002 Antinomianism, Free Grace, and the False Prophet

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Nigh. Welcome, Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to the program. We're your

host Matthew Miller and Jose Castor. On today we are going to be talking

about a topic that Jose's put together, but its origin comes from that infamous

chapter of Isaiah, chapter forty. Really the chapter, really, the chapter

where God comes right out and lays out before you what is to come.

It's very direct and to the point, but its message is extremely diverse because

it tells you what tells you about Operation Eagles Wings, what's it's going to

take to get there. It's so intricate and so deep. This chapter will

literally blow your mind. So saying that is an understatement. But Jose,

why'n't you jump in here and give us an overview and your thoughts as to

why you chose to do this first in this very late hour, because I

take it that's why you wanted to talk about this, because the hour is

late. Concerning this topic, Yes, it is, Matthew. I mean,

there's always been pressures on Christians for worldy pressures, right, There's always

been a pressures on us as Christians to conform to the world, to follow

the whims of the world, to abandon our our faith and our steadfastness in

the in the Ten Commandments and in the testimony of Jesus Christ. That that's

been since, you know, since day one. But Matthew, there's there's

been. Boy, I don't know how many stories we could go through with

martyrs that have sacrificed for the for those commandments and for that testimony, that

has sacrificed themselves, that are sitting right now under the altar of God,

and they've been our example for how we're supposed to act as a church,

as a body. Because individually, Matthew, it's easy to break us.

It's it's very easy to put that pressure on one person and that one person

break. But knowing you have a body, knowing you have a church,

knowing you have an ecclesia with Christ as your head, that's what allows you

to hold fast and to hold strong and to remember everything you've been taught,

to remember everything you've read. And so it's just it's just very scary,

Matthew, when I see the churches themselves, and I know there's there,

you know, there's people that argue, well, are these ecclesiastic bodies are

they really the church? Are these denominations? Are they really the church?

You know? Or is it church just the body of Christians? But those

those main may nine churches, those denominations, they serve as a body,

Matthew, and so uh, and we know that that none of them are

perfect, but they sort of a function. And there's a place that's a

place for us to go to gather together. It's a place for us to

to to praise and to celebrate and give thanksgiving to the Lord. In a

lot of the churches, you you commemorate the sacrifice of Christ on the cross,

right you go and and through the through the the eu Christ, or

the bread and the wine, you know, however you call it, there's

a way to remember that sacrifice and remember the testimony of the Gospel of Jesus

Christ. So when that starts to shake, when that foundation starts to shake,

Matthew, and you start to get various forms of Antinomianism enter into that

church body, into that that church authority. It gets, it gets very

scary, Matthew. For me, I've been a Christian my whole life.

I was raising the Catholic Church. And there's lots of things that you can

pick on on the Catholic Church. But boy, Matthew, those Ten Commandments

were drilled into my head. Those Gospels were drilled into my head, That

testimony of Jesus Christ was drilled into my head. And to me, I

it's it's what's allowed me to endure what I've gone through as an adult.

And so it's very important to me that that maintains that strength or that foundation

for for other Catholics and other Christians. And I know, I know you're

yourself, Matthew, being raised in the church. I know what it's meant

to you. And so to have that be attacked and and and I mean

I could say being attack, Mathew, because we know it's a spiritual attack.

But but it almost seems like these church bodies are are are willingly giving

into this stuff, given into this Antinomianism. And I know it's a function

of of Christians as a whole. I know, if more Christians bad their

Bible, if more Christians were in prayer. If more Christians followed the ten

Commandments, I know that that this would not be happening. But those shepherds

serve a purpose, Matthew, those that are supposed to instruct the baby Christians,

they serve a purpose. And if that foundation starts to crack, Matthew,

then we know we're getting close to that, to that great day,

to that day of the Lord when God himself has to come down and set

everything straight. So that's why I think it's important that we cover this chapter

again. Well, from my end, I was also raised in the church.

I was raised in the Wesleyan Church, and it being of a holiness

denomination, I assure you the Ten Commandments and the Beatitudes were drilled into my

head. So when somebody comes spouting off to me and even getting upset inside

the church that we don't have to follow the ten Commandments, excuse me.

I mean, you could argue that the best verse in Revelation just stakes flatly

out that no liar will enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Period. That's just

what it says, That's what it means. So this free grace Antinomianism that

has infected the church and told the church that yes you can continue lying,

Yes you can continue being an alcoholic. Yes you can continue in your pornography.

Yes you can continue in your pedophilia. No one can read the Bible

and reach that conclusion, because the devil himself don't even believe that. So

you speak of a time when finally God has to get involved, right,

finally God has to do something, And unfortunately, this is exactly talked about

in the Bible, especially in the prophetic narrative. There's no doubt about it

that the sclaughter of the shepherds is detailed in Jeremiah chapter twenty five. Yes

it is, Oh, yes it is. He lays it straight out that

it's because of the shepherds, because of the leaders. This is what happens.

This is what's going to happen, this is what's going to go down,

And it's well, it's really bothersome that people don't realize. Look,

if anybody can't realize that this is how the Gospels start out. Let's go

to the preaching of John. In Matthew chapter three, it says, now,

in those days, John the Baptist came preaching in the wilderness of Judea,

saying repent for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand. What Jesus did

in the very next chapter, in chapter four, verse seventeen, the same

exact thing. From that time, Jesus began to preach and say repent for

the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand. It is a prerequisite that you cease

and desist from your own will, your own sinful nature. In order to

enter the Kingdom of heaven. You must stop sinning. You must repent,

turn from your ways, and stop sinning. That's a prerequisite. The problem

is, God doesn't lightly talk about the slaughter of the shepherds. He played

Mistates in more than one chapter in the Bible. It is the clergy's fault,

Jose, right. I mean, most people don't realize that there are

Christians sitting in the pews and Catholic churches. There's Christian sitting in the pews

of Methodist churches, there's Christian sitting in the pews of Presbyterian churches. And

the reason why there's different churches, Jose is guess what the clergy, Right,

that's whose fault. It is the clergy. So when you open up

Isaiah chapter forty, and it says something that, look if John the Baptist

didn't say it, and Jesus didn't say it. We got serious problems because

Isaiah chapter forty states that when these things begin to happen, somebody is going

to preach a different gospel. And what's chilling to the bone. As far

as I'm concerned, when I read this chapter the way it opens, it's

not right. God himself did not say that. If the Lord Jesus Christ

stated repent for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand, if you say something

else, you're dead bang wrong. You're dead wrong. So that's my point

of view. There's never been another no. I never heard any preacher ever

any of the many times we had Evanuelists come in, which is twice a

year. We also had missionaries come in once or twice a year, all

depending if they could get back to the States numerous times. I never heard

any adult Christian ever ever tell me you could continue in your sins enter the

Kingdom of Heaven. Nobody ever said that to me, nor would they have,

because such a person is obviously historically been labeled a herotic. The only

reason why a preacher would tell you it's okay to continue in your sin is

because that's exactly what he himself was doing. That's the way I see it.

Do you see it a different way? No, Matthew, I think

that's exactly what I see going on. And the fact that you pointed out

that this chapter is quoted and all the Gospels, it starts off all the

Gospels, it just stresses how important it is to study this chapter just to

kind of set the stage. When you see John this verse quote in response

to John the Baptists, right, these these set of verses, if you

keep reading in those chapters in the Gospels, he calls out the Pharisees and

the Sadducees, which, like you say, Matthew, those are the shepherds

at that time. But that's who he's that's who he's pointing the majority of

his anger and his fury at. And then especially here in Matthew three,

verse ten, he says that the axe is already laid at the root of

the trees. Therefore, every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut

down and thrown into the fire. And the listeners should know by now.

But that is a direct reference to Isaiah chapter seven. I'm sorry, is

Isaiah chapter ten, where it talks about who that acts is the Assyrian,

the false prophet. So this is all this all ties together, Matthew.

And so if you don't, if you don't understand, if you don't go

back and read your your gospels and see the why John quotes it, why

why he says it, you know, and how he's tied it into what

is to come, you kind of you think something else is going on here

in Isaiah chapter forty, because because we've read I don't know how many times,

Matthew, we've read about the great day of the Lord, his coming,

what's gonna happen, the order of operations. So Isaiah forty kind of

how can I put this? It just kind of puts it a different way.

And and so you're not seeing what you expect to see, Matthew,

especially the first the first couple of verses of Isaiah chapter forty. So I

think that's that's what you're talking about there, this this different gospel that's being

preached. This. I mean, I'm hesitating my words, Matthew, because

I don't want to. I don't want to offend the Lord and what he's

what he's written in this chapter. But let's just say it doesn't it doesn't

ring like the Gospels ring. That that's that's the best way I can put

it. Right now, you're right, it doesn't ring like the Gospels ring

because it's lawless. Jose. Let me say that again. If you're familiar

with the prophetic narrative, if and you don't understand about the man of lawlessness

or what's talked about in well first John three four. Look, I could

go on and on and on. This is what lawlessness is. This is

what lawlessness is. It is telling everybody that you do not have to obey

any law. The gates of the Kingdom of Heaven have been blasted open by

free grace. You could literally pillage and rape your way into heaven. That's

lawlessness. That's what it is. So you should understand that when the Assyrian

false prophet comes speaking something else, it should rub you the wrong way.

So let me say it again. I already covered that. John the Baptist

started out by saying repent for the kingdom of heaven his hand. Jesus stated

the same thing. And then in those verses right there it says one will

come crying in the wilderness. That is directly quoting Isaiah chapter forty it's exactly,

not a little bit. It's exactly quoting Isaiah chapter forty. That's what

it's doing. And that should rub you the wrong late, ladies and gentlemen.

It should. Something's not right with that, because when you go and

read the narrative, ladies and gentlemen, that this is what he was quoting

from the one crying in the wilderness. Ladies, that is quoting Isaiah chapter

forty. So you would immediately think, well, the false prophecy is going

to come and do the same thing, tell everybody to repent, and get

everybody on the same page and say, oh, yeah, it's okay if

you're a Muslim, just repent and you'll be all right. No, that's

not what he does. Now we've probably got everybody chomping at the bit because

they want to know this. Well, ladies and gentlemen, this is true.

Look it up for yourself. This is Isaiah chapter forty, verse three,

just being quoted from here in Matthew chapter three, verse three. For

this is the one referred to by Isaiah. The prophet wanted this, said

the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make ready the way for the

Lord, make his past trait This is directly quoting from what we're getting ready

to read, only it turns it on its head. It doesn't mention anything

about you repenting. No, you don't have to repent. That's not what

Isaiah chapter forty says. And if that doesn't rub you the wrong way and

chill you to the bone, it tells me something's drastically wrong anyway. So,

hose, why don't we take a read of this? Do you want

to read it? Or do you want me to? You're the one that

provided the commentary on this. Should I go ahead and read by Stanza?

Let you comment on it? We can do that, Matthew. Yeah,

So how much do you want me to take off in this first chunk,

first two verses? I guess because there's a lot there. Yeah, there

is. There's a magnificent amount right here in the first two verses. So,

ladies and gentlemen, it is the mainstay of this ministry that we always

read out of the New American Standard Bible, the ninety five update. That's

what we're reading from tonight. Comfort, Oh, comfort, my people,

says your God speak kindly to Jerusalem and call out to her that her warfare

has ended, that her iniquity has been removed, that she has received of

the Lord's in double for all her sins. Ose. So the first thing

I noticed, Matthew. Of course those words comfort, and to me,

that reminds me of John when when God Jesus tells us about the comforter sending

the So that that that to me, it reminds me of the Holy Spirit.

Right, That's that's where my head is when I read the first verse.

And so when I looked at that word comfort in Greek, it it

says paraclet. Right now, I don't think it's the exact same spelling as

paraclet in the Gospels, but it was close enough for me to again that

reminder the Holy Spirit, right that God's here, He's he's talking to His

Holy Spirit is what he uses to comfort us, Matthew right now, because

we don't have the Lord God in front of us, we don't have the

Lord Jesus Christ in front of us. So his Holy Spirit is here with

us. Again, if we are following those ten commandments, if we are

following the testimony of His son, those beattitudes, right, Matthew, Because

you well know that if we stray off of that path, that Holy Spirit.

He's going to keep banging our conscience. But if we ignore him,

eventually there's gonna be a point where where he he kind of lets lets us

go, turns us over to Satan. So so that first verse, that's

what That's what it was. What was reminded me of the Holy Spirit.

Okay. And so again it's not just it's not just reading these verses and

saying, oh, okay, so God said comfort, so that means the

Holy Spirit. No, why why is he saying that? Why is he

trying to point us so hard to the Holy Spirit. Well, well,

we know why, Matthew, because we've read We've read John wh when Jesus

says He's gonna send his Holy Spirit. Right, we we we've we understand,

we've read in all the epistles where it tells us if we don't act

a certain way, God's Holy Spirit can't reside in us. That's that's just

what he's repeated over and over. And so I'm really hoping that when people

read read the Bible that they try to remember everything that God said because it

all relates. So that's the first thing I saw, Matthew in that first

verse, that Paraclet so I'd like to get your opinion on why God uses

that word in that first verse. Well, Jose, you hit it right

on time, right on target. He's absolutely talking about the comfort term.

There is only one comforter, make no mistakes about it. There's only one

comforter. Now, it amazes me that this very word you know is used

in First Thessalonians, not only four now all of you know four seventeen right

now, it's in the very next verse in reference to who we just talked

about. So in First Uslonians, chapter four, verse eighteen, it says,

therefore, comfort one another with these words. It says the same exact

thing in First us Learnings chapter five, verse eleven. Therefore, encourage one

another and build each other up, just as you are also doing. You

know, everyone who studies Bible prophecy knows those two chapters. And that should

be chilling to everybody that's right there that I'm going to say something. And

if you've never heard this before, you need to write it down, ladies

and gentlemen. Anti Christ is never in the Book of Revelation. Let me

say that again. Anti Christ is not in the Book of Revelation. That

is used in other books of the Bible. Not in the Book of Revelation.

It's either in it's either used in First John or Second John. And

it's always the spirit of anti Christ. And I quote the children, it

is the last hour. And just as you have heard that Antichrist has come

in even now many anti Christ have appeared. From this we know that it

is the last hour. That's one John throw eighteen. In two twenty two

it says, who is a liar? But the one who denies that Jesus

is the Christ. This is the anti Christ, the one who denies the

Father and the Son one John four to three. Same thing, the spirit

of the Antichrist is mentioned in Second John one seventeen. This is the fever

and the Antichrist. That word Antichrist is never used in the Book of Relation.

The person that abhor the thing that opposes Christ in the Book of Revelation

is the beast. So you know that narrative, when you know this false

prophet is coming and all of a sudden, Isaiah chapter forty being quoted in

the Gospels as to why John came, Why is this saying you don't have

to repent? Who is coming forward saying, by the way, all your

sins are forgiven. God has punished you. Listen, ladies and gentlemen.

Isn't this ringing in your spirit? Listen to what is being said. Jesus

Christ forgives your sins. That's not what this is saying. This is saying

that God the Father has punished you, and because He's punished you, you

can enter the Kingdom of heaven. No, no, it's not. No,

it's not. Why is Isaiah chapter forty, verses one and two saying

this? Now we're getting ready to read on in verse three? This is

what's directly quoted in Matthew as I've already read it to you. So you

would think these first two verses would repeat the message. You would think this

is where John got it from. This is where John got it from.

Repent for the Kingdom of heaven? Is that hey? And because he knew

that he was fulfilling the prophecy of Isaiah chapter forty. Right. No,

No, that's not what's happening here. John knew it, and so should

you. If this is the first time you figured that out. Oh my

goodness, ladies and gentlemen, you've got a lot of catching up to do.

Oda. Yeah, Matthew, I think it's really important that you pointed

out first Thesalonians five eleven because it says their comfort and edification. The King

James uses the word edification. But that's what we started off the program with.

That's that's that's what the Holy Spirit's job is for us while we're waiting,

while we're waiting for for our redemption. So it's it's really again,

I feel like I always I'm always repeating myself. I feel like we say

the same things over and over, Matthew. But that's because it all ties

together. And that's because God repeats himself. He's telling us obey his Holy

Spirit by doing his commandments, by following the testimony, and that's going to

result in your edification. And that's the only way you're going to understand what

you're supposed to do in on on that day when God comes by, when

God comes down, that's the only way you can endure the day of His

coming is by doing that. So it's it's it's it's just amazing how how

God does it, Matthew. And no matter what way you try to go

around it, he's just he just points out all these things and it's just

like Okay, okay, God, I get it. I get it.

So in verse two, Matthew, the phrase there that she has received from

the Lord's hand double for all her sins. I've been trying. I was

trying when I read this chapter. I've been trying to say, okay,

the way it's normally interpreted. Okay, they read the first part of that

verse, where it says that her warfare has ended, her iniquity has been

removed, and now she has received double for all her sins. And I've

heard various interpretations of these of this verse saying that means that she's been forgiven,

right, Jerusalem has been forgiven, all of her iniquities have been washed

away. But it just doesn't read like that to me, Matthew again,

because we don't see that repentance put in there, right. We don't see

Jerusalem has repented, had returned to the Lord. Okay, now boom,

here you go, here's your reward. Right. And so I looked up

that phrase double for all her sins, and I found it in a couple

of different places here in the Hebrew. It's age thirty seven eighteen is that

double? And the first one I found Matthew was in Jeremiah sixteen eighteen.

And first, I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double because they have

defiled my land. They have filled my inheritance with the carcasses of their detestable

and abominable things. So this here, Matthew, it's talking about you know,

the iniquity, right, it's talking about I don't see I don't see

any repentance in this verse here either, Matthew. And so you're getting the

inclination that God is punishing them for their sins double because of their defiloment,

because what they have done with the inheritance, right that that that word inheritance,

that that ties right into to Malachi chapter three, which we're going to

hit on as we continue, because that tells us about Eson Jacob Esa disregard

his inheritance. That's why God loved Jacob. Again God tying all these things

together. But that's the first instance of this double doubling of sin that that

I found, Matthew. And again, this to me, is is taking

on that other connotation. This is not this is not a good thing Matthew

that I'm reading in this in this this set of verses, here in Jeremiah

sixteen, I absolutely agree it's not good at all. I mean, I

know with familiarity here in my chapter sixteen, it's not good at all.

And you know the phraseology of this, the way it's putting it, You

know that she's being comforted right well. It also speaks of jose Chapter two,

verse fourteen. Therefore behold, I will allure her, bring her into

the wilderness, and speak kindly to her. Now I've probably piqued a few

people's attention, like, what, wait a minute, did you say verse

three talked about the crying in the wilderness. Amen? So when Joseiah says

that you probably should be worried. But anyway, I digress. Shall we

go ahead and read the next couple of verses, hose or how far more

do you want me to read? Yeah? Yeah, we can, we

can read. We can continue reading. Yeah, if you want to go

go ahead read the verse eight that that should be good. Matthew, okay,

verse eight. So, starting with verse three, a voice is calling

clear the way for the Lord, and the wilderness makes smooth and the desert

highway for our God. Let every valley be lifted up, and every mountain

and hill may blow, and let the rough ground become a plain, and

the rugged terrain a broad valley. Then the glory of the Lord will be

revealed, and all flesh will see it. Throgether. For the mouth of

the Lord has spoken, a voice says call out. Then he answered,

what shall I call out? Oh? Bless is grass and all its loveliness

is like the flower of the field. The grass withers, the flower fades

when the breath of the Lord blows upon it. Surely the people are grass.

The grass withers, the fowl, the flower fades. But the word

that where God stands forever. O. Well, Matthew, this is this

is talking about the day of Lord. I mean this to me, is

is the sixth seal event you see here where it tells us that He's gonna

lift up every valley and every mountain will be made low. This is this

is God coming to set set the earth straight. There there there's I just

you just kind of avoid the understanding that this is that sixth Seal event.

What what is actually happened physically happening to the earth here and the other thing

that points us to the fact that this is that sixtieal event that Great Day

of the Lord, Matthew. Is if we go back to Matthew chapter three,

where Isaiah forty is quoted from, and you go to verse seven,

and what John the Baptist says to the Pharisees and the Sadducees. He says,

you, brute of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath

to come? What wrath is he talking about, Matthew. He's talking about

the wrath of God there he's talking about. That's why everyone's trying to run

and repent, because they understand that if John the Baptist is doing his ministry

and he's fulfilling or he's pointing everyone to Isaiah chapter forty, that they know

that the Great Day of the Lord is coming, and so they're trying to

go over there, and they're trying to, you know, after all their

sins and all their iniquity, they're trying to get over there and get baptized

at the last minute and come in under the wire. So, I mean,

that's just what these verses are pointing to me, Matthew. And that's

why the first two verses of Isaiah kind of seem Isaiah forty kind of seem

out of place. I would expect those to come after he tells us about

the Great Day of the Lord, after he tells us about what he does

when he when he steps foot. This this is why why he sends the

false prophet, Matthew, This is why he sends the Assyrian that acts is

to cut down all this iniquity too well to be the Lord's hammer before before

he sends his son down. So you know that that's just that's just what

I'm seeing here, Matthew, in these verses is God's telling us about that

sixth seal. He's telling us what He's gonna do when he comes down.

And and that's what John the Baptist is preaching in those gospels. Absolutely,

absolutely, absolutely. But you know, you've probably said some things that shock

people, because well, most people don't know that the Great Day of the

lord's a sixth ill event. They don't realize that. One Fsalonians chapter five

plainly states that it's the Great Day of the Lord that starts the tribulation and

it's the perusia of Christ that ends it. But that is what it says,

yep. And when you know that, when you realize that and you

familiarize yourself with the prophetic narrative. I mean, let's talk about is Ecn

chapter twenty. I mean, God is really forthright in what he speaks there

about what he is exactly going to do. And it bows my mind that

people thinks he's going to do something else. I never quite understand it.

Really, you think he's going to do something else. No, that's that's

not what he says in Ezeko chapter twenty. So just so you know,

ladies and gentlemen, he comes right out and and and tells you what he's

going to do. And it's it's I mean, if you thought, I

guess you could think it was pretty, but I assure you it's not.

It's it's not pretty what he says he's going to do. But yet,

you know, when you disconnect Ezekiel chapter twenty, if you disconnect it from

Romans chapters nine through eleven, well it's okay because it means somebody else.

It's not talking about Christians. Oh yes it is, Oh yes it is.

Oh yes it is. It's exactly talking about Christians. But people just

have a hard time, you know, they have a hard time processing it,

and it is hard to process. But this is what God says he's

going to do. He's going to execute the Great Day of the Lord,

and he's going to shepherd you much like he did those forty years for the

children of Israom in the wilderness. That is what he says he's going to

do. Now, if you don't realize that, well, you would really

be lost and disoriented in the biblical narrative. I mean, would all seem

well rather confusing if you didn't know this simple fact that God plainly states that

the Great Day of the Lord begins the tribulation and it ends with the perusia

of Christ. Yes, it does say that plainly. Read once again,

write this down first. Thesalonians chapter five slays it out for you, point

by point, and he tells you how he's going to get you from point

A to point B. He says he's going to project in Greek the soma

psyche numa. That that's what he says. That's how you're going to get

there. So, boy, we're really burning up the time here to say.

Yeah, I point out one quick thing, Matthew here. Isaiah forty

is often quoted along with Malachi chapter three in the Gospels, and they have

a lot of the same phrasing. But Malachi chapter three talks to us about

refinement, talks to us about judgment, smelting this kind of phraseology. But

in verse seven and Malachi chapter three, he says, from the days of

your father's you have turned aside from my statutes and have not kept them.

Returned to me and I will return to us as the Lord of hosts.

But you say, how shall we return? There's that repentance right there,

Matthew. Malachi chapter three clearly points out the repentance aspect that that we've been,

that we've been pushing, pushing towards. So I just wanted to point

out that that contrast there to what's being said. Absolutely, So should we

continue on reading or you have more? Well? One last point, the

word voice in in verse three h six nine sixty three is the same voice

that's in Genesis twenty one, verse seventeen. God heard the lad crying,

and the Angel of God called the Hagar from heaven and said to you,

what is the matter with you? Hagar? Okay, the woman and the

child in the wilderness. This points us back to Revelation chapter twelve. So

even though he's telling us about the six yel event, Matthew. He's also

telling us that he's going to protect the woman and the child. So that's

just a quick point that people can can read that chapter and study more in

depth and read Revelation chapter twelve. But again, God, God keeps repeating

himself. He keeps tying all of his word together, and it's perfect.

Matthew, it is all right. I think I'll go ahead and read to

the end of the chapters. That is that well with you? Yep,

that's good, yep, all right. Picking it up in verse nine,

get yourself up on a high mountain, O Zion, bearer of good news,

Lift up your voice mightily, O Jerusalem, bearer of good news,

lift it up. Do not fear. Say to the cities of Judah,

here is your God. Behold, the Lord will come with might, with

his arm ruling for him. Behold his rewards with him, and his recompense

before him. Like a shepherd. He will tend his flock in his arms.

He will gather the lambs and carry them in his bosom. He will

gently leave the nursing ethes, who has measured the waters in the hollow of

his hand and marked off the heavens by the span, and calculated the dust

of the earth by measure, and weighed the mountains and the balance and the

heels in a pair of scales. Who has directed the spirit of the Lord

or his counselor has informed him, Whether whom did he consult and gave him

understanding? And who taught him the path of justice and talking knowledge and informed

him of the understanding. Behold, the nations are like a drop from a

bucket, and are regarded as a speck of dust on the scales. Behold,

he lifts up the islands like fine dust. Even Lebanon is not enough

to burn, nor it's beast enough for a burnt offering. All the nations

are nothing before him. They are regarded by him as less than nothing and

meaningless. To who, then, will you like it? God? Or

what likeness can you compare with him? As for the idol, a craftsman

cast it, a goldsmith plaits it with gold, and silversmith fastens chains of

silver. He who is too impoverished for such an offering, selects the tree

that does not rot. He seeks out himself as fiel for craftsmen to prepare

an idol that will not totter. Do you not know? Have you not

heard? It has been declared to you from the beginning? You have not

understood from the foundation of the earth. It is he who sits above the

circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers, who stretches out

that heavens like a curtain, and spreads the melt like a tent to dwell

in. He it is who reduces rules to nothing, who makes the judges

of the earth meaningless. Scarcely they have been planted, Scarcely they have been

sown. Scarcely has their stock taking root in the earth. But He merely

blows on them, and they wither, and the storm carries them away like

stubble. To whom, then will you liken me that I would be hissy

for, says the Holy One. Lift up your eyes on high, and

see who has created these stars, or the one who leads forth their host

by number and calls them by name, because of the greatness of his life

and the strength of his power. Not one of them is missing. Why

do you say, oh Jacob, and assert, oh Israel, my way

is hidden from the Lord and the justice. Do me escape the notice of

my God? Do you not know have you not heard the Everlasting God,

the Lord, the creator the ends of the yearth does not become weary or

tired. His understanding is inscrutable. He gives strength to the weary, and

to him who lacks might. He increases power. Though youth go weary and

tired, and vigorous young men stumble badly. Yet those who wait for the

Lord will gain new strength. They will mount up with wing like eagles.

They will run and not grow tired. They will walk and not become weary.

Oz boy, Matthew, we might as well have just read a book

of Revelation, right, because I just kept I just kept hearing that when

you were reading. The first thing I want to point out is the parent

prophecy in verse twelve, Matthew. And again we see that in Genesis twenty

two and Genesis thirteen, where God tells Abraham that his children will be as

numerous as the stars and as numerous as the sand of the seashore. And

it's just that promise that God said that he's going to have part of abraham

seed with him in heaven, as depicted in Revelation chapter fourteen, that we've

called the Moschayim, that we've got those in Revelation chapter seven and Revelation chapter

twenty that rule and ring with Jesus Christ on earth, and those are the

stand of the seashore. So this is just another way that God's reminding us

of what he is, what He's promised, what he's what he's that that

covenant that he made with Abraham, and that us being children of Abraham,

that we fall under. Boy. Uh, you see Revelation chapter thirteen in

verses eighteen through twenty, Matthew, where it's talking about the false prophet and

the image of the beast. I mean, he's he's directly firing arrows at

the false prophet there, Matthew, about what he's trying to do, you

know, And he's and he's letting us know if we're in that position where

we're the ones that are that that that are being told about down and worship

that idol, he's reminding us who who he is, and and that it's

better for us to to lose our head than to than to take that mark

and worship that beast. That that's that's what he's pointing out, Matthew.

And then you know, then we're taking the eagles wings I mean that's Revelation

chapter twelve where the woman is taken to a place that's been prepared. This

is all. This is all God putting this all here to remind us of

what we're supposed to be doing in between that period where he comes back,

that great Day of the Lord and the Prusia of Christ. Like you,

like you've repeated over and over, Matthew, He's given us detailed instructions here

and detailed reminders of what he said and what we're supposed to be doing,

Matthew. And then, boy, I saw Revelation chapter fourteen. Let me

see if I can find the verse, but basically where God says that he's

he leaves this host, and it says right here that the that not one

of them is missing, right his whole, all the stars that he created,

not one is missing. So when you read in Revelation chapter twelve where

Satan takes the third of the stars, well, God's telling you that he's

got replacements coming. And that's what he talks to us about in Revelation chapter

fourteen, those that he's part of that parent prophecy that God said is going

to replace that third that falls out of heaven Matthew. So he's good.

I mean, you almost don't need to read Revelation after reading this chapter,

Matthew, I absolutely agree. He kind of stole my thunder there. That's

what I was going to say, was, you know verse twenty six.

You got major problems here because Revelation chapter twelve, verse four plainly states that

will Satan sweeps out a third of the stars from the sky. We know

that's directly referenced in the sixth seal event right, no doubt about it.

Yep. So what is God talking about here? How can that be possible

if he loses a third of them? Well, it is answered in the

riddle. I mean, this is a great riddle, bit God, God

says something that will it's disturbing. It says that he's going to shepherd us,

right, but then it says that he will take the little hue.

Now, now listen directly, I'll readdirectly from it. Here he's talking about

somebody like a shepherd. He will can his flock and his army, will

gather the lamps and carry them in his bosom. He will gently lead the

nursing hughes. Will this screams well, ladies and John wutn't we just cut

to the chase because we're so low on time. This is quoted. This

is answered in Isaiah chapter twenty six. He comes right out and tells you

what he's going to do with those children. And a lot of people get

shocked when they hear this, but well, this is true. He does,

say, Isaiah chapter twenty six, exactly what he intends to do.

And if you don't know that, if you can't see it, oh my

goodness. But just take note. So he mentioned two the little lambs,

and then he mentions the hues that are in his arms. Now, look,

ladies and gentlemen, this is a whole lot more prophetic than you thought.

If you've never heard this before, tonight listen. This is straight from

Isaiah chapter twenty six. As a pregnant woman approaches the time to give birth,

she ries and cries out in labor pains. Thus we were before you,

ohlud, We were pregnant, we writhed in labor, we gave birth.

As it seems only to wind, we could not accomplish deliverance for the

earth, nor were the inhabitants of the world born. Ladies and gentlemen,

on the Great Day of the Lord. You just thought all the babies were

going to You thought one of two things. Either all the babies were going

to go through the tribulation and have a very short lifespan, you know,

killed by war and plague and all that. Because you've only got one other

option. God takes them with him to Mount Zion, just like he depicted

in the Book of Obadidah, because that's what verse twenty one states. Somebody's

going to Mount Zion with him. That group is illicitly detailed in Revelations chapter

fourteen. And he come out in Isaiah chapter forty, and he did tell

you there were three groups. There's adults, there's young children, and then

there's the other ones that are prophetically it is bosom ladies and gentlemen. That's

prophetic burbage there. For in the womb we have this same type of phraseology

strength from the Book of Deuteronomy. God makes himself perfectly clear. All you

people that rebelled against me, you're dead. But your little ones who did

not know right from wrong, they was exempt from that punishment. Jose No,

I think you're hitting the nail right on the head. Matthew. It's

just it's it's, and I know it's sometimes it's it's, it's, it's

a little it's. It's a little difficult for me, Matthew, studying this

chapter because you know how I study, You know how I how I like

to search out the original words in the original language and and tie them into

all these different verses. But there's a lot of places in here where where

there's words that only appear in this chapter, and so trying to trying to

seek that out and trying to see what God's trying to tell me by by

doing that is I don't want to say it's difficult, but it's it's kind

of like when God talked, when Jesus speaks in parables, right, he

doesn't come out and tell you exactly what he's talking about. But if you

if you have ears to hear and as they can see, you can understand

what he's telling you. And that's what he's doing here in this chapter,

Matthew. You can kind of read this through and it can kind of be

like comforting words. Okay, God's you know, prophetic language, poetic language,

and you can read it that way. But if you've been studying your

word, been studying your your Hebrew and your Greek, and honestly, just

remembering what he said in the book Revelation. You know what God's talking about

here, and and so that's what I'm hoping that people take away from the

study. God tells you over and over what he's going to do. He

shows you what is to come. And so if we just read his word

and again, you have to have the Holy Spirit with you, Matthew.

And the only way to have the Holy Spirit residing in you is to be

following those ten commandments and to be following the Beatitudes. He tells you exactly

what to do here in verse nine on that great day, to get yourself

up on a high mountain and let everyone know that God is coming. That's

what we're supposed to be doing. That's what John the Baptist was preaching in

the Gospels. That that's why he tells us to repent, for the Kingdom

of Heaven is at hand. Right. That's him on that on that mountain,

crying out to everyone and and preparing the way for the Lord. So

this is just this is just an amazing chapter. Matthew. Boy, I

don't know, I mean, we didn't even we didn't even scratch the surface

of what God's telling us. But he's he's repeating over and over what he's

going to do. He's repeating over and over what he told Abraham. He's

repeating over and over what John the Baptist told us, what his son told

us, and the gospels. And it's a beautiful thing, Matthew, And

this is this is what the church needs to be studying, not not all

these other issues that that are bouncing around. Absolutely, let me let me

end with this. You know, he's stating that, ladies and gentlemen,

it is obvious why this was stated here to run to the top of the

mountain, because surely you all understand that verses eighteen through twenty here is talking

about the false prophet and the image of the beast. I'll read straight from

Matthew chapter twenty four, verse fifteen. You already know this. Therefore,

when you see the abomination of desolation which is spoken through Daniel, the prophets

standing in the Holy place, let the reader understand, then those who were

in Judea to do what what are they supposed to do? Isaiah chapter forty

told you they must flee to the mountains. Did I just shock you,

ladies and gentlemen. Well this also why is a few vers later it talks

about those lambs and nursing youes verse nineteen. But what of those who are

pregnant and those who are nursing babies in those days? Gentlemen, God didn't

write the Bible to confuse you. He's actually explaining everything to you, verse

by verse, chapter by chapter, book by book. He's laying it out

for you. Jose Can you take us out of here in prayer? Please?

Absolutely, Matthew, Dear heavenly Father, I continue to give you thanks

and praise for giving us your holy spirit to comfort us and edify us,

to guide us in this study, to allow us to share with the body

your word. Lord. I study it every day, and I try to

put it in my heart. And I asked that you soften my heart so

that your words may reside there, so that I may follow your commandments,

and that I may follow your testimony. Lord. I also also pray this

for the Church, for your body, for your ecclesia. Please, Lord,

do not let go those ninety nine that you have in your hand,

that flock that you've gathered. Please hold to him fast, allow them to

be a light and assault to the earth, Father, so that you may

leave us and grab that last sheep. Father. And I just ask that

you I pray for the this ministry. I pray for those listening to this

word. Please comfort them, please heal us, and above all, please

allow us to remember your son and what you've promised us. Lord. And

we ask all this in the name of your son, our Lord and Savior,

Jesus Christ. Amen, Amen and Amen. Until next time, ladies

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