Before we get to we were studying the Jewish branch of government in the Millennial Kingdom, but before I get there we talked about the Gentile branch of government And I want to make a couple notes on that just as a backtracking because we didn't cover this The Jewish branch of government obviously relates to you and I in the kingdom and relates to our rewards in the kingdom But remember in order to rule and reign with the Messiah you must get what's called active rewards, not passive rewards. Now, a passive reward would be like everyone gets resurrected, okay? That's a passive reward. Everyone gets glorified. That's an automatic. Everyone gets adopted. That's an automatic. That's called a passive reward. But to rule in reign with Christ is under the characterization or the category of active rewards, okay? And what that means, and you can see two hints of this, one with the church of Thyatira and the other church of Laodicea. And when you read about those churches and understand what was going on in those churches, then you'll understand who gets to rule and who gets to reign with Messiah. So with Thyatira, that's the era of the Catholic church, okay, in church history. And what happened with Thyatira is they allowed Babylonianism, paganism, to enter into the church and start practicing it, and which you see that today. So, one of the things that will help you to rule and reign in your reward is if you do not let yourself be corrupted doctrinally and morally like the church of Thyatira. That's what happened to them. They were doctrinally and morally corrupted. And so it's incumbent upon us to make sure our doctrine is straight and to make sure we don't practice pagan practices like we saw there. And this is the problem we're seeing today in the church is a lot of people are practicing pagan practices and calling it Christian or baptizing it with scripture and saying, well, it's good now. So whether that's Christian yoga or it's a hot Christian yoga, Or it's centering prayer, contemplative prayer, prayer labyrinths, lighting candles, staring at pictures of Jesus or saints or whatnot. That's all pagan practices. If you do that, and you continue to do that, you will lose that reward of ruling and reigning. Morally, if you cannot harness and master the sin nature to a point where you can mature and grow, you will lose reward in ruling and reigning. You must, your job in sanctification is to master the sin nature. Because that's what happened in Thyatira, is they would not master the sin nature and they got into all kinds of immorality. Explicitly into sexual immorality, because idolatry and immorality go together. And so that's one of the aspects. Then you move to Laodicea. Well, they had their own set of problems. And just like we were talking at the beginning of class, worldliness, friendship with the world will put you at enmity with God. That's what James says in chapter 4. If you live worldly, which means you live for worldly advantage, you make decisions based on Worldly advantage what kind of job you have what kind of decisions you make is it? Let me put it in in real basic terms if your decisions are Always based on finances. It's an indication. You're probably worldly because Finances play a part in decisions. There's no doubt about that, but it's not the top decision so like if for instance you say I'm gonna move out of California and and I'm gonna go to wherever. I'm gonna go to Oregon or I'm gonna go to Texas, I'm going to wherever. The decision at the top of the priority of values, the hierarchy of values must be, I'm going there for spiritual reasons so that I can expand my ministry for the Lord. That would be the hierarchy of principles. And finances would be down somewhere down here, maybe on nine and 10. Right? But finances is not number one. We're going there because I can make a lot of money. If that's the primary reason you're doing something, you've taken the bait. You're in the worldly mode. So that's how you can tell is what kind of decisions am I making with my finances? It doesn't mean you've got a plan for the future, you've got a plan for your retirement. That's not what we're talking about at all. It's part of the game. You have to play that game. But it can't be solely why you do certain things. It also can't be the reason why you put your kids in certain things either or your grandkids in certain things. A lot of you have told me what your grandkids are up to, and you're concerned about that because your kids are taking them away from Jesus. Taking your grandkids away from Jesus. Does that make sense? And you know what it's from, right? The sports, the club this, the this, the that, whatever. They're, in effect, stealing time from their own children that they should be with Jesus, learning about Him, and they're robbing those kids of that time in order to play a sport. That gets them nowhere. That gets them nowhere. And I'll be the first one to admit, I got nowhere with it. Okay, I played the game, I know. You get nowhere with it. And yet, why are they doing this? They'll always tell you, well, it's to get them a scholarship. Oh, so you've just told me that you've made a decision to bypass Jesus for finances. Can Jesus not somehow provide for your kids to go to college somehow, some way? Or do you have to manipulate the situation and play the game like the world in order to get your kids a worldly advantage? Loud and clear. If you don't think that's happening, it is at an all time rate. So here's my warning. As a pastor, as someone who was in that worldly game, you will lose rewards for that. They will lose rewards for that. Your adult children will lose rewards for doing intentionally that to their kids. You remember the king of Babylon, when he came to Abraham, after Abraham had done a raid, and got Lot out of there, because Lot got taken captive, and so he had to go rescue Lot and get him out of that, and so Abraham took 300 men, and they went to war and got him out of there, and they won. And so the king of Sodom comes out to Abraham, after he has all the spoils of war, and he's got the people with him, and he goes, Hey, let me do a deal with you, Abraham. I'll let you keep all the money. I'll let you keep all the spoils, but give me the people. That's a picture of what Satan does to people. I'll give you what you want, your worldly advantage. You just give me your kids. You just give me the grandkids. I'll give you your money. I'll give you your worldly advantage, but just give me your kids. And that's what you have to do. But very few people will say no. They won't. They won't do it. They have now thought that putting their kid in whatever it is is going to give them some worldly advantage that somehow Jesus can't do for them. It's a complete lack of faith that Jesus can provide. And it's ruined kids because they don't know Jesus. They couldn't tell you who he is, because they never went to Sunday school. They don't go to church, because every weekend they're playing a game. I'm seeing this as a pastor. I'm just telling you, because you probably see it, and you're shaking your head at your adult children, and you're seeing your grandkids being taken away, and you're like, what are you thinking? You're giving them right over to Satan. No, I'm not saying they're Satanists. I'm just saying not having the knowledge of Jesus is not gonna help them. It can't be good for you. It can't be good for your kids to miss six months of church. It just can't be, can it? I don't know how that can be. And yet parents, they actually tell me this. Brandon, we're doing volleyball right now. It's every Sunday in Anaheim, and it's January, and we won't be done till June. Bye bye. Okay. That's crazy. That's just crazy. The Laodicean mindset is here and it's alive and well. And what is the mindset? I have worldly advantage and I think that worldly advantage is a blessing from God. But then Jesus comes back and evaluates the Laodicean church, and he says, you're spiritually blind and you're naked. I'm asking you to buy eye salve for me so you can even see, because you can't see spiritually. And basically, you make me sick. You make me sick. I want to vomit you out of my mouth. Because you are useless. You're neither hot nor cold, which means you're useless. You're lukewarm, which means you're useless. You're not good for cold, you're not good for hot. You're in the middle, which means I can't use you, and so you make me sick. Those are real judgments that happen. They're gonna happen to a lot of people, which means they're not gonna rule and reign because of the decisions they made for their lives. I cannot overemphasize this anymore because I'm watching a whole generation get flushed down the toilet on worldly advantages. And as if they don't believe that Jesus can provide. As if Jesus can't carve a path for them. I don't know what their version of Jesus is. Is he Lord? Is he own the cattle on a thousand hills? Is he powerful, omnipotent? Can he control things? To them, I guess not. So they have to manipulate the environment that they're in. I don't know, it's my soapbox, but I don't know if you see the same thing, but I'm watching and it doesn't get any better. It's worse and worse every year I look at this. Yeah, that's an interesting book by C.S. Lewis with the perspective of demons. Well, the Laodicean era is here and the lukewarmness is here and it's causing major problems and it's so hypocritical because you just shake your head at it because you're like, they go to these games and it's on a Sunday and they'll do a prayer before their game. And you think, you totally missed it. You're praying before your game, but you actually should be in church where the body of Christ is gathered, but you having this fake Christianity, this, what did Paul tell Timothy? This form of godliness, but deny the power thereof. It just makes me sick. Don't fake Christianity to me. If you don't want to be with Jesus, then don't pray to him, I want to say. It irritates me as a believer to watch that, because it's revolting. They're just not serious anymore, and they just play Christianity. They play a game. How would that person do in the midst of persecution? I just wonder, what would they do in Iran? What would they do in China? You know what I'm saying? Yeah, I have a pretty good hunch they would probably cave because they have no spiritual backbone. If they're gonna cave in for their own child, forget about a cult or forget about a Muslim saying, deny Christ or I'll cut your head off. Get it, that's a whole nother level. So I say that just to backtrack just a little bit to understand not every Christian is going to rule and reign. Only those who choose to not be corrupted morally, theologically, and don't go into this Laodicean mindset, which is a worldly mindset, will be able to do that. Anyway, let's move to the, we talked about David being the ruler of Israel during that time, a co-regent. But then let's move to the disciples on the next page on 398. And we see now that the 12 apostles will be over the 12 tribes. Matthew 1928, and Jesus said unto them, verily I say to you, that ye who have followed me in the regeneration when the Son of Man shall sit on the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. And so there's the proof right there of what they're gonna do. Interesting enough, that passage comes on the heels of them, you know, kind of complaining. You know, we've given up everything to follow you. And so he tells them what they're gonna actually receive. One more passage you'll see in Luke 22, 28 through 30 says, Be ye are they that have continued with me in my temptations. And I appoint unto you a kingdom, even as my father appointed unto me, that ye may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom. And ye shall sit on thrones, judging the 12 tribes of Israel. Now, we get the judging of the twelve tribes, they're going to be over those particular tribes, we don't know which tribes they're over, maybe from whatever tribe they came from, I'm not sure. But the idea of eating and drinking, that's a very Hebraic understanding, that they get to continually be at the king's table, is a very Middle Eastern concept of fellowship. Eating is a major thing in a Middle Eastern concept of fellowshipping together. That's why like one of the passages in the book of Revelation It says, behold, I stand at the door and knock. Whoever opens the door, I will come in and dine with him or eat with him and he with me. It's the idea of fellowship, Hebraic fellowship in sitting with somebody. So that was kind of like the highlight of the day for the Hebrews is to be able to have that dinner or supper meal with each other. And they would use that as a fellowship opportunity. and it was a major social aspect. So when he says that they're gonna continue to eat and drink, that's true, they will literally eat and drink at that table, but they will partake of the fellowship with the Messiah, is the kind of idea. And you and I have that same ability to fellowship with the Messiah, and he told us how to do it. He said, you must abide in me. You have to abide in me in order to produce fruit, and you must eat my flesh and drink my blood. And do you remember him saying that? And it turned a lot of people away, and they didn't know what he was talking about. Obviously, it's a metaphoric sense of things, but what he was saying in this Hebraic culture, and it's used a lot in scripture. You can see this a lot in the Old Testament, especially in the book of Proverbs. where the idea of taking in the scripture is related to eating. That as you eat some food or bread or something like that, you actually put it in your mouth and it goes down into your stomach and then you digest it and it metabolizes and the food actually becomes part of you. It goes into your cells and it feeds your body, right? And it's a wonderful metaphor because when he said, you must eat my flesh and drink my blood, he was basically saying, you must take in what I'm saying. You must take it in, inside of you, metabolize it, and make it part of you. Well, the minute he said that, they ran. Why? Why was that so offensive? to say, hey, look, take this in and make it a part of you. What is he doing to them? It's basically saying, if you want fellowship with me, if you want a relationship with me, you've got to do this. And it says, and then when they heard him say that, they turned and walked away. And he turns to the disciples, and are you guys gonna leave me too? And they said, no, you have the words of life, where are we gonna go? But a lot of people abandoned him, why? They knew he was speaking metaphorically, but they knew what the metaphor meant. So I want you to think about this. Before he said, eat my flesh and drink my blood, he's doing all these messianic miracles, man, and they are top-notch. This is the Messiah. He's feeding people. It is awesome, man. This is the Messiah. He is here with us. And everybody was just following him. Just boom. And it's much like today. If I just picture in front of someone who Jesus is, because a lot of people in our culture like him in one sense, okay? So follow me on this. They like for what he stood for and that he was loving and gracious and merciful and all this other stuff. And a lot of times they're misunderstanding him, but nonetheless, he's this idyllic figure in front of them. And that's why they want to keep him. He's a superman, so to speak. He's a superhero. And a lot of Christians do this to Jesus. They see him, and they think, yeah, Jesus is great, awesome, awesome, awesome. But then they realize, in order to go the next step, to abide in him, to eat his flesh, drink his blood, requires something of them. So what he is saying is, look, if you like me, if you love me, and you want to follow me, and you want to be my disciple, I'm asking you to do something. I need you to metabolize the truth that I'm telling you, make it a part of you, because you need to change. And at that point, you can see why people get off the good ship lollipop. Hey, I love Jesus, but don't tell me to change. Don't tell me to change, because I like who I am. And Jesus is saying, no, no, if you're going to follow me, you're messed up. and we need to fix you. And so the first thing to do is you need to take in what I'm telling you about you. You like me, you see the goodness of who I am, and you accept me as your Lord and Savior, but if you want fellowship with me, you can't stay the way you are. I demand that you change. I demand this of you. Otherwise you cannot be my disciple. Now that's different than saying you cannot be saved. He's saying you can be saved, but you can't be his disciple if you're not willing to metabolize what he's saying about you. And now you can see why they turned hightail and ran. Because they just don't want to change. They like who they are. Yeah, that's one of them, the abiding, and it has to do with producing fruit. But this idea of metabolizing them, that's where a lot of Christians get stuck, guys. They simply don't want to take in the fellowship meal. So what he's saying is, in a Middle Eastern way, is look, you and I will sit down at a meal, and we're going to share koinonia with each other. But you must, in order to fellowship with me at this meal, in a Middle Eastern fashion, I am going to serve you a meal, and you must eat what's on that plate. To do so would be offensive to me, because I tell you what reality is. I tell you what the truth is about me, you, others, and reality. So I'm going to serve you a meal, and I need you to pick the food up, and I need you to start metabolizing it. Don't reject the food and say you're not hungry, because this is what you need. And so the whole Middle Eastern idea of eating and fellowshipping has to do with receiving the word in order for me to change. And if I won't eat the meal, don't expect fellowship. Again, I'm not talking about salvation. I'm talking about fellowship. And hence, these Middle Eastern terms that you will eat and drink at my table, why? They didn't turn back. At that saying, remember, he says, are you guys now gonna leave me? They said, no, where are we gonna go? You're the only one that has the word of life for us. We're not gonna abandon you. Hence, the reward is, you will forever then fellowship at my table, because you were willing to take in what I said about you. Yes, that's exactly it. I will dine with you and you will dine with me. Okay, what church do you say that to? Laodicea. It's totally harmonized. And what does Laodicea want to do? They don't want a fellowship with him. They want to be worldly. They don't want to eat the meal. And he's saying, look, he's talking to believers. We can get you off the worldly train, but you've got to fellowship with me. Open the door and let me in so I can give you my words of life. I can help you to see. But you've got to open that door. And they won't. They simply won't do it. So what you're seeing is reward for the disciples. And you know how goofy the disciples got sometimes. I mean, they just didn't get it a lot of times. But God bless them. They didn't become worldly. They stuck with him even when he said stuff that like, oh man, I'm bad, I'm messed up, I need to change. And did Peter change? He certainly did. He went from being this arrogant, prideful, impulsive individual that just jumped in feet first and closing his eyes to a very well thought out, humble individual when it was all said and done. Which means he took the food in and it metabolized and became part of him. And he changed. And that's where you're seeing these rewards. And so when you see eating and drinking and all that stuff, Even in Proverbs, it says that wisdom puts out a table for people to eat at. She calls them to a supper to eat. Says, come, come eat. I prepared a feast, come eat. And you know what? They don't go. It says that the people go to stolen waters because the stolen waters are sweet. They go to Folly, the woman Folly, and they would rather go there and take her meal. Why? Because they can eat the meal in secret and it's stolen waters. What does that mean? They would rather eat other things other than the food of life. They would rather eat things that kill them. She goes, because he says, at that meal of the woman of folly is the dead in Proverbs. So they eat the sweet water of stolen water. They eat a meal in secret. which means they're doing things in secret. They don't want anyone to know. They won't come into the light. They like the food of evil, the food of not changing, the food of staying stuck. And so the Proverbs goes, if you continue to eat that food, you will die at the end of the day. I know that's a lot, but that's where these terms are coming from. We must continue to move on. The princess. You see this in Isaiah 32, 1. We don't know who these princes are, but it says, Behold, the king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in justice. And again, we don't know who these are. It could be Moses. It could be prophets. We're not sure. another passage Zika 45a in the land it shall be to him for a possession in Israel and my princes shall no more oppress my people but they shall give the land to the house of Israel according to their tribes and then we have one more individual that's actually named right there in Haggai 220 to 23 and Zerubbabel is actually named he's a resurrected individual like David is going to be and he'll be a prince and it mentions this in Haggai and the word of Yahweh came to the second time unto Haggai in the fourth and twentieth day of the month saying speak to Zerubbabel governor of Judah saying I will shake the heavens and the earth this is a reference to the tribulation by the way And I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms. This is about the second coming. I will destroy the strength of kingdoms of nations. And that's obviously the tribulation. And I will overthrow the chariots and those that ride in them, and the horses and the riders shall come down, every one by their sword of his brother. In that day, says Yahweh of Hosts, I will take you, O Zerubbabel, my servant, the son of Shittil, says Yahweh, and I will make you as a signet, for I have chosen you, says Yahweh of Hosts. So we have another named individual. And obviously the context is after the tribulation, so it indicates that Zerubbabel will be resurrected like King David, and Zerubbabel will be a prince somewhere in the land of Israel. So he's another named guy. By the way, Zerubbabel is actually in the house of David as well. If you go to the next page, we'll do judges and counselors. Another group of rulers in the kingdom will be the judges. And so he goes this in Isaiah 126, I will restore your judges as at first, and your counselors at the beginning. Afterward, you should be called the city of righteousness, a faithful town. So you got those references there. Now you have the other passage we want to kind of camp out on, Israel over the Gentiles. This is important. First thing we see is Deuteronomy 15 6 for Yahweh your God will bless you as he promised you and you shall lend unto many nations but you shall not borrow and you shall rule over many nations but they shall not rule over you. One of the things you start seeing is the idea that Israel will be the head of the nations not the tail anymore. They will be the high priestly nation but also to rule over those other nations. you see this in Deuteronomy 28 1 and it shall come to pass if you shall hearken diligently the voice of Yahweh your God to observe to do all his commandments which I command you this day that Yahweh your God will set you on high above all the nations of the earth Deuteronomy 28 13 and Yahweh will make you the head and not the tail and you shall be above only and you shall not be beneath if you shall hearken unto the commandments of Yahweh your God which I command you this day to observe and to do them interesting enough about these passages you see in Deuteronomy there's going to be the head of the nations not the tail this goes back to the Tower of Babel Now Israel did not exist, but you have to understand what happened with the Tower of Babel and the creation of the nations and then how Israel fits into all of this. Okay, so follow me or I'll lose you like a wet bar of soap. So hang in there. At the Tower of Babel, you know what happened there, and we went over that, and God scattered the nations. And it created what's called the Table of Seventy Nations, okay? That's where the term 70 comes from, is the nations. That's why the Feast of Tabernacles will sacrifice 70 bulls. So the nations start, and then according to Deuteronomy 32, it's a mistranslation in my Bible, but I'll tell you how it reads. Deuteronomy 32, verse 8. When the Most High divided their inheritance to the nations, when He separated the sons of Adam, He set the boundaries of the people, and this is the mistranslation. According to the number of the children of Israel, that's a mistranslation. It's according to the sons of God. Who are the sons of God? No, not the Nephilim. Angels. But something happened. Something really bad happened. The reason, number one, contextually, it cannot refer to that he divided the nations in the Tower of Babel according to the sons of Israel, because Israel didn't exist. So how do you divide the nations according to a country that doesn't exist? Does that make sense? That's why it's a mistranslation. It's the sons of B'nacha Elohim is really what the term is. Translators don't want to go there because they don't like the idea of nations being under a second tier of spiritual beings called the gods. Not really gods ontologically, but like gods, spirit beings, angels, whatnot. Okay. So in thinking of this, okay, so the 70 nations are divided according to 70 B'naha Elohims who are supposed to rule over those nations. This is before Israel starts, okay? But we know what happened in history to all of these nations. They did not continue to worship Yahweh, did they? They started worshiping the Banah Elohims. They started worshiping the lesser gods, if you wanna call them that, or lesser spiritual creatures, and started worshiping demons and all kinds of spiritual beings that were malevolent, and it corrupted those nations tremendously. Whether you're talking about the Babylonians, or you're talking about the Sumerians, or wherever, all these nations went. You can go to the Aztecs and Mayans, look how corrupted they got. Look what the kind of gods they worship. They worship other beings. The interesting thing, I was talking to Steve one time about this in El Salvador. I guess he's done a lot of research on the Aztecs and Mayans being in Central America. And he was telling me about their folklore of the Aztecs and Mayans and kind of their pantheon of gods. Well, anyway, they had a name for a supreme God. And I can't remember the name of some Aztec Mayan name, but they said that this supreme God, they hadn't heard from a long time that he was asleep. So then what they had done is worship a second tier of gods. in their Aztec and Mayan pantheon, which would be the Banaha Elohim. Exactly what scripture is saying, that's what they did. Instead of worshiping the one true God, El Elyon, the most high God, they went to the second tier and third tiers of God, and even demons as well. And when I say gods, I'm talking about spirit creatures. That's how the Old Testament refers to spirit creatures is they call them gods. They're not ontologically like God. And that's what the Aztecs and Mayans did. So, so follow me. These nations got put under the watch care of these Banah Elohim and everything just went crazy. They didn't worship Yahweh, they actually got corrupted. Hence, God then starts a new nation out of the 70 nations with one individual and he starts it right with him. Do you know who that is? It's Abram. Because basically all the nations were torched, man. They got wasted by pagan idolatry, worshiping the Banaha Elohim. And they all had their gods, whether it was Marduk or whoever, Asherah, whatever their names were. They were all spirit creatures that should not have been worshiped. And so God says, I'm gonna start a new nation out of the table of nations, and I'm gonna start it with Abram. And I'm gonna call him out of Ur, and I'm going to give him the land I want to give him and I'm going to create a new nation out of this table of 70 nations. Does that make sense? It's a new creation. Does that make sense? Well, we don't know because B'naha Elohim is still used in Genesis 6 for those who created hybrids with women. But we know they were definitely fallen angels, but they're still B'naha Elohim, sons of God. I don't know from the text if these B'naha Elohims are good angels or bad angels. I don't know. They are given territorial rule over these nations. And the precedent is set with Michael, Daniel says that Michael is a territorial banah Elohim over who? Israel he is the prince that is over Israel. That is the watchdog for the country of Israel So we know that already so the precedents have been set that God has done this I don't know what angel is over the United States But every nation has an angel assigned to them and probably Satan has demons assigned to those nations as well but nonetheless, I don't know because the word is used interchangeably and And sometimes you have to read the context to see, okay, what is the activity of the Banah Elohim? And in Genesis 6, it's bad. In this sense, I don't know if this is bad. It just means that they have rulership over those nations as a co-regent, so to speak, under Yahweh. That's why in Daniel, it'll talk about the counsel of gods, that God has a counsel of the gods. In Daniel chapter four, is it 36? Well, yes and no, they're over the country. If they're good angels, they account for the affairs of the country and whatever God tells them to do, they gotta do. And that's like Michael, he's going to help Israel in the tribulation survive. He will be one of their main rescuers and then Jesus obviously as well. But we don't know all their functions. We do know that they're given responsibilities to do certain things in the angelic realm. So they're just not sitting up there in heaven. What'd you say the verse was? I haven't read this in a long time. It's Daniel 4, but I can't find that verse. Oh, 17, you got it? 17, I knew it was there. The decision is by the decree of the watchers and the sentence by the word of the holy ones in order that the living may know that the most high rules in the kingdom of men, gives it to whomever he will and sets it over it with the lowest of men. Did you see the word watchers? That's another term for them. Daniel 4, 17. They're called the watchers. It says, and the sentence by the word of the holy ones, plural. The Elohim, I think that's the word in that text, which obviously can refer to God, but it's a neutral, when it's in that context, it's referring to God's plural spiritual beings. B-E-N-E. H-A, then Elohim, Banah Elohim, the sons of God. Well, I think it was Psalm 86 verse eight, among the gods, there's none like you, but I'm looking for that verse that Jesus referenced. where they got mad at him for calling him, making himself equal with God. And he says, what are you getting mad for? I'm paraphrasing. He says, the Psalms say, didn't he call you gods too? Didn't he call the gods? God's to why is you have why are you having a problem with calling me God and I think it was Psalm 86 8 but it's somewhere in the 80s, and I can't remember I'm just going off the top of my head right now What's the point the point is this idea of Israel being over the Gentile nations? has to do with all of this. It has to do with the table of 70 nations going crazy into paganism and their watchdogs, their watchers, not doing their job. Not doing what they're supposed to do and letting the nations go into complete paganism and rampant idolatry. So someone's gonna have to account for that. The watchers, any watcher that was put over that nation is to account for that. Okay. Hence, we create a new nation, God says. He creates a new nation, and this will be the one nation that will lead all the other nations to the one true God. Because the watchers didn't do their job. So I'm gonna start a new nation, and they're gonna be the high priest nation to all the nations, and then what happened in history? They didn't do their job. They failed to be the servant of Yahweh to the nations because of their unbelief and their idolatry and their paganism that entered into it. So they fell along with the other nations. And then they fell so bad that the other Gentile nations came upon them and suppressed them. Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, Rome, etc., etc., etc., and suppressed that nation down to where they became the tail of the nations rather than the head. Hence, this is why that Israel now is put in the kingdom at the head of the nations because now they will function correctly and do their job of telling the Gentile nations exactly who the one true God is. I know that's a long way to get to that passage, but that's the background of him telling, or Moses saying this, that you're going to be the head of the nations. That's the background of it. Oh yeah, they're gonna be thrown into the lake of fire. So they've got references in, I think, was it Revelation 20, I think, references that, that talks about Satan being thrown into the pit and other angels being confined. And so they're gonna be thrown into the lake of fire because of all that they did. Some angels right now are bound in Tartarus and are never gonna come out until the great white throne judgment because of what they did in Genesis six. and afterwards and some when I say angels I'm talking about fallen angels are in the Abuso which is temporary confinement for what they've done typically because they've been exercised out of a person in possession and so they're in the pit right now so they might be released. There are demons or fallen angels right now that are bound by the great river Euphrates and are gonna be released during the tribulation, and they're gonna be released to kill mankind. I think a third of mankind will be killed by these creatures. So there's a lot of information about them. Their final destiny is the lake of fire, because they're not coming back. But let me ask you guys this question before we take a break. Does God use demons still, and does he use Satan still? How so? You would think he would not even touch him with a 10 foot pole. Okay, so like the interaction between Satan and God is evident in Job, right? And what is the dialogue they're having? It's about Job, right? It seems like, you know, wow, they're talking about him and like, you know, there's the challenges put up. And so, God gives permission to Satan and uses Satan to destroy Job's money, destroy Job's family, and most people can't get their arms wrapped around that. There's another banah Elohim that's used by God to give, who becomes a lying spirit. You remember that scene? And one of the councils that come before God said, I'll do it, I'll lie. Well, that's obviously not a good angel. That's a bad angel. And it's an evidence that God is still using even the demonic realm to do certain things. He allows them to do it under his thumb, under his permission. And that's really sometimes hard to grasp that this other world that exists is out there. And I think that's where a lot of Christians fail to understand that whole realm. But I'm telling you this, if you don't understand it, you won't understand a passage that says, well, Israel will be put at the head of the nations. And most Christians read that and say, all right, what's the big deal? Move on, what's for lunch? They don't even care. Because you know why? They don't know the background of the Banah Elohim and the table of nations. They don't know that. I don't know. It's kind of a deficit that's going on in Christianity. I guess pastors think it's gonna freak people out so bad that they're gonna hit hightail and run, I guess. I don't know. I don't think it freaks you out. I wouldn't imagine. It's just, you need to know that information. You need to know what's going on in the angelic realm. It's more than just us. It's a lot going on. It's a lot going on. It's a lot going on. It's a lot going on. It's a lot going on.