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Good evening everyone, welcome to Steadfast Baptist Church.
If you could all find your seats we'll go ahead and get started.
We're going to start this evening off in song number 162, To God Be the Glory.
Song 162, To God Be the Glory.
Sing it out together, song 162.
To God be the glory, great things he hath done, So loved he the world that he gave us his Son,
Who healed his life and atonement for sin, And opened the life he had all made go in.
Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, let the earth hear his voice, Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, let the people rejoice.
O come to the Father through Jesus the Son, And give him the glory, great things he hath done,
O perfect redemption, the purges of blood, To every believer the promise of God, The vilest offender who truly believes,
That moment from Jesus the pardon receives, Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, let the earth hear his voice,
Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, let the people rejoice.
O come to the Father through Jesus the Son, And give him the glory, great things he hath done,
Great things he hath taught us, great things he hath done, And great are rejoicing through Jesus the Son,
A truer and higher and greater will be, Our wonder, our transform when Jesus we see,
Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, let the earth hear his voice, Praise the Lord, praise the Lord,
Let the people rejoice, O come to the Father through Jesus the Son, And give him the glory, great things he hath done.
Amen.
All right, next up we have song number 247, Saved Saved. Song 247. If you're saved tonight, let's sing it out all together.
247, Saved Saved.
I've found a friend who is all to me, His love is ever true,
I love to tell how he lifted me, And what his grace can do for you.
Saved by his power divine, Saved to new life sublime,
I know it's sweet and my joy is complete, For I'm saved, saved, saved.
He saves me from every sin and harm, Secures my soul each day.
I'm leaning strong on his mighty arm, I know he'll guide me all the way,
Saved by his power divine, Saved to new life sublime,
I know it's sweet and my joy is complete, For I'm saved, saved, saved.
When poor and needy and all alone, In love he said to me,
Come on to me and I'll lead you home, To live with me eternally.
Saved by his power divine, Saved to new life sublime,
I know it's sweet and my joy is complete, For I'm saved, saved, saved.
As well as we have our prayer list, upcoming events.
We have a wedding on June 8th for Joshua Garcia and Miss Cynthia Navidahar.
It's at 3 p.m.
Also, there is a Red Hot Preaching Conference on June 21st through 23rd.
On the back, we have a couple of congratulations.
We have the congratulations to the Naim family on the birth of Charlotte Rebecca.
She was born on the 27th at 522 p.m., 8 pounds, 1 ounce, and 22 and a half inches long.
Congratulations to them.
Also, a congratulations to the Hernandez family on the birth of Micaiah Robert.
He was born on the 27th at 10, 12 p.m., 7 pounds, 12 ounces, and 20 inches long.
So congratulations to them.
What you have to like about Micaiah is he never prophesied the good of Joe Biden.
No, I'm just kidding.
On the inside, we'll recap our prayer list.
We've been praying for Brother Hall and his leg, which he's here in the flesh, so how's everything going smoothly still?
Praise God for that. Yeah, praise the Lord for that.
Also, we've been praying for the Naim's grandmother.
We've been praying for the Carlson's mother.
We've been praying for Ms. Miller's friend, Ms. Tamara.
We've been praying for the Garcia son-in-law, Eric.
We've been praying for the Scott nephew, Mark, for his heart.
We've been praying for the upcoming trial that's going to be on Monday.
And I think we were going to send an email about it, but it looks like it could even be a multi-day thing.
So it's very, very unlikely anything will be resolved on Monday specifically, so it's going to be a multi-day thing.
So just be in prayer for us, and I'll give an update whenever I have one.
I don't even know what to expect at all, so just be in prayer for that.
Also, we've been praying for Brother Johnson's family member for salvation as well.
So we'll just say a quick word of prayer for those who are here on our list.
Thank you, Heavenly Father, so much for all these ladies who are expecting.
Please continue to be with them during their pregnancies.
I pray that you'd also bless all of these new babies and their moms that are going through postpartum.
I pray that you just help them with a quick recovery.
I pray that you'd also bless our church family that needs healing, that needs health, that you'd please help them.
You'd also help those who we're praying for, our friends and family members that also need a miracle or need health.
I pray that you give them patience during their difficulty, and if possible, just give them a full recovery.
I pray that you'd also just give us favor, that for your honor and glory, whatever happens in our upcoming legal battles,
that we would be faithful and that we would still give you the glory no matter what the outcome.
And I pray that you just continue to use our church to reach a lost and dying world.
And in Jesus' name we pray, amen.
That's all I have as far as announcements. We'll go ahead and sing our Psalm of the Week, Psalm 149.
It's in our special handout, Psalm 149.
All right, let's sing it out together, Psalm 149.
Praise ye the Lord, sing unto the Lord a new song.
And his praise in the congregation of saints.
Let Israel rejoice in him that made him.
Let the children of Zion be joyful in their King.
Let them praise his name in the dance.
Let them sing praises unto him with the temple and harp.
For the Lord take in pleasure in his people.
He will beautify the people's salvation.
Let the saints be joyful in glory.
Let them sing aloud upon their beds.
Let the high praises of God be in their mouth.
And a two-edged sword in their hand.
To execute vengeance upon the heathen.
And punishments upon the people.
To bind their kings with chains.
And their nobles with theirs a liar.
To execute upon them the judgment written.
This honor have all its name.
Praise ye the Lord.
As the offering plates are being passed around,
please turn to Zechariah chapter 5.
Zechariah chapter number 5.
Zechariah chapter 5.
The Bible reads,
Then I turned and lifted up mine eyes,
and looked, and behold, a flying roll.
And he said unto me, What seest thou?
And I answered, I see a flying roll,
the length thereof is twenty cubits,
and the breadth thereof ten cubits.
Then said he unto me,
This is the curse that goeth forth
over the face of the whole earth.
For everyone that stealeth shall be cut off,
as on this side according to it.
And everyone that sweareth shall be cut off,
as on that side according to it.
I will bring it forth, saith the Lord of hosts,
and it shall enter into the house of the thief,
and into the house of him that sweareth falsely by my name.
And it shall remain in the midst of his house,
and shall consume it with the timber thereof,
and the stones thereof.
Then the angel that talked with me went forth,
and said unto me, Lift up now thine eyes,
and see what is this that goeth forth.
And I said, What is it?
And he said, This is an ephah that goes forth.
He said, Moreover, this is their resemblance
through all the earth.
And behold, there was lifted up a talent of lead,
and this is a woman that sitteth
in the midst of the ephah.
And he said, This is wickedness.
And he cast it into the midst of the ephah,
and it cast the weight of lead upon the mouth thereof.
Then lifted I up mine eyes,
and looked, and behold, there came out two women,
and the wind was in their wings,
for they had wings like the wings of a stork.
And they had lifted up the ephah
between the earth and the heaven.
Then said I to the angel that talked with me,
Whither do these bear the ephah?
And he said unto me,
To build it and house in the land of Shinar,
and it shall be established,
and set there upon her own base.
Let us pray.
Heavenly Father, we thank you for Zechariah Chapter 5, Lord,
and pray that you bless Paticelli, Lord,
fill him with your Holy Spirit,
to preach unto us the truths that we need to hear,
and that we'd be able to make those changes in our lives.
Praise in Jesus' name. Amen.
Amen.
Zechariah Chapter 5,
we are kind of transitioning in this book
just to kind of a new vision
that isn't necessarily been connected
to some of the previous visions that we've seen
or that we've talked about.
And it seems like Zechariah takes
a very prophetic turn here in Zechariah Chapter 5.
But it really kind of contrasts two different things.
It contrasts two flying things.
One is a flying roll,
and the other one is a flying woman in an ephah.
And so we kind of have these two things
that are being mentioned in Chapter 5.
And it seems a little bit disconnected
from some of the other chapters,
but I think in the greater context,
it'll make sense when we study the entire book.
But it says here in verse number 1,
Then I turned and lifted up mine eyes,
and looked, and behold, a flying roll.
Now, there's a restaurant in Missouri I've eaten.
It's called Lambert's.
And if you just yell, you just say, like,
hey, they'll throw a dinner roll at you, okay?
This is not what that's talking about, okay?
But it's a great restaurant,
and it's really fun to just knead bread
and just be like, hey, and they just throw a roll.
The roll here's talking about what we think of as a scroll
or simply just a parchment of paper.
This is what something's written on.
When we think about the Bible itself,
this is what we're talking about in a sense is a roll.
And it's just called a roll because if you think about it,
especially back then, books or what we think of as documents,
they were rolled together.
So it's simply just that document was rolled together
to preserve it and keep it.
And so it's just a flying roll
is what we're talking about.
So we're just talking about some written document
that's flying, verse 2.
And he said unto me, What seest thou?
And I answered, I see a flying roll.
He's really good at explaining exactly what it is, right?
The length thereof is 20 cubits and the breadth thereof 10 cubits.
So essentially it's double in length
as opposed to how much its width is,
similar to how we have our Bibles and other books
where we notice that the length is more than the width.
And so it's very similar again.
Verse 3.
Then said he unto me, This is the curse
that goeth forth over the face of the whole earth
for everyone that stealest shall be cut off
as on this side according to it.
And everyone that sweareth shall be cut off
as on that side according to it.
And I will bring it forth, saith the Lord of hosts,
and it shall enter into the house of the thief
and into the house of him that sweareth falsely by my name.
And it shall remain in the midst of his house
and shall consume it with the timber thereof
and the stones thereof.
And the angel that talked with me went forth
and said unto me, Lift up now thine eyes
and see what is this that goeth forth.
Now, I guess really I didn't mean to read verse 5 there
because that's kind of getting to the next part,
but verses 1 through 4 are really just kind of
detailing and talking about this specific flying role.
It says that this role is a curse
that's going over the whole earth
and it says it affects everyone.
Everyone is affected by this role.
Well, I believe what's being mentioned here
is just very clearly the word of God.
The word of God is this role,
and what some people falsely understand
is the idea that the Old Testament
is only for the Jews or only for Israel
or something like that,
but no, God's word, God's law
applies to all people of all time.
And so it's not like, oh, in the Old Testament,
if you weren't part of the nation of Israel,
you could just do whatever you want.
No, they were still bound by the law of God.
They were still supposed to observe God's commandments
in the Old Testament,
and I think it's important to prove that
just because there's so many misconceptions
about the Bible specifically on this point,
but this is saying,
and God's kind of re-emphasizing the idea
that everyone is going to be cursed that steals.
There is a curse associated with stealing,
and it's not like we don't want to take this idea of,
oh, okay, he's just saying
this is the only thing that's wrong.
No, it's just an example
of how breaking God's commandments
brings a curse in your life.
And notice that that curse
even follows this person,
specifically even into their house.
Verse 4, it shall enter into
the house of the thief.
So the curse follows the thief,
and, you know, I don't like this word,
but we kind of use it
in our modern-day speech,
this word of karma,
where it's kind of like you,
similar to the biblical principle of
you reap what you sow,
and in essence, when you steal or you do wrong,
well, God may cause you
to be just cursed in general,
and bad things are going to happen to you
as a result of your actions.
Okay?
And so there's a little bit of truth
to the concepts of karma
in the sense that, you know,
if you're a bad person,
bad things may happen to you.
Now, that's not always the case.
Or even when the Apostle Paul
goes onto a small island
and a serpent comes out of the fire
and bites him, they say,
oh, he must be a murderer.
And it's kind of like there's a movie series
called Final Destination.
I'm not going to ask for a raise of hands, okay?
But there's this movie series called Final Destination.
It's like this idea of someone escaping
their death, but then it just inevitably
comes and gets them anyways.
And, you know, a lot of those principles,
those ideas are coming from the Bible
in the sense that, hey, when you do wrong,
just because you get away with it,
just because no one else noticed,
God still notices.
And because you're cursed,
evil things will happen to you.
So there's no point in stealing
because the God of the whole universe
will know and you'll be punished accordingly.
There'll be a curse upon you
and your house and everything
that's going on with you specifically.
In fact, he may even just destroy your house.
Notice that it would consume it
with the timber thereof and the stones thereof,
saying things in your house could break
because you steal.
Like, God could literally curse
your physical structure
or the things in your life
as a result of your daily actions.
Now, I want to prove
this idea of the Old Testament law
or commandments
being in the Old Testament as well.
Go all the way back to Genesis, if you would,
to chapter 20 for a moment,
and we'll come back to Zechariah in a little bit,
here, to explore this idea
of there being this
curse or these commandments that are
worldwide.
Now, in the
book of Genesis, we don't have
the law yet, as we know it,
as the Old Testament, because we haven't gotten to Exodus.
We haven't gotten to the children of Israel leaving
Egypt. We haven't gotten to Mount Sinai.
We haven't gotten to the Ten Commandments
being given to Moses on the tablets
of stone. Yet,
the commandments of God are still to be
preserved in the book of Genesis.
And even if you weren't one of the main people,
even if you weren't God's
the apple of His eye
when we look through the lineage of Abraham
and Isaac and Jacob and all these
other individuals, it doesn't mean
that God still didn't require you to follow
His commandments. Now, an evidence
of this is look at Genesis chapter
20, verse number 3.
But God came to Abimelech
in a dream by night and
said to him, Behold, thou art but
a dead man, for the woman
which thou hast taken, for she is a
man's wife. Now, Abimelech
is not part of the
lineage of Abraham. It's not part of
the children of Israel or any of those things.
Israel's not even born yet.
This is just another guy
outside of that particular
family. He's not coming
through the patriarchs or the
descendants of Jesus. And so
he's just an outsider.
He's the king of Gerar, as the Bible
describes him. But God still comes to him
and God talks to him, meaning that God cares
about everybody. It's not like God
only cared about Abraham or only
cared about Isaac. And in fact, Abraham's
the father of many nations anyways.
It's not just one nation.
But he comes to Abimelech and says
you're going to die because you've taken this
woman. Verse 4, But Abimelech
had not come near her
and he said, Lord,
wilt thou slay also a righteous
nation?
And said he not unto me, she is my sister
and she even
I'm sorry, she even
she herself said, he is my brother
in the integrity of my heart and innocency
of my hands have I done this. And God
said unto him in a dream, yea, I know that thou
didst this in the integrity of
thy heart, for I also
withheld thee from sinning
against me, therefore
suffered I thee not to touch her.
Notice that Abimelech
can sin against God.
And this is a really important reference in the Bible
because not only does it prove
that Abimelech can sin
against God, it's also
proving that Abimelech can sin against
God even when he doesn't
realize he's sinning.
Because he said, I made sure
that you didn't touch her
even though you didn't think you were doing anything
wrong, you had no awareness of doing
anything wrong, but if you had done it,
it would have been wrong and
you would have sinned against me.
Meaning ignorance is not
an excuse for sin.
And in fact, God
takes this so harshly
that the punishment for adultery
was what here?
You're a dead man. Was death.
Which is what's coming down the pike in the future
when God delivers the law
and puts the death penalty on adultery.
So God felt the same
way about adultery here
before the law, then
he does in the future
when we get into the giving of the law
it's the exact same punishment
it's the exact same feeling
and what's even incredible about this
is it's the same punishment even
if you didn't realize.
So if someone lied to you
and you committed adultery
with them, not knowing
according to God, you're still
guilty of adultery.
It's still a horrible sin.
That's why it's important
not to even mess around with people
or going out and committing
fornication. Many people go out
trying to commit fornication
and they end up committing adultery
not even realizing it.
And you know what? They're sinning against God
in the form of adultery.
Even though in their mind and their heart
they didn't even try to commit adultery.
And so we need to make sure
that we recognize the fact that
God still holds people accountable
for their actions regardless
of what they know.
I'm a Christian so God's not gonna judge me.
Wrong.
God judges everyone. Did you read
in Zechariah
about the flying scroll? It didn't say
all the people that read this
the curse is coming after them. No, it said
all the people that steal.
You know why it's important for us to go out and preach
the law? Because it applies
to everyone.
People get mad at us for
preaching every part of the law
or preaching the Old Testament and they say
it's hateful. You know what's hateful?
To not warn people about the fact
that God cares about these things.
To say, oh you know adultery's
not a big deal. Let's just
you know we're in the New Testament.
Oh it still applies buddy.
The New Testament still applies. God's law
still applies. And you know he didn't change
his mind in the New Testament and think like
you know what? Adultery's cool now.
Murder's fine.
Rape, no big deal.
It's not like because we entered
the New Testament he thinks like you know what?
These sins aren't that big a deal anymore.
But you know what? Because of American culture
we have normalized some of these
grievous sins.
To the point where it's not even a big deal.
You know it used to be even in America
if the President of the United
States was guilty of committing
adultery or doing any of these kinds of sins
they would be impeached.
It literally happened.
Bill Clinton
who is impeached for committing adultery
and lying about it.
And then of course nothing happened
except for just embarrassment
on our country. Embarrassment for
our nation. But people that would commit
adultery or commit these sins
it was looked down upon. It was shameful.
It was embarrassing.
Whereas today people just
almost brag about it. Act like
it's not even a big deal.
They almost encourage
others to do such a thing.
Act like it's manly or cool.
But you know what? God doesn't feel that way.
Stealing.
There's nothing honorable about stealing.
There's nothing honorable about breaking
any of God's commandments. Yet our
society and our culture is so
brainwashed today that they literally
glory in their own shame.
They glory in their own sin.
Not recognizing there's a curse attached
to sinning. Go to the New Testament
go to Matthew chapter number 14.
I want to show a couple more examples of this.
This is an important point.
I think we also need to remind
ourselves. Just because you're
saved and just because you come to this church
doesn't mean that God doesn't
isn't going to hold you responsible
for your sins.
Or like God isn't going to be mad at you for sinning
or something.
Oh well I know a lot so God's
going to treat me differently.
Even the ignorant he's going to punish.
And the more you know
the more likely you'll get punished in fact.
It's not even
knowing more helps you in that regard.
It probably only makes
you more likely to be held
responsible. But it's better to know
because you're then less
likely to commit grievous sin.
And Matthew chapter 14 verse
2 the Bible says
this is Herod talking.
And he said unto his servants, this is John the Baptist.
You know
I don't remember reading about any Methodists or Pentecostals
in the Bible. I just remember
reading about Baptists. That seems like a good
thing to name your church right?
A Baptist church.
Now here's the thing. Is John the Baptist
referencing Roman law?
No. He's referencing God's
law which applies to
everyone. And even at this
time we're in the Old Testament.
In the Old Testament and Herod is
not a Jew. Herod is not under
that specific
Judean requirement.
You know he's not a part of the nation
of the Jews.
He's a Roman ruler over
the Jews. But notice
that God's law still applies to him.
Hey it's not right for you to be married
your brother's wife. Who says God?
Because God is the one
that's still in charge of the world.
I want you to go to Acts chapter
15 for a second. Go to Acts chapter 15.
We're just taking a quick journey through a few different places.
Notice the
consistency of how God's
law and God's word applies to everyone.
I remember hearing from a
family member one time. They said well
if I wasn't born in the right nation in the Old Testament
God wouldn't love me and I'd have no chance of
salvation. No
it wasn't about your ethnicity
at any point. Like it's never
been about ethnicity.
In fact if you actually study
Jesus Christ's own lineage
plenty of people in his own lineage
are not natural born
Israelites or Hebrews
they got grafted in as well.
You know like Rahab the harlot.
She's not part of the
appropriate lineage. She got
grafted in and brought in.
So even the Lord Jesus Christ
there's not this quote pure
genetics
of Hebrews or something.
There's a little bit of mixture even in that.
And of course when we look at the broad scope
of the nation of Israel this is
not some purebred horse folks.
It's a mutt.
Whether you like it or not.
And there's nothing about
the Old Testament that prevented people
from getting saved because of their ethnicity
or their race. But on the flip side
there's also nothing preventing them from being held accountable
for their sin. Everyone is
held accountable for their sin. Why would God even
want to judge Nineveh in the
Old Testament if they can't even sin
against God? God wanted to destroy
Nineveh because it was a bloody city because it was
wicked because of the evil that they were doing.
Why did he judge the
Canaanites? I mean why did he
massacre and destroy all of them?
Because they were doing abominations.
They were committing grievous sin.
When he talks about
Sodom and Gomorrah and he burned them with
fire. Why did he do that?
Because they were exceeding sinful.
He wasn't like, oh well they can't
sin because they're not a part of the nation of Israel.
The nation of Israel doesn't exist yet.
And when they came into existence
it's not like sin disappeared.
Sin still existed.
Now in Acts
chapter 15, this is an interesting
point that's being made. Look at verse 21.
For Moses
of old
time hath in
every city them
that preach him being read
in the synagogues every Sabbath day.
So you know what the Jews
said? The Jews said, hey
Moses has been being read
in virtually every city
and the whole world
from a long time ago.
Everywhere. I mean it's not like
Moses was limited
just to the children of Israel and one
specific time. It's saying no, no, no.
The law of Moses has been preached
everywhere. Everyone's
heard of this. Now does that mean that everybody
was a Jew or everybody practiced
the laws of Moses? No.
But it's saying that that truth
that scroll, that flying
scroll has been everywhere
and it's always going out.
Just like in the times of Jeremiah
when he's commanded by God to go into all
the nations and all the world
and to preach the Gospel.
Well and arguably it's not so much
specifically the Gospel but to preach
the Bible. I'm sure there's a Gospel
message hidden in there at bare minimum
but Jeremiah was going out and preaching
a decree about submitting unto the king
of Babylon.
Otherwise they were going to have to drink of the wine
and the fierceness of the wrath of God.
That's that hell fire and damnation preaching.
Jeremiah was a traveling
preacher. Going out there and the word
of God was spreading all over the world.
God's word is constantly
going out throughout the whole world
from every generation
from times past to times present
and we should get this idea of
well God only cares about specific people
no he cares about everyone he's the God
of the whole earth and whole heaven.
Now go over to Galatians chapter 3
this is an even better point
a more specific
point to what we've been talking about this curse
because notice if you steal
a curse comes upon you.
Well this applies to
breaking any commandment.
You are cursed according to the Bible
and in Galatians chapter
number 3 it addresses this point
look at what it says in verse number
10
for as many as are of the works of the law
are under the curse
for it is written, cursed is
everyone
that continueth not in all
things which are written in the book of the law
to do them.
What does the Bible say? Every single
person that has not kept
every single commandment perfectly
is cursed. You say
how many commandments do I have to break to be
cursed? One.
Then you're cursed. So
what if I repent of all my sins? Well you're still
cursed because you've already broken one of those
commandments. Okay.
And then it makes it clear in verse 11
but that no man is justified
by the law in the
sight of God it is evident
for the just shall live by faith.
Meaning it's obvious
that no one could be justified by the law
because everyone sinned
because everyone is guilty.
So the only way someone could
be just is by faith.
That's why it's evident.
Verse 12. And the law
is not of faith
but the man that doeth them shall
live in them. Boy I wish
that people when we knocked on the door
understood verse 12.
Because you'll say hey how do you get saved
and saved by faith. And you say what does
that mean? Keeping the commandments.
No no no no.
Oh I'm sorry. Read verse 12.
And the law is not of faith.
Keeping the law
is not faith.
Faith is not
keeping the law. Okay.
These are two different things.
Okay. The Bible is making
it clear. The law
is sight. The law
just tells you what to do and you just do it.
Okay. Faith is something
that is not seen. Okay.
Faith is us putting our trust
and our confidence in the gospel
message of the Lord Jesus Christ.
That's what faith is.
And it's not being justified by my works.
It's being justified by his works.
Okay.
Not by works of righteousness which we have done but by
his mercy he saved us.
And the Bible is clear that the law
is not of faith.
In Romans chapter number 10 it
contrasts the faith that
Paul preaches with the law
and makes it very abundantly clear
that the Jews are striving to be righteous
according to the law
not understanding the faith that comes through
Jesus Christ. Okay.
Here in Romans chapter, I'm sorry, Galatians chapter 3 verse 12
it makes this a sharp
contrast and the law
is not of faith.
It's not of faith.
That the man that doeth them
shall live in them. Meaning
the law is what you would
hear and you just do it but you know what?
That doesn't give you righteousness.
What gives you righteousness? Christ, verse 13.
Christ hath redeemed us
from the curse of the law
being made a curse for
us for it is written
cursed is everyone that hangeth
on a tree.
So in the Old Testament there's a reference
to those who are
hung on a tree as being cursed
and that was a prophecy of the
Lord Jesus Christ and how
he was going to be hung on the cross
meaning he had to die that specific
way. Jesus had to die
being hung on a tree
so that the curse
could be applied to him and so that
all of our curse
could be put on Jesus Christ
and he is that skate goat for us.
He took all of the punishment
that we deserve
so that we could no longer be cursed.
Did you notice
what it's saying though?
Have redeemed us.
Did you realize that Galatians are not
Hebrews?
Hey, he's not talking
about only the Hebrews
he's saying that our curse
hey Christ has redeemed
us from the curse of
the law meaning that Galatians were
under the curse of the law.
Did you see that? Just like
that curse that's being mentioned in Zechariah
chapter number 5 is upon everyone
hey everyone was under
the curse of the law when they broke a commandment.
Everyone.
And the only way to be redeemed was
through Christ.
What does it say in verse 14?
That the blessing of Abraham might come on the
what?
The Gentiles
is this like a replacement theology book
or something?
I'm not getting this.
I thought the blessing of Abraham was to a bunch
of Christ rejecting Jews in Israel.
Why does it say Gentiles there?
Oh, because the Bible
is true. And that the blessing
of God didn't come on a bunch of Christ
rejecting Jews it came on
people who accepted Christ in their heart
by faith. Those
are the people that got it. What through
Jesus Christ that we might
receive the promise of the Spirit through
faith. So notice again that the
blessing came not
just on the Jews but it came on the
Gentiles as well. Of course
the Jews were in on this as well.
It's anyone. It was everyone that believed
got saved. Everyone that sinned
cursed. Everyone that believes
in Jesus Christ saved.
There is no such thing as well
I'm Jew. I'm special. I'm
not Jew. I'm not special. No
if you believe in Christ you're
saved. If you haven't you're
cursed. And so it's important to
recognize that the Old Testament
is not something that oh well that only applied
to this one specific group
and they're the only ones that are bound under that
curse. No. Everyone
is bound under the curse of the law.
Now obviously
if you didn't join the nation of
Israel and you weren't a citizen
of the nation of Israel in the Old Testament
there wasn't really any
need for you to get circumcised
or go have the Passover perform
a lot of the ceremonial aspects of
the law but at the same
time everyone was
essentially supposed to get
saved believe in Jesus in the Old Testament
and then join the nation of Israel
and then become circumcised and then
observe the Passover. So yeah
it still would have applied. But I don't think
that Gentiles were necessarily guilty
for not observing the Passover
what they were guilty for was lying
stealing committing adultery
all of those other things
that are very clearly timeless
sins that are mentioned everywhere in
the Bible and just like Abimelech was
going to be held responsible
everyone's being held responsible for stealing
everyone's being held responsible for
falsely swearing
in God's name. What
is falsely swearing in God's name?
Saying that you're going to do something
and invoking God
and not doing it
you say as the Lord liveth
don't we have a lot of quotes like
that in the Old Testament or in the Bible
people say as the Lord liveth or something
this is an example of swearing
by God's name. It's where you make
a promise and
what are they trying to say? They're saying
just as certain as the fact
that God lives
is as certain as I am that I'm
going to perform this action
which he's the great I am
there's no doubt that God lives
he lives he
lives Christ Jesus
lives today yeah we know
that Christ lives but you know what to say
that you're certain of doing anything
and the same level of
God existing is just wrong
that's why he's saying don't
even don't swear that's
why Jesus even said in the New Testament swear not at all
but then on top of that what's
even worse is to
swear and then not do it
that's the swearing falsely
by his name and who did this a lot
false prophets false prophets
would say oh thus
sayeth the Lord and then insert lies
that was swearing falsely
by God's name and he was saying those people
were cursed when they would preach
lies in God's name or they
would invoke God's name and break
their O's break their commandments
break their promises
there was a curse put on
those individuals
and so we need to make sure
that we recognize the fact
that God's law applies to everyone
go if you want to do Zechariah
chapter 5 let's go back to the
chapter that we're studying here but that's a good
point to
you know sit there and think about how
this applies to everyone
the curse is going forth over the face
of the whole earth God is the God
of the whole earth is he the
God of the Jews only
now he's also the God of the Gentiles
is what the Bible says
so there's only one God
the same Lord over all
and he's rich unto all
that call upon him
there's only one God specifically
now when we look at
verse number 5 it says
then the angel that talked with me went forth
and said unto me lift up now thine eyes
and see what is
this that goeth forth and I said
what is it
and he said this is an ephah that goeth
forth I like he's like hey what is this
well what is it you know it's like I don't even
know it's just funny how these conversations
go he's just like he doesn't even know
this is an ephah
that goeth forth he said
moreover this is their
resemblance through all the earth
now an ephah
is like a measurement
so
I kind of liken this
unto things that we use in today's
economy
when you think about like oil
oils measured by
like barrels of oil
and so this ephah
is probably not only just
a measurement there's probably
some style of container
that's equivalent to
an ephah as far as a measuring
unit and so when it's referring
to the ephah it's just referring to
some container
that would measure out to
an ephah worth of wheat
I think typically is what is a barley
or something like that some kind of
grain that it's being referenced some
people picture this as maybe a basket
some kind of a container
is what is being referenced here as an ephah
so
he's saying that he sees some ephah
that's going forth
verse 7 and behold there was
lifted up a talent of lead
and this is a woman
that sitteth in the midst of
the ephah so verse 7
is kind of giving this idea
that there's this maybe container
we can just say it's like a basket
it may not be a basket but something similar
it's the size of an ephah
there's a talent of lead on the top
so it's kind of probably most likely
talking about a lid
okay and it's saying like when we took
the lid off what did we see
in there well behold
there's a woman that sitteth in
the midst of the ephah so there's like a basket
with a woman in the basket
and there was some kind of a lead
covering over the top of her
it says in verse number 8
and he said this is wickedness
yeah don't put women in baskets
okay I mean you know
it's not where
they're supposed to be right the women's
lib movement alright release the women
no I'm just kidding
and he cast it into the midst of
the ephah and he cast the
weight of lead
upon the mouth thereof
then lifted I up mine
eyes and looked and behold there came
out two women and the wind
was in their wings for they had
wings like the wings of a stork
and they lifted up the ephah between
the earth and the heaven
then said I to the angel
that talked with me whither do these
bear the ephah and
he said unto me to build it and house
in the land of Shinar and it shall
be established and set there
upon her own base
so
this is a lot of imagery a lot of
symbolism that's being mentioned here
I would not
base a lot of doctrines
on this specific vision
by themselves
cause what will happen is people
will take this specific portion of scripture
that we just read and
run with it with all kinds of crazy ideas
I don't even have time to debunk all the crazy ideas
because there's just so many crazy ideas
but when you don't have other
verses in the bible or clear statements
to back up anything you're saying
you probably don't want to just
base a lot of doctrine on this
some people talk all about
women angels and wings
and all this stuff and it's like well
it never said that these women
were angels okay
it just said there was women with wings
it's also not even saying that this is even
necessarily a real thing
this is a vision of what he's seen
okay so we can't
make some doctrine and say there's all these
women angels with wings out there
we don't know that that's true
okay all we know is in a vision
he saw this and
it somewhat is symbolic it's
representing something here
what is it representing? Wickedness
okay so it's not even a
positive mention at all nothing about
this image nothing about these
symbols is positive
whatsoever it's considered a
negative
a negative prophecy
a negative vision
if we think about it in the first half
we have God's word going
forth which is a positive thing
albeit it has a curse associated with it
okay and the second one we kind of have a
negative thing that's flying around we have
wickedness so we have the word of God flying around
and then we have wickedness flying around
and wickedness here is represented
by a woman now
why? well
let's look at some Bible on this
go to 1 Timothy chapter number 2
and we'll kind of look at some of the layers
potentially here
of what this could represent
but 1 Timothy chapter number 2 look at
verse number 11 the Bible
says let the woman
learn in silence with all
subjection but I suffer not
a woman to teach nor to usurp authority over the man
but to be in silence for Adam
was first formed then
Eve and Adam was
not deceived but the woman
being deceived was in
the transgression so if we were going to
argue who's
bringing sin in the world the Bible makes it
clear that Adam is the one that's the first person
to sin but in the same
token the woman is described
as being in the transgression and of course she
was the first to partake
of the fruit of the tree in the midst of the garden
she was not allowed to eat
and so in some ways
the woman just generally represents
rebellion
bringing sin into the world
in this picture
another way to look at this though
and another way you can kind of
look at women in the Bible is women just
represents mankind because Eve
is the mother of all living
so Eve
bringing sin in the world
is also mankind and who's bringing sin in the world
mankind
mankind is bringing sin into the world
in reference
but because the woman
pictures
mankind because Adam
pictures Christ you can see this in
1 Corinthians the Bible tells us that
Adam is the first Adam
and then Jesus Christ is the second Adam
and he's the figure
of him that is to come
and the woman is there
and she has the transgression
and we notice that
because of the woman transgressing
what does she have to do?
or what does she do?
She gives it to the man
and then the man partakes
well a couple things you got to think about
in this is
number one
you know let's just look at it from a basic level
man didn't sin
until he gave him a woman
no I'm just kidding this is a joke
when we look
at this symbolism here
we're actually describing the gospel
okay
because we are represented
mankind as a whole all of us men and women
are represented by Eve
and Eve is deceived
and sins and then she
gives the apple unto
Adam he doesn't
he's not deceived okay
and he partakes the apple anyways
this is a picture of Christ
Christ knew what was
going to happen to him and yet
he took our sin upon himself
to redeem us
and so
a picture of Adam partaking
of that sin is a picture
and foreshadowing of how Christ was
going to take our sin and
what was the sin? When you sin
what happens? You die
so what did Christ have to do?
He had to take our curse and he had to
take that sin and he had to be willing
to die for her
for mankind which is a picture
of the gospel of Jesus Christ dying for
us okay
I'm trying to just generally
explain that because I think it
helps us just recognize that woman
pictures sin
I mean woman pictures
evil pictures wickedness
and we don't want to get a
understanding of this
where we just start thinking like women
bad okay that was why
I was joking earlier okay
obviously men
aren't just so much better than women or something
like this don't give this stupid MGTOW idea
we gotta take the
symbolism here because we're both
represented by sin
but you know if we were gonna
talk about MGTOW for a second alright
since y'all brought it up
no I'm just kidding
is aren't you
glad that
Adam didn't just desert
Eve after she sinned
you know there's this false doctrine out there called
Lilith okay that Adam
somehow had like a first wife
named Lilith and then he had to
like get rid of her because she was too bad
or something like that I'm thinking like was
Eve much better I mean I don't know
like she sinned pretty quickly in
the Bible too okay
but no there's no such thing as another first
wife of Adam okay
it was just Adam and just Eve she came from
his rib folks okay
but aren't you
glad that Adam didn't give up on Eve
and this stupid MGTOW
doctrine it's like
they have this idea in their mind
that women are just somehow worse
than men or they're so much more
evil or they have a stronger
proclivity to sin or they can't
be as godly or just
insert insult okay
that is the MGTOW viewpoint
it's a woman hating
movement out there and they
look at and there's some bad women
in the world and they look at them and they think
like well look at this bad woman like Amber
Heard or something okay
and it's like okay
so does that mean there's no bad men in the world or
something like
you know you like to cherry pick all the worst
women in the world and act like men are good
but it's like aren't there some pretty bad dudes
out there too like
when was the last time a woman
just like axed murdered like 30
people or went somewhere and shot
up a whole bunch of people and when we talk about famous
serial killers I'm having a hard time
remembering all the women that did that
I'm having a hard time remembering all the women
that implemented communism I'm having
a hard time remembering all the
women that are in charge of all the banks
and in charge of all the wicked
industries that we have in this world it seems
like men run a lot of those things too
I think that men have their problems
okay so this women
hating attitude is an
ungodly unrighteous
attitude but
even if you did think
and it is true that women are the
weaker vessel even if you just had that idea
well why don't you
just help her anyways like think
about it from our perspective woman
is the weaker vessel okay
according to the Bible as opposed
to a man it's not saying that she's more sinful
or something it's just saying in general
she's not built the same way
well in the same way we as mankind are
weaker vessels than Jesus Christ
and you know what I'm so glad
that Christ didn't go his own way
I'm so glad that
Christ condescended to men of
lowest state and was willing to
redeem us and help us
and love us and encourage
us and lead us and so you know
you want to be a great godly example
oh I come here a woman she's
weaker than me well why
can't you isn't
that the whole point I
mean isn't the whole point of Christ coming and
redeeming us showing that great
example of love and compassion
and leading us and guiding us
in the same way that a husband is supposed to
take upon a wife and is supposed to take
on a woman and supposed to lead her and
nurture her and guide her and do
good under even if she is
weaker who cares
like that's a great excuse for you to lead her
then you know this
mid-tow attitude is a
satanic doctrine because
it's teaching people to not get married
which is an end times false
doctrine that's a doctrine
of devils and you know what it's a
wicked attitude
you know what oh there's all these bad women
well there's a lot of bad men too
you know what but you don't have to marry a lot of bad women
you just have to marry one woman
and stop
just thinking you're so much better
than every woman out there because
you're not you're not better
than every woman out there that is a
stupid attitude it's a wrong attitude
and you know what why don't you just
be like Christ anyways and
go find some young woman that you can go
lead and lead by example
and lead by being a godly
husband because that
is the right attitude
and you know if you think that women
you could just cherry pick anything in the Bible to get
any doctrine you want have you read Zechariah 5
women are literally wickedness
have you read that hmm have you read
Ecclesiastes I could show you
some passages in Ecclesiastes about women
being horrible you know
you could cherry pick anything you want in the Bible
folks but that is not what the Bible
is teaching in Zechariah you know it's represented
by the woman that's just like mankind
in general
now there's other symbolism
that is
attributed to this as well go to Revelation chapter number
17 go to Revelation chapter number 17
here's another thing
that'll probably make some people not like
that point is
you know it's not saying that this woman
just represents Jews
okay
I know that Jews cause a lot of problems
in this world but they're not the only
source of evil
you know that men's thoughts were only
evil continually
before Genesis 6 when no Jew had ever
existed
because man is evil
man does wicked things
and man is trying to
cause all kinds of horrible
things on the world not
not just the Jews okay
and so we have to represent
the idea and understand the
concept that when we talk about
wickedness it's not limited to
women physically
it's not limited to Jews
it's mankind
okay there are people
that are men today
that are not Jews and they're
who we're talking about
they're unsaved people
that are MGTOW
that are red pilled
that have gone down the rabbit hole
they know the truth about Jews and they're
just as wicked as
all the people that they hate
as all the people that they denounce
and they think are bad
and they're also
who we're going to describe here
as Mystery Babylon
now it says in Revelation chapter
17 in
verse number 3
so he carried me away in the spirit
into the wilderness and I saw a woman
sit upon a scarlet colored
beast full of names of blasphemy
having seven heads and ten horns
notice that the woman's always sitting
did you notice that? stop being lazy
okay laziness
is wickedness alright
it's always a woman sitting it's not like describing
a woman making me chocolate chip cookies or something
you know cause that is not
wickedness alright
it's a woman sitting around doing nothing
okay
sitting
it says in verse 4
it's quite the name
verse 6
and when I saw her I wondered with great
admiration Revelation chapter 16
we have another vision of a woman and she's
described as Mystery Babylon
she's described as a mother
of harlots if you look back
at verse 1 it also describes
this woman did you notice this in verse 1
I will show thee under thee the judgment
of the great whore that sitteth
upon many waters
so notice again that the whore is
sitting but it's sitting
upon many waters
well look at verse 15
is this just saying Jews and Jews
and Jews no no it's saying all kinds of different
people isn't it
and specifically look at verse 18
the woman which thou sawest is that
great city
which reigneth over the kings
of the earth so it's saying there's
a woman that is
picturing what a city
so the woman is not a woman
the woman's not just talking
about mankind as a whole it's talking about
specific groups of mankind
it's talking about a specific city
and that city is made up of what
the city is made up of
all kinds of peoples, nations
and tongues
so it's a very diverse city
that is described as
the whore and who's in this city
men and women
because the Bible is not a woman
hating book
it hates sin
and both men and women sin
and the woman that's being pictured here
in Revelation chapter 17
is known as Babylon the whore
and it's not just women
it's both men and women
that are pictured here as Babylon
Babylon is representative of all
of these specific people
now notice again it's constantly called
Babylon Babylon right?
We'll go to Daniel chapter
number 1 for a moment, go to Daniel chapter 1
in Zechariah chapter 5
we read about how this woman
that was flying, where was she flying?
She was flying
to Shinar, the land of
Shinar to be established
to be established
we're going to make this something
that's not going to change, there's something about her
that's not going to change in the land of Shinar
well
Daniel chapter number 1
I want to read just the first
two verses here
the treasure house of his god
so where is Babylon?
Babylon is in the land of Shinar
let's read this one more time
go back to Genesis again
and go to Genesis chapter number 10
and look at verse
number 9
the Bible says
and he was a mighty hunter
before the Lord
wherefore it is said even as Nimrod the mighty
hunter before the Lord
and the beginning of his kingdom was
Babel
or Babel and
Erech and Akkad and Cali
in the land of Shinar
did you notice where is
Babel or where is
Babylon, it's in the
land of Shinar, so we talk about the
tower of Babel, what are we talking about?
we're talking about Babylon
that's an early
indication of Babylon, and what is Babylon
symbolized by? what is the
tower of Babel or the tower
of Babel symbolized as?
it symbolizes everybody having one
tongue, all of humanity
working together
one government, one world
religion
one effort to what?
build a tower up
into heaven
you know what's interesting? and you should look at this
up, did you know that Japan
is literally building
some kind of a
structure where you can
ride all the way up into
space into heaven
I don't even know, like
I think it's going to take a long time to construct
but they're literally trying to build
a tower into heaven
and there's like this mini little city pod
that's going to be up there and you can like be
up into outer space
in this like Japanese
construction
but you know I don't know if they're going to have to have a lot of
people working together on that specific
construction project or not
but when mankind
comes together, what are they
always trying to build? stuff into heaven
you know specifically
even when you talk about outer
space, most of our outer
space projects are
international projects, have you ever heard of
the international space station?
the ISS
that is not the efforts of
one country, that's the efforts of
multiple nations working together
additionally there is
a specific
and I don't know the right terminology
here but something similar to the
ISS that's also orbiting
the moon and it's called the gateway
and it's a specific
structure that's going around, it's also
an international
creation where
multiple countries are coming together
working together on this specific
gateway project and that gateway
is to allow
different astronauts
to be able to hook into it
and be able to travel the moon
more often, to do more
experiments, to do more
projects, research and to
potentially refuel, to possibly
send more spacecraft
into Mars or other
distant places in the galaxy
and that's why it's called the gateway
because it's supposed to be the door to open
further space exploration beyond
the moon. Oh, you think we went to the
moon? Just
don't even talk to me about it, alright?
I'm not really
interested in that but
at the end of the day, you know, is it
interesting that we constantly have
to have these international efforts to do what?
Explore heaven and to build
things into heaven and to have these
heavenly constructions and that was the
same attitude
that was the same
spirit
of these people when we get to that
specific point in time and God had to literally
confound the language to stop them from doing
things. And God even said specifically
that whatever man imagined
to do would not be withheld from
them. But you can't go
to the moon. No, the
Bible says anything that man has
imagined to do, he can't accomplish.
So I believe it.
I believe that, you know, if
man can dream it up, they can figure out
a way to accomplish
certain tasks. Now I think there's always limits on
humanity. The two limits that I've always
said and will always continue to say, man
cannot create life from non-life
and man cannot give something
free will. I know that artificial
intelligence is going to be really cool in the future
and it's going to seem very
persuasive but it's not
real. And I was thinking about
there's a lot of movies about this
and I haven't seen any of them and I'm
not going to raise your hands on this but there's a couple
of movies called like Blade Runner.
I don't know if you've ever heard of this or something but
I've just read the plot of it before
because I've never read it. I think they're like evil
films but there's Blade Runner, there's like a new
one. I think they're even coming out with a third one but
the whole premise of the movie is
like trying to identify what's really
human and they create these things
called replicants. And these
replicants
specifically are just what we think
of as robots but they're made
to look like humans.
And they had difficulty convincing
people that they're really human or really
alive because they basically came out
of a spontaneous
generation in a sense. They have no real past.
So what they would do is they would
inject fake
memories into these replicants
minds to make them think that they
were really alive themselves.
They had to first trick the replicant
into thinking that they were real to then trick
other people. Well in
later editions in the second movie
apparently the
concept is that somehow these replicants can
actually give birth and they can
actually create their own
genesis of
new replicants. And
a lot of the movies just tied around like
all of these concepts. And this is
what I was thinking is like you know what the doctrine of
Calvinism is almost no different than this.
Because
like in their mind like they say
well if a replicant thinks it's human
and it's indistinguishable
from a human
and even though it's been programmed and it's just
executing all of its programs or whatever
why is it not human? If it can reproduce
and it thinks
it's real and it thinks it has free
will then how is that any different
than an actual human? And I was thinking well from a Calvinist
perspective it's not any different.
I mean from a Calvinist perspective we're just
like glorified robots
that think we really have free will
and think that we're doing stuff
but we're all just fake.
Okay. And you know
that's a weird ideology.
Okay. I believe that we do have
free will. I saw
a Calvinist post. I love being
a Calvinist. And I replied
like you had a choice.
I mean it's just it's just
so silly that doctrine
or that concept or that idea. So I think there are
limits on mankind. I don't think we can
give something free will. Sorry Calvinist.
Yeah we have free will. And I don't
think that you can ever take something
that has no life and create
life. I don't think you can get a bunch of molecules
and just balance them together enough and then
all of a sudden you know a frog comes out or something.
Or an amoeba or a bacteria or a
single cell organism. Anything. Nothing.
Okay. But
outside of that I do think that mankind has the
capability of doing virtually anything
that he imagines to do.
I mean think about some of the technologies that are
on the cusp of
entering our society. I mean
Elon Musk is thinking about and has
successfully put chips on
people's brains. And I've noticed
there's some guy that's like a paraplegic or something
and he's like playing
chess in his brain.
Or something like that. Like somehow
I don't even know how it's working.
I've just only seen the videos.
But supposedly he has the neural link
and they have the computer screen
and he's able to just literally play chess
while thinking. That's
crazy. But of course
someone dreamed it up
or figured out how to possibly
tap into the neurons and all the things
that are firing. I mean just think about
the fact that we do heart transplants or
think about blood transfusions or think about
a lot of the things that we have in our
society. I mean these are incredible technologies.
The satellite technologies that we
have. Our phones.
The internet. Computers.
Airplanes. I mean just
all the stuff that we have is just incredible.
And if you put you or me on an island
we would never be able to make any of that.
But given us enough
people and enough time and enough will power
the Bible is saying hey
nothing would be restrained from them.
What will keep technology slowed down
is us not having the same language.
But as we've seen an increase of
communication, people being able to
cross those language
boundaries and be able to communicate
has really escalated
technology. And it
seems like perhaps God did that because
he wanted technology to abound at the right
time. At what time?
The end times.
When we have essentially everybody receiving
a mark on the right hand of their forehead
and if they don't receive this mark
they can't buy or sell.
That is impossible to
regulate without technology.
There'd be no way to really have that be
enforced in any kind of meaningful
way without a
serious form of technology
in place.
Because you'd have to literally have soldiers
enforcing it at every corner
and none of them ever
disobeying that order. I mean it's just unrealistic
to have such a thing. But with
technology if we
get rid of cash, if we become a cash
society and it's all
run by computers and they
have the switch they could literally
turn off the economy to whoever they want.
And they could make it to where
apart from bartering and selling
on the black market there is no such thing
as buying and selling.
And it would be a meaningful thing
if they implemented this specific mark.
And it makes sense.
What do we see? This woman is being
carried into the land of China to be
established. What I think that's meaning
is we have the whore
of Babylon being established.
Because the whore of Babylon is described as
representing all kinds of different
kingdoms from times past.
But why does it always have the name Babylon?
That's just where it got established.
The name that it stuck
with. For whatever reason Babylon
is the name that we're stuck with and
what's being referenced. But it's
movable isn't it? Just
like it moves in the vision to there
well it can move from the land of Shinar to
what? Washington DC.
Or to New York City.
Or wherever.
And it's representing what?
A multitude of people
and tongues that are very wicked, very
evil, doing evil things.
And Babylon
is going to be an end times nation
that's very evil and very wicked.
So we've
talked about a few things and I just kind of want to recap
again. When we talk about this woman
it can represent
just mankind and sin. And we talked
about some of the positives when we look at Genesis
and we look at Adam and Eve.
The pictures and figures of Christ and us.
Also the importance
of hey if you like that symbol
then marry a woman, MGTOW.
Stop being MGTOW.
And additionally it can represent
Mystery Babylon.
I think another thing that we could
take from this and this is not the main
interpretation. The main interpretation
is the end times Babylon that we've talked about.
But another thing that's really
you know to me
symbolic here is just the symbolism
of feminism.
I mean think about
wickedness as being spread by a woman and two women
and boy it's just
hard for me to get away from the fact
that it's like it just seems like
feminism is being spelled out in this specific
chapter. And when you understand
anything about communism or Marxism
you have to understand that feminism
is essentially the
initiating force to bring in
this totalitarian
government and all of this
wickedness and
feminism specifically has ruined
the developed nations of the world.
Now feminism, I looked it up
in Wikipedia just to see what they
would say, but they attribute
feminism to being started
by a woman named Mary
Wollstonecraft.
Okay, it's quite a last
name. Wollstonecraft
she was born in 1759
and died
in 1797.
So she wrote a book and that's
where they kind of get this term for feminism
at least that's what it's being attributed to
on Wikipedia and I'm sure that
they're probably pretty accurate.
This woman was
surprisingly a whore.
I didn't know if you were surprised or not. I was
you know, really surprised.
But she's famous for
having multiple affairs and
having a bastard child out of
wedlock. She's also
famous for convincing her sister to leave
her husband.
And then she's also famous
for finally marrying someone.
So she had a bastard child and then
she got pregnant again out of wedlock with
another bastard child, but they decided
to get married quickly before the baby was born
just so it would seem legitimate
and that baby's name
is Mary Shelley.
It shares the same last name
as me, I know, okay. But Mary
Shelley is the author of the famous
novel Frankenstein, okay.
Interesting coincidences
of all these things, right?
But you can study, there's a
lot of other people that were influential
in the feminist movement, of course.
When it comes to America
specifically, they talk
about feminism as coming in four waves
is what a lot of people refer to, and the
first wave coming in 1919
with the
19th amendment which
gave women the right to vote.
We finally gave women a voice.
But I thought I remember
a verse about that that we already
read in First Timothy chapter number two that women are supposed
to keep silence in the churches.
Okay, there's
certain realms of our
society that women shouldn't have a voice
according to the Bible.
It says, let the women
keep silence in the
churches. So in the church, women
are not supposed to have a voice.
And additionally, I think
that would extend to other areas
of life, not
all areas, in certain areas
specifically like authority
and especially God-given authority
and that women are not supposed to
usurp authority over the man
but to be in silence
for Adam's first form,
then Eve. But we see the complete
reversing and the flipping of this
and we see that the devil comes and
attacks the woman and tries to
get the woman to sin first
because you know what, of course, women are
more likely, are a little bit more
susceptible to that deception.
Okay, generally speaking. Doesn't make
them more wicked, doesn't make them more evil.
Just means they're more susceptible. Just like
children are more susceptible than adults,
generally speaking, women
are a little bit more susceptible than men.
That's why 1 Timothy 2
explains that women should
give birth. Women should
have children. And I think it's just
trying to say, sometimes
we struggle to make the right decision
and by having children
it helps force you make
the right decisions.
Teenagers are not good at making
decisions. Sometimes they need their parents
to help force them make the right
decision. And what ruins
that college,
what ruins women
is them getting this voice and thinking
oh, now they should be voting.
What great
things have women voted into our country?
I mean, you know, if you say
I don't agree with you pastors, I think that we should only
have women vote.
Or whatever your view is. I don't know.
Something weird and satanic.
But, I mean, show me
an example of women getting the right to vote
than positively
affecting our nation. Positively affecting
our country. Because I see them
bringing in abortion.
I see polls out today
that say that women
are much more likely to vote for Joe Biden.
Which again,
I'm not like advocating Trump
but to say that you would vote
for Biden is just
there's something wrong with you.
Something evil about that.
I mean, if you say like I don't want to vote for either
that makes sense. I could see why
people vote for Trump. Because they just don't want
Biden. Someone that wants to
vote for Biden?
There's just no logical explanation
for that. And even as women
you're voting in your own oppressor.
You're voting in your own destruction.
You're just taking the tree
that's in the midst of the garden and you're eating
right off of it. You're eating the fruit
that's named Joe Biden.
It's probably a fruit.
And you say, oh you're so old
fashioned. Yeah I am.
I'm so old I go back to the
Garden of Eden where
Adam was first form and then Eve.
That's where I get my doctrine.
Feminism is wicked
and in order for communism and Marxism
to exist you have to first
initiate feminism.
And you have to give women a right to vote
and then you have to trick women into voting for Joe Biden
and voting into things that would
literally harm them and they just don't know
any better. And that's what's happening in
our society. The second wave was in the
1960s with women's liberation
where they essentially wanted to
overturn the patriarchy.
What's wrong with the patriarchy?
You know this is like
the opposite reaction to
MGTOW is women going their own way right?
But it's so silly because
if we let women
just live on their own island
by themselves they would
destroy themselves very quickly.
I mean if you watch
Survivor the
women aren't doing great. They're
complaining and starving and dying
and whatever.
They're not the ones leading society
building society. They're not building
all the roadways. They're not building all
the buildings. It's Hispanic people folks
okay. They're not
the ones in the kitchen. They're not even the ones
in the kitchen. Have you ever been to a restaurant?
Who's worked in a restaurant?
Okay yeah. In the restaurant
was it not Hispanics making the food?
Okay. Can I get a witness?
It was Jorge and Jose
and Juan and most of them
didn't even speak English at all.
Okay.
It's like you know women
they're given just these
fake jobs and
fake responsibilities. They make up HR
departments which if they cease to exist
would only benefit society.
Women
cops is a joke
on our society. And look
you know maybe there's a case
for specific women
in law enforcement to help with like children
that have been abused or something. I'm not saying
that there couldn't be an exception.
But just generally speaking they shouldn't be
patrolling our streets.
They shouldn't be going up and down and trying
to defend us from all the criminals that are out there.
All the evil cartel
and thugs and gangsters.
I mean do you really think that the women
were going to destroy the mafias
in Chicago and New York?
I mean were they the ones going to go into
the snake pit and drag out all the sodomites
back in the Stonewall riots
and everything like that? I mean
give me a break. They would have been like
let's go shopping. That's what they would have said.
Okay.
This women's liberation movement
only exists on the
back of patriarchy.
And once they've destroyed patriarchy
it'll just be a vicious cycle where they'll go back
into hardcore slavery.
They're basically just dooming
themselves into hardcore
slavery and abuse and the real oppression
that they claim that they have right now.
Because
the women are not going to build society.
They need men to build society. And once you destroy
all those men, well now you have no society.
Third wave feminism
is 1992 with diversity.
This is all your diversity hires.
This is where now when you go to the NASA website
go to nasa.gov
and click jobs. It'll be
a picture of only women.
And it's like they wonder why we can't go
back to the moon. Okay.
Like
diversity. Okay.
It's real easy.
It's like we've lost the technology. Yeah.
We've lost a lot of things. Okay.
Fourth wave
2012
this is the me too movement.
And just all kinds of, believe every
woman unless they accuse a Democrat
and then they're a liar. Okay.
Feminism has
destroyed America. And you know what's
interesting is when you study feminism
it basically came into Australia first
and then it came into like the UK
second and then third into America.
And so sometimes if you want to
figure out what life's going to be like in America
just look at Britain
and then look at Australia
and then you're just like wow that's
what's going to happen.
And it's you know they're just
warming pods for us.
And we need
a real awakening
back to God's word.
We need to be recalibrated with the word
of God. And recognize
the horror that exists
out there and
the evil and the sin that exists out there.
And you know if America's Babylon
we probably can't stop it.
But you know what we can stop it for ourselves.
We can get
off of the horror program.
We can get
out of the matrix. Okay.
You can unplug and you can say
you know what I know that
this is right. And even if
you know women can vote for
the rest of our lives and women can
wear pants and women
can you know divorce
men for no reason and women
can be these diversity hires
and women can run NASA.
Just choose to be a godly housewife
instead. Just say
you know what I know that I could do all those things
but I want to choose the right path.
I want to choose a godly path.
And I want to raise children.
And you know what you'll be really happy in the future.
And you know the Bible says that women
will be saved in child bearing.
With holiness
and sobriety. You know with humility.
Just recognizing you know what that's
what God wants me to do. That's the role that I have
in society. And being
a man is not what makes a woman great.
Being a woman is what makes a woman
great. You know it's not like
women are second class citizens
they just have a different role.
And what's silly is to try and
put them in a man's role.
Just as silly as it would put a man in a woman's role.
A man to say I'm going to stay home
and I'm going to raise kids.
What a weirdo.
I'm going to wear the dress and the skirt.
I'm going to just sit around
and watch soap operas.
Kill me now.
I mean you know like
you know what a man gets satisfaction
from? Working.
Going out there and working and making the money
and protecting and providing.
This is what makes men feel like a man.
And you know what women
are very happy when they're
in the household running it.
Ruling that. Taking care of the children.
Loving on those children.
Doing their job and their role.
Don't get this idea that no I need to go along
with the Whore of Babylon and I need to fly off to work.
And I need to go out there
and I'm a woman hear me roar.
There's that famous
speech that was recently
famous is this Harrison
Butker talking to a bunch of Catholic
women at the Catholic college
and saying you know the best choice his
wife made was to become a homemaker.
And I'm saying hey instead
of making that decision after college
make that decision before college.
Even better.
And just say like I didn't
need that that
worthless degree and to waste a whole
bunch of money.
And of course you say well that's where the guys are.
Well you know there's a lot of guys
you know getting jobs. There's a lot of guys in blue
collar work. There's a lot of guys in churches. There's a lot of
there's a lot of other opportunities
you don't just have to go to college
to find a spouse.
But you know if women are in college
to find themselves a spouse drop
out and just get married.
Quit wasting time.
Quit wasting resources
on something that's not the right path.
There's never a bad time to repent.
There's never a bad time to get on the right path.
But instead of encouraging women to go to college
to get married why don't we
encourage them to stay with mom and dad until they
get married. And then once
they get married now they're under the authority
of their husband. Because women that go off
and live by themselves and live
in college are just very susceptible
to all kinds of evils.
And a lot of bad things can happen and you know
it's better for women to go
from one
man under the other. To go from
dad to go unto husband.
And for there to not be this
four year gap where they're just
in the dormitory in the
sorority house doing
who knows what. Ruining themselves
destroying themselves. I'll finish
on one last parable alright.
Imagine you went to
buy a new car.
And you show up at the car dealership.
And
you say hey I kind of want to test drive
this car. Like I don't want to just buy
it. I'd like the test drive. And he's like no
problem. He hands you the keys.
And you say when do I have to bring
this back? Whenever
you want. So you're like
really? Like what if I don't come
back tomorrow? Just whenever you want.
So you just drive it for the next five
years. But now
the car is kind of like busted up.
The tires are messed up.
There's issues with it.
So you bring it back to the dealership
finally. And you say like
hey I really like this car but it's kind of broken.
And he's like well if you want that car
you're going to have to pay full price. You're going to have to pay that
brand new price. And he's like but it's not a brand new car.
It's a five year old car.
And he's like sorry that's the price.
He said what about this new car?
And he's like
well do you want to test drive it?
Like yeah.
So he gets in that car and he drives
that car for another five
years. And then he comes back
and says hey do you want to buy this?
No I want to try a new car.
He's never going to buy
a car.
And then you realize
that cars are women.
And you realize
why in the world would a woman
allow herself to get test driven
for five years and not
get bought and paid for because
after that five years he's going to
trade up for a new car.
It's a bad idea
to allow someone to test drive you
for five years with no price.
And you know what that's what women are doing in
society today and then they're waking up
at 30 and saying boy
I am a used car
will someone buy me full price?
And it's like no.
You know who will buy you full price?
When you're a brand new car.
And you know
men and women are not created equal folks.
Men are more like houses.
We appreciate over time.
Women
unfortunately they're like a car
the day you drive it off the lot
was the best day you had it.
I'm not kidding.
I'm joking to some degree.
Let me say it right.
I'm joking. Obviously I love
my wife more than the day I married
her.
I'm just trying to wake you up to the reality.
To
the carnal truths that are out there.
And it's just a bad
idea to allow yourself
to just take all your worth
and just waste it.
Get married.
Once you have a car and it's your car
it has nostalgia. You love it.
You never want to get rid of it.
The only reason I even got rid of my truck is because it
literally just didn't drive anymore.
It was till death through us part.
Folks, I didn't want that to happen.
I wanted to keep it going.
But it's gone.
Now I'd have to get a new car
at that point. But this guy that's
test driving it, you know what? He'll take it
back whenever he wants.
He'll just use it and abuse it because
it's not his. He didn't pay for it.
He doesn't even care about it.
Women are going to college and just allowing everybody
to test drive it. And you know what?
The worst idea you can make.
As a young woman, you know what?
You should never allow that to happen to you.
Because you're only hurting yourself.
And the guy that doesn't want to buy
the car was never going to
buy it in the first place.
He was never going to buy it in the first place.
Jacob worked seven years
before he could get married.
And it was short time
He liked it. He was excited about it.
There was nothing that
he was like, oh man, that's terrible.
This is great.
So, we need to make sure that we have the right ideas
when it comes to life and society.
Don't let feminism say, hey, let's fly
off and let everybody test drive us or whatever.
That's wickedness.
Now, be a virgin on your wedding night.
That is going to be the best testimony.
It's going to give you the best mileage
in life, okay folks? Sorry for all the
allergies, alright? Let's close in prayer.
Thank you Heavenly Father so much for
giving us the Bible and giving us these
words of wisdom. I pray that we'd recognize that
we're under your law no matter what and that
it's important not to just sin against you
because of the curse that's associated with it.
But I thank you that you took the
ultimate curse of dying and going to hell away
by putting it on your son, the Lord Jesus Christ.
I pray that we would also
beware of the whore of Babylon
that's out there and that spirit
of anti-Christ that exists
in this world. I pray that we
detach ourselves from that way of thinking
from that world, but rather we
care more about what God has
for our lives. I pray that you would raise up a generation
of women that decide to
be virgin and to be homemakers
and to love the Lord
and to be humble and to accept their
role in life. And I know that you'll
greatly bless them for it.
I pray that you would allow us to, as men,
to lead the women that you give us
and that you would help us to discourage
this satanic doctrine of men
going their own way. In Jesus' name we pray, Amen.
Amen.
Alright, so last up we're going to do
song number 256.
Sorry, that's not right.
Song number
157.
Come Thou Almighty
King.
Song number 157.
Sing it out.
Come Thou
Almighty
King.
Help us
Thy name
to sing.
Help us
to praise.
Father,
all glorious
for all
victorious.
Amen.
All victorious.
Come and
reign over us
ancient
of days.
Come thou
incarnate
earth.
Gird on
thy mighty
sword.
Our prayer
at hand.
Come and
thy people
blessed and give
thy word
success.
Spirit of holiness
on us
we stand.
Come holy,
comforter.
Thy sacred
witness
bear.
In this
power
thou who
Almighty
art.
Thou who
in every heart
and there
from us
depart.
Spirit of
power
to the
great one
in three.
Three
and several
more.
His sovereign
majesty
may we in glory
see.
And to
eternity.
Come and
adore.
Great singing everybody.
You are all dismissed.
Thank you.