031 Zephaniah Overview

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Nigh. Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the program. We are

your host jose and Matthew. Tonight we are going to We're going to put

the children of the Promise to the past. Now, I wish there was

another way for me to put it that way, but seeing how, that's

what happened to me when I was taught this study. That's a strange way

to put it in it. But I'm here to tell you that it was

my pastor for a special series. He was doing a series teaching the youth

group the millennial wars and what that meant. And he being my pastor,

Brother Marshall. And please do remember all of you, maybe new listeners,

when I was a child to church that I was raised in, everybody was

called brother or sister. They were either a brother or sister in Christ.

So he was my pastor. So anyway, Brother Marshall did this over a

series and he did this very thing to me with this very book that I'm

about to do with Jose, even though I gave Jose plenty of heads up

a week if I believe, if I remember correctly, since last Tuesday,

right, you had a heads up of what we were going to do.

Yes, and ladies don't only have to understand that the millennial wars are the

most important. Well, they're not the most important thing, but one of

the most important things. You can understand. There is Armageddon, and Armageddon

is very specific, it has very detrimental things attached to it. And then

there is Gog and Magog. These wars both begin and they end the millennial

Reign of Christ, which half of the Church is outright rejected. If you're

a pretericst you reject the millennial Reign of Christ. Now that I say that,

that just throws all your theology into chaos, because now you cannot rectify

massive portions of scripture. Let me say that again, it is beyond contestation.

You can prove unequivocably with the Bible, God's Holy Word, even if

you reject it. You can prove with the Bible God's Holy Word. Armageddon

begins the tribulation or the millennial reign of Christ. I'm sorry, Gog and

Magog finish the millennial reign of Christ. Now there's another event that starts the

tribulation, and these two things must be vastly separated in your mind. But

take note that day is very similar to how this shindig comes to a screeching

holt, because after Goog and Maygog, God recreates the heavens and the earth.

Correct, Jose, Yes he does, Matthew. So that's also the

day of the Lord. Amen. Amen, So now the children of the

Promise have something they can hold onto Herken to my voice. What I'm telling

you is truer than the sun, moon and the stars. I don't care

if you can see them. I don't care if you can calculate their position.

What I'm gonna tell you is more true than that. Armageddon is an

isochronal event that happens both before and after the money you were in of Christ.

After the money you're in of Christ, another war happens. That's Gog

and Magog. It's isochronal. The Great Day of the Lord is also isochronal

because this day starts the tribulation and it ends creation altogether through everybody's probably reeling

right now, scrambling to remember what I mean. I know one or two

verses about that where he creates the heaven and earth works that at ladies and

gentlemen. That is after Gog and Magog. Yes it is. That's the

final thing that happens, is Gog and makeof. So if you go to

Gog and Makeock, and I read it to you, I read Revelation chapter

twenty to you. We know how it ends. The beast and the false

prophet were thrown into the lake of fire, and all the dead who were

not written in the Book of Life. What is the next chapter? Revelation

chapter twenty one. Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth,

for the first heaven and the first earth passed away when there was no longer

any sea. And I saw the Holy City New Jerusalem, come down out

of heaven from God, made ready as a bride adorned for her husband.

And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, behold, the Tabernacle

of God is among men, and He will dwell among them, and they

shall be his people, and God himself will be among them. Now this

is phraseology about Jesus the King right it was he that fulfilled the promise that

the Lord would come and tabernacle with us, right, Jose, right,

Matthew, Oh, ladies, and gentlemen, decies cromle, because this is

God, the Father, verse four. And he will wipe away every tear

from their eyes, and there will no longer be any death. There will

no longer being mourning or crying or pain. The first things have passed away.

And he who sits on the throne said the hold, I'm making all

things new. And he said, right, for these words are faithful and

true, ladies, then yes, yes, this is the day of the

Lord. This is the final day of the Lord. So there's a first

day of the Lord that starts to tribulation, and there's a final day of

the Lord that begins the new creation. So you need to write these things

down, and I mean you need to write them right now. You need

to write these things down right now. The Day of the Lord is isochronal,

and the Millennial Wars is iso chronal. Once you know that, you

can get your hands around what we're going to talk about tonight, because we're

talking about the Book of Zephoni. And now zeph and I one not two

and not even third time being a charm. We've panned way out. We're

panning way out. I want to know which millennia war this is talking about.

And I ask Jose about that, and the first thing out of his

mouth kind of bothered me before we started the program, and I ask him,

it's look, you don't want to do this. We do something else,

because just give me a chapter, any chapter, Give me a verse.

Just give me one single verse, ladies and gentlemen, and I can

go into extreme exa Jesus and do several hours on it. Is that not

the case, Jose. You've witnessed me do that, right, That's correct,

Matthew. So Jose counted me. Said no, we're going to do

this anyway. But it bothered because he said this because he said that there

were things about it that he thought this was Armageddon, because it was like

the Day of the Lord. He said, it's like the six cel event.

I said, wait a minute, Jose, those are two different things.

The Great Nay the Lord starts the Tribulation. Armageddon is before the Millennia

Ring of Christ. Armageddon ends the Tribulation and begins the Millennial Ring of Christ.

You've got to have the s evnced down is if you don't, you'll

have no idea what he's talking about. Do you have no idea? So

I've got to admit, we've never even attempted to do three chapters in one

sitting, have we, Jose, I know we haven't. Matthew, and

I've rambled on for quite some time here, I've rambled on for ten minutes.

So give me your opening comments about this. What what say you about

the Book of zeph and I? Is it really easy? Is it laid

out? Is it cut and dry? Or is it something else? No?

Like like I told you, Matthew, A lot of the stuff as

I was reading through it echoed to me the six Seal event, especially the

first the first stands of Right away, Matthew screams to me too, who

which we know we're told about? And Jeremiah for is describing the six Seal

event and it's the way the earth will when the Lord created it. It

was tohuvabohu. So that's that's where I was immediately drawn. But a lot

of this other language. It reminded me, Matthew that Ezekiel thirty eight has

kind of this day of the Lord feel to it also, but we do

know, but we know that God and may God takes place at the end

of the millennial reign, like we've been covering before. So so that's where

I'm starting to see the connections. But it's real if you're not, if

you're not keeping that in mind, then you'd be confused, like I was,

Matthew, thinking this is the sixth Seal event, especially when you get

into some of the some of the phrasing where it says that they're they're still

worshiping the host Matthew, I mean, come on, You've got the Lord

Jesus Christ, you know, enthrone for a thousand years, and you're still

worshiping the hosts of heaven. You know, you're you're, you're. But

that's what that's what Revelation twenty tells us happens. And so that's what's kind

of blowing in my mind right now, Matthew, is that you've got all

these nations that that saw what Jesus did, that were spared, that were

not thrown into the lake of fire with with the beasts and the false prophet,

but yet they just this this creeps up in their heart again and and

God's got to come down a final time and and complete complete his work.

So that's that, I guess that's what's kind of blowing my mind right now,

Matthew going through these chapters, How and the heck with the rot of

irons set up, with all this, how are they steal up to their

same old tricks again during the millennial reign of Christ? Well, I mean,

because of this is why Gog and make God happened, right, It's

why they absolutely and it's even talked about. I mean God talks about it

here and zeph Night he's like he can't believe it. He just he can't

believe after all this year, still you still are doing this type of thing.

And well, yeah, that does kind of blow your mind. And

now I got a big question for you ladies. Generally, I want you

to consider this, When is this happening? Okay, when could this what

I'm getting ready to read, when could this happen? Could it be the

six Sealed? Could it be Armageddon? They very well could be Armageddon because

we know during the tribulation, those who have taken the mark of the Beast,

they're just they just take God. Could it be at the end of

the money a ring of Christ. But ask yourself, when could these things

happen? That? When is this going to happen? Verse twelve of zeph

and I, Chapter one. It will come about at that time that I

being God, this is God talking that I will search Jerusalem with lamps,

and I will punish the men who are stagnant in spirits, who say in

the in their hearts, the Lord will not do good or evil. Let

me say that again. They say the Lord will not do good or evil.

Now, first off, you have to understand they are emphatically stating that

the Lord, yes, yes, he is God. So this kind of

puts out of context, doesn't it. So could this happen after the Great

Apostasy? They seem to me that this would have to happen before the Great

Apostasy because everybody's saying, not the Lord. He is good, but he's

not gonna do anything. He don't do anything, he don't get involved.

So now now I really have you reeling. You're scrambling in your mind.

Me. The only thing I can say is this, do you not know?

Have you not heard? So let's think about this. Let's think about

verse the very next verse, verse thirteen Moreover, their wealth will become plunder

and their house is desolate. Yes, they will build houses, but not

inhabitant, and plant vineyards, but not drink their wine. At least he's

giving us a timeframe here. This must be after the spring verse fourteen.

Near is the great day of the Lord near and coming very quickly. Listen

the day of the Lord. And if the warrior cries out bitterly, her

warrior is aged thirteen sixty eight, bore, warrior, are mighty? What

say you, Jose, When could when will people say this that? When

will they admit the Lord? He is God? But for some reason they're

determined he's not going to do good or bad. He's not going to do

nothing. Thing is, things are going to go on as they always have,

right, Yeah, I mean, that's that's kind of the situation where

in now, Matthew, because it's things have been going along for two thousand

years since since Christ was resurrected, and it seems as if nothing, nothing

has changed, and everything has been is continuing on the same way it always

has. And so I'm imagining this is how they're gonna feel after those thousand

years of Christ's reign, you know, by that point, he's put down

all evil, you know whatever, He's straighten everybody out, and everyone's walking

the line. And that's when those thoughts peep up, Matthew saying, you

know, because if everyone, if no one is witnessing this rod of iron

in action, because everything's been been settled, then that's when that's going to

spring up in their hearts, thinking that they can get away with this.

Matthew, Well, let's read from two Peter chapter three, verse three.

Know this first of all, that in the last days, markers will come

after their mocking, following after their own lust and saying, where's the promise

of his coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all continues just

as it was from the beginning of creation. That's why I said that,

ladies and gentlemen, because that's this is what they're saying. The Lord will

not do good or evil. They'll just continue on as always asked. So

now we have something else at play here. So in textually, Second Peter

chapter three is most assuredly saying that this is the great day of the Lord.

Right, it's emphatically saying that, yes, this agrees with Second Peter

chapter three. Zeph and Aiah chapter one, verse twelve, must be talking

about the same exact thing. I mean, from the surface of it.

That's what i'd have to say. And I take it you'd agree with me,

Jose, Yeah, because second perio three, it says, right there,

Matthew, that the promise we're waiting for is the new heavens and the

new Earth in which rights, righteousness dwells, and that's the only place that's

suitable for God himself to reside in. Amen. Amen, Well, let's

take a little look at some particulars here in this first Danza. The first

stands is the first six verses. Okay, he says some very strange things.

Here he says, face of the Earth. Now what is that in

Hebrew? Well, that's a good thing, I know Hebrew. Huh,

that's say sixty four forty per face. And now I'm okay. And here

earth is h one twenty seven. That's idoma. It's not rods, it's

idema or ground. He says it's twice. He says it in verse two

and verse three, face of the Earth. So it's pretty crekey critical that

you you know, he's going to talk about the whole earth again, but

not in the way you would you would imagine, because down in verse fourteen,

as we talked about, he talks about the war you're crying, and

all that good stuff things happening on the earth. And he finishes out in

verse eighteen talking about the same thing and all the earth. That's not the

same thing. No, no, I can see the Hebrew. That's age

seven seventy six. That's rots. He finishes up with the same way of

the earth, of all the earth. There it is twice. It's twice

in verse eighteen errots. It's not the same word used in verses two and

three. Did you catch that, Jose, Yeah, I did, Matthew,

and I also noticed that it's essentially the same root word as Adam,

which is what we see in verse three for man and fossil for mankind.

So it's all it's all talking about Adam in that first dance of Matthew.

Even the use of the word earth or land what however you want to translate,

that he's harkening back to creat At this point, let's take a read

it this uh, this stands are here and before I do, before I

read verse one, you need to understand this is pretty important. This is

in the days of Josiah, the son of m and King of Judath,

the good King right jose right basically between his reign and the destruction was twenty

two years. Please look it up. The last year of his reign was

what six'h nine BC. The destruction was what five eighty seven? Yeah,

it's twenty two I can I can count pretty good twenty two years separate that.

So let me let me read this verse two to six. The stands

of here. I will completely remove all things from the face of the earth,

declares the Lord. I will remove man and beast. I will remove

birds of the sky and fish, the sea and the ruins, along with

the wicked. And I will cut off man from the face of the earth,

declares the Lord. So I will stretch out my hand against Judah and

against all that happens Jerusalem, and will cut off the remnant of bell from

this place, and the names of the adulterous priest along earth, adulterous priest,

along with the priest, and those who bow down on the housetops to

the host of heaven, and those who bow down and swear to the Lord

and yet swear by milcom and those who have turned back from following the Lord,

and those who have not sought the Lord or inquired after him. I

like how some of the subtuagint versions translate this. They come right out and

say extinction. Which, boy, that gets your attention, don't ose Yep.

So we have to have a moment in time. So let's be honest

with each other. Okay. Is he talking about the whole earth here?

Yes? Or no? Yeah, Matthew, he's talking about sweeping away all

man and beasts and all birds of the heaven and fish of the sea.

He's not, you know, setting people apart and doing this and doing that.

He's doing it to everyone. And that's your final answer. Well,

so what you're saying is is that these events cannot be happening after the millennial

reign of Christ. You're saying, there's no way these idiots would still be

having housetop observatories with telescopes up there worshiping the host of Heaven. I'm in

my mind, I'm thinking it shouldn't be possible, Matthew. But but I

I can't. I can't negate what what second Peter says, I can't negate

what revelation twenty says, hey, Man, you're right. You cannot do

that. You cannot gate goad that one of them. So what if he

is? You know what it reminds me of, Matthew, It's like the

Garden of Eden. You know, they had the perfect setup, and yet

the Serpent's still able to work his tricks there against against Adam and Eve.

And you're gonna have the perfect setup there in the millennium millennial way into Christ

and when Satan's released, he's gonna work his tricks again. I don't want

it to be true, but that's what God's saying. You know, here's

a good question for you. Did you check the order of verse three?

No, Matthew, Okay, let's just go from the top. I removed

man and beast. So on what day was man created? The sixth day?

The sixth day. Now, everybody seems where I'm going with this,

right, So what did he make before he made man? He made the

beasts go ahead, keep backing up, yep. Then then the birds of

birds of the heaven, and then the fish of the sea in that order.

In that order, you you realize he did it purposely in reverse order.

Man, I just rocked everybody's house, didn't I and then he and

then he made the host before then Matthew, which is also in the stanza.

Everybody's starting to get bothered, right, You're like, what's going on

here? What is God talking about? Well, we know that you're right.

Tohu boho does occur in Jeremiah in chapter four, does it not?

And he comes right out and says that. He says, creation go tobo,

massive damage. Things that are done just quite simply can't be undone what

he sees. So if this is the day of the Lord, what does

he mean by I will remove all these things? Does he mean instantly or

does he mean by the end of the tribulation? If that's not cut short?

Nobody was expecting me to say that. Remind him of that verse.

Now that I set half of it, they all know what I'm talking about.

Remember those days are cut short or no flesh would be spared, right

right, we all know those verses. But now we're putting them into context

here where you don't expect it. Because one thing is for sure that this

is making it sound that this day is a terminal event. If he leaves

it as he puts it, everything will die. And we know what happens

during the tribulation, So nobody gets out of get out of jail free card,

right, Jose Right, God is very clear he orders death to flee

from you. Right. So we've really asked a whole lot more questions than

we've even tried to answer. Well, and this is also what happens during

the blood, Matthew. If God had to save Noah, his family and

the animals on the Ark, this would have taken place. Everything would have

been slipped away. No, here's what I propose. Either he's talking about

the whole planet or he's talking about the Promised Land. Let me say that

again, ladies, Jim, hearkened to my voice. I know exactly what

it says in Hebrew, all the verses about the Promised Land, the land

that he swore to Abraham, the land? What is that in Hebrew?

And what's that word for swore? Anyway, Because one thing's for certain,

the children of the Promise will possess the Promised Land, Yes they. And

the children of the Promise is not who everybody else is saying God's chosen people

are. And I'm going to tell you for certain what the Bible says.

Everywhere you don't want to be the ones occupying that land. I'm just telling

you. I'm just telling you that verse seven say something very strange. This

is the beginning of the next stands up, ladies. Jeremy says, be

silent before the Lord God, for the day of the Lord is near.

For the Lord has prepared sacrifice. He has consecrated his guest. Okay,

boy, I wish this verse wasn't here because it just compounded the matter by

one thousand fold, didn't it, jose yep? Okay, Because gentlemen,

how did he consecrate his guest? For this this day? We have to

have a mechanical apparatus in place as to how he did this, because these

people were somehow they were consecrated, right, Oh say yeah, right,

Matthew. And doesn't consecration have to do with the priests? You mean in

this context? Well, I don't know that that's Carson. Again, I'm

using the English word, but you know, God, God, that word

consecration to me ring rings of the priest, Matthew. And we're just told

of the bad priests in the previous stanza. So is that what this consecration

is talking about, or is it just talking about making them holy, making

them acceptable to be they're at the sacrifice lensing them, you know, because

I'm you know, I'm reminded of how the priests have to sanctify themselves and

make themselves holy before they can participate in any of the Lord's sacrifices. I

appreciate all your sentiments there, but take note. But I mean, if

if this is okay, if this is at the end of the millennial rate

of Christ, don't know what he's talking about. He's talking about those of

the First Resurrection. Right. You didn't expect me to say that, did

you, Ladies and gentlemen. Now I know the guest, his guests,

those who rule and reign with Christ, right, Jose, Right? Those

are only those the first resurrect that was marked for Death and Revelation chapter seven.

I mean, I just threw everybody a curveball, didn't I Let me

say that again. I just threw everybody at curveball, because how has anybody

been consecrated at this point? If this is the Great Day of the Lord,

so you're saying that He's made people consecrated during the birth pains? Is

that what you're saying, Jose, I don't know, Matthew. I mean,

if this is the Day of the Lord, you're talking about people Christians

and the birth pains. Yeah, if if we're talking about you know,

from the six Ya line, then then yeah, no, these people would

have had to have been prepared before the six steal, right, But it

is true that I guess after the sixth Seal event, we know that these

people are taking on Operation Eagles Wings and they're taken to a place prepared,

right, right, so they were chosen before the sixth Seal event. Nope,

that's not That's not what the Bible says. Because what happens right before

the sixth Seal event the fifth Seal? What's the fifth Seal event? The

Martyers are told, wait a minute, we're going to go mark the rest

of the people who are supposed to die as you have. We're gonna go

mark them for death. I just mentioned them, right. I'm sorry,

Ose, I'm not. I'm not trying to turn you around in circles.

But you know what I'm saying, it's true. Yeah, yeah, it's

true. Yep. So this could literally be talking about When you implement isochronology,

you begin to see both shadows and silhouette as to what this could be

talking about. All right, let's let's do verse eight. Then it will

come about in the day of the Lord's sacrifice, that I will punish the

princess, the king's sons, and all who clothe themselves in foreign garments.

What on earth? What does that mean, Matthew, This is taking me

back to the to the the marriage feast, the parable of the marriage feast,

because it says has the same the same wording. You see someone there

that's not dressed properly, and the King's gotta punish him. But again,

that's a nicer event. This is taking place, you know, at a

different point in time. But that's that's that's what I'm you know, And

that again, that was the marriage feast. But we're told that's also a

sacrifice, and you're sacrifice right, well, I mean you would definitely call

Kara's rebellion a sacrifice. Right right now, everybody's chomping at the bit.

And now I've really got them, Now, I've really got I'm chasing their

tails because I said something that just it just triggered remembrancers in them. No

ladies and gentlemen, I don't know who you are. But I know who

I am, and by God, I know the Bible, God's holdly word.

I don't think I know what it says. I know what it says.

I don't have beliefs about it. I know it. So Jose is

absolutely correct. And this guy that's stunned, he don't know what to say.

You know, the king come says a hey, where's your wedding clothes?

He don't know. Guess what I He's thrown into the outer darkness,

say man, Jose, Amen, he is those that take part in cross

rebellion. Yes he is, Oh, yes he is. So, ladies,

gentlemen, This foreign garments it should have got. It should have triggered

a remembrancer, just like it was. Well, I know who that dude

is. He's that. And by the way, I'm gonna say this again,

Jose, the most important person in the parable of the wedding feast is

the person getting married. And he never shows does he. Nope, he

never shows up this whole parable. You're dealing with the father. So and

you can tie this right end that I will punish the princes and the king's

sons. This is exactly what right, because all the important people were invited

to the wedding feast, and they refused to come, didn't they? Right,

they refuse to go. So this is in lockstep with the parable of

the wedding feast, at least so far. First nine, and I will

punish on that day all who leap on the temple threshold, who filled the

house of the Lord with violence and deceit. Boy, that's a strange way

to put it. I mean, what does this mean now? The English

standard version it says everyone who leaps over the threshold and who fills their master's

house with violence and fraud. So, first off, we have to agree

that he's obviously talking about in a very bad light those who fill God's house

with violence and fraud. He's talking about clergy, right, Yeah, that's

that's who his anger is directed at most of the time. Matthew, yep,

what do you make of this? Jump down? And you'll take note

that they were doing fraud, says here in verse eleven, and that these

people of the mortar Do you even want to touch that with a ten foot

Put what I just said, ladies, gentlemen, the temple you are the

temple of the Lord. You are the temple of the Holy Spirit when he

says this, this is a massive insult here in verse eleven, if you

didn't catch it in the Hebrew, he says, the inhabitants of the mortar,

just so you know he's he's illicitly wanting you to know that these people

who are gathering their silver ladies, gentlemen, God's temple is not a church

building. And if you can't see that, he's coming out and screaming it,

well, but that it will come about of that time that I will

searched Jerusalem with lamps. What on earth, Jose? So God's going to

go through the metropolis is with lamps and search everybody out. Well, let

me read this part of Revelation twenty one. Matthew says, I saw in

new Heaven and a new earth for the first heaven, and the first Earth

had passed away, and the sea was no more, and I saw the

Holy City New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God prepared as a

bride adorned for her husband. This is that whole preparation process right here.

Matthew. Again, it's blowing my mind that I guess the millennial reign of

Christ is just the beginning of the preparation for this new Jerusalem. That's right.

God finishes it right here in Zephni chapter one. Yes he does.

That's blowing my mind. So realize we have no hope of having enough time

to getting the chapter two right right, there's absolutely no way we're going to

get the chapter three. Boy, I wondered how much you be willing to

pay me for my notes I got going on here again, Matcha, I

guess it is just I mean proof that that that God works, He works

isochronally, and he's gonna work israchnally through the millennial reign of Christ, and

he's gonna work isoconally at the end of the millennial reign, because that's just

the way he operates. And if we don't have this timeline sealed down,

that's where we get confusion, Matthew, that's where we can come up with

these false doctrines and false teachings and not have the bride prepared for her bridegroom.

Uh And And it's important that we do this. So it's very important.

It's very important that we do that because exactly because if I wanted to

with the listener and the state their mind is right now, I could say

anything right now, cutn't I jose yep. Okay, let's go over this

opening day I tribe again. Okay, ladies and gentlemen. If we look

at this in one light, if the face of the earth is planet Earth,

this is the end of the millennial reign of Christ. When Gog and

make Gog happens and God nukes it. He is talking about Revelation chapter twenty

one, the New Heavens and the New Earth. Okay, I want you

to put that in your mind. He's talking about the new heavens and the

New Earth. Okay, put that in your mind. I will completely remove

all things from the face of the ears, declares the Lord. I will

remove man and beast. I will remove the birds of the sky and effish

of the sea, and the ruins along with the wicked. And I will

cut off man from the face of the earth, declares the Lord. I

will stretch out my hand against Judah and against all the inhabitants Jerusalem, and

I will cut off the rumit of Bell from its place, and the names

of the adulterous priests, along with the priest and those who bow down to

the housetops, to the host of Heaven, and who bow down and swear

to the Lord, and yet swear by milcom and who have turned back from

following the Lord, and those who have not sought the Lord or inquired of

him. At the very same time, if we look at this, in

the names described here, it says Judah and its capital Jerusalem. He's talking

about the Promised Land. If that is how we want to look at this.

He's going to evacuate the Promised Land, because where is Jesus going to

set up his millennial temple, Jose in Jerusalem? At in Jerusalem Jose.

So everybody that that is there right now, they're going to be exterminated.

Do you understand that. I'm going to be perfectly clear, ladies and gentlemen,

The children of the Children of the Promise, and the children of the

Promise alone is going to inherit the Promised Land. And they alone are going

to inhabit the land that surrounds Jesus Christ. Yes they are, Yes,

they are. You know that from the entire New Testament. If you've ever

read the New Testament subconsciously, you know that, subconsciously, everything that come

out of my mouth triggers remembrancers within your subconscious You know, that's what the

Lord your God has stated emphatically. So this would naturally give mention of those

two places. So he would he very well could prophetically be speaking of the

face of the Promised Land. Now, if that is the case, it

will make why he says other things later makes sense because other places in the

Book of Zephaniah he makes reference to the northern border and the southern border of

the Promised Land. Yes he does, yes, he does. So when

you realize these things, you know, we could even jump over places that

we've talked about before. Now as of late, not too long ago,

we talked about Ezekiel chapter twenty, right, yes, Matthew, and I

was very hesitant at that time to finish that chapter. Our for one,

we didn't have enough time for one. This for one that good ladies and

gentlemen. There he makes it perfectly clear what's going to happen. I mean,

look, let's do this Ezekiel chapter forty or Ezekiel chapter twenty, starting

the verse forty five. Now, the word of the Lord came to me

saying, send a man, set your face to word tenmant and speak out

against the south and prophesy against the forest land, and then negive and say

to the force of them to give here the word of the Lord. Thus

says the Lord God. Behold, I'm about to kindle a fire in you,

and we'll consume every green tree in you, as well as every tree.

The blazing flame will not be quenched. The whole surface from south to

north will be burned by it, and all flesh will see that I,

the Lord hath kindled it. It shall not be quitched. And then I

said, oh, Lord God, they are saying of me. He is

just speaking paraples. You didn't see that coming, did you, ladies and

gentlemen. You're all setting your scrambling. Yeah, Matthew and jose they did

talk about Ezekiel chapter twenty, and they do remember that. At the end.

Matthew's like, I don't want to talk about the next set of versus

the next stands it because it talks this way, ladies, gentlemen. Zeph

and Ayah speaks to this later, not here in chapter one, but later

he speaks of this because I know when it says that, I'm able to

understand that you really do have to implement polyseemic interpretation of the scriptures to be

able to see what whateth and I has got got going on, because he's

really telling you everything with one narrative, and he's being very careful to make

sure that he uses certain phrases in certain places that oh, my goodness,

if you look at zeph Andiah the correct way, he tells you absolutely everything.

I was at your thoughts, Yeah, Matthew, I think keeping the

millennial wards is going to help me again understand certain prophecies, like like you

just pointed out in Ezekiel twenty Again, maybe maybe we're too used to because

we've been told and taught that, you know, God jumps around in his

in his prophetic word, and so we don't know exactly the the timing of

the events the prophecies that he gives. But most of the time you can

read it straightforward, Matthew, and you get confused because you don't understand what

day of the Lord he's talking about, or what millennial war he's talking about.

But you're you're what you're pointing out. It's just very small details that

allow us to orient the timing of these events. But once we have those

oriented, Matthew, it makes it makes the whole the whole thing clear,

and it and it and and it makes sense with the rest of what we've

read in the Bible. There's nothing. It eliminates that confusion. So I

think it's really important that we do this, even though I get some of

the answers wrong when I'm up at the chalkboard. But yeah, this is

this is this is just a further proof that God works isoconally, and so

all of his prophetic word is going to continue isoconally, even during the Millennial

Reign and even after the Millennial Rain, so that he can finally have his

new Heaven and his new Earth and have that holy city for himself. Matthew.

And that's a beautiful thing right there. Yes, it is. It's

a very beautiful thing. I think maybe I ought to talk about what I

talked about a while ago. Verse one. This was written in the days

of Josiah, son of Ammon, King of Judah. The temple destruction came

twenty two years after that, everything was wiped out. Twenty two years after

this. This was the massive reforms of Josiah, which just wasn't enough.

So did Zepphya not did any of this come true? During his during Josiah's

reign, Jose, No, Matthew came twenty two years after his reign.

Right, so he literally told us up front here that his prophecy was going

to do this to you, right right. He was letting you know up

front, ladies and gentlemen. But look, this is describing things that are

not now. So you would have to say that what this must be talking

about is the destruction in five eighty seven and the destruction in five eighty seven.

Did everybody get destroyed in five eighty seven or was it just a promised

land? Now you get the gears turning. It is extremely important, ladies

and gentlemen, that if at any point in time you said this was Armageddonday,

Lord's got nothing to do with armageddon. The perusia of Christ. Christ

is the one that executes everybody on Armageddon. A man, Jose, we

read that. We've read it. We read it right from Revelation nineteen and

twenty. This is describing something else. This is describing I'm going to say

it again, it is describing the day of the Lord. The day of

the Lord starts the tribulation, and the day of the Lord starts the new

heavens and the new Earth, and he certainly is using things here that would

make you think that. Well, ladies and gentlemen, I'm sorry, but

Zephaniah tells you not here, not in this first chapter, but he tells

you that the only hope from this is being hidden. I mean he'd literally

used that phraseology. You have to be hidd now. I say that most

people are like, what what do you mean? We didn't get that anywhere

here in in Stephaniah chapter one. I didn't say it was in chapter one,

but it is there. You have to become familiar with the Bible,

God's Holy Word. You have to be covered. It's it, and you

really have to get familiar with the actual Bible, not even translations. Zeph

and Iah is screaming out the time is is a chronal, and he's using

key inegers here so that you can put two and two together and know that

the Great Day of the Lord that either starts the tribulation or it starts the

new heavens, the new Earth, the new creation. And if you didn't

know that, this probably really confused you one. Thanks for sure, ladies

and gentlemen, During the terraforming event, you don't want to be the occupiers

of God's Promised Land. You really don't, because if you are not saved

in the Lord Jesus Christ, you're an occupier. Yes you are. I

don't care who you say you are. If you're not in that tree plainly

laid out in scripture, please consult Romans nine, ten and eleven. There's

only two ways you can be ingrafted into that tree. You got to be

a Jew that's already been cut off and picked up by Christ and re ingrafted

back in. Or you got to be a gentile that Christ has picked up

and ingrafted jew into that tree outside of Christ in grafting you in, whether

you are a Jew or whether you're a gentiles, irregardless, Christ is the

only one that can ingraft you back into the tree because all the Jew's been

cut off, and if you're occupying the Promised Land, you won't be for

very long. I'm just telling you, and I proved here tonight that God

said it more than once. He really don't care what you think because you

can't stop him and what he says. That's what's going to happen. He

don't care what your bad shepherds are saying in their brick and mortar buildings.

He don't care and zeph and I. He plainly comes out and tells you

that, and he plainly tells you here that they're doing this purely for profit.

He comes right out and tells you, Jose, you're closing comments.

No, Matthew, I think it's really important that we listen to what God

saying, because you know, even myself, I don't. I don't want

zeph and I to be true, Matthew, I don't. I don't want

to have to see these things occurring during the millennial reign of Christ. I

don't want, you know, these I just don't want the It's like it's

it's what's the word I'm looking for. It's just, uh boy, I

just wish it was the Garden of Eden again, right, I Mean,

that's that's what we're looking for. But that's not going to take place until

God creates a new Heaven and a new Earth. And so that's why he's

got to set up He's got he's got to send down his son. I'm

reminded of the parable, Matthew, where they have the they have the vineyard

set up, and he's got people watching the vineyard. And even when they

send the sun, they kill the son. But even when when his own

son is here raining in the millennial reign of in his millennial rain, Matthew,

they're still going to be trying to get rid of that of that king

to try to get their way, to try to get their gain. Uh.

And so God himself has to come down and destroy them. It's just

it's a that's what that's what's troubling me right now, Matthew. Uh.

Not because I not because I don't want it to be true, but because

I know it is true. And and that's just like, boy, I

don't I don't get white people have that on their heart, but I guess.

I mean, that's that's why God has to do what he has to

do, Matthew. That's why God himself has to reform everything. And our

only hope, as you said, Matthew, is to cleave on to his

son. That's our only hope. That's the only way we're gonna we're gonna

survive this, whether it's now, whether it's during the millennial way into Christ,

that's the hope He's given us. So it's really important that we remember

that. I couldn't put that any better Jose take us out of here in

prayer. Dear Heavenly Father, thank you for giving us this time to gather

together as an ecclesia and as a body. Lord. These are harsh words

that we read tonight, but we know they are true, and we know

you are telling us so that we can pass it down to those that are

as children in Christ, those that we are raising, those new Christians that

come in, because it's important for us, Lord to share what is to

come, whether that is during the sixth Seal, whether that is during the

Tribulation, or whether that is during the millennial reign of Christ. Father.

And I thank you again for providing your word so we can study and we

can learn. And I asked that you edify those listeners, that you drive

them to study this out more, to understand why you speak in parables,

so that we can understand why you've laid everything out, so that we can

come closer to your Son, so that we can allow the Holy Spirit to

operate in us, Father, so that we can make ourselves ready for your

new heaven and your new Earth. Lord. And I thank you, and

I praise you, and we ask all these things in the name of your

Son. Our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen, Amen and Amen.

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