Bible Study: June 29, 2022

Tonight we're going to look at Isaiah 2. There's all of us that have a lot of scriptures in the Bible that it's just really good to read them. Opening verses of chapter 2 are one of them that I think that every time we read it, it gives us joy, it gives us a sense of the future, it gives us a sense of the calling that we have, what God's plan for all of us is.

So, you know, the first part of Isaiah 2 is that, and we're going to spend some time to that. You know, here we are, I mean, we're just a couple days away from the beginning of July, in just a few months we'll be gathering together for the Feast of Trumpets, and then the Day of Atonement, and then the Feast of Tabernacles, and I'm assuming everyone has their Feast of Tabernacles plans all firmed up. You know where you're going, hopefully have all your housing established, and are looking forward to it. But as we look in Isaiah 2, you know, to talk about what the Feast of Tabernacles is, and what the meaning is, and why did God give us the Feast of Tabernacles, and what does He want us to be looking at. It's wonderful what we do, but not to forget the meaning of what it is, and what it pictures. So last week, you know, we completed chapter 1, and in it God used the inspired Isaiah to begin the book with a prophecy. He comes out and He talks about, you know, His people Israel that He has provided everything for. Of course, it's not just physical Israel. All of mankind is completely dependent on God for life, for breath, for food, for sustenance, and everything. They just choose to ignore Him.

But He's provided everything, and Israel has just gone by the wayside. They don't consider, He says, and then, you know, He talks about what He's done, and even bringing it down to, you know, us today in the church. How do we keep His days holy? How do we observe the Sabbath? How are we, you know, living our lives if we're truly thankful and truly in consideration of what He's done for us and what He's called us to?

Are we handling it in that way? I see a raised hand. Does someone want to make a comment? Okay, okay. Well, you remember, you can also just hit the microphone anytime you want to talk as well. So let's pick it up in chapter two. As we end chapter one last week, you know, God, through the chapter, He's encouraging. He says, you know, you're a sinful nation. You're a sinful people, but with God, there's always forgiveness. If we come to Him, you know, as He says here in verse 19 in chapter one, if you're willing and obedient, if you really want to follow me, I'll forgive you.

I'll make you as white as snow. That's what He wants is for all of us to become pure, to be able to achieve the potential that He has for each one of us, because He wants us to be in the picture that we see as we begin Isaiah 2. You know, we all know that Jesus Christ is returning. I don't think we would be here online tonight if we didn't know that Jesus Christ was returning. And when He returns, He will be King of Kings. He will be Lord of Lords. He will establish His government, His way of life that the whole world will live by.

And in the first five verses here, chapter two, we see that beautiful picture of a world that, you know, it comes out of the absolute nightmare that it's going to be between now and the return of Jesus Christ, when they see literally everything that they trusted in and everything that they did and every idea and every belief they had just completely dismantled, because man's ways do not lead to life.

They do not lead to peace. They do not lead to joy. Only God's way do. So out of the mess that man will make of this world and say, of course, under the influence of Satan, we come to chapter two of Isaiah, and it's a very hopeful and forward-looking verse. And you and I have a direct part here in Isaiah two if we continue to follow God, if we cling to the truth, and if we live by that truth and develop the agape that God wants us to.

So in chapter two and verse one, it says, the word that Isaiah the son of Amos saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. Well, again, remember, you know, the times that Isaiah led, but as he talks in verses two through five here, we see this is clearly a time in the future. This isn't something that was ever Judah or Jerusalem in the time of the past or in the present. This is clearly something that will be coming about after Christ returns. It says, now, in the coming past in the latter days, we know when the latter days are, when the Bible talks about latter days, it's the time before Jesus Christ returned and the time of his return.

It should come to pass in the latter days. That's the latter days of the earth's physical existence, that the mountain of the Lord's house shall be established on the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills. So I know, I'm sure that we all know what the Bible talks about, mountains, that the mountain of the Lord's house will be established on the top of the mountains and shall be exalted above the hills, what he's talking about.

When we read about mountains in this situation in the Bible, it's talking about the kingdoms of earth. It's those high peaks of the earth, the high governments of the earth, right? We'll look at a few verses here where the Bible interprets itself. We don't have to interpret it. The Bible will interpret itself for us. We just have to know the verses to go to to explain that. So it's talking about God's mountain, His kingdom, will be on top of all the other kingdoms that were on the earth.

So if you keep your finger there in Isaiah, too, let's just look at a few verses here. One of them will be in Isaiah 66. So even later on in the book, we're here at the beginning of Isaiah, but down in the last chapter of the book of Isaiah, it talks about mountains again in verse 20. Isaiah 66 in verse 20.

6620. Then they shall bring all your brethren for... let me make sure I've got the right verse here.

Oh yeah. Then they shall bring all your brethren for an offering to the eternal out of all nations on horses and in chariots and in litters, on mules and on camels, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, says the Lord, as the children of Israel bring an offering and a clean vessel into the house of the eternal. So there he is comparing Jerusalem to a mountain. We're going to look at Daniel, but let me reference the word house that's there in in 66 verse 20. We also saw the word house in verse 2 of Isaiah 2. The word that's translated house there is the exact same Hebrew word that other places in the Bible is translated as temple. So it's talking about God's house and it's talking about specifically his sacred place, his temple, the physical temple that he dwelled in. Okay, so in Daniel, in Daniel we see a more direct reference of this term mountain in Daniel 9. And you'll also find it in Daniel 2 where God is talking about the four world-ruling kingdoms that would precede the return of Jesus Christ. But in Daniel 9 in verse 16, it says, O Lord, according to all your righteousness I pray, let your anger and your fury be turned away from your city Jerusalem, your holy mountain. There we have again your holy mountain, your city Jerusalem, because for our sins and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and your people are our approach to all those around us. So Jerusalem, your holy mountain, this is the seat, this is the seat of your government. Jeremiah, go back a couple books to Jeremiah, and then we'll look at one in the New Testament as well. Because the Bible uses the same symbols throughout the Bible, you know, so as we read these things we can see the consistency in the Bible as God interprets them. And as we look at Old Testament and New Testament, we see the same type symbolism there for the governments, the kingdoms that are being broken up there. Jeremiah 51 and verse 25.

Well, do I have that verse right? Jeremiah 51-25. Let me look at this again. Um, well, it's there. I don't see the word mountain there right now.

25. The Lord has opened his arm and is brought up. Oh, I have 50. I'm in 50. That's why. Okay, well that's why I was going to say. Okay, 25. Okay, let's look at verse 24. Of course we know Babylon, you know, that was the first ruling world ruling kingdom that God revealed to Daniel, that dream back in Daniel 2.

It refers to the kingdoms of the world that stand on the earth, you know, at the time before Jesus Christ returned. 24 says, I will repay Babylon and all the inhabitants of Chaldea for all the evil they have done in Zion and your sight, says the Eternal. Behold, I'm against you, O destroying mountain. Speaking of Babylon, a kingdom, right?

The kingdom of a world ruling government that the Bible talks about in Revelation, you know, 13th the whole world bows down to and worships. Behold, I'm against you, O destroying mountain, who destroys all the earth, says the Eternal. And I will stretch out my hand against you, roll you down from the rocks, and make you a burnt mountain.

That's the kingdom that Jesus Christ will transplant. When it says, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that's the mountain that will fall, and then the mountain of the Lord will replace it. And then finally, in Revelation 17, we see the reference to the mountains again in Revelation 17, way back at the end of the Bible that brings all the prophecies together so that we see what was happening at the end of the world.

As God opens our minds to understand in Revelation 17 in verse 9, it says, here's the mind which has wisdom. The seven heads, talking about this beast, okay, that it's talked about in chapter 17, the Roman Empire beast, when you see the four kingdoms that are listed there in Daniel 2, here's the mind which has wisdom.

The seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman sits. Seven kingdoms, we know there have been seven iterations of the Roman Empire, the kingdoms that have generated from that original Roman Empire back then, here's the mind which has wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman sits. There are also seven kings. Five have fallen, one is, the other has not yet come. When he comes, he'll continue a short time.

So, we have, you know, when we talk about mountains, we have this common symbolism throughout the Bible. So, as we go back to Isaiah 2, we know what God is talking about. It comes in the latter days that the mountain of the Lord's house, his temple where people will flow to, is the picture that is there. That will be the world-ruling kingdom at that point, right? Jesus Christ, King of kings and Lord of lords, transplanting and doing away with all other kingdoms.

Jerusalem will be the center of that government. It shall come to pass, Isaiah 2, verse 2, in the latter days that the mountain of the Lord's house will be established on top of the mountains. It will be the peak. It'll be like the world's capital, if you will. And all nations, and it'll be exalted above the hills. Hills are smaller. You know, we have mountains. You know, the United States would be considered a mountain. Russia would probably be considered a mountain today.

Certainly, when you look at Daniel 11, and you see the powers that be at the time before Jesus Christ, the King of the North, the King of the South, the King or the powers that be in the East, you know, you have those mountains that are on earth that are going to be defeated by Jesus Christ. There's also hills.

The hills are kind of like the nations. You know, some of the lesser nations of the earth, they have their governments at hill as well. So verse 2 is saying, everyone's going to flow. Everyone's going to flow to Jerusalem. The whole world is going to be looking to Jerusalem for guidance, for education, for teaching. They're going to be coming to God's house. They're going to be looking to that to learn His way.

And it's a picture that's hard for us. I mean, it's a joy to think about that. At that time, everyone in the world will be looking to God. Teach us your way. Teach us how to do these things. Everything that we thought we knew, you know, has been absolutely shown is completely useless and would have just destroyed the earth.

Teach us. Teach us. And you have this beautiful picture of everyone flowing to Jerusalem because they want to hear the Word of God. They want to be taught His way. It's a stark contrast to the world we live in today. You and I, you and I want to do that. And I know when we go to the piece of Tavern and Ackels, we think about, you know, leaving our homes behind, leaving the world behind. It's a temporary state that we're in. We go there for the seven days of the piece of Tavern and Ackels and the eighth day, the last great day, whatever you want to call it.

We're there. We're there. We're going to God's house. We're learning. We're there for eight days with Him. We're there with eight days with each other, picturing the time that everyone will be seeking God's will, seeking His truth, learning His truth, learning to apply it into their lives.

That's what you and I are doing now. That's what we're doing now, learning the truth, applying the truth, leading out the falsity in our lives and the sin of our lives, and asking God to replace it with the commitment to His truth. That will be everyone. But our time is now, remember, our time is now because Jesus Christ says here in verse three, many people, many people will come and say, come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob.

Let's go to His house, that same God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, that same God that you and I worship, that same God, you know, whose son is Jesus Christ who came to earth, lived the perfect life, died that our sins could be forgiven. He and the Father are one. They're united in purpose. They're united in love for all of mankind, and their will is that everyone will be part, you know, everyone would be part of the truth and have the eternal life that He created mankind to have as part of what His whole plan for mankind is.

Sadly, not everyone is going to accept it. Many will come and say, let's go to the mountain of the Lord, let's go to the house of the God of Jacob. He will teach us His ways, and we will walk in His paths. Now, like I said, that's a beautiful thing. And when we come to church, you know, when God opens our minds, and we begin to see the truth, and we see the error and the way we used to live, the error and what we used to be taught is the way of Jesus Christ and what His will is, and we see from the Bible, you know, His word of truth, what it is, that's exactly the attitude that all of us should have.

Let us go there. Let God teach us His ways. You know, too often in our lives today, some, you know, may, well, what about this and what about that? You know, can we do it our way rather than, you know, does it really make a little bit of difference to God if we just do it kind of our way? Yeah, it does. There is one way to do it. There's one way to salvation.

There's one way that Jesus Christ would have us live. There's one Spirit that works on us. There's one way of truth, and as we're yielding to God, we will all be united in that truth. We will all be united in that. Not immediately. There's things that God is working out in each one of us, but we have to be the attitude, God, You teach us your ways. We're ready to yield us to You. We're ready to yield our ideas to Yours. Teach us and show us, and when You show us the truth, boy, we need to be committed to it.

And as it says there, we will walk in His paths. We will walk in His paths. We were in the book of Ephesians. We talked about walking. Walking with Christ. Walking in truth. Walking in love. Walking in the light.

And God's walk is children of life, He says, in one place. That's the attitude we come to God with. We're imperfect human beings. He's the one that can lead us to perfection, and we have to yield to do things His way and not resist. That resistance has to be broken down. Just like we see in the picture here of people at that time who have been afflicted by all the travails of the world that they've lived through, coming to God and seeking truth and seeking His wisdom and seeking His way. Going on to verse 3, it says, for out of Zion, it'll be out of Jerusalem, for out of Zion shall go forth the law and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. That will be the capital. That'll be the seat of it. We'll look at it a little bit. I know we know that there's this millennial temple that's spoken about in Ezekiel, and there'll be that physical governmental center there, but it'll be the spiritual center of the earth as well. Out of Zion will go forth the law, the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. He will judge between the nations. Christ is the righteous judge. They'll be learning. The people that live over, you and I, if we remain committed to God, this picture here will be the resurrected firstfruits. We'll be there with Jesus Christ as this picture is emerging. We won't be people who are still physical beings that are marching up to Jerusalem saying, teach us our way. Teach us your ways. We're going to walk in your paths. We believe you. That's what we're doing now. That's who we are now. This is our time of Paidia, the training that we are in right now, so that we're ready, so that we're part of the group here that's working under Christ to help educate the people. When all these masses who live over into the millennium and come out of the world and the wars and the famine and the mess that it is, we'll be there, part of it. That's why we need to teach it, know it, and be living it, so that we can teach it specifically to them and show from other examples in our lives.

He will judge between the nations. There will be people who are asking questions, and what about this? What about that? They're still going to have their old way of thinking. It has to be corrected during the time. He will judge between the nations. He will review many people. No, that's not the way to do it. No, you're looking at this the wrong way. This is the way. If you want peace, if you want joy, if you want harmony, unity, all these things, then this is the way to do it. So he will review many people. Some of us today get reviewed. That's okay. Take that as God preparing us, God working with us. Don't get mad about it. Just be thankful to God.

He's showing us that there's something we need to change to become more like He wants us to become.

Don't get mad at it. Be thankful and ask God to help you understand it, and then start living that way that He wants. He will judge between the nations. He will rebuke many people. And He'll teach them, you know, people that have come through a disastrous, the Bible says, a time unlike any time that's ever been before. A period of war, a period of famine, a period of pestilence where so many people die, a period of great tribulation for the people of Israel, you know, modern-day Israel. They shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning books. They'll be ready for peace. They'll realize that whatever the world and the leaders that, you know, we have today or the leaders that were there 100 years ago or 2,000 years ago or 4,000 years ago, mankind never had any idea how to get to peace. They might have a momentary peace or, you know, the lack of, I live in a nation where I'm under constant attack by enemy forces is peace. That's not what peace is. When Christ comes, He'll teach the way of peace.

You and I, you know, are learning that now. At least we should be learning it as we learn to live with one another, become one with one another, become one with Christ, become one with God, learn how to talk things out, you know, and come to a chord. You know, just as we read in Isaiah 1, 18, come, let's reason together. Let's do it God's way. That's the only way that it's going to lead to good. They'll beat their swords into plowshares. They'll beat their spears into pruning hooks. And you know, even the world takes hope in that. Even in front of the United Nations, they have the sculpture that shows this. Mankind doesn't know how to do that, though. Nations shall not lift up sword against nation, and they won't learn war anymore. And then, you know, verse 5, he kind of concludes this beautiful picture with O house of Jacob. You know, O house of Jacob, that would be the 12 tribes of Israel. We talked about physical Israel that God still loves. For spiritual Israel, that's you and me and the people that He calls that. He puts His Spirit in the family, the holy people, the royal priesthood, the chosen generation that He speaks of today. O house of Jacob, come. Let's walk in the light of the Lord. How can you not desire to walk in the light of the Lord when you read verses like this and realize where the world is going and you and I, you know, have a part, have a part in all of that? Well, let's pause there for a moment because this isn't the only place in the Bible that gives us, you know, this picture of what it will be like when Christ returns.

You know, Micah, the little minor prophet, Micah, six or seven chapters, was a contemporary of Isaiah. When you look at Micah, you will see that he wrote during the same times of the kings that Isaiah did. Um, Hosea was another contemporary of of Isaiah, and we won't turn to Micah 4, but in Micah 4, these exact words were given to Micah as he wrote to Israel and to, um, as he wrote to Israel and, uh, and Judah. So you can see the same message of God, two different, two different prophets, but the same message, because God's message is the same no matter where we are in the world. It applies to all people. It's not one set of rules for the United States and a different set of rules for, um, Africa or South America. It's the same message. It's the same gospel. It's the same hope. It's the same calling for all who who God calls. So we can see that in the Bible. If we go over to, um, Zachariah, which is the the second to last book in the Old Testament, in Zachariah 8, you know, we read the verses there in Isaiah 2 about Jerusalem, and all people will be flowing to it, right? And they'll be going there for the education and to learn, and everything. And in Zachariah 8, we see this picture, this future, you know, picture of Jerusalem, um, as well. In verse 1 there of Zachariah 8, it says, the word of the Lord of hosts came saying, thus, thus says the Lord of hosts, I'm zealous. I'm zealous for Zion with great zeal. With great fervor, I am zealous for her. Well, this is where God has always placed his name, right? He always has his eyes on Jerusalem. In fact, I don't remember what psalm it is, but there's a psalm that says, pray for the peace of Jerusalem. Because when we're praying for the peace of Jerusalem, we're praying for the return of Jesus Christ. Because that will be the time when peace does come to Jerusalem. It won't be there before that. And even though there's relative peace in Jerusalem today, if we can call, you know, not an outward attack, all the rocket missiles and all the tension in the air that always surrounds Jerusalem, and increasingly so as the world goes on. But God is zealous for Jerusalem. That's where the seat of his government will be. That's where Jesus Christ will be. That will be the seat of the government. And we know from Revelation 22, the new Jerusalem will come. And when God, you know, when the physical earth passes away and God sets up his throne here on what on the New World. Verse 3, thus says the Lord, I will return to Zion. I will return to Zion. I will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem. Jerusalem shall be called the city of truth. Today is not the city of truth. It's got any number of different religions in it, all vying for attention and whatever. But in that day, it will be the city of truth.

You know, much like today, the Church of God is the church that has to be dedicated and is dedicated to the truth. And, you know, we've talked about Ephesians 4 16, truth and love. And truth has to be something that we grasp and cling to more and build into our lives. I will return to Zion. Jerusalem shall be called the city of truth. It'll be the city of truth. When the people look at that, it'll be the mountain of the Lord. It'll be the mountain of the Lord of hosts, the holy mountain. Thus says the Lord of hosts. And here's a picture of what Jerusalem will be like in that day after Christ returns. Old men and old women shall against it in the streets of Jerusalem, each one with a staff in the sand because of great age. The streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in its streets. So you have this beautiful picture of a world, you know, the world to come, if you will. I mean, we used to call it the world tomorrow, right? When Jesus Christ returns and sets up his government of peace and joy and harmony. So we have Zechariah, you know, we have the picture of Jerusalem here in the book of Zechariah as well. We go a few chapters over Zechariah 14. I guess that's the last chapter here in the book of Zechariah. You know, we have Jesus Christ. It's talking about him coming to earth.

Let me see what verses... someone have a comment? Okay, Zechariah 14. Let's look at...

let me see the verses here. Let's look at the first five verses here of Zechariah 14.

Behold, the day of the Lord is coming. Okay, when we read about the day of the Lord, we think about the Feast of Trumpets. We think about that time where the seven vials are going to be poured out and God exacts his vengeance on a world that has turned against him. Behold, the day of the Lord is coming and your spoil will be divided in your midst. I will gather all the nations to battle against Jerusalem. We read about that in Revelation. It's part of the seventh Trump. I will gather all the nations to battle against Jerusalem. The city will be taken. The house is rifled. The women ravished. Half of the city will go into captivity, but the remnants of the people shall not be cut off from the city. So here we have Jerusalem in its state of warfare, lack of peace, total distress before Jesus Christ returns. Then, verse 3, the Lord will go forth and fight against those nations. Exactly what it says in Revelation 19. Talking at the time of this turn, then the Lord will go forth and fight against those nations as he fights in the day of battle. And in that day, his state will stand on the Mount of Olives, which faces Jerusalem on the east. The Mount of Olives shall be split in two from east to west, making a very large valley. Half of the mountain will move toward the north, then half of it toward the south. And then he says, you shall flee through my mountain valley, for the valley shall reach to Azel. Yes, you shall flee as you fled from the earthquake in the days of Uzziah, king of Judah. We've talked about Uzziah in times past here. Thus the Lord might, thus the Lord my God will come, and then you and me, and all the saints with you.

That's us in that verse. If we continue, if we are willing, if we are obedient, if we seek the truth of God, if we go up there and ask Him, teach us, change us, mold us into who You want us to be, and yield our lives to Him. Thus the Lord my Lord will come, and all the saints with you.

So it's God's return to, Christ was returned to the Mount of Olives in verse 8. It says, in that day it will be that living waters shall flow from Jerusalem, half of them toward the Eastern Sea, half of them toward the Western Sea. In both summer and winter it shall occur.

Living waters. Now at the feast, the Tabernacles, you'll hear about living waters. You know, we could turn, I don't know if we'll take the time today, but you could turn to Ezekiel 47 and read about that temple that's there in these millennial times, and the waters that emanates from the temple that heal the nations, that heal the land. The waters that go forth from under the temple that have a healing effect on all of it. It's the same waters as talking about here in Zechariah. Verse 9, and the eternal shall be king over all the earth. In that day it shall be the Lord is one. God the Father and Jesus Christ are one. They're united in purpose, united in mind. Jesus Christ, as we read in Hebrews and other places, the express image of God the Father. We are to be becoming the image of God the Father, just like Jesus Christ. That's what he's working with us to do now.

If we drop down to verse 16, it talks again about the Feast of Tabernacles. As we, as we're what, July 3 months away, 3 and a half months away from the Feast of Tabernacles, there will be people going to the Feast of Tabernacles in the millennial time. It'll come to pass that everyone who is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall go up from year to year to worship the king, the Lord of hosts, and to keep the Feast of Tabernacles. They'll go there. They'll be living at that time of the millennial reign of Jesus Christ, but they will understand the plan of God. The plan of God is given by those holy days, and as we observe them each year, we see how God works with you and me and how he plans to work with all of humanity, you know, that they come to understand the Feast. It'll come to pass all those nations that fought against God, that fought against Jerusalem, they're going to go up to the Feast of Tabernacles, to Jerusalem, where the seat of the government is, and it shall be. There will be some who will resist it, right? Still human beings. They still have these things just like you and I have to weed out our lives, resistance, defiance. I'm going to do it my way. I'm going to do it my way no matter what everyone says, because I know better, even, and not listen to what God leads us to. They're going to have that same thing. They have to be taught. They have to be taught, and they have to have that resistance broken down to them as they have the Holy Spirit working in them, just like you and I. We receive the Holy Spirit when we repent and are baptized, have hands laid on us, but it doesn't go away. We have to work at it through our lives to more and more yield to God. And it shall be, this is for this, verse 17, whichever the families of the earth don't come to Jerusalem to worship the king, the Lord of hosts, on them there will be no rain. If the family of Egypt will not come up and enter in, they'll have no rain. They will receive the plague with which the Lord strikes the nations who don't come up to keep the feast of tabernacles. You know, blessings for obedience. When you live God's way of life, good things happen. When you disregard God, the blessings get removed.

The United States of America is beginning to feel that. God has blessed this nation richly, and the further and further they move from God, and even normal decency and morality, more and more of those blessings God removes. This whole thing with this Roe v. Wade thing, you know, it's, we all know that abortion is wrong, it's murder, you know, and everything. I think the thing that's been very interesting in it is just how angry and how much hate there is being displayed over that, even to the point that you have these young girls parading around, you know, saying, I mean, almost like they're going to go out and have an abortion just to have an abortion because they want to show we hate babies, we want to be able to get rid of them, whenever we can. There's just a different mindset in the world today, and we know the hate that has come upon the world in the last few years, that it's unreasonable, you know, when you compare it to all the times before. And that's an aspect of Satan's nature. He hates, he hates people, he hates God, of course, he hates mankind because of what our potential is. Now we see that spirit of hate that just is deeper and deeper and deeper, and these things that come about, we see these aspects of Satan's character, you know, becoming more and more prominent in the world, in the world around us.

But I didn't mean to get up on that. We were talking about the Feast of Tabernacles here, in a time of joy, in a time of peace, a time that'll be so far different than what we're living in now, you know, and we'll be living here in the time ahead. Let me look at my notes. It seems here, yeah, you know, let's, I want us to have a picture of this going up to the mountain of the Lord because God gives us, He gives us some, you know, some ideas of what it will be like, and we can we can let God hone that vision when we think about this is real, right? When God says it's going to happen, it's going to happen. Sure, as you and I are sitting here tonight, what God says in the Bible is going to happen. He will bring it about. In Ezekiel 37, you know, He gives us, He gives us a picture of, He gives us a picture of some of the governmental figures. We know Jesus Christ is King of Kings and Lord of Lords. In Ezekiel 37, that's the very well-known chapter that's very poetic and very, you know, quite a vision in there of the dry bones coming together, you know, the resurrection of the dead and everything. Dramatic, a time we can look forward to. It'll be a time, you know, Christ's victory over death and all those we've ever known will be resurrected. But in verse 24, He's talking about, I mean, you can read through that clearly, not anything that's happened yet, and He's talking about the last sentence there, verse 23 says, Then they shall be my people, and I will be their God. David my servant shall be king over them, and they shall have all, they all shall have one shepherd, and they shall also walk in my judgments, and serve my statutes, and do them. I was talking about physical Israel there, but He's saying, here's David. David's going to be resurrected. David's going to be king over them, king under Jesus Christ, He's King of Kings, Lord of Lords over all nations. But David, a man after God's own heart, you know, God said, David, your throne will last forever. Jesus Christ will come and take that throne, but David will be there. So we know some, we know a little bit about that government. We know that David, a man after God's own heart, something you and I are striving to become, men and women after God's own heart. In Matthew, in Matthew, no, Luke 22, Luke 22, you know, in Christ is talking to His disciples. Luke 22 and verse 28.

You know, they've been walking with Him, they've been loyal to Him, they've endured the ire of the Pharisees as they attacked everything that Jesus Christ did. But here in verse 28, as Christ is talking to His disciples, He says, you are those who have continued with Me in My trials, and I bestow upon you a kingdom, just as My Father bestowed one on Me. You remain loyal to Me. You've learned, you've walked with Me, you've changed, you're willing to yield to Me everything, everything about you, right? I bestow upon you a kingdom, just as My Father bestowed upon Me, that you may eat and drink at My table in My kingdom, and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel. Here are twelve apostles. Here's what you will be doing in that kingdom when I return.

You continue to walk with Me, you continue to yield, endure to the end, and this is what you will be. You know, this is what you will be. God has something in mind for you and Me too.

You know, we know in Revelation 1.5 He calls us a kingdom of priests and a kingdom of people, of kings and priests. He's got something in mind for us, just like He did for David, just like He did for the apostles here. He's preparing us in the same way. Are we yielding ourselves as David did? Are we yielding ourselves as the apostles did? Are we walking closely with God the way they did? Are we letting His Holy Spirit lead us in the truth? Are we willing to sacrifice our ideas, our wills, etc. to become who He wants us to become? And if we go back to the book of Isaiah, that has an awfully lot of information in it that we're going to see as we move through 66 chapters of Isaiah that has just about everything in the Bible in it, from doctrine to history to prophecy to fulfilled prophecy, etc. In Isaiah 30, we see a picture of us. I should have, while we were in the New Testament, I should have taken us over to, is it Matthew 11?

Look at my, I don't think I wrote it down. I think in Matthew 11, or maybe it is Luke.

Anyway, there's, it is Luke 19. We'll go there in a minute. Isaiah 30, though. As long as you're here, let's look at Isaiah 30. Again, this is showing what it will be like when people are flowing into the kingdom, when they're living in that millennium. And Jesus Christ is King of Kings and Lord of Lords. The law will go forth from Jerusalem. They will be being taught the way to live, the way to happiness, the way to joy. And you and I are here. Let's pick it up in verse 19. For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem.

You will weep no more. Clearly, the time that Jesus Christ returns, tears are done away with you, shall weep no more. He will be gracious to you at the sound of your cry. When he hears, he will answer you. And though the Lord gives you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, because they're going to have to learn as well, you know, just like you and I have to learn through affliction sometime, you know, just like we picture on the Day of Atonement, we've got to yield to God. We sometimes, you know, the pain is a blessing that we learn. We learn our dependence on God.

And though the Lord gives you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet your teachers, that's you and me, that's you and me, what we're preparing for now, yet your teachers will not be moved into a corner anymore, but your eyes shall see your teachers. Now, you know, God has stopped and thanked. So God, Jesus Christ is Lord of Lords.

He is one with God the Father. He wants us to become one with him, one with God the Father, one with each other. He's one with us, all understanding the same thing, all living by the same truth, all having taken this time that God gives us to become one, unified in faith, unified in spirit, unified in truth and living to truth, so that when we're there in that picture, who God will have as teachers are people he knows that are completely yielded to him, that have shown in their lives.

I'll build the character that you want me to build. I'll give up the parts of me that don't mesh with your way of life. I will let you, through your Holy Spirit, build in me who you want me to be. Those are the people that'll be there. That's how important it is today that we know the truth, cling to the truth, do the truth, live the truth, speak the truth, and let God get us ready, because that's the ones who will be there. The ones who still are going to cling to their own ideas.

God wants to know that when someone in the millennium, these people that are looking and seeing their teachers, it would be like, well, God kind of said that way, but I think it's okay if you do it this way. I think he'll give you a little bit of slack. No, no, no, no. It'll be done exactly the way God says it. The same thing that you and I are striving to live by.

Your teachers, verse 21, or your ears, your ears will hear a word behind you saying, this is the way. Walk in it. This is the right way. We have to know, and we have to be ready to do that, and we're learning that now. This is the way. Walk in it. Whenever you turn to the right hand or whenever you turn to the left, keep your eyes on God. Follow Him. Follow Him is what the message is.

Let's do one more and finish my thought here. In Luke 19, again, seeing us in Isaiah 2, we owe it all to Jesus Christ. We won't be there. It was 100% because of Him that we even have the possibility of us being part of that beautiful picture. In Luke 19, verse 17, we have the parable of the talents, if you will. Some use their talents, their mind as it calls it here. What God gives them, the talents they give them, the Holy Spirit that He gives them, they become.

They really produce the fruit that He's looking for. The fruit that changed lives, the fruits of all those traits of the Spirit that we read about in Galatians 5. Look at the reward that He says. Verse 16 there, then came the first saying, Master, you're mine. What you've given Me has earned 10 minas. And He said to him, Well done, good servant. Because you were faithful and very little, have authority over 10 cities. I'm going to make you ruler over those cities. You're going to be leader of those because I trust you. What I've seen you do in this life with what I've given you, I know I can trust you that you will lead those people well.

You will be a good governor, mayor, king, priest, whatever it is God calls us to, a good servant to those people, serving them and teaching them the way of God, which is the greatest gift we can give them. The greatest gift God gives us too is His way of life and the Holy Spirit to allow us to live that way of life.

Let's go back to Isaiah. Pause for a moment. If anyone has any questions or comments on it, I just wanted to spend that time in the first verse because we read those things with the Feast of Tabernacles. We sing the song that says, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord. It's good to sometimes just sit back and think what all those things mean and see ourselves in it and project and then realize how much we have to learn and how much we need to call on God and ask Him to give us the strength, the desire, the zeal, the complete humility, and yieldedness to build it into our lives.

Okay, let's continue in chapter two. The rest of chapter two, there's a couple of themes in here that we don't have to look at every single verse, but we don't have to stop on every single verse because it kind of just flows. He finishes this and he says, you know, this is the picture. Jacob, let's walk. Let's walk with God, you know, get the vision and walk in the light of the Lord.

Verse 6, he comes back and he goes, you know, this is the picture I have for you. This is the life I have for you. This is what I called you to. But Jacob, you know, he's talking about you and me or the people of America and, you know, the Israelite nations of today.

For you have forsaken your people, the house of Jacob. Why? Because they're not walking in those ways. They're not learning God's way. They're still clinging to things in the world. You know, we look at some of these things and they so spell even what our nation is doing today because they're filled with Eastern ways. You know, when we look at the history of the East, you have the Eastern, the East as we call it, they have never, they just never embraced God.

I mean, going back, they've always had foreign gods. There's then no Christianity among them at all, except as a few people might have from some other churches going in there and trying to teach them about Jesus. But they've got Buddha, they've got Hindu, it's a land full of all sorts of different religions not based in God. And today, as we look at our nation, boy, that's what we, somehow we're looking at China. Somehow China is over there and the world seems to be fascinated with China and the government they have and the whole world is saying China is the next superpower.

That's what we need to become like because they're filled with Eastern ways. There's something about the East that God says, what are you looking at? Look to me! Because they're filled with Eastern ways. They're soothsayers like the Philistines. They're looking for someone else to fulfill their future. They never turn to me. They never ask, what do I do? They'll look at prophets, they'll look at other people, they'll have all these things going on. They're soothsayers like the Philistines. They are pleased with the children of foreigners.

We can kind of see some of these things in the world around us today. America is kind of the same way. Britain is the same way. The whole world is not looking to each other. They're not looking to God. They've forgotten Him. Their land, God's blessed it, right? Verse 7, their land is full of silver and gold. There's no end to their treasures. Their land is full of horses. I mean, we've got cars, we've got planes, we've got trains. Their land is full of horses. There's no end to their chariots. All you got to do is get on the I-95 here in Florida and you see there's plenty of chariots in this country.

More and more it seems like every time you go out. There is no end to their chariots. Their land is full of idols. Everything that they've built, they worship. They worship their stock market. They worship their military. They worship their new ideas and their woke methodologies and all this other garbage that people run around with. Their land is full of idols. They worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made.

People bow down. They're willing to sacrifice whatever it takes. People bow down. Each man humbles himself before these gods. They are willing to sacrifice whatever it is to whatever the gods of this world are. And then God inspires Isaiah to write, don't forgive them. They've forgotten you, God. They've forgotten that you're the one who provided all this. It had nothing to do with them.

You're the one who's provided. And they look to themselves and worship themselves as opposed to ever even giving God the first thought, much less the second or third. So people bow down and each man humbles himself not to God. Therefore, don't forgive them. You know, he says it's like what they've done is atrocious. My people don't consider their ways is what God said in verse one. And then he was able to shake the earth mightily.

So here Isaiah is saying, you know, when Jesus Christ returns, there will be a time of terror. People will understand God. He will exact his vengeance on a world that has turned from him and that fights against him. So we see these very same words, this very same picture back in Revelation six.

Again, the last book that God gave us, you know, that he inspired John to write that wraps up and brings together all the prophecies in the Bible and shows how they fit together at the end time. But in Revelation six, and I didn't write them the verse. Okay, oh, yeah, here it is.

14. Revelation six in verse 14. Let's pick it up in verse 12. Okay, and just get the whole picture here. Revelation six, verse 12. I looked when he opened the sixth seal, and behold, there was a great earthquake, and the sun became black as half cloth of hair, and the moon became like blood.

The stars of heaven fell to the earth as a fig tree drops its slate's figs, when it is shaken by a mighty wind. And the sky receded as a scroll when it is rolled up, and every mountain and island is moved out of its place. What's going on in the earth can't be defined by this is a naturally occurring thing that happens once every hundred years or 400 years. This is something that has never happened before that can't be predicted by the skies. It is clearly a sign of God. This is not anything that any scientist has ever seen before, that they could predict and say, ah, this happened back a thousand years ago, and the moon is aligned here, all these other things. This is something completely new that mankind knows. This is of God. They aren't going to want to repent. They're not going to want to acknowledge it, but they know it's that. Verse 15 says, And the kings of the earth, the great men, the rich men, the commanders, the mighty men, every slave and every free man hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains, and said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb, for the great day of his wrath has come, who is able to stand?

So here, you know, back in Isaiah 2, God gives the picture of Jesus Christ who will return. People will flow. We'll have a world of peace. We'll have a world of, um, we'll have a world of peace and joy. People will be learning God's way, but preceding that, we have this world that rejects God. He's given them all the blessings. They've got all their idols, their worshiping and trusting in and forgotten him. But they will wake up and realize the power that God has, and they will be hiding in that day. So we see that at the end of the, in Revelation, as God, you know, puts it here in Isaiah, and then there it is at the end of time as well, that he continues and repeats, repeats the same thing. His prophecies are sure. When it's in the Bible, it's going to happen exactly the way God says, and we know that. So, um, so let's go back to Isaiah 2, and in verse 10, we've, you know, we're answered about going into the rock. Mankind will know, they'll, okay, this is, this is God. They'll be terrified, but the Bible also tells us they're not going to repent. They're not going to turn to God. They got their hearts that hardened against him. Verse 11, the lofty looks of man will be humbled. There's just this enormous pride in man. I mean, even in the face of what's, you know, going to happen, that they are really are terrified. You know, we read about in Ezekiel, on Ezekiel, Exodus 19, when the people of Israel, you know, they come out of, they come out of Egypt, and they're standing before God at Mount Sinai, and they hear the thunderings, they see the lightnings, they hear them, they see and feel the majesty of God, and they tremble. They tremble. Moses don't even let God talk to us, you know, and says even Moses was terrified, right? People will see, people will see, and they will be terrified of the power that God has here. But even in the face of that, man is so proud. Nothing we have. I mean, God has given us everything. We are completely dependent on the physical earth that he provided, the rain that he provides, the fact that we have, everything is from God. And we can't look to any of earth, anything that we say, and look at, look, we've done it. Everything is of God, you know, and that's but somehow man has this pride, just like Satan, the father of pride, right? We read about that in Isaiah 14. We'll go there in a minute. The lofty of looks of man will be humbled, the heartiness of man will be bowed down, and the Lord alone will be exalted in that day. People will come to the point and they will learn. We, God is the only one to be exalted. We, we, the only way to peace, happiness, joy, is to humble yourself before God and let him lead it. And him is all joy, life, and everything, and everything good. You know, we can, we should look at a couple verses in pride. If we go back to Psalm, Psalm, Psalm, Proverbs, Proverbs 16.

Proverbs 16 verse 18.

16, 18. Pride. Pride goes before destruction, right? This is a, I call it a memory verse sometimes. Pride goes before destruction. You know, the little book of Oda Obadiah, one chapter talks about Edom and how prideful they are. And God said, though you ascend to the highest mountain in, in your area, you will be brought down. You know, you're not going to hide from God. Pride goes before a fall. Pride goes before destruction is what the new King James says, and a haughty spirit before a fall. Better to be of a humble spirit with the lowly than to divide the spoiled with the proud. And that's, let me see, Proverbs, Proverbs 29, 23, among many other verses as well, but just so that we have the context here of the Bible, you know, these, these key things that we see at the end of time. Verse 23 of Proverbs 29, 29, 23.

They may flourish for a while. They will surely, they will surely be brought low. God will not stand in the, in the face of, of pride. And right there in the book of Isaiah, you know, in Isaiah 14, we read about Satan and what his sin was. And it was, again, Satan, a created being.

God gave him all the abilities. He, you know, the Bible says he was the most beautiful of, of the created creatures. He had this creative ability that God put in him. Literally, it had nothing to do with him. It's all the gifts that God gave Satan. And yet he, he allowed the pride to swell up in him and, you know, did things that he would think are unthinkable, but, but he did it.

We see that attitude in Isaiah 14 and verse 12. How are you, how are you are fallen from heaven, illusifer, son of the morning. And I know some take issue with the fact that he's called illusifer there, but, you know, but, but that's what the Bible says there. How you are fallen from heaven, illusifer, son of the morning. How you are cut down to the ground. You who weak into the nations. You know, that's the thing pride always, it's always a weakness. It's never our confidence is never in ourselves. Our confidence is in God. We trust in him. We have pride in ourselves. It is a weakness.

The nations of the world, America, you know, the pride that you see in it, it's, it's, it's misplaced. It has to be in God. You who weakened the nations, you said in your heart, I will ascend into heaven. I will exalt my throne above the stars of God. I will sit on the mount of the congregation on the far the sides of the north.

I will ascend above the heights of the clouds. In fact, you know what? I'll be God. That's exactly what it's like. I can be just like him. I'm going to be him. Who needs God when you got me? I mean, come on, this is like ridiculous that there's any creative being that could even have that thought. And what that's Satan, and it is so blind to them that even today in the face of the Bible that he knows he can't possibly win.

He knows what his fate is. He knows what his future is. And yet he so hates and his pride so blinds him that he just keeps marching forward to utter destruction. Pride can do the same thing to us. It can destroy us, and it can blind us, and we have to become humble people so God can reach us and said that he can mold us into who he wants us to be, that you keep hearing me say over and over again. So he says, you know, I'm going to be like, I'm going to be God.

I'll be. I'll be the Most High. I'll replace God. We can just we can just get rid of him. And here, you know, this created being thinks he's just as good as God. And God says, yet you'll be brought down to Sheol. You'll be done to the lowest pit depths of the pit. And of course, we have the Day of Atonement, the pictures, the time after Christ returns, that Satan will be bound and he will be put in that bottomless pit for a thousand years until God allows him to come out for a short time after that.

But his fate, his fate is nothing. He loses. He loses. He's here to destroy the earth and anyone that follows his way and that pride that allows him to dwell in him, you know, is going to make the same faith. Same faith. Isaiah 66, you know, as God wraps up the book here of Isaiah, you know, in verse two, another verse we're all familiar with, I'm sure, says all these things.

I'll read verse one. 66 verse one. Heaven is my throne, God says. Earth is my footstool. Where's the house that you will build me? You can't make anything that's big enough for me. Where's the house that you will build me? And where's the place of my rest? For all those things my hand has made and all those things exist, says the Eternal. But on this one, I will look. You want God's attention. You want him listening to what you have to say. We talked about answered prayer a little bit last time. Do his will, yield to him. On this one, I will look.

On him who is poor and of a contrite spirit and who trembles at my word. He reads the word and when he reads it, and he sees that that's not him, he trembles. He's in awe of what God says and desires to be like him. That's who God will look at. He's given us the Holy Spirit. That can happen. That can happen in our lives.

That natural resistance, that natural pride that we all have, can be overcome with what God will allow us. Thomas, did you have your hand up?

Yeah, just a quick question. This may be too deep for this, but what would be the controversy about the Lucifer part of that? Oh, someone was talking years ago. I mean, the translators put the name Lucifer in there, but the Bible doesn't give him Lucifer. It says he was light-bringer. I don't remember the details of it. The Hebrew means, oh, shining star. Oh, shining star? Okay. Lucifer is Latin. It's a Latin name for the adversary. Yeah, so that's, I don't remember the details, but I remember hearing about it. I looked at it. I think I know exactly who was talking to me about that. It doesn't give him that name. The translators gave him that name. So, yeah. Okay, well, thank you. Yeah, yeah. So that's what that was. But I can't read, I can't say Lucifer anymore without thinking about it and saying it. So, but we know who he's talking about when we read it there in Isaiah. So, okay. I guess back to Isaiah too, then, here. So, where were we? We were here. Okay. Oh, yes, okay. Talking about pride, right?

Going on in verse 12 there, then. Going on in verse 12 there, then, in Isaiah 2. Again, you see, the continuing thing. God is talking about this pride, this pride that's there. He talks about, I want you in my kingdom. I want you coming. I want you there at the time Jesus Christ returns, but you're looking to the world.

You've got these idols that have to get rid of. You've got to get rid of this pride. For the day of the Lord of hosts, verse 12, shall come upon everything, proud and lofty, upon everything lifted up, and it shall be brought low. I mean, he means what he's saying. The world will be brought to its knees. There will be this time of affliction. They will have nowhere to learn. They will learn God is the only salvation and the only way, you know, the only way of life. Verse 13, then he defines all these things upon all the cedars of Lebanon. You know, when God, he uses the things of nature to kind of describe man.

The cedars of Lebanon apparently were a tremendously beautiful tree, you know, and everything back then. Upon all the cedars of Lebanon, the high and mighty beautiful things that are high and lifted up, upon all the oaks of Vasion, upon all the high mountains, and upon all the hills that are lifted up, all these things that just have this pride. Look what we've done. Look who we are. Upon every high tower, every fortified wall, you know, one of the commentaries, you know, mentioned on high tower, you know, reference back to Babel, how even the pride, like we could build a tower high enough that God can't reach us with the flood anymore.

And I'm sure there are people that are working in the world today. We can eliminate God, right? All these little experiments of sea going on, and we can clone people, and we can live forever. Who needs God? We can do it all without it. So we read about some of these things, and there's still that element in the world. We can outdo God. We can, we don't need God. We can, we can foolproof ourselves against Him. Upon every tie, however, upon every high tower, upon every fortified wall, upon all the ships of Tarshish that, you know, we're trading all over the world and bringing things and bringing the world together upon all the beautiful sloops.

And He says again, the loftiness of man will be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be brought low. The Lord alone will be exalted in that day. That day that leads into the first five verses there of Isaiah 2. And then we read verse 19, how they're going to be brought low in those, in those trumpets that we talk about at the Feast of Trumpets, by all the things that are prophesied as the world brings itself to destruction and the time between now and the return of Jesus Christ.

They will be terrified. They will be brought low. Everything they trusted in will disappear. There will be nothing, nothing left. It'll be Jesus Christ who, you know, saves the world from itself. And that day, and that day when they're finally brought low and they say, the only way is God, and that day a man will cast away his idols of silver. He will cast away his idols of gold. What good are they? We trusted in them. They didn't, they didn't save us or deliver us, which they made each for himself to worship to the moles and baths.

It's worthless. All these things we counted on fine. Just give it, give it to the animals. They meant nothing in the long run. They will go into the cluffs of the rocks and into the crags of the ragged, and into the crags of the rugged rocks from the terror of the Lord and the glory of his majesty when he arises to shake the earth mightily.

You know, let me see what time we have here. Yeah, let's turn to Amos. We're one first away from the conclusion, but, you know, Amos was, I think I mentioned the contemporary of Isaiah as well. Daniel, Isaiah, Joel, Amos. And, of course, he prophesied to the ancient nation of Israel, but it's clear in the chapters here in Amos that it's a prophetic time for Israel of today before the return of Jesus Christ. And there are things in here where God is very, you know, explicit and very, you know, very, if I can use the word poetic, you know, and when we read things about men are going to try to hide from God, right?

I mean, you're going to go into the caves, you're going to go into the cliffs of the rocks and whatever, trying to hide from God in a terror that will be there. And in Isaiah 9 and, you know, the first four verses here, he says, you can't run from God. When God is going to get our attention, when he's going to get the attention, there's nowhere to hide from God, you know.

You and I shouldn't be hiding from God. We should be yielding to God and we should be whatever your will is, we will do, and not having to go through this time of terror and affliction if we would willingly yield ourselves to him now. Isaiah, not Isaiah, Amos, Amos 9 verse 1, I saw the Lord standing by the altar and he said, strike the doorposts that the threat-thresholds may shake and break them on the heads of them all.

I will slay the last of them with the sword. He who flees from them shall not get away and he who escapes from them shall not be delivered. They may think they can run from me. They may think that they're going to be delivered, but if when I want them, you know, I will bring them all low.

Though they dig into hell, that's Sheol the grave, though they dig into hell, like no matter how far you bury yourself in the earth, though they dig into hell, from there my hand shall take them. Though they climb up to heaven, those highest towers, you know, that I can ascend higher than God, though from there my hand shall take them. Though they climb up to heaven, from there I will bring them down, and though they hide themselves on top of Carmel, from there I will search and take them.

Though they hide from my sight at the bottom of the sea, from there I will command the serpent and it shall bite them. Though they go into captivity before their enemies, from there I will command the sword and it shall slay them. I will set my eyes on them from par for harm and not for good.

So what God is saying, no man is going to escape. You know, no one's going to sleep by and hide from God. You and I can't hide from God. We have to do things his way. We have to learn to do that because he will get, because he loves us, he will cause us, you know, to go through trials. We will feel some pain because he will get our attention until we learn to do it his way. His way is the only way we keep learning.

So go back to Isaiah too. We'll conclude here in that, you know, here in the last from 12.1 it's talking about people that are prideful, people that trust in all their idols, you know, their riches, or America can never fall, or we have the greatest weaponry on earth, you know, whatever it is, right? Whatever it is that we trust in more than God, we're going to learn that all that stuff, all the things of man being nothing.

But if we are of that mindset, or if we're, you know, people that are of that mindset, that kind of, you know, whatever, I'm going to trust in something else. God says in verse 22, there, sever yourselves from such a man, sever yourselves from such a man whose breath is in his nostrils, for of what account is he? If he's so about himself, if he thinks he's the end all and be all, if he's trusting in himself and thinking, you know, eh, you know, I read those things, but you know, it's a hundred years off, the America can't fall, it's too big to fall, the world needs, all these things, boy, we have to, we have to, you know, look at the times, we have to know the times we're in, we have to yield to God.

We have no idea when Christ will return, how these things will come about in the time frame, but we have to be ready, we have to be ready. I have written down here Psalm 146. Last thing I'll turn to, and then I'll be quiet, but Psalm 146, in reference to that last verse there, sever yourselves from such a man for whose breath is in his nostrils, meaning he trusts in his life, he trusts in his life, he doesn't trust in God and realize that we're just a breath and we're going to be gone in no time.

Psalm 146 in verse 3.

Yeah, Psalm 146 verse 3. Don't put your trust, don't put your trust in princes, you know, the presidents, the kings, the governments of this world, don't put your trust in princes, nor in a son of man in whom there is no help. His spirit departs, he returns to his earth, and that very day his plans perish. He's a temporary thing on his earth, what our lives are about is what God is preparing for us now. Happy is he who has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the Lord, whose hope is in the Lord, his God. That's who we have to focus on, that's who we have to follow, and that's where we need to have our hope and focus going forward. Always, always, always cling to him and follow him.