And welcome back this week.
Starting a little bit late.
Brother Brian's running a little late on us.
We decided we're going to go ahead and get started without him.
He'll be all right.
Got this, man.
How you doing tonight, brother Dennis?
I'm doing good.
doing good, man.
I'm a, man, it's cold.
It's windy.
Look who's coming there.
Look at that.
Yeah.
We were just saying we didn't need you, man.
I agree. better off.
No, man.
No, man, I'm doing good.
We were talking a little bit about walking stairs.
I need to do that some more because, you know, that ski trip's coming up next week.
And I'm a little afraid what's going
to happen there, but I hope I don't want to come back with a limp, you know.
Definitely not.
Pickleball with us this week.
Hey, there you go.
You got you got a setup out there?
Oh, nice.
Yeah, yeah.
We got to take it down for Wednesday night, but we got it set up, yeah.
Nice.
We played Saturday and they played yesterday afternoon a little bit.
Okay.
All right.
I told him, just come up here and he
can run up these stairs all he wants.
Yeah, yeah.
I'd get down them a lot faster, not get up them, probably.
Hey, all you got all you got to do is just kind of, you know, tuck and roll.
Yep, yep, yep.
And how are you doing tonight, brother Brian?
Well, I'm doing pretty good.
I'm just, you know, just got that mess.
I'm talking through my nose and stuffed
up and I feel good.
Other than that.
Going from 16 degrees to 70 degrees back to 16.
Yeah, that's just back and forth.
So I was like, well, flonays will help clear that up.
Yeah, I've been hitting that and then I thought, you know,
I started having a coffin spell right before I was on my way up here.
And I was like, I'm going to have to go get something.
At least you didn't sleep over, you know?
I wasn't asleep.
I was doom scrolling.
That's even water some, man.
I agree.
Of all the things to admit to.
But you know, I tell you, I saw, I did see
a, uh, person was talking about a study that recently came out.
Apparently, Gen Z is officially
the 1st generation that is less intelligent than the generation
prior to them, and they, the doctors and
everybody that did the study pretty much chalks it up to all the, all the
time they've spent on their tablets and phones.
Yeah, like, and when I say that, I say that joke,
and I laugh at it when I say it, but literally like the IQ scores are
lower, the attention scores are lower, the ability
to remember things is lower.
It's like, that's not good.
The ability to make an income.
is lower.
for some, definitely.
Yeah, well, that's the funny thing about Gen Z.
Some of them can't make an income and some of them just, you know, put stuff on YouTube and,
like, never have to worry about what, you know, where their next
paycheck's gonna come from.
I'm like, what, how did that happen?
Oh, yeah.
Was it only fans or something?
That's a different, that's a whole different kind of video.
That'll be a show for another day.
Oh man.
All right.
Well, not that I know anything about it.
It probably could tie into this.
I start saying that.
I'm betting it can.
Correlation 13.
Yeah.
definitely can.
Oh, man.
Well, that brings us to we are doing Revelation
13 tonight.
We starting with 131 again, which is nice to start on a
start at the start of a chapter.
So, uh, I guess we'll just take it away,
whichever one of you won't start reading.
Yeah.
Hey, this one's got this one's a little goofy.
Depends on which version of the Bible you're looking at.
as to what the 1st 1st says.
Yeah.
Mine is a near American standard.
Oh, I'm not even in the right one.
I'm trying to look up a Bible here on my phone, a different version,
but mine is mine starts out with, and the dragon stood on
the sand of the seashore.
Well, that's part of verse 17 of the previous chapter in some versions.
Yes.
Yeah.
It's kind of weird how it's broken up like that.
Right, right.
Yeah, the uh, the new uh, new English translation
that I typically use, um, that one, the
previous verse ends with,
uh, or the previous chapter, uh, here it is.
ends with, and the dragon stood on the sand of the seashore.
And then, of course, like you say, the, the,
I know the NIV is the other one I have up here says the dragon
stood on the shore of the sea.
Now, the interesting thing is what the Kings
James version says.
And I stood upon
the sand of the sea.
Yeah.
So in that version, John did it.
In other versions, it's the dragon that he sees
standing on the shore.
Yeah.
Well, I think I think the, the, the language here
in the King James is that he was right there when
it happened and and he's seen the same,
the beast also was was standing there.
No,
the inner linear, which is the Greek,
does not have that, it has it as the end of chapter 12.
So that would be the dragon on the seashore, right?
That's the context of the last verse there.
Anyway.
Uh, and then, and then the,
the, uh, the Tree of Life version, which is the messianic
Jewish version, uh, says then I saw
a beast rising out of the sea and
had 10 horns and yeah, we'll get into that.
So that starts, yeah.
yeah, yeah.
So it's really just, uh, who's, who's, who's this concerning?
Is it John or the dragon?
Yeah, right?
So I'll take it to mean the dragon was on the sand of the seashore.
I've always
taken it to be that John was present.
He was right there and the dragon was actually rising
out of the sea and it was putting its, you know, foot on the...
Well, when we're dealing with a beast, too, because verse 2 says, and the beast, you know.
Oh, well, that's true.
It's a beast, dragon, and the beast.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So, yeah.
Well let's read it.
Let's read.
But sorry, sorry for that.
No, that's okay.
That's true.
And the dragon stood on the sand of the seashore, wherever you want to put that.
Then I saw a beast coming up out of the
sea, having 10 horns and 7 heads,
and on his horns were 10 diadems,
and on his heads were blasphemous names.
Now, visualize this in your head.
It's kind of hard to do.
So you got a dragon and you got a beast.
Right, right.
Yeah.
And and and Satan brings this thing up out of the sea, right?
This, uh, and it's,
you know, and when we look at the sea,
See, in scripture is always a
picture of nations, like of nations of the world.
The little horn of Daniel,
7 and the beast of Revelation 13 are really identical.
Yeah, yeah.
Daniel 7 gives a good description, right?
And that C, I think, represents
just anything that's not Israel, right?
Gentile nations.
Right.
Yes.
That's way I'm getting it anyway.
And I understand, you know, listeners that
are struggling with understanding this stuff, I get it.
Yeah, who doesn't, right?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
There's some things in here that you're going, you may have a little bit of
different perspective on, you know, if you're listening tonight.
But stay with us because the
main thing that this is who we're about, right?
Yeah.
Yeah, and we do have, we do have other things to look at, right?
We got Daniel chapter 7 that describes
this beast, the same 7 heads and 10 horns.
We've got Revelation, was it, 17?
that describes it in more detail.
And the 10 the 10 horns with crowns.
From what I study would
represent a tenfold division of the realm of Empire.
We talked a little bit about that yesterday.
The horns.
The horns are the 10 kings who
rule over this 10 fold division.
And that's confirmed over in chapter 17 in
verse 12, right?
So, so, uh, it says in the 10 horns which thou
sawest are 10 kings, which have
received no kingdom as yet, but received
power as kings one hour with the beast.
Yeah.
So, you know, the
little horn 1st comes to power by bringing
down 3 of these kings.
He's going to take them out.
Then afterwards, he dominates the other 7
and he becomes a world dictator.
That's this beast that we're starting to see to start with, right?
Yeah, and that's right out of Daniel 7, 24.
It says, as for the 10 horns out of this kingdom,
10 kings will arise, and another will arise
after them, and he will be different from the previous ones and will subdue 3 kings.
Yeah.
Or in one place it says, pluck those horns out, right?
And this is this is the guy.
This is the antichrist guy that we're referring to.
Yes, it is.
This is this is him.
He's showing up and he's been around, right?
He's already been around, but he's really showing up and showing out here.
and Satan is, you know,
in complete control of him.
The 7 heads are.
I'm going to be honest, they're not completely clear on almost 7 edge.
Yeah.
They could represent another 7 kings
or that are not necessarily
contemporary at that time or
they could represent 7 forms of government in
Rome or they could represent great wisdom.
Uh, there's, there's several theories out on that.
Or even, even a physical mountains.
Physical mountains.
Yeah.
And Revelation 17, and man, I hate to skip ahead
that far, but it says that in
verse nine, here is the mind which has wisdom, the 7th heads,
and he's talking about a different a different vision at that point.
He's talking about the harlot that's sitting on the beast.
And it says, the 7 heads are 7 mountains
on which the woman sits and they are 7 kings.
So they're not severing literal mountains, like a lot of prophecy
folks will tell you.
Well, that's Rome.
It sets on 7 hills.
Well, they're also 7 kings.
And he goes on and says 5 have fallen.
One is, the other has not yet come, and
when he comes, he must remain a little while.
So there's 5 fallen kingdoms.
So these heads must represent successive kingdoms that
have happened across history.
And we see some of them out of Daniel chapter 2.
Yes.
Right?
And but here's here's the thing gets me, brother.
That confuses me.
It feels like when the 1st time you read 1st chapter
13 that it's mixing metaphors somewhat, because
the beast starts out as a kingdom that comes up out of the sea, and later it becomes a person.
Yeah, yeah.
It becomes the Antichrist.
the beast.
And there's actually another beast that we're going to see later in 13.
Yeah, a false prophet.
Yes, false prophet, right.
Absolutely.
So what it really represents is a kingdom and a ruler.
Yes, absolutely.
I start to say when I read that description.
My mind immediately goes
to a representation of, um,
how do I word this?
something that is more than one thing, right?
It immediately goes to, this is a singular beast.
It's the singular beast, but it has 10 horn, 7 heads.
And those 7 heads, and then, of course, we'll see in the, you know, in a couple of
verses, what happens to one of the heads, which kind of to me seems
like it's like you have these different aspects
that all connect back to one thing.
And, you know, because when you think of
a head, what's on a head of face?
And so it's 7 different faces, several different aspects
of one singular thing, which in this case
would be the Antichrist and his
reign during the time of the tribulation.
Well, something interesting that brings those heads together too,
is it's on his heads were blasphemous names.
And that connects together with these 7 kingdoms
that have or will exist that
have persecuted Israel.
That's right
And we need to keep in mind that all 7 heads are guilty.
All 7 heads are guilty of blasphemy.
And what that means is they're making oneself equal with God.
Right. slandering or taking
the Lord's name in vain.
That's what's going on here.
And by persecuting Israel, of course, they're doing that, right?
They're ruling, they're trying to ruin reign.
Yeah.
So this beast is a mysterious thing, man.
there's a lot packed in that 1st verse.
Yes, there is.
A lot.
And you got to go to other places.
You got to let the Bible interpret itself, don't you?
Absolutely.
And I will say, I will say one thing that is interesting here,
the King James version and the
net, both, that the end of that verse,
the King James says, and upon his heads, the
name singular of blasphemy, same
thing for New English, and on its heads,
a blasphemous name, whereas a lot of
the others say, and on each head, a blasphemous name,
or as though it's multiple.
I think it's all one name.
Yeah.
And if you start digging it, if you get into chapter
17 again, you know, where you see the success of kingdoms, and
I saw a really good, a really good study
on that, it names them off as, you know,
the 4 kingdoms that are actually more like
5 kingdoms that are in Daniel chapter 2.
It goes Babylon, Meads and Persians, Greece,
Rome, and then Rome mixed with clay at the toes, right?
So that's to revive Roman Empire.
But there's that's not all the kingdoms, world kingdoms that I've ever
been that persecuted Israel.
There were 2 before those, which were Egypt and Assyria.
Yeah.
And we see we see some of that stuff.
So what it's going to lay out in chapter 17 is that
of these 7 heads, there's 7 of them that are going to be there, and then there's
going to be like a 7th that's coming right now, the revived Roman.
And then there's going to be an eighth.
right.
Where, and I believe in the midpoint of the tribulation,
that's when the Antichrist says, I'm done with that kingdom.
This is my baby.
That's right.
And you'll see even, even when the Antichrist,
when the when the false prophet comes along, he'll only use that
false prophet until he's done with him, right?
Yeah, yeah.
And that false prophet, well, I don't want to get ahead of myself.
Well, and it's hard not to, yeah.
I start saying it's really hard not to in this because of how everything ties together.
But that, what you just said, that is exactly the,
that's what you would expect to see from the world.
But again, that description as a beast.
What do beasts do?
There is nothing that they want destroy the
moment it is no longer useful to them or the moment it becomes useful for food, what will it be?
Elite it.
You know, it doesn't care that that was its best friend.
I mean, animals don't care.
They will destroy and devour.
Hey, you take a you take a pet that loves
you and cares about you and
you die in your house and stay there for about 2 or 3 weeks and
see what that pet does to you, right?
I hate you.
Hey, on
the plus side, you're a lot lighter corpse.
I have a harder time carrying you out, though.
No open casket for that.
All right, sorry about that.
Some of you may have been.
Some people were going, I didn't need that mental illness.
Granny, but...
But that's the thing.
That's why the Antichrist is so quick to turn on the false
prophet once he is no longer useful to him because it is.
And that's the thing that we're called not to be.
That's what we're called out of.
Yeah, he's anti- he's the antichrist, right?
Everything.
It's the opposite of everything.
And that's what we'll see again.
Hopefully we'll get there tonight.
We might make it there.
We might.
But that's what we'll see with the
false prophet is
that he, the Antichrist is everything Christ is not.
He's the exact opposite.
And what the, what the, the false prophet will do.
He will try to to be like Christ.
He will try to make people feel religious or
this is, you know, because because you're going to have so many people here
that are still like, I don't know, they don't seem like,
I've been hearing about this god stuff and they don't seem very godly.
You know, I've heard it all my life and I didn't accept it.
I believe it.
Now here we are.
And he's going to go, oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah, this is the way it is.
And it's going be a false religion.
Yeah, exactly.
You know, and I don't remember if it was, I can't remember if it was C.S.
Lewis or somebody more contemporary than him that
made the statement one time that, you know, evil is not the
opposite of good is the perversion of it.
And so everything the Antichrist does, everything this
beast does is the perversion of that, which is good.
Just like darkness is the absence of life.
Right, yeah.
heat and cold.
Yeah, right.
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Yeah.
So verse verse two.
Verse two, yeah.
Start, starts getting, getting little, little more clear, right?
Yeah.
And the beast, which I saw was like
unto a leopard and his feet, where his feet of a bear
and his mouth, the mouth of a lion, and the dragon
gave him his power and his seat and great authority.
Again, we got
to go back to Daniel seven, right?
Daniel 7, verse 6.
After this, I beheld and lo, another like a leopard,
which had up on the back of it, 4 wings and a foul,
the beast had also 4 heads, and dominion was given to it.
So this represents the Greco
Macedonian Empire, probably,
it represents Greece and their advancements in arts and
science and philosophy and architecture and language.
And this will probably, this will
be the empire of the beast.
Yeah, yeah.
And what's what's awesome too, is that he lists these out.
And you remember the statue of Daniel chapter 2.
He lists them in reverse order.
Right.
He lists the Greece and then the Medes and Persians and then Babylon.
Yes, yes.
That's right.
So he's looking back at it.
Yes.
Instead of looking forward.
absolutely.
Absolutely
Pretty awesome.
And a leopard, leopard is fast, right?
It conquers quickly.
And that's what...
Alexander of the Great.
He conquered the known world in like record time.
And then the bear, which is just strong and vicious.
And then the mouth of the line was Babylon.
That's right.
Yeah, the, the, the bear reminds us of the 2nd beast in Daniel, right?
Yeah, 75 talks about that, that beast
is like to a bear.
Yep.
And like you said, that's the made Persian.
And it's noted for great wealth and splendor
and as it
moved over the earth like a monster, it really took over.
Yeah, and you see, all these guys were people that persecuted Israel.
Like Babylon, Nebuchadnezzar, he ransacked
Jerusalem, and then you got the Medes and Persians,
where it's a little harder to find it.
But Artaxerxes was king of the Medes and Persians
when a guy named Haman tried to have Israel wiped out.
Remember us, who Esther went in?
That's right.
Israelites were about to be Israel.
Yeah, if it hadn't been for her.
And that was during the Medes and Persians.
And then there's, you know, Alexander the Great.
And that's where like the top and shadow of the Antichrist was
that Antiochus Epiphanies, dude, that did horrible.
It was evil, evil.
Man, if you read, if you read the Maccabees, the
Roman Romans have that in their scripture, but it's not really God
breed stuff, it's just a historical stuff.
historically, yeah.
But man, descriptions of the stuff that guy did in Jerusalem to those people.
And the Maccabees rose up and conquered him and kicked him out.
And the guy died this heinous death, kind of like Herod did, you know, in acts.
Just this nasty death that God put him through.
But all these are kingdoms are
empires that persecuted Israel.
God's people.
Yeah, the mouth of the line reminds us of the 1st beast in Daniel.
And it's
described in Daniel 74.
And this is probably the
dictatorship of Nebuchadnezzar and his rule
of Babylon during that time.
and the beach is going to rule as a dictator.
I just thought, you know, you remember Nebuchadnezzar and the things he did.
Right.
He's just so...
bragging about stuff and all of a sudden he's crawling on all 4s out in the field.
Yeah, that's right.
God took care of that too, didn't he?
Well, you know, one of the one of the things you have to remember about Nebuchadnezzar,
especially, is that, um, he
was basically trying to be treated like God.
And that's one of the things.
He truly, I mean, they were building entire histories
of how he wasn't really a man and like,
I mean, it was crazy stuff that he was trying to convince
people of and I'm like, yeah, and God made you go crazy.
Yeah, wow.
Right right after he's standing out on the balcony.
Look how great I am.
We could all, uh, built. and just boom.
And buddy, that's something that scares me to death about Donald Trump.
Yeah, I'll be honest with you.
Being so proud.
Look at me, look at me.
Yeah.
Yeah, absolutely.
That's a mouth of a line.
We've got to be real, right?
I mean, we got to be real with, and with truth because,
uh, guys, I mean, I'll
be the 1st one to tell you, I'm, I vote Republican because,
because it, I am an ultra conservative, uh,
and, uh, they are against
abortion, gay marriage, um, you
know, the things that we, as Christians, hold sacred, right?
The sanctity of life and a marriage between
one man and one woman.
And so that's the reason that I think most
of us would say, hey, we vote we vote conservative, right?
But we also can't just say because we vote
conservative that this guy is the greatest thing since sliced bread.
I mean, dude opens his mouth when he's sitting open his mouth.
He, you know, is the church
okay under his rule right now?
Yeah, yeah.
But, but I mean, guys, he's, I hope the man,
I hope the man's gets saved, you know?
And I don't see any evidence of salvation in Donald Trump.
He's surrounded himself with some shady...
He sure has.
Christian leaders, it ain't that good.
That's right.
right.
I'd like to see him spend a lot more time with somebody like Franklin
Graham than that white girl, right?
Not that she's white colored.
Her last name is white.
I can't remember her 1st name, but she's more of a prosperity type.
Yeah, exactly.
And it's, I don't know.
Well, he needs some truth in his life.
He needs some truth in his life.
And so I, you know, my prayer has been the
entire time of his presidency this time around, is that he would
get people around him that are good advisors that
are godly people that will point him in the right direction.
And I continue to pray that.
I keep hoping like one day we're going to wake up and find out he's fired a bunch of people
and going, hey, we replaced him with these actual good people.
I was like, oh well, that'd be nice.
Yeah.
But, you know, one
of the things I notice in this 2nd verse here is it says that,
you know, when he sees him, and he sees all of these these different
creatures of what he, again, it's one of those amalgamations.
Do you notice that every single one of these creatures that you see
in Revelation, it's an amalgamation of multiple things.
It's, you know, the locust had the head
of a person, but the teeth were different and the body was not
really like a locust.
It was like a lion and
And so you have a lot of the same symbology keeps cropping up over and over.
And it represents all different kinds of evil coming together.
You know, it really does.
Yeah, or the qualities are characteristics that you
talked about earlier, right, from these different kingdoms are going to be merged into one.
That's right
But then where I was going with that is that it comes in right after all that.
You see this amalgamation thing that then the dragon
gives him part of his power.
Hey, that's that's something that's awesome about Daniel
and about Revelation is both of these books.
ultimately are about God is sovereign.
That power was given to him.
That's right.
Yeah, absolutely.
He only has the power that was given to him.
And this beast, this beast will be powered
and driven by Satan himself, right?
But only the still only for the power that God
allows them to have.
But 2nd Thessalonians too, 9 and 10.
Even him who is coming after the working of Satan with
all power and signs and lying wonders, and with all
deceivableness, of unrighteousness in them
that perish, because they receive not the love of
the truth, that they might be saved.
That really,
again, a couple of things I want to point out in that verse
of 2nd Thessalonians.
One, we see that power is given to
this antichrist by Satan.
for him to do work wonders.
which we'll see in this.
And to do things that part
of it's going to be smoke and mirrors, of course, we talked about that a lot.
There's going to be supernatural things happening too.
Supernatural thing.
At the end of the day, it's...
And at the end of the day, it's still the power of an angel.
Even if it's a fallen angel.
Right, right.
But, but it says, this, I wanted to put this out at
the end of 2nd Thessalonians in chapter, the verse 10.
Because they receive not the love of the truth that they might be saved.
In other words, the people that are
saved, right, it goes back to the church again, right?
These people are here because they didn't trust Jesus.
They're in this shape and they're in this place because
they didn't trust Jesus because they didn't accept Christ as Lord and say.
That's right.
And it's something else that stuck out to me about that too, is do you
remember when Jesus was tempted of Satan in the wilderness?
If you'll just bow down to me, I'll give you all this.
He found somebody here, didn't he?
That's right.
He did.
He found somebody to bow down to him.
And he gave him that power.
that he promised to Jesus.
That's right.
Yeah.
good stuff
Not good stuff.
Not good stuff, good stuff.
Deep stuff.
Big stuff, yeah.
And I'm going to be honest.
I, you know, it is,
it is, literally today I was listening to,
there's a guy that does a podcast about, uh, where he just kind of,
he does all kinds of crazy old theories
and conspiracy stuff and talks about things, but he actually did an interview
with a guy that's one of the Knights Templar.
And I have never heard what those guys believe.
Yeah, that's that Masonic stuff, right?
Deeper. and worse.
The Gnostics.
They are the original Gnostics,
according to their history.
Right here.
You want to find somebody
that's the Antichrist that's a really good candidate?
It's somebody coming out of that goal.
Absolutely.
Because they are literally saying stuff like, 0 no, we're all reincarnated.
Jesus was teaching about reincarnation.
That's what he meant by being born again.
And he was, he wasn't saying that he was the way, the truth and
life and no man comes to the Father but by me.
We were going to ignore that.
These are the guys who wrote the false gospel.
Yeah, exactly.
The gospel of Mary, the gospel of Peter, who wrote all its lying stuff.
Exactly.
But I was listening to that and I was listening to the guy today. and normally I
listen to all, you know, I'll listen to what whoever he has if he does an interview or something.
I couldn't even stand to listen to it.
I was like, I just can't.
this guy is so far out there and so crazy sounding.
I didn't realize these guys were that level of evil.
And that level of dark.
And I'm like, as I'm looking at this and I'm going, oh, yeah, that's that's
a perfect candidate for Satan to just walk along and say, hey, you know, if you bow to me.
All that power you've been searching for all these years that
your whole order's been searching for, you just bow down
to me and it's all yours.
There are people already worshiping him a lot more than we realize.
All over the place.
I mean, I don't want to get into a bunch of conspiracy stuff,
but a lot of this Epstein file stuff is
coming from some deep, dark, uh, things that
like, um, you know, voodoo and uh,
and, and, uh, satanic rituals and stuff that
they've done to to, to gain wealth.
Well, and if you study, if you study any of
the old, the actual stuff that
was being taught by some of the people that were wiped out when
when Israel went into Canaan at the very beginning
of when they're going through and just wipe, it's the same stuff.
Yeah, it is.
It's the exact same.
And I'm like, evil.
Seriously?
Evil, evil, evil.
Yeah, yeah.
All right, verse three.
Verse three.
I saw one of his heads as if it had been slain,
and his fatal wound was healed, and the whole earth was amazed
and followed after the beast.
Now, notice this is one of his heads.
This is not this is not a crown, right?
What this is.
And I, this is just me throwing this out here, that
these heads are kingdoms or empires.
And, and Satan is a,
is a, is a copycat.
Yeah.
And he's going to revive the Roman Empire just like God revived
Israel in 1948.
That's where that's coming from, I believe.
Now, I believe later, we're going to see the individual
part where the beast gets his life taken and brought
back in some phony way, I believe.
Yeah, 17 eight, right?
I think chapter 17 because he's also going to try to mock the
resurrection of Jesus, right?
Not just Israel, but Jesus.
Yeah, I think this verse along with 178 have caused something
to believe that the Antichrist was actually raised from the dead.
But that's not true.
Well, it says he appeared to have been killed.
So, I mean, I mean, well, and when you think about again,
this, I know this is a vision and everything.
If it's a head wound, you ever seen a head wound, they
bleed like the dickens, it's real easy to make one of those look like it was fatal.
And then just stitch it up and oh, look, I healed him.
I brought him back to life.
And I mean, but in this case, if it is a kingdom.
That I had never thought about that way.
that's an interesting,
Yeah, I think it's talking about...
I think 17 tells it that the beast of the person.
Right.
It does.
But the interesting thing here is what I mean is looking
at this from the view of a kingdom.
It's like, yeah, so all you need is Italy to fall.
The Roman Empire suddenly is coming back out of the ash.
It wouldn't be that hard.
Yeah, well, I mean, it's been gone for, I don't know, it kind of faded out.
Yeah, the Roman Empire faded out, conquered.
No, they just kind of, they just kind of, they dispersed and
it's what gave us...
It's what gave us, um, the British, the British Empire
came out of the Roman Empire, the, um, the modern
day, Italy came out of the Roman Empire.
Um, the Germans, uh,
Germans and Russians, all all of that was part of, and it
just it just divided up.
Yeah.
When it comes out down to this, this
beast, he's going to be a fake.
I mean, that's why that's why he's anti-Christ.
He'll fake his death and he'll
exist.
He's going to exist to bring a false sense of peace to the world.
But this will only be a lie, right?
Just to draw the world into him.
And for him to try to say, I can do anything that Christ can do.
Absolutely.
And that's why 2nd Thessalonians 211 says, and for this
cause, God shall send them a strong delusion that
they should believe a lie.
Right?
They're going to believe a lie.
The only one that can give life.
John 5, 21, 29.
I won't read all over, but before the father raises up
the dead and quick enough them, even so the son quickens whom he will.
He's the only one that can give life.
He's the life giver of life.
The giver of life.
Yep.
Amen.
Verse four.
And they worship the dragon, which gave power unto
the beast, and they worship the beast, say,
who is like unto the beast, who is able to make war with him?
Yeah.
That sounds familiar.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, does.
So this world begins to believe that
the beast is as powerful as God.
And if he were to show
up today, most of the world would follow
him probably with no resistance.
absolutely.
Let's just fall right in, wouldn't it?
Absolutely.
Jenna, it just reminds me of Daniel 11 gives
a description beginning at verse 36 of this guy.
And it's one of the things he says about it in verse 38,
but instead, he will honor a guard of a god of fortresses,
a god of whom his fathers did not know.
He will honor him with gold, silver cost, stones, and treasures.
He'll take action against the strongest of fortresses.
There's a lot in Daniel 11 that describes this guy and
more, and I think, general 8, maybe,
where it gives the example of Antiochus and all some
of the things he's going to do, but we know that he's already done
them because of what Jesus said, Matthew 24, that
what that guy did is going to happen again, the abomination of this life.
That's right.
right.
So we see examples all throughout Daniel of this guy and what he's going to be like.
Yeah, sure, absolutely.
But the whole earth, man, the
whole earth is going to worship this guy.
That's gotta be a delusion.
It is, yeah, yeah.
Who are they the worst right now?
Such a strong delusion.
And the only people that you're going to have that really are not going to fall
for those 144,000, right, that are sealed.
So, and the people that do not take the this mark that
we're going to look at.
I will throw out, by the way, anybody that thinks that some random
ruler that's on the earth right now might be the Antichrist,
um, this verse pretty much, I can't
think of a single leader in the world today that everybody,
you have one group that hates one leader,
you got another group.
Right now, we can't even agree on which group of leaders to agree.
going to say this.
We don't have a later in position
right now that has the intelligence to be.
Not at all.
I know one guy, but I'm not going to make predictions.
Well, I know who you're going for.
Yeah, yeah, that guy's just brilliant, but...
But the thing is, like David Jeremiah said, if you think you know who
the Antichrist is, you got left behind.
That's right.
I mean, he won't be revealed until then.
No, but he very much could be alive right now.
Absolutely, yes.
probably 40 something years old.
Yeah, yeah.
Which is going to put us really
close to being out of here, right?
Oh, yeah.
the false prophets walking around.
Yeah, yeah.
These guys are they're getting ready.
They're getting ready.
All right.
It'll do five.
Let's do 5 and six.
Okay.
It says there was given to him a mouth speaking
arrogant words and blasphemies, an authority to act
for 42 months was given to him, and
he opened his mouth and blasphemies, blasphemies against God,
to blaspheme his name and his tabernacle, that is those
who dwell in heaven.
This dude's rough.
Yes, he is.
Yes, he is rough.
He thinks he's invincible, don't he?
He's going to be a smooth talker.
He will seem to have the
solution to all the problems, right?
They probably will for a little while.
And will.
Yeah, yeah.
He'll solve some issues that they'll say, 0 man, thank you.
But the good thing is that his power is
going to be limited to 3.5 years.
Yeah.
And that's that's where that number comes in again, right?
42 months, which a prophetic year is 360
days and that's 3.5 years.
years, 1260 days, it says in some place.
Daniel 7, 25 kind of says the same thing.
It says he will speak out against the most high and wear down
the saints of the highest one, and he will intend to make alterations
in times and in law, and that will be given into his
hand for a time, times, and half the time.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
3.5 years.
His his blasphemies are just it's
too much to comprehend almost.
I mean, I'm thankful the church is going to be gone.
I'm thankful that we're going to be taken out and taken home
before this before this happens.
Amen.
These guys who are saying the
raptures not going to take place and won't
take place and that we're supposed to make heaven here, man,
you guys are, you've lost your minds.
If you read this and you can't, you can't see it.
you're delusional.
You'll be part of the issue and the problem.
You'll be the ones that'll be part of this false religion when it comes up.
when that when that ugly head comes up.
Right, when all that prosperity is given out for, you know, a few months.
But I believe, you
know, he's got authority for 42 months and that's
that's the last half of the tribulation, right?
But he starts at the 1st of the tribulation.
Yeah.
So he's he's, I believe he's in place for the whole 7 years.
Right.
And, of course, that 7 years comes out of Daniel's prophecy
in Daniel 9 and it's last week of a judgment against Israel.
But, uh, it's, it can get a little
confused and figuring out where this stuff places too.
But I believe his full authority comes when he
commits the idolatry,
puts up the idolatrous statue or whatever it's going to be that abomination
of desolation in the temple, I believe that kicks it off.
That kicks off the great tribulation that kicks off his authority reign.
His new kingdom that he's going to take over everything.
They'd almost have to because that's where the tables will turn, right?
That's where that's where the, okay, I'm going to help.
I've got some good ideas and people are starting to
take notice and then the transition
of worship me look to me.
I'm going to be Jesus for you.
I'll bring you salvation.
Yeah, right.
And he's got that covenant at 7 year covenant out of Daniel, right?
He's got that seven-year covenant and he breaks it in the middle.
That's right
You know, and the thing is, all of the foundation of this.
All of the things to allow this to happen are
being laid right now.
Like you mentioned, the people, the people that think that, oh,
we're going to, we've got to bring the kingdom of heaven to earth and
we're going to make that happen.
Y'all, that is a false teaching and a false
religion that falls right in line with what the Antichrist wants.
The people that are teaching.
There's no difference between all the religions.
It's all the same thing.
We're all just worshiping different aspects of God.
That is a lie from the very pit of hell, that is going,
it is exactly what he's going to stand up and say, oh, you're part of
this religion, you're part of this religion, you're part of this religion.
No, no, no, no, that's all the same thing.
We're all worshiping the same one.
Come and worship me because I am the representative
and I am the embodiment of God on earth.
And he's going to be able to say it and trick people because we have
been allowing it to be said and we're not speaking out against it enough.
And the people that are out there saying that, oh, no,
no, no, no, you want to, you want to worship everybody correctly.
Just being just be a Muslim.
Just be a Muslim.
We accept all the prophets and Muhammad.
That's something there.
That's how how is this guy going to reconcile all that
stuff without a monster delusion?
How's it going to bring Christians or fake Christians
and Muslims and all these different groups,
Hindus and Buddhists and all these different people with all these
different beliefs together?
And I believe there are things, and I've got a list of some
stuff we can go over that are happening right now that
would create that would contribute to that delusion.
Yeah. that's going to, that's going to change people down to their core.
Goodness, we have the Catholic Church actively trying to do that today.
And they have been for almost 30 years.
Yeah, yeah.
And here's here's the issue.
Here's what's going on.
That's going to cause this thing too.
Even people who have who have heard
some scripture and maybe been to church,
some that didn't get saved and going to
this tribulation thing.
And some of these people are going to be people that were in church every Sunday.
I want you to understand that because there's a lot of these false religions
that are teaching this stuff and what they're doing, they're twisting the scripture
in such a way that it's no longer truth.
And it doesn't hold, it doesn't hold the weight
that it used to hold.
And so that you can't, we live in a world where you can't go
back and you can't argue a subject like abortion
with scripture because they don't believe scripture.
They've twisted scripture so much and so it's insane.
And I've seen this today and I've seen this
today by somebody local.
And I mean, and this is just a, it's just a representation of,
of, of how twisted it can get.
And this person put Romans 121 on there,
I beseech you, therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present
your bodies as a living sacrifice, wholly acceptable unto
God, which is your reasonable service.
And he was taking the part about the living sacrifice.
And this is what he said.
This is what he said.
Sacrifice is not self effort.
Sacrifice is not God demanding pain to prove a point.
Sacrifice is the quiet surrender of your
own quest for clutching control for the sake of
love and trust.
And he goes
on and he talks about a living sacrifice is not destroyed.
It's offered.
And so he starts to twist
what sacrifices.
When he tells us to become a living sacrifice,
you can't say that there's no self-effort in that.
I mean, you have to be willing to submit yourself to God.
It's submission, right?
It is to even unto death, right?
And it may not be death for you, right?
It may for me, it may
be death for you, it may be time for Tyler,
it may be money, but it's willing to give
everything over, which takes some, which again,
it has to be controlled by the Holy Spirit.
I get that part of it.
But, but, but, it's, it's more than,
it's not, it's not gentle, right?
It's not...
Yeah, and he's saying it doesn't demand
pain or to prove a point.
Oh, sure it does.
It's showing the world that I'm willing as
a man or woman of God to give up
myself for what God wants, right?
And if that means dying for the effort, if
that means dying and being beheaded for the cause of Christ, then so be it.
If that means losing everything I have, everything I
own, the monetary value of what I have, I mean,
go back and tell Joe this.
Yeah, right?
You go back and tell Job that lost everything
that...
Joe would like a word.
This is not demanding pain and effort.
This is deny yourself.
Hiccup your cross and follow me.
I don't care to call a guy.
I mean, I go down, this is ridiculous.
I start saying, go look at what the apostles went through.
Go look at what the 12 disciples went through.
Every single one of them suffered
beyond anything that we've ever even considered. upside
down, bull and alive.
I mean, oh, man.
And then look at the sacrifices they're taking place.
Tell these people over in China and all
these different remote places that are getting killed for their faith, right?
in the Middle East.
Come on.
No, don't, don't, no.
Yeah.
And I'm going to tell you because it's just on my mind
after watching that show so much.
Stephen would like a word.
Sure, he would.
I mean, he was they lied about it.
They lied about what he said.
They said he was saying things that he wasn't.
and it's like he didn't do anything wrong.
And at the end of the day, his sacrifice
was so that God could get through to one man that needed that he needed to
go and spread the gospel.
Yeah.
I mean, goodness, it requires sacrifice
requires sacrifice.
Otherwise, it wouldn't be a sacrifice.
Sacrifices, just 1st
thing comes to mind if you read the Old Testament is a death.
Every single time.
You said deny yourself and take up your cross.
It is, isn't it?
Yes.
I mean, and Jesus uses some tough
words there, right?
If you're not willing to leave father and mother and
and go, right?
Yeah, then you're not worthy.
Whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.
Find it.
Yes, come on.
To live is Christ, to die is game.
What did Paul say?
That's exactly right.
So, and Paul went through,
again, Paul would like a word.
He said, I suffered more than all
of you did, right?
I've been I've been beaten.
I've been shipwrecked.
I've been snaking, all those things.
You know, come on.
What did he say?
was it in a Galatians where he says, I, leave me alone.
I bear in my body the marks of Jesus Christ.
He's got stripes on his back.
Yes, yes.
That's right
No telling what his head looked like after he got stoned and left for dead.
No.
Yeah, there he is.
In verse 17, chapter chapter 6, from now on,
let no one cause trouble for me, for I bear on my body the brand marks of Jesus.
Amen.
Talk about being branded for Christ.
Goodness.
Yeah, yeah.
I mean, so so to live
for Christ, again, in the words of Paul,
it is it is gain, right?
It is game, but it's going to cost you something.
It cost him everything, right?
We don't, it's not that we're paying for our salvation or
paying for our eternity, that we get to spend with him, but
it's that we are willing, and as Paul
says, rather, he said, willing
to suffer for the cause of Christ.
He said, he said, I'll lay down my life.
I'll do whatever it takes.
It is the recognition and acknowledgment that the heavens
are his throne and the earth is his footstool and he built everything
that is built with his own hands.
that this world is not our home.
Exactly.
This is nothing.
This is ephemeral.
He made all of this, and if he wants to take it, it's his to take.
It's not ours to begin with.
Our lives are not our own.
That's right.
And by the way, that's true whether you're saved or not.
Your soul is not yours.
That's right.
Yeah.
You've been bought the price.
Amen.
Thankful.
Yeah.
We on seven, seven, eight.
Yeah, seven.
Turned out to be a good segue to seven, didn't it?
Let's do 7 and 8 here.
And it was given unto him to make war with
the saints and to overcome them and power
was given him over all kindreds and tongues and nations.
And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him,
whose names are not written in the book of life
of the lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
So we find here
in these 2 verses, the tribulation saints
are going to be overtaken during this time.
I mean, many or most of them will become martyrs.
That's the ones under the altar.
That's right.
Exactly.
Yeah.
And it's going to be a terrible time to be living here
on this earth, isn't it?
I mean, it's gonna be...
You don't want to be here.
I mean, when we say that God is truly
letting Satan just loose on the earth.
That's what we mean.
Permitted to him to make war against the saints and conquer them.
He was given ruling authority over every tribe, people, language, and nation.
The only person other than him that has
that authority is Christ and Christ goes, I'm going to let it go for a bit.
Yeah.
For 42 months.
He's going to lay them low.
Everybody he can.
I mean, we can look at history.
We see Antiochus, how he laid them low.
We see Adolf Hitler, how he laid 6000000 of them low.
right?
that's pretty recent history.
Absolutely.
And it's going to get ugly and it ain't going to just be Jewish people.
It's going to be Christians that are saved after the rapture and
he's going to come after the 144,000, but he's
going to come after everybody that claims the name of Jesus.
Right?
And understand that this is not,
again, this is not an allegory.
This is physical.
This is literal stuff, and this is global.
This is not something that's happened before, ever on
a global scale from any of those kingdoms that we've looked at.
so far.
It's been regional.
Right.
This is global.
He's talking about every tribe, every nation, every people,
around the world.
And while Peter, while John, Peter, while
John is seeing this in a vision where he's seeing
a beast, with all these things given to him, it
doesn't change the fact that these things are literally going to happen.
Again, you look at the way it's described.
The beast, yes, we have descriptions of things like that.
There is nowhere else in the scripture where you're described specific
events like this that make it clear that this is to represent something else.
This is literal.
He is going to be given this power.
I mean, I mean, why would you take it any other way?
I mean, how many of the prophecies of Jesus 1st come and
we're figurative, you know?
Right.
They were literal.
That's right.
They felt born virgin.
Well, and there's a great example because all
of the priests, everybody that was there during Jesus time.
They thought it was all figurative.
They didn't think he was literally going to be born of a virgin.
Yeah, in an obscure part of the country.
You know, Bethlehem?
Really?
Okay, Bethlehem, Bethlehem.
Yeah, they, they, they, it never occurred to them.
He's going to fleet Egypt and, yeah.
All this stuff.
100s of these prophecies.
Yeah.
And they're looking at it thinking and they were looking for people who figuratively
filled that out and figuratively did that.
And then the one that actually fulfilled every single
one of the prophecies is standing in front and they go, kill him.
What?
You guys not paying attention?
You got to pay attention because at some
point, these things are going to happen.
At some point, you're going to be here.
going to be undeniable.
And what are you going to do?
Just close your eyes, stick your eyes, stick your head in the sand and say,
ah, I'll just do what he says.
Yeah, yeah.
And that's exactly what the world's gonna do.
Yeah.
And we got, we got the book, the
book of life here.
Yes.
I guess this is the 1st mention of it in Revelation, and we're
going to see that at the Great White Firm.
Yeah, we'll see it again.
He's not Santa Claus,
but he's checking his names anymore.
He's recording everything.
Everything is the perfect judge, the righteous judge.
He knows the hearts, thoughts.
He knows intentions.
He knows everything.
That's right
All right.
First nine?
Yeah, get those last 2 or get
those 2 and then we could switch to uh,
I think 11 starts the um, uh,
the false profit.
and so we get it'd be a good place to do the false profit stock.
Yeah.
Okay.
All right.
So verse nine, if anyone has an ear, let him hear.
If anyone is destined for captivity, to captivity, he goes.
If anyone kills with a sword, with a sword, he must be killed.
Here is the perseverance and the faith of the saints.
Tell me what that means.
I see
it as divine retribution.
Yeah, yeah, I mean, it
includes everyone, right?
But it's meant for the tribulation saints because
we won't be here.
And what God is
telling them through John is that there
will be no use in resisting
this beast at any time.
You'll be more likely to be killed and
tortured than you will be to live during this time.
I mean, you're going to die.
And God's reign is going to
be lifted from the earth during this time and he
will allow Satan to seem to have control for
a short time and have control for a short time.
I think this beast is going to be a political leader.
And probably,
you know, he's going to be involved in politics somehow.
Oh, yeah.
Uh, and, and, uh, but, but he's going to have power.
He's going to have power politically.
He's going to have power influentially from
money.
All the things.
He's gonna, he's gonna, he's gonna have every angle covered
to be able to draw people in, right?
To be able to say, I can relate to him.
Oh, and I can relate to him and I can relate to him.
And he's going to draw men.
But yeah.
He didn't kill us with a sword must
be killed with a sword.
Here is the patience of the faith of the saints.
enduring to the end, right?
Yeah.
And probably the end won't last long.
I mean, again, the 144,000 are going to be the
only ones sealed to the very end of this thing.
And it's a whole different 7 years than what we
see in the church age in it.
And, you know, I was just thinking of Daniel chapter
11 too, that his his little kingdom for
the last 3.5 years where he's really in
charge, I guess you could
say, is he's going to have a lot of troubles.
Daniel chapter 11 says, uh, then he will
stretch out his hand against other countries and the land of Egypt will not
escape, but he will gain control of the hidden treasures.
And he says, but rumors from the east and from the north
will disturb him and he will go forth with great wrath to destroy and annihilate many.
So he's going to have uprisings coming against him.
He will.
Yeah.
And that's going to fragment before Jesus comes back.
And I think that's where, you know, all these armies gather together for Armageddon.
Absolutely.
Do you think they're all there to fight?
Jesus, are they there to fight each other and then they see a common enemy?
Yes.
I think God's drawing
them in.
Yeah, the way that the different pieces describe it.
I've always taken it as they show up because they they're they're gonna kind
of take it out on each other.
Like, they're ready, they're ready to go ahead.
They don't really understand who they're coming against.
Right.
Like, who, you know, and then they say Jesus coming and it's like, oh, common enemy.
The enemy of my enemy is, you know, and
they all turn and look at him and okay, we're going to go against him.
And then there's Jesus with an army behind him and they're
all, you know, his blood to the horse's bridles instantly.
Yeah.
Man.
I mean, man.
Yeah.
What's coming there, it's...
I don't I don't want to be on the other side of that.
But I think a lot of it is, you know, armies coming against Antichrist.
Yeah, right.
And everybody's fighting each other.
Yeah, that's kind of how I've always taken that.
specifically that verse you read from Isaiah Whatner or Daniel.
The way I've always taken that was that they are
coming there to fight each other and then Jesus just comes in and goes, I've had enough.
Yeah, it's done.
It's over
Hide us from, hide us from the lamb.
The wrath of the lamb.
Run, the lamb's angry, everybody.
Yeah.
Well, we're about to see another lamb next time we get together.
Oh, yes.
And it's another, you know, it's a copycat thing.
It is a copycat.
He's copycatting with a revived Roman Empire with a resurrection
of Jesus and the Holy Spirit, the mark of the beast is
kind of a markable Holy Spirit
copy.
representation.
That's all copycats.
Yeah.
You know, and that, and that's the,
the thing that's so that, to me is just so
sad about all this is the fact that there is going to be a human being
who is so utterly
depraved and lost and
evil and dark.
that they think this is the way to go.
And and the world,
the world is going to suffer as
a direct result of their actions.
That is mind boggling to me.
And but when you stop and
think about it, the world suffers for the day today because
of the choice of 2 people.
Sure.
Yeah, me too, though.
I mean, I mean, our choices too.
Yeah, absolutely not, not wiping away, but all
of it started with the choice of people.
Yeah.
And it's all gonna end in pain
and suffering because of the choice of 2 humans.
Antichrist and the false prophet that we're about to read about.
This is the culmination, man.
This is it.
You know, everybody's, wow, if I was God, I'd put an end to evil.
Well, Daniel chapter 9 said 70 weeks have been decreed
for your people and your holy city to finish the transgression,
to make an end of sin, to make atonement
for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness,
to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy place.
And we got one week of that 70 weeks left.
That's right.
And that's revelation.
Yes.
And, you know, and the thing is, God
prepared away.
To make an end to evil.
All right?
We know how it ends.
He made a way to make an end to it, and he also made a way to
get away from it, to escape it, to
walk away from evil, to turn away because, and this is something
I saw somebody posted on Facebook about this earlier this week, and
they were saying, no, you know, Jesus never did this, and he never said that, and he
never, and somebody, you know, oh, he just loved everybody, blah, blah, blah.
And somebody said, and somebody just popped in there and went, what about go and sin no more?
Yeah.
And, you know, and this person kind of got awful philosophical about what he meant.
Oh, he's saying you shouldn't feel guilty about it.
You're sin it.
I'm like, do you ever occur to any of you that he actually means
go and stop sinning?
Meaning that it is entirely capable of you to walk away from sin?
through the Holy Spirit.
But the point is, it's entirely possible to
do that, or he wouldn't have commanded it.
And I went out.
That hurts.
My toes are kind of starting to get flattened out.
That's the thing.
He's provided a way out
He provided us a way out of all this.
He provided us a way to miss all of this is coming in revelation.
Just be a spectator because we're not in, here's the thing.
none of those other saints, none of the people in heaven are involved in any of this.
They're just watching.
They don't have to, they don't have to do anything.
They just watch and follow.
And he's given us a way to do that so
that in the end, he can put an end to pain and suffering and sin.
And so that we can set back and go, that is justified.
That is truly just because unlike
the angels.
Unlike the other things that God has created, we don't know what always created.
We know the angels and we know us.
That's all I'm going to say on that is we know those 2 things exist.
If anything else does, I don't know, don't care.
It's not for me to know or care about.
The fact is, we know the price of sin.
We know how much it hurts.
We know how much it damages us.
We know how much pain and suffering is a result of it.
And in the end, we can stand there and look and say, you are a
truly just holy, righteous,
and awesome and merciful and powerful God.
And he's provided that for us.
And So
many people are turning away from it.
Don't don't turn away.
It's here.
He is just and righteous.
He is holy.
He is merciful because you don't have to experience any
of this because you don't have to experience hell because you don't
have to experience the lake of fire because you don't have to.
You can miss all of that.
He's giving us a way of escape.
Jesus told us that we don't come to the light because their deeds are evil.
That's right.
Exactly.
Yeah.
Exactly.
Don't be exposed.
Yeah.
Pray, pray this week.
Pray, there are so many people out there.
And like I say, I was I was stunned realizing
just how how dark some of people today can get when
I was looking at some of that, some of these interviews that I've seen recently.
I'm like, man, these people are just nuts.
Pray.
That's all we can do, Christians, is pray that they come
to the light and tell them, tell people the
good news.
We are free from sin.
You don't have to be shackled by it.
You't have to be chained by it.
You don't have to be enslaved to it any longer.
Just just...
And if there's one thing that one prayer that you can make that is absolutely
completely in God's will is a prey for salvation to somebody else.
Absolutely.
That's exactly what he wants.
Yes, absolutely.
Across the board, across the board.
And pray for our leaders.
Pray for salvation, pray for truth, pray for healing, pray
for opening of their eyes, and pray for the guidance
of God to flow out to them.
That's the one thing we as Christians can do that
is correct.
And like you say, just praying for the salvation of others.
Even if you don't like them.
Especially if you don't like them.
That's that's the time to pray for it, you know?
Pray that they become your brother or sister.
Amen.
And next week, we'll pick back up with Revelation 1311,
and Brother Dennis ain't going to be here next week because he's going to go falling
off of a ski slope somewhere.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You're going to look good in that ski safe.
I know, man.
I'm going to look good in my head down in the sand.
stretcher carrying me down the hill.
All I got to say is if you manage to start rolling and get rolled
up in a snowball like a cartoon, please have somebody send us a picture.
Oh, there we are.
I hope you have some awesome fun.
Yeah, yeah, I'll be with my son, his wife, and Diane, of course.
Oh, I think we'll have a good time, even if I break my leg.
Yeah.
Well, we're going to be praying that you won't break anything.
I don't want to break my neck, you know?
Leg can heal, neck.
Yeah.
That's a little bit more injury there.
Well, it's one of the, you know, skiing is one of those things you
don't want to break anything, but if you happen to sprain something or pull something.
That's all right.
That how you're having fun, right?
Yeah.
Well, we're going to be praying for you next week
and I know we're going to miss you.
Yeah, absolutely.
absolutely.
But, um, Brother Brian, if you would, pray for us to dismiss.
And yeah, next week, Revelation 1311 is
where we'll pick back up and we will be starting in on the
false prophet is, so if you want to read ahead,
1311 and into 14 there, getting to find out
about this false prophet.
It's a hard read, but it is interesting.
Yes, absolutely.
Father, we love you.
We thank you for this day.
We thank you for loving us when we were unlovable.
God, we thank you that, Lord, we do have a way out.
We do have a way of escape.
We do have salvation in
the name of Jesus.
So, Lord, I just pray God that your salvation would go
out to all the nations and all the people, and that they would hear
the name of Jesus, and they would proclaim it and trust
in it, believe in it, God, and that you died on Calvary's
Cross, and that you rose again in 3 days, and
God, that you sit.
Jesus, you sit at the right hand of the Father today,
making intercession for us.
Lord.
I pray that there's someone listening today that does not know
you in the free partner sin, that they would ask
you to forgive them of their sins right now and to become
their Lord and Savior, and God just start living for you.
Lord, we thank you for this opportunity to spread your word.
And God, I pray that you would bless each person that hears it in Jesus' name.
Amen.