God Works Mostly Through Families

God works through families. Well, not always, but in most cases. God works through families. We look at the case of the Father of the Faithful. It is basically a family, Abram, Isaac, and Jacob. It's a family. And the thing about a family is that you have, or at least you're supposed to have in a healthy family, a good, loving, bonding relationship. Like we heard in the sermonette, relationships to God is very important. And you build that trust to one another in a family. And that's what God is building. A family that trusts in each other. So that's what God is doing. Building a family, a family that is a trusting family. And yes, there are many promises and blessings. And those come through families. So God wants to bless the whole world. But as He blesses the whole world, He starts through a family and that enlarges to other relatives and people that deal with that family and ultimately reaches the whole world. That's how God plans to extend His family in the Kingdom. Now, we all realize in our families that sometimes we do have a few little problems in a family. Who doesn't? To one way or another. Sometimes we say things that we shouldn't say. Or let's put another way. We sin because if we say things we shouldn't say is an example. And what it is, is we all have weaknesses. We all have weaknesses. We all have many failings. But in spite of failings, and you see those failings in Abraham, for instance in Jacob, and in a whole family you see many failings. Sometimes you wonder, how come? That was allowed. Certain things you say, how come? But in a sense it's a lesson to us because we also have failings. And in a way, it can be encouraging to us because God overlooks a lot of things, provided we repent and confess, and we come to Him in absolute trust. In other words, in absolute faith. And that is what a family relationship builds, is trust. So today, brethren, we're going to look at some interesting details about that family. The family of the father of the faithful. And we're going to look at some, and we're going to see very briefly how Satan has leveraged a family feud. You know, little arguments which became huge arguments, and today we still see the result of that family feud in the Middle East. And so, how Satan has leveraged that, but we'll also see that ultimately there will be peace in that family, and in fact, in all families in the world, as that peace will extend to all the families, basically the families of Adam and Eve. They all will be at peace. Now, as we look at that story, you might remember, and we're going to look at some parts here in Genesis, but before we get there, I want to bring an important point, and particularly for our younger people. I really want to bring an important point for us, but also for our younger people. As you recall, when the Israelites were in Egypt, there were a number of plagues. Right? You know. There were ten plagues. You know that. I'm not going to go through those details, but I just want to emphasize the principle. And, as you may recall, after the third plague, in other words, from the fourth plague onwards, the Israelites were protected. Miraculously, there was nothing they did. It's God that brought that protection to the land of Goshen, to those people.

It's no different than what will be to those of us that are faithful spiritual Israelites, and that are watching ourselves and praying that we may be counted worthy to escape, and not only that, but to stand before the Son or Man. And you know where that scripture is, in Luke 21, verse 36. So, the lesson is, brethren and young people, somehow, miraculously, God will protect you and I if we are doing the right thing and we are faithful till the end. God has done to the Israelites, and you know that we are stubborn as anything, and they did a lot of things wrong, that God was pretty angry with them. How much more is He going to protect those of us that are walking His way and our families and our little children so that they will be able, they, our children, will be able to marry and have children in the world tomorrow? Don't think just because certain things are going to blow up, that God is not going to protect you. God will. How? I do not know. But we have to understand and believe and have trust in our Heavenly Father. That's what a relationship builds, trust. In other words, faith. And we have to have faith. So God will protect our children. And again, young men and young ladies, if things escalate, soon, fear not my little flock, because it's the Father's desire to give you the kingdom. And He will protect you if you and I are faithful.

But we do know there is a spiritual battle. We do know there is a battle which basically, the architect of this battle is basically Satan. And this battle is described initially in Genesis chapter 3. You know, in Genesis chapter 3 you know the story of Adam and Eve, and they took over the fruit that they should have not taken. And there was this whole blaming game, well, it's your fault or my fault, or finger pointing. But in the end, it shows there in Genesis chapter 3 verse 15, where it says, I will put enmity between you and the woman. This is talking to Satan. And it says, I'll put enmity between you, that's Satan, and the woman, yes, the woman that gave birth to Christ, Israel, but also, spiritually, the Church of God.

And, and between your seed, that's Satan's seed, that is, all these false religions and ideologies, whatever they are, there are many false religions out there. Could be Christian false religions, could be Muslim false religions, but they are false ideologies. So, between the seed of Satan, of those approaches, those ideologies that he has spread, he doesn't care whether you believe this wrong or that wrong or the other wrong, provided you don't believe God's way. So, he's putting this enmity between Satan's seed and her seed. Her seed, specifically, is Jesus Christ, the seed of Israel, of physical Israel, but spiritually, his eyes. We are part of the body of Christ, spiritually speaking. And he shall bruise your head.

That means Christ is going to bruise Satan's head. And we'll read more about that, for instance, in Romans 16 verse 20. I'm not going to go there, but it shows that he will be bruised. But then it says, and you, that Satan shall bruise his heel. So, Satan will bruise the heel of Christ, right, but Christ resurrected, and likewise, as a church, will be bruised as well, but will be protected. And it's not the head, it's just the heel. So, Satan hates everything that is God's. Satan hates everything that is God's. God's people, God's church. Why?

Because he hates the family. Why? Because God is making us his children in his family. So, he hates this plan, and he wants to destroy families. And you and I can see in society today all these immoral things that are destroying the family. I don't have to go into details. You know what I'm talking about. That is Satan motivated. And so, he hates family. And as I start at the beginning, God is working through families.

So, let's look at this family that God is working through, and the first one that I want you to turn to is Genesis 11, verse 27. So, let me turn there, and here we read. This is the genealogy of terror. Terror begot Abram, Naior, and Haran. And so, now we have the first beginning of a family. A family in which, let's call it the grandfather of this family, the father of Abram, was terror.

And then there are three important names mentioned, which is Naior and Haran. Now, Haran begot Lot, so you know there's a story of Lot. Then we have Naior. Through Naior came basically the wives of Abram's children and grandchildren through Naior. And, obviously, from Abram, then came Isaac and Jacob and that family, the twelve tribes of Israel. So, that's basically, think of it, the family structure. Starting from terror, and then we have Abram, Naior, and Haran, and then we have those below.

Now, you know the story of Abram's calling. And the story basically started in Abram being called out of his land. And Naior, the land of his father, so he then had to act on faith. And Naior basically is the key factor throughout this whole story. Faith, trust, believing. It's a trusting relationship. It's a relationship in a family has to be built on trust.

You trust your dad, your dad trusts in you, and there's that family trusting relationship. Yes, we all kind of as children do sometimes things a little wrong, and dad closes his eyes and says, okay, don't do that again. But we've got to build that trusting relationship. And that's faith. The whole, let's call it core of it, is faith. It's the building block.

It's faith. So, in Genesis 12, you read the story that Abram was to leave his home, and he did it in faith. And then later on, when God appears to Abram again, you can see in Genesis 15 verse 6. In Genesis 15 verse 6, you see that Abram believed in the Lord. You see, this is all based in faith and trust.

Abram believed in the Lord, and he accounted to him for righteousness. Believe his trust or believe his faith. Abram had absolute faith in God, and that was granted or imputed. It's like credited into your bank account. It's like you got a bank account, and it's just credited into your bank account. Grazias, bang, you're righteous. If you were to say, okay, righteousness was a certain amount of money, you say, bang, it's there. Grazias. Because you trust it. It's just that, and you can read more about that in Romans chapter 4. Let's quickly turn to Romans chapter 4, because it is very important, this point, because in Romans chapter 4 is talking about Abram's faith in the first few verses of Romans chapter 4.

But then, a little later, it brings it to us in verse 7 and 8, which says, Blessed are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven and whose sins are covered. It's just like a family. You know, Dad just says, all right, let's just forget that. Cover those sins. Blessed is the man, and obviously the woman, the person, to whom the Lord shall not impute sin. You see, because of faith, of trust. That is so beautiful. Okay, let's go on back to Genesis, where we were a moment ago. And then we continue the story, because Abram had faith.

He was imputed that as righteousness because of his faith. And then we read in chapter 16, we read the story that he was going to, the promise was that he was going to have descendants, but his wife was just not able to bear children. And so his wife came out with this clever plan. Bad idea. Bad idea. Not a good idea. But you know, it came out of this clever plan. Says, well, seeing that God promised that you're going to have descendants, have it through my maid. And it shows man's sin. But God still loves us and cares for us. It's like a dad and a mom. We still have our children if they trust us.

And yeah, he wants us to change and to repent, but he wants their trust. And so we see the story that Abram went with Agar, and then they had a child called Ishmael. And yeah, but before that, there was this conflict. You know, well, I'm better than you because I'm expecting now and you couldn't have a child. So there was this conflict.

And you see, we can see the building up of family problems. The building up of family problems that will extend till today. That extend till today. But when Ishmael was born, and we can see that God said, I will bless Ishmael. Ishmael will still be great. We'll have a lot of people. We can read that in Genesis 16, verse 10 through 12. And it says, An angel of the Lord, which was Christ, said to her, Behold, you are of child, and you shall bear a son, and you shall call his name Ishmael, because the Lord has heard your reflection.

He shall be a wild man. And you know, out of Ishmael came the Arab nations. And that is a very applicable statement. And then it says, in continued reading, verse 12, His hand shall be against every man, and every man's hand against him, he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren. And yeah, he dwells around that area in the presence of all his brethren. So, yes, they would get and be a very large group of people. Then a little later, you read the story about Sodom and Gomorrah.

In Genesis 19, you know that story of Sodom and Gomorrah. And then you see how a lot is protected. But then you see the story of his two daughters, bam! Another mistake. They go to their dad, and then they have children. One is the Moabites, and the other one is the Ammon. And so you can see all these seeds of sin, which are going to breed a lot of problems down the road. Now, these Moabites and Ammonites, they intermix with the other cousins, because understand, all these groups of people are actually cousins.

When you think about it, it's actually a family feud between cousins. So, a little later, then we see that finally, then Isaac is born. You see that in Genesis 21. And then just immediately after that, when Isaac has actually grown up to probably a young adult, or at least a very much older teen, so he wasn't like a five-year-old child. He was more of a grown-up young man.

And Abram's faith, and I would dare to say, I think, I believe, I think Isaac's faith was also tested. Because, I mean, if it was a little child, but I mean, if you were 20-year-old, and dad says, lie down, and I'm going to take an offer there, and he says, don't worry, God will intervene. If you were a 20-year-old person, and I'm not saying he was 20 years old, I'm not sure what is his age, I'm sure I can work it out if I spend time working it, but I didn't.

But whatever age was, run about 20, maybe less, maybe a bit more. But about that age, he would have said, dad, no! You know, he would physically be quite strong, and say, dad, no! So, yes, Abram's faith was tested, but I think Isaac's faith was tested as well. Right, so they both were tested.

And you know the story that they tested, and then later on, as Abram gets older, we see the story that Abram wants to give Isaac a wife. And so he sends a servant to go and look for a wife from his family's line, from Terah. As I mentioned, that is, Terah had Abram, Nahor, and Haron from the family line of Nahor, then Nahor had a child, a girl, Rebecca, and so she then becomes Isaac's wife.

So you can see it's a family. God is bullying through a family. Well, nowadays, because of genetic code is further, that would not be allowed. But in those days, when the genetic code was so strong, in the early years of mankind and humanity, that was obviously allowed. But we see that Isaac marries Rebecca, and then later on, we see Abram getting old.

We see his wife, Abram's wife, Sarah dying, and then Abram marries another woman that you see called Katura, and from there comes other children, of which one of them is the Midianites. So you can see more edicts come from that as well. And then we see in Genesis 25 verse 7 and 8 that Abram dies when he was 175 years old. So he had lived a good life, so 175 years old.

And then we see the story that Isaac and Rebecca, they're going to have. She's pregnant, and she's going to have a very child, and then she realizes he's got twins. And yeah, we have the story, and we read that in Genesis 25, Genesis 25, verse 22 through 25.

And it says, but the children struggled within her. And she said, if all is well, why am I like this? Why is there's a war inside my tummy? Can you imagine? I mean, the two are fighting already, which just shows the spirit of man is already alive, even in the womb. The spirit of man in man is already alive, even in the womb. Right? And there was these two going at each other already in the womb.

Wow! So, and then the Lord explains this to two nations in your womb, and one is Esau, and the other one is Jacob. So again, you know that story. And so what do we have here? We have the real beginnings of a real big family feud. There's a big family argument going, yeah, starting in the womb of these two twin brothers. And that war has continued till today. That's what it is. That has continued till today. In verse 29 of chapter 25, we see the story that Esau was hungry. It came in, and he said, give me of that wrist, too.

And then we see the story that Jacob said, well, you can have it, but sell me your birthright. And Esau said, ah, well, is a birthright. And he sold it. Yeah, I'll have it for a bowl of lentil soup. Just take to birthright. And you read at the end of verse 34, says, Jacob gave Esau bread and stew of lentils, and when he ate and drank a rose and went his way.

Oh, I'm happy. And it says, thus Esau despised his birthright. So you can see this is just a little indicator, but there were many other things, surely, that are not yet, are not even in the Bible. But it must have been a lot of other things just happening between those two, because they were already fighting in the womb. So you can see this. This was only the tip of the iceberg is kind of described. Yeah. And then we see in Genesis 26 that that he says in verse one, and there was a famine in the land besides the first famine that was in the days of Abraham.

And Isaac went to Abimelech, king of the Philistines in Gerar. Now, so he went. Isaac went to where the Philistines were. And we can see that the Philistines were part of fights with Israel and the people all the way during the days of Saul and King David. There was people, some of the people in that land. Now, understand that some people think that the Philistines are the Palestinians. They're not. It's possible that the Palestinians, some of the Palestinians are Philistines, but most of the Palestinians are actually Arabs. The church has a very interesting article on the website called, Who are the Palestinians?

That you can pull out. And it says here, about 18 minutes of reading, but it says, as history shows, the idea of a quote-unquote Palestinian people or nation is an invention.

And then it says, no such ethnically or culturally distinct people of this name has ever existed. It is clear that the Palestinians of today are mostly Arabs, yet from many other areas, along with various other peoples. So, basically, nations or groups of people like the Ammonites, the Moabites, Edomites, the Medians, intermarried, and yeah, we have a hybrid of different peoples. In this same article, it mentions a little later that it says a quote from Yasser Arafat. Now, some of you younger people might not know who Yasser Arafat was, but those that have been around a little longer remember very well that he was the leader of the PLO.

And they say, who is PLO? Palestine Liberation Organization. That was a terrorist organization many years ago. Oh, don't use the word terrorist. I'm sorry, I'm going to use the word terrorist when it's applicable. It was a terrorist organization. And Yasser Arafat, on March 31, 1977, said the following in an interview with the Dutch newspaper Troll, and that is with the Executive Committee member Zair Mosin and the other quote.

And I'll read that quote. The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means of continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. Wow. Then he says, in reality today, there's no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians, and Lebanese.

Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct Palestinian people to oppose Zionism. That's a very interesting quote. So, continuing back with the story that we were talking about, so Isaac went to the area of the Philistines, and you know the story.

That he was extremely blessed. He was extremely blessed. You read in Genesis 26, verse 12 through 13. Genesis 26, verse 12 through 13 said, Then Isaac sowed in that land and reaped in the same year, one hundredfold. Now, if you put one and you get two, that's called 100 percent or even more than that. Now, if you put one and you get a hundred percent, that is, but maybe that's ten thousand percent or something like that. That is a huge growth. And the Lord blessed him, and a man began to prosper and continued prospering until he became very prosperous. And in verse 14, he says, For yet possessions of flocks and possessions of herds, and a great number of servants, so the Philistines envied him.

Jealousy. Envy. So we see there's this family feud plus because God is blessing Abram, Isaac, and Jacob, and we see the blessing coming in this case to Isaac and becoming very prosperous, very wealthy because God has a plan for the family.

And this bread envy amongst those people. And those people later mixed with Arabs and others, and this family feud, and this thing just grew, grew and grew over years and decades and centuries to what we have today. Right. So in the meantime, there's the other brother of Jacob, and that is Esau. And he then starts marrying pagan wives. You see that in Genesis 26, verse 34. And then Esau was four years old, and he took his wives, pagan women, and they were of a great, and they were a great grief of mind to Isaac and Rebecca.

You see, we know it's the same thing we are to marry in the faith. And when we don't, there's going to be headaches. There's going to be problems. I mean, there's always problems between two people. But even more, if you have different belief systems, that becomes a big issue. So the situation there, he became the parents, in other words, Isaac and Rebecca. We're not happy with it. And then later, we can see, to kind of appease his parents, then he married a daughter of Ishmael. So he married into Ishmael's family. And that, I have a little chart, like a family chart, that you can always draw, but you can see, he married a woman, which is a daughter of Ishmael, called Mahalath.

So it's just that he married various people, and this whole thing gets kind of even more complicated. All right, let's move on. We now move on to Genesis 27. And in Genesis 27, it gets to a point that Isaac is just about gonna die, and then he is gonna give the blessings to his children, Esau and Jacob. And you know the story. You know the story. I don't have to go into those details. And then when Esau came up for a blessing, I mean, Jacob had already been blessed, you know the story, in Genesis 27. And then you read in verse 34 of Genesis 27.

And he says, When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with an exceedingly great and bitter cry, and said to his father, Bless me also, O my father. Now, this was not a five-year-old child with a bitter cry. This was not a 20-year-old. This was not a 40-year-old. He was quite a little older. He was a grown-up man. And now he was crying, but that cry was bitter. It had bitterness in it. It wasn't a repentant cry. It was a cry with bitterness.

And then he says, Jacob took my best right, and now he's taken my blessing. Well, remember, he had despised his best right, so there were certain attitude problems there. But you see, the point here is that this is a root of bitterness.

There is yet a root of bitterness. We've got to be very careful that we don't allow things in us, the green families or spreading out with other people, that becomes a root of bitterness.

And then we see in verse 41 of Genesis 27, So is so hated Jacob. Hated Jacob. And you can see, I'll kill my brother. Well, you know, in the end, it didn't end up because in the end, it's kind of looking towards in the world tomorrow that there will be peace. But in the interim, there's this buildup of hatred. If you just keep your fingers there on Genesis, but now turn to Hebrews chapter 12.

Hebrews chapter 12. Hebrews chapter 12, verse 14 through 17, and it says, Pursue peace with all people and holiness, without which no one will see the Lord. If you and I have, quote unquote, a family feud, it really is important that you do from your side everything you can to pursue peace with all people and holiness, without which no one will see the Lord.

Verse 15, looking carefully, lest anyone fall short of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness spring up, cause trouble, and by this may become defiled. Esau had a root of bitterness. And yes, his brother Jacob was blessed, but there was a root of bitterness out there.

And then he says, lest there be any fornication, fornicator, or profane person like Esau, who for one morsel of food, sold his birthright. For you know that afterward, when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected. For he found no place for repentance, though he sought diligently with tears. He had a root of bitterness. He was not repented. And yes, a problem. We got it. Seek, pursue peace and holiness. And then, let's go back to Genesis.

We read in Genesis, we jump now a little bit, to Genesis 36. And I just want to bring this point here, that then through Esau's grandson. You're looking at Genesis 36 verse 12. Genesis 36 verse 12. He says, now, Timna was the concubine of Eliphos. That was Esau's son. So Esau, through one of the pagan women, had a son called Eliphos.

And Eliphos had a son called Amalek. And so, Amalek was the grandson of Esau. And this hatred was brewing in this family, between cousins. Now, you know the story. And it actually describes it quite nicely in Deuteronomy 25 verse 17-19. Deuteronomy 25 verse 17-19.

Remember what Amalek did to you. You know, it was the Israelites. On the way that you're coming out of Egypt. So the Israelites were now fleeing Egypt, leaving Egypt after the ten plagues. The Israelites were coming out. And he says, How he met you on the way, and he attacked your rear ranks. All the stragglers at your rear, when you were tired and weary, he did not fear God. Amalek attacked those that were defenseless. The women that were pregnant. The little children that were struggling. Those that were less healthy.

Those that were weak at the back. He went at the back and attacked the weak ones. Brethren, this is the spirit of Amalek. I'll put it in another words. This is the spirit of terrorism. That's it. It's the spirit of terrorism. Using, attacking the defenseless, the ones that can't defend themselves, and even using those defenseless as shields for them. That is Satan's mind. And that's how Satan exploited this family feud. Amalek's spirit has spread to the whole world.

And you know the story. You know the story. Look at Exodus 17. Exodus 17. And we read there in verse 8 through 16. And there was a war. After that there was a war. And even Moses was there holding up his hands. Remember that? And then they were fighting Amalek because they had come from the back. And there was this war against these people. And as we read in Deuteronomy 25, it says, Don't forget those people.

Wipe them out! Wipe them out! Don't forget! Regrettably. You know the story of Saul, King Saul, in 1 Samuel 15. When he was told, Wipe out the Amalekites! And what did he do? Oh no, we kept these feuds. Whatever he was lying. Because he kept a lot more. Because the Amalekites were not destroyed. And the spirit of terrorism has spread through the whole world. That's why Saul could not continue as king.

You see, Satan is exploiting these things. And there's many more things that we could refer. But the point that I want to leave with you there is that we have a very, very good booklet called The Middle East in Prophecy. I do recommend you to take time and download that booklet or read it again. Because there in that booklet, The Middle East in Prophecy, explains clearly the background, how the current situation developed, talks about these fundamentalist groups, how they developed and they came about.

And all this has roots from these Amalekites and this family feud that has gone on for years and years and years. And it will not be solved until Christ comes back. That's it. It will not be solved until Christ comes back. We know that in prophecy it talks about being abomination of desolation. You read that in Matthew 24, 15 and 16. Not going to go there, but it says this is going to be a time for you to flee. And you also know that it's going to be a time that Satan will inspire that for that attack.

You read that in Revelation 12. So let's briefly look at Revelation 12. In Revelation 12, I'm going to look at verses 16 and 17. Now understand that Revelation 12, verses 16 and 17 is after the swore in heaven, which is described in verse 13. And some people get confused because earlier, so earlier in verse 6, talks about a persecution of Christians for 1,260 years. That was during the Middle Ages from the year 325 to 1585. That was in the past. Then we move forwards in time, where in verse 7 talks about a war in heaven, which is still future.

And then Satan is very angry, comes down to the earth to persecute the woman, the church, which is us. And then in verse 13 and 14 says, Now when the dragon saw that it was cast to the earth, he persecute to the woman, which is the church, which is us. Which is us. Well, the woman obviously represents Christ, but Christ gave birth to the male child.

You know, the woman represents Israel, that gave birth to the male child, which is Christ. But we are the body of Christ, and today we are the bride. So you can see this analogy there. But the woman, which is the bride, which is the church, was given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness to a place where she's nourished for a time, times, and of a time.

That is for three and a half years. So this is still future. This is what happens when they will have to flee for three and a half years after the abomination of desolation. You can read in Daniel 12 verse 11 that the abomination of desolation will be three and a half years plus one month. So it will be that one month period, and that booklet that I just explained to you about the Middle Eastern prophecy goes into all this in great detail.

The point here is that it says in verse 16, and that's the encouraging part to us and to our young people, it says, the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed up that flood. Just like when the Israelites left Egypt and the sea protected the Israelites and opened up its mouth and swallowed up the Egyptian army, somehow miraculously God will intervene for the brethren in the church.

I don't know how. Just like the Israelites did not know how. When they left Egypt, they saw a mountain on one side, a mountain on the other, the sea in front, an army behind, and they said, what are you going to do? And God said through Moses, fear not, just go forwards. And the sea opened up. And they aired to act in faith.

You see, the building block of a family relationship is mutual, godly trust. It's faith. God wants us to have faith. Abram's faith was imputed to him as righteousness. God will impute to us as righteousness when we act in faith. I know we don't know what's going to happen. I know we can be worried and concerned, but we have to trust God. He promises protection. And YAH is in a prophecy that He will protect us. However, not every one of us. Because He says, in verse 17, the dragon was enraged with the woman he went to make war with the rest of her offspring. And you know, in Matthew 25, it talks about the ten virgins, five were wise and five were foolish. Ten virgins basically saying, they're all in the church, but five were wise and five were foolish. The question is, you and I in the church, are we close to God? Are we amongst the wise ones? Or are we kind of just not so close to God? And that is the key factor. In fact, I think that this closeness to God is related to outgoing concern for one another, genuine outgoing concern and love for one another. So we have to trust God. We have to believe that He will intervene and protect us. That is the key factor that we need to have. We've got to trust God completely.

Brethren, Luke 21, verse 36 says, watch and pray that you may be counted worthy to escape and to stand before the Son of Man. We have to watch and pray ourselves that we may be counted worthy. It's not that I make the decision, I'm going to go to the place of safety. No, God will make that decision for you. How? I don't know. Maybe you'll bring some angels and zap you there. I don't know how. And bring you to whatever. But the point is, we have to trust God. Young adults, teenagers, God wants you in the kingdom of God.

God wants you as pioneers in the world tomorrow. God wants you to marry. If you don't marry in this age, you'll marry in the world tomorrow. You'll have a wonderful society to be a leader.

Fear not. Fear not. Look at Isaiah 19. Look at Isaiah 19, verse 21. Isaiah 19, verse 21. And this is looking into the world tomorrow. Isaiah 19, verse 21.

And says, Then the Lord will be known to Egypt.

Egypt, Yah, I believe, symbolizes the king of the south. And the Egyptians will know the Lord in that day. You know what? Think about the Muslims in that day will know the true God. And they will worship the true God. And I'll make sacrifice and offering, yes, they will make a vow to the Lord and perform it. And the Lord will strike Egypt. He will strike it, and he will heal it. Oh, yes, there will be a punishment. Just like to Israel, there will be a punishment, but God will heal them. King of the south will be punished, but God will heal them in the world tomorrow. They will return to the Lord, and he will be entreated by them and heal them. In that day, there will be our way from Egypt, again symbolizing the Muslim world and the Arabs and the south, to Assyria, symbolizing the kingdom of the north and Europe and the beast power. What is the beast power? Those nations on the north, they will have to repent, too. They'll have to change.

And the Assyrian will come into Egypt and the Egyptian into Assyria, and the Egyptians will serve with the Assyrians. It was those that came from the kingdom of the north and those that came from the kingdom of the south, they all worship God. That is in the world tomorrow. That is in the millennium. In that day, Israel will be one of three with Egypt and Assyria, and a blessing in the midst of the land, whom the Lord of hosts shall bless, saying, blessed is Egypt, my people, and Assyria, the work of my hands, and Israel, my inheritance. You see, God's family is extending beyond just this family, but beyond to all these cousins and all the nations they dealt with, and ultimately extend to the whole world, to the whole human family. Young people, brethren, we need faith. And remember what we read in Luke 12, verse 32. Fear not, little flock, because it is the Father's desire to give you his kingdom.