understand what is happening.

And it's the wealthy will rule the world and the rest of us will just be there as their their peons, right? We'll be there to support them. The plunder of the poor is in your houses.

Greed will eat up. We'll eat up the system. We'll eat up the world. And there are those who would be you know, the supreme lures over all the world. But, but that isn't going to be what happens as we see the whole world fall apart in the process of this. What do you mean, God says, by crushing my people and grinding the faces of the poor? Now, God doesn't take lightly when the poor and the innocents of the earth, and I use the word innocent very lightly here, are just crushed by those and people who are just there to oppress and take everything for themselves and the ultimate act of greed, you know, we want it all. Moreover, God says, and here he does, he, you know, God, you know, I'm sorry, women, we're just going to read what God says here and act as he is quite detailed in some of his descriptions here because the daughters of Zion are haughty. You know, they're prideful. Now, they're not listening. They're not listening to God. They're not listening around. They've got this walk about them. And, you know, God, he puts some details in here. You know, we live in a country where all these things we see around us, right? It's just normal every day.

There's nothing wrong with getting dressed up. There's nothing wrong with wearing jewelry.

There's nothing wrong with what people do, but it is a part of the pride of our society. God talks about women here. Men have their prideful things too, right? We may not have all these things that God talks about, but we have our pride things. Remember, God says everyone is going to be brought low. Our pride will be broken. We will see God and we will know Him. But here are these verses.

He's talking about the women, you know. He talks here, and, you know, women will rule over them.

Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, they're proud. They walk with outstretched necks, and, oh, there we go again, and wanton eyes, you know, they're obsessed with beauty is what it indicates in the verses of that. They're wanton eyes, you know, the way they paint themselves up, and they want to look good. Nothing wrong with looking good, but it can become an obsession right here.

They walk without stretched necks. They walk with wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, making a jingling with their feet. Therefore, the Lord goes, you know, again, nothing wrong with that, unless your entire being is caught up in that, and you have to present yourself in that way because of the pride that's in you. So God says, hey, that's what they do. Therefore, God says, I will strike them with a scab, the crown of the head of the daughter of society, and the Lord will uncover their secret parts. Well, you know, when all the world falls apart with society and everything that we've been doing, and God withholds His blessings, boy, all those products that we use and all those things, men and women, right, that use that, that's like, we gotta look like this, we gotta look like that. God said, I'll strip you of all of those things. We'll see you, we'll see you in your natural, un-whatever, un-manicured state. In that day, that day the Lord will take away the finer, the jingling ankles, the scars, the crescents, whatever those are, the pendants, the bracelets, the veils, the headdresses, the leg ornaments, and the headbands, the perfume boxes, the charms, and the rings, the nose jewels, the festal apparel, and the mantles. He'll take away the outer garments, the purses, and the mirrors, the fine linen, the turbans, and the robes.

Is he detailed enough in those verses? Is he listing all those things and saying all those things you take for granted, all those things that are part of society, everything that's part of your life, they're all going to disappear. They won't be there. It will literally be that third world country that planted the apes' scenes, you know, for those that saw that movie, after the world is devastated, there's like nothing there. It's like just man and dirt and whatever is left of vegetation. God says that is what the world is coming to. Everything you counted on, everything that's been part of your life, is going to be stripped away. All those, all that finery. It's again a picture of the, you know, word ruin that's there in verse 6 of Isaiah 3 of the world.

Yes, ma'am. Is that talking about as God's women also? I think it's talking about, you know, well, I mean, we're going to be part of this society, right? I don't think he's going to have, I don't think he's going to stay for us differently. I think we're going to suffer alone with society. I don't think he's going to say you can have all these finery things while the rest of the world does, right? I think we're all going to do that. These aren't necessities of right, all these things he's talking about. These are just finery things. Okay, thank you.

We were in 24 and he says, and so would Shelby. And here is pretty graphic too, right? Instead of a sweet smell, instead of the colognes and perfumes that cost so much, instead of a sweet smell, there'll be a stench. That's pretty graphic. Instead of a sash, a rope, right? You're going to be captive, you're going to be oppressed, you're going to be kind of, you know, you're going to be kind of like that one, just happy to have something around around your waist. Instead of well-set hair, baldness, that's pretty extreme. It's got to take away all those things that can mark us. Instead of a rich robe, a girding of sackcloth, and branding, instead of beauty. What does branding indicate? You know, the Bible talks about captivity. It talks about being a led away captive and people that conquer you and they come in and, you know, I mean, what does that mean?

What does that do? Out of a country that had so much to, you know, to find it all come down to this.

Your men, your men, he says in verse 25, will fall by the sword and you're mighty in the war.

You won't win a battle anymore. You won't be completely conquered. You will be completely overthrown. Everything that you knew will be gone. Why? Because their tongue, for sakes and their doings, are against the Lord. So we're part of that society. I don't see any, you know, God talks about taking away the woman for a time, times, and half the times away from the face of the serpent. But he doesn't ever say he'll save us from the time of Jacob's trouble that comes before that. So we will suffer along with society. God will provide. Remember he said, we read in Psalm 30, Psalm 37 or Psalm 126 that we read, where David said, I haven't seen the righteous begging bread. He'll provide the necessities of life.

Doesn't promise that he'll always provide all the finery that we come to expect in this life, and among the many, many blessings that he's given us, you know, living in this land. So what time is it here? 810. You know what? Let's end there. Her gates shall lament and mourn.

You know, verse 26 here, ending in chapter 3. Her gates shall lament and mourn. I'm very sorry.

You know, you read the little book of Lamentations, three or four chapters, and you see after Jerusalem falls, and everything God said would happen to Jerusalem when Babylon came in and conquered them. Then they looked back and thought, why did we do what we did? Why didn't we pay attention to what God said? Her gates will lament and mourn, and she, being desolate, shall sit on the ground. No place else to look. The fate, the die, has been cast. What has been reaped, what has been sown, has been reaped. And you have a nation that's just been totally decimated.

You know, let's go ahead and read verses 1 and 2 and chapter 4, because it really continues the first, the same thought here as part of the same thing. It says, and in that day seven women will take hold of one man, same. So what we have is the men are decimated by war. They are conquered.

They are the ones who, you know, die by the sword, die in the war, and all of a sudden we have, you know, many, many more women than men. It's, you know, then that day seven women will take hold of one man saying, we'll eat our own food and wear our own apparel. Only let us be called by your name to take away our approach. We just need someone. We need, now we need, we need that protector. We want to be in that relationship that we didn't want the whole time. We wanted to throw everything away before God, but now will you just be our husband? Much like the scene that we saw back there in the early chapters of chapter 3. You rule over us. Just anything. We just want to be part of these relationships that we didn't think were important, but now we realize they are. But in that day, verse 2, and there's not a button there, in that day the branch of the Lord shall be beautiful and glorious. You know, we read the word branch there and, you know, well, we may as well read in Isaiah. Look at Isaiah 11. In Isaiah 11, you know, we read about the branch, right? Again, the Bible interprets itself. Very say that for 11 verse 1, there shall come forth a rod from the stem of Jesse, and a branch shall grow out of his roots. The Spirit of the Lord will rest upon him, the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit of knowledge, and of the fear of the Lord. In that day the branch, Jesus Christ, of the Lord will be beautiful and glorious. He will return. Again, the picture of Isaiah 2. When you and I, remember we read back in Zechariah, all the saints with you, or that was that Zechariah 14, and all the saints with you, he will descend in that day and the Mount of Olives, and all the saints with you, it says, that's you and me, if we endure to the end, if we stay loyal to God. And that day the branch of the Lord will be beautiful and glorious. People will flow to him when Satan is put away, pictured by the day of Atonement, will be past the day of trumpets leading up to that time where all the turmoil and mess of the world and all those trumpets that we read about in Revelation, we talk about in there, trumpets, this is gone, and the glorious return of Jesus Christ, you know, comes in that time to save the world from itself. And the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and appealing for those of Israel who have escaped. So let's finish there on that high note, and we'll pick it up next week in verse 3 there. So, Ambassador Shaby, when, okay, the time that you were just speaking of that and when all these Jacob's troubles are happening and stuff, we're not going to be able to observe these holy days anymore? Is that what's going on?

Because they won't, they're not going to let us do church and all that kind of stuff, right?

I think we'll still be doing whatever we can to observe the holy days. Okay. I don't, you know, Amos talks about the earth as a hearing of the Word. I believe we will be doing everything we can to follow God's command to assemble together on the holy days. Okay. Thank you.

You read Israel in verse 2 there. Is that spiritual or is that a physical nation? Do you know?

There, you know, it's probably both. Remember Jesus Christ said in Luke 21 verse 36, watch and be prepared, be ready for that day so that you are counted worthy to escape the time that comes, right? So that would be spiritual Israel he's talking to. But the Bible also says there will be a remnant of Israel that lives over into the kingdom as well. So there he won't completely destroy physical Israel either. So I think it's talking about both of those there. So of course we at this time when Jesus Christ returns, the first fruits will be will be spirit beings at that time. So yeah, so that's probably more physical as you're at that time because physical Israel will have been resurrected at the at the seventh Trump. So that makes sense. Thank you.

Mr. Shabian, the commentary beyond today commentary that says the branch of the Lord is here a dual reference both to the earth yielding its fruit and to the Messiah, Jesus Christ, a branch of the family of David yielding spiritual fruit. Also, they said that, you know, the verses 12 through 15 of the haughty daughters of Zion that that could not only be literal, but also figurative as a reference to Israel and Judah in general. And sadly, they will get more attention than they seek as we see them stripped and violated and fitting repayment of their anti-God moral revolution, which, you know, if you think about the land and everything and people being stripped of their homes and the food and everything else if they're taking, you know, so you can see it both ways. Yep, yep. We will be stripped. We will be stripped of all those things, all those things that we are used to. I say it's a time of the great equalizer, right, no matter how little or how much we have right now and some future time will all be on the same level.

It'll all be on the same level. All that will be wiped away and we will have our faith in God that will see us through. So we won't be able to rely on all the things we've accumulated in this lifetime, so physical things just on the accumulation of this other character that God builds in us.

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