For Behold, I Will Bring Forth My Servant the Branch

Okay, let me know where you are, son. Okay, y'all. We going to go ahead and we going to get started. We going to ask that the women cover your heads. Men uncover your heads. And we going to stand and face the holy, beautiful Jerusalem, the city of the great king. Our Father, our Father, which art in heaven, which are in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done. in earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day. Our daily bread. And forgive us our debt. And forgive us our debts as we forgive our debt towards as we forgive our debt towards. And lead us not into temptation. But deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom. And the power and the power and the glory and the glory forever forever. In Jesus name we pray. The God Almighty, the God Almighty, author and finisher, the author and finisher, the Holy One of Israel, the Holy One of Israel.

Today's readings come from Psalms 118 verse 14-17. The Lord is my strength and song. And has become my salvation and has become my salvation. The voice of rejoicing. The voice of rejoicing and rej and salvation and salvation is in the tabernacles of righteousness. It's in the tabernacle of the righteous. The right hand of the Lord do it valiantly. The right hand of the Lord is exalted. The right hand of the Lord do it valiantly. I shall not die. But live but live. And declare the works of the Lord. Yes sir. 14-1 17 a [singing] blessed reading [applause] here of his holy word. In Jesus name we pray. Amen. Yes sir. We going to talk a little bit of the right hand of the Lord today. So sisters and brothers, we want to welcome everybody here. But we gonna go ahead and proceed with our Sabbath script, sisters and brothers, because see, we gonna do something a little different today.

If anybody has been looking at the news at all or been following everything that's going on in the world, man, the Lord is mad right now, sisters and brothers. The Lord is going off right now. You know, I started to do another lesson which was talking about death, which we are seeing everything that's going on in the world. We we talked about last week about about the mass shootings that's been going on. So, we already knew that they had an earthquake that happened down I think it was in Venezuela when 6,300 people was killed. And then we turn around and had another earthquake that happened down in Colombia not too long ago where they still digging bodies out. So, we seeing flash floods that's going on everywhere in the world. We seeing death, we seeing war. We are seeing it all.

And what we want people to understand, sisters and brothers, that we are living in the Bible days. We are living in the days that's going to be the return of the Lord, sisters and brothers. So I want to throw this in. We going to get to our Sabbath script, but let's go to second Timothy the third chapter. Elder David put this in our brotherhood text this week and I really want us to read this because we living in a dangerous time now, sisters and brothers, and it's getting more and more wicked. So the more and more wicked that it becomes in this world, the more and more closer you got to get close to the Lord. Sisters and brothers, that's why we chose to deal with a lesson dealing with Jesus today.

So let's go to second Timothy 3. And we going to pick it up at verse one. Second Timothy 3. And we going to pick it up at verse one. When you get there, my beautiful beloved elder, go ahead and read this. Though also that in the last days, perilous times shall come. And we living in those days, sisters and brothers, if you got any doubt that the word of God is real, just get into the book and read about it. He said that in the last days, perilous times shall come. Perilous means dangerous times. It's getting worseer and worse out here. And I'm also paying attention to another thing. You finding more and more women that's getting killed and getting murdered now. You finding more and more women that's pulling the triggers on other women and killing one another. So he said this know also that in the last days perilous time shall come.

So now verse two go ahead and read. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, pride, blasphemers, disobedient to parents. Go ahead. Unthankful. Go ahead. Unholy. See this what you going to get in the last days sisters and brothers. See we had a lesson on being holy. So we trying everything in our power to be holy sisters and brothers. See we got the word of God. You standing. You know the truth and you walking in the faith. So what what I want to challenge every man, woman, and child that's in this room today that you practice on being holy. Sisters and brothers. You got to keep this temple holy. So now verse three. What else are they going to be? Go ahead. Without natural affection. Go ahead. They're going to break truses in a minute. You going to call a truce with people and what are they going to do?

They going to break the truth with you. Sisters and brothers, keep reading. Go ahead. False accusers, incontinents, fierce, despisers of those that are good. Go ahead and read. Traitors, petty, high-minded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God. And that's what you also going to get in these last days. You going to have everybody that's going to love pledges, but they going to love pledges more than they going to love God because you going into a generation now where everybody is starting to get further and further away from the Lord, sisters and brothers. So now verse five, go ahead and read. Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof. Go ahead. For such turn away. So what is this telling you in this case? He is telling you to turn away from people like this, sisters and brothers.

You got to get them out of your circle. You can't be around them. That's what God is telling you. So now, let's deal with our Sabbath script. Now, let's go to St. Luke the 4th chapter. Let's go to St. Luke 4 and we going to pick it up at verse 14. St. Luke the 4th chapter and we gonna pick it up at verse 14. St. Luke 4 and we gonna pick it up at verse 14. Because we talk about the Sabbath day, we talk about Jesus. be followers of Jesus. So what does Jesus want you to do? To follow the ex the exact same example that he did.

So now let's go to St. Luke the 4th chapter and we go pick it up at verse 14. St. Luke 4:14. When you get there, go ahead and read. And Jesus returned in the power of the spirit into Galilee. Go ahead. And there went out a fame of him through all the region round about. And he taught in their synagogues being glorified of all. Go ahead. and he came to Nazareth where he had been brought up. So we all know that Jesus he was that's why they call him Jesus of Nazareth now. So we know Nazareth was one of the few black Israelite cities that was in the land of Samaria. So he came to Nazareth where he had been brought up. Go ahead and read. And as his custom was, go ahead. He went into the synagogue on the seventh day. Go ahead. And stood up for to read. That's when he went to church, sisters and brothers.

Jesus went to church on the seventh. on the seventh day, not the first day of the week. He went on the seventh day, and that is today, sisters and brothers. Amen. So, I want to praise the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. And peace to everyone here in the mighty name of Jesus Christ. I want to say happy Sabbath to my Indianapolis family. It's always a pleasure to stand before my Indianapolis family and also those that's watching us in Cincinnati. We also want to say happy Sabbath to you as well. And also those that's watching in Connecticut. Brother Todd and his family, we also want to say happy Sabbath to you and we are glad to have you with us on the Lord's Saturday. So also those that's watching us via live Facebook and YouTube live, we also want to say happy Sabbath to you as well and we are glad to have you with us on the Lord Saturday.

And also I want to give a round of applause for the brotherhood and the sisterhood for [applause] one more tough week cuz it don't always be a tough week sisters and brothers. But that's why we come together on the Lord's Sabbath day. So we can see one another. So we can put all of the problems that we had this week behind because we talked about another thing on the Lord's Sabbath day. Don't bear no burdens on this day. Put all your burdens to the side and that way that we can sit down and we can worship and fellowship with one another. So we going to get right into the lesson today, sisters and brothers, and we going to deal with a oldie but goodie. You know, the Lord kind of put something on my mind not too long ago that I treat my old lessons like stepchildren. I teach a lesson one time and won't go back to it for forever.

It take me a long time to go back to it. So, I want to rebrand back a lesson that I did about four years ago and obviously it has been reworked again because the Lord is always going to increase you in knowledge of whatever subject that you deal with or whatever you that you choose to study. he going to give you more information on it. So today, sisters and brothers, being what's going on in the world is so bad, I had to deal with a lesson to bring a little bit of joy to us, sisters and brothers. And there's nothing more joyable than talking about the Christ, which is Jesus. So today, we going to talk about Jesus. We going to deal with him. we gonna deal with Israel because the reason why the Lord had to go up and sit on the right hand of the father was to get away from Israel because Israel was so bad.

But at the same time, the Lord is a very very merciful God. And we know one thing about the Lord is what is he going to come back and he going to save Israel and we going to go and deal with some of his many names. Like we know Jesus got a lot of names. We know they call him the rock, you know, because he is the rock of our salvation. We also know that he is a savior. So why is he called the savior? Because Jesus saves sisters and brothers. Jesus is in the job for that. That's why we call him that. And one of his names was also Jehovah. But we know that he came in a name which was better than Jehovah. He came in the name of the father. He was also known as Melchzdc. And we know that MelchzDC is what? It's like a title that they give. So Jesus is going to be the priest forever after the order of MelchzDC.

And then he had another name. His name was also called the branch, sisters and brothers. So that's one of his many names. So we going to show you what the branch really is. Now, so just think about a tree. Just think about an everlasting tree. Because if you go read in Isaiah the 61st chapter, those that do this word the correct way, you're going to be called trees of righteousness. Now, so we know Jesus going to come back to the earth and he is going to be that one branch that all nations on the planet is going to dwell inside of that branch, sisters and brothers. But one thing about Jesus being the branch that he had to come out of a dry ground and that dry ground is Israel. So we going to deal with it and we going to let you know why he was called the branch. We going to talk a little bit about Israel and we going to talk about the restoration of our children and when we going to go back home.

We even gonna talk a little bit about the temple that Jesus is gonna dwell in. So now let's go to Jeremiah the 23rd chapter. Jeremiah 23 and we going to pick it up at verse one. Because one thing that the Lord don't like, one reason that the children of Israel got in trouble in the first place was because of the pastors, sisters and brothers. It was the pastors that was leading the people astray. It was the pastors that took this nation down because the pastors weren't dealing with the word of God. The pastors weren't worried about dealing with the law and what it is to be holy. They totally gave up on God. So what's going to happen? Jesus is going to come back and he is going to be that one teacher that's going to set everything straight.

So now let's go to Jeremiah the 23rd chapter. And the title of the of the lesson is for behold I will bring forth my servant the branch. For behold I will bring forth my servant the branch. So this was the father now that was speaking through the mouth of Jeremiah when he made this made this prophecy. So now Jeremiah 23 and we going to pick it up at verse one. Jeremiah 23 and1. When you get there elder go ahead and read. Woe be unto the pasture that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture sayaith the Lord. So now this how God feel about pastors. So a lot of people ask you, well you know over God, why you don't like pastors? Why you don't? Because I'm one of them. Because I understand that the person that stands in this position has the authority to persuade people that don't know nothing about the word of God.

But see one thing that the Lord said, he said, "Wo unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture, sayeth the Lord." So you got a lot of preachers that come up here, they divine for money. They get up here and they tell lies so they can't deceive people to get money. And we know that's what goes on in the average church now. So God say, "Wo unto the pastors." So now verse two, go ahead. Therefore, thus said the Lord God of Israel against the pastors that feed my people. Go ahead. Ye have scattered my flock. Go ahead. And driven them away. See, I don't want to be one of those pastors. I don't want to be off in this category right here. I don't want to be one of those pastors that feed the people, but you don't feed them, right? So, you scatter my flock and you have driven them away.

So, now it's going to be a pass. It's going to be a a a punishment for when you do this. Middle of verse two. Go ahead. And have not visited them. Behold, I will visit upon you the evil of your doings, sayeth the Lord. See, I don't have no time for that at all, sisters and brothers. So, one thing that we got to understand that when you stand in this position, you want to make sure that what's coming out of your mouth is right. And you want to make sure that you have researched everything that you said before you give it to the Lord's flock. Because see, the flock don't belong to you. The flock belong to God. It don't matter how many of them, sisters and brothers, they all belong to the Lord. So now, verse three, let's show you what God going to do for his people. Go ahead and read.

And I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all countries whether I have driven them. Go ahead. And will bring them again to their flock. Go ahead. He going to bring us again to their foes. Go ahead and read. And that shall be fruitful and increase. See this what's going to happen in the future, sisters and brothers. We know that the children of Israel are down right now. But we know we down because of the atrocities and the sins that we have committed against the father and the son. That's the reason why we got scattered in the first place, sisters and brothers. So if you going to read the Bible, you got to read it on the line. It wasn't the white man's fault. It wasn't even the fault. The reason why we got scattered, sisters and brothers, was because of sin, because we would not deal with the commandments of the Lord.

So now verse four, what else going to happen? Go ahead. And I will set up shepherds over them which shall feed them. Go ahead. And they shall fear no more. They ain't going to fear no more. When the Lord going to choose the shepherds that's going to feed the people, sisters and brothers, he said, I will set up shepherds over them which shall feed them and they shall fear no more. You ain't going to have to worry about it, the person that's standing right here if they telling you the truth or not because see Jesus going to set the shepherds over the flock and they ain't going to do nothing but tell the truth. So now keep reading. Go ahead. Nor be dismayed. Neither shall they be lacking, sayeth the Lord. Go ahead. Behold, the days come, sayeth the Lord, that I will raise unto king unto David a righteous branch.

Why did he say unto David? Because see, David is going to be a king too. But this guy is going to be king over David. You going to have Jesus and then you going to have David. So that's why they said he is going to raise unto David a righteous branch. Go ahead and read. And the king shall reign and prosper. Go ahead. And shall execute judgment and justice in the earth. Go ahead. In his days, Judah shall be saved. Sisters and brothers. See, Judah ain't saved right now. But Jesus is going to he what what happened with Jesus. We know he is the line of the tribe of Judah. Yes, we know Jesus came out the lineage of Judah. So they said in his days Judah shall be saved. Go ahead and read. And Israel shall dwell safe. Go ahead. And this is his name whereby he shall be called. Go ahead.

The Lord our righteous. I had to throw it in. I miss it now. Now he done went to something new and it's beautiful. But I had to throw this in because it's what you used to say all the time. So they said in his Yes, sir. In his days Judah shall be saved and Israel shall dwell safely and this is the name whereby he shall be called the Lord our righteousness. So that's another one of the Lord's names. He is going to be called the Lord our righteousness. So now verse seven, go ahead. Therefore, behold the days come, sayeth the Lord, that they shall no more say, the Lord liveth, which brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt. Go ahead. But the Lord liveth, which brought up, and which led the seed of the house of Israel, out of the north country. Go ahead. And from all the countries, whether I have driven them, go ahead.

and they shall dwell in their own land. This day is coming, sisters and brothers. But what are we doing right now? We hoping for this day. We we are dreaming about this day that we going to go back home and Israel going to be safe. That every man for whatever tribe that you came out of that you going to go back to the land of your inheritance. Sisters and brothers, see this what's going to happen in the future. So now verse nine, go ahead. My heart within me is broken. See that's what's going on with the Lord right now. He said, "My heart within me is broken, but he going to show you the reason why." Go ahead and read. Because of the prophet. That's the reason why. Because of the prophet, sisters and brothers. So, I'm Hey, I got to do it the right way. I ain't got no other choice because I don't want to fall in this category right here.

He said, "My heart within me is broken because of the prophets." Go ahead, read. All my bones shake. I am like a drunken man and like a man who whom wine have overcome because of the Lord and because of the words of his holiness. Go ahead. For the land is full of adulterers. That's what the land is full of. That's why you seeing destruction all over the landscape. You seeing it everywhere, sisters and brothers. He said, "For the land is full of adulterers." Go ahead. For because of swearing the land mourn. You owe my mama. Oh Jesus. Don't you understand what you saying when you say that? He said, "For because of swearing," he said, "the land moaning," sisters and brothers, that mean that the land is in trouble. So now, keep reading. Go ahead. The pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, and their course is evil, and their force is not right.

And their force is not right. Skip down to verse 13. Verse 13 and go ahead and read. And I have seen Paul in the prophets of Samaria and prophet and prophesied in Bea. Go ahead. And calls my people Israel to earth. See, Bael is associated with the sun and the moon and the stars, sisters and brothers. That's what Bael is. And we going to talk a little bit about it later. And when they was prophesied in the name of Bael, and they caused my people Israel to Aar. So now verse 14, go ahead. I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem and horrible things. Go ahead. They commit adultery. So these are the prophets now. So even the men of God that supposed to have been dealing with his word, he said even they were committing adultery. He said they commit adultery. Go ahead and read.

And walk in lies. Go ahead. They strengthen also the hands of evildoers. Go ahead. That none return from his weakness. But so so you think that everything's okay. So if you got a brother, Roy, sister that's going to check you because you doing something wrong. You need to hear that because they telling you something that's going to help you now. He said, he said that none do return from his wickedness. Go ahead and read. They are all of them unto me as Sodom and the inhabitants thereof as Gammorra. As Gomorra, let's skip down to verse 20. So we read. So you're going to see when God is looking at all of this stuff. Let's show you how the Lord feel about it. Skip down to verse 20 and go ahead. The anger of the Lord shall not return, until he have executed, until he have performed the thoughts of his heart.

See, he ain't going to stop until he is done. He, like I say all the time, he like the Terminator. Y'all remember when the Terminator first stepped on the scene and then he came and saved the woman. He said he absolutely will not stop until you are dead. So now this was so so the Lord's anger is going to go out and is not going to return back until he has executed all that he have performed in the thoughts of his heart. Sisters and brothers see once the Lord do something it don't turn back void to him. So now what else going to happen? Uh middle of verse 20. Go ahead. Until he have performed the thoughts of his heart in the latter days you shall consider it perfectly. I have not sent these prophets. Go ahead. Yet they ran. They went out. The Lord didn't send them now. He said, "But now keep reading.

Go ahead. I have not spoken to them." He said, "I have not spoken to them." Go ahead and read. Yet they prophesied. Yet they even started to keep prophesying, sisters and brothers, even after the Lord had said to them at all. So now verse 22, go ahead. But if they had stood in my counsel and had that caused my people to hear my words, then they should have turned them from their evil ways. Go ahead. And from the evil of their doing. If you got a teacher that's teaching you right, sisters and brothers, you are to turn away from this stuff. So when you go back and look at how the people acted in the past, then you got to apply to what they doing into the future. So now he said, "But if they had stood in my counsel and had caused my people to hear my words, then they should have turned from the evil of their ways and from the evil of their doing." Sisters and brothers, see the only thing God want you to do is return back to him.

That's the only thing that he requires. But a lot of people don't want to return to him. So therefore, they stay stuck in their misery. So now verse 23, go ahead. Am I a god at hand, sayaith the Lord? Go ahead. and not a god a far off. That's what you got to understand about God. He said, "Am I God at hand?" Sayeth the Lord. He right here. God is everywhere. If you go read in James, what did he say? He said, "If you draw nigh to God, then he'll draw nigh unto you. He's not far away. You ain't got to go all the way up to the third heaven to go see Jesus. You ain't got to dig all the way down in the earth to go see Jesus because see, Jesus is not you right now. He is right here." So now, keep reading. Go ahead. 24. Can any hide himself in secret places? Go ahead. And I shall not see him.

You ain't getting away, sisters and brothers. You are not getting away. You are just getting by. That's what we tell people. He said, "Let the wheat grow with the terror and he going to separate him at the harvest." Sisters and brothers. He said, "Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him?" Go ahead. Says the Lord. Go ahead. Do not I feel heaven and earth? That's who you think you hired from. this guy feel the heaven and the earth. Sisters and brothers, how you going to hide from this guy? How you going to do something in secret that you think the Lord ain't going to see you at all? Being that he make the constellations in the sky, he make it rain, he make it hot, he make it cold, he make it snow. So it's nothing that you can hide from the Lord. Go ahead and read.

Sayaith the Lord. I have heard what the prophet said that prophesy lies in my name, saying, I have dreamed. I have dreamed. We ain't gonna keep going on right there. You ain't dreamed nothing. But anyway, that's what these false prophets be saying that be standing in the pull pit where we are today.

So now let's go to Songs of Solomon. Let's let's show you who who Israel who who the Lord who is watching. Sisters and brothers, let's go to Songs of Solomon. And we going to pick it up at verse one. We going to be dealing with a lot of agriculture in this lesson. And if you know the Lord and you will understand his plan is centered around agriculture. Sisters and brothers, see right now, you can look at it right now in a couple of weeks. It's getting ready to be seed time in Israel again cuz we getting ready to bring the harvest in basically at the end of this month, sisters and brothers. But now that's another lesson for another time.

Let's go to Songs of Solomon one. And we going to pick it up at verse one. [snorts] Songs of Solomon 1 and we going to pick it up at verse one. Let's read about the Lord's vineyard, sisters and brothers. Songs of Solomon 1. And we going to pick it up at verse one. When you get there, around us, go ahead and read the song of songs, which is Solomon. Go ahead. Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth. Go ahead. For thy love is better than wine. So now this is the Lord, sisters and brothers. He knocking down his bride, which is Israel. He said, "Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth, for thy love is better than wine." So now verse three, go ahead. Because of the savor of thy good ointments, thy name is as ointment poured forth. Go ahead. Therefore, do the virgins love?

So, you got a lot of people that don't think about the name of Jesus like this, but in this class, you will be taught by no other name other than Jesus because I don't know all of that other stuff anyway. I found the Lord in the name of Jesus. Now, so he said, "Because of the savior of thy good ointment, thy name is as ointment poured forth. Therefore do the virgins love thee." What what versions do you think he talking about? Well, if you go read off in Revelations the 14th chapter, you will see exactly the virgins that he is talking about. These people going to walk blameless before the Lord.

Now, but now let's pick it up at verse 5. Go ahead and read. I am black, but comely, oh ye daughters of Jerusalem. And and this is not this is not to just put ink on the paper, sisters and brothers. The Lord said, "I am black, but calmly, oh ye daughters of Jerusalem, that don't mean that you put an image of it, but say that it's Jesus because he is black." We know he is black, but you still can't make no images of it. So he said, "I am black, but calmly, oh ye daughters of Jerusalem." Go ahead and read as the tent of Kadar. as the tents of Kedar. Kedar those was talking about the Arab sisters and brothers if you go and look at the tents of Kedar these people dwell in the wilderness now and their tents are black. So now he said I am black but comely oh ye daughters of Jerusalem as the tents of Kdar.

Go ahead and read as the curtains of Solomon. Go ahead. Look not upon me because I am black. Go ahead and read. Because the sun have looked upon me. So when that did the sun which is in the sky look upon Jesus now when he died on the cross he said because the son had looked upon me. So now keep reading. Go ahead. My mother's children were angry with me. We going to talk about these children that's angry with them sisters and brothers. And the children that are angry with him is the ones that he came to save. And that's none other than Israel. Keep reading. Go ahead. They made me the keeper of the vineyard. Go ahead. But my own vineyards have I not kept. So what is God telling you right here? They made him the keeper of the vineyards. Vineyards is plural. That let you know that God is the God of all people.

So he watching all nations now. But he said of my own vineyard have I not kept. So now let's show you who this vineyard is. Let's go now to Isaiah the 5th chapter. Let's go to Isaiah 5. Isaiah 5 and we going to pick it up at verse one. And that same one that they said that they made me the keepers of the vineyard is that same one that said, "I am black. Become yo ye daughters of Jerusalem." So if you don't know what color Jesus is, you know. Now we can also go to Jeremiah the 8th chapter when he said, "I am black." But that's not what we here for today. That's another lesson for another time.

Let's go to Isaiah the 5th chapter. Isaiah 5. And we going to pick it up at verse one. When you get there, go ahead and read. [clears throat] Now will I sing to my well beloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. [cough] [clears throat] My whole my well beloved have a vineyard in a very fruitful hill. So he talking about Israel now. He said my well beloved had a vineyard in a very fruitful hill. Now, so this very fruitful hill that he is talking about is none other than the land of Canaan. So now verse two, go ahead. And he fenced it. So now once we got there, they said, "And he fenced it." Go ahead. And gathered out of the stones thereof. And then he gathered out the stones thereof, sisters and brothers. He is talking about plowing and reaping or plowing and sewing.

Right now they say he fenced it and gathered out the stones thereof. Go ahead and read. And planted it with the choices by Gohead. and built a tower in the midst of it. And also made a wine press to end. Go ahead. And he looked that and he looked that it should bring forth grace. Go ahead. And it brought forth wild gra. So now he said a tower in the midst of it now. And he also made a wine press therein. That means all of these instruments that was built, they was built because they was looking to bring forth some good grapes, some good wine. But these good grapes did not come through. So it only brought forth wild grapes. And these wild grapes represents none other than sin. So now verse three, go ahead. And now, oh inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, between me and my vineyard.

What could have been done more to my vineyard? He said, what could I have what could have been done more to my vineyard? Go ahead and read. That I have not done in it. Wherefore, when I looked at it, should bring forth grace. Go ahead. It brought it forth wild grapes. It brought forth all of these wild grapes. Now, we brought forth sin, but it supposedly had brought forth good grapes. So, now he going to tell you what he going to do to this vineyard. Verse five, go ahead. And now go to I would tell you what I would do to my vineyard. Go ahead. I will take away the heads thereof. Go ahead. And it shall be eaten up. He said, I will take away the heads thereof and it shall be eaten up now. So, it ain't going to be no fence around it no more. So all that's going to come in this vineyard, it is going to be eaten up.

Go ahead and read. And break down all the wall thereof. Go ahead. And it shall be charted down. And we going to read about this now. We going to read about this when this happened in history. So he is giving you somewhat of a parable. But we going to show you when he took away the hedge thereof and it shall be trotten down. We going to show you when Nebuchadnezzar did that later. So what else going to happen? Verse six. Go ahead. Never lay waste. lay it waste. It shall not be pruned nor dig. Go ahead. But there shall come up and throw. Some of us don't have some neighbors like that. You got everybody cut their grass. Everybody grass look good. But then you got another neighbor that's right next to you. They they don't never cut the grass and do nothing to it at all. So what's happening to it?

It's bringing up thorns and thighs and wild grass and leaves. Now that's what happened to the house of Israel. Go ahead and read. I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it. So now I ain't going to give you the former and the latter rain, sisters and brothers. He said I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it. That means I'm going to bring famine into the land. So now verse seven, go ahead. For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts, he said, for the vineyard of the Lord of hosts, go ahead and read. Is the house of Israel is the house of Israel. That's who that vineyard is, sisters and brothers. It's the house of Israel. That's the one that he said, "My own vineyard have I not kept." So now go ahead and read. And the men of Judah, his pleasant plant.

Go ahead. And he looked for judgment. But be but behold oppression. He looked for judgment, but behold oppression. Go ahead. For righteousness. Go ahead. But behold a cry. He looked for righteousness, but behold a cry. What cry? The cry of the people, sisters and brothers. They was crying out for a savior.

So now let's get down to verse 11. Then go ahead and read. Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning. Go ahead. That they may follow strong drink. And now he said, "Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning that they may follow strong drink." Go ahead and read. That continue until night. Go ahead. To wine and flame them. So now he giving you So now cuz you had a lot of people in Israel that was doing this. They was just drinking all the time. So we going we going to cover that a little bit when we get to Deuteronomy. But he said, "Woe to them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink, that continue until night to wine inflame them." Verse 12, go ahead. And the heart and the vile and the temper and pipe and wine are in their feet. Go ahead.

But they regard not the work of the Lord. Go ahead. You consider the operation of his hand. But they don't consider the work of the Lord, sisters and brothers. See, they so busy on having a good time and walking around being drunk that they don't understand the operation of the Lord's hands. So basically, they having fun, but everything that God told them to do, they chose not to do it, sisters and brothers. So make sure that you don't fall in that category. So now verse 13, go ahead and read. Therefore, my people are going into captivity. Go ahead. Because they have no knowledge. This is the reason why you in captivity because you ain't got no knowledge. If you go talk to the average Israelite today and ask him, "What throne is Jesus going to sit on?" They ain't going to be able to tell you that.

They ain't going to be able to tell you the plan that God has for the salvation of man. So he said, "Therefore, my people are gone into captivity because they have no knowledge." So now keep reading. Go ahead. And their honorable men are famished. You can't go to Obama and ask Obama about the word of God. He ain't going to know nothing about it. Keep reading. Go ahead. And the multitude dried up with thirst. Go ahead. Therefore, hell have enlarged herself. Just walk around and look at your people. Walk around and look at the state of condition of your people. You think because you got a job and you make a little bit of money right now, you think you living good. But see the people that that you working for, they making millions of dollars more than what you making. So now he said he said that he said keep reading.

Go ahead. 14. Go ahead. Therefore hell have the Lord yourself and open her mouth without measure. Go ahead. And their glory and their multitude and their pump and he that rejoicth shall descend into it. Go ahead. And the men mean men shall be brought down. Go ahead. And the mighty man shall be humble. Go ahead. And the eyes of the lofty shall be humble. We talked about humility last week, sisters and brothers. Without no humility, you ain't going to be able to do nothing with the Lord. But see these strong men at this day, everybody is going to be humble, sisters and brothers. So now verse 16, go ahead. But the Lord of hosts shall exalt him in exalted judgment. And God that is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness. He going to be sanctified in righteousness. Skip down to verse 20.

And go ahead and read. Woe unto them that call evil good and good evil. That put darkness for light and light for darkness. That put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter. Go ahead. Wo to them that are wise in their own eyes. Go ahead. And prudent in their own sight. And you got a lot of people like that in the world now. They wise in their own eyes and they prudent in their own sight, but they ain't got no knowledge of the Lord. So now verse 22, go ahead. Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine. Go ahead. And men of strength to mingle strong drink, which s would justify the wicked for reward and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him. Go ahead. Therefore, as the fire devourth the stone, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rotteness, and their blossom shall go up as dust.

Go ahead. because they have cast away the law of the Lord of hosts. That's the whole reason why all of this stuff is happening, sisters and brothers, because they have cast away the law of the Lord of hosts. You got to realize they have forsake the law. What do they do? They praise the wicked. So if you don't want to deal with the law of God, then where does that leave you, sisters and brothers? That's what you got to understand. So now keep reading. Go ahead. And despise the word of the holy one of Israel. Go ahead. Therefore is the anger of the Lord kindled against his people. Go ahead. And he have stretched forth his hand against them, and have smitten them, and the hills did tremble, and their carcasses were torn in the midst of the street. Go ahead. For all his this his anger is turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

See, that's what you got to understand about God. with all of this stuff that we read about. He said, "For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still." He still want to help us, sisters and brothers. He still want to be there for you. Even though that you have done bad, he still want to be there for you. Amen.

So now, let's go a little bit further. Now, let's go to Psalms the 80th chapter. Psalms 80. And we going to pick it up at verse one. Psalms 80. And we gonna pick it up at verse one. Psalms 80. And we going to pick it up at verse one. Let's show Let's show you. Let's show you Israel is divine, sisters and brothers. And he going to tell you right in this chapter right here.

Let's go to Psalms the 80th chapter. And we going to pick it up at verse one. Psalms 80 and1. Go ahead and read. Give ear, oh shepherd of Israel, go ahead. Thou that leadest Joseph like a flock, go ahead. Thou that dwelleth between the cherubs, shine forth. See, that's a whole lot of information that you just read in this first verse. He said, "Get real, oh shepherd of Israel." Who is the shepherd of Israel? That's Jesus, sisters and brothers. Yes, sir. He said, "Thou that leadest Joseph like a flock, like a flock. Thou that dwellest between the cherubam shine forth." See, Jesus dwell between the cherubam, sisters and brothers. That's why when you look in the tabernacle of the congregation in the most holy place, you had the ark of the covenant and you had the two angels that was facing the mercy seat, sisters and brothers.

And that's how Jesus travels. He dwells between the cherubams. So now verse two, go ahead. Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasse, stir up thy strength. Go ahead and come and save us. He said before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, stir up thy stir up thy strength and come and save us. So now verse three, go ahead. Turn us again, oh God. And cause thy face to shine. Go ahead. And we shall be saved. We can look all over the book and tell you that, sisters and brothers. He said, "Turn us again, oh God, and cause [clears throat] thy face to shine, and we shall be saved." See, the only thing you got to do is turn back to him. See, that's what God is in the business of. He don't want to stay mad at you. The same way he is not mad at the nation right now. He just want everybody to turn back to him.

So now verse four, go ahead. Oh Lord God of hosts, go ahead. How long would thou be angry against the prayer of thy people? Thou feedest them with the bread of tears. Go ahead. And givest them tears to drink in great me. Like I said in a lesson a long time ago, I cry every day. It ain't a day that go by, sisters and brothers, that I don't shed a tear because the older you get and the more you start walking in the word of God, you going to be sad. You going to be sad when you see all of the earthquakes and all of the flooding and things like that going on, all of the war, all of the children that's being killed. So now he said, "Thou feedest them with the bread of tears, and giveth them tears to drink in great measures." So now verse six, go ahead. Thou making us a strike unto our our neighbors.

Go ahead. And our enemies laugh among themselves. We are laughing stock, sisters and brothers. They laugh at us. You think that they ain't laughing at us? Yes, they are. They don't care nothing about this nation. They don't care nothing about our people. It don't matter where you go. Oh, they like me. They like me here. No, they don't. Because as soon as you do something wrong, you gonna be the first person they gonna come against. So he said, "Thou makest us a stripe unto our neighbors and our enemies. Laugh them laugh among themselves." So now verse seven, go ahead and read. Turn us again, oh God of host. He said, "Turn us again, oh God of host." Go ahead and read. And cause thy face to shine. Go ahead and read. And we shall be saved. So what does that mean to you? He said, "All you got to do is turn your turn back to him and cause his face to shine." And what else does it say?

We shall be saved. Sisters and brothers, you better pay attention to what we read. So now verse eight, go ahead. Thou has brought a vine out of Egypt. Now this vine here is going to represent the house of Israel. Thou has brought a vine out of Egypt. Go ahead. Thou has cast out the heathen and planted it. Go ahead. Thou preparest room before it and then caused it to take deep root. Go ahead. And it filled the land. The same thing what you just read in Isaiah 5. You are seeing it now. He said, "Thou preparest room before it, and then it caused it to take deep root, and it fill the land." So now, keep reading. Go ahead. 10. The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars. She sent out her vows into the sea, and her branches onto the river.

Go ahead. Why hast thou take then broken down her head? He said, "Why is thou being broken down their hedges, sisters and brothers?" Well, if you was paying attention in in Isaiah the 5th chapter, he will tell you that. He said he broke down the hedges thereof because of sin, sisters and brothers. He said, "Why is thou being broken down hedges?" Go ahead and read. So that all which pass by the way do pluck her. Go ahead. The boar out of the wood doeth wasted, and the wild beast of the field doeth devouring. Go ahead. Return, we beseech thee, oh God of host. Go ahead. Look down from heaven and behold and visit this vine. He talking about right now. He said, "Return, we beseech thee, oh God of host." He said, "Look down from heaven and behold and visit this vine." Go ahead and read.

And the vineyard which thy right hand have planted. So we just read about the right hand. So we know who the right hand of the Lord is. Yes, sir. He said, "And the vineyard which thy right hand planted," go ahead and read, "And the branch that thou madeest for thyself." Go ahead. It is burned with fire. So now he talking about Israel. He said, "It is burned with fire." Go ahead and read it. It is cut down. Go ahead. And perish at the rebuke of thy countenance. Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand. Go ahead. Upon the son of man, whom thou madeest strong for thyself. Go ahead. So will not we go back from thee. Quicken us and we will call upon thy name. Go ahead. Turn us again, oh God. Oh Lord God of hosts, cause thy face to shine. Go ahead. And we shall be saved.

That's the only thing that God requires for you to do. Turn back to him, sisters and brothers. Yes, sir. He said, "Turn us again, oh Lord God of hosts. Cause thy face to shine and we shall be saved, sisters and brothers." Yes, sir. So now let's go to Psalm 69 because he going to talk a little bit more about this vineyard now because this vine or this vineyard that he was the keeper of they going to turn around and hate the Lord and when he step up on the scene they ain't going to deal with nothing of what he says. A matter of fact they going to reject him. So now Psalm 69 Psalm 69 and we going to pick it up at verse one. So now go ahead and read. Save me, oh God. Go ahead. For the waters are come in unto my soul. Well, it seem like every word I read now, I'm reading about save me, save me, save me.

All over the book, he says, save me, oh God, for the waters are come in unto my soul. Verse two, go ahead. I sink in deep m where there is no standing. Go ahead. I am come into deep water where the floods overflow me. Go ahead. I am weary of my crying. My throat is dry. My eyes fail while I wait for my God. Go ahead. [clears throat] They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head. So now we know this is the Lord talking now. So even though we know that Jesus had a whole lot of trouble on the earth, the Lord didn't allow nobody to do nothing to Jesus until the time of his crucifixion. But when he was on the earth, he went through a lot. He said in verse two, he said, "I sink in deep mire where there is no standing. I am come in the deep waters where the floods overflow me." He said, "I am weary of my crying, my throat is dried, my eyes fail while I wait for my God." So then in verse four, he said, "They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head." Go ahead and read.

They that will destroy me became my enemies wrongfully are my So what was their enemies? They was his enemies wrongfully, sisters and brothers. They was his enemies for the wrong reason. He said, "They that would destroy me, being my enemies, wrongfully are mighty." But then what did God do for them? Go ahead and read. Then I restored that which I took not away. No matter how much they hated them, no matter when they killed him on the cross and they were a part of it. He said, "Then I restored that which I took not away." And what he restored which he took not away was none other than eternal life. Sisters and brothers. See, he can't take that away from you once you make the mission. So now verse five, go ahead. Oh. Yeah. I'm sorry. Yeah. Skip down. Go ahead. I have become a stranger to my brethren.

Go ahead. An alien to my mother's children. He was like just like they they try to push this space agenda stuff now which is all fake. when he said, "I have become a stranger unto my brethren and an alien unto my mother's children." An alien is something that don't nobody know. Somebody that's people are unfamiliar with. That's what an alien is. So now verse nine, go ahead. For the zeal of thine house have eaten me up. Go ahead. And the reproaches of them that reproach thee gohead are fallen upon me. And we've covered this a long time ago, so this should be a great review. He said, "And the reproaches of them that reproach thee are fallen upon me." See, when people were sinning, they were sinning against the father's word. But the father did not come down and die for the sins of the people.

That was Jesus that did that. So all of the reproaches that reproached the father, they all fell on Jesus. And Jesus became the scapegoat. Jesus became the sin offering, sisters and brothers. So now verse 10, go ahead. When I wept and chasened my soul with fasting, go ahead. That was to my reproach. He said that was to his reproach. He said every time he fast, he said that was to his reproach. Verse 11, go ahead. I may sack up all also my garment. Sack was his garment. Why did he say that? Because he was fasting all the time. The disciples wasn't fasting, but Jesus was fasting all the time. He said, I made sacloth also my garment. Go ahead and read. And I became a proverb to them that they sit in the in the gates. Speak against me. Go ahead. And I was a song of drunk. Why do you think we was reading about that?

They w up early in the morning and they drank until wine inflamed them. So even when they was looking at Jesus on the cross, half of them was drunk already because that's what Israel do. Israel ain't no different than from what they are today. You can look at the liquor stores on the corner in the hood. Where you going to see us at? Early in the morning, we still sitting out drinking wine all the time. That's what we do. So when they killed Jesus, he said, "I became the son of drunkards." So now, but verse 13, go ahead and read. But as for me, he said, "But as for me, go ahead. My prayer is unto thee, oh Lord." He said, "My prayer is unto thee, oh Lord." Go ahead. In an acceptable time, oh God, in the multitude of thy mercy, hear me. Go ahead. In the truth of thy salvation, go ahead.

Deliver me out of the mouth. Go ahead. And let me not sink. Let me be delivered from them that hate me. And out of the deep waters. Go ahead. Let not the water the flood overflow me. Neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me. So basically, he said, "Let not the pit shut up her mouth upon me." What we talking about there? Because Jesus when he died, he didn't see no corruption, sisters and brothers. He was in the grave for three days and three nights. But when he rose, he rose with all power. He wasn't even in the grave long enough in order to see corruption, sisters and brothers. So he said, "Let not the water floods overflow me." Those waters represents trouble in your life. When Peter was walking on water and then the water became boisterous and then all of a sudden what did he say?

He said, "Save me, oh Lord." And what did God do? He saved him. So these waters that come into your life, they represents trouble, sisters and brothers. So now let's go a little bit further now. Let's go to Deuteronomy the 29th chapter. Deuteronomy 29. And we going to pick it up at verse one. Deuteronomy 29. And we going to pick it up at verse one. We going to get back to the branch. We going to deal with Israel right now though. And then we going to go. We going to even talk about the building of the temple. Sisters and brothers. We going to talk about all of that because in order to be king, in order to be the branch, you gonna have to have a throne and a temple to dwell in.

So, we going to talk about that a little bit later, but let's go to Deuteronomy 29 and we going to pick it up at verse one. Deuteronomy 29 and we going to pick it up at verse one. When you get there, Elder, go ahead and read. These are the words of the covenant which the Lord commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab. Go ahead. Beside the covenant which he had made with them in Hor. So, we going to read about what this covenant is, sisters and brothers. And this is a special covenant because he made a covenant with us also when we was in the mountain of Horeel. And the covenant is none other than the ten commandments. Right? So he said, "These are the words of the covenant which the Lord commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, besides the covenant which he made with them in Horeb." So now verse two, go ahead.

And Moses called unto all Israel, and said unto them, Go ahead. Ye have seen all that the Lord did before your eyes in the land of Egypt unto Pharaoh. Go ahead and unto all his servants and unto all his land. They seen all of it, sisters and brothers. They was eyewitnesses. These was the real Jehovah witnesses right here. They saw all of the temptations that that that that he did when he brought the children of Israel out of Egypt. So now verse three, go ahead. the great temptations which thine eyes have seen. Gohead the signs and those great miracles. Go ahead. Yet the Lord have not given you and heart to perceive. Go ahead. And eyes to see and ears to hear unto this day. See, that's a strong statement that you just read, sisters and brothers. That's a strong statement.

You've seen all of the temptations that of what of what I did when I brought you out. But yet I have not given you a heart to perceive and eyes to see and ears to hear unto this day. Why didn't he do that? Because they were stiff necked. Because they would not deal with the commandments of the Lord. So even though they saw all of these great temptations, they could not perceive to do the word of God. So now verse five, go ahead. And I have led you 40 years in the wilderness. Go ahead. Your clothes are not waxing old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxing old upon thy foot. You had the same clothes on, but guess what? They was clean. They didn't wax old upon you. Neither did you even wear any old shoes. Everything that God gave you, he kept it up. See, that's what you got to understand with the Lord.

We always worried about increasing and increasing, but what you got to do is maintain what you have. And once you maintain what you have, then you let the o the Lord add on to what you need into the future. That's what I do with this class right here. We all know that we want new people to come this and that. But what we got to do is maintain what the Lord has already given us. Because what he has given us is special. Why? Because it come from him. It didn't come from nobody else. So now keep reading. Go ahead. Six. Ye have not eaten bread. Go ahead. Did have ye drunk wine or strong drink? Go ahead. That ye might know that I am the Lord your God. That's what I had people say. You cannot take a drink on the Sabbath or this and that. Man, get away from it. Why don't you just get away from it?

Why don't you go look back and read that that they was drinking wine in the morning until it inflamed them. You don't need to do no pleasures like that on the Sabbath day. So, he didn't let the He led them for 40 years. And for 40 years, he did not give Israel one taste of wine because he knew how they attitude was going to be. So he didn't even suffer them to drink at all when they was in the wilderness. So don't come to me talking about can I have a s I'm just going to finish it out, man. Put the beer up and get back to it tomorrow night. That's all that you got to do with the Lord. God say be holy. Don't come off into the temple drunk. So now verse seven, go ahead. Yeah. I'm sorry. Go ahead and skip down. Skip down to verse nine. Thank you. Go ahead. Keep therefore the words of this covenant.

So now he said, "Keep therefore the words of this covenant." Go ahead and read. And do this. Go ahead. That ye may prosper in all that you do. We kind of somewhat read this last week. Don't you understand? When you keep the covenant and if you do the covenant that you going to prosper in all that you do, you going to prosper in it all. Even when you fail, you still going to prosper. So, why would you say even though we fail, you still gonna prosper? You might get some things taken away from you in this life, but can't nobody take eternal life away from you but you. So in the end, you still going to win. So he said, "Keep therefore the words of this covenant and do them that you may prosper in all that you do." So now verse 10, even though when we hurt ourselves, sisters and brothers, we got a lot of people done failed and done got hurt, even me myself.

But see, that's what that's what Satan do. He he'll come and buffet you. He'll come and buffet you and torment you with pain and make you stiff all in your body. That's what Satan to do to you. So now keep reading. Elder, go ahead. 10. Ye stand this day all of you before the Lord your God. Go ahead. Your captains of your tribes, your elders, and your officers with all the men of all all the men of Israel, your little ones, your wives, and thy stranger that is in thy camp, from the her of thy wood unto the drawer of thy waters. Go ahead. that thou should enter into covenant with the Lord thy God, and into his oath, which the Lord thy God maketh with thee this day. So now verse 13, go ahead. That he may establish these today, for a people unto himself, and that he may be unto thee a god, as he hath said unto thee, and as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

Go ahead. Neither of you only do I make this covenant and this oath, but with him that standeth here with us this day before the Lord our God. Go ahead. And also with him that is not here with us this day. So what was the covenant that he wanted us to do, sisters and brothers? That covenant is off in the ninth chapter. He said, "Keep therefore the words of this covenant and do them that you may prosper in all that you do." because he made this covenant with us when we was in the land of Moab. He had already talked about the covenant that we made with us when we was in Horeb.

So now let's uh keep keep reading Elder. Go ahead. 16. For ye know how we have dwelt in the land of Egypt, and how we came through the nations which ye passed by. Go ahead. And ye have seen your abominations. Go ahead. And their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold. Go ahead. Which were among them. So look at so now you see they they seen all of the abominations that the other nations was doing. That's why we did that lesson on be ye holy. He said and you have seen their abominations and their idols, their wood and stone, silver and gold which were among them. So now verse 18, go ahead. Lest there should be among you men or woman or family or tribe whose heart there turneth away this day from the Lord our God. and go and serve the gods of these nations. Go ahead. There should be among you a root that beareth gormwood.

Go ahead. It has come to pass when he hear he hearth the words of this curse. Go ahead. And he bless himself in his heart. Go ahead. Saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart to add drunkenness to thirst. Now you walking around, you already drunk. So now you going you going to add thirst even to your drunkenness. now because they hear the words of this covenant and God say that if you do not walk in this covenant what is he going to do to you that I'm going to bang you out but what does he say no I'm going to have peace even though I walk in the imagination of my heart because you think God understand you that God gonna save you in spite of yourself God don't work like that sisters and brothers God see one thing who is walking in the covenant and who is not walking in the covenant that's all that he sees so don't around here thinking that you going to have peace.

The Lord said there is no peace to the wicked. If you wicked, you ain't going to have no peace at all. So now verse 20, go ahead. The Lord will not spare him. You hear what the Lord say? He said the Lord will not spare him. Go ahead. But then the anger of the Lord and his jealousy shall smoke against that man. Go ahead. And all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him. Go ahead. And the Lord shall blot out his name from under heaven. You do not want to get to this point. No. But if you keep on playing with God, he will put you to this. He will blot out your name from under heaven. So you don't want to be blotted out of the book of life, sisters and brothers. He said the Lord will not spare him. But then the anger of the Lord and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the Lord shall blot out his name from under heaven.

So now verse 21, go ahead. And the Lord shall separate him unto evil out of all the tribes of Israel. Go ahead. according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in this book of the law. So that the generations that come of your children that shall rise up after you, and the stranger that shall come from a far land shall say when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses which the Lord have laid upon it. Go ahead. And that the whole land thereof is brimstone and salt. Go ahead. That's what he did to us, sisters and brothers. That's what he did to the land of Israel. And we gonna show you that next. He said, he said they gonna see all the plagues of that land and the sickness which the Lord had laid upon it. He hit him with the burning of goo. He hit them with malaria.

He sent fiery serpent saying the Bible. So now keep reading. Go ahead. that it is not sown, nor bare, nor any grass grow up therein, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Amar, and Zebul, Zeboam, which the Lord overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath. Go ahead. Even all nations shall say, Wherefore hath the Lord done thus unto this land? Go ahead. What meaning it the heat of this great angel? So, he going to show you why. Because when you see the land, especially after Nebuchadnezzar and Titus had sacked the land, this is what the land looked like years later. It didn't have no grass. Everything grown up in it. So now, keep reading. Go ahead. 25. Go ahead. Then men shall say, then men shall say, Go ahead. Because they have forsaken the covenant of the Lord God their father.

That's the reason why when you forsake the covenant, sisters and brothers, when you forsake the ten commandments, that is when the Lord is going to deal with you. And this is what our fathers did. So now keep reading. Go ahead. Which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt. Go read that verse 26. Go ahead. For they went and served of the gods. Go ahead. And worship them. And they also worshiped them. Go ahead. Gods whom they knew not. Go ahead. And whom he had not given unto them.

So now let's go a little bit further down. We going to show you when they did it. Let's go a little further in time. Let's go to Jeremiah the 8th chapter. Jeremiah the 8th chapter and we going to pick it up at verse one. They start dealing with all of the host of heaven, sisters and brothers. And there is nothing that has changed to this day. And sadly mistaken, they even doing it in some of the house of Israel even to this day. the ones that even say they walking in the covenant, it's still going on. So therefore, let let's read about it a little bit right here.

Let's go to Jeremiah the 8th chapter and we going to pick it up at verse one. Jeremiah 8 and1. Jeremiah 8 and we going to pick it up at verse one. Jeremiah 8 and1. When you get there, go ahead and read. At that time, says the Lord. Go ahead. They shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah. Go ahead. And the bones of his prince. Go ahead. And the bones of the priests and the bones of the prophets and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem out of their grave. Go ahead. And they shall spread them before the sun. Pay attention to what he getting ready to say. He said they shall spread them before the sun. Go ahead and read. And the moon. That's where they get the word lunar from. Luna. That's where they get it from. Lunar. Go ahead and read. And all the host of heaven.

Go ahead. Whom they have loved. He said, "Whom they have loved, go ahead, "And whom they have served." And whom they have served, go ahead. And after whom they have walked, and after whom they have walked, not only was they worshiping the sun and the moon and the stars, sisters and brothers, but they was also going to these gods for everything, even for their calendar. This is what that's what it means. They even had followed them. There is no sun, moon, or stars that's going to dictate the Lord's Sabbath days to be. God's words is going to dictate when his Sabbath days are. Go in and look up. But we gonna save that because we gonna have a special power hour this week. And we gonna point some of this stuff out. He said, "And they shall spread them before the sun and the moon and all of the host of heaven whom they have loved and whom they have served and after whom they have walked." Go ahead and read.

And whom they have sought. Go ahead. And whom they have worshiped. And they shall not be gathered nor be buried. Go ahead. They shall be for dumb upon the face of the earth. So don't even go. We going to treat them like we did Ahab and how like they did Jezebel. Don't even make no burial for these people. They going to be dead right on top of the ground and they going to be like dung upon the earth. Why? Because they serve the sun and the moon and the stars.

So now let's keep reading verse three. Go ahead and read the crescent moon. Go look at what luna mean. What the word come from. Look it up. That's why I will never teach you no Babylonian practices at all. Point blank and period. So now verse three, go ahead and read. And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the res the residue of them that remain of this evil family. Go ahead. Which remain in all the places whether I have driven them, sayith the Lord of hosts. Go ahead. Moreover, thou shalt say unto them, thus sayeth the Lord, shall they fall and not arrive? Go ahead. Shall he turn away not return cuz he going cuz he going to get away from you once you once he sees sin in you sisters and brothers. So now verse five go ahead. Why then is this people of Jerusalem slitting back by a perpetual backslide?

Go ahead. They hold fast to see they refuse to return. When we was reading talking about return oh Lord off in Psalms the 80th chapter they refuse to return unto the Lord. They going to keep on going on walking in the imaginations of their mind, worshiping the sun and the moon and the stars, and they will not return from this perpetual backslide. So he said, I'm going to visit them because of this. So now verse six, go ahead. I have hearkened and heard. He said, I hearkened and heard. Go ahead. But they spake not a right. But then they kept lying. They kept using deceit. He said, I hearkened and heard, but they spake not a right. Go ahead. No man repented him of his wickedness. Say, go ahead. What have I done? Why are you contending with me? Why are you Why are you bringing all this upon me?

We don't say this at all. But you got to consider once you've been buffeted by the Lord, why is he doing this to you? So now keep reading. Go ahead. Everyone turn to his course. Go ahead. As the horse rushth into the battle, yay. The storm in the heaven north for appointed time. Go ahead. and the turtle and the crane and the shallow observe the time of their coming. Go ahead. But my people know not the judgment of the Lord. They don't even know the judgment of the Lord at all. Sisters and brothers, keep reading. Go ahead. How do ye say? Go ahead. We are wise and the law of the Lord is with us. See, I'm going make he said, why do you say we are wise and the law of the Lord is with us? Go ahead and read. No, certainly in a in vain. May he it. Go ahead. The pen and the scribe is in vain.

Why he write all these laws, statutes, and commandments down? And he knew that the children of Israel wasn't going to keep it at all. So he said basically the scribes wrote all of this stuff down for nothing because they wouldn't keep the law. So now keep reading. Go ahead. The wise men are ashamed. Go ahead. They are dismayed and taken. No, they have rejected the word of the Lord. Go ahead. And what wisdom is in them? See, you ain't going to be able to say this. They might be able to say, "Well, the brother got a small class or whatever, but you ain't going to be able to say that the law or the Lord wasn't working up in here." That's what it's all about. That's what the preacher do. See, the Lord gave the Levites wisdom according to the knowledge that he gave them. So, once you get the knowledge, you got to give this wisdom back to others.

And you cannot reject the word of the Lord. So now keep reading. Go ahead. 10. Go ahead. Therefore will I give their wives unto others. And we all know when he did that, therefore will I give their wives unto others. We can go back in the slavery days and read about that. Can you imagine having an 11 year old daughter and you have a man that's 50ome years old come in there with her and it ain't nothing you could do to stop it at all. And sometimes you would just marry a woman. He'll knock on that door at night say bring your wife out here. And then the husband will be like, "No, you ain't going." She said, "You better stop and let me go do this before he kill you." See, that's what we live through, sisters and brothers. And these are the things that we can never forget. So now, keep reading.

Go ahead. And their fields to them that shall inherit it. For everyone from the least, even unto the greatest, is given to covetousness, from the prophet, even unto the priest. Everyone dealeth falsely. Go ahead. For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly. Say peace. Go ahead. When there is no peace. Ain't going to be no peace at all. You see all this good talking that they doing in the world and all over. It ain't going to be no peace. Why ain't no peace? Now just look around, sisters and brothers. If you looking at the news a little bit, do you see all the destruction that's going on in the world? You got see they they see back in the past back you got all these mass shoots. The reason and the re you you we used to have serial killers. So we don't really see the serial killers like that no more.

So they'll put a child or put a man put him in an MK Ultra program and he go out and shoot up everybody so they can try to disarm the people. That's what the whole thing is about. They trying to take the guns away from the people and say that we need to take them away. That's what they doing.

But now let's keep reading. Let's go a little bit further now because he said they have rejected the word of the Lord. Let's go to St. John the 5th chapter. I think the last serial killer we had was about five years ago with the guy by New York that was killing the people back in 2010. So now what they doing, they just going in and shooting up places all over the world, not just in America.

So now let's go to St. John the 5th chapter and we can pick it up at verse 28. St. John 5 and we going to pick it up at verse 28. St. John 5 and we going to pick it up at 28. We going to show you how they rejected Jesus, sisters and brothers. Because see, Jesus is the word. We read that last week. And the word was what? The word was made flesh and he dwelt among us. Amen.

So now let's go to St. John 5 and we going to pick it up at verse 28. St. John 5 and we going to pick it up at verse 28. When you get there, RA, go ahead and read. [clears throat] Marvel not at this, for the hour is coming in which all that are in the grave shall hear his voice. All that are in the grave shall hear his voice. Sisters and brothers, this going to be the resurrection. He said, marvel not at this, for the hour is coming into which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice. Verse 29, go ahead. And shall come forth. Go ahead. They that have done good unto the resurrection of life. Go ahead. And they that have done evil unto the resurrection of damnation. This is your choice. You got to make this choice right here. This choice is yours. You going to make the choice of whether you going to go to the resurrection of life or or you are going to the resurrection of damnation.

The choice is yours. And the only person that can make that choice is you. So now let's get down to verse 35. Go ahead, Elder. He was a burning and a shining light. He talking about John the Baptist. That's what you want to be. You want to be like a burning spirit. He was like a burning and a shining light. Go ahead. Ye read. And ye were willing for a season to rejoice in his light. Say they always rejoice for a season. But see, the problem is is they don't they don't continue on after they get the light. They hear the light, but they don't continue in the light. So what does he say? They rejoicing only for a season. Verse 36, go ahead. But I have greater witness than that of John. Go ahead. For the works which the father have given me to finish the same works that I do, bear witness of me that the father have sent me.

So now it ain't going to be the way that it was when we read I sent the prophets and yet they ran and I didn't speak to them. See, you can look at the miracles that Jesus did and you know that he was sent by the father. Sisters and brothers, he said, "My works testify that the father had sent me." Verse 37, go ahead. And the father himself which has sent me have borne witness of me. Go ahead. Ye neither ye have neither heard his voice at any time. Go ahead. Nor seen his shape, nor seen his shape. A lot of people got a real big problem with this. But this is crystal clean right here. Yes, it is. You have never heard the father's voice. When they when the when the when the when the 24 elders saw saw the feet of the Lord, that was not the father. That was the son, sisters and brothers.

The voice that they heard coming out of the sky. That was none other than Jesus' voice. Said he had neither heard his voice at any time nor seen it shape. But now they heard it a little bit later on. But then that's another story for another time. Because when Jesus was baptized, what did he say? He said, "This is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased." So now, but at this time, it ain't happened yet. So now, keep reading. Go ahead. And ye have not his word abiding in you. Go ahead. For whom he hath sent. Go ahead. Him you believe not. Always the ones that sent, those are the people that that those are the ones that people don't believe. the ones that were sent, sisters and brothers. He said, "If you have not his word abiding in you, for whom he has sent him you believe not." So now verse 39, go ahead.

Search the scriptures. What did Peter tell you that you got a most sure word of prophecy? So if there's anything that you do not understand, go back and read what the prophet said about it first. He says, "Search the scriptures for in Go ahead. Search the scriptures." Go ahead. For in them ye think ye have eternal life. Go ahead. And they are they which testify of me. They testify of him. Go ahead. And ye will not come to me. Go ahead. That ye might have life. And so they won't even come to him that you might have life. Sisters and brothers. They won't come to Jesus. Like we say, they teach everybody that's writing these books about the name of Jesus. If you only knew that they go to the school of mysteries, they teach this stuff. They put the books out about the name of Jesus.

They tell you in the Masonic lodge that you cannot say the name of Jesus Christ in there at all. They are the ones that say that. They also say it in the music industry that you cannot talk about Jesus at all. So now keep reading. Go ahead. 41. Go ahead. I receive not honor from men. I'm glad I read this because if I receive honor from men, I wouldn't even be standing here right now. As everybody know, don't too many people like over die anyway. But I'm fine with that. I'm going to still keep going. He said, "I receive not honor from men." Go ahead. But I know you. That ye have not the love of God in you. That's why you don't look for the pat on the back from man all the time. You got to deal with what God tell you to do. So now verse 43, go ahead. I am come in my father's name.

Go ahead. And you receive me not. So it's mighty funny that he came in the name of the father. And that's the main name that everybody in the world rejects, sisters and brothers, because they do not understand that the name came from heaven. So now, keep reading. Go ahead. If another shall come in his own name, if another shall come in his own name, go ahead and read. Him ye will receive. So now verse 44, go ahead. How can ye believe which you which receive honor one of another? Go ahead. And seek not the honor that cometh from God only. That's the only honor that you need. the honor that come from God only, sisters and brothers. Verse 45, go ahead. Do not think that I will accuse you to the father. Go ahead. There is one that accusth you. Go ahead. Even Moses in whom ye trust.

Go ahead. For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me. Go ahead. For he wrote of me. Go ahead. But if you believe not his writings. Go ahead. How shall ye believe my words? How you going to believe his words and you don't believe what the prophets wrote? How you gonna believe in the spiritual? You can't deal with the physical of what Moses gave you in the Old Testament. How you gonna be able to call on the spiritual, sisters and brothers.

So now let's go to St. Luke the 8th chapter. Now let's go to St. Luke 8 and we going to pick it up at verse 33. St. Luke 8 and we going to pick it up at 33 because see they hated him. His children when he stepped on it, his mother's children was angry with him for no reason at all. And the only thing that Jesus came to do was to give them eternal life. He didn't they he they had nothing to offer him, but he had everything to give to them as a people. So now St. Luke the 8th chapter. St. Luke 8. And we going to pick it up at verse 33. St. Luke 8 and 33. When you get there, go ahead. Elder. Then was the devil's out of the man and entered into the swine. And the herd ran violently down a steep place. See, they got the lake. Go, go ahead. Keep reading. Go ahead, El. And were choked.

When they that fed them saw what was done, they fled and went and told it in the city and in the country. Then they went out to see what was done. They came to Jesus and found the man out of whom the devils were reported sitting at the feet of Jesus clothed and in his right mind. Go ahead. And they were afraid. That's what Jesus do, sisters and brothers. Jesus came to save this man from all these devils that he had dwell in them. See, like we say all the time, the evil spirits need a host. They don't want to dwell alone. They don't want to just be walking around in chains of darkness. They need something to latch on to like a tick. Like a tick latch on to a dog. That's what that's what an evil spirit want to do. They want to live inside of somebody. But what you got to do?

They said, "Man, if we can't anywhere but just walking in chains of darkness." That's why he said, "Well, let us go off into these herd of swines over here, let us go into some kind of host cuz they need a host, sisters and brothers." But now Jesus took all of these devils out of this guy, and he was sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothed and in his right mind, and they were afraid. So now verse 36, go ahead. They also which saw it told them by what means he that was possessed of the devils was healed. Then the whole multitude of the country of the gatherings round about besought him to depart from them for they were taken with great fear and he went up into the ship and returned back again. Go ahead. Now the man out of whom the devils were departed besought him that he might be with him.

But Jesus sent him away, saying, "Return to thine own house and show how great things God hath done unto them." And that's what we that's what we think we be doing with people that love us. But when you turn around and you give people this word of God, then they what the first thing that they do, sisters and brothers, is they turn away from you. But now keep reading. Go ahead. and he went his way and published throughout the whole city how great things Jesus had done unto him. What great things Jesus had done unto them.

But now let's skip down to verse 52. We ain't going to read to 47. Skip down to verse 52 and go ahead and read. And all wept and bewelled her, but he said weep not. She is not dead but sleepeth. That that was the that was the daughter that he rose. But now keep reading. Go ahead. And they laughed him the scone knowing that she was dead. Go ahead. And he put them all out and took her by the hand and called saying, "Made a rod." Go ahead. And her spirit came again, and she arose straight straight way that he commanded to to give her meat. Go ahead. And her parents were astonished. Go ahead. But he charged them that they should tell no man what was done. To tell no man what was done. I threw this in for a little flavor, sisters and brothers, how Jesus healed when he was even on the earth.

But now let's go a little bit further. Let's go to St. Luke the 23rd chapter. Let's go to St. Luke 23. St. Luke 23 and we going to pick it up at verse 37. St. Luke 23 and we going to pick it up at verse 37. So now this is when they was getting ready to kill Jesus and they killed him on the cross. St. Luke 23 and pick it up at verse 37. Go ahead and read and say if thou be the king of the Jews, save thyself. And the superscription also was written over him in letters of Greek and Latin and Hebrew. This is the king of the Jews. Go here. And the one of the male factors which were hanged railed on him, saying, if thou be Christ, go ahead. Save thyself and us. So now, because he wanted to live, but he didn't repent to the Lord for what he did. Now he said, one of the male factors which hang on him, saying, if thou be the Christ, he said, save thyself and us.

But now keep reading. Go ahead. 40. But the other answering rebuked him, saying, Go ahead. Does not thou fear God? He said, dost thou not fear God? Go ahead. See, that are in the same condemnation. You in the same condemnation as he is, but you still saying that you don't fear God because the way that he was still trying to rail on God because of his actions. So now verse 41, go ahead. And we indeed indeed justly for we receive the due reward of our deeds. This man was smart. He said, "And we indeed justly now for we receive the due reward for our deeds." He knew that they was doing wrong and he knew that he had deserved death. But now what did he say about Jesus? Go ahead. But this man have done nothing a miss. Go ahead. And he said unto Jesus, Lord, remember we thou comest into thy kingdom.

Go ahead. And Jesus said unto him, verily I say unto thee, today shalt thou be with me in paradise. Because Jesus knew he was getting ready to die anyway. He wasn't going to live. So what did he do? He repented to Jesus right before he died. So he said he said, "Remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom." Because we going to read about this kingdom later. And Jesus said unto him, "Verily I say unto thee, today thou shalt be with me in paradise." Amen. Because he returned unto the Lord. Yes, sir. So now verse 44, go ahead. And it was about the sixth hour, and there was a darkness over all the earth until the 9inth hour. And the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was rent in the midst. And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, "Father, into thy hands, I commend my spirit." Go ahead.

And having said thus, go ahead. He gave up the ghost. I would have been scared as I don't know what degree this man say this on the cross. He said, "Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit." And having said thus, he gave up the ghost. So now verse 47, go ahead. Now when the centurion saw what was done, he glorified God, saying, "Certainly this was a righteous man. Certainly this was a righteous man." So you seeing a man of another nation is already starting to believe in Jesus now cuz this going to make significance as we get into the lesson. But now keep reading. Go ahead. 48. And all the people that came together in that sight, beholding the things which were done, smoked their breasts, and returned. Go ahead. And all his acquaintances, and the women that followed him from Galilee, stood a far off, beholding these things.

Go ahead. And behold, there was a man named Joseph. Go ahead. A counselor. And he was a good man. And they just But no, let me I'm gonna point out something that the people when they smoke their breasts in return, they were saying it's over with now. We ain't got no more miracles that's gonna happen. No more free meals that was going to come about. So they so they thought everything was over with. So they hit their breast and they returned now. But then they ran into this guy that was a counselor. He was a good man and just. So now verse 51, go ahead. The same had not consented to the counsel indeed of them. He was ar Arya, a city of the Jews, whom also himself waited for the kingdom of God. Go ahead. This man went unto Pilate and begged the body of Jesus. Go ahead. And and he took it down and wrapped it in linen and laid it in the separate that was he in stone wherein never men before it was laid.

Go ahead. And that day was preparation. Go ahead. And the Sabbath drew drew on and the Sabbath draw your own. I threw this in for the Sabbath day. Now they said, "And that day was the preparation and the Sabbath drew on." Go ahead. And the women also which came with him from Galilee followed after and beheld the separate and how his body was laid. Go ahead. And every turn and prepared spices and ointments and rested the Sabbath day according to the commandments. So you got to throw this in for the Sabbath. That's what God want you to do on the Sabbath day. He want you to rest, sisters and brothers. So even though that Jesus had died on the cross, they still rested on the Sabbath day as according to the commands.

So now let's go to Isaiah 53. Let's make a quick stop right here now because we going to get down to this branch. Let's go to Isaiah 53 and we going to pick it up at verse one. He came unto his own and his own had him killed, sisters and brothers. So one thing about Jesus, Jesus was going to be rejected the same way that Jesus is even rejected in this generation. Nothing has changed. So now Isaiah 53 and we going to pick it up at verse one. Now let's get down to the branch. Isaiah 53 and let's pick it up at verse one. 53 and one. Go ahead and read. Who have believed our report? Go ahead. And to whom is the arm of the Lord reveal? The right hand of the Lord. Sisters and brothers. This is talking about Jesus. But one thing that people they are not going to believe what you say about it.

So now verse two, go ahead and read. For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant. This him is the father. Now for he shall grow up before him as a tender plant. Go ahead and read. And as a root out of a dry ground. Remember that? that vineyard that had all of the thorns coming up, that had all of the stones that was in it, that ground had represented Israel. Now, so even though that it wasn't going to be no water around this plant or this branch, it was going to grow up tender. And even though it didn't have no water from the nation, it got its water from the father. So now, keep reading. Go ahead. He has no form nor coming. Go ahead. And when we shall see him, go ahead. There is no beauty that we should desire. He wasn't going to be our candy. He wasn't going to tickle your ears when he came.

He was going to tell you exactly what you needed to hear to save yourself, sisters and brothers. So now verse three, go ahead. He is despised and rejected of men. Go ahead and read. A man is sorrow. Go ahead. And acquainted with grief. So do y'all remember when we read that he made sackcloth and ashes his garment because he was always sad. He was always fasting. He was always afflicted himself. So he is despised and rejected of men. He is a man of sorrows. Go ahead. And acquainted with grief. Go ahead. And we hid as it were our faces from him. Go ahead. He was despised and we esteemed him not. Go ahead and read. Surely he had borne our grief. Go ahead. And carry our sorrows. He had borne our griefs and carried our sorrows. Sisters and brothers, we got some people in here hurt.

Well, guess who going through this pain with us. The Lord is doing it, sisters and brothers. The pain that we're going through, he is going through it with us. You ain't going through it by yourself. That's why you just got to deal with the chastisement. So now, keep reading. Go ahead. Yes, we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God and afflicted. We esteem him strength. Now, he was smitten of God and afflicted. Go ahead and read. But he was wounded for our transgressions. Go ahead. He was bruised for our iniquities. That mean he was wounded for our transgressions and he was bruised for our iniquities. That means that he was killed for our sins. Go ahead. The chastisement of our peace was upon him. Go ahead. We are healed. So now, so what did So with his stripes we are healed.

What did Jeremiah say? He said, "Heal me and I shall be healed. Save me and I shall be saved." So now the stripes that you are bearing right now, like it like I talk about it, arthritis, being stiff neck, being stiff, what you think? Stiff neck. So I'mma torment you with it. But everything that you going through, I'm right here with you for it. Just don't turn back to sin. So now pick it up at verse 12 and go ahead. Therefore will I divide him a portion with the grave. Go ahead. And he shall divide the spoil with the strong. Go ahead. Because he have poured out his soul unto death. Go ahead. And he was numbered with the transgressors. And he bear the sin of many. Go ahead. And made intercession for the transgressor. That's what he did. He made intercessions for the transgressors, sisters and brothers.

But because of all of this, God is going to divide a spoil of the strong and poured out. He poured out his soul under death. But we're gonna read about this kingdom a little bit later. But now let's go to Ezekiel the 17th chapter. Ezekiel 17. Let's get to the parable about this branch, sisters and brothers.

Let's go to Ezekiel the 17th chapter. Ezekiel 17. And we going to pick it up at verse one. So to let you know before we get into it now, so you can better understand what this parable is talking about, we going to be talking about Israel. We gonna be talking about Babylon and in the end we gonna be talking about Jesus.

So now let's go to Ezekiel 17. And let's pick it up at verse one. Ezekiel 17. And we going to pick it up at verse one. When you get there, beloved elder, go ahead and read. And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, Son of man, put forth a riddle and speak a parable unto the house of Israel. Go ahead and say, "Thus say the Lord God, a great eagle with great wings, long wings, full of feathers, which has diverse colors, came unto Lebanon, and took the highest branch of the seed." So just to let you know what this is talking about. He is talking about Israel, sisters and brothers. So what did he bring Israel out with? He brought Israel out as an eagle, right? So he saw this great eagle with wings, long wings full of feathers, which had diverse colors, came unto Lebanon, and took the highest branch of the cedarsus.

So now verse four, go ahead. He cropped off the top of his young twigs. Go ahead. And carried it into a land of traffic. Go ahead. He said it in a city of merchants. Sisters and brothers, this talking about Jerusalem. So what is this land of traffic? This is where you sell things. So when Israel was in the land, they had all of the wheat. They had all of the barley. They had all of the grapes and the vines and the roses. They had all of this stuff. Now, even all of the spices. So now verse five, go ahead. He took also the seed of the land. Go ahead. And planted it in a fruitful field. He placed it by great water. Go ahead. And set it as a willow tree. and it grew and became a spreading vine of a low stature whose branches turned toward him and the rooster thereof were under him.

So it became a vine. Go ahead. And brought forth branches. Go ahead. And shout forth spread. So we all read about the vine. We read about the vine in Isaiah 5. And we read about the vine also in Psalms the 8th chapter. Now so this is that vine that he did everything for this vine. So now keep reading. Go ahead. Seven. There was also another great eagle. Now, so he's speaking into the future. So now he is getting ready to talk about the king of Babylon. He said there was also another great eagle. Go ahead. With great wings. Go ahead. And many. And behold, this vine did bend her roots toward him. That's Jerusalem. Go ahead. and sought forth her branches toward him, that he might water it by the furls of her plantation. Go ahead. And it was planted in a good soil by great waters, that it might bring forth branch.

Go ahead. And that it might bear fruit that it might be a goodly vine. Go ahead. So say thou, thus sayeth the Lord God, shall it prosper? Shall he not pull up the roots thereof, and cut off the fruit thereof, that it wither? It shall wither in all the leaves of her spring, even without great power or many peoples to pluck it up by the roots thereof. Go ahead. Yeah. Behold, being planted, shall it prosper? Shall it not utterly wither? When the east wind touchth it, it should wither in the furrows where it grew. Go ahead. Moreover, the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, Say now to the rebellious house. He said so. He said, Moreover, the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, He said, say now to the rebellious house, go ahead and read. Know ye not what these things mean.

Go ahead. Tell them, behold, the king of Babylon to come to Jerusalem. Now, go ahead. and have taken the king thereof and the princes thereof and led them with him to Babylon. Go ahead. So now he said he said, "And the king of Babylon has come up to Jerusalem and have taken the king thereof and the princes thereof and led them with him to Babylon." So now verse 13, go ahead. Okay. Yeah. Go ahead. Yeah. Go ahead and I'm sorry, brother. Skip down to verse 19. Therefore, thus sayith the Lord God. He said, "Therefore, thus sayeth the Lord God." Go ahead. As I live, surely my oath that he hath despised, and my covenant that he hath broken, even will I recompense upon his own head. Go ahead. I will spread my net upon him. and he shall be taken in the in my snare and I will bring him to Babylon and will plead with him there for his trespass that he have trespassed against me.

And we all read about it, sisters and brothers. We knew that the nation went into captivity because they had sinned against the Lord. Now, so this pleading that he is doing with us, it's not saying please y'all return to be pleased. This plead right here is talking about killing sisters and brothers. So now verse 21, go ahead. And all his fugitives with all his bands go ahead shall fall by the sword. Notice he called them fugitives, sisters and brothers. Go ahead and read. And they that remain shall be scattered toward all winds. Go ahead. And ye shall know that I the Lord have spoken it. Go ahead. Thus says the Lord God, I will also take up the highest branch of the high se. So now we now we talking about this branch now. So we talked about Israel. We talked about also when the king of Babylon and his nation grew.

So now we talking about the kingdom of God. See Jesus going to come back and set everything in order. So now he said, "Thus say the Lord God, I will also take of the highest branch." Go ahead and read. Branch of high cedar. Go ahead. And will set it. Go ahead. I will cut off the top of his young twig. Go ahead. A tender one. That tender one that we read off in off in Isaiah the 53rd chapter. That tender branch that was going to grow before him. This talking about Jesus now. He said, "I will crop from the top of these young te's twigs a tender one." Go ahead. And will planted upon high mountain go imminent. Go ahead. In the mountain of the height of Israel will I plant it. And it shall bring forth boughs and bear fruits and a goodly cedar. Go ahead. and it under it shall dwell in all foul of every way.

So now so now all f he said in the mountain of the height of Israel will I plant it and it shall bring forth bowls and bear fruit and be a goodly cedar and under it shall all fouls of everything. Go ahead and read in the shadow of the branches thereof they dwell shall they dwell. This going this going to be talking about all nations now. So remember you reading the parable. So all of these files are going to dwell in this tender branch that he had cropped off. So now verse 24, go ahead. And all the trees of the field shall know that I the Lord have brought down the high tree. Go ahead. Have exalted the low tree have dried up the green tree and have made the dry tree to flourish. And have made the dry tree to flourish. That dry tree that came out of a dry ground, it's going to flourish.

Now go ahead and read. I the I the Lord have spoken and have done it. I the Lord have spoken and and have done it, sisters and brothers. And we just want to show you that. Let's go to St. Matthew the 13th chapter. St. Matthew 13 and we going to pick it up at verse 31. See, Jesus going to gather all people that call on his name. He going to gather all of them. He going to not only gather the physical Israelites, he is also going to gather the spiritual Israelites as well. because all of the files going to dwell in this tree.

Let's go to St. Matthew 13 and pick it up. We going to read only two verses right here. Pick it up at verse 31. Go ahead and read another parable put he forth unto them, saying, go ahead. The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed. Go ahead. Which a man took and sowed in his field. That's what the kingdom of heaven is. Is is like it's like a grain of a mustard seed now which a man took and sowed this seed in the field. Verse 32. Go ahead. Which indeed is the least of all seeds. It's going to be the least of all seas. Go ahead. But when it is grown, it is the greatest among earth. Go ahead. And becometh a tree. And it he said it is the greatest among earths now and becometh a tree. Go ahead and read. So that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.

They going to all come and lodge in the branches thereof. This parable is talking about Jesus gathering all nations. now and they all going to serve him in the end. That's why they call him the branch. But now let's go to Zechariah the third chapter.

Now let's go back to the Old Testament. Let's go to Zechariah 3. Zechariah 3 and we going to pick it up at verse one. We going to talk about Joshua the high priest. this guy that was back off in the days of Ezra and Nehemiah when they was dedicating the temple.

So now let's go to Zechariah 3 and we gonna pick it up at verse one. We getting ready to deal with some end time prophecy now sisters and brothers. Zechariah 3 and let's pick it up at verse one. Zechariah 3 and 1. Go ahead and read. And he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the Lord. Go ahead. And Satan standing at his right hand to resist him. So, do you know what that means, sisters and brothers? You going to try to do right, but Satan going to always be at your right hand to resist you. He going to always be there to make a reason why you shouldn't be doing God's word. That's what he want to do. That's how he takes you away. You do something bad, he make you feel like, well, I ain't worthy of God. I ain't gonna pick my Bible up and read it. I ain't going to go to church.

Because he makes you feel like you're not worthy. But that's the time that you are the most worthy because that's when God got your attention. So now verse two, go ahead. And the Lord said unto Satan, go ahead. The Lord rebuked. That's what you tell. That's what you tell Satan when he try to get you from keeping the word of God. And the Lord said unto Satan, the Lord rebuked thee. Go ahead. Oh Satan, even the Lord that hath chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee. Go ahead. Is not this a a brand plucked out of the fire? Go ahead. Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments and stood before the angel. And he answered his faith unto those that stood before him, saying, "Take away the filthy garment from him." And unto him, he said, "Behold, I have caused thy iniquity to pass from thee." Go ahead.

And I will clothe thee with change of rain. He said, "And I will clothe thee with a change of raignment." Those change of raignments are white raignments, sisters and brothers. Yes, sir. So now verse five, go ahead. And I said, "Let them set a fair miter upon his head." So they set a fair miter upon his head and clothed him with garments. And the angel of the Lord stood by. Go ahead. And the angel of the Lord protested unto Joshua, saying, Thus said the Lord of hosts. Go ahead. If thou would walk in my ways, and if thou would keep my charge, then thou shalt also judge my house. Go ahead. And shall also keep my court. Go ahead. and I will give thee places to walk among these that stand by. So now, so we hear about all of the promises that he gave the disciples and everything, right?

He said, you going to sit on thrones judging the 12 tribes of the children of Israel. But he also left this Joshua, the high priest, something. He said, "You also going to judge in my house, and ye shall also keep my courts, and I will give them places to walk among these that stand by." So now verse eight, go ahead and read. Hear now, oh no, Jo high priest, thou and thy fellows that sit before thee. Go ahead. For they are men wonder that. Go ahead. For behold, I will bring forth my servant the branch. This where we get the title of the lesson from now. He said, behold, I will bring forth my servant the branch. Go ahead and read. For behold, the stone that I have laid before Joshua upon one stone shall be seven eyes. Go ahead. Behold, I will engrave the engraving, says the Lord of hosts.

Go ahead. I will remove the iniquity of the land in one day. I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day, sisters and brothers. So, how long is Jesus going to reign on the earth? He going to reign for a thousand years. So, it's going to take him a thousand years to remove all of the iniquity out of that land in one day. So, now verse 10, go ahead. In that day, says the Lord of host, go ahead. Shall you call every man his neighbor under the vine? Go ahead. And under the fig tree. So y'all, we just read St. Matthew the 13th chapter now. So now you just read it again where all of these fowls, they are going to dwell under that tree. Yes, sir.

And verse 10, he said, "In that day, said the Lord of hosts, shall ye call everyone his neighbor under the vine and under the fig tree." So now, let's go to Zechariah 6. Zechariah 6. And we gonna pick it up at verse nine. Zechariah 6 and we going to pick it up at verse 9. When you get there, go ahead, Elder. And the word of the Lord came unto him, saying, Go ahead. Take of them of the captivity, even of Helad, of Tobi, of Tob and Janiah. Janiah, which are come from Babylon. Go ahead. Come thou the same day. Go into the house of Josiah the son of Zephaniah. Go ahead. Then take the silver and gold and make crowns and set them upon the head of Joseph just Josh Joshua the son of Jezedc the high priest. Go ahead. And speak unto him saying thus speaketh the Lord of hosts saying behold the man whose name is the branch.

So now we talking about Jesus now. He said, "Behold the man whose name is called the branch." Go ahead and read. And he shall grow up out of his place. Go ahead. And shall build the temple of the Lord. So we going to show you who going to physically do it now. But it's Jesus that's going to be behind the that's going to be behind the building of the temple. So now verse 13, go ahead. Even he shall build the temple of the Lord. Go ahead. And he shall bear the glory. Go ahead. And shall sit and rule upon his throne. Go ahead. And he shall be a priest upon his throne. Go ahead. And the council of peace shall be between them both. That's talking about the father and the son. Now he said, "He shall build the temple of the Lord. He shall bear the glory and shall sit and rule upon his throne, and he shall be a priest upon his throne, and the council of peace shall be between them both." So now verse 14, go ahead.

And the crown shall be to Helum and to Tobach and to Judea and to him the son of Zephaniah. Go ahead. For memorial in the temple of the and they that are far off shall come and build in the temple of the Lord. Go ahead. And ye shall know that the Lord of hosts have sent him unto you. And this shall come to pass if ye will diligently obey the voice of the Lord your God. If you diligently obey the voice of the Lord thy God, sisters and brothers.

So now let's go right to Zechariah the 4th chapter. Zechariah 4. And we going to pick it up at verse one. Zechariah 4. And we going to pick it up at verse one. Zechariah 4 and one. Go ahead and read. And the angel that talked with me came again and wake me as a man that is waking out of his sleep and said unto me, "What seest thou?" Go ahead. And I said, "I have looked and behold a candlestick of all gold, and a bowl upon the top of it, and his seven lamps their own." Go ahead. And seven pipes through the seven lamps. Go ahead. Which are upon the top thereof. So we all know about the seven lamps or the seven golden candlesticks. now which is in the temple of the house of the Lord. That's what they had in the tabernacle of the congregation and also in the temple that Solomon had built.

So these seven lamps represent the seven eyes of the Lord that stand before him constantly, sisters and brothers. So now verse three, go ahead. And two olive trees by it. Go ahead. One upon the right side of the bowl and the other upon the left side thereof. So I answered and spake to the angel that talked with me, saying, "What are these, my lord?" Go ahead. Then the angel that talked with me, answered and said unto me, Knowest thou not what these be? And I said, "No, my Lord." Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the word of the Lord unto Zerubbabel. This is the word of the Lord unto Zerubbabel. Go ahead and read. saying, "Not by might, nor by power, but my spirit, sayeth the Lord of hosts." Go ahead. And art thou, who art thou, oh great mountain, before Zerubbabel, thou shalt become a plain, and he shall bring forth the headstone thereof with salience, crying, grace, grace unto it.

That's what he gonna do now. That's what Zerubbabel gonna do. Because see, Zerubbabel is going to be the one that's going to build a third temple. Now, I know a lot of people preach they going to build another temple. They going to build it. They got everything. But they got But they waiting on a cow. Come on, man. They waiting on a cow. We You y'all cloning people, making nuclear warheads, but you waiting on a red hemp. But man, get out of here. If that Let me tell you something. Those buildings that sit on the temple mount are masonically owned. Sisters and brothers, the temple mount has been constructed by the Gentiles since the days of the Nice Templar when they sided with the assassins, which was the biggest uh Arab group in the world and they the ones that taught the nice templar how to fight.

Why do you think that you got the Israelites temples that's sitting on the temple mount today? So, we just waiting on them to grow. You waiting on Edom to tell the truth, man. Come on with that. Let's speak for real here. So now the third temple that's going to be built is going to be built by Zerubbabel. So now keep reading though. We don't teach at the first born they going to build a temple and they ain't built it by now. And just like you say they going to build an altar over there sisters and brothers because if you just look nine minutes down the way you got the holiest temple site for Christians on the planet on the Mount of Olives and it's called the holy it's called the holy of the septa. the holy it's the biggest most known Christian temple in the world that's on the mount of olives today and guess how far it is from the mount of olives it's a nine minute walk from the temple site nine minutes to get there so now just throw throw something on your mind for a little minute but now keep reading elder go ahead moreover the word of the lord came unto me saying go ahead the hands of zerel have laid the foundation of this house go ahead his hand shall also finish Thou shalt know that the Lord of hosts hath sent me unto you.

Go ahead. For who hath despised the day of small things? For they shall rejoice and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel who which those seven. So now he said, "For who had despised the day of the small things, for they shall rejoice and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel with those seven angels. Those going to be the ones that's going to build the temple of the Lord. Go ahead and read. They are the eyes of the Lord. Go ahead. Which run to and fro through the whole earth. So now, just one more thing, y'all I want to add in. See, they got it all mixed up. They think that the are going, they are waiting for something divine to come build a temple, too. The way that it was off in in in uh uh in uh uh uh in Ezekiel, they waiting for the temple to be built by that.

That's what they teaching Judaism. They not teaching that they going to physically tear some down and build it up by the hands of man. They not teaching that. They are teaching that something divine is going to build the temple for them as well. That's why they preach on the other side of the whailing wall to bring forth that temple, but it's not going to come to pass. But now keep reading now to go ahead. That's your way of learning something on your way to learning something. They ain't saying nothing about they going to build another temple. That's what they telling y'all. So now verse 11, go ahead. Then answered I and said unto him, Go ahead. What are these two olive trees upon the right side of the candlestick and upon the left side thereof? And I answered again and said unto him, What be these two olive branches which through the golden two golden pipes empty the golden oil out of themselves?

Go ahead. And he answered me and said, "Knowest thou not what these be?" When I said no my lord, then said he, these are the two anointed ones that stand by the Lord on the whole earth. So these going to be the two people, they going to stand by the Lord of the earth. And these two uh candlesticks right here or these two golden bowls, they going to be the ones that's going to set up heaven that it don't rain, they can bring fire, they going to be the ones that's going to give the pope trouble when he come back and rule for these three and one half years.

But now let's go to Hagi 2. Now let's go back to the building of the temple. Let's go to Hagi the second chapter. Hagi 2. So now just to kind of let you know if you don't know the reason why that they have two Arab temples that are sitting on the temple mount. Go back and read about the assassins. Y'all see the game all the time called the assassin's creed. Now the assassins was the Shiites. The Shiites followed Ali where you had the other the Muslims. They had followed Muhammad. So you got the Shiites which is off in Iran right now. Those people were called the assassins and they were the number one most notorious group probably ever that were the nomads that was in what they call the Middle East. So they trained the nice Templar and that's when they took it over. That's why you got on the Alhash Sharif, you got the Dome of the Rock and you've also got the Alaska which is sitting on the temple site today.

So now you got to read and you got to research sisters and brothers. It was the assassins that was under Ali. They were the ones is the reason why uh Jerusalem is the third holiest site today. But now let's get back to the book. Let's go to Hagi the second chapter.

Before I get to talking too much, let's go to Hagi the 2 chapter. Hag I mean Hagi 2 and pick it up at verse one. Hagi 2 and1. Go ahead and read. In the seventh month, in the one and 20th day of the month, came the word of the Lord by the prophet Hag, saying, "Speak now to Zerubbabel, the son of Seael, governor of Judah, and to Joshua, the son of Jec, the high priest." So, we just read that now. So, we reading about Zerubbabel, and we reading about this high priest, Joshua, Joshua, the son of Jehosedc, the high priest. Go ahead and read. and to the residue of the people, saying, "Who is left among you that saw this house in her first glory? And how shall [snorts] and how do you see it now? Is it not in your eyes in comparison of of it as nothing?" So now when you go back and you look in Ezra and Nehemiah after the 70 years that they spent in Babylon, they went back to build the temple again.

But when they built the temple, that temple was nothing compared to how Solomon's temple was, right? Because they had to borrow things. They had to get what was left. But yet and still the Lord built the temple. So now verse four, go ahead. Yet now be strong, O Zerubbabel, said the Lord. And be strong, oh Joshua, son of Jec, the high priest. And be strong all ye people of the land, sayaeth the Lord, and work, for I am with you, saith the Lord of hosts. Go ahead. According to the word that I covenanted with you, when ye came out of Egypt, so my spirit remainth among you. Go ahead. Fear ye not. He said, "Fear ye not." Verse six, go ahead. For thus sayith the Lord of hosts, yet once it is a little while, and I will set the heavens and the earth and the sea and the dry land.

So you getting ready to read about the return of the Lord now, sisters and brothers. He said, "But thus said the Lord of hosts, yet once and it is a little while and I shall shake the heavens and the earth and the sea and the dry land." Verse seven, go ahead. And I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations shall come, and I will fill this house with glory, sayeth the Lord of hosts. Go ahead. The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, sayeth the Lord of hosts. Go ahead. The glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former, sayeth the Lord of hosts. And in this place will I give peace, sayeth the Lord of hosts. Go ahead. In the fourth and 20th day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the Lord of Hagi the prophet, saying, Go ahead.

Thus said the Lord of hosts, ask now the priest concerning the law, saying, So now everybody pay attention to what we getting ready to read now because I got some questions not too long ago about being clean and unclean. But what we got to understand is the whole nation is unclean. So when Jesus come back, one thing that he is going to take from the nation is uncleanness. Now, so now he said, "Thus said the Lord of hosts, ask now the priest concerning the law, saying," verse 12, go ahead. If one bear holy flesh in the skirt of his garment, go ahead. "And with his skirt do touch bread or polish or wine or oil or any meat, shall it be holy?" Go ahead. And the priest answered and said, "No, it ain't holy no more now, but now keep reading. Go ahead." Then said, "Hi, Go ahead.

If one that is unclean by a dead body touch any of these, shall it be unclean?" Go ahead. And the priest answered instead, go ahead. It shall be unclean. See, that's the reason why we we unclean no matter what. We unclean even with our food. He said, "You going to even eat your food defile among the Gentiles. So you don't go out and buy the pork but where you got the meat at is pork in their way. So we all unclean. We don't know who done been by a dead body. We don't know who got the claps or whatever at that time or bearing out of the disease. We don't know that. So that's why the whole nation is unclean. But now keep reading. Go ahead. Then ask how I got and said so is this people and so is this nation before me sayeth the Lord. Go ahead. and so is every work of their hands and that which they offer there is unclean.

Go ahead. And now I pray you consider from this day and upward from before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of the Lord since those days were when one came to a heap of 20 measures. There were what? 10. When one came to the press fat for the for to draw out 50 vessels out of the press, there were what? 20. Go ahead. I smoke you with blasting and with mildew and with hell in all the labors of your hand. Go ahead. Yet you turned not to me, sayeth the Lord. With all of this that he done to the nation now, we still did not return to him. So you can even go read off of Amos where he said this now. So I smoke you with blessings and with mildew and with hell and all the labors of your hand, yet you turn not to me, sayeth the Lord. So now verse 18, go ahead. Consider now from this day and upward from the four and 20th day of the ninth month.

Go ahead. Even from the day that the foundation of the Lord's temple was laid, consider it. Go ahead. Is the seed yet in the barn? Yay. as yet the vine and the fig tree and the pomegranate and the olive trees have not brought forth. From this day will I bless you. So now verse 20 go ahead. And again the word of the Lord came unto Hayek in the fourth and 20th day of the month saying speak to Zerubbabel governor of Judah saying go ahead I will shake the heavens and the earth. So now he says, "Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, saying, I will shake the heavens and the earth." Verse 22, go ahead. "And I will overthrow the throne of kingdom." All of these kingdoms that you see on the earth, God is going to overthrow all of them. Now, he said, "And I will overthrow the thrones of kingdoms." Go ahead.

And I will destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the hidden. Go ahead. And I will overthrow the chariots and those that ride in them. And the horses and their riders shall come down. everyone by the sword of his brother. Go ahead. In that day, says the Lord of hosts, will I take thee, oh Zerubbabel, my servant, the son of Shel, says the Lord, and will make thee as a signant, for I have chosen thee, sayeth the Lord of hosts. That's going to be the one that's going to build the temple of the Lord, sisters and brothers. That's going to be the one. It's going to be Zerubbabel with those seven. They gonna build the temple of the Lord.

So now let's go to Revelations 4. And we got three more after this. Let's go to Revelations 4. Let's give you a visual of the temple, sisters and brothers. And Jesus sitting in it. Let's go to Revelations 4 and we going to pick it up at verse one. Let's show you Jesus in his kingdom. And boy, it's going to be a glorious sight to see this. We only reading about it. But one day we going to see it with our own eyes. The same way that Job said, he said, "Well, I see the Lord with my eyes and not the eyes of another." You going to see Jesus in his glory.

Let's go to Revelations 4 and we going to pick it up at verse one. Revelations 4 and1. When you get there, go ahead, Elder. After this, I looked and behold, a door was opened in heaven. Go ahead. And the first voice which I heard was as it were a trumpet talking with me, which said, "Come up hither, and I will show thee things which must be hereafter." And immediately I was in the spirit, and behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne. Go ahead. And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper, and a sard stone. Go ahead. And there was a rainbow round about the thorn. Go ahead. in sight like unto an every. So now we all know that the rainbow was a covenant now. And we ain't talking about that other rainbow that they try to put on the Lord and try to say that that belong to them.

Not that rainbow. We talked about the covenant that he made with the world that he would not destroy the world no more with fire. So when you see him, he going to be to look like a jasper and a sardine stone. Now and there was a rainbow round about the throne in sight like unto an emblem. So now verse four, go ahead. And round about the throne were four and 20 seats. Go ahead. And upon the seats I saw four and 20 elders sitting clothed in white rain. Go ahead. And they had on their heads crowns of gold. These same 24 elders, sisters and brothers, that David ordained that came from Aaron, the 24 sons of Aaron, they are going to be the 24 elders that's going to sit around the throne of Jesus. So now verse five, go ahead. And out of the throne proceeded lightnings and thunderings and voices.

Go ahead. And there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne. We just read about those seven lamps. Now were fire burning before the throne. Go ahead and read. Which are the seven spirits of God which are the seven spirits of God. So these seven spirits of God is going to be the same spirits that's going to help Zerubbabel once he build the temple, sisters and brothers. And it's going to be lightnings and thunders and voices around the throne. The same way when the Lord came down on Mount Si, it's gonna be how it was going to be when it's sitting in his temple. Yes, sir. So now verse six, go ahead. And before the throne, there was a sea of glass like unto crystal. There was a sea of glass like unto a crystal. Go ahead. And in the midst of the throne, and round about the throne were four beasts full of eyes before.

Go ahead. And the first beast was like a lion. And the second beast like a calf. And the third beast had a face like as a man. Go ahead. And the fourth beast was like a flying eagle. So you seeing the appearance of an angel which we all know about now. But now verse eight. Go ahead and read. And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him. Go ahead. And they were full of wise within. and they rest not day and night, saying, "Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty." Go ahead. Which was and is and is to come. And which is to come, sisters and brothers. And you can go read this in Isaiah the 6th chapter. So these angels going to come. Verse N. Go ahead. And when those beasts give glory and honor and thanks to him that sat on the throne, who liveth forever and ever, go ahead.

The 4 and 20 elders fall down before him that sat on the throne and worship him that liveth forever and ever. Go ahead. And cast their crowns before the th. But what did they say? Go ahead. Thou art worthy, oh Lord, to receive glory and honor and power, for thou hast created all things. Go ahead. and for thy pleasure they are and were created. Everything was for his pleasure, sisters and brothers. They are created. So we all know that this is talking none other than Jesus. Now he is the one that's going to get that kingdom that we talked about in Isaiah the 53rd chapter.

So now let's go to Isaiah the 4th chapter. Now Isaiah 4 and we going to pick it up at verse one. This is the kingdom, sisters and brothers. This is the throne that the branch is going to sit in. And the law of the Lord is going to go forth from Jerusalem. Not from the third heaven is which is what they teach you in the modern day churches. You ain't going to no heaven. The heaven, the kingdom of heaven is going to come down to you. It's going to come to you.

So now let's go to Isaiah 4. And we going to pick it up at verse one. Isaiah 4. And we going to pick it up at verse one. Go ahead and read. And in that day, seven women shall take hold of one man. For for for for for for any man that might be cool with them. You might want to have seven wives. I'm only cool with one. And at this time, I'm not looking for this because I'm looking not to ever plant a seed outside of me again because I want to be God at that time. So we said, "And in that day shall seven women take hold upon one man." Go ahead. What they going to say? Go ahead. Say, "We shall eat our own bread. We shall eat our own bread." Go ahead. And wear our own apparel. Go ahead. Only call by thy name. Go ahead. And take away our reproach. And if you go read in Isaiah 3, he'll tell you about that.

He said, I'mma take away the tinkle and armorance and the ground tires like unto the moon, the crescent moon. I'mma take all of that stuff away from you. I'mma take it away. He said his smell instead of a sweet smell is going to come up a stink and I'm going to make you bald head. That's what God say he going to do to the daughters of Babylon. So now verse two, go ahead and read. In that day shall the branch of the Lord be beautiful. He said, in that day shall the branch of the Lord be beautiful, sisters and brothers, go ahead and read. And glory, go ahead. And the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely for them that are escaped of Israel. Go ahead. And it shall come to pass that he that is left in Zion, and he that remainth in Jerusalem shall be called holy. You gonna be called holy, sisters and brothers.

All of the ones that slept in Zion, and he that remained in Jerusalem shall be called holy. Go ahead and read. Even everyone that is written among the living in Jerusalem. Go ahead. When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, I said the daughters of Babylon. I meant the daughters of Zion. He said, when the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, go ahead and read. and shall have heard the blood of Jerusalem for the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment. Go ahead. And by the spirit of burning. That's what he going to take away. It's going to be the spirit of burning. And he going to also he going to put in the spirit of judgment. So now verse five, go ahead. And the Lord will create upon every dwelling place of Mount Zion, and upon her assemblies a cloud and smoke by day.

Go ahead. And the shining of a flaming fire by night. Go ahead. For upon all the glory shall be a defense. He going to bring all that back. He going to bring the cloud by day and the fire by night. See, all of that's going to be back in Jerusalem again. Now, because that cloud in the day and the fire by night had represented him when he was in his glory in the Old Testament. So now verse six, go ahead. And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the daytime from the heat. Go ahead. and for a place of refuge and for a covert from storm and from rain. From storm and rain. That means God going to take care of all of us, sisters and brothers.

So now let's go to Jeremiah the 33rd chapter. Jeremiah 33 and let's get back to this branch in the restoration of Israel. Let's go to Jeremiah 33 and we going to pick it up at verse 15. We got one more after this. Jeremiah 33 and we gonna pick it up at verse 15. 33 and 15. When you get there, Ela, go ahead and read. In those days and at that time, go ahead. Will I cause the branch of the righteousness to grow up unto David. So we we ended the same way that we started. Now he said, in those days and at that time will I cause the branch of righteousness to grow up unto David. Go ahead. And he shall execute judgment and righteousness in the land. Go ahead. In those days shall Judah be saved. And Jerusalem shall dwell safely. And this is the name wherewith he shall be called.

Go ahead. The Lord our righteousness. So now he said it again now. So we read it in Jeremiah 23. Now we read it again off in Jeremiah the 33rd chapter. He shall be called the Lord our righteousness. Verse 17. Go ahead. But thus said the Lord. Go ahead. David shall never want a man to sit upon the throne of the house of Israel. He said, "Thus said the Lord, David shall never want a man to sit upon the throne of the house of Israel." It's going to be a spiritual being now. Yes, sir. It ain't going to be no regular man no more. It's going to be the spirit realm. So now verse 18, go ahead. Neither shall the priests, the Levites, want a man before me to offer burnt offerings and to kindle meat offerings and to do sacrifice continually. Go ahead. And the word of the Lord came unto Jeremiah, saying, Go ahead.

Thus say the Lord, if ye can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, and there should be and there should not be day and night in their season. Go ahead. Then may also my covenant be broken with David, my servant. Well, that's pretty strong. Now he if you can't break the covenant of the day and night that they should come in their season. Now then may also my covenant be broken with David my servant. You see the promise that he gave to David and to the house of Israel. So now keep reading. Go ahead. That he should not have a son to reign upon his throne. Go ahead. And with the Levites, the priests my ministers.

So now let's go to the last spot. Let's go to Isaiah the 11th chapter now. Isaiah 11. And this is it. Isaiah 11. And we talking about that branch, sisters and brothers. And we for that branch to come. We waiting for that righteous tree to be planted. Yes, sir. So we can be righteous right along with it. But it starts now. It starts in this world. You got to get right with the Lord right now.

So now let's go to Isaiah 11 and we go pick it up at verse one. we say right now because see the world is coming is coming to an end. You better get yourself right. You know, don't don't don't be on your pity parts no more. Get on up and walk get on up and walk this thing out through the good times and the bad times. Yes, sir. So now Isaiah 11 and pick it up at verse one. Isaiah 11 and1. Go ahead and read. And there shall come forth a rod of the stem of Jesse. Go ahead. A and a branch shall grow out of his rope. So now we back to that branch. Now he said, "For behold, I will bring forth my servant a branch." He said, "And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a branch shall grow out of his roots." So go ahead. And the spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him.

Go ahead. And the spirit of wisdom and understanding. That's the kind of spirit that you can actually have. Now he talking about Jesus now. But if you going to be like Jesus, you got to be you got to have these same spirit. You got to have the spirit of wisdom and understanding. Go ahead and read. The spirit of counsel and might. Go ahead. The spirit of knowledge. Go ahead. And of the fear of the Lord, and shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the Lord. And he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears. Go ahead. But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity. for the meek of the earth. Go ahead. And he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.

He ain't going to be playing when he's sitting on that throne that we read about, sisters and brothers. He ain't going to be playing at all. Say, he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked. And we ain't talking about nobody walking around with no bad breath because they can slay some people, too. But we talking about the Lord now. But now verse five, go ahead and read. And righteousness shall be the girdle of his lord. Go ahead. And faithfulness of the girdle of his reign. Go ahead. The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb. Go ahead and read. And the leopard shall lie down with the kid. Go ahead. And the calf and the young lion and the fatling together. Go ahead. And that little child shall lead them. So if if none of this is going on, then we all know what we know.

Israel ain't back at home, sisters and brothers. They not at home right now. He said, "The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid, and the calf and the young lion, the fatling together, and the little child shall lead them." So now verse seven, go ahead. And the cow and the bear shall feed. Go ahead. The young one shall lie down together. Go ahead. And the lion shall eat straw like the o. See, we were there. See, Adam was there in the garden to feed. He saw when all of the animals was lying and eating together. Was nobody killing one another. See, we going to see all this again. So now verse eight, go ahead. And the sucking child shall play on the hole of an ass. Go ahead. And the wing child shall put his hand on the cockatric is dead.

They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain. Go ahead. For the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord. Go ahead. And the waters cover the sea. And I cannot wait for this day. We ain't going to be teaching the least unto the greatest. Everybody going to know the Lord. The whole earth going to be filled with the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea. So now verse 10. Go ahead. And in that day there shall be a root of justice. Go ahead. Which shall stand for the inside of the people. Go ahead. To it shall the Gentiles seek. So we all going to be getting along. We ain't going to have no race wars and militia group trying to plan for a race ride. We ain't going to have none of that. See, that's what Hell the Skeletor was all about. That's what that means.

They was trying to start a race war, a race war under the banner of Satanism. That's what Hel the Skeletor was all about. So now he said in talking about a race war, he said in that day there shall be a root of Jesse which shall stand for the inside of the people to it shall the Gentiles see. And now go ahead and read. And his rest shall be glorious. And that is for behold I will bring forth my servants a branch. And I hope you got some understanding in Jesus. Thank y'all for your time. So now we going to call our elder to come up here and read the law. Exodus 20 verses 1-1 17. And God spake all these words, saying, I am the Lord thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in the heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.

Thou shall not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them. For I the Lord th my God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and to the third fourth generation of them that hate me and showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments. Thou shall not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain, but the Lord will not hold them guiltless that taketh his name in vain. Remember the Sabbath day to keep it all. Six days shalt thou labor and do all thy work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God. In it thou shall not do any work. Thou nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy man's servant, nor thy maid servant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates. For in six days the Lord made the heaven, the earth, [clears throat] the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day.

Wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day, and holy. Amen. Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long upon the land that the Lord thy God giveth thee. Thou shall not kill. Thou shall not commit adultery. Thou shall not steal. Thou shall not bear false witness against thy neighbor. Thou shalt not coveret thy neighbor's house. Thou shall not coveret thy neighbor's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maid servant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is thy neighbor. Jesus. All right. Okay, y'all. We We do have a few announcements today. One of the announcements, we all know that trumpets is going to be next Friday now. So, make sure you get those days off because those days are Sabbaths and he want us to get together and rejoice. So, we going to let the sisters kind of deal with the bill, but we kind of want to scale back a little bit because we know Trump is as a feast, but it's not the major feast where we do the greens and all of that stuff.

So we'll let the sisters come up with the meal because we also got to remember now we gonna have the Sabbath that very next morning. So we gonna try to try to keep everything clean as much as we can. So we going to class at 12:30 next Friday and then we'll be back here for the Sabbath day. And also, I normally don't make a make announcements about the power hour, but we gonna do a we gonna do a special power hour this Tuesday night where we kind of deal with the calendar a little bit. And I'm gonna kind of point out some things that I didn't point out in the first two lessons to show you the reason why we are a month ahead of any of the other classes or any of the for that matter because we do not base the new year as according to the equinox and things of that nature. So we going to point that.

So we going to start at 7 o'clock this Tuesday night. And for those that's watching online, we hope that you get some understanding from that lesson. So that's really that's really all really all that I have. So we can go ahead on with the regular announcements. [clears throat] Israel church of the firstborn announcements ending. Peace and blessings in Jesus holy name. We pray you have been edified by today's lesson and that you increase your knowledge and understanding. Women and men should wear modest pair of class. Women should wear dresses or skirts. Men should not wear sweatpants. Women must wear a head covering for 1 Corinthians 11-7. Men must have men must have their heads uncovered. Anyone desiring to be baptized as according to Acts 2 and 38, please see Elder Asa.

Any per any prayer request as according to James 5:13-20, please see Elder David. If your young child becomes noisy, please remove him or her to the room to the back room located by the men's restroom. Please put any tithe offerings in envelope and place in the box located near the podium. Tithes and offerings can be mailed to Israel Church of the Firstborn 1724 Drive, Indianapolis, Indiana 46260. Please visit our Google page at www.israel Israel Church of the Firstborn.com where you will find our zel andcast app usernames. Come worship with us at Israel Church of the Firstborn 6350 West Haven Drive Sweet K Indianapolis 46254. Series are held every Sabbath at 12 p.m. Eastern time. Have a blessed Sabbath in Jesus name. And one one more other thing we kind of want to add to the people that's watching.

Uh if you go to our Google page also, we going to have updates and pictures about the calendars and the seasons in Jerusalem. Like we down to our last few months now of the LA of the of summer and we getting ready to go into the formal rain. So in a few weeks we about to start seed time. So we going to point out all of these pictures and show them that we dead on point when it comes to our feast days. So that's really all that I have and we can stand up. We can close out. Any questions, comments or concerns? Okay, we can ask the king fish to bless the food. Thank you, oh gracious and merciful heavenly father for today for today's lesson for everybody that's gathered here in your name Lord praise and Lord thank you for for keeping the waters down to 24.93 uh in the inerson so that water hadn't succeeded the power plant put us all under power out of power Lord thank you for for keeping bless Satan and and and Lord let this food be nourishment to our bodies in Jesus name we pray.

Amen. Our father Our Father which art in heaven which are in heaven hallowed be thy name hallowed be thy name thy kingdom come thy kingdom come thy will be done thy will be done in earth in earth as it is in heaven as it is in heaven. Give us this day. Give us this day our daily bread our daily bread. And forgive us our debt. and forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtor towards as we forgive our debt towards and lead us not to temptation and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil but deliver us from evil for thine is the kingdom for thine is the kingdom and the power and the power and the glory and the glory forever forever it's in Jesus name we pray it's in Jesus name we pray God almighty the God Almighty the author and finisher the author and finisher the holy one of Israel the Holy one of Israel Amen.

Amen. Praise the Lord. In Jesus name. Amen.