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Introduction to the Place Prepared

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  1. Do you know the Bible is God's Holy Word? Do you know it is

  2. inspired, in errant, and infallible? If so, like, share,

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  4. Nige. Welcome, Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to the program. We are

  5. your host Jose and Matthew. Tonight, we are going to do another introduction

  6. tonight. It's going to be an introduction into the place prepared. So if

  7. you are not familiar with that concept, it is a very strong biblical thread

  8. that is tied all throughout the Bible. So this string of data goes from

  9. goes from cover to cover. So we're going to start out with prayer and

  10. we're going to close in prayer. Of course, Hose would you like to

  11. start out or would you like to finish? No? I I'll finish up.

  12. Matthew all right. Dear, having a father whom we serve through the

  13. Lord Jesus Christ, your son, Father and our Savior, we ask you

  14. to fill us with your Holy Spirit so that we might be pleasing and acceptable

  15. in your sight to Lord, our Rock and our Redeemer. Thank you so

  16. much for this time that you've given to Jose and I to share with your

  17. church, and we pray that you pepper our thoughts and you relay the words

  18. as you would have them relayed to your children. In the name of the

  19. Lord Jesus Christ. We pray Amen and Amen Amen. All right, Jose,

  20. what's your opening comments on this place prepared? Well, Matthew, I

  21. think there's there's a lot of confusion about the end times, about where where

  22. the woman's going to be once these events start taking place. What part is

  23. the woman going to be exposed to, what part is the woman going to

  24. be protected from? And there's a lot of fear surrounding that, and because

  25. of that fear, people sometimes put their hopes, hopes in in false,

  26. false teachings. So that's what I'm hoping that we can kind of dig into

  27. today is what does God actually tell tell us about what He's going to do?

  28. What what are the words he uses to describe the events that are going

  29. to transpire once once we know I mean we know he says it will have

  30. that great day when he comes down, and we know we're also told about

  31. that day when its sun returns. So what is it that God actually has

  32. set up for us and has told us about repeatedly in his Word about those

  33. events. So that's what I'm hoping to dig into, because it's really quite

  34. clear, Matthew, that God has a plan for the woman, he has

  35. a plan for what's going to happen. He's used different ways to describe that

  36. place, different ways to describe how that place is protected, and it's really

  37. quite amazing and quite awesome the way God set it up. So that's what

  38. I'm looking forward to, Matthew. I agree with your sentiments there one of

  39. thanks. For sure you can be left grasping for straws that there's no doubt

  40. about that, and especially when it comes to well, let's just take the

  41. text where it needs to go, because this is the point. First,

  42. Asalonians chapter five, it is included in here. Now, this is after

  43. it mentions the Great Day of the Lord. It is before it mentions the

  44. Parisia of Christ, which is at the end of that chapter. It says,

  45. for God has not destined us for wrath, but for obtaining salvation through

  46. our Lord Jesus Christ. So there's no real debate about whether we're going to

  47. go through the wrath of God. We're obviously not going to so everyone should

  48. immediately look for where's our destination? Now? The most popular destination, of

  49. course, is heaven itself. The problem with that, you are grossly lacking

  50. in the biblical narrative for that scenario. That scenario's origin is Isaiah chapter fourteen.

  51. That's the origin of that particular hypothesis. And it is not good at

  52. all. It's not good at all. Let's go there and read this,

  53. How you have fallen from heaven, oh star of the morning, sun of

  54. the dawn. You have been cut down to the earth. You have weakened

  55. the nations. But you said in your heart, I will ascend. I

  56. will arise my throne above the stars of God, and I will sit on

  57. the mount of Assembly in the recesses of the north. I will ascend above

  58. the heights of the clouds. I will make myself like the most high,

  59. So Jose. A lot of people don't realize that this is the extent of

  60. the biblical data concerning anyone aspiring to ascend into heaven. It's just not there,

  61. correct. And the problem with that is the New Testament Christ himself blatantly

  62. backs that up. Even when you die, you're not going to heaven.

  63. You go to Hades, you go to the place of the underworld. Now

  64. there is a special place inside of Hades, a place of elevation and separation,

  65. that is called Abraham's Bosom. It is also referred to as Paradise.

  66. But it's not Heaven. So when you get extremely familiar with the Biblical text

  67. and you realize that Isaiah don't say this, Jeremiah lamentations, Ezekiel, Daniel,

  68. it's not in the Psalms. It's nowhere. This idea of God saying

  69. He's going to take you to heaven, it does not exist. So this

  70. would leave people grasping at straws if they are unfamiliar with the prophetic text.

  71. Because the prophetic text screams out what's going to happen to you. It calls

  72. it by multiple names. The first name that is used in the prophetic narrative.

  73. And I say that, let me clarify, and not only that,

  74. let me qualify why. I say that this term is picked up in the

  75. Psalms. Its origin is Psalm seventy four, which is from Asaf. Now

  76. take note, the Bible clearly states that Asaf would prophesy by the order of

  77. the king. So the king would order Asaf to prophesy, and he would

  78. prophesy and set his prophecies to music. There is no doubt he'd give this

  79. place of designation. In Psalm seventy four, he calls this addressing God.

  80. He states, your pastor this is God's pasture. Now take note, I'm

  81. going to read the first verse of Psalm seventy four. Take note how the

  82. nouns and verbs are set up. In this verse. Asaf is addressing God

  83. to his face. And the only way you can have a pasture is for

  84. God to be present first person. And this is what he states. He

  85. says, Oh God, why have you rejected us forever? Why does your

  86. anger smoke against the sheep of your pasture? He is prophetically calling this place

  87. where we are going to be taken to as God's personal pasture. Now,

  88. Joseh, we have massive amounts of data from the law concerning this, because

  89. it's in the law the first five books that the Exodus takes place, and

  90. we know how that mechanism took place. Yes, God's presence was in the

  91. pillar correct. Yes, So in the day God was in a pillar of

  92. fire or a pillar of cloud, and at night was a pillar of fire

  93. and The instructions are quite clear. They moved around for forty years, but

  94. they only moved. They moved forty two times. There's forty two stations in

  95. the wilderness, and that was accomplished by the cloud would go up. And

  96. when the cloud would go up, it would sit there and wait. Why.

  97. They would tear down all the tents, and then the children minaterer would

  98. follow God wherever he went. And then when the cloud set back down,

  99. that's where they'd make camp. This didn't go on for forty days, go

  100. on for three and a half yars. This went on for forty years.

  101. So God himself would choose the location of his pasture. There is no denying

  102. that. There is no way to try to to expunge that data from the

  103. first five books of the Bible. There's just no way. The law is

  104. literally built around this mechanism. So when you realize what's being stated here,

  105. it's a whole lot more important than anyone cares or dares to realize. Because

  106. this is a frightening thing. To think that there's going to come a day

  107. when you're going to be in the hands of a wrathful God. That is

  108. a scary thought. Jose Yes it is, Matthew, but this is exactly

  109. what he says states he states repeatedly that he is going to gather us.

  110. A second time. Isaiah's repleat with it. He says, He's going to

  111. gather us. He's going to gather us. He's going to gather us.

  112. And here in Psalm seventy four, he tells you he's going to gather you

  113. to his personal pasture, wherever that may be. And when you realize that,

  114. when you read the chapters that contain the entire timeline, just like Revelation

  115. chapter twelve, that's exactly what it states. That's exactly what the narrative states.

  116. So what's your thoughts? SoSE, Yeah, I'm trying to not just

  117. you know, so I'm going to start at the beginning. I guess that's

  118. the best space to start, Matthew. But the first thing I started thinking

  119. about is, of course, the land of Goshen and how it was set

  120. up heart in Egypt for God's people, and they were sent there specifically because

  121. they were shepherds, and those shepherds are detestable to the Egyptians. But more

  122. importantly, Matthew, were also reminded of, like you said, the Exodus,

  123. and I want to read from Deuteronomy chapter one, and I'm just going

  124. to read a few verses, and it's just going to repeat exactly what you

  125. just said right starting in verse twenty nine. But I said to you,

  126. do not be terrified nor fear them. The Lord your God, who goes

  127. before you, will himself fight for you, just as he did for you

  128. in Egypt before your eyes and in the wilderness, where you saw how the

  129. Lord your God carried you, just as a man carries his son, on

  130. all of the road which you have walked until you came to this place.

  131. Yet in spite of all this, you did not trust the Lord your God,

  132. who goes before you on your way to seek out a place for you

  133. to make camp, in the fire by night, to show you the way

  134. by which you should go, and in the cloud by day. And this

  135. is exactly what you just described here, Matthew. But God's saying he himself

  136. is going to carry us to that place that he has prepared for us.

  137. And He's gonna again that for that that fire by night and that cloud by

  138. day, that's what's going to guide us. So since the beginning, God's

  139. God's laid it out what his plan was. Oh, I think you're muted,

  140. Matthew. Exactly. This is this is exactly what he lays out all

  141. the time. So if you find yourself grasping for a heavenly uh placement,

  142. it's just not there. It's just not there. He states that what he

  143. has done before, he's going to do again. That's exactly what he states.

  144. So this is why you come up zero every time you try to find

  145. the prophetic narratives that states you're going to be taken to heaven. It quite

  146. simply don't exist. It is lacking in the biblical text. There's nothing for

  147. it. There is no place for it. The only place for that thought,

  148. like I stated, is Isaiah chapter fourteen. And that is extremely bad.

  149. It is not good at all. So once people realize this and you

  150. set down the groundwork and say, all right, let's study this out.

  151. If God is going to really gather us, what does he say about it?

  152. How is he going to to treat us when we're there, And literally

  153. you find tons of data as to what he's going to do, how he's

  154. going to do it, and we're going to be perfectly protected. The only

  155. way we can be attacked is from within. This is our main concern.

  156. And the Bible repeatedly warns us about the children of disobedience. It repeatedly warns

  157. us about straying from the path of holiness. That's what it always does.

  158. So with that in mind, you know, if you just crack open Psalm

  159. seventy four and just take a read through of it, it's twenty three verses.

  160. He comes out pretty clear and reassures the people that you really don't have

  161. to worry about anything, because it's right here. You have nothing to worry

  162. about. So grasping at straws about where you're going is what's keeping you in

  163. the dark. I mean, when God comes right out and says multiple times

  164. that you are the sheep of his pasture, I mean, let's try Psalms

  165. ninety five, verse seven. Here it says, come, let us worship

  166. and bow down, let us kneel before the Lord, our maker. Now,

  167. Jose, it didn't say let us go into a temple and kneel before

  168. an altar, right right, that's not what it said. It literally said,

  169. you're going to kneel before God himself. Okay, the next verset,

  170. for he is our God, and we are the people of his pasture and

  171. the sheep of his hand. Today, if you will hear his voice,

  172. do not burden your hearts as at Maraba, as in the day of Massa

  173. in the wilderness, when your father's tested me. They tried me though they

  174. had seen my work, Ladies and gentlemen. Verses eight nine just qualified this

  175. has not happened yet. He is referencing what happened at Mahraba in past tense

  176. and telling us do not do what they have done. But this is clear.

  177. Verse six of Psalt ninety five made it clear you are not going to

  178. bow down before an altar or like in church, or it's not going to

  179. be in a tabernacle. It was quite clear we are going to worship and

  180. kneel down before God himself. This is exactly what happened during the Exodust.

  181. That's exactly what happened. Are God's exact words. The pharaohm was Matthew,

  182. that let my people go so they can worship me. That's that's the whole

  183. reason that they were to be let go. Yes, that was the whole

  184. purpose. And this is going to happen again. There is no doubt that

  185. the little horn will rise Jose. There's just no doubt about that. One

  186. thing is for sure. We will have nothing to do with him or the

  187. judgments that's heaped upon his head. It's not going to have anything to do

  188. with us. I mean, you go over a few songs to Psalm one

  189. hundred. It makes itself perfectly clear that we are the sheep of his pasture.

  190. It says it again, we are the people, the sheep of his

  191. pasture. We're going to enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise.

  192. We're going to give thanks to him and bless his It says, we're

  193. going to give thanks to him. Jose. It's literally saying we are going

  194. to literally be giving him thanks and praise himself to his faith. And there

  195. is just no way around it. That's what it states. That's what it

  196. always states. So if you're looking for this narrative of when we get carried

  197. away to heaven, it's not there. It was never there. But he

  198. says other things too. He doesn't just call it his pasture. He also

  199. calls it his vineyard. And when you see that, you realize how important

  200. this is. God is not playing around. He says that he will existentially

  201. take care of you. He will water, he will literally take care of

  202. you himself personally. There's just no way around it. And people get confused

  203. when I talk about it, but it is true. This is what God

  204. says that he is going to take us to his vineyard. I mean,

  205. ladies and gentlemen, the Apocalypse of Isaiah, which if you don't know what

  206. that is, it's Isaiah chapter twenty four through thirty five. It's called the

  207. Apocalypse of Isaiah. In that chapter twenty seven, he is very clear,

  208. he's very clean. He even comes out and he starts telling you about the

  209. time of the Red Dragon from Revelation chapter twelve. That's how it starts.

  210. Let me read just a few verses from it, Isaiah chapter twenty seven.

  211. In that day, the Lord will punish Leviathan, the fleeing serpent, with

  212. his fierce and gright and mighty sword, even Leviathan a twisted serpent, and

  213. he will kill the dragon who lives in the sea. In that day,

  214. a vineyard of wine sing of it. I the Lord am its keeper.

  215. I water it every moment so that no one will damage it. I guard

  216. it night and day. If you go on and finish reading the chapter.

  217. He is quite clear about what his intentions are, and this was the perfect

  218. way to start out this chapter. It basically starts out the same way that

  219. Revelation chapter twelve does describing the Leviathan. And here he's stating himself. This

  220. time he doesn't call it. He's not referring to us as the sheep of

  221. his pastor. He's saying that he's going to take us to his vineyard,

  222. and in this aspect were of course his grapes. And it's very clear that

  223. nothing is going to be able to touch us when we're in this place of

  224. protection. So if you never heard that God referred to this special place he's

  225. going to prepare for you as a vineyard, now you have a lot to

  226. look into. Now you have literally many, many many references that being to

  227. the sheep of his pasture and being referred to this place as a vineyard.

  228. You have all kinds of data you can look for. But like I stated,

  229. if you're looking for the data where the Old Testament says you're going to

  230. heaven, it does not exist. It repeatedly states you are going to be

  231. in His presence here on earth, just like you was during the Exodus.

  232. I mean, let's take a look at Isaiah chapter eleven versus eleven twelve.

  233. Then it will happen on that day that the Lord will again recover the second

  234. time with his hand the remedant of his people who remained from Assiri, Egypt,

  235. Parthos, kush Elam Shanar a Math, and from the isds of the

  236. sea. And he will lift up a standard for all the nations and assemble

  237. the banished ones of Israel. And he will gather the dispersed of Judah from

  238. the four corners of the earth Isaiah chapter forty. Like a shepherd, he

  239. will tend his flock in his arm. He will gather the lambs and carry

  240. them in his bosom, and he will gently lead the nursing ews. Ladies

  241. and gentlemen. This isn't in heaven. It's not in heaven. That's why

  242. you're grasping for straws, if that's what you're trying to accomplish. When we

  243. look every place in the Bible, it's always going to do the same exact

  244. thing. It will literally turn you down the same exact path. If you're

  245. off that path, it will direct you to a path, and you'll always

  246. stay on that path. But the things described so far about the children of

  247. Israel being in Egypt and being let out of Egypt, that's what fits the

  248. biblical narrative all the time. That's why he talks about it so often.

  249. Hose we probably ought to read Revelation chapter twelve, because there it states it

  250. succinctly. It puts it right in order how it should be. Yes,

  251. it does. Now we have covered this chapter many times, but it's only

  252. fourteen verses. But right here, remember ladies, so gentlemen, this starts

  253. out just like Isaiah chapter twenty seven does. Because right here you have,

  254. of course, the great red dragon. This is the Leviathan he was speaking

  255. of in Isaiah chapter twenty seven. It's the same thing, Hoseba. Would

  256. you like to read it? Yes, I can, so I'm going to

  257. read Relation chapter twelve out of the NASB. In nineteen ninety five, a

  258. great sign appeared in heaven a woman clothed with the sun and the moon under

  259. her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. And she

  260. was with child, and she cried out, being in labor and in pain

  261. to give birth. Then another sign appeared in heaven, and behold a great

  262. red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and on his head were

  263. seven diadems. And his tail swept away a third of the stars of heaven

  264. and threw them to the earth. And the dagons stood before the woman who

  265. was about to give birth, so that when she gave birth, he might

  266. devour her child. And she gave birth to a son, a male child,

  267. who is to rule all the nations with the rod of iron. And

  268. her child was caught up to God and to his throne. Then the woman

  269. fled into the wilderness, where she had a place prepared by God, so

  270. that there she would be nourished for one thousand, two hundred and sixty days.

  271. And there was war in heaven, Michael and his angels waging war with

  272. the dragon. The dragon and his angels waged war, and they were not

  273. strong enough, and there was no longer a place found for them in heaven.

  274. And that great dragon was thrown down, the serpent of old, who

  275. is called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world. He was

  276. thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

  277. Then I heard a loud voice in heaven saying, now the salvation and the

  278. power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of His Christ have come.

  279. For the accuser of our brethren has been thrown down, he who accuses

  280. them before our God day and night. And they overcame him because of the

  281. blood of the Lamb, and because of the word of their testimony. And

  282. they did not love their life even when faced with death. For this reason

  283. rejoiced, o heavens and you who dwell on them. Woe to the earth

  284. and the sea, because the devil has come down to you, having great

  285. wrath, knowing that he has only a short time. And when the dragon

  286. saw that he was thrown down to the earth, he persecuted the woman who

  287. gave birth to the male child. But the two wings of the great Eagle

  288. were given to the woman so that she could fly into the wilderness to her

  289. place, which she was nourished for a time and times and half a time

  290. from the presence of the serpent. And the serpent poured water like a river

  291. out of his mouth after the woman, so that he might cause her to

  292. be swept away with the flood. But the earth helped the woman, and

  293. the earth opened its mouth and drank up the river, which the dragon poured

  294. out of his mouth. So the dragon was a raised with the woman and

  295. went off to make war with the rest of her children who keep the commandments

  296. of God and hold to the testimony of Jesus. That right there puts it

  297. as succinctly as you can get it. And take note. The prophetic narrative

  298. always tells you you're going to go through the birth pains, what Christ called

  299. the birth pains. You're going to go through those, and this tells us

  300. that at the end of those birth pains, we will flee jose. Yes,

  301. we're literally going to flee the cities, the YadA, YadA, YadA.

  302. We're going to flee out into the wilderness while this war is going on

  303. in heaven. Correct. It was very clear, yes, very clear,

  304. that we've only taken off into the wilderness for a very short time. As

  305. soon as Michael has defeated the dragon. Immediately that's when we are taken on

  306. Operation Eagles Wings, and from that point forward we are taking here. It

  307. says it very nicely. It says to a place prepared, and in that

  308. place the event that happens is exactly what happens during Kara's rebellion. In numbers

  309. chapter sixteen. What happens there is that the people that take part in this

  310. insurrection, everything happens just like Revelation chapter twelve just stated, because there the

  311. ground opens up and swallows this flood of rebellious people, does it not,

  312. That's what it says, Matthew. Yes, so it's telling us right here,

  313. the only thing we have to worry about is our own. The insurrection

  314. will come from within, it will not come from without. And of course

  315. we've been warned about this many many, many, many many times. So

  316. when you put this in place where it's probably properly supposed to go, it

  317. makes the entire Bible make sense. Not some of the Bible. It makes

  318. every single verse makes sense. Once you realize that you will go through the

  319. birth pains, those birth pains will stop with the Great Day of the Lord.

  320. The Great Day of the Lord will cause war in Heaven between the good

  321. Angels and the bad Angels. During this war, we will be fleeing out

  322. of the cities, will be fleeing away from civilization. But at the end

  323. of that engagement between Michael and Satan, we will take part in Operation Eagles

  324. Winks. This is exactly what the biblical narrative says all the time. It

  325. literally says it repeatedly. Excuse me, Ose, So you know, it's

  326. amazing that a lot of people don't realize that. Even when you go to

  327. Isaiah chapter forty, it lays it out here succinctly. I mean he he

  328. says verse thirty one. Yet those who wait on the Lord, Okay,

  329. how long you're going to have to wait? Jose, you already know.

  330. We just read it exactly. You're going to have to wait on the Lord.

  331. The duration it takes for Michael to engage Satan and defeat Satan and cast

  332. him out of heaven. That's how long they're gonna have to wait on the

  333. Lord. That's really what the Bible says, does not first Thessalonians chapter five

  334. start this way, I mean I know that earlier I read from verse nine

  335. that states that quite emphatically, we will not we are not appointed under wrath.

  336. So here, literally he's just given it to you, point by point

  337. by point. Ladies and gentlemen, you know now how long you have to

  338. wait upon the Lord, from the great day of the Lord until the end

  339. of that military engagement in heaven. Then the angels will come and take you

  340. to a special place that is prepared, and it is not in heaven.

  341. Once again, let me read this whole verse. Yet those who wait for

  342. the Lord will gain new strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles.

  343. They will run and not get tired. They will walk and not become

  344. weary. This aspect here, the biblical narrative uses other phraseology for this.

  345. It says that this is when we get our Heinz feet. This is what

  346. sawm eighteen states, it's what habited the chapter three states, this is exactly

  347. what it's talking about that during this time we're in the place that is prepared

  348. for this one thousand turner in sixty days. Ladies and gentlemen, you're not

  349. going to get tired. You will literally not get tired. So take note.

  350. Psalms Chapter eighteen, verse thirty three. He makes my feet like Hindz

  351. feet and sets me upon my high places. Chapter three, verse nineteen.

  352. The Lord God is my strength, and he has made my feet like Hine's

  353. feet, and makes me walk on my high places for the choir director on

  354. my string instruments. He's giving you additional information upon information upon information upon information.

  355. So if you keep looking inside the Old Testament for data that declares that

  356. you're going to heaven, it's simply non existent. You're grasping for straws.

  357. Because the Lord your God makes himself perfectly clear as to what's going to happen.

  358. He makes it perfectly clear. It is amazing to me that this is

  359. stated so many times in the biblical narrative. It's literally redundant. I mean,

  360. there's so many verses Isaiah chapter forty nine, verse eighteen. Lift up

  361. your eyes and look around. This is exactly what's going to happen. I

  362. mean, Jose, don't you realize what a state of shock we're going to

  363. be in. Yes, it's because we're not going to realize, right,

  364. I mean, we're not going to realize how we got to where we're at.

  365. This is gonna say exactly what We are literally going to be dumbfounded.

  366. Lift up your eyes and look around. What are you going to see?

  367. When you look around, ladies and gentlemen, You're gonna see Muslim Christians,

  368. You're gonna see Eskimo Christians. You're gonna see Russian Christians. Listen to what?

  369. Listen to what? This This is God himself speaking, Ladies, and

  370. gentlemen, let's take for instance, this pillar of cloud. How would you

  371. reckon what's going to happen to us in association with God presenting himself again as

  372. a pillar of a cloud. Here, that pillar of cloud is reckoned as

  373. a garment, because, believe it or not, for thousands of years,

  374. that's how people dressed. They would wrap themselves up in a garment. Listen

  375. to this verse. This is how it's really going to happen. Lift up

  376. your eyes and look around. All of them, gather together, they come

  377. to you, as I live, declares to the Lord, you will surely

  378. put on all of them as jewels and bind them on as a bride.

  379. Take note that you can. You can spend weeks investigating how the different tribes

  380. were set up tent by tint in array all around the tabernacle in the wilderness.

  381. Jose Right, it's amazing how they did it. It's amazing how literally

  382. the Bible describes it, that they were arrayed like the host of heaven.

  383. Yes, this is exactly what he's saying, right, and it just it

  384. boggles the mind that people don't know this. I mean, he's gonna say

  385. it again. Isaiah, chapter fifty four, verse seven. Now that I've

  386. already pointed out to you multiple times, you should expect what's going to happen.

  387. Look, let me say this again. Revelation chapter twelve is true,

  388. and this is what's gonna happen. The Great Day of the Lord's gonna happen.

  389. And you're gonna have to wait until Michael engages Satan militarily and defeats him.

  390. So you're gonna have to wait. Listen to what this verse says.

  391. That's exactly what it says. Again. For a brief moment, I forsook

  392. you, but with great compassion, I will gather you. He said the

  393. exact same thing, just using different phraseology. I mean, let's jump over

  394. a couple of chapters. Isaiah fifty six, Verse Saint O Lord, God,

  395. who gathers the dispersed of Israel, declares, yet others, I will

  396. gather to them, to those already gathered. I mean, this is really

  397. going to happen. It's really going to happen. He says it over and

  398. over and over. If you're looking for where the Bible talks about where you're

  399. taken to heaven, you're not going to find it. It's not there.

  400. How was that your thought, well, Matthew, on that point, I'm

  401. going back to Revelation twelve. It specifically says that the dragon was thrown down

  402. from heaven, and it says he was thrown down to the earth, and

  403. it was there where he persecuted the woman. It was there where it says,

  404. all right, the dragon was thrown down to the earth, he persecuted

  405. the woman who gave birth to the male child. And then it says that

  406. the serpent poort water out like a river out of his mouth after the woman,

  407. so that he might cause her to be swept away with the flood.

  408. But the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened its mouth and drank

  409. up the river. Was the dragon port out of its mouth. So right

  410. there, it's telling you where these events are taking place. This is not

  411. the dragon doesn't go after the woman in heaven, Matthew. He goes after

  412. her on the earth. And then I want to take us over to Deuteronomy

  413. thirty two, and we read these verses a few days ago, but I'm

  414. going to go over for him again. From verse seven. Remember the days

  415. of old, consider the years of all generations. Ask your father, and

  416. he will inform you your elders, and they will tell you when the most

  417. tie gave the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of man,

  418. he set the boundaries of the peoples according to the number of the sons of

  419. Israel. For the Lord's portion is his people. Jacob is a lot,

  420. and of his inheritance. He found him in a desert land, and in

  421. the howling waste of a wilderness. He encircled them. He cared for him.

  422. He guarded him as the people of his eye, like an eagle that

  423. stirs up its nest, that hub over its young. He spread his wings

  424. and caught them. He carried them on his pinions. The Lord alone guided

  425. him, and there was no foreign god with him. He made him ride

  426. on the highest places of the earth, and he ate the produce of the

  427. field. And he made him suck honey from the rock, and oil from

  428. the flinty rock, kurds of the cow, and milk of the flock,

  429. with fat of lambs and rams, the bread of bashan and goats, with

  430. the fineness of the wheat, and of the blood of grapes. You drank

  431. wine. So again, Matthew, this is everything that we've been saying in

  432. this program, God just giving it to us, you know, from a

  433. different direction, and there's a different point of view. It's got the eagles

  434. wings in here. He got himself being the protector, being the rock.

  435. Right, He's telling us about everything that's going to happen here, Matthew,

  436. of what we've been covering, it absolutely doesn't even mentioned they're the high place,

  437. amen, us getting our hindz feet and walking in our high places.

  438. So basically it mentioned setting the boundaries of the people, and the Hebrew it

  439. says according to the number of the sins, and of Visuel, and the

  440. Greek it says, according to the number of the agels of God. That's

  441. right, because when they were arrayed around that tabernacle, God told them,

  442. look, three tribes on the north, three tribes on the south, three

  443. tribes. Here he set it up. They were arrayed like the host of

  444. heaven. So it was the same thing, Amen. And that's exactly how

  445. he's going to do it again. So this is literally line online. You

  446. can literally string the prophetic narrative together all the way through the Bible. Prophetically,

  447. what he stated here in Deuteronomy is how Isaiah Jeremiah Ezekiel imitations. It's

  448. how everything is lined up that way. This is how Revelation chapter twelve was

  449. even written. This is how because that's the information, that's the data stream.

  450. It never changes, it just never changes. So once people realize that

  451. the event horizon for the thought coming into the Bible of anyone aspiring to ascend

  452. to heaven is Isaiah chapter fourteen, they begin to realize the ramifications of stating

  453. such a thing. Now we've mentioned first Thessalonians chapter five couple of times now,

  454. but there there it's literally put down the way it should be. If

  455. you realize in the Book of Revelation that the Day of the Lord is the

  456. sixth seal event, just like Joel states that it is, and this is

  457. what it's talking about, the thief in the night. It's not talking about

  458. the perusia of Christ, because the perusia of Christ is that the end of

  459. the chapter. That's not till verse twenty three. When you realize that Onetdscenalonians

  460. Chapter five is literally the tribulation, everything makes sense because here he states how

  461. you're gonna get from point A to point B. It says here in the

  462. Greek it uses so much psyche numa, your body, your mind, and

  463. your spirit. This is how it's going to happen as long as you examine

  464. yourself. Well, ladies and gentlemen, maybe I should you know, maybe

  465. we should read the whole chapter. Okay, because here you need to understand

  466. that there's dire warnings here about this rebellion that was mentioned about this this insurrection

  467. from inside the body of Christ. This is why nineteen says, do not

  468. quench the spirit, do not despise prophetic, prophetic utterances. All these things

  469. are going to be happening into one thousand, two hundred and sixty days.

  470. Ladies and gentlemen. This is when you're going to be in your high places.

  471. It's when the Holy Spirit is going to dump upon you all the gifts.

  472. That's what this chapter is staying. Maybe we should just read the hotel.

  473. We've got twelve minutes left, you know, hoose. Once you point

  474. out that's what this is saying, that God states he's going to him here,

  475. let me just read this verse at least. Now, may the God

  476. of Peace himself sactify you entirely, and may your spirit and so and body

  477. be preserved complete without blame at the coming of the Lord, Jesus Christ.

  478. He just told you God the Father was going to preserve your body, mind,

  479. and spirit until the perusia of Christ. That's what this word is in

  480. Greek. It's perushia verse twenty four. Faithful is he who calls you,

  481. and he also will bring it to pass hose, Why don't you read this

  482. chapter four us. Please, we've got enough time. It's not very long.

  483. It won't take you but a couple of minutes. All right now up

  484. to the times and the epochs. Brother, and you have no need of

  485. anything to be written to you, for you yourselves know full well that the

  486. day of the Lord will come just like a thief in the night. While

  487. they are saying peace and safety. Then destruction will come upon them suddenly,

  488. like labor pains upon a woman with child, and they will not escape.

  489. But you, brethren, are not in darkness that the day would overtake you

  490. like a thief. For you are all sons of light and sons of day.

  491. We are not of night nor of darkness. So then let us not

  492. sleep as others do, but let us be alert and sober. For those

  493. who sleep do their sleeping at night, and who get drunk get drunk at

  494. night. But since we are of the day, let us be sober,

  495. having put on the breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet the

  496. hope of salvation. For God has not destined us for wrath, but for

  497. obtaining salvation to our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us, so that

  498. whether we are awake or asleep, we will live together with him. Therefore,

  499. encourage one another and build up one another, just as you also are

  500. doing. But we request of you, brethren, that you appreciate those who

  501. diligently labor among you and have charge over you in the Lord, and give

  502. you instruction, and that you esteem them very highly in love because of their

  503. work. Live in peace with one another. We urge you, brethren,

  504. admonish the unruly, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak. Be patient with

  505. everyone. See that no one repays another with evil for evil, but always

  506. seek after that which is good for one another and for all people. Rejoice,

  507. always pray without ceasing, and everything give thanks, for this is God's

  508. will for you in Christ Jesus. Do not quench the spirit, do not

  509. despise prophetic utterances, but examine everything carefully. Hold fast to that which is

  510. good, abstain from every form of evil. Now, may the God of

  511. Peace himself, I'll sanctify you entirely, and may your spirit and soul and

  512. body be preserved complete without blame at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

  513. Faithful as he who calls you, and he also will bring it to pass.

  514. Brethren, pray for us, greet all the brethren with the Holy kiss.

  515. I adjure you by the Lord to have this letter read to all the

  516. brethren. The grace of our Lord Christ. Jesus Christ be with you.

  517. You can't get a better timeline than what he just gave you. He gave

  518. you dire warnings. He told you exactly how you're going to be able to

  519. overcome this flood that Satan is going to issue from his mouth. And let's

  520. remember jose Korah was not just one of the common people. He was a

  521. priest. He was a part of the clergy. Yes, he was.

  522. This is where this came from. So when you line up the Bible this

  523. way, ladies and gentlemen, it's always going to say the same thing.

  524. It's never going to waver from that look. Ezechl Chapter thirty six, verse

  525. twenty four for I will take you from the nations, gather you from all

  526. the lands, and bring you into your own land. He never chan did

  527. he just state he was going to take you to heaven. MICHAELH Chapter four,

  528. verse six in that Day declares the look, what day, what day,

  529. the day of the look on the day of the Lord, on the

  530. sixth seal. Event this is going to happen on the Day of the Lord,

  531. which is the sixth syalivant in the Book of Revelation, on that day.

  532. Once it happens, you're gonna have to wait until Michael engages Satan and

  533. defeats him and expels him from Heaven at point, at which point he's going

  534. to be on earth with you after that happens. This is what God says

  535. he's going to do. So it would behoove you to believe the Lord,

  536. God of Host, because this is what he says. MICHAELH Chapter four,

  537. verse six in that Day declares, the Lord, I will assemble the lame

  538. and gather the outcast, even those whom I have afflicted. He doesn't change

  539. his tomb. Okay, when we're going through the first four seals, I

  540. just the day of the Lord is the sixth seal. So what about the

  541. four writers, the pocketlyps right, that's what's going through your mind. Yeah,

  542. those are the birth pains. Just like Jesus said, at the end

  543. of those birth pains, what is God says good Psalms one O six,

  544. verse forty seven. He's gonna say He's gonna say it again, and he's

  545. gonna say that once I do, he's gonna tell you what you're going to

  546. do. Once he does it, save us, o Lord, our God,

  547. and gather us from among the nations to give thanks to your holy name

  548. and glory in your praise. That really is what he intends to do.

  549. Ladies and gentlemen. It's this thing, and it's no other thing. It's

  550. no other thing. It's always that thing. There is no book we can

  551. go that. It doesn't state we could go to Jeremiah. It always says

  552. the same thing, Jose. But when you're looking for something that's not there,

  553. you're looking, you're grasping for straws that don't exist. How's that your

  554. comments? Well, Matthew, I'm going back to first Thessalonians, chapter five,

  555. and right there in verse twenty three, it says that God himself will

  556. sanctify you. There's no way, Matthew, you could even hope to get

  557. any close to Heaven, let alone get any even close to Jesus himself to

  558. be wed to the bridegroom unless you're sanctified. And that process has to take

  559. place. That's why God's prepared a place for us. That's why He's taking

  560. the woman there so that Kora's rebellion can take place, that flood can take

  561. place, and so that the woman can be cleansed and pureied and sanctified and

  562. be ready to be wed to the bridegroom. So, like you said,

  563. Matthew, all of this makes sense. All of these chapters line up with

  564. what God says he's going to do. He's going to gather us together,

  565. He's going to protect us from the wrath. But they're still cleansing that needs

  566. to happen in that place. There's still preparation that needs to happen in that

  567. place. And we need we need to really understand what God's telling us and

  568. keep it in mind and practice these things right now. Practice rejoicing, always,

  569. practice pray without ceasing practice. You know it says, do not quench

  570. the spirit right Examine everything carefully abstain from every form of evil. This is

  571. what we need to be preparing ourselves for, Matthew, because you don't get

  572. a second chance when you're in that pasture, in that vineyard, in that

  573. place prepared there, with the pillar of fire there and the pillar of cloud

  574. there. You don't get a second chance in that place, Matthew. And

  575. so that's what I'm taking away. Taken away now, we need to get

  576. ourselves ready, and we need to understand what God's already told us is going

  577. to happen, and remember those things so that when these things take place,

  578. we can help those around us. On one thing's for sure, Jose,

  579. you need to understand, ladies, gentlemen, this place also has another name.

  580. That Jesus gave this place another name. This is what's going to happen.

  581. Those slaves went out into the streets and gathered together all they found,

  582. both evil and good. And the wedding hall was filled with dinner guest.

  583. But when the king came in to look over the dinner guest, he saw

  584. a man there who was not dressed in wedding clothes. Ah. Yes,

  585. this is that flood that is issued from Satan's mouth. Jose, listen to

  586. what happens to them. And he said to him, friend, how did

  587. you come in here without wedding clothes? And a man was speechless. The

  588. king said to the servants, bind him hand and foot, and throw him

  589. into the outer darkness. In that place there will be a weeping and a

  590. gnashing of teeth Verse fourteen. Ladies and gentlemen, for many are called,

  591. but few are chosen. This is a direct reference to this flood that is

  592. issued from Satan's mouth. You better figure about it's coming, because it is

  593. coming now. At this point, my closing comments is this, this is

  594. how it's going to work. There's going to be birth pains. At the

  595. end of the birth pains, we go through a pre wrath relocation to a

  596. point we're going to be protected for one thousand, two and sixty days of

  597. the entire tribulation. At the end of that Christ will return and we will

  598. be post trib raptured. So we're pre wrath relocationist and post trib rapturist,

  599. even though I absolutely hate that Latin phrase. So that is to say,

  600. what you're calling a rapture, the Bible states is in a lagus muthea it's

  601. when we are changed. It's when we receive our anastasis, anatomy. When

  602. you look for these things, you will find them one hundred percent of the

  603. time. Just like I read to you about the wedding hall, right,

  604. jose Amen, Matthew, So it's his pasture, it's his vineyard, it's

  605. his wedding hall. He's told you about this so many times. But he's

  606. never called it heaven. He's never called it the throne room. He's never

  607. did that. He's always stated he's going to gather you together in a remote

  608. third location. That's what he's going to do. And you're going to have

  609. to wait until Satan is cast out of heaven for that event to take place.

  610. It's that thing. It's always that thing, and it's never anything else.

  611. I was you're closing comments, No, Matthew, I agree with everything

  612. you've said. God makes it clear, he repeats himself over and over,

  613. what the order of operation is, what we're supposed to be doing to prepare

  614. ourselves. We're supposed to gather that oil in our lamps and be ready.

  615. We're not supposed to be in the dark. We're supposed to be sober.

  616. We're supposed to be ready for these things to take place and understand when when

  617. the birth pangs begin. And if you if you're doing that, then you're

  618. ready for whatever God brings upon this earth. And you're ready for those seals

  619. to be broken, and you're ready to be taken to that place that God

  620. has prepared for you. You're ready to be gathered. You're rather ready to

  621. be carried on eagles wings, and you're ready to be in that place,

  622. in that wedding hall with your wedding clothes on. So those are my closing

  623. thoughts. Matthew, amen to that. I can't there's nothing I can add

  624. to that, So go ahead and pray us out. If you're a Jose

  625. okay, Deir, Heavenly Father, we give you thanks some praise for bringing

  626. us together. We give you thanks and praise for allowing us to study your

  627. word, and we give you thanks and praise for preparing us for what is

  628. to come. Father, I asked that the words that you've given us today,

  629. the words that you've left in your Holy Bible throughout history, that they

  630. prepare the ecclesia, they prepare the body, and they prepare the woman.

  631. Lord, I asked that you open the ears and open the eyes of those

  632. that have other doctrines and other fables that they've grown up listening to. And

  633. I just asked that you open their hearts, Lord and show them what you've

  634. shown us tonight, that you show them that they're not appointed to wrath,

  635. that you will protect them, but only if they are children of the light,

  636. and only if they hold in the testimony of your Son, our Lord

  637. and Savior. So Lord, I ask all this in his name, the

  638. name of your son, our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen and

  639. Amen. Until next time, ladies and gentlemen, God bless, godspeed.

  640. Thank you for listening to Marinath the Ministries with Matthew Miller. I appreciate you

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  644. nine. Now, if you are a God fearing, Bible believing, gospel

  645. preaching Christian, please repeat after me, I pledge regions to the Bible,

  646. God's Holy Word. I will make it a lamp unto my feet and a

  647. light, and to my path it's yours. While I hide in my heart

  648. that I might not sin against God.