0:00:00 - 0:00:27 Today, we're going to cover a collection of topics that's extraordinarily important. There's nothing I can really say to convey the the cost of obtaining these things. Um It's a 11 form in which we can glorify the Lord is to freely give things that cost us a great deal to people that we can guarantee 0:00:26 - 0:00:51 , have no capacity to comprehend the value of what is given. Now that that can actually lead to very bad outcomes if it's done in a way that does not increase the likelihood of a person doing more and better than they would otherwise. So this is the difference between Moses coming down from the mountain 0:00:51 - 0:01:13 with the 10 commandments versus Aaron coming down from the mountain to make the idol of gold. So these are, that's important that that's its own topic, but just as a preamble, uh I am persuaded that it's an appropriate time to share this, even though we're going to cover a whole lot of topics that reveal 0:01:13 - 0:01:33 mysteries to you things that there's no way that you know these things and or that you could know them. Um And, and at the same time, I, I have to confine myself to being brief about them and not laying them out in full, but just to give you enough for the end result, which the intent of this is to encourage 0:01:32 - 0:02:03 you. Well, first to reveal to you small ways that are actually enormous ways to live the gospel in your life and prepare for the things to come that you wouldn't otherwise appreciate and therefore do. And I believe that this will be sufficient for the purpose. The motivating theme of this is what the 0:02:03 - 0:02:27 title says. It's the need to call out people on your own team. Um First and foremost yourself, but those like you, whether that's people you look like or people who believe similar to you or people who live in or, or do similar things to you and you'll see where we're going with this, but aggregated 0:02:27 - 0:02:53 on to and around this topic. I'm broaching into extraordinarily important things. So let's start with, with um some light scriptures about the topic of coming out of Babylon in Jeremiah 51 we read my people go ye out of the midst of her and deliver ye every man, his soul from the fierce anger of the 0:02:53 - 0:03:16 Lord. Therefore, behold the days come that I will do judgment upon the graven images of Babylon and her whole land shall be confounded and all her slain shall fall in the midst of her. Now, I started with this scripture because some of the references we're going to go into today are long and uh many 0:03:16 - 0:03:41 of them are just chock full of um s symbolism and poor translations and false traditions. And we have to peel back all those layers to get something out of it, something more than you've already seen out of it. Um And that, that being said already with this lead scripture, we have to peel apart some 0:03:41 - 0:04:12 things. Mhm So to deliver, that implies that that. So it's removing from a situation that is already uh determined. And this is a good thing to think about just from the outset. There is a situation, there's an outcome that is determined and decreed and you are barreling straight for it. You're, you're 0:04:12 - 0:04:32 already in it in the sense that if you don't get out of the stream, you're in, it's absolutely going to overtake you. And we're told what this is. It's the fierce anger of the Lord. And you might say, but what did I do to deserve something like that? That's, that's a great question. It has a long answer 0:04:31 - 0:04:51 . I don't think I can get into that, but you'll, you'll probably glean something from this presentation if that's your question. So what about graven images? So Isaiah has something to say about this. He gives a long literary device where he uses the analogy of an idol and people look at this and they 0:04:51 - 0:05:13 say, well, you know, idols, they don't have little God statues that I pray to with false gods or whatever, expand your mind a little bit. It's, that's not what it means. I mean, if you did that, it certainly would apply. But if you go to Isaiah, what you see and we don't have time to do that, maybe we'll 0:05:13 - 0:05:37 do that some other time. What you see in this long description of how idol makers make these idols and then worship them too. You'll see that. It's one of very many references to imputing value to something far beyond the value. You clearly know it's limited to so far beyond its obvious limits. Do you 0:05:36 - 0:05:59 do this? Your whole life is full of this? I promise you if we were to sit down and start revealing your life face to face, I could enumerate a million things where you the the value you treat something as having far exceeds what it has. The reverse is also true. There are many things in your life that 0:05:59 - 0:06:26 have tremendously more value than the um appreciation and attention you give to them. But uh those graven images, the the things in which the Babylonian system places value beyond the value it ha they have those things are going to be reconciled to the truth, they're going to be reconciled to the true 0:06:26 - 0:06:42 value that these things actually have. And it works for the other things too. The the things in which you place a lot less value, the chief among them being God. And that's another one where you're gonna hear me say that and say, yeah, what that doesn't apply to me. I believe in God. I mean, look at 0:06:42 - 0:07:04 , I'm watching, I'm watching videos. I'm spending my time watching videos and I, I pray and I go to church and I do these things. Um again, it will be shown to you how the value you think you see in God, you don't actually live according to that. And there's tremendously more value that you ought to 0:07:04 - 0:07:28 see in God that you don't see or live according to. And again, we could refer to Isaiah for great references about this when he goes on his multiple spiels about uh making tons of sacrifices for the Lord, but they're not the sacrifices that he asks for. And so he doesn't honor those as he would something 0:07:28 - 0:07:51 he had asked for. You're over maybe overflowing in effort that you say is for the Lord, but it's not the things that he's asked for. And meanwhile, as Jesus said, you're leaving the weightier matters undone. You ties uh in the, you know, he, he, he's criticizing the Pharisees for tithing. The tiniest 0:07:51 - 0:08:13 of things like making sure the tiny seeds that they use are accounted for in their tithing and yet leave the, the weightier matter matters uh undone. In part one of those he listed was judgment, which is very interesting, but that's, that's the ability to see things as they are and treat them accordingly 0:08:12 - 0:08:34 . In other words, to give attention to the things that are most deserving of it. And uh to forego that attention on the things that aren't OK. So her whole land as a consequence of this Babylon in its entirety will be confounded. Now, when you hit words like this confounded, you, you ought to look them 0:08:34 - 0:09:00 up. You could use the, the 1828 Webster Dictionary if you'd like, which is a great historical snapshot of the previous richness of words which has largely been lost today. But it approaches perhaps the meaning that translators use. This is from the King James. So we wanna go as old as we can. So confounded 0:08:58 - 0:00:00 in the, in the 1828 Webster uh Here's some definitions. We just scanning their websites, by the way, you don't have to buy anything to look these words up. I use one. It's Webster's dictionary 1820 eight.com. Uh So to mingle and blend different things, to throw into disorder, to perplex, to disturb, 0:00:00 - 0:10:02 to um a bash to throw the mind into disorder, to perplex with terror, to terrify, so to destroy and to overthrow. There you go. So those are the seven definitions given here. Excuse me. So um what would it look like for Babylon to be destroyed to be overthrown, to be perplexed with terror, to be disturbed 0:10:01 - 0:10:34 ? Um I lost my place here. Uh And, and it's disturbed specifically by the apprehension of the indistinctness of ideas or words. So maybe all this isn't making sense but to those, well, for the benefit of those, for whom this is not making tremendous sense. Here's here, it is put into plain terms. Imagine 0:10:33 - 0:10:59 if everything you were used to suddenly changed and that all the ways of doing things before suddenly didn't work anymore. At least, not nearly as well as they used to in new ways that make a lot more sense, not sense, but have a much greater outcome. Um Well, let me rephrase that to obtain the same 0:10:59 - 0:00:00 outcomes as you had before. You have to do radically new things that no one knows about and, and that aren't easy to discover because the things that have always worked no longer work. So that's like a very low intensity application of this concept of Babylon being confounded. Do you see that today? 0:00:00 - 0:11:43 Do you see the idea of everyone go to college falling flat on its face? That's basically the worst thing you could do if you're a young person in a general sense, if you had to make one rule and you went with that one, you'd be worse off than a bunch of other rules. Like learn a trade. I'm not saying 0:11:43 - 0:12:08 that's the right thing to do either because another aspect of the confounding is one size doesn't fit all anymore. You've got tons and tons of specific situations, each of which has an a different optimal solution. I should have said problems that solutions. You've got tons of problems, each of which 0:12:08 - 0:12:31 has a different ideal solution. So we're already seeing this and that's just, we just took one specific example of career preparation for young people. Look at marriage, same deal, look at Children, same deal. Look at the education of Children. That's a very specific thing. Same thing, same thing. Now 0:12:31 - 0:12:51 , where have you heard all of these things before? And you thought they were the random rantings of a madman. And maybe, maybe you didn't think that because if you're still here watching this, maybe that's not your opinion. But hopefully this one will actually get shared. Unlike most of these presentations 0:12:50 - 0:13:12 that I do does make a huge difference in how many people watch it. I don't know if it makes difference how many people listen to it as far as heeding, what is said, but whatever the best we can do is get it out there. Ok. So we could keep riffing off of this for an entire presentation. But there's a 0:13:12 - 0:00:00 lot to cover here. This is gonna be a long one and I just, I don't have even the time it's gonna take to do this. So all her slain shall fall in the midst of her. That one's in the midst is the middle of or among, that's an important one to know. But you probably already know that, I don't know. Um, 0:00:00 - 0:13:57 Jeremiah 51 6, flee out of the midst of Babylon and deliver every man his soul, be not cut off in her iniquity. For this is the time of the Lord's vengeance. He will render under her, unto her, not under her, unto her. A recompense. I could say something graphic there about Babylon being described as 0:13:57 - 0:14:20 a prostitute. So maybe that slip of the tongue was actually a good image but um not good but but uh descriptive. Anyway, again, we have the echo of this idea of delivering each man delivering his soul. That is also important. The fact that we're talking about individuals here is also important. Historically 0:14:19 - 0:14:43 , if you went with the flow, you'd probably be better off than you, you would be cutting your own path. And all of a sudden this changes and it's not that every person is on their own uh in a sense, but that the paths to take must be determined by the individual. If you make your rule to go with what 0:14:43 - 0:15:11 other folks do, you're almost certain to end up in a worse place now than if you did it for yourself. And, and so now that's just another example of everything going topsy turvy as quote, the whole land is confounded. So what does it mean to flee out of the midst of Babylon? If you think this just means 0:15:10 - 0:15:36 something geographical. The first limit to that interpretation is the fact that we're not talking about the actual city that's actually called Babylon. We're talking about an ideology. A culture Babylon is a culture. What's a culture? It's a set of ideas. What kinds of ideas cause and effect beliefs 0:15:35 - 0:16:01 ? A belief is a putative mapping of cause and effect. If you've read The Glory of God as intelligence, that's not news to you. That's been out for a while. OK. So what is the midst of, what does it mean to be in the midst of a culture while surrounded by people who have that culture? Sure. Yep, you should 0:16:00 - 0:16:27 say practice that culture because contrary to modern sensibilities, someone's culture is not the same as their race or any other genetic attribute, it is 100% malleable. It can be changed through choice immediately. In fact. So what does it mean to be in the midst? Yes, surrounded by people who hold 0:16:27 - 0:17:01 certain ideas but also to hold them yourself also to hold them yourself and also to transact through these ideas. In other words, um there have been religious, oh, I'm trying to think of a word that doesn't have a negative connotation because I don't mean it that way. Uh seriously religious people in 0:17:01 - 0:17:24 the, in the past and present who hold certain beliefs about violence or technology. And so the Quakers in the time of the American revolution, they, they um were publicly lambasted for these beliefs by, for example, Benjamin Franklin because they didn't like getting attacked by Indians, but they would 0:17:24 - 0:17:46 not fight them because they said it was against their religion, but they would finance others to fight them under the pretense of giving them goods and, and money for other reasons. But it was very obvious what they were doing. So they were skirting their own religious limitations. Or you look at the 0:17:46 - 0:18:13 Amish or any of the Mennonite societies today. The only reason they have any kind of standard of living is because they take advantage of the Babylonian wealth of the system, they say is wicked. So they're, they're milking it and thinking that in all of that, somehow they're skirting the effects of the 0:18:13 - 0:18:42 system. Now, on that note, and all of this is very relevant to the presentation. Um On that note, I think it'd be hard to argue that the Mennonites aren't doing a much better job of this than anyone else. However, um I'd say that they're not going far enough and that a better way would be to fully isolate 0:18:41 - 0:19:09 themselves in their own society and not transact with Babylon because they're, they're, I'd say they're doing a heck of a lot better than if they were all in Babylon. But um having 1 ft in each world is also has negative consequences and we'll see that that matters. Ok. This is the time of the Lord's 0:19:09 - 0:19:33 vengeance. What does that mean? What does it mean to render unto her recompense? That means to get paid back, to get paid back. So, if what you're doing is, is bad then what you're going to get in return is bad. That's justice. If what you're doing is good, then what you're going to get in return is 0:19:33 - 0:19:55 good because you reap what you sell finally. What does it mean to be cut off in iniquity? Well, let's first define iniquity. What does that mean? Again? You just gloss over these words, but it's important to stop and say what, what would I say? If an eight year old asked me what this meant? Or an 18 0:19:55 - 0:20:27 year old, can I define it? And if not, maybe you need to slow down and start using your dictionary. So iniquity means injustice or unrighteousness or a deviation from rectitude, you can simplify this very easily without losing any of the meaning by saying it's anything that deviates from God. He is righteousness 0:20:26 - 0:20:56 . Now, you could categorize this in two levels into two levels. One is absolute righteousness, which is how God really is. And the other, you could call it your best understanding of righteousness, which is God, how you sincerely believe Him to be those two are not the same and that's OK. So God is not 0:20:55 - 0:21:29 going to judge you beyond your understanding. He judges men according to their understanding and women too and kids turns out so will adopt that definition of the your sincere understanding of how God is. So why would deviation from how you believe God to be? Why would that cause you to be cut off. This 0:21:28 - 0:22:01 is very interesting and, and important. I'm not sure it's, well, I guess we are sort of gonna go there later. Um If you look at John, let me just pull this up. If you look at jesus' Discussion of the True Vine in John 15, this is, this is a chapter that's so important that if you thought tattoos were 0:22:01 - 0:22:20 a good idea, you might get this one on your back, the whole chapter. Of course, that wouldn't help you read it. So maybe get it in reverse on your chest. And when you look in the mirror, you could read it every day. So um it's kind of a long chapter. So this is one case where being heavier would be a 0:22:20 - 0:22:57 good thing. So you have more real estate. But the idea of a tree or a network or a vine, this is a very important idea. And as it happens, each of us is in some sort of a path. Now, there's a good, good thing to think about is how directly your path is inclined towards God. And some people at, at most 0:22:56 - 0:23:27 people are inclined away from God. They're not on a path towards him at all. Some few are. And among them, there's tremendous variation in the slope of this path up towards God. What Jeremiah 51 6 is referring to when it says cut off in iniquity, any time you are out of alignment in any way with your 0:23:27 - 0:23:51 understanding of what the Lord would do in your place. You are off of the path to him. There are limitless paths away from him. Limits, limitless. Uh I mean, without number, not that their outcomes are limitless, they all head down just like all the other ones eventually end up at the top. All of the 0:23:51 - 0:24:14 other ones eventually end up at the bottom in a way. It's actually not strictly symmetrical, but I don't want to get into the details of that. The point is what it, the question to ask is, what does it take for someone to be cut off? The answer is inequity. However, there is a fullness of this which 0:24:14 - 0:24:36 you'll find referred to throughout the scriptures where someone's called reprobate or the phrase ripe in iniquity is used and that's the extreme, that's specifically being talked about here. It's not just the fact that anyone who chooses iniquity is off the path. It's that you can do it so thoroughly 0:24:35 - 0:25:07 that there's no coming back. Now. One way to make it so thorough that there's no coming back is to exhaust the righteous means the Lord has of bringing you back. And that can be done. The way referred to here though has to do with time and opportunity because once you're dead, you can't come back. And 0:25:07 - 0:25:33 that's very that the best clearest place for this is the book of Mormon where it says time and again, if you die in your sins. That's it. Ok. So that was one slide that I thought was gonna be 20 seconds long. So we'll see, maybe some of the longer ones will be shorter than I thought. Who knows? Let's 0:25:33 - 0:25:55 continue this theme and we're gonna continue reading from Jeremiah. Now we're in chapter 50 I'm going to pick up in verse 22. A sound of battle is in the land and of great destruction. So the land is where you are. It's not some far off place. It's here. How is the hammer of the whole earth? Cut asunder 0:25:55 - 0:26:24 and broken? How is Babylon become a desolation among the nations? So here we have this entity that used to run the show and it did so through violence and now it's broken and again, cut asunder is reference to that idea of a network. So, so in our modern world, we have this illusion that we're all independent 0:26:23 - 0:00:00 , right? And that, that you're that, that a man prospers by his genius that where you are in life, it's, it's fully because of who you are. And that couldn't be further from the truth. You would struggle to find a person whose quality of life. And I don't care how poor they are in the United States, 0:00:00 - 0:27:12 you're gonna struggle to find a single person whose quality of life has anything to do with what they deserve. Every case. In every case you find um you're going to find someone who enjoys much more than what they deserve. It. The, the prosperity comes from cheap energy and the contributions of a few 0:27:11 - 0:27:39 select people. Not what you do, not what you do. If you, if we could pick on specific jobs, we don't have to. Everywhere you look, you'll see examples of what I, what I'm saying, including in your own life. Odds are, it's extremely likely. So the truth is that, that prosperity, I said it's from cheap 0:27:39 - 0:28:09 energy and it's from your network associations with what and who actually provides the prosperity. So in the case of cheap energy, it comes from your connection to fossil fuels, which you didn't put in the ground. And it comes from the contributions of a few really smart people who figured out things 0:28:08 - 0:00:00 , ways to do it, ways to distribute it, ways to apply it and the contributions of um others who are actually compensated for what they do. And, and this is uh you know, the people out on the rigs in the middle of the ocean or whatever, or the coal miners who even in even that, which is a brutal job. 0:00:00 - 0:29:01 But in modern times, most of the work is done by machines, right? What the workers actually do, the ratio of that versus the benefit they receive and they're all unionized, they all get paid tons of money for what they do compared to 100 years ago. So, so it's this network combined with um or I should 0:29:01 - 0:29:27 say charged with injustice. It's what it is. That's a word you need to learn to use correctly. Not as society uses it. 24 I've laid a snare for thee and thou art also taken o Babylon and thou wast not aware. So a snare is a trap. It's a circle. It's a loop. You make usually out of wire today, but you 0:29:26 - 0:29:46 can make one out of rope and the way it works is you have to disguise it. But you get the animal to walk through by, by tunneling their path so that they don't really have a choice, but they don't realize they're being tunneled. You use natural objects to funnel the animal into the snare. And then what 0:29:46 - 0:30:15 happens is once they get in it enough, they will notice it. And as they struggle to get out of it, the more they struggle, the tighter it gets. And that fully describes the babylonian system because everyone, well, people don't pay attention to the increasing costs of the dwindling benefits. I've talked 0:30:15 - 0:30:42 about this before, but very few people have. I'm thinking of one secular individual who's a scientist who's very well spoken, whose focus is on oil. He's talked about this, but he's not as and again, I don't wanna say radical but as dramatic, maybe in his suggestions for uh what to do about it. But I've 0:30:42 - 0:31:09 spoken about this as, as dramatically as saying, we've been swindled out of an agrarian society. It used to be that almost everyone was a farmer and now almost no one is a farmer and the people who are tend to farm so much land that they're actually robot and machine operators, not farmers. So the whole 0:31:09 - 0:31:31 thing has, we've distanced ourselves very much from that. What's the problem? All the modern problems, all the modern problems far exceed the problems we would have under an agrarian society, they far exceed it. And the benefits are nothing compared to what we would have. And so if you, if you were to 0:31:31 - 0:31:55 live on subsistence for a year, just what you grew and you knew what you were doing because someone had taught you or you had come up in this, in this way, you would be amazed at how little you have to work. Now, some of the work is pretty monotonous, but it's a much better fit to how we designed and 0:31:55 - 0:32:21 the returns are enormous. Imagine planting seeds in the ground grain and harvesting 5 to 50 times what you plant. There is nothing you can do in this world to get that kind of return reliably in the Babylonian system, some people get that or more, but it's at the expense of much more people who don't 0:32:21 - 0:32:43 and the snare just keeps tightening. And you see young people looking all around saying what can I possibly do to afford to live in this world? There is no path where I can uh a predictable path. There's super risky things you can do that might work out. But there's no predictable path where you can 0:32:42 - 0:33:05 afford the cost of living that your parents had. You, you won't find it. There isn't one, there isn't one thing you can do now, you might get lucky and you might, it's called, uh, riding the Tiger when you find the best in a terrible situation. But it's still the cleanest dirty shirt and that's just 0:33:04 - 0:33:29 going to get worse. It's getting worse in real time. You can see it happening in real time. So he he says thou was not aware, very few people saw this coming. Some people did and they were ridiculed thou art found and also caught because thou hast striven against the Lord. And now we say, what, what 0:33:29 - 0:33:51 does this have to do with the Lord? What you're saying, Rob? How is this striving against the Lord? Aren't we supposed to enjoy the fruits of the earth and make use of these things that God has given? If you think for a second, that how we as humans have expended unprecedented wealth in cheap energy 0:33:51 - 0:34:16 , the coal and the oil and the gas. If you think that the way we've done this as humanity looks anything like the way God would have done it. I don't know what you're smoking. But you know, if, if the price is right, pass it over here because obviously that's some strong stuff. The Lord hath opened his 0:34:15 - 0:34:41 armory and hath brought forth the weapons of his indignation for this is the work of the Lord God of hosts in the land of the Chaldeans. Sorry, before I go on, I'm being pinged here back to verse 24. I'm not a Luddite. I'm not saying that low technology equals good and high technology equals bad. However 0:34:40 - 0:35:06 , the Lord has thoroughly convinced me that you cannot take things out of the mountain and bring them down to people who refuse to come up the mountain. As Abraham said, in the mountain, it will be provided and you have to issue these things out in ways that respect God's system and wisdom and the depravity 0:35:05 - 0:35:30 of mankind and human nature. And if you don't do this, look around you and this is exactly what happens. But I say, look into the future and look around you because it's going to get way worse, way worse. And you eventually, if you live long enough, you will absolutely join me and saying how terrible 0:35:29 - 0:35:56 an idea all of this was. It was. And, and it becomes uh a friend of mine is a big hiker and he lives in a place where there are these beautiful canyons. And he says, if you're in shape and you have a guide and you check the weather before you go, you can't beat the views. But if any of those conditions 0:35:55 - 0:36:20 are not true, it's better that you just don't go because you can get seriously hurt and you could die. And so that's the way technology is too. That's the way every blessing from God is. If you are prepared for it, it's the best thing ever. It's better than anything less. But if you're not prepared to 0:36:19 - 0:36:43 do it in the way it needs to be done, it's better for you not to have it. And that's the way it is with technology. It's, it is not something that's meant for the masses because the masses will not use it. Well, there's a reason why the book of Mormon prophets were commanded to treasure up the mysteries 0:36:42 - 0:00:00 that they were given instead of sharing them with the people and they shared everything that the people needed to come up higher. They weren't withholding any access to greater things from them and those that took those paths were shown those things, but they didn't blast it to everyone because the, 0:00:00 - 0:37:25 the majority of people would, would have used it for evil because that's what humans do. And so that's the situation we're in today. Ok. So now we get back to this. Uh, the Lord has brought forth the weapons of his indignation for this is the work of the Lord God of hosts in the land of the Chaldeans 0:37:25 - 0:37:58 , which is Babylon. Um His purpose is to destroy Babylon and he has weapons to do that. These weapons fall into two classes. One is the works of evil men and the second is truth or the works of righteous men. Those are the weapons. Verse 26 come against her from the utmost border, open her storehouses 0:37:58 - 0:38:19 , cast her up as heaps and destroy her. Utterly. Let nothing of her be left. That's pretty clear. Everything will be destroyed and all the goodies will be carried out. 27 slay all her bullocks. Those are cattle, let them go down to the slaughter woe unto them for their day has come the time of their 0:38:19 - 0:38:46 visitation. Now, talking about this cattle, that's also an image for, for humans. Specifically ones that are regarded as valuable. 28 the voice of them that flee and escape out of the land of Babylon to declare in Zion, the vengeance of our Lord, our God, the vengeance of his temple. So we see that there 0:38:46 - 0:39:10 will be people who flee and managed to escape and that they will be the ones who go to declare in Zion, the vengeance of the Lord, our God, the vengeance of his temple. What you might say? Well, vengeance of the Lord our God. That's his justice. OK? What about the vengeance of his temple? I'll leave 0:39:10 - 0:39:36 you to read about that in revelation. And you can look at the use of the temple in transmissions of information up and down which co occur with the destruction that's poured out on the earth. 29. Call together the archers against Babylon. All ye that bend the bow camp against it round about that, none 0:39:36 - 0:39:58 thereof escape recompense her according to her work, according to all that she hath done do unto her for she hath been proud against the Lord against the holy one of Israel. Now, this is one of many dual uses of an image. Uh In the end times, you will see many parallels where there's something like lions 0:39:57 - 0:40:23 . For example, you'll see the invading armies described as lions and you'll see the Lord's servants described as lions and they are both lions, but they, they do different things for different motives. What about archers? You might not know this but bows and arrows and archers, these are all plays on 0:40:23 - 0:40:57 um an image of messages. So to shoot an arrow is to send a message and you'll see the idea of information transmission used again and again. Um And it's, it's, it uses the, the um the symbol of archery. So if you see the scriptures talking about an arrow in a quiver, for example, that refers to this 0:40:57 - 0:41:19 , if you see the reference in the book of Mormon that the fiery darts of the adversary, that's referring to this, the dart, that's a, that's an arrow. If you see the miracle when the king of Israel comes to Elisha because they're getting invaded and he says, take these arrows and slap them against the 0:41:19 - 0:41:48 ground and then shoot one that's this. So again and again and again, you see this image. So um but also there are references again in Isaiah, for example of the invading army, army and uh uh using the terms, using terms related to archery. And that's I'm thinking of the reference where it says their 0:41:48 - 0:42:11 shoes will not be unlatched, yada, yada yada. So you see this again and again, that's one you need to know. So what would it mean? You can imagine how this is going to go for the evil men who do the work of the Lord to punish Babylon. But what would this look like for the righteous men? What would it 0:42:11 - 0:42:42 mean to, for those archers to quote, go against Babylon to camp against it roundabout to let none escape to recompense her according to her work. Well, it's to teach the truth and to live according to it, it's easy to under understate the pain that uh a person living the truth, not even saying anything 0:42:42 - 0:43:09 about it, but just living it causes to someone living in deep delusion. And there are reasons for this, that broach the obvious um temporal aspects of the situation. And that is that you can turn down the influence of the Holy Ghost in your own life through willingly practicing iniquity, through willingly 0:43:09 - 0:43:32 doing, doing less than your best. You will absolutely turn down the influence of the Holy Ghost in your life and, and people do this unknowingly. This is another snare. They do it unknowingly because they think that they can disobey God or do less than their best in one way without any harm to any of 0:43:32 - 0:43:56 the other good things that they enjoy. And the problem is your understanding is an all or nothing affair. If you turn away from the best, you know, in one thing, you absolutely darken your understanding on all things. And so the more often you do these sorts of things, the more blind you become so in 0:43:56 - 0:44:21 walk someone who has more of the light of God with them. And here you have to understand that the spirit of God operates as a field like radiation. And so when this radioactive person comes around you, all of a sudden, your own intentionally dampened light becomes bright again. And it, it's not because 0:44:21 - 0:44:44 of you, it's because of them. So our, our, we're all created in the image of God. And we are these, these creations that resonate with light. And so when someone bright comes around you, you will light up too. And when that happens, all these negative feelings are gonna come over you because that light 0:44:44 - 0:45:06 will judge you and you will feel that judgment again. I'm talking about a situation where this person hasn't said a word, you will feel all the things you would feel. If they did say a word, you'll, you'll get angry or you'll be afraid or you might get violent and you're going going to be like a fish 0:45:06 - 0:45:31 out of water flopping around thrashing for a way to make this pain and this anxiety or whatever. However, it manifests to make this negative emotion go away. So that isn't too much different than actually shooting an arrow into somebody. And what happens there, arrows don't kill like bullets do. Bullets 0:45:31 - 0:45:53 put a hole in you and you bleed out very quickly because there's a massive amount of surface area that's bleeding now. But an arrow just cuts you just, well, it cuts you. And if it's a, if it's a, the modern arrows, you can get them with these bullet points so called. And that will actually just go through 0:45:52 - 0:46:15 a target. But, um, traditional and the kind of arrowhead you use in modern times to hunt, it's called a broadhead. And it's, it's a series of razor blades and the arrow will lodge into what you shoot it at. And then as that animal runs around, it just continues cutting them. So the more they move, the 0:46:15 - 0:46:40 more they get hurt and the quicker they die because it, you, you bleed out and it creates more surface area for that to happen. Ok. So, uh, therefore, shall her young men fall in the streets and all her men of war shall be cut off in that day. Saith the Lord. So it's like your only hope of deliverance 0:46:40 - 0:47:00 in the ways of the world is going to be taken from you if there's no young men and there are no men of war, you are toast against the invading army. Behold, I am against thee. O thou most proud saith the Lord God of hose for thy day is come, the time that I will visit thee. And why does he regard Babylon 0:47:00 - 0:47:27 as the most proud? Because we're much is given much, is expected. And that's a principle that doesn't just apply to cultures or nations but to people. And so you should think about what he has given you and whether you're living up to it. And so it's actually, it's a tremendous burden to be blessed with 0:47:27 - 0:47:48 prosperity because with it comes great expectation. And if you live up to it, just like going to that canyon, if you live up to it, it will be a great blessing to you. A much greater blessing than you would have without the prosperity. But if you fail to live up to it, it will be worse for you than if 0:47:48 - 0:48:12 you never had it at all because of the punishment that will be due. Verse 32 and the most proud shall stumble and fall and none shall raise him up and I will kindle a fire in his cities and it shall devour all round about him. Now, that fire is very important. It's related to the arrows that the messengers 0:48:11 - 0:48:42 shoot Jesus referred to it in his ministry. And he said something about um I'm come to kindle a fire and what do I care if it burns before I come very interesting reference. This fire is referred to by Isaiah as well. He talks about sparks that kindle a fire and that's what this is talking about. So 0:48:42 - 0:49:04 it's, it's not just that the cities will literally burn. Although they will, there, there is a spiritual parallel to all of the physical things in the end times. And so there is a fire in the cities and that's caused by the armies and such. It's not just armies, it's civil violence, it's a bunch of things 0:49:03 - 0:49:28 , but those fires are paralleled to the spiritual fires that come from these people, his other army, his holy army that spiritually send the arrows and they light a fire as well. And that's the fire of God's glory. Now we're going to move on to revelation 18. I mean, I'm going to start in verse one and 0:49:28 - 0:49:50 we'll read through to verse eight. And after these things, I saw another angel come down from heaven having great power and the earth was lightened with his glory. Now, let's pause if I asked you. Has this happened yet? That's always a fun question to ask. As you're reading revelation. It's an important 0:49:50 - 0:50:22 one. You might say no, because the earth has not become lighter. I would say, how do you know without saying whether or not this has happened or whether I believe it has or has not happened? I'd say, how do you know because we only see certain uh bandwidth of light and this applies with our physical 0:50:21 - 0:50:42 eyes. There are types of light that you cannot see like infrared with your eyes. And this applies to spiritual light, which is a concept I've talked about many times using a phrase, windows of truth. You could also say windows of light, there are many windows, it's all the same principle. So how would 0:50:42 - 0:51:06 you know, because only those with great light would see someone coming with even greater light if you want scriptural support for this idea, I'll ask you who publicly testified of Jesus as the Messiah, why was John the Baptist, the one who did that? Why wasn't it a random person in the crowd that was 0:51:06 - 0:51:31 there or Herod or somebody? Why was it John the Baptist? And if you say because that's what he was appointed to do, then you've got a lot of learning ahead of you. You've got the the cart before the horse. Why was he appointed to do it? Because he could see he could see it and he was told what to look 0:51:31 - 0:51:54 for and who told him an angel? Well, when was the last time an angel came and told you anything? So why would you expect that you're gonna be the one to see the, that the earth is lightened with his glory? And what would that even mean? What would his glory be? What is glory? What about coming down from 0:51:54 - 0:52:15 heaven? Does that mean that that all these people are gonna be staring up at the sky and the clouds apart and an angel will pop down. Does God send angels to the earth in other ways? How did he send Jesus to the earth? Jesus literally said the phrase I came down from heaven. He said he was the bread 0:52:15 - 0:52:41 of life that came down from heaven. How did he come down from heaven on that occasion? Verse two, and he cried mightily with a strong voice saying Babylon, the great is fallen, is fallen and is become the habitation of devils in the hold of every foul spirit in a cage of every unclean and hateful bird 0:52:41 - 0:53:11 . I won't dissect that verse, but it's possible to do and it's important. Ah What the heck, let's let's just dig into it a little. OK. I'm not gonna do the first bit. You should look up the words mighty and strong and uh scriptural references. And also what that means in Greek, which is what this came 0:53:10 - 0:53:36 out of in revelation 18 2. OK. So first off his description of Babylon is that it's the habitation of devils, meaning that if you inhabit it, what does that make you? Now? This is very offensive for people to hear. They say I'm no devil. You don't understand. And I've spoken about this at length. I did 0:53:35 - 0:54:00 a long series on, on demons in possession. You don't understand that that one, your ability to see to the extent, the extent to which the devil uses. You will obviously be occluded or hidden from you based on your level of light. And if you're constantly turning away from things that are the best, you 0:54:00 - 0:54:23 know, you will get darker and darker in your understanding. And this is how the flax and chords turn into chains and you don't even notice and you won't notice until you're exposed to great light and even then you might not notice, but other people will notice because your reaction to great love or great 0:54:22 - 0:54:43 light, it will be extreme. It will match the intensity of the stimulus. And so that's another reason you don't see it is because you're surrounded by a bunch of chumps who don't know the Lord and don't live as the Lord would. But the second you get around someone who actually knows him, you will react 0:54:42 - 0:55:02 very differently and you'll have to contrast that with, oh, but I go to church and I'm a good churchy person. Yeah. Well, the people at church are devils too. That is also a habitation of devils because it gets along with the Babylonian system and it, it interchanges freely with the Babylonian system 0:55:01 - 0:55:25 . The hold of every foul spirit. It's where the foul spirits dwell and it's how it's, it's the place in which they control you. And this is another thing that's hidden. We don't see the influences that, that steer us every moment of the day, but it's one way or the other and you can bet that if it's 0:55:24 - 0:55:52 not very clearly the way up, it's very obviously the way down, even if it doesn't seem that way. And the cage of every unclean and hateful bird. So references to birds in the scriptures are very interesting. Uh II, I wanna skip over that for now, but we'll focus on this idea that it becomes a cage and 0:55:52 - 0:56:20 this is, this is the same idea as the snare or the flax and cords turning into chains, the longer you're there and the deeper you are in it, the more entrapped you become ok. Now, this angel is quoted here saying Babylon, the great is fallen, is fallen and is become the habitation of devils. Is this 0:56:20 - 0:56:52 fall talking about the destruction of Babylon. In other words, is the angel saying, Babylon has been destroyed has been destroyed or is this more like the fall of Adam? To say basically Babylon is ripened or to say Babylon is approaching its end and has gathered the strength to do its greatest damage 0:56:51 - 0:57:28 . Well, if it has become all of these things that, that doesn't really match this idea of it's destroyed. And for further evidence to support that idea, we have that as we'll read in a second here, this angel's calling people to flee from Babylon, right? So, um Babylon has not yet been destroyed as this 0:57:27 - 0:57:49 is read in verse six, we we re reward her even as she rewarded you and double unto her, double according to her works in the cup which she has filled, fill her to double. So she has not yet been punished. She is not yet then punished. And even the future reference in verse eight, therefore, shall her 0:57:48 - 0:58:19 plagues come in one day, death and mourning and famine and she shall be utterly burned with fire for strong is the Lord God who judges her. So it hasn't been poured out when this is said and spoken. So when it is poured out, you can be sure that this angel has already come, right, come out of her, my 0:58:19 - 0:58:38 people that ye be not partakers of her sins and that you receive not of her plagues, they haven't come yet. And finally, we'll just read verse three. Before we move on, we kind of picked out some chunks of the others for all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication. And the kings 0:58:37 - 0:59:03 of the earth have committed fornication with her and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies and that has already become true. So if I ask you what needs to change before these conditions are fulfilled, the answer is nothing, nothing. So if this hasn't happened 0:59:02 - 0:59:31 yet, it could happen at any time without anything else changing. And you'll know it's happened when all of these things occur. The plagues that come in one day, death and mourning and famine and being utterly burned with fire. Let's continue. In Isaiah 48 we read more about this angel from revelation 0:59:30 - 1:00:06 18 verse 14. And by the way, there's a much better rendering of this passage. 14. All ye assemble yourselves and hear which among them hath declared these things. The Lord hath loved him. He will do his pleasure on Babylon in his arm shall be on the Chaldeans. So let's see. Let me pull something up here 1:00:05 - 1:00:32 . Maybe, maybe, maybe not. So, what do you think it's talking about when it says all ye assemble yourselves and hear? So es especially in the New Testament, when you're cruising through this, you just kind of gloss over phrases like that and you say, yeah, whatever, what's next and you're just kind of 1:00:32 - 1:00:56 scanning for something that sticks out. You should stop and understand that words may be cheap today, but they weren't anciently, you know, it, it might take a lifetime for a monk to copy out a copy of the Bible by hand and massive amounts of money in terms of the paper and ink. So why would they bother 1:00:55 - 0:00:00 to write words that don't mean anything? Now, there are limitations in translation, of course. But if the content is there, it's worth your time to figure out why. And so great question when you're studying the scriptures is why is this here? What does it mean? What would it mean if it weren't here? 0:00:00 - 1:01:50 What does it mean because it is here. So the speaker is calling you and I to assemble ourselves. Do we have a word for that? We do? What's that word to gather together? Who everyone, all ye and do what and hear? What does it mean to hear when you see, see or hear in the scriptures or speak? Those, those 1:01:49 - 0:00:00 words mean a lot more than what we would mean if we said them to hear includes to pay attention to so to perceive in the first place, something that's being said already, right? And then to obey it or to change because of it, to make changes, to pay attention and make changes to what's being spoken, 0:00:00 - 1:02:49 right? And then he who the Lord is speaking here says which among them, meaning those assembled hath declared these things. What are these things? So could it refer to the message of Isaiah in general? Is it specific to this chapter? Is it referring to what follows? I guess that's for you to figure out 1:02:48 - 1:03:14 earlier in the chapter though I will share verse three says, I have declared the former things from the beginning and they went forth out of my mouth and I showed them, I did them suddenly and they came to pass. I have even from the beginning declared it to thee before it came to pass. I showed it thee 1:03:13 - 1:03:43 lest thou should say mine idol hath done them and my graven image and my molten image Hath commanded them and that harkens back to what we already talked about with idols. So he's saying a key is given in the fact that no one in that assembly, the assembly of all people has said these things. Then he 1:03:43 - 1:04:09 says, the Lord hath loved him. In other words, the fact that a person says these things will be an indication that this person is special to the Lord. And then we get this muddled mess. He will do his pleasure on Babylon and his arm shall be on the Chaldeans, whatever that's supposed to mean. If you 1:04:09 - 1:04:48 look into the Hebrew, it doesn't actually say that this colon is not here and it doesn't say this. It says um this is the word make and then it says desire. I'm I'm doing this from memory says desire, Babylon arm Chaldeans. So it goes into caveman speech, make desire. Babylon, shoulder Chaldeans, arm 1:04:48 - 1:05:18 and shoulder thir synonyms in, in that Hebrew word like like the shoulder sacrifice. So it's the arm of the animal. So what could that possibly mean? Well, it turns out it also doesn't say the Lord hath loved him another way you could, well, it, it, it, it could say that but it also could say he loves 1:05:18 - 1:05:41 the Lord because this colon isn't here. He loves the Lord. And that's why he will be successful to accomplish it. It's to make, to accomplish. That's the verb. So his, his success comes from his love for the Lord is another thing that this phrase could mean. So remember this Collins, not there and then 1:05:41 - 1:06:13 desire Babylon and Arm Chaldeans. One meaning of that could be that Babylon. And these are synonyms about Babylon and the Chaldeans. It's the people who live there. These people will be sacrificed to bring to pass his desire. And what do you think this is talking about a servant of the Lord? And I told 1:06:13 - 1:06:47 you it's the same angel from revelation 18. What do you think his desire is? It's to establish the kingdom of God. And how does that happen? Well, it includes the destruction of Babylon verse 15, the Lord is still speaking. He says, I even I have spoken. Yeah, I have called him. I have brought him and 1:06:47 - 1:07:15 he shall make his way prosperous. Now, the voice changes now it's no longer the Lord speaking. Now it's the servant speaking and he says, come ye near unto me, which is a, an echo of how we started in verse 14. All ye assemble yourselves. And here he says, come ye near unto me, hear ye this. So again 1:07:14 - 1:07:45 , gathering, right? And gathering is not just a physical thing. It's actually not even driven by the physical aspect. And it doesn't start that way when it's successful. Others have failed because they did it wrong. It's it succeeds, all successful iterations of gathering happen when you start with ideas 1:07:45 - 1:08:13 . But as you obey the ideas you also come to unity. You do do it spiritually and you do it physically and, and it's, it's a required part but it's not the, it's not the leading element. It's not the most important part. So what does he say? He says I have not spoken in secret from the beginning from 1:08:13 - 1:08:40 the time that it was there, am I? And now the Lord God and his spirit hath sent me that is also garbled. And I invite you to go to Bible Hub, just Google Bible hub. Isaiah 48 16, read that in Hebrew and use the links to cross references and you can come up with your own rendering of that verse. I'm not 1:08:40 - 1:09:14 gonna do it for you at this time, Isaiah 4817. Thus saith the Lord thy redeemer, the holy one of Israel. I am the Lord thy God which keepeth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldst go. So who's speaking now? Well, it says, thus saith the Lord. So someone is quoting God who probably 1:09:13 - 1:09:40 the person about whom God said, I even I have spoken. Yeah, I have called him and who was just speaking prior to this? Which is the servant? And so what's his message from the Lord? I am the Lord thy God which keepeth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldst go. Well, that's interesting 1:09:40 - 1:10:07 . When have you heard this in church? I mean, there's the prosperity gospel people. It's not what I'm talking about, but who has, who has taught that the Lord's path, the highway of the Lord, the mountain of the Lord is improvement. When did you hear that in church? You haven't? When, where have you 1:10:07 - 1:10:37 heard that the Lord leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldst go? Or in other words, that God directs you to what is best through, what you presently believe is best verse 18 o that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments then had thy peace been as a river and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea 1:10:36 - 1:11:05 . That's a good one to think about and talk about. But we'll just keep going. A river flows. I'll say that a river flows. Verse 19, thy seed also had been as the sand in the offspring of thy boughs like the gravel thereof. His name should not have been cut off nor destroyed from before me. So this is 1:11:05 - 1:11:33 interesting because offspring can include people who are not the offspring of thy bowels. I'm not talking about adoption in the sense of Children. I'm talking about in Mosiah 15. I believe we have this, this long passage about who are the seed of the prophets or the offspring of the prophets. And we 1:11:33 - 1:12:03 have Paul's references to being a father in, in the gospel, to those who are born again through his ministry. And so you cannot have physical offspring as the sand of the sea, except through many generations which we do not have left by the way. But you can have spiritual offspring as the sands of the 1:12:03 - 1:12:30 sea. Because one idea that you receive from God and share can echo through the entire earth. It's an amazing thing. There are more than 7 billion people here. That's a lot of grains of sand. Verse 20 0 So why, why would the, what, what, what basis would this servant have for making such an uh an otherwise 1:12:30 - 1:13:00 absurd claim, or at least audacious claim, he might know what he's talking about, right? And he's saying you could have been like me, you could have been like me, but you didn't hearken to the Lord's commandments and you would have had peace as a river and righteousness to conquer the waves of the sea 1:13:00 - 1:13:28 . And of course, it's the Lord's peace. It's the Lord's righteousness and he's the one that has overcome the sea. And your seed could have been as the sand and your offspring, the offspring of your bowels. It's interesting because you assume that that means physical offspring. But it, it also does not 1:13:27 - 1:14:03 . These are, these are spiritual Children. These are people who you have helped people to whom you have given the light that has flown. Uh yeah, flowed through you. His name should not have been cut off nor destroyed from before me. Name means character. And let me ask you what character has the power 1:14:02 - 0:00:00 to endure the things that are coming. There is only one, there is only one name by which men can be saved and only those who have that name will be saved. Verse 20 go ye forth of Babylon. Flee ye from the Chaldeans with a voice of singing. Declare ye tell this, utter it even to the end of the earth. 0:00:00 - 1:14:55 In other words, shoot out your arrows. Folks say ye, the Lord hath redeemed his servant, Jacob and they thirsted. Not when he led them through the deserts, he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them. He claimed the rock also and the waters gushed out. What is that about? Well, that's all allusion 1:14:55 - 1:15:19 to what the Lord did in ancient times when he poured out obvious manifestations of his power. And we read that the time will come when things are done that supersede those miracles in terms of their greatness and that those will be the things that are referred to in latter times. And so this is an allusion 1:15:18 - 1:15:48 to those events. Verse 22 there is no peace saith the Lord unto the wicked. There is no peace as you turn out of the way and all it takes is doing less than your best. Isaiah 5211 in the King James reads, depart, ye, depart, ye go ye out from thence, touch no unclean thing go ye out of the midst of her 1:15:48 - 1:16:12 . That's again reference to the myths be ye clean that bear the vessels of the Lord. And that's a little unnecessarily confusing. Isaiah 52 11 1 rendition that I came up with is distance yourself from the motives and the beliefs of the world and those who hold them desire and find what has greater value 1:16:11 - 1:16:43 . Proceed from where you are purging all that cannot ascend, make yourselves gleam with God's light. Arise and bring forth the perfection of the Lord in yourselves. That is how you come out from Babylon. That's a process for which you do not need to wait for anyone else to do anything else you already 1:16:42 - 1:17:08 have from God. Everything you need to take the next steps in this path, the steps that come after that won't do you any good no matter what anyone else does to facilitate them. If you haven't taken the ones before you already, you can't get around those, they just become harder as time goes by and the 1:17:08 - 1:17:38 consequences for delaying will increase until if you wait long enough, you will be cut off and the opportunity will no longer exist in this life. So I think I've already made the point, but this is not just a physical removal and I had in mind a couple of things to cover here that are important. I wanted 1:17:37 - 1:18:03 to parse out these three references from DNC 1 33 7 that speak of going out of Babylon. Uh in terms of coming out from among the nations and that you could think of it physically geographically. I mean, there's meaning to that there's importance to that. Uh There are only two places that, that the Lord 1:18:03 - 1:18:28 has ordained as gathering places and those are the United States and Israel. And for various reasons, I would not recommend going to Israel anytime soon. Um When the dust settles, it will be obvious that coming to the US would have been a much better idea. Although I reiterate this, this principle that 1:18:28 - 1:18:50 if you're not willing to do what it takes, it's better that you don't what? But among the nations also just means the different groupings of people, you could think of it as any way to group people that includes ideologically. What about the four winds? And what about from one end of heaven to the other 1:18:50 - 1:19:11 ? And I wanted to give you some bread crumbs, maybe a lot more than that to get you started in figuring out what these things mean in Matthew 2431. The Lord says he shall send his angels with the great sound of a trumpet and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds from one end of heaven 1:19:10 - 1:19:38 to the other. What does so just as the earth can be lightened with the presence of an angel and maybe you don't see it, this great sound can blast and maybe you don't hear it. What would it sound like? Well, it co occurs with the sending of his angels. How are they sent? Is this um like a movie where 1:19:38 - 1:20:02 all these angels fly out of the sky down to earth? Well, we already know we've already established that one way he could send angels to the earth is through having them born. And if that's the case, what would the trumpet sound be? It's a good question. So what are they going to do? They're going to 1:20:02 - 1:20:28 gather together his elect from the four winds from one end of heaven to the other. Let's talk about the four wins. When can scatter and it also can gather. Now, this is where this is one benefit you lose by not living in an agrarian society is you don't. Uh you may, you're likely that it's likely that 1:20:28 - 1:20:54 you've never experienced winnowing of chaff. So when you're processing grain that you grew, you have to lay it out on a hard surface and beat it with these giant nunchucks. And uh when the grain gets hit by these sticks, it breaks the, the coating off of the part that you eat and that coding it's protective 1:20:53 - 1:21:20 but it's, it's not edible. Um And it, it's lightweight, it's fibrous, it's thin and lightweight and so separating the wheat from the chaff as it's called, what you have to do is you have to subject the mix of the part you wanna keep and the part that needs to go away that's doesn't have use to you. Although 1:21:19 - 1:21:52 it makes good betting for chickens, I'll tell you because which is not coincidental because we're gathered, like a hen gathers her chicks under her wings. And what does she stand on? The chaff? And God makes the earth his footstool. And it speaks of how his Children in the last days will trample on those 1:21:51 - 1:22:18 who are not his Children, which all sounds pretty terrible and it will be, but it's not as indicative of violence as it seems. Those people fall by the consequences of their own choices after all. God could do for them anyway. So wind will blow away the chaff because it's lighter than the grain you want 1:22:18 - 1:22:50 to keep. And so that's how it's gathered. And you know, you're done purging the chaff when you dump the grain in front of a fan and what you get out of the process is the same that you put into it. That's when you know that there's no chaff left. So, and incidentally when clumps of chaff, which you know 1:22:50 - 1:23:12 , the intact seed head, minus the seeds like the skeleton of the seed head. It's this big thing. It's several inches long, depending on the type of grain will be a different size. But those things are really easy to pick out by hand because they're big. But you can't pick out the chaff by hand. And the 1:23:12 - 1:23:44 institutions into which humans have gathered themselves are really easy to pluck away because they're susceptible to terminal damage through easier means than individuals would be. And that's really important. We'll get to that in a couple of verses here. So here's your standard verse Jeremiah 4936 where 1:23:44 - 1:24:07 we have a reference of the four wins. And it says upon Elam, will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of the, of heaven and will scatter them toward all those winds and there shall be no nation whither the outcasts of Elam shall not come. Whether I didn't actually bother to look that one up 1:24:07 - 1:24:30 in context because it's not really the purpose of what, why I was citing it. I just wanted to link together the four winds with the four quarters of heaven and this idea of scattering via the wind. Uh but Israel has been scattered and most Israelites by blood do not know that they're Israelites. And 1:24:30 - 1:24:54 this is an astonishing thing for people to think about only because they're ignorant of how this pattern happens again and again and again, for example, most people who are descendants of Native Americans do not know that they are descendants of native Americans. Most native Americans who do know do 1:24:54 - 1:25:13 not live on reservations. But when you think of native Americans, you think of the ones that live on the reservations and they're the ones that define the culture for everyone else according to them, they'll say you're not Indian if you don't live on a reservation. And if you're different to reservation 1:25:13 - 1:25:38 culture, you've betrayed the culture. That's the attitude. So we'll get to that later in the presentation. But uh it, it's the same for, for Israelites. And uh if you, if you compare the people who are actually in Israel, there are way more Israelites outside of Israel and there are way more Israelites 1:25:37 - 1:26:04 who don't know, they're Israelites outside of Israel. It's the same for, for Irish people for crying out loud. There are more Irish people in the United States than there are in Ireland, which is crazy, but it's true. Ok. Um OK, let's move on. So he has scattered them through the winds. Well, now let's 1:26:04 - 1:26:28 talk about this association of the four winds with the four quarters of heaven. What does that mean? Quarters means if you take, if you quarter a chicken, you divide it into four pieces. So the four quarters of heaven people think of this in terms of uh this reference, we're about to get to it with the 1:26:28 - 1:26:59 four corners of the earth, the four quarters of heaven. It's four sections of heaven or in other words, it's organizing all of heaven into four groups. So there's four winds and four quarters of heaven. So now let's go to Zechariah two. We're going to read six and seven ho ho come forth and flee from 1:26:59 - 1:27:24 the land of the North. Saith the Lord for I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the heaven saith the Lord. So there you have it deliver thyself. O Zion that dwelleth with the daughter of Babylon. All right. So right now, those who will belong to Zion are scattered. They dwell with the daughter 1:27:24 - 1:27:51 of Babylon and they need to come out from that. So God's Children are scattered all over the place and they need to recognize who they are and rise up and separate themselves from Babylon. Now, let's jump over to revelation seven, thinking more about these four winds, the four quarters of heaven. And 1:27:50 - 1:28:12 after these things, I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth holding the four winds of the earth that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree. And I saw another angel sending from the east having the seal of the living God. And he cried with a loud voice 1:28:12 - 1:28:35 to the four angels to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea saying hurt not the earth, neither the sea nor the trees till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads. Now, this just like just about any reference to the end times, people will look at it and they'll analyze it independently 1:28:34 - 1:28:58 of everything else and they'll study it, they'll write master's thesis about it, thesis, whatever. And they don't bother reading the rest and trying to link it all together. More importantly, they try to do this without living any of the things that they do believe, or at least not consistently and no 1:28:58 - 0:00:00 surprise, they end up with interpretations that are dead wrong or only partially correct. So instead of putting these pieces together for you, I will just briefly say that uh the earth, the sea and the tree is not what you think it is. I will also call your attention to several things. In verse two, 0:00:00 - 1:29:57 we read these four angels were given to hurt the earth and the sea. Interestingly, it doesn't include the trees. But verse one before did it said that they're holding back the wind, they were holding it back from the earth, the sea and all trees. And then in verse two, it says they're given, it's given 1:29:56 - 1:30:18 to them to hurt the earth and the sea. There's no mention of the trees. It's only in the next verse that this angel says the one ascending from the east. He says, hurt, not the earth, neither the sea nor the trees till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads. And so there's a distinction 1:30:18 - 1:30:45 between what they're appointed to do to the earth and the sea and the natural consequences that will flow to the trees. If you look at that word tree in Greek, it means an Arbor tree, a tree. Um But it also means it's the word is, is Tendra. And if you're, you're in statistics, you will know what that 1:30:45 - 1:31:17 means uh because it's the root of a Denro gram and a Denro gram is a hierarchical network. It's a graph that's a hierarchical network like a family tree. That's where we get the, the phrase family tree. And so family trees aren't the only kinds of trees. And maybe one way of briefly translating that 1:31:17 - 1:31:46 word to convey more of the intended meaning would be to say something like human networks, human networks. And what would that have to do with anything? Well, I spoke before in this video earlier, I spoke about how modern prosperity depends on human networks and not always for good. Many of these networks 1:31:46 - 1:32:09 like crony networks, you know, there are many people whose prosperity relies on a government that will take the goods earned by some and forcefully redistribute them to others and they've optimized themselves in that tree. For example, there are other trees referred to. So in Isaiah, we read about this 1:32:09 - 1:32:40 guy who has a garment of some type and while all hell is breaking loose around him, people come to him for support and ask him to be their leader. And he says I'm not doing that. I don't have what it takes. I myself am overcome by these things. How can I help you? So this is um this is significant, this 1:32:39 - 1:33:08 has meaning and there's a lot going on here, a lot more than I can describe right now. But I will tell you that one end of earth, I'm sorry, one end of heaven to another, which is one of these three things we started with. It does not refer to a spatial arrangement. It means every person pertaining to 1:33:08 - 1:33:37 heaven. And as you read more and more end times references, you're going to see that creation scrambles the network of heaven and it re establishes it in a new ordering depending on the choices of those people here while they lived on earth. That's actually a key purpose of creation. And so the trees 1:33:36 - 1:33:57 of the world are going to be burned and destroyed. And those that are grafted into the tree of God, which is his kingdom. Those are the ones again referring to John 15, the true vine. Those are the ones that will be preserved and their place in that tree will likely differ from their place in the world 1:33:57 - 1:34:20 in the trees of the world. As Jesus said, many who are last will be first and many who are first will be last. And you can read about the story of Lazarus and the rich man. If you want to dig deeper into that, there are many other things to look at that. This is when God uh when, when, when the Lord 1:34:19 - 1:34:49 was in his mortal ministry and he cursed the fig tree because it had leaves and no fruit. Many of the trees of the world have no fruit, they have leaves but they have no fruit and they will also wither and a tree that is dry will burn with the fire. Ok. So we have a uh a, a meaty chunk here from Isaiah 1:34:49 - 1:35:15 13. And this is also on the topic of coming out from Babylon and maybe for the sake of time, maybe I will just refer you to read this Isaiah 13. Um But some elements that I want to highlight just briefly, even if we can't go through this verse by verse right now. We have that the elements, sorry, the 1:35:15 - 1:35:39 weapons of his indignation of the Lord's indignation are coming to destroy the whole land. And that we ought to howl for the day of the Lord, which is at hand and it's a destruction from the Almighty. Again, you might just say, well, that just means that it's gonna be bad. Well, howl ye is a command 1:35:38 - 1:36:03 and why should you howl uh not because it's some kind of wolf impersonation contest. But because if you're a just person, if you're righteous, you will cry out for evil, not for it, but against it, you will call a spade, a spade. You will call it out when things are no good, starting with yourself. And 1:36:03 - 1:36:26 then once you've got yourself sorted out, you'll look out to, to the world and see what can be sorted out there. The Lord says, lift ye up a banner upon the high mountain. Exalt the voice unto them, shake the hand that they may go into the gates of the nobles. I do not want to go into this whole verse 1:36:26 - 1:37:00 . But what does it mean to lift you up a banner? What's another word for banner? If you look that one up standard, standard, what would it mean to put a standard on a high mountain? How, how would one lift up a standard on a high mountain? And then this bit about going into the gates of the nobles. I'll 1:37:00 - 1:37:28 skip over the middle. I don't wanna talk about that right now. The Lord has nobles. We have phrases that describe these people, noble and great ones. They are spirits of men and women who have lots of light and they're sent to the earth. How through birth? This verse, it talks about how this standard 1:37:27 - 1:38:01 lifted onto a high mountain actuates or catalyzes these people, these nobles taking up their role in the Lord's end times work. So is the world going to notice the standard being lifted up on the high mountain? Does the world notice that the light of the earth increases? Did the world notice when Jesus 1:38:01 - 1:38:30 came? And if not, how can we hope it'll notice when someone less than him comes or one whose mission it is to demonstrate him. And so these nobles are defined by the fact that they recognize the light. They are defined by the fact that they seek. The Lord and Jesus said his sheep hear his voice, they 1:38:30 - 1:38:55 recognize it and they come to him. He says, I've commanded my sanctified ones. Remember we, we talked about the parallel of the two armies. I've commanded my sanctified ones. I have also called my mighty ones for mine, anger, even them that rejoice in my highness. This, this verse can be clarified a 1:38:55 - 1:39:20 bit but the parallel groups are addressed, the the army is not made of the, the invading army is not made of those who rejoice in his highness. OK? But this, this he muster the host of the battle. They come from a far country. That's so you could rewrite these verses more clearly disentangling the two 1:39:20 - 1:39:42 groups where they come from and what they're here to do. OK. So there, there are a group of these people come from a far country with the weapons of war. A group of these people. And by the way, that doesn't have to be an official invading army army storming the beaches like at Normandy, it would also 1:39:41 - 1:40:06 include people that have come from a far country who are already here. Wouldn't that be something? And the other army comes from the end of heaven, which again, it, it doesn't refer to, I don't know angelic space aliens or something. It's people born onto the earth who come from the extremes of heaven 1:40:05 - 1:40:33 , even the Lord those close to him, the ones at the top of the hierarchy. OK. So what else should we touch on here? You read a description about how everything falls apart. Not just the structures and the things we're used to, but the people's reactions, their strength evades them. They've, they are 1:40:33 - 1:41:00 overcome by what happens. They are scared, they're terrified. In fact, that's what it says here. They're in pain how intense like a woman in labor and it's cruel and it's, there's no escaping it. The purpose is to destroy the sinners out of it. There are reasons for this that I'm not going to get into 1:40:59 - 1:41:20 . But look at this part for the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light and the sun shall be darkened and his going forth and the moon shall not cause her light to shine. We read from Paul for example, but in other places too, that the celestial objects, the planets 1:41:19 - 1:41:43 and the stars, they all represent things in the kingdom of heaven and specifically, they represent people and the relationships between those specific people. And you can refer to them in terms of classes like saying the stars or the moon or the sun. And you can refer to them in terms of specific people 1:41:43 - 1:42:12 like the sun and the moon. Ok. So what does it mean for the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof or constellation is a group of stars? We've talked about groups extensively in this video or trees that they shall not give their light. You have no concept whatsoever of just how much is upheld 1:42:11 - 1:42:43 in this world by the invisible intervention of angels, it is immensely extensive, immensely extensive. And in short, what happens when they stop, quote, shining their light, very, very bad things, things fall apart, things go terribly bad and the sun and the moon, same deal, bigger impact, same deal 1:42:43 - 1:43:11 . So physically these things will happen. I'm telling you right now, I don't care how outlandish it seems there will be a time, it, it won't be forever just so, you know, but there will be a period of time where the stars do not shine, the sun is darkened and the moon does not shine. You're going to 1:43:10 - 1:43:38 see that happen and it's going to fill people's hearts with fear and the things that co occur with it will cause great calamity. But all of those things have a parallel in sp in the spiritual sense, in the spiritual realm where these beings will stop intervening for the sake of the world. And the reason 1:43:37 - 1:44:02 everything is done in God's love, the reason is to help motivate people who would not otherwise change, to have greater reasons to change. That's a key principle that that is all over the place in the world, in the gospel, all over the place. And so one effect of this is in verse 11, I will punish the 1:44:02 - 1:44:24 world for their evil and the wicked for their iniquity. And I will cause the arrogance of the proud to cease and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible. Do you know what haughtiness means? It's, it's basically it's entitlement, but it's, it's an inflated self view. Entitlement can be a little different 1:44:24 - 1:44:43 . You can be entitled without thinking you have a claim on something. You just, you want it, you deserve it. Um Just by nature of whatever, but haughtiness is to think that you deserve it because you're that good when you're not that good, right? An inflated self view and what will cause this to come 1:44:43 - 1:45:08 to a grinding halt when you're actually exposed to what you deserve and you flail about because you can't handle it and you're useless, you're worse than useless as God pulls away all the supports. He's given you the merits of others, you will be useless and then you'll realize you'll come into the dust 1:45:08 - 1:45:31 and realize how worthless you are and maybe that will cause you when the lights all go out, maybe it will cause you to notice the lights around you and start reacting to them justly. And that's the next verse, I will make a man more precious than fine gold, even a man than the golden wedge of ofer. Does 1:45:31 - 1:45:59 that refer to one specific man? It does, does that refer to men in general? It also does therefore, I will shake the heavens and the earth shall remove out of her place. The earth will literally move to a different place as absurd as it seems it's going to happen and God told you about it before it did 1:45:59 - 1:46:19 . When everyone else thought it was crazy in the wrath of the Lord of hosts and in the day of his fierce anger so shake the heavens and the earth remove out of her place. Again, their spiritual parallels, the earth will be a completely different place in terms of how it works, not talking about physically 1:46:18 - 1:46:45 per se. I mean, in the way, everything you think of as normal that you take for granted will be totally different. And how will the heavens shake spiritually, the people in heaven will shake because their place in that tree will change. And we read that it shall be as the chased row or a deer that's 1:46:44 - 1:47:03 being hunted. If you've ever hunted a deer with an arrow, a bow and arrow, uh, you have to get close and when they see you, they get spooked and you have to chase them and it's really hard to do, they just run away and as a sheep that no man taketh up, that's, you know, one that needs to be rescued that 1:47:03 - 1:47:22 no one comes to help because the sheep won't be able to help itself get back to the flock once it's lost. Once it can't see the other sheep, they shall every man turn to his own people and flee everyone into his own land. And so people, when they, when their trees are destroyed as their trees are destroyed 1:47:22 - 1:47:44 , they will find whatever they can to cling to and it won't be enough like a sheep that no man taketh up and they'll, they'll really thrash to find it like a chaste row. People do dramatic things to try to find some secure place or some secure people. And that's the thing is that the right now we have 1:47:44 - 1:48:07 this false idea that we're all independent and all we need is a nice place. But in that day, it will be obvious that value is found in chains of people in networks of people. And, um, you're not gonna have a single person who thinks that they can just go at it alone. And, um, you don't have to wait until 1:48:06 - 1:48:26 then to figure this out. Just go try to live in the woods by yourself for a couple days without anything you bring with you or without any food or water. You can bring a sleeping bag even. And you see how you do then shall every man turn to his own people and flee everyone into his own land because you're 1:48:26 - 1:48:48 going to turn to whatever still exists, which will increasingly be family. You know, one interesting thing is that when things fall apart, all these institutions that people put so much stock in, where do they go again? You don't need extreme situations to see that. This is true. I've seen so many young 1:48:48 - 1:49:07 people, particularly young women because guys aren't all that serious about friends or it, it works differently. I'll just say, uh, as they get older, you know, they go through the college years and they have all these friends that they think are their network of support and these, that will be die hard 1:49:07 - 1:49:31 and by their side until the last breath of life and all of a sudden they start getting married and no one has the time of day for the others. And all of a sudden the person looks around and says, where are these friends that I had? Well, they've gone to their own people and they fled to their own land 1:49:30 - 1:49:58 . Now, multiplex that with dire circumstances and those who have been through anything approaching, this can attest to it that when everything goes wrong, you will, you will, um, your, I guess your set of friends shrinks very quickly. And so you maybe the only thing you can rely on is family. But even 1:49:57 - 1:50:20 that Jesus warns us that families will split left and right. And so people will turn tribal and they're already doing that, but they're doing it in ways that aren't going to maintain very well. And we see that we see people turning on each other in political groups right now because unity can only occur 1:50:19 - 1:50:42 in the Lord and they've built their house uh, divided against itself. And all it takes is the right circumstances to show the cracks and the thing comes crumbling down. There were, there were a lot of Jewish people who went all in, into leftism and now they're being attacked by um other members of that 1:50:42 - 1:51:15 cohort who think that they are um on the wrong side of things in Palestine. And so there's an example. All right, I think that I need to skip over the rest of this, but this whole thing needs to be read, studied and understood for sure. All right. So that was all that was all just preamble to, to look 1:51:15 - 1:51:37 through the scriptures about fleeing Babylon. Uh Now we're actually to the point of the presentation, believe it or not and that we're gonna hit Ezekiel nine is end caps. Now that the introduction is over, let me read verses four through seven. And the Lord said unto him, go through the midst of the 1:51:36 - 1:51:54 city through the midst of Jerusalem and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh in that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof. And to the others. He said in mine, hearing go ye after him through the city and smite. Let not your eye spare. Neither have ye pity. Slay 1:51:53 - 1:52:14 utterly old and young. Both maids and little Children and women become not near any man upon whom is the mark and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the ancient men which were before the house and he said unto them to file the house and fill the courts with the slain, go ye forth and they went 1:52:14 - 1:52:35 forth and slew in the city. This is an extremely important passage. I encourage you to read the whole chapter and to seek the Lord and what it means. Uh There are threads woven through this whole presentation that I have not explicitly called out, but they exist. And I'm, I'm showering you with all kinds 1:52:35 - 1:52:58 of clues to mysteries of things that no one knows yet. But what I wanna focus on from this is this idea that the Lord has this team of people and he takes one person out of the team and he says, these are angels by the way. And he says, I want you to go through Jerusalem and mark the foreheads of every 1:52:58 - 1:53:23 person that quote, sighs and cries for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof. Now we have the midst again, remember that phrase, then the people that come after him, the other angels, he says, go ye after him through the city and smite. And he says, kill everyone, kill everyone but begin 1:53:22 - 1:53:57 with the ancient men quote unquote. That is the same word as elders begin with the elders which are before the house of the Lord, his sanctuary upon his house, it will begin. So that's what happens. Now, we're gonna come back to that. But I want to give you an example of what it looks like to sigh and 1:53:57 - 1:54:13 cry for the abominations that be done in the midst thereof, we could give many examples of this. But this, I'm just gonna show you one and this is from the story of Nel and Abigail and the servant should be mentioned too. Although his name is not given, it's unfortunate, he's one of the heroes of the 1:54:13 - 1:54:43 story. First Samuel 25 contains the story of how Abigail basically ministered to her husband Mabel who is a wicked man, a rich but wicked man uh through what she heard from his servant. So it says one of basically what what happened was David had taken care of Nel's shepherds. He was rich, he had many 1:54:43 - 1:55:04 cattle and David was camped out in an area where he had cared for and protected the shepherds. That's where his army was stationed. And um they took care of their own business, but they just graciously took care of the shepherds too. And then when the situation changes and David is in need, he goes to 1:55:04 - 1:55:30 naval to call in that favor. And he says, hey, I've I helped your your servants all this time and you can ask them and now we need some food and basically naval tells him to get lost and says, I don't owe you anything. Get out of here. So David is, uh he righteously seeks justice and he arms all of his 1:55:30 - 1:55:50 men and they're going to destroy Nel completely and take all of his things. And that's something for you to figure out if you don't understand the Lord's justice. Yet, this idea of gifts, gifts always come with strings attached in the Lord's system. There's no such thing as a free gift. Every gift in 1:55:50 - 1:56:10 the Lord's way has an expectation. That's why he said where much is given much is expected. That's literally what it means. And so this is very important to understand uh and it's relevant to the topic at hand in obvious ways because you've benefited from many things that you have never paid for and 1:56:10 - 1:56:34 God is going to call on you to render what is due. So um we read starting in verse 14, 1 of the young men told Abigail Nel's wife saying, behold, David sent messengers out of the wilderness to salute our master and he railed on them. But the men were very good unto us and we were not hurt. Neither missed 1:56:34 - 1:56:55 we anything as long as we were conversant with them when we were in the fields, they were a wall unto us both by night and day, all the while we were with them, keeping the sheep. Therefore, now therefore know and consider what thou wilt do for evil is determined against our master and against all his 1:56:55 - 1:57:17 household for he is such a son of belial that a man cannot speak to him. I think there are some interesting things to draw attention to in this story. One of them is this servant is quite clever, he's wise because he says evil is determined against our master, which no one in this story would have minded 1:57:17 - 1:57:36 except Nel himself because no one likes him. But he also says, and against all his household, he makes very clear. Look abigail, you either do something about this or we're all toast. No one likes your husband, but we do like ourselves. So why don't you do something about this? Because the servant could 1:57:35 - 1:57:57 not. Well, he could have stolen things from Nel to give to David. That is exactly what Abigail does. By the way, we'll, we'll get to that, I guess. Um but he, he has the courage to rile up Abigail but not the courage to do anything about it himself beyond that. And that's worth something. This reminds 1:57:57 - 1:58:20 me of one of my neighbors who uh is really up on local events, I mean, very local and I am not because I am basically a hermit. His job takes him to interact with everyone and uh around here and he'll get me riled up on political matters and then send me the links of where to do something about it. Uh 1:58:20 - 1:58:39 which I do anyway. Um I need to start asking him if he's done something about it first. So this is another interesting point about this is the servant says, oh and by the way, uh if for a servant to say these things to the master's wife, that was, that was a risk. And I'm not trying to downplay that 1:58:39 - 1:58:56 he really could have gotten into some bad trouble for doing this. But this is, this is how much of a problem. I mean, if you're gonna lose your life for not speaking out, I guess the cost of any other path would be less than that. Right. What's the worst that could happen? The same thing that happened 1:58:55 - 1:59:15 anyway, you're gonna get killed. At least now there's a chance of something better. And this is all very relevant to the task at hand. The topic at hand. But there, there is this also his strongest point of evidence to persuade Abigail is the following. He is such a son of belial that a man cannot speak 1:59:15 - 1:59:43 to him. She knows this is absolutely true. And it's said that there are so many people to whom you can say nothing, nothing you say will help. It's, it's a, it's a terribly common disease. They are beyond reason. So the Lord only has one tool left with those people and it's not good. Ok. So what happens 1:59:43 - 2:00:02 is Abigail? She steals a bunch of her husband's stuff, which that's, you know, the law back then it wasn't hers, but she steals it anyway. And, and knowing what kind of a man he was, you got to understand what the risks are here. But again, she knows that she's gonna die if she doesn't do this. So she 2:00:02 - 2:00:26 steals a bunch of her husband's things and then she takes them out to David, which is against his will, obviously. And there's this, you should read it this prolonged display of absolute humility before David. And um a result of this is that David spares the the whole estate. He leaves them alone. He 2:00:26 - 2:00:43 says, blessed be the Lord God of Israel which sent thee this day to meet me. So that's honest recognition that the Lord was at work here and blessed be thy advice and blessed be thou which hast kept me this day from coming to shed blood and from avenging myself with mine own hand for in very deed as 2:00:43 - 2:01:04 the Lord God of Israel liveth which hath kept me back from hurting thee except thou hast hasted and come to meet me. Surely there had not been left untenable by the morning light. Any that pissed against the wall. So at a minimum, he was going to kill every male and he would have done it. This is David 2:01:04 - 2:01:28 . He's not a chump, right? Not in this way, at least comes to courage. That's not something he's lacking in. He's a determined man. He will do what he says he's gonna do now. Um With this being said, I said, Abigail's life is in danger anyway, apparently not so much. But and, and that's important because 2:01:28 - 2:01:52 Abigail. So I'm correcting myself here. Abigail did, the servant did what he did out of self interest. Abigail did what she did because she cared for everyone else. And that's super duper important and I apologize for misspeaking before. Um, but th this is really important for other things that we're 2:01:52 - 2:02:23 gonna talk about in other videos. But um both the servant and Abigail spoke up and they did so at great personal risk, great personal risk and they did it anyway. Ok. So that's a great example here. Um All right. And so it's because of her that all these people were left alive and then of course, she's 2:02:22 - 2:02:47 rewarded later. Uh God kills Nel and Abigail becomes David's wife. And that apparently is something that she's quite happy with. Uh based on the rest of the story and she has Children through David. So let's go to some pictures and we are approaching the end of this sort of, I don't know how long it's 2:02:47 - 2:03:04 gonna take. There are there, there are a chunk, there's chunk of scriptures at the end that we need to get through. But this is the pattern. This is the takeaway of what you need to do to flee Babylon that no one has explained to you before, but that you're going to know now and because you know you'll 2:03:03 - 2:03:25 be responsible. So I hope you are persuaded and that you act. Here's the pattern. You've got a big circle of what seems mostly good and inside of it, you have a little circle of what seems mostly bad, so far, so good. Now we're doing this in abstract to prevent any sacred cows from, from blocking your 2:03:25 - 2:03:49 thinking and, and making you go into flight or fight. Um So you have what seems mostly good and what seems mostly bad and what happens is when people criticize what seems mostly bad, even though you fully recognize it's mostly bad. What's going to happen is people will, will act like what they're talking 2:03:48 - 2:04:09 about is the thing that's mostly good. They'll defend against the criticisms by saying yeah, but look, you know, these things are mostly good and then they'll attack the people who are making the true criticisms because the criticizers aren't going to be talking about this. They're going to be talking 2:04:08 - 2:04:36 about this and they know this, everyone knows this. But then dishonestly people will defend using the mostly good, that's the tendency and then things just keep rolling and the mostly bad just stays there until the consequences come because since these haven't separated, what seems mostly good has to 2:04:36 - 2:04:59 get hit with the same consequences as what seems mostly bad. And when that happens, it really doesn't matter that this was mostly good. So think about naval and his estate, abigail was mostly good. The servant seemed mostly good. There's nothing wrong with the estate. It was, it was bustling and working 2:04:58 - 2:05:24 the way it should, right? But there's this naval guy who's a real problem. He's a real problem. So why is it that these don't get separated in practice? Why is it that humans resist separating this out. Well, maybe it's because they do think that they're tied together and they think that they will lose 2:05:24 - 2:05:53 something good by tossing out the bad that never ever happens. But people believe it, they say, man, I can't give up this bad thing because I will lose good things and it happens with people as well. I can't lose this bad person because I'll, I'll, I'll lose the good things. But maybe it's mostly because 2:05:53 - 2:06:14 these are future consequences as of right now. So why bother changing something if it works for right now, that's the main issue that people will not look quote afar off. And it doesn't matter how obvious the sword hanging over your head by a thread is, they'll say, well, it's not dropping today. Why 2:06:14 - 2:06:39 deal with it today if it can be put off till tomorrow or I just have so much on my plate right now. I can't even worry about that. And these are, see, we make everything in the gospel. We want to make it flowery and too high for any person to actually deal with. And we wanna push it so high up that it 2:06:39 - 2:07:04 doesn't touch anything in our lives at best. We can put it in a really tight box that says Sunday afternoon or Sunday morning. And that's how, you know, you're off the rails, folks completely off the rails because a Hallmark of truth is that it touches everything. It's fractal, it will touch every single 2:07:04 - 2:07:21 thing in your life. The greater the truth, the more it should touch everything in your life. But our attitude is the greater the truth, the less it should touch everything in your life. The greatest blessings happen after you die. They have absolutely no contact with things in, in life. The highest truths 2:07:20 - 2:07:50 have nothing to do with normal life. They, they're just in this tight little box that says Sunday mornings or when I read the scriptures and that's it. The truth is the opposite of those principles. So this pattern likewise applies to all the little things in your life. All the little things, here's 2:07:50 - 2:08:14 the remedy. It's pretty simple. Separate the bad out from the good and it through throughout these pictures, I, I have it written as what seems mostly bad and what seems mostly good because it is just what it seems to you. It doesn't mean it is actually that way. And that's ok. That's the way it's designed 2:08:14 - 2:08:41 and because you could cherry pick some very specific thing and say, well, here's a bad thing that in something that's overwhelmingly good. So therefore it's bad. No, or here's something that's obviously good in something that's overwhelmingly bad. Therefore, it should be spared. Nope. Ok. In practice 2:08:40 - 2:09:21 , here are the things that you need to do to separate. These two don't support the bad distance yourself from the bad, correct, the bad protest, the bad, correctly, prioritize problems and defend those criticized for criticizing. There's a scripture that says they seek to make a man an offender who sitteth 2:09:21 - 2:09:41 in the gate. I believe it says, but these were the ancient judges, the wise men who sat in the gates of the cities for the purpose of giving people advice. And they wanted to make those folks guilty of crimes so that they didn't have to deal with hearing from them. It's up to you to defend them and support 2:09:41 - 0:00:00 them. But let's go back through this list. Do not support what you know, to be evil. That's easy enough. You fully control that one. All you have to do is stop supporting. What do you do to support evil? I'll leave that one to you to think about distance yourself from evil. How do you do that? Well, 0:00:00 - 2:10:30 if you see the bad as part of your life as part of your group, get out of the group. If the group won't leave the bad alone, then you need to leave the group alone. It's pretty simple. You can't look at the group and say, yeah, but it's not all bad. I mean, there's mostly good here. Well, if they won't 2:10:30 - 2:10:52 drop this, you need to drop them. So you see that one's a little harder than do not support because you could say, well, I go to a church and they practice these beliefs that I don't believe in, but I believe most of their beliefs and that's good. Well, then the consequences that come to the group will 2:10:52 - 2:11:19 also come to you whether you believe in the bits to cause the negative consequences or not. And the thing about beliefs is you can keep and, or leave all the ones you want at will, you can leave a church and keep all the good. If they're just ideas, then take them with you, distance yourself from the 2:11:19 - 2:11:45 evil. What about correct? Speak up about the evil. Maybe this should come before distance. Um, it, it should come before distance. We'll just, I'll, I'll take my own advice. I'll correct myself. Correct. Give them a chance to address your concerns and if they don't then leave them in the dust. But this 2:11:45 - 2:12:11 requires you to speak up and to point and to say that's not good and here's why or am I wrong? Because it seems to me like this isn't good and see what happens. It's very important. Remember the people that sighed and cried because of the iniquities. It's not enough to just not like it or to even really 2:12:11 - 2:12:40 not like it. You have to make some noise. Ok. Protest. Um, again, you know, take a stance and actively draw attention to the fact that there's evil here and you don't think it's right and, and what do I mean by correctly prioritized problems, not ignoring those caused by your people. This is a hallmark 2:12:39 - 2:13:06 of this, this problem is that you make things people make things outside of the groups, they identify with, into much bigger problems than the problems caused by the groups that they identify with. We do this as individuals where we go out and we wanna police everyone else's sins before we fix our own 2:13:06 - 2:13:28 . That is wrong. It's contrary to God's will. He's been very plain about it. But we also do this at the next level, which is to say, well, our group has problems, but we're not gonna talk about those. Instead, we're gonna go fix everyone else's problems. Usually using our group as leverage and that's 2:13:28 - 2:13:59 also equally bad. So, sort things by their actual impact. Not by how close or far they are from you. It's very easy to point the finger at someone that's really far away. It's not so easy to point the finger at yourself. Now, we're going to talk about some interesting statistics. This is from a Gallup 2:13:58 - 2:14:39 poll. They do this every year. Much to my dismay. It's horrific to look at. But in 2023 here are the percent of Americans who believe different topics are morally acceptable. 78% believe divorce is morally acceptable. 64% homosexuality, 52% abortion, 43% gender changes, 39% porn and 20% suicide. So if 2:14:38 - 2:15:15 the big circle is America, here are some sub circles and how large they are. Now, if you were God and you saw this and you saw that the other percents the, if you subtract this off of 100 if you saw what those people were doing about it, how much they were saying and crying, what would you do? What share 2:15:15 - 2:15:44 of the consequences would everyone else need to share? Think about lot in Sodom and Gomorrah. So he's sitting there living in Sodom surrounded by terrible things. Would it have been just for God to destroy the city with no warning? Yes. Yes, it would have because he was living there. He chose to, he 2:15:44 - 2:16:07 knew what the problems were, he knew about them very well. You can see that by his behavior. When the messengers come, what saved lot, it wasn't his own righteousness. Although he is described in the scriptures as being a righteous man. It was Abraham's righteousness that saved lot. Abraham was not living 2:16:06 - 2:16:27 in Sodom nor would he have lived there? Here's some more interesting statistics among professed Christians. I'm sorry. I don't have the reference for this. I wrote this down a long time ago and I didn't write down the reference. 44% strongly favor gay marriage. It's probably higher now because like I 2:16:27 - 2:16:54 said, this is dated and then there's a breakdown between different denominations on support for abortion. Some denominations, the lowest had 27% support, the highest had 60% 60% support. I can't remember exactly where Catholicism was, but one of the only tenets of their faith is that they are anti abortion 2:16:53 - 2:17:29 and yet, and birth control in general and yet it was higher than 50% said abortion is ok. 13 to 30% of different denominations think that gender can change after birth. 37% in some cases. And this wasn't like the new age church of hippie or something. These are main line named denominations. OK. We rally 2:17:28 - 2:17:55 pretty hard against L DS beliefs on this channel most of the time. But I just wanna say I'm fair. This 27% is the L DS church. So L DS people support abortion less than all other measured denominations in this survey. So kudos for that, here's some other interesting statistics and ideas. I suppose there 2:17:55 - 2:18:22 have been many notable brutal actions against civilians by Israel and Palestine. Neither country has condemned the actions of their own people in that regard. Neither country, they are only pointing fingers to the other side. Uh Whether one has done more or worse than the other is irrelevant to the larger 2:18:22 - 2:18:49 problem that neither side will call out their own people. That is a big problem because what does it do for the consequences? There's all kinds of unfavorable statistics about Islam. Here are a few, I'll just highlight one and this was some time ago. The percentage is almost surely higher today. 20% 2:18:48 - 2:19:16 of Muslims in the United States think that suicide bombing is OK. They think that that's an OK thing. So there's that now where are all the moderate so called Muslims condemning the ones who believe that way, they're probably hanging out in the same place as the so called mainstream Christians who don't 2:19:16 - 2:19:41 say a dang thing about all the Christians who support these really bad ideas. So I'm not singling out Muslims here. But uh we already talked about the Christians, how about different ethnicities? This is a, a third rail if there ever was one, did you know? And these statistics have been the same for 2:19:41 - 0:00:00 a very long time that black people, they make up 13% of the population, but they commit 35% of the violent crimes. So that's interesting. Where is the outcry about that? So we've seen the rise of groups like Black Lives Matter drawing attention to what may very well be an issue that needs attention, 0:00:00 - 2:20:33 which is police brutality, however far fewer dollars and almost no attention is given to the fact that these murders that happen black on black crime happen every day and it happened for a very long time and the victims are much more numerous than any of these other things. And yet, where's the outcry 2:20:33 - 2:20:55 ? Where are the foundations for that? And do they get any kind of attention in the media or any kind of donations from big companies? We could drill into this even further because there are circles within the circles. And in this case, almost all of that violence comes from young males and you will never 2:20:54 - 2:21:23 hear about this. But statistically, the statistics are known they young black males commit 46% of all juvenile crime. There are only 6.5% of that group of juveniles, 6.5% commits 46% of the crime. So if you wanted to address this problem, it seems to me that the most efficient deployment of resources 2:21:22 - 2:21:42 would be to go after that group if this were a sales activity or some kind of machine learning task where you're trying to maximize performance. Those are exactly the people that you would target. But we don't accept that in society. We don't say, hey, there's a problem here. What could that problem 2:21:41 - 2:22:05 be? Does it have something to do with fatherlessness or you know, culture? Is there something that we could do about this? Because remember, culture is not a race. Culture is not an ethnicity, culture is ideas. This group of people also has fewer books in their house than anyone else. You know, there 2:22:05 - 2:22:25 are things that you could correlate and try to do something about. Maybe what we need is a dolly pardon? Style. She has this huge charity where she sends children's books for free to people. It's a wonderful thing. Maybe we need some kind of mentoring program that targets young black males, maybe that's 2:22:25 - 2:22:51 what's needed. We could go on and say all kinds of unpopular things like the fact that half of Native Americans are obese half. And again, you know, people don't want to share these statistics in the first place. And then when they have to admit them, they spin up crazy theories to try to avoid the most 2:22:51 - 2:23:25 obvious explanation, which is in this case, native Americans eat more food than non native Americans and not good food. So it turns out that that's what causes obesity, not systemic racism. Last I checked, right? Supposed systemic racism. All right. So again, it's just as uncomfortable to take these 2:23:25 - 2:23:44 things from the beginning, which is look at how these things apply to you and how you're doing them in your own life before you point fingers at other people. But we have to look through all the scales to see how um prolific this is throughout society and to see why it's such a big deal, it's a big deal 2:23:43 - 2:24:07 , folks. It's a big deal. What happens when you don't address cancer? Maybe it's just in one spot. But guess what happens over time? It spreads and all of these groups, all of these groups, the problem has nothing to do with the group. It has nothing to do with the people. It has everything to do with 2:24:07 - 2:24:37 human nature. It's a much more transcendent issue, which is this, that we won't go through ourselves and say what's good and what's bad and let's separate them. And for that reason, do we, oh, we got that um for that reason when the judgment comes. It will, it will come on the groups, it will come on 2:24:36 - 2:25:00 the groups. That's why when in Ezekiel nine and this is where we're ending. Now we have this and one more slide. Go ye after him through the city and smite. Let not your eyes spare. Neither have ye pity. Slay utterly old and young, both maids and little Children and women. So David was gonna spare abigail 2:24:59 - 2:25:33 and the ladies But God will not. When Babylon falls, everyone in it will fall. Everyone except those who have the mark on their forehead, which is given to them that sigh and cry for all the abominations done in the midst. And here I bring you back to revelation seven to explicitly connect one who this 2:25:33 - 2:25:57 person is and two what he does, even though I'm not telling you how he does it yet. I saw another angel ascending from the East having the seal of the living God and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels who were among the other people in Ezekiel nine, to whom it was given to hurt the earth and 2:25:57 - 2:26:22 the sea saying hurt, not the earth, neither the sea nor the trees till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads. Here is the conclusion of the matter. If you want to receive the seal of the living God, what you need to do right now is to start sighing and crying for all the abominations 2:26:21 - 2:26:44 done in your midst. The time has come to flee Babylon and I'm giving you the way to do it. This is how to do it now. It was already there. You've read about it your whole life, your whole religious life. But no one ever told you that this is the way to do it or why it's important or when it's important 2:26:44 - 2:27:12 , the answer is now. And DNC 3512, which I'll leave you with the Lord says there are none that doeth good except those who are ready to receive the fullness of my gospel, which I have sent forth unto this generation. So most people read this and they see, they read it in order, which is to say that if 2:27:11 - 2:27:39 you do good, you are ready to receive the fullness of the gospel. I submit to you. That part of what that means is sighing and crying for all the abominations done in your midst. A precedent to that a prerequisite is to sign, cry for your abominations that you do. And to fix those before you point to 0:00:00 - 0:00:27 Today, we're going to cover a collection of topics that's extraordinarily important. There's nothing I can really say to convey the the cost of obtaining these things. Um It's a 11 form in which we can glorify the Lord is to freely give things that cost us a great deal to people that we can guarantee 0:00:26 - 0:00:51 , have no capacity to comprehend the value of what is given. Now that that can actually lead to very bad outcomes if it's done in a way that does not increase the likelihood of a person doing more and better than they would otherwise. So this is the difference between Moses coming down from the mountain 0:00:51 - 0:01:13 with the 10 commandments versus Aaron coming down from the mountain to make the idol of gold. So these are, that's important that that's its own topic, but just as a preamble, uh I am persuaded that it's an appropriate time to share this, even though we're going to cover a whole lot of topics that reveal 0:01:13 - 0:01:33 mysteries to you things that there's no way that you know these things and or that you could know them. Um And, and at the same time, I, I have to confine myself to being brief about them and not laying them out in full, but just to give you enough for the end result, which the intent of this is to encourage 0:01:32 - 0:02:03 you. Well, first to reveal to you small ways that are actually enormous ways to live the gospel in your life and prepare for the things to come that you wouldn't otherwise appreciate and therefore do. And I believe that this will be sufficient for the purpose. The motivating theme of this is what the 0:02:03 - 0:02:27 title says. It's the need to call out people on your own team. Um First and foremost yourself, but those like you, whether that's people you look like or people who believe similar to you or people who live in or, or do similar things to you and you'll see where we're going with this, but aggregated 0:02:27 - 0:02:53 on to and around this topic. I'm broaching into extraordinarily important things. So let's start with, with um some light scriptures about the topic of coming out of Babylon in Jeremiah 51 we read my people go ye out of the midst of her and deliver ye every man, his soul from the fierce anger of the 0:02:53 - 0:03:16 Lord. Therefore, behold the days come that I will do judgment upon the graven images of Babylon and her whole land shall be confounded and all her slain shall fall in the midst of her. Now, I started with this scripture because some of the references we're going to go into today are long and uh many 0:03:16 - 0:03:41 of them are just chock full of um s symbolism and poor translations and false traditions. And we have to peel back all those layers to get something out of it, something more than you've already seen out of it. Um And that, that being said already with this lead scripture, we have to peel apart some 0:03:41 - 0:04:12 things. Mhm So to deliver, that implies that that. So it's removing from a situation that is already uh determined. And this is a good thing to think about just from the outset. There is a situation, there's an outcome that is determined and decreed and you are barreling straight for it. You're, you're 0:04:12 - 0:04:32 already in it in the sense that if you don't get out of the stream, you're in, it's absolutely going to overtake you. And we're told what this is. It's the fierce anger of the Lord. And you might say, but what did I do to deserve something like that? That's, that's a great question. It has a long answer 0:04:31 - 0:04:51 . I don't think I can get into that, but you'll, you'll probably glean something from this presentation if that's your question. So what about graven images? So Isaiah has something to say about this. He gives a long literary device where he uses the analogy of an idol and people look at this and they 0:04:51 - 0:05:13 say, well, you know, idols, they don't have little God statues that I pray to with false gods or whatever, expand your mind a little bit. It's, that's not what it means. I mean, if you did that, it certainly would apply. But if you go to Isaiah, what you see and we don't have time to do that, maybe we'll 0:05:13 - 0:05:37 do that some other time. What you see in this long description of how idol makers make these idols and then worship them too. You'll see that. It's one of very many references to imputing value to something far beyond the value. You clearly know it's limited to so far beyond its obvious limits. Do you 0:05:36 - 0:05:59 do this? Your whole life is full of this? I promise you if we were to sit down and start revealing your life face to face, I could enumerate a million things where you the the value you treat something as having far exceeds what it has. The reverse is also true. There are many things in your life that 0:05:59 - 0:06:26 have tremendously more value than the um appreciation and attention you give to them. But uh those graven images, the the things in which the Babylonian system places value beyond the value it ha they have those things are going to be reconciled to the truth, they're going to be reconciled to the true 0:06:26 - 0:06:42 value that these things actually have. And it works for the other things too. The the things in which you place a lot less value, the chief among them being God. And that's another one where you're gonna hear me say that and say, yeah, what that doesn't apply to me. I believe in God. I mean, look at 0:06:42 - 0:07:04 , I'm watching, I'm watching videos. I'm spending my time watching videos and I, I pray and I go to church and I do these things. Um again, it will be shown to you how the value you think you see in God, you don't actually live according to that. And there's tremendously more value that you ought to 0:07:04 - 0:07:28 see in God that you don't see or live according to. And again, we could refer to Isaiah for great references about this when he goes on his multiple spiels about uh making tons of sacrifices for the Lord, but they're not the sacrifices that he asks for. And so he doesn't honor those as he would something 0:07:28 - 0:07:51 he had asked for. You're over maybe overflowing in effort that you say is for the Lord, but it's not the things that he's asked for. And meanwhile, as Jesus said, you're leaving the weightier matters undone. You ties uh in the, you know, he, he, he's criticizing the Pharisees for tithing. The tiniest 0:07:51 - 0:08:13 of things like making sure the tiny seeds that they use are accounted for in their tithing and yet leave the, the weightier matter matters uh undone. In part one of those he listed was judgment, which is very interesting, but that's, that's the ability to see things as they are and treat them accordingly 0:08:12 - 0:08:34 . In other words, to give attention to the things that are most deserving of it. And uh to forego that attention on the things that aren't OK. So her whole land as a consequence of this Babylon in its entirety will be confounded. Now, when you hit words like this confounded, you, you ought to look them 0:08:34 - 0:09:00 up. You could use the, the 1828 Webster Dictionary if you'd like, which is a great historical snapshot of the previous richness of words which has largely been lost today. But it approaches perhaps the meaning that translators use. This is from the King James. So we wanna go as old as we can. So confounded 0:08:58 - 0:00:00 in the, in the 1828 Webster uh Here's some definitions. We just scanning their websites, by the way, you don't have to buy anything to look these words up. I use one. It's Webster's dictionary 1820 eight.com. Uh So to mingle and blend different things, to throw into disorder, to perplex, to disturb, 0:00:00 - 0:10:02 to um a bash to throw the mind into disorder, to perplex with terror, to terrify, so to destroy and to overthrow. There you go. So those are the seven definitions given here. Excuse me. So um what would it look like for Babylon to be destroyed to be overthrown, to be perplexed with terror, to be disturbed 0:10:01 - 0:10:34 ? Um I lost my place here. Uh And, and it's disturbed specifically by the apprehension of the indistinctness of ideas or words. So maybe all this isn't making sense but to those, well, for the benefit of those, for whom this is not making tremendous sense. Here's here, it is put into plain terms. Imagine 0:10:33 - 0:10:59 if everything you were used to suddenly changed and that all the ways of doing things before suddenly didn't work anymore. At least, not nearly as well as they used to in new ways that make a lot more sense, not sense, but have a much greater outcome. Um Well, let me rephrase that to obtain the same 0:10:59 - 0:00:00 outcomes as you had before. You have to do radically new things that no one knows about and, and that aren't easy to discover because the things that have always worked no longer work. So that's like a very low intensity application of this concept of Babylon being confounded. Do you see that today? 0:00:00 - 0:11:43 Do you see the idea of everyone go to college falling flat on its face? That's basically the worst thing you could do if you're a young person in a general sense, if you had to make one rule and you went with that one, you'd be worse off than a bunch of other rules. Like learn a trade. I'm not saying 0:11:43 - 0:12:08 that's the right thing to do either because another aspect of the confounding is one size doesn't fit all anymore. You've got tons and tons of specific situations, each of which has an a different optimal solution. I should have said problems that solutions. You've got tons of problems, each of which 0:12:08 - 0:12:31 has a different ideal solution. So we're already seeing this and that's just, we just took one specific example of career preparation for young people. Look at marriage, same deal, look at Children, same deal. Look at the education of Children. That's a very specific thing. Same thing, same thing. Now 0:12:31 - 0:12:51 , where have you heard all of these things before? And you thought they were the random rantings of a madman. And maybe, maybe you didn't think that because if you're still here watching this, maybe that's not your opinion. But hopefully this one will actually get shared. Unlike most of these presentations 0:12:50 - 0:13:12 that I do does make a huge difference in how many people watch it. I don't know if it makes difference how many people listen to it as far as heeding, what is said, but whatever the best we can do is get it out there. Ok. So we could keep riffing off of this for an entire presentation. But there's a 0:13:12 - 0:00:00 lot to cover here. This is gonna be a long one and I just, I don't have even the time it's gonna take to do this. So all her slain shall fall in the midst of her. That one's in the midst is the middle of or among, that's an important one to know. But you probably already know that, I don't know. Um, 0:00:00 - 0:13:57 Jeremiah 51 6, flee out of the midst of Babylon and deliver every man his soul, be not cut off in her iniquity. For this is the time of the Lord's vengeance. He will render under her, unto her, not under her, unto her. A recompense. I could say something graphic there about Babylon being described as 0:13:57 - 0:14:20 a prostitute. So maybe that slip of the tongue was actually a good image but um not good but but uh descriptive. Anyway, again, we have the echo of this idea of delivering each man delivering his soul. That is also important. The fact that we're talking about individuals here is also important. Historically 0:14:19 - 0:14:43 , if you went with the flow, you'd probably be better off than you, you would be cutting your own path. And all of a sudden this changes and it's not that every person is on their own uh in a sense, but that the paths to take must be determined by the individual. If you make your rule to go with what 0:14:43 - 0:15:11 other folks do, you're almost certain to end up in a worse place now than if you did it for yourself. And, and so now that's just another example of everything going topsy turvy as quote, the whole land is confounded. So what does it mean to flee out of the midst of Babylon? If you think this just means 0:15:10 - 0:15:36 something geographical. The first limit to that interpretation is the fact that we're not talking about the actual city that's actually called Babylon. We're talking about an ideology. A culture Babylon is a culture. What's a culture? It's a set of ideas. What kinds of ideas cause and effect beliefs 0:15:35 - 0:16:01 ? A belief is a putative mapping of cause and effect. If you've read The Glory of God as intelligence, that's not news to you. That's been out for a while. OK. So what is the midst of, what does it mean to be in the midst of a culture while surrounded by people who have that culture? Sure. Yep, you should 0:16:00 - 0:16:27 say practice that culture because contrary to modern sensibilities, someone's culture is not the same as their race or any other genetic attribute, it is 100% malleable. It can be changed through choice immediately. In fact. So what does it mean to be in the midst? Yes, surrounded by people who hold 0:16:27 - 0:17:01 certain ideas but also to hold them yourself also to hold them yourself and also to transact through these ideas. In other words, um there have been religious, oh, I'm trying to think of a word that doesn't have a negative connotation because I don't mean it that way. Uh seriously religious people in 0:17:01 - 0:17:24 the, in the past and present who hold certain beliefs about violence or technology. And so the Quakers in the time of the American revolution, they, they um were publicly lambasted for these beliefs by, for example, Benjamin Franklin because they didn't like getting attacked by Indians, but they would 0:17:24 - 0:17:46 not fight them because they said it was against their religion, but they would finance others to fight them under the pretense of giving them goods and, and money for other reasons. But it was very obvious what they were doing. So they were skirting their own religious limitations. Or you look at the 0:17:46 - 0:18:13 Amish or any of the Mennonite societies today. The only reason they have any kind of standard of living is because they take advantage of the Babylonian wealth of the system, they say is wicked. So they're, they're milking it and thinking that in all of that, somehow they're skirting the effects of the 0:18:13 - 0:18:42 system. Now, on that note, and all of this is very relevant to the presentation. Um On that note, I think it'd be hard to argue that the Mennonites aren't doing a much better job of this than anyone else. However, um I'd say that they're not going far enough and that a better way would be to fully isolate 0:18:41 - 0:19:09 themselves in their own society and not transact with Babylon because they're, they're, I'd say they're doing a heck of a lot better than if they were all in Babylon. But um having 1 ft in each world is also has negative consequences and we'll see that that matters. Ok. This is the time of the Lord's 0:19:09 - 0:19:33 vengeance. What does that mean? What does it mean to render unto her recompense? That means to get paid back, to get paid back. So, if what you're doing is, is bad then what you're going to get in return is bad. That's justice. If what you're doing is good, then what you're going to get in return is 0:19:33 - 0:19:55 good because you reap what you sell finally. What does it mean to be cut off in iniquity? Well, let's first define iniquity. What does that mean? Again? You just gloss over these words, but it's important to stop and say what, what would I say? If an eight year old asked me what this meant? Or an 18 0:19:55 - 0:20:27 year old, can I define it? And if not, maybe you need to slow down and start using your dictionary. So iniquity means injustice or unrighteousness or a deviation from rectitude, you can simplify this very easily without losing any of the meaning by saying it's anything that deviates from God. He is righteousness 0:20:26 - 0:20:56 . Now, you could categorize this in two levels into two levels. One is absolute righteousness, which is how God really is. And the other, you could call it your best understanding of righteousness, which is God, how you sincerely believe Him to be those two are not the same and that's OK. So God is not 0:20:55 - 0:21:29 going to judge you beyond your understanding. He judges men according to their understanding and women too and kids turns out so will adopt that definition of the your sincere understanding of how God is. So why would deviation from how you believe God to be? Why would that cause you to be cut off. This 0:21:28 - 0:22:01 is very interesting and, and important. I'm not sure it's, well, I guess we are sort of gonna go there later. Um If you look at John, let me just pull this up. If you look at jesus' Discussion of the True Vine in John 15, this is, this is a chapter that's so important that if you thought tattoos were 0:22:01 - 0:22:20 a good idea, you might get this one on your back, the whole chapter. Of course, that wouldn't help you read it. So maybe get it in reverse on your chest. And when you look in the mirror, you could read it every day. So um it's kind of a long chapter. So this is one case where being heavier would be a 0:22:20 - 0:22:57 good thing. So you have more real estate. But the idea of a tree or a network or a vine, this is a very important idea. And as it happens, each of us is in some sort of a path. Now, there's a good, good thing to think about is how directly your path is inclined towards God. And some people at, at most 0:22:56 - 0:23:27 people are inclined away from God. They're not on a path towards him at all. Some few are. And among them, there's tremendous variation in the slope of this path up towards God. What Jeremiah 51 6 is referring to when it says cut off in iniquity, any time you are out of alignment in any way with your 0:23:27 - 0:23:51 understanding of what the Lord would do in your place. You are off of the path to him. There are limitless paths away from him. Limits, limitless. Uh I mean, without number, not that their outcomes are limitless, they all head down just like all the other ones eventually end up at the top. All of the 0:23:51 - 0:24:14 other ones eventually end up at the bottom in a way. It's actually not strictly symmetrical, but I don't want to get into the details of that. The point is what it, the question to ask is, what does it take for someone to be cut off? The answer is inequity. However, there is a fullness of this which 0:24:14 - 0:24:36 you'll find referred to throughout the scriptures where someone's called reprobate or the phrase ripe in iniquity is used and that's the extreme, that's specifically being talked about here. It's not just the fact that anyone who chooses iniquity is off the path. It's that you can do it so thoroughly 0:24:35 - 0:25:07 that there's no coming back. Now. One way to make it so thorough that there's no coming back is to exhaust the righteous means the Lord has of bringing you back. And that can be done. The way referred to here though has to do with time and opportunity because once you're dead, you can't come back. And 0:25:07 - 0:25:33 that's very that the best clearest place for this is the book of Mormon where it says time and again, if you die in your sins. That's it. Ok. So that was one slide that I thought was gonna be 20 seconds long. So we'll see, maybe some of the longer ones will be shorter than I thought. Who knows? Let's 0:25:33 - 0:25:55 continue this theme and we're gonna continue reading from Jeremiah. Now we're in chapter 50 I'm going to pick up in verse 22. A sound of battle is in the land and of great destruction. So the land is where you are. It's not some far off place. It's here. How is the hammer of the whole earth? Cut asunder 0:25:55 - 0:26:24 and broken? How is Babylon become a desolation among the nations? So here we have this entity that used to run the show and it did so through violence and now it's broken and again, cut asunder is reference to that idea of a network. So, so in our modern world, we have this illusion that we're all independent 0:26:23 - 0:00:00 , right? And that, that you're that, that a man prospers by his genius that where you are in life, it's, it's fully because of who you are. And that couldn't be further from the truth. You would struggle to find a person whose quality of life. And I don't care how poor they are in the United States, 0:00:00 - 0:27:12 you're gonna struggle to find a single person whose quality of life has anything to do with what they deserve. Every case. In every case you find um you're going to find someone who enjoys much more than what they deserve. It. The, the prosperity comes from cheap energy and the contributions of a few 0:27:11 - 0:27:39 select people. Not what you do, not what you do. If you, if we could pick on specific jobs, we don't have to. Everywhere you look, you'll see examples of what I, what I'm saying, including in your own life. Odds are, it's extremely likely. So the truth is that, that prosperity, I said it's from cheap 0:27:39 - 0:28:09 energy and it's from your network associations with what and who actually provides the prosperity. So in the case of cheap energy, it comes from your connection to fossil fuels, which you didn't put in the ground. And it comes from the contributions of a few really smart people who figured out things 0:28:08 - 0:00:00 , ways to do it, ways to distribute it, ways to apply it and the contributions of um others who are actually compensated for what they do. And, and this is uh you know, the people out on the rigs in the middle of the ocean or whatever, or the coal miners who even in even that, which is a brutal job. 0:00:00 - 0:29:01 But in modern times, most of the work is done by machines, right? What the workers actually do, the ratio of that versus the benefit they receive and they're all unionized, they all get paid tons of money for what they do compared to 100 years ago. So, so it's this network combined with um or I should 0:29:01 - 0:29:27 say charged with injustice. It's what it is. That's a word you need to learn to use correctly. Not as society uses it. 24 I've laid a snare for thee and thou art also taken o Babylon and thou wast not aware. So a snare is a trap. It's a circle. It's a loop. You make usually out of wire today, but you 0:29:26 - 0:29:46 can make one out of rope and the way it works is you have to disguise it. But you get the animal to walk through by, by tunneling their path so that they don't really have a choice, but they don't realize they're being tunneled. You use natural objects to funnel the animal into the snare. And then what 0:29:46 - 0:30:15 happens is once they get in it enough, they will notice it. And as they struggle to get out of it, the more they struggle, the tighter it gets. And that fully describes the babylonian system because everyone, well, people don't pay attention to the increasing costs of the dwindling benefits. I've talked 0:30:15 - 0:30:42 about this before, but very few people have. I'm thinking of one secular individual who's a scientist who's very well spoken, whose focus is on oil. He's talked about this, but he's not as and again, I don't wanna say radical but as dramatic, maybe in his suggestions for uh what to do about it. But I've 0:30:42 - 0:31:09 spoken about this as, as dramatically as saying, we've been swindled out of an agrarian society. It used to be that almost everyone was a farmer and now almost no one is a farmer and the people who are tend to farm so much land that they're actually robot and machine operators, not farmers. So the whole 0:31:09 - 0:31:31 thing has, we've distanced ourselves very much from that. What's the problem? All the modern problems, all the modern problems far exceed the problems we would have under an agrarian society, they far exceed it. And the benefits are nothing compared to what we would have. And so if you, if you were to 0:31:31 - 0:31:55 live on subsistence for a year, just what you grew and you knew what you were doing because someone had taught you or you had come up in this, in this way, you would be amazed at how little you have to work. Now, some of the work is pretty monotonous, but it's a much better fit to how we designed and 0:31:55 - 0:32:21 the returns are enormous. Imagine planting seeds in the ground grain and harvesting 5 to 50 times what you plant. There is nothing you can do in this world to get that kind of return reliably in the Babylonian system, some people get that or more, but it's at the expense of much more people who don't 0:32:21 - 0:32:43 and the snare just keeps tightening. And you see young people looking all around saying what can I possibly do to afford to live in this world? There is no path where I can uh a predictable path. There's super risky things you can do that might work out. But there's no predictable path where you can 0:32:42 - 0:33:05 afford the cost of living that your parents had. You, you won't find it. There isn't one, there isn't one thing you can do now, you might get lucky and you might, it's called, uh, riding the Tiger when you find the best in a terrible situation. But it's still the cleanest dirty shirt and that's just 0:33:04 - 0:33:29 going to get worse. It's getting worse in real time. You can see it happening in real time. So he he says thou was not aware, very few people saw this coming. Some people did and they were ridiculed thou art found and also caught because thou hast striven against the Lord. And now we say, what, what 0:33:29 - 0:33:51 does this have to do with the Lord? What you're saying, Rob? How is this striving against the Lord? Aren't we supposed to enjoy the fruits of the earth and make use of these things that God has given? If you think for a second, that how we as humans have expended unprecedented wealth in cheap energy 0:33:51 - 0:34:16 , the coal and the oil and the gas. If you think that the way we've done this as humanity looks anything like the way God would have done it. I don't know what you're smoking. But you know, if, if the price is right, pass it over here because obviously that's some strong stuff. The Lord hath opened his 0:34:15 - 0:34:41 armory and hath brought forth the weapons of his indignation for this is the work of the Lord God of hosts in the land of the Chaldeans. Sorry, before I go on, I'm being pinged here back to verse 24. I'm not a Luddite. I'm not saying that low technology equals good and high technology equals bad. However 0:34:40 - 0:35:06 , the Lord has thoroughly convinced me that you cannot take things out of the mountain and bring them down to people who refuse to come up the mountain. As Abraham said, in the mountain, it will be provided and you have to issue these things out in ways that respect God's system and wisdom and the depravity 0:35:05 - 0:35:30 of mankind and human nature. And if you don't do this, look around you and this is exactly what happens. But I say, look into the future and look around you because it's going to get way worse, way worse. And you eventually, if you live long enough, you will absolutely join me and saying how terrible 0:35:29 - 0:35:56 an idea all of this was. It was. And, and it becomes uh a friend of mine is a big hiker and he lives in a place where there are these beautiful canyons. And he says, if you're in shape and you have a guide and you check the weather before you go, you can't beat the views. But if any of those conditions 0:35:55 - 0:36:20 are not true, it's better that you just don't go because you can get seriously hurt and you could die. And so that's the way technology is too. That's the way every blessing from God is. If you are prepared for it, it's the best thing ever. It's better than anything less. But if you're not prepared to 0:36:19 - 0:36:43 do it in the way it needs to be done, it's better for you not to have it. And that's the way it is with technology. It's, it is not something that's meant for the masses because the masses will not use it. Well, there's a reason why the book of Mormon prophets were commanded to treasure up the mysteries 0:36:42 - 0:00:00 that they were given instead of sharing them with the people and they shared everything that the people needed to come up higher. They weren't withholding any access to greater things from them and those that took those paths were shown those things, but they didn't blast it to everyone because the, 0:00:00 - 0:37:25 the majority of people would, would have used it for evil because that's what humans do. And so that's the situation we're in today. Ok. So now we get back to this. Uh, the Lord has brought forth the weapons of his indignation for this is the work of the Lord God of hosts in the land of the Chaldeans 0:37:25 - 0:37:58 , which is Babylon. Um His purpose is to destroy Babylon and he has weapons to do that. These weapons fall into two classes. One is the works of evil men and the second is truth or the works of righteous men. Those are the weapons. Verse 26 come against her from the utmost border, open her storehouses 0:37:58 - 0:38:19 , cast her up as heaps and destroy her. Utterly. Let nothing of her be left. That's pretty clear. Everything will be destroyed and all the goodies will be carried out. 27 slay all her bullocks. Those are cattle, let them go down to the slaughter woe unto them for their day has come the time of their 0:38:19 - 0:38:46 visitation. Now, talking about this cattle, that's also an image for, for humans. Specifically ones that are regarded as valuable. 28 the voice of them that flee and escape out of the land of Babylon to declare in Zion, the vengeance of our Lord, our God, the vengeance of his temple. So we see that there 0:38:46 - 0:39:10 will be people who flee and managed to escape and that they will be the ones who go to declare in Zion, the vengeance of the Lord, our God, the vengeance of his temple. What you might say? Well, vengeance of the Lord our God. That's his justice. OK? What about the vengeance of his temple? I'll leave 0:39:10 - 0:39:36 you to read about that in revelation. And you can look at the use of the temple in transmissions of information up and down which co occur with the destruction that's poured out on the earth. 29. Call together the archers against Babylon. All ye that bend the bow camp against it round about that, none 0:39:36 - 0:39:58 thereof escape recompense her according to her work, according to all that she hath done do unto her for she hath been proud against the Lord against the holy one of Israel. Now, this is one of many dual uses of an image. Uh In the end times, you will see many parallels where there's something like lions 0:39:57 - 0:40:23 . For example, you'll see the invading armies described as lions and you'll see the Lord's servants described as lions and they are both lions, but they, they do different things for different motives. What about archers? You might not know this but bows and arrows and archers, these are all plays on 0:40:23 - 0:40:57 um an image of messages. So to shoot an arrow is to send a message and you'll see the idea of information transmission used again and again. Um And it's, it's, it uses the, the um the symbol of archery. So if you see the scriptures talking about an arrow in a quiver, for example, that refers to this 0:40:57 - 0:41:19 , if you see the reference in the book of Mormon that the fiery darts of the adversary, that's referring to this, the dart, that's a, that's an arrow. If you see the miracle when the king of Israel comes to Elisha because they're getting invaded and he says, take these arrows and slap them against the 0:41:19 - 0:41:48 ground and then shoot one that's this. So again and again and again, you see this image. So um but also there are references again in Isaiah, for example of the invading army, army and uh uh using the terms, using terms related to archery. And that's I'm thinking of the reference where it says their 0:41:48 - 0:42:11 shoes will not be unlatched, yada, yada yada. So you see this again and again, that's one you need to know. So what would it mean? You can imagine how this is going to go for the evil men who do the work of the Lord to punish Babylon. But what would this look like for the righteous men? What would it 0:42:11 - 0:42:42 mean to, for those archers to quote, go against Babylon to camp against it roundabout to let none escape to recompense her according to her work. Well, it's to teach the truth and to live according to it, it's easy to under understate the pain that uh a person living the truth, not even saying anything 0:42:42 - 0:43:09 about it, but just living it causes to someone living in deep delusion. And there are reasons for this, that broach the obvious um temporal aspects of the situation. And that is that you can turn down the influence of the Holy Ghost in your own life through willingly practicing iniquity, through willingly 0:43:09 - 0:43:32 doing, doing less than your best. You will absolutely turn down the influence of the Holy Ghost in your life and, and people do this unknowingly. This is another snare. They do it unknowingly because they think that they can disobey God or do less than their best in one way without any harm to any of 0:43:32 - 0:43:56 the other good things that they enjoy. And the problem is your understanding is an all or nothing affair. If you turn away from the best, you know, in one thing, you absolutely darken your understanding on all things. And so the more often you do these sorts of things, the more blind you become so in 0:43:56 - 0:44:21 walk someone who has more of the light of God with them. And here you have to understand that the spirit of God operates as a field like radiation. And so when this radioactive person comes around you, all of a sudden, your own intentionally dampened light becomes bright again. And it, it's not because 0:44:21 - 0:44:44 of you, it's because of them. So our, our, we're all created in the image of God. And we are these, these creations that resonate with light. And so when someone bright comes around you, you will light up too. And when that happens, all these negative feelings are gonna come over you because that light 0:44:44 - 0:45:06 will judge you and you will feel that judgment again. I'm talking about a situation where this person hasn't said a word, you will feel all the things you would feel. If they did say a word, you'll, you'll get angry or you'll be afraid or you might get violent and you're going going to be like a fish 0:45:06 - 0:45:31 out of water flopping around thrashing for a way to make this pain and this anxiety or whatever. However, it manifests to make this negative emotion go away. So that isn't too much different than actually shooting an arrow into somebody. And what happens there, arrows don't kill like bullets do. Bullets 0:45:31 - 0:45:53 put a hole in you and you bleed out very quickly because there's a massive amount of surface area that's bleeding now. But an arrow just cuts you just, well, it cuts you. And if it's a, if it's a, the modern arrows, you can get them with these bullet points so called. And that will actually just go through 0:45:52 - 0:46:15 a target. But, um, traditional and the kind of arrowhead you use in modern times to hunt, it's called a broadhead. And it's, it's a series of razor blades and the arrow will lodge into what you shoot it at. And then as that animal runs around, it just continues cutting them. So the more they move, the 0:46:15 - 0:46:40 more they get hurt and the quicker they die because it, you, you bleed out and it creates more surface area for that to happen. Ok. So, uh, therefore, shall her young men fall in the streets and all her men of war shall be cut off in that day. Saith the Lord. So it's like your only hope of deliverance 0:46:40 - 0:47:00 in the ways of the world is going to be taken from you if there's no young men and there are no men of war, you are toast against the invading army. Behold, I am against thee. O thou most proud saith the Lord God of hose for thy day is come, the time that I will visit thee. And why does he regard Babylon 0:47:00 - 0:47:27 as the most proud? Because we're much is given much, is expected. And that's a principle that doesn't just apply to cultures or nations but to people. And so you should think about what he has given you and whether you're living up to it. And so it's actually, it's a tremendous burden to be blessed with 0:47:27 - 0:47:48 prosperity because with it comes great expectation. And if you live up to it, just like going to that canyon, if you live up to it, it will be a great blessing to you. A much greater blessing than you would have without the prosperity. But if you fail to live up to it, it will be worse for you than if 0:47:48 - 0:48:12 you never had it at all because of the punishment that will be due. Verse 32 and the most proud shall stumble and fall and none shall raise him up and I will kindle a fire in his cities and it shall devour all round about him. Now, that fire is very important. It's related to the arrows that the messengers 0:48:11 - 0:48:42 shoot Jesus referred to it in his ministry. And he said something about um I'm come to kindle a fire and what do I care if it burns before I come very interesting reference. This fire is referred to by Isaiah as well. He talks about sparks that kindle a fire and that's what this is talking about. So 0:48:42 - 0:49:04 it's, it's not just that the cities will literally burn. Although they will, there, there is a spiritual parallel to all of the physical things in the end times. And so there is a fire in the cities and that's caused by the armies and such. It's not just armies, it's civil violence, it's a bunch of things 0:49:03 - 0:49:28 , but those fires are paralleled to the spiritual fires that come from these people, his other army, his holy army that spiritually send the arrows and they light a fire as well. And that's the fire of God's glory. Now we're going to move on to revelation 18. I mean, I'm going to start in verse one and 0:49:28 - 0:49:50 we'll read through to verse eight. And after these things, I saw another angel come down from heaven having great power and the earth was lightened with his glory. Now, let's pause if I asked you. Has this happened yet? That's always a fun question to ask. As you're reading revelation. It's an important 0:49:50 - 0:50:22 one. You might say no, because the earth has not become lighter. I would say, how do you know without saying whether or not this has happened or whether I believe it has or has not happened? I'd say, how do you know because we only see certain uh bandwidth of light and this applies with our physical 0:50:21 - 0:50:42 eyes. There are types of light that you cannot see like infrared with your eyes. And this applies to spiritual light, which is a concept I've talked about many times using a phrase, windows of truth. You could also say windows of light, there are many windows, it's all the same principle. So how would 0:50:42 - 0:51:06 you know, because only those with great light would see someone coming with even greater light if you want scriptural support for this idea, I'll ask you who publicly testified of Jesus as the Messiah, why was John the Baptist, the one who did that? Why wasn't it a random person in the crowd that was 0:51:06 - 0:51:31 there or Herod or somebody? Why was it John the Baptist? And if you say because that's what he was appointed to do, then you've got a lot of learning ahead of you. You've got the the cart before the horse. Why was he appointed to do it? Because he could see he could see it and he was told what to look 0:51:31 - 0:51:54 for and who told him an angel? Well, when was the last time an angel came and told you anything? So why would you expect that you're gonna be the one to see the, that the earth is lightened with his glory? And what would that even mean? What would his glory be? What is glory? What about coming down from 0:51:54 - 0:52:15 heaven? Does that mean that that all these people are gonna be staring up at the sky and the clouds apart and an angel will pop down. Does God send angels to the earth in other ways? How did he send Jesus to the earth? Jesus literally said the phrase I came down from heaven. He said he was the bread 0:52:15 - 0:52:41 of life that came down from heaven. How did he come down from heaven on that occasion? Verse two, and he cried mightily with a strong voice saying Babylon, the great is fallen, is fallen and is become the habitation of devils in the hold of every foul spirit in a cage of every unclean and hateful bird 0:52:41 - 0:53:11 . I won't dissect that verse, but it's possible to do and it's important. Ah What the heck, let's let's just dig into it a little. OK. I'm not gonna do the first bit. You should look up the words mighty and strong and uh scriptural references. And also what that means in Greek, which is what this came 0:53:10 - 0:53:36 out of in revelation 18 2. OK. So first off his description of Babylon is that it's the habitation of devils, meaning that if you inhabit it, what does that make you? Now? This is very offensive for people to hear. They say I'm no devil. You don't understand. And I've spoken about this at length. I did 0:53:35 - 0:54:00 a long series on, on demons in possession. You don't understand that that one, your ability to see to the extent, the extent to which the devil uses. You will obviously be occluded or hidden from you based on your level of light. And if you're constantly turning away from things that are the best, you 0:54:00 - 0:54:23 know, you will get darker and darker in your understanding. And this is how the flax and chords turn into chains and you don't even notice and you won't notice until you're exposed to great light and even then you might not notice, but other people will notice because your reaction to great love or great 0:54:22 - 0:54:43 light, it will be extreme. It will match the intensity of the stimulus. And so that's another reason you don't see it is because you're surrounded by a bunch of chumps who don't know the Lord and don't live as the Lord would. But the second you get around someone who actually knows him, you will react 0:54:42 - 0:55:02 very differently and you'll have to contrast that with, oh, but I go to church and I'm a good churchy person. Yeah. Well, the people at church are devils too. That is also a habitation of devils because it gets along with the Babylonian system and it, it interchanges freely with the Babylonian system 0:55:01 - 0:55:25 . The hold of every foul spirit. It's where the foul spirits dwell and it's how it's, it's the place in which they control you. And this is another thing that's hidden. We don't see the influences that, that steer us every moment of the day, but it's one way or the other and you can bet that if it's 0:55:24 - 0:55:52 not very clearly the way up, it's very obviously the way down, even if it doesn't seem that way. And the cage of every unclean and hateful bird. So references to birds in the scriptures are very interesting. Uh II, I wanna skip over that for now, but we'll focus on this idea that it becomes a cage and 0:55:52 - 0:56:20 this is, this is the same idea as the snare or the flax and cords turning into chains, the longer you're there and the deeper you are in it, the more entrapped you become ok. Now, this angel is quoted here saying Babylon, the great is fallen, is fallen and is become the habitation of devils. Is this 0:56:20 - 0:56:52 fall talking about the destruction of Babylon. In other words, is the angel saying, Babylon has been destroyed has been destroyed or is this more like the fall of Adam? To say basically Babylon is ripened or to say Babylon is approaching its end and has gathered the strength to do its greatest damage 0:56:51 - 0:57:28 . Well, if it has become all of these things that, that doesn't really match this idea of it's destroyed. And for further evidence to support that idea, we have that as we'll read in a second here, this angel's calling people to flee from Babylon, right? So, um Babylon has not yet been destroyed as this 0:57:27 - 0:57:49 is read in verse six, we we re reward her even as she rewarded you and double unto her, double according to her works in the cup which she has filled, fill her to double. So she has not yet been punished. She is not yet then punished. And even the future reference in verse eight, therefore, shall her 0:57:48 - 0:58:19 plagues come in one day, death and mourning and famine and she shall be utterly burned with fire for strong is the Lord God who judges her. So it hasn't been poured out when this is said and spoken. So when it is poured out, you can be sure that this angel has already come, right, come out of her, my 0:58:19 - 0:58:38 people that ye be not partakers of her sins and that you receive not of her plagues, they haven't come yet. And finally, we'll just read verse three. Before we move on, we kind of picked out some chunks of the others for all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication. And the kings 0:58:37 - 0:59:03 of the earth have committed fornication with her and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies and that has already become true. So if I ask you what needs to change before these conditions are fulfilled, the answer is nothing, nothing. So if this hasn't happened 0:59:02 - 0:59:31 yet, it could happen at any time without anything else changing. And you'll know it's happened when all of these things occur. The plagues that come in one day, death and mourning and famine and being utterly burned with fire. Let's continue. In Isaiah 48 we read more about this angel from revelation 0:59:30 - 1:00:06 18 verse 14. And by the way, there's a much better rendering of this passage. 14. All ye assemble yourselves and hear which among them hath declared these things. The Lord hath loved him. He will do his pleasure on Babylon in his arm shall be on the Chaldeans. So let's see. Let me pull something up here 1:00:05 - 1:00:32 . Maybe, maybe, maybe not. So, what do you think it's talking about when it says all ye assemble yourselves and hear? So es especially in the New Testament, when you're cruising through this, you just kind of gloss over phrases like that and you say, yeah, whatever, what's next and you're just kind of 1:00:32 - 1:00:56 scanning for something that sticks out. You should stop and understand that words may be cheap today, but they weren't anciently, you know, it, it might take a lifetime for a monk to copy out a copy of the Bible by hand and massive amounts of money in terms of the paper and ink. So why would they bother 1:00:55 - 0:00:00 to write words that don't mean anything? Now, there are limitations in translation, of course. But if the content is there, it's worth your time to figure out why. And so great question when you're studying the scriptures is why is this here? What does it mean? What would it mean if it weren't here? 0:00:00 - 1:01:50 What does it mean because it is here. So the speaker is calling you and I to assemble ourselves. Do we have a word for that? We do? What's that word to gather together? Who everyone, all ye and do what and hear? What does it mean to hear when you see, see or hear in the scriptures or speak? Those, those 1:01:49 - 0:00:00 words mean a lot more than what we would mean if we said them to hear includes to pay attention to so to perceive in the first place, something that's being said already, right? And then to obey it or to change because of it, to make changes, to pay attention and make changes to what's being spoken, 0:00:00 - 1:02:49 right? And then he who the Lord is speaking here says which among them, meaning those assembled hath declared these things. What are these things? So could it refer to the message of Isaiah in general? Is it specific to this chapter? Is it referring to what follows? I guess that's for you to figure out 1:02:48 - 1:03:14 earlier in the chapter though I will share verse three says, I have declared the former things from the beginning and they went forth out of my mouth and I showed them, I did them suddenly and they came to pass. I have even from the beginning declared it to thee before it came to pass. I showed it thee 1:03:13 - 1:03:43 lest thou should say mine idol hath done them and my graven image and my molten image Hath commanded them and that harkens back to what we already talked about with idols. So he's saying a key is given in the fact that no one in that assembly, the assembly of all people has said these things. Then he 1:03:43 - 1:04:09 says, the Lord hath loved him. In other words, the fact that a person says these things will be an indication that this person is special to the Lord. And then we get this muddled mess. He will do his pleasure on Babylon and his arm shall be on the Chaldeans, whatever that's supposed to mean. If you 1:04:09 - 1:04:48 look into the Hebrew, it doesn't actually say that this colon is not here and it doesn't say this. It says um this is the word make and then it says desire. I'm I'm doing this from memory says desire, Babylon arm Chaldeans. So it goes into caveman speech, make desire. Babylon, shoulder Chaldeans, arm 1:04:48 - 1:05:18 and shoulder thir synonyms in, in that Hebrew word like like the shoulder sacrifice. So it's the arm of the animal. So what could that possibly mean? Well, it turns out it also doesn't say the Lord hath loved him another way you could, well, it, it, it, it could say that but it also could say he loves 1:05:18 - 1:05:41 the Lord because this colon isn't here. He loves the Lord. And that's why he will be successful to accomplish it. It's to make, to accomplish. That's the verb. So his, his success comes from his love for the Lord is another thing that this phrase could mean. So remember this Collins, not there and then 1:05:41 - 1:06:13 desire Babylon and Arm Chaldeans. One meaning of that could be that Babylon. And these are synonyms about Babylon and the Chaldeans. It's the people who live there. These people will be sacrificed to bring to pass his desire. And what do you think this is talking about a servant of the Lord? And I told 1:06:13 - 1:06:47 you it's the same angel from revelation 18. What do you think his desire is? It's to establish the kingdom of God. And how does that happen? Well, it includes the destruction of Babylon verse 15, the Lord is still speaking. He says, I even I have spoken. Yeah, I have called him. I have brought him and 1:06:47 - 1:07:15 he shall make his way prosperous. Now, the voice changes now it's no longer the Lord speaking. Now it's the servant speaking and he says, come ye near unto me, which is a, an echo of how we started in verse 14. All ye assemble yourselves. And here he says, come ye near unto me, hear ye this. So again 1:07:14 - 1:07:45 , gathering, right? And gathering is not just a physical thing. It's actually not even driven by the physical aspect. And it doesn't start that way when it's successful. Others have failed because they did it wrong. It's it succeeds, all successful iterations of gathering happen when you start with ideas 1:07:45 - 1:08:13 . But as you obey the ideas you also come to unity. You do do it spiritually and you do it physically and, and it's, it's a required part but it's not the, it's not the leading element. It's not the most important part. So what does he say? He says I have not spoken in secret from the beginning from 1:08:13 - 1:08:40 the time that it was there, am I? And now the Lord God and his spirit hath sent me that is also garbled. And I invite you to go to Bible Hub, just Google Bible hub. Isaiah 48 16, read that in Hebrew and use the links to cross references and you can come up with your own rendering of that verse. I'm not 1:08:40 - 1:09:14 gonna do it for you at this time, Isaiah 4817. Thus saith the Lord thy redeemer, the holy one of Israel. I am the Lord thy God which keepeth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldst go. So who's speaking now? Well, it says, thus saith the Lord. So someone is quoting God who probably 1:09:13 - 1:09:40 the person about whom God said, I even I have spoken. Yeah, I have called him and who was just speaking prior to this? Which is the servant? And so what's his message from the Lord? I am the Lord thy God which keepeth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldst go. Well, that's interesting 1:09:40 - 1:10:07 . When have you heard this in church? I mean, there's the prosperity gospel people. It's not what I'm talking about, but who has, who has taught that the Lord's path, the highway of the Lord, the mountain of the Lord is improvement. When did you hear that in church? You haven't? When, where have you 1:10:07 - 1:10:37 heard that the Lord leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldst go? Or in other words, that God directs you to what is best through, what you presently believe is best verse 18 o that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments then had thy peace been as a river and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea 1:10:36 - 1:11:05 . That's a good one to think about and talk about. But we'll just keep going. A river flows. I'll say that a river flows. Verse 19, thy seed also had been as the sand in the offspring of thy boughs like the gravel thereof. His name should not have been cut off nor destroyed from before me. So this is 1:11:05 - 1:11:33 interesting because offspring can include people who are not the offspring of thy bowels. I'm not talking about adoption in the sense of Children. I'm talking about in Mosiah 15. I believe we have this, this long passage about who are the seed of the prophets or the offspring of the prophets. And we 1:11:33 - 1:12:03 have Paul's references to being a father in, in the gospel, to those who are born again through his ministry. And so you cannot have physical offspring as the sand of the sea, except through many generations which we do not have left by the way. But you can have spiritual offspring as the sands of the 1:12:03 - 1:12:30 sea. Because one idea that you receive from God and share can echo through the entire earth. It's an amazing thing. There are more than 7 billion people here. That's a lot of grains of sand. Verse 20 0 So why, why would the, what, what, what basis would this servant have for making such an uh an otherwise 1:12:30 - 1:13:00 absurd claim, or at least audacious claim, he might know what he's talking about, right? And he's saying you could have been like me, you could have been like me, but you didn't hearken to the Lord's commandments and you would have had peace as a river and righteousness to conquer the waves of the sea 1:13:00 - 1:13:28 . And of course, it's the Lord's peace. It's the Lord's righteousness and he's the one that has overcome the sea. And your seed could have been as the sand and your offspring, the offspring of your bowels. It's interesting because you assume that that means physical offspring. But it, it also does not 1:13:27 - 1:14:03 . These are, these are spiritual Children. These are people who you have helped people to whom you have given the light that has flown. Uh yeah, flowed through you. His name should not have been cut off nor destroyed from before me. Name means character. And let me ask you what character has the power 1:14:02 - 0:00:00 to endure the things that are coming. There is only one, there is only one name by which men can be saved and only those who have that name will be saved. Verse 20 go ye forth of Babylon. Flee ye from the Chaldeans with a voice of singing. Declare ye tell this, utter it even to the end of the earth. 0:00:00 - 1:14:55 In other words, shoot out your arrows. Folks say ye, the Lord hath redeemed his servant, Jacob and they thirsted. Not when he led them through the deserts, he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them. He claimed the rock also and the waters gushed out. What is that about? Well, that's all allusion 1:14:55 - 1:15:19 to what the Lord did in ancient times when he poured out obvious manifestations of his power. And we read that the time will come when things are done that supersede those miracles in terms of their greatness and that those will be the things that are referred to in latter times. And so this is an allusion 1:15:18 - 1:15:48 to those events. Verse 22 there is no peace saith the Lord unto the wicked. There is no peace as you turn out of the way and all it takes is doing less than your best. Isaiah 5211 in the King James reads, depart, ye, depart, ye go ye out from thence, touch no unclean thing go ye out of the midst of her 1:15:48 - 1:16:12 . That's again reference to the myths be ye clean that bear the vessels of the Lord. And that's a little unnecessarily confusing. Isaiah 52 11 1 rendition that I came up with is distance yourself from the motives and the beliefs of the world and those who hold them desire and find what has greater value 1:16:11 - 1:16:43 . Proceed from where you are purging all that cannot ascend, make yourselves gleam with God's light. Arise and bring forth the perfection of the Lord in yourselves. That is how you come out from Babylon. That's a process for which you do not need to wait for anyone else to do anything else you already 1:16:42 - 1:17:08 have from God. Everything you need to take the next steps in this path, the steps that come after that won't do you any good no matter what anyone else does to facilitate them. If you haven't taken the ones before you already, you can't get around those, they just become harder as time goes by and the 1:17:08 - 1:17:38 consequences for delaying will increase until if you wait long enough, you will be cut off and the opportunity will no longer exist in this life. So I think I've already made the point, but this is not just a physical removal and I had in mind a couple of things to cover here that are important. I wanted 1:17:37 - 1:18:03 to parse out these three references from DNC 1 33 7 that speak of going out of Babylon. Uh in terms of coming out from among the nations and that you could think of it physically geographically. I mean, there's meaning to that there's importance to that. Uh There are only two places that, that the Lord 1:18:03 - 1:18:28 has ordained as gathering places and those are the United States and Israel. And for various reasons, I would not recommend going to Israel anytime soon. Um When the dust settles, it will be obvious that coming to the US would have been a much better idea. Although I reiterate this, this principle that 1:18:28 - 1:18:50 if you're not willing to do what it takes, it's better that you don't what? But among the nations also just means the different groupings of people, you could think of it as any way to group people that includes ideologically. What about the four winds? And what about from one end of heaven to the other 1:18:50 - 1:19:11 ? And I wanted to give you some bread crumbs, maybe a lot more than that to get you started in figuring out what these things mean in Matthew 2431. The Lord says he shall send his angels with the great sound of a trumpet and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds from one end of heaven 1:19:10 - 1:19:38 to the other. What does so just as the earth can be lightened with the presence of an angel and maybe you don't see it, this great sound can blast and maybe you don't hear it. What would it sound like? Well, it co occurs with the sending of his angels. How are they sent? Is this um like a movie where 1:19:38 - 1:20:02 all these angels fly out of the sky down to earth? Well, we already know we've already established that one way he could send angels to the earth is through having them born. And if that's the case, what would the trumpet sound be? It's a good question. So what are they going to do? They're going to 1:20:02 - 1:20:28 gather together his elect from the four winds from one end of heaven to the other. Let's talk about the four wins. When can scatter and it also can gather. Now, this is where this is one benefit you lose by not living in an agrarian society is you don't. Uh you may, you're likely that it's likely that 1:20:28 - 1:20:54 you've never experienced winnowing of chaff. So when you're processing grain that you grew, you have to lay it out on a hard surface and beat it with these giant nunchucks. And uh when the grain gets hit by these sticks, it breaks the, the coating off of the part that you eat and that coding it's protective 1:20:53 - 1:21:20 but it's, it's not edible. Um And it, it's lightweight, it's fibrous, it's thin and lightweight and so separating the wheat from the chaff as it's called, what you have to do is you have to subject the mix of the part you wanna keep and the part that needs to go away that's doesn't have use to you. Although 1:21:19 - 1:21:52 it makes good betting for chickens, I'll tell you because which is not coincidental because we're gathered, like a hen gathers her chicks under her wings. And what does she stand on? The chaff? And God makes the earth his footstool. And it speaks of how his Children in the last days will trample on those 1:21:51 - 1:22:18 who are not his Children, which all sounds pretty terrible and it will be, but it's not as indicative of violence as it seems. Those people fall by the consequences of their own choices after all. God could do for them anyway. So wind will blow away the chaff because it's lighter than the grain you want 1:22:18 - 1:22:50 to keep. And so that's how it's gathered. And you know, you're done purging the chaff when you dump the grain in front of a fan and what you get out of the process is the same that you put into it. That's when you know that there's no chaff left. So, and incidentally when clumps of chaff, which you know 1:22:50 - 1:23:12 , the intact seed head, minus the seeds like the skeleton of the seed head. It's this big thing. It's several inches long, depending on the type of grain will be a different size. But those things are really easy to pick out by hand because they're big. But you can't pick out the chaff by hand. And the 1:23:12 - 1:23:44 institutions into which humans have gathered themselves are really easy to pluck away because they're susceptible to terminal damage through easier means than individuals would be. And that's really important. We'll get to that in a couple of verses here. So here's your standard verse Jeremiah 4936 where 1:23:44 - 1:24:07 we have a reference of the four wins. And it says upon Elam, will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of the, of heaven and will scatter them toward all those winds and there shall be no nation whither the outcasts of Elam shall not come. Whether I didn't actually bother to look that one up 1:24:07 - 1:24:30 in context because it's not really the purpose of what, why I was citing it. I just wanted to link together the four winds with the four quarters of heaven and this idea of scattering via the wind. Uh but Israel has been scattered and most Israelites by blood do not know that they're Israelites. And 1:24:30 - 1:24:54 this is an astonishing thing for people to think about only because they're ignorant of how this pattern happens again and again and again, for example, most people who are descendants of Native Americans do not know that they are descendants of native Americans. Most native Americans who do know do 1:24:54 - 1:25:13 not live on reservations. But when you think of native Americans, you think of the ones that live on the reservations and they're the ones that define the culture for everyone else according to them, they'll say you're not Indian if you don't live on a reservation. And if you're different to reservation 1:25:13 - 1:25:38 culture, you've betrayed the culture. That's the attitude. So we'll get to that later in the presentation. But uh it, it's the same for, for Israelites. And uh if you, if you compare the people who are actually in Israel, there are way more Israelites outside of Israel and there are way more Israelites 1:25:37 - 1:26:04 who don't know, they're Israelites outside of Israel. It's the same for, for Irish people for crying out loud. There are more Irish people in the United States than there are in Ireland, which is crazy, but it's true. Ok. Um OK, let's move on. So he has scattered them through the winds. Well, now let's 1:26:04 - 1:26:28 talk about this association of the four winds with the four quarters of heaven. What does that mean? Quarters means if you take, if you quarter a chicken, you divide it into four pieces. So the four quarters of heaven people think of this in terms of uh this reference, we're about to get to it with the 1:26:28 - 1:26:59 four corners of the earth, the four quarters of heaven. It's four sections of heaven or in other words, it's organizing all of heaven into four groups. So there's four winds and four quarters of heaven. So now let's go to Zechariah two. We're going to read six and seven ho ho come forth and flee from 1:26:59 - 1:27:24 the land of the North. Saith the Lord for I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the heaven saith the Lord. So there you have it deliver thyself. O Zion that dwelleth with the daughter of Babylon. All right. So right now, those who will belong to Zion are scattered. They dwell with the daughter 1:27:24 - 1:27:51 of Babylon and they need to come out from that. So God's Children are scattered all over the place and they need to recognize who they are and rise up and separate themselves from Babylon. Now, let's jump over to revelation seven, thinking more about these four winds, the four quarters of heaven. And 1:27:50 - 1:28:12 after these things, I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth holding the four winds of the earth that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree. And I saw another angel sending from the east having the seal of the living God. And he cried with a loud voice 1:28:12 - 1:28:35 to the four angels to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea saying hurt not the earth, neither the sea nor the trees till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads. Now, this just like just about any reference to the end times, people will look at it and they'll analyze it independently 1:28:34 - 1:28:58 of everything else and they'll study it, they'll write master's thesis about it, thesis, whatever. And they don't bother reading the rest and trying to link it all together. More importantly, they try to do this without living any of the things that they do believe, or at least not consistently and no 1:28:58 - 0:00:00 surprise, they end up with interpretations that are dead wrong or only partially correct. So instead of putting these pieces together for you, I will just briefly say that uh the earth, the sea and the tree is not what you think it is. I will also call your attention to several things. In verse two, 0:00:00 - 1:29:57 we read these four angels were given to hurt the earth and the sea. Interestingly, it doesn't include the trees. But verse one before did it said that they're holding back the wind, they were holding it back from the earth, the sea and all trees. And then in verse two, it says they're given, it's given 1:29:56 - 1:30:18 to them to hurt the earth and the sea. There's no mention of the trees. It's only in the next verse that this angel says the one ascending from the east. He says, hurt, not the earth, neither the sea nor the trees till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads. And so there's a distinction 1:30:18 - 1:30:45 between what they're appointed to do to the earth and the sea and the natural consequences that will flow to the trees. If you look at that word tree in Greek, it means an Arbor tree, a tree. Um But it also means it's the word is, is Tendra. And if you're, you're in statistics, you will know what that 1:30:45 - 1:31:17 means uh because it's the root of a Denro gram and a Denro gram is a hierarchical network. It's a graph that's a hierarchical network like a family tree. That's where we get the, the phrase family tree. And so family trees aren't the only kinds of trees. And maybe one way of briefly translating that 1:31:17 - 1:31:46 word to convey more of the intended meaning would be to say something like human networks, human networks. And what would that have to do with anything? Well, I spoke before in this video earlier, I spoke about how modern prosperity depends on human networks and not always for good. Many of these networks 1:31:46 - 1:32:09 like crony networks, you know, there are many people whose prosperity relies on a government that will take the goods earned by some and forcefully redistribute them to others and they've optimized themselves in that tree. For example, there are other trees referred to. So in Isaiah, we read about this 1:32:09 - 1:32:40 guy who has a garment of some type and while all hell is breaking loose around him, people come to him for support and ask him to be their leader. And he says I'm not doing that. I don't have what it takes. I myself am overcome by these things. How can I help you? So this is um this is significant, this 1:32:39 - 1:33:08 has meaning and there's a lot going on here, a lot more than I can describe right now. But I will tell you that one end of earth, I'm sorry, one end of heaven to another, which is one of these three things we started with. It does not refer to a spatial arrangement. It means every person pertaining to 1:33:08 - 1:33:37 heaven. And as you read more and more end times references, you're going to see that creation scrambles the network of heaven and it re establishes it in a new ordering depending on the choices of those people here while they lived on earth. That's actually a key purpose of creation. And so the trees 1:33:36 - 1:33:57 of the world are going to be burned and destroyed. And those that are grafted into the tree of God, which is his kingdom. Those are the ones again referring to John 15, the true vine. Those are the ones that will be preserved and their place in that tree will likely differ from their place in the world 1:33:57 - 1:34:20 in the trees of the world. As Jesus said, many who are last will be first and many who are first will be last. And you can read about the story of Lazarus and the rich man. If you want to dig deeper into that, there are many other things to look at that. This is when God uh when, when, when the Lord 1:34:19 - 1:34:49 was in his mortal ministry and he cursed the fig tree because it had leaves and no fruit. Many of the trees of the world have no fruit, they have leaves but they have no fruit and they will also wither and a tree that is dry will burn with the fire. Ok. So we have a uh a, a meaty chunk here from Isaiah 1:34:49 - 1:35:15 13. And this is also on the topic of coming out from Babylon and maybe for the sake of time, maybe I will just refer you to read this Isaiah 13. Um But some elements that I want to highlight just briefly, even if we can't go through this verse by verse right now. We have that the elements, sorry, the 1:35:15 - 1:35:39 weapons of his indignation of the Lord's indignation are coming to destroy the whole land. And that we ought to howl for the day of the Lord, which is at hand and it's a destruction from the Almighty. Again, you might just say, well, that just means that it's gonna be bad. Well, howl ye is a command 1:35:38 - 1:36:03 and why should you howl uh not because it's some kind of wolf impersonation contest. But because if you're a just person, if you're righteous, you will cry out for evil, not for it, but against it, you will call a spade, a spade. You will call it out when things are no good, starting with yourself. And 1:36:03 - 1:36:26 then once you've got yourself sorted out, you'll look out to, to the world and see what can be sorted out there. The Lord says, lift ye up a banner upon the high mountain. Exalt the voice unto them, shake the hand that they may go into the gates of the nobles. I do not want to go into this whole verse 1:36:26 - 1:37:00 . But what does it mean to lift you up a banner? What's another word for banner? If you look that one up standard, standard, what would it mean to put a standard on a high mountain? How, how would one lift up a standard on a high mountain? And then this bit about going into the gates of the nobles. I'll 1:37:00 - 1:37:28 skip over the middle. I don't wanna talk about that right now. The Lord has nobles. We have phrases that describe these people, noble and great ones. They are spirits of men and women who have lots of light and they're sent to the earth. How through birth? This verse, it talks about how this standard 1:37:27 - 1:38:01 lifted onto a high mountain actuates or catalyzes these people, these nobles taking up their role in the Lord's end times work. So is the world going to notice the standard being lifted up on the high mountain? Does the world notice that the light of the earth increases? Did the world notice when Jesus 1:38:01 - 1:38:30 came? And if not, how can we hope it'll notice when someone less than him comes or one whose mission it is to demonstrate him. And so these nobles are defined by the fact that they recognize the light. They are defined by the fact that they seek. The Lord and Jesus said his sheep hear his voice, they 1:38:30 - 1:38:55 recognize it and they come to him. He says, I've commanded my sanctified ones. Remember we, we talked about the parallel of the two armies. I've commanded my sanctified ones. I have also called my mighty ones for mine, anger, even them that rejoice in my highness. This, this verse can be clarified a 1:38:55 - 1:39:20 bit but the parallel groups are addressed, the the army is not made of the, the invading army is not made of those who rejoice in his highness. OK? But this, this he muster the host of the battle. They come from a far country. That's so you could rewrite these verses more clearly disentangling the two 1:39:20 - 1:39:42 groups where they come from and what they're here to do. OK. So there, there are a group of these people come from a far country with the weapons of war. A group of these people. And by the way, that doesn't have to be an official invading army army storming the beaches like at Normandy, it would also 1:39:41 - 1:40:06 include people that have come from a far country who are already here. Wouldn't that be something? And the other army comes from the end of heaven, which again, it, it doesn't refer to, I don't know angelic space aliens or something. It's people born onto the earth who come from the extremes of heaven 1:40:05 - 1:40:33 , even the Lord those close to him, the ones at the top of the hierarchy. OK. So what else should we touch on here? You read a description about how everything falls apart. Not just the structures and the things we're used to, but the people's reactions, their strength evades them. They've, they are 1:40:33 - 1:41:00 overcome by what happens. They are scared, they're terrified. In fact, that's what it says here. They're in pain how intense like a woman in labor and it's cruel and it's, there's no escaping it. The purpose is to destroy the sinners out of it. There are reasons for this that I'm not going to get into 1:40:59 - 1:41:20 . But look at this part for the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light and the sun shall be darkened and his going forth and the moon shall not cause her light to shine. We read from Paul for example, but in other places too, that the celestial objects, the planets 1:41:19 - 1:41:43 and the stars, they all represent things in the kingdom of heaven and specifically, they represent people and the relationships between those specific people. And you can refer to them in terms of classes like saying the stars or the moon or the sun. And you can refer to them in terms of specific people 1:41:43 - 1:42:12 like the sun and the moon. Ok. So what does it mean for the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof or constellation is a group of stars? We've talked about groups extensively in this video or trees that they shall not give their light. You have no concept whatsoever of just how much is upheld 1:42:11 - 1:42:43 in this world by the invisible intervention of angels, it is immensely extensive, immensely extensive. And in short, what happens when they stop, quote, shining their light, very, very bad things, things fall apart, things go terribly bad and the sun and the moon, same deal, bigger impact, same deal 1:42:43 - 1:43:11 . So physically these things will happen. I'm telling you right now, I don't care how outlandish it seems there will be a time, it, it won't be forever just so, you know, but there will be a period of time where the stars do not shine, the sun is darkened and the moon does not shine. You're going to 1:43:10 - 1:43:38 see that happen and it's going to fill people's hearts with fear and the things that co occur with it will cause great calamity. But all of those things have a parallel in sp in the spiritual sense, in the spiritual realm where these beings will stop intervening for the sake of the world. And the reason 1:43:37 - 1:44:02 everything is done in God's love, the reason is to help motivate people who would not otherwise change, to have greater reasons to change. That's a key principle that that is all over the place in the world, in the gospel, all over the place. And so one effect of this is in verse 11, I will punish the 1:44:02 - 1:44:24 world for their evil and the wicked for their iniquity. And I will cause the arrogance of the proud to cease and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible. Do you know what haughtiness means? It's, it's basically it's entitlement, but it's, it's an inflated self view. Entitlement can be a little different 1:44:24 - 1:44:43 . You can be entitled without thinking you have a claim on something. You just, you want it, you deserve it. Um Just by nature of whatever, but haughtiness is to think that you deserve it because you're that good when you're not that good, right? An inflated self view and what will cause this to come 1:44:43 - 1:45:08 to a grinding halt when you're actually exposed to what you deserve and you flail about because you can't handle it and you're useless, you're worse than useless as God pulls away all the supports. He's given you the merits of others, you will be useless and then you'll realize you'll come into the dust 1:45:08 - 1:45:31 and realize how worthless you are and maybe that will cause you when the lights all go out, maybe it will cause you to notice the lights around you and start reacting to them justly. And that's the next verse, I will make a man more precious than fine gold, even a man than the golden wedge of ofer. Does 1:45:31 - 1:45:59 that refer to one specific man? It does, does that refer to men in general? It also does therefore, I will shake the heavens and the earth shall remove out of her place. The earth will literally move to a different place as absurd as it seems it's going to happen and God told you about it before it did 1:45:59 - 1:46:19 . When everyone else thought it was crazy in the wrath of the Lord of hosts and in the day of his fierce anger so shake the heavens and the earth remove out of her place. Again, their spiritual parallels, the earth will be a completely different place in terms of how it works, not talking about physically 1:46:18 - 1:46:45 per se. I mean, in the way, everything you think of as normal that you take for granted will be totally different. And how will the heavens shake spiritually, the people in heaven will shake because their place in that tree will change. And we read that it shall be as the chased row or a deer that's 1:46:44 - 1:47:03 being hunted. If you've ever hunted a deer with an arrow, a bow and arrow, uh, you have to get close and when they see you, they get spooked and you have to chase them and it's really hard to do, they just run away and as a sheep that no man taketh up, that's, you know, one that needs to be rescued that 1:47:03 - 1:47:22 no one comes to help because the sheep won't be able to help itself get back to the flock once it's lost. Once it can't see the other sheep, they shall every man turn to his own people and flee everyone into his own land. And so people, when they, when their trees are destroyed as their trees are destroyed 1:47:22 - 1:47:44 , they will find whatever they can to cling to and it won't be enough like a sheep that no man taketh up and they'll, they'll really thrash to find it like a chaste row. People do dramatic things to try to find some secure place or some secure people. And that's the thing is that the right now we have 1:47:44 - 1:48:07 this false idea that we're all independent and all we need is a nice place. But in that day, it will be obvious that value is found in chains of people in networks of people. And, um, you're not gonna have a single person who thinks that they can just go at it alone. And, um, you don't have to wait until 1:48:06 - 1:48:26 then to figure this out. Just go try to live in the woods by yourself for a couple days without anything you bring with you or without any food or water. You can bring a sleeping bag even. And you see how you do then shall every man turn to his own people and flee everyone into his own land because you're 1:48:26 - 1:48:48 going to turn to whatever still exists, which will increasingly be family. You know, one interesting thing is that when things fall apart, all these institutions that people put so much stock in, where do they go again? You don't need extreme situations to see that. This is true. I've seen so many young 1:48:48 - 1:49:07 people, particularly young women because guys aren't all that serious about friends or it, it works differently. I'll just say, uh, as they get older, you know, they go through the college years and they have all these friends that they think are their network of support and these, that will be die hard 1:49:07 - 1:49:31 and by their side until the last breath of life and all of a sudden they start getting married and no one has the time of day for the others. And all of a sudden the person looks around and says, where are these friends that I had? Well, they've gone to their own people and they fled to their own land 1:49:30 - 1:49:58 . Now, multiplex that with dire circumstances and those who have been through anything approaching, this can attest to it that when everything goes wrong, you will, you will, um, your, I guess your set of friends shrinks very quickly. And so you maybe the only thing you can rely on is family. But even 1:49:57 - 1:50:20 that Jesus warns us that families will split left and right. And so people will turn tribal and they're already doing that, but they're doing it in ways that aren't going to maintain very well. And we see that we see people turning on each other in political groups right now because unity can only occur 1:50:19 - 1:50:42 in the Lord and they've built their house uh, divided against itself. And all it takes is the right circumstances to show the cracks and the thing comes crumbling down. There were, there were a lot of Jewish people who went all in, into leftism and now they're being attacked by um other members of that 1:50:42 - 1:51:15 cohort who think that they are um on the wrong side of things in Palestine. And so there's an example. All right, I think that I need to skip over the rest of this, but this whole thing needs to be read, studied and understood for sure. All right. So that was all that was all just preamble to, to look 1:51:15 - 1:51:37 through the scriptures about fleeing Babylon. Uh Now we're actually to the point of the presentation, believe it or not and that we're gonna hit Ezekiel nine is end caps. Now that the introduction is over, let me read verses four through seven. And the Lord said unto him, go through the midst of the 1:51:36 - 1:51:54 city through the midst of Jerusalem and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh in that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof. And to the others. He said in mine, hearing go ye after him through the city and smite. Let not your eye spare. Neither have ye pity. Slay 1:51:53 - 1:52:14 utterly old and young. Both maids and little Children and women become not near any man upon whom is the mark and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the ancient men which were before the house and he said unto them to file the house and fill the courts with the slain, go ye forth and they went 1:52:14 - 1:52:35 forth and slew in the city. This is an extremely important passage. I encourage you to read the whole chapter and to seek the Lord and what it means. Uh There are threads woven through this whole presentation that I have not explicitly called out, but they exist. And I'm, I'm showering you with all kinds 1:52:35 - 1:52:58 of clues to mysteries of things that no one knows yet. But what I wanna focus on from this is this idea that the Lord has this team of people and he takes one person out of the team and he says, these are angels by the way. And he says, I want you to go through Jerusalem and mark the foreheads of every 1:52:58 - 1:53:23 person that quote, sighs and cries for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof. Now we have the midst again, remember that phrase, then the people that come after him, the other angels, he says, go ye after him through the city and smite. And he says, kill everyone, kill everyone but begin 1:53:22 - 1:53:57 with the ancient men quote unquote. That is the same word as elders begin with the elders which are before the house of the Lord, his sanctuary upon his house, it will begin. So that's what happens. Now, we're gonna come back to that. But I want to give you an example of what it looks like to sigh and 1:53:57 - 1:54:13 cry for the abominations that be done in the midst thereof, we could give many examples of this. But this, I'm just gonna show you one and this is from the story of Nel and Abigail and the servant should be mentioned too. Although his name is not given, it's unfortunate, he's one of the heroes of the 1:54:13 - 1:54:43 story. First Samuel 25 contains the story of how Abigail basically ministered to her husband Mabel who is a wicked man, a rich but wicked man uh through what she heard from his servant. So it says one of basically what what happened was David had taken care of Nel's shepherds. He was rich, he had many 1:54:43 - 1:55:04 cattle and David was camped out in an area where he had cared for and protected the shepherds. That's where his army was stationed. And um they took care of their own business, but they just graciously took care of the shepherds too. And then when the situation changes and David is in need, he goes to 1:55:04 - 1:55:30 naval to call in that favor. And he says, hey, I've I helped your your servants all this time and you can ask them and now we need some food and basically naval tells him to get lost and says, I don't owe you anything. Get out of here. So David is, uh he righteously seeks justice and he arms all of his 1:55:30 - 1:55:50 men and they're going to destroy Nel completely and take all of his things. And that's something for you to figure out if you don't understand the Lord's justice. Yet, this idea of gifts, gifts always come with strings attached in the Lord's system. There's no such thing as a free gift. Every gift in 1:55:50 - 1:56:10 the Lord's way has an expectation. That's why he said where much is given much is expected. That's literally what it means. And so this is very important to understand uh and it's relevant to the topic at hand in obvious ways because you've benefited from many things that you have never paid for and 1:56:10 - 1:56:34 God is going to call on you to render what is due. So um we read starting in verse 14, 1 of the young men told Abigail Nel's wife saying, behold, David sent messengers out of the wilderness to salute our master and he railed on them. But the men were very good unto us and we were not hurt. Neither missed 1:56:34 - 1:56:55 we anything as long as we were conversant with them when we were in the fields, they were a wall unto us both by night and day, all the while we were with them, keeping the sheep. Therefore, now therefore know and consider what thou wilt do for evil is determined against our master and against all his 1:56:55 - 1:57:17 household for he is such a son of belial that a man cannot speak to him. I think there are some interesting things to draw attention to in this story. One of them is this servant is quite clever, he's wise because he says evil is determined against our master, which no one in this story would have minded 1:57:17 - 1:57:36 except Nel himself because no one likes him. But he also says, and against all his household, he makes very clear. Look abigail, you either do something about this or we're all toast. No one likes your husband, but we do like ourselves. So why don't you do something about this? Because the servant could 1:57:35 - 1:57:57 not. Well, he could have stolen things from Nel to give to David. That is exactly what Abigail does. By the way, we'll, we'll get to that, I guess. Um but he, he has the courage to rile up Abigail but not the courage to do anything about it himself beyond that. And that's worth something. This reminds 1:57:57 - 1:58:20 me of one of my neighbors who uh is really up on local events, I mean, very local and I am not because I am basically a hermit. His job takes him to interact with everyone and uh around here and he'll get me riled up on political matters and then send me the links of where to do something about it. Uh 1:58:20 - 1:58:39 which I do anyway. Um I need to start asking him if he's done something about it first. So this is another interesting point about this is the servant says, oh and by the way, uh if for a servant to say these things to the master's wife, that was, that was a risk. And I'm not trying to downplay that 1:58:39 - 1:58:56 he really could have gotten into some bad trouble for doing this. But this is, this is how much of a problem. I mean, if you're gonna lose your life for not speaking out, I guess the cost of any other path would be less than that. Right. What's the worst that could happen? The same thing that happened 1:58:55 - 1:59:15 anyway, you're gonna get killed. At least now there's a chance of something better. And this is all very relevant to the task at hand. The topic at hand. But there, there is this also his strongest point of evidence to persuade Abigail is the following. He is such a son of belial that a man cannot speak 1:59:15 - 1:59:43 to him. She knows this is absolutely true. And it's said that there are so many people to whom you can say nothing, nothing you say will help. It's, it's a, it's a terribly common disease. They are beyond reason. So the Lord only has one tool left with those people and it's not good. Ok. So what happens 1:59:43 - 2:00:02 is Abigail? She steals a bunch of her husband's stuff, which that's, you know, the law back then it wasn't hers, but she steals it anyway. And, and knowing what kind of a man he was, you got to understand what the risks are here. But again, she knows that she's gonna die if she doesn't do this. So she 2:00:02 - 2:00:26 steals a bunch of her husband's things and then she takes them out to David, which is against his will, obviously. And there's this, you should read it this prolonged display of absolute humility before David. And um a result of this is that David spares the the whole estate. He leaves them alone. He 2:00:26 - 2:00:43 says, blessed be the Lord God of Israel which sent thee this day to meet me. So that's honest recognition that the Lord was at work here and blessed be thy advice and blessed be thou which hast kept me this day from coming to shed blood and from avenging myself with mine own hand for in very deed as 2:00:43 - 2:01:04 the Lord God of Israel liveth which hath kept me back from hurting thee except thou hast hasted and come to meet me. Surely there had not been left untenable by the morning light. Any that pissed against the wall. So at a minimum, he was going to kill every male and he would have done it. This is David 2:01:04 - 2:01:28 . He's not a chump, right? Not in this way, at least comes to courage. That's not something he's lacking in. He's a determined man. He will do what he says he's gonna do now. Um With this being said, I said, Abigail's life is in danger anyway, apparently not so much. But and, and that's important because 2:01:28 - 2:01:52 Abigail. So I'm correcting myself here. Abigail did, the servant did what he did out of self interest. Abigail did what she did because she cared for everyone else. And that's super duper important and I apologize for misspeaking before. Um, but th this is really important for other things that we're 2:01:52 - 2:02:23 gonna talk about in other videos. But um both the servant and Abigail spoke up and they did so at great personal risk, great personal risk and they did it anyway. Ok. So that's a great example here. Um All right. And so it's because of her that all these people were left alive and then of course, she's 2:02:22 - 2:02:47 rewarded later. Uh God kills Nel and Abigail becomes David's wife. And that apparently is something that she's quite happy with. Uh based on the rest of the story and she has Children through David. So let's go to some pictures and we are approaching the end of this sort of, I don't know how long it's 2:02:47 - 2:03:04 gonna take. There are there, there are a chunk, there's chunk of scriptures at the end that we need to get through. But this is the pattern. This is the takeaway of what you need to do to flee Babylon that no one has explained to you before, but that you're going to know now and because you know you'll 2:03:03 - 2:03:25 be responsible. So I hope you are persuaded and that you act. Here's the pattern. You've got a big circle of what seems mostly good and inside of it, you have a little circle of what seems mostly bad, so far, so good. Now we're doing this in abstract to prevent any sacred cows from, from blocking your 2:03:25 - 2:03:49 thinking and, and making you go into flight or fight. Um So you have what seems mostly good and what seems mostly bad and what happens is when people criticize what seems mostly bad, even though you fully recognize it's mostly bad. What's going to happen is people will, will act like what they're talking 2:03:48 - 2:04:09 about is the thing that's mostly good. They'll defend against the criticisms by saying yeah, but look, you know, these things are mostly good and then they'll attack the people who are making the true criticisms because the criticizers aren't going to be talking about this. They're going to be talking 2:04:08 - 2:04:36 about this and they know this, everyone knows this. But then dishonestly people will defend using the mostly good, that's the tendency and then things just keep rolling and the mostly bad just stays there until the consequences come because since these haven't separated, what seems mostly good has to 2:04:36 - 2:04:59 get hit with the same consequences as what seems mostly bad. And when that happens, it really doesn't matter that this was mostly good. So think about naval and his estate, abigail was mostly good. The servant seemed mostly good. There's nothing wrong with the estate. It was, it was bustling and working 2:04:58 - 2:05:24 the way it should, right? But there's this naval guy who's a real problem. He's a real problem. So why is it that these don't get separated in practice? Why is it that humans resist separating this out. Well, maybe it's because they do think that they're tied together and they think that they will lose 2:05:24 - 2:05:53 something good by tossing out the bad that never ever happens. But people believe it, they say, man, I can't give up this bad thing because I will lose good things and it happens with people as well. I can't lose this bad person because I'll, I'll, I'll lose the good things. But maybe it's mostly because 2:05:53 - 2:06:14 these are future consequences as of right now. So why bother changing something if it works for right now, that's the main issue that people will not look quote afar off. And it doesn't matter how obvious the sword hanging over your head by a thread is, they'll say, well, it's not dropping today. Why 2:06:14 - 2:06:39 deal with it today if it can be put off till tomorrow or I just have so much on my plate right now. I can't even worry about that. And these are, see, we make everything in the gospel. We want to make it flowery and too high for any person to actually deal with. And we wanna push it so high up that it 2:06:39 - 2:07:04 doesn't touch anything in our lives at best. We can put it in a really tight box that says Sunday afternoon or Sunday morning. And that's how, you know, you're off the rails, folks completely off the rails because a Hallmark of truth is that it touches everything. It's fractal, it will touch every single 2:07:04 - 2:07:21 thing in your life. The greater the truth, the more it should touch everything in your life. But our attitude is the greater the truth, the less it should touch everything in your life. The greatest blessings happen after you die. They have absolutely no contact with things in, in life. The highest truths 2:07:20 - 2:07:50 have nothing to do with normal life. They, they're just in this tight little box that says Sunday mornings or when I read the scriptures and that's it. The truth is the opposite of those principles. So this pattern likewise applies to all the little things in your life. All the little things, here's 2:07:50 - 2:08:14 the remedy. It's pretty simple. Separate the bad out from the good and it through throughout these pictures, I, I have it written as what seems mostly bad and what seems mostly good because it is just what it seems to you. It doesn't mean it is actually that way. And that's ok. That's the way it's designed 2:08:14 - 2:08:41 and because you could cherry pick some very specific thing and say, well, here's a bad thing that in something that's overwhelmingly good. So therefore it's bad. No, or here's something that's obviously good in something that's overwhelmingly bad. Therefore, it should be spared. Nope. Ok. In practice 2:08:40 - 2:09:21 , here are the things that you need to do to separate. These two don't support the bad distance yourself from the bad, correct, the bad protest, the bad, correctly, prioritize problems and defend those criticized for criticizing. There's a scripture that says they seek to make a man an offender who sitteth 2:09:21 - 2:09:41 in the gate. I believe it says, but these were the ancient judges, the wise men who sat in the gates of the cities for the purpose of giving people advice. And they wanted to make those folks guilty of crimes so that they didn't have to deal with hearing from them. It's up to you to defend them and support 2:09:41 - 0:00:00 them. But let's go back through this list. Do not support what you know, to be evil. That's easy enough. You fully control that one. All you have to do is stop supporting. What do you do to support evil? I'll leave that one to you to think about distance yourself from evil. How do you do that? Well, 0:00:00 - 2:10:30 if you see the bad as part of your life as part of your group, get out of the group. If the group won't leave the bad alone, then you need to leave the group alone. It's pretty simple. You can't look at the group and say, yeah, but it's not all bad. I mean, there's mostly good here. Well, if they won't 2:10:30 - 2:10:52 drop this, you need to drop them. So you see that one's a little harder than do not support because you could say, well, I go to a church and they practice these beliefs that I don't believe in, but I believe most of their beliefs and that's good. Well, then the consequences that come to the group will 2:10:52 - 2:11:19 also come to you whether you believe in the bits to cause the negative consequences or not. And the thing about beliefs is you can keep and, or leave all the ones you want at will, you can leave a church and keep all the good. If they're just ideas, then take them with you, distance yourself from the 2:11:19 - 2:11:45 evil. What about correct? Speak up about the evil. Maybe this should come before distance. Um, it, it should come before distance. We'll just, I'll, I'll take my own advice. I'll correct myself. Correct. Give them a chance to address your concerns and if they don't then leave them in the dust. But this 2:11:45 - 2:12:11 requires you to speak up and to point and to say that's not good and here's why or am I wrong? Because it seems to me like this isn't good and see what happens. It's very important. Remember the people that sighed and cried because of the iniquities. It's not enough to just not like it or to even really 2:12:11 - 2:12:40 not like it. You have to make some noise. Ok. Protest. Um, again, you know, take a stance and actively draw attention to the fact that there's evil here and you don't think it's right and, and what do I mean by correctly prioritized problems, not ignoring those caused by your people. This is a hallmark 2:12:39 - 2:13:06 of this, this problem is that you make things people make things outside of the groups, they identify with, into much bigger problems than the problems caused by the groups that they identify with. We do this as individuals where we go out and we wanna police everyone else's sins before we fix our own 2:13:06 - 2:13:28 . That is wrong. It's contrary to God's will. He's been very plain about it. But we also do this at the next level, which is to say, well, our group has problems, but we're not gonna talk about those. Instead, we're gonna go fix everyone else's problems. Usually using our group as leverage and that's 2:13:28 - 2:13:59 also equally bad. So, sort things by their actual impact. Not by how close or far they are from you. It's very easy to point the finger at someone that's really far away. It's not so easy to point the finger at yourself. Now, we're going to talk about some interesting statistics. This is from a Gallup 2:13:58 - 2:14:39 poll. They do this every year. Much to my dismay. It's horrific to look at. But in 2023 here are the percent of Americans who believe different topics are morally acceptable. 78% believe divorce is morally acceptable. 64% homosexuality, 52% abortion, 43% gender changes, 39% porn and 20% suicide. So if 2:14:38 - 2:15:15 the big circle is America, here are some sub circles and how large they are. Now, if you were God and you saw this and you saw that the other percents the, if you subtract this off of 100 if you saw what those people were doing about it, how much they were saying and crying, what would you do? What share 2:15:15 - 2:15:44 of the consequences would everyone else need to share? Think about lot in Sodom and Gomorrah. So he's sitting there living in Sodom surrounded by terrible things. Would it have been just for God to destroy the city with no warning? Yes. Yes, it would have because he was living there. He chose to, he 2:15:44 - 2:16:07 knew what the problems were, he knew about them very well. You can see that by his behavior. When the messengers come, what saved lot, it wasn't his own righteousness. Although he is described in the scriptures as being a righteous man. It was Abraham's righteousness that saved lot. Abraham was not living 2:16:06 - 2:16:27 in Sodom nor would he have lived there? Here's some more interesting statistics among professed Christians. I'm sorry. I don't have the reference for this. I wrote this down a long time ago and I didn't write down the reference. 44% strongly favor gay marriage. It's probably higher now because like I 2:16:27 - 2:16:54 said, this is dated and then there's a breakdown between different denominations on support for abortion. Some denominations, the lowest had 27% support, the highest had 60% 60% support. I can't remember exactly where Catholicism was, but one of the only tenets of their faith is that they are anti abortion 2:16:53 - 2:17:29 and yet, and birth control in general and yet it was higher than 50% said abortion is ok. 13 to 30% of different denominations think that gender can change after birth. 37% in some cases. And this wasn't like the new age church of hippie or something. These are main line named denominations. OK. We rally 2:17:28 - 2:17:55 pretty hard against L DS beliefs on this channel most of the time. But I just wanna say I'm fair. This 27% is the L DS church. So L DS people support abortion less than all other measured denominations in this survey. So kudos for that, here's some other interesting statistics and ideas. I suppose there 2:17:55 - 2:18:22 have been many notable brutal actions against civilians by Israel and Palestine. Neither country has condemned the actions of their own people in that regard. Neither country, they are only pointing fingers to the other side. Uh Whether one has done more or worse than the other is irrelevant to the larger 2:18:22 - 2:18:49 problem that neither side will call out their own people. That is a big problem because what does it do for the consequences? There's all kinds of unfavorable statistics about Islam. Here are a few, I'll just highlight one and this was some time ago. The percentage is almost surely higher today. 20% 2:18:48 - 2:19:16 of Muslims in the United States think that suicide bombing is OK. They think that that's an OK thing. So there's that now where are all the moderate so called Muslims condemning the ones who believe that way, they're probably hanging out in the same place as the so called mainstream Christians who don't 2:19:16 - 2:19:41 say a dang thing about all the Christians who support these really bad ideas. So I'm not singling out Muslims here. But uh we already talked about the Christians, how about different ethnicities? This is a, a third rail if there ever was one, did you know? And these statistics have been the same for 2:19:41 - 0:00:00 a very long time that black people, they make up 13% of the population, but they commit 35% of the violent crimes. So that's interesting. Where is the outcry about that? So we've seen the rise of groups like Black Lives Matter drawing attention to what may very well be an issue that needs attention, 0:00:00 - 2:20:33 which is police brutality, however far fewer dollars and almost no attention is given to the fact that these murders that happen black on black crime happen every day and it happened for a very long time and the victims are much more numerous than any of these other things. And yet, where's the outcry 2:20:33 - 2:20:55 ? Where are the foundations for that? And do they get any kind of attention in the media or any kind of donations from big companies? We could drill into this even further because there are circles within the circles. And in this case, almost all of that violence comes from young males and you will never 2:20:54 - 2:21:23 hear about this. But statistically, the statistics are known they young black males commit 46% of all juvenile crime. There are only 6.5% of that group of juveniles, 6.5% commits 46% of the crime. So if you wanted to address this problem, it seems to me that the most efficient deployment of resources 2:21:22 - 2:21:42 would be to go after that group if this were a sales activity or some kind of machine learning task where you're trying to maximize performance. Those are exactly the people that you would target. But we don't accept that in society. We don't say, hey, there's a problem here. What could that problem 2:21:41 - 2:22:05 be? Does it have something to do with fatherlessness or you know, culture? Is there something that we could do about this? Because remember, culture is not a race. Culture is not an ethnicity, culture is ideas. This group of people also has fewer books in their house than anyone else. You know, there 2:22:05 - 2:22:25 are things that you could correlate and try to do something about. Maybe what we need is a dolly pardon? Style. She has this huge charity where she sends children's books for free to people. It's a wonderful thing. Maybe we need some kind of mentoring program that targets young black males, maybe that's 2:22:25 - 2:22:51 what's needed. We could go on and say all kinds of unpopular things like the fact that half of Native Americans are obese half. And again, you know, people don't want to share these statistics in the first place. And then when they have to admit them, they spin up crazy theories to try to avoid the most 2:22:51 - 2:23:25 obvious explanation, which is in this case, native Americans eat more food than non native Americans and not good food. So it turns out that that's what causes obesity, not systemic racism. Last I checked, right? Supposed systemic racism. All right. So again, it's just as uncomfortable to take these 2:23:25 - 2:23:44 things from the beginning, which is look at how these things apply to you and how you're doing them in your own life before you point fingers at other people. But we have to look through all the scales to see how um prolific this is throughout society and to see why it's such a big deal, it's a big deal 2:23:43 - 2:24:07 , folks. It's a big deal. What happens when you don't address cancer? Maybe it's just in one spot. But guess what happens over time? It spreads and all of these groups, all of these groups, the problem has nothing to do with the group. It has nothing to do with the people. It has everything to do with 2:24:07 - 2:24:37 human nature. It's a much more transcendent issue, which is this, that we won't go through ourselves and say what's good and what's bad and let's separate them. And for that reason, do we, oh, we got that um for that reason when the judgment comes. It will, it will come on the groups, it will come on 2:24:36 - 2:25:00 the groups. That's why when in Ezekiel nine and this is where we're ending. Now we have this and one more slide. Go ye after him through the city and smite. Let not your eyes spare. Neither have ye pity. Slay utterly old and young, both maids and little Children and women. So David was gonna spare abigail 2:24:59 - 2:25:33 and the ladies But God will not. When Babylon falls, everyone in it will fall. Everyone except those who have the mark on their forehead, which is given to them that sigh and cry for all the abominations done in the midst. And here I bring you back to revelation seven to explicitly connect one who this 2:25:33 - 2:25:57 person is and two what he does, even though I'm not telling you how he does it yet. I saw another angel ascending from the East having the seal of the living God and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels who were among the other people in Ezekiel nine, to whom it was given to hurt the earth and 2:25:57 - 2:26:22 the sea saying hurt, not the earth, neither the sea nor the trees till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads. Here is the conclusion of the matter. If you want to receive the seal of the living God, what you need to do right now is to start sighing and crying for all the abominations 2:26:21 - 2:26:44 done in your midst. The time has come to flee Babylon and I'm giving you the way to do it. This is how to do it now. It was already there. You've read about it your whole life, your whole religious life. But no one ever told you that this is the way to do it or why it's important or when it's important 2:26:44 - 2:27:12 , the answer is now. And DNC 3512, which I'll leave you with the Lord says there are none that doeth good except those who are ready to receive the fullness of my gospel, which I have sent forth unto this generation. So most people read this and they see, they read it in order, which is to say that if 2:27:11 - 2:27:39 you do good, you are ready to receive the fullness of the gospel. I submit to you. That part of what that means is sighing and crying for all the abominations done in your midst. A precedent to that a prerequisite is to sign, cry for your abominations that you do. And to fix those before you point to 2:27:39 - 2:27:59 anyone else. And those are the people to whom these heavenly beings will be sent to begin the process of sealing them in their foreheads because it takes a lot more than just marking them with some, some ink on their head.