Well, we'll get right into the other lesson, but I got one more question for you. And this is kind of a soul-searching question. I was talking to the Lord this morning, and for some reason, I can't describe why, you know, no more than I can tell you how that bird knows to build that nest. Where do your thoughts come from? When God says in the last days, knowledge shall be increased, you think about this. Did he specify what kind of knowledge? What if it's the knowledge of the holy? What about that? What if he wasn't specific to scientific knowledge? What if he says in the last days knowledge shall be increased? How do you think they figured out how to split that atom? God led them into it. How'd he lead them into it? Trial and error. And you do trial and error all you want and you know what you get for 5,000 years? You get a horse. You got no cars, you got no machines, you got no air conditioning, you got no refrigerators, you got no telephones, you got no typewriters, you got no internet, you got no store-bought clothes for that matter. What is it? That's God. He's doing a bunch of stuff. Now here's the question for you. I wonder if at any time since God made me, it repented him that he made me. And if you're thinking, no, no, I'm saved, that's self-righteousness. What makes you think you're any better than the rest of those sinners out there that God destroyed? Well, I must be better than them because he didn't kill me. Yet. Now think about that. The one that made all of this stuff, I wonder if he ever said, man, I wish I hadn't have made that one. and that would be in you. Now, if that doesn't grieve your heart, your heart's in the wrong place. And I'm serious about that. If that doesn't make you regret not what you did, but who you are. I mean, who are we? We are sinners. God's angry with the wicked every day. He's not angry with us because we're sons. The only good thing about us is Jesus Christ. That's it. And no matter how hard we try, everything else we produce that's supposed to be good is self-righteousness. Since I got saved, I'm sure it didn't repent God that he made me. But what about before I was saved? What about that? And the grief that I felt was a grief I never felt before, and it was the grief of regretting who I am as a sinner. that would cause him any discomfort at all, whether it was my fault or my parents' fault or Adam's fault, just who I am because I'm a burden to him. He said, well, you're not as much of a burden now as you used to be. Praise the Lord, man. Anyway, let's move along. Now, we've been looking at the sixth age of the earth, the millennial age, which I believe is almost ready to start right now. I mean, we're living in the last days. Brother Joe was telling me about these people he's working with. I think it's the government. I think he said it gives you $115 or something a month if you carpool. Well, they got enough people carpooling that they figured out they can probably put in a bus route to this certain area and get enough people on that, and that way they can drop it down to $40. Brother Jack, how much do you pay your people to drive to work if they carpool? Well, I'm sure they do it at the bank center or Walmart or some of these other places. But the government's handing the money out left and right. And he said one woman was sitting there while they were talking about riding on the bus, and they're cutting it down to $40, and she sticks her hand up and said, well, how'd I get my whole 115? You know what that mentality is? As long as I get more than I have to give, I'm for it. You know where that comes in? In the last days, men shall be lovers of them own selves. You better believe it. Man, it's a different generation than it was that fought World War I, World War II. The people today aren't the same kind of people at all. There's people today that are going to vote in this election for what they can get out of it personally and they don't care what happens to anybody else. And they're so blinded, they don't see the results of their actions and how it'll affect them and their kids in the future because they don't care about their kids, they don't care about their grandkids, they only care about what's in it for me and they live for today with no thought of tomorrow. Every single one of them. Anyway, we're about the end of this church age. We started last week looking in Zechariah 14. You can look over there. Now here's some interesting thoughts. We talked last week and we kind of ran out of time because I ran my mouth about too many other things. I blame it on the clock. Time just moves too fast when I'm up here. Last week we talked about the sun being seven times hotter in one day and the moon being as bright as the sun. And it's not hotter, it's brighter. It's just brighter. It's like a fluorescent light that puts out light without putting out a lot of heat. And I started thinking about that, and I thought, you know, what if God uses that to straighten the earth out? You say, what do you mean? Well, you know the earth's messed up right now. It's still under a curse big time, right? And although there's a lot of things that God solved with the atonement, we don't benefit from all of those things right now. How do you know that? Well, because a rattlesnake will still bite you. Because wasps will still get you. Them lions will still eat you if you get one out of the cage and you're around it. Those things right now still exist. And there's things going on that aren't supposed to be here. They're here because of Adam's sin. You know what makes the outside air purer than the inside air? Anybody have a clue? It's ultraviolet light. UV light actually cleans the bacteria and the mold and the fungus and all kinds of stuff out, kills disease and everything you can imagine. That UV light will do the job on it. In fact, they can actually install UV lights in these air conditioners. It's really bad stuff, so you gotta put it in a special container. They shine UV light on that stuff to clean up and purify the air inside your house and hospitals and a bunch of other stuff. That's what cleans it up. Well, here's this brightness that is seven times brighter in one day. and it doesn't get dark at night. Isn't that interesting? What if God's doing that and that's some of the stuff that he does to straighten out the earth? Well, if he kills off all the mold and the fungus and disease and purifies the air, don't you think the plants and the animals are gonna be healthier? What if all of a sudden the vegetation starts containing everything a lion needs to exist where it's not there right now? So all of a sudden, the whole earth begins to change. They become vegetarians. It may trigger global climate change, the deserts and things like that. I don't know what he's gonna do or how he's gonna do it, but do you realize that God performs the miraculous with the ordinary? He does. Okay, it repents me that I made them, I'm gonna kill them all. Well, how are you gonna do that, God? You're just going to evaporate them with some kind of a ray or something? No, I'm going to drown them. That's the ordinary. See? I mean, he just does that kind of stuff. You say, what about salvation? Well, my son's going to have to come down there and live a sinless life so his blood doesn't get polluted like Adam's did. And then he's going to have to die. Well, that sounds kind of ordinary, just dying on a cross. They did that with a bunch of thieves. Well, it's kind of ordinary, but it's the miraculous that's behind it. Anyway, Zechariah, let's look at 14.8. We got up to that point. 14.8 says, and it shall be in that day that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem, half of them toward the former sea and half of them toward the hinder sea. In the summer and in winter shall it be. Now there's something really special about water. I've been telling you that over and over and over. And I don't think in my Christian education that near enough time was spent on this subject. because God uses water in so many different ways, and according to Him, the face of the deep is frozen. And I don't know if you've ever heard of the doctrine of the great deeps and stuff, but that has to do with what's up there between the second heaven and the third heaven somewhere up in there. You say, what do you mean between them? Yeah, between them. You know what the first heaven is? Where the birds fly. You know what the second heaven is? That's where all the stars and stuff are. You know where the third heaven is? That's where God's at. Well, according to him, he separated the waters from the waters, right? He created a firmament in the deep. How does he hold that stuff back? The face of the deep is frozen, man. Best I can figure, and there's something out there between the second heaven and that third heaven, and it's the great deeps. I've got one preacher talking about Leviathan up there swimming around in that thing. I don't know, maybe, maybe not. You know, some people see stuff real clear that I don't see at all. I look at it and I study it and I say, well, I don't know, it'll be interesting to find out. But anyway, there is definitely some stuff about water that's a little bit more involved than just plain old water in the glass, you know. There's something else going on. And in this case, it's living water. So what kind of water is living water? I don't know. You ever drink living water? Well, that's certainly different than plain old water, isn't it? This stuff here is alive. He says the life of the flesh is in the blood, but somehow this stuff is living water. And like I've always believed and still believe, that water that came out of Jesus Christ's side when they pierced his side, and those sweat drops when he was in that garden, was a separation between the blue blood, king of kings, and the red blood, second Adam. and those things separated. And if he'd have sinned, they would have been bound together, and there would have been no cleansing effect. They had to be able to be separated. And when those things separated, there was some kind of a cleansing involved in that thing, and he became the living water, and your sins are cleansed by the blood. And in him is life, and we have eternal life in him, and that blood didn't give us eternal life, at least not Adam's blood. That stuff washed away the sin. This stuff over here gave us the life. There's some more stuff going on about this. We need to take a closer look and see what God tells us about living water. Look at over Revelation 7. Revelation 7. I started reading this stuff, and God started showing me stuff this morning. I was just bouncing off the walls, and it had nothing to do with, oh, look, boy, I'm going to really use this. It had nothing to do with that. It just had to do with, wow, I've never seen any of this stuff before. Wow, look at this. This is great. I was so excited, man, I wanted to get down here and start teaching, you know, an hour and a half ago. and we're not gonna get all the way through this by any means. Look at this thing, Revelation 7, 13 to 17. And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, What are these which came arrayed in white robes? And whence came they? And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said unto me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and have made them white in the blood of the Lamb. Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple. And he that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them, and they shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more, neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat. For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them into living fountains of waters, and God shall wipe away all the tears from their eyes." And we get that thing down to where that must be us, because God's going to wipe away all of our tears. Well, not necessarily, because those are a certain specific named group of people. It brings up several questions. He didn't say, who are these? He said, what are these? That's kind of weird. I mean, I think of myself more as a who than a what. He said, what does that mean? I don't know, it's just kind of a strange way for him to say it. I don't believe God says anything peculiar like that without having purpose behind it. You know, I'm just real peculiar that way myself. I think he knows how to write. I think he knows which words to use. And he's the only one that can translate on any language on this planet and get a full meaning across without fooling around with losing or gaining something. That's the only one that can do it is God. But anyway, he says, now this is the special group. It's not like any other church age saints. How come? Well, they overcame him by the blood of the lamb, the word of their testimony, and love not their lives unto the death. At least this group did. That's the way it talks about him over there. I didn't do that. I didn't overcome that way. What happened to me? I got saved by grace through faith by just simply accepting Jesus Christ. I became born again. I became a child of God. I became adopted. Blood washed, spirit filled with eternal life. And I got that hope in me. That's what happened to me. Now these guys here, he's describing something different. They loved not their lives unto the death and they were beheaded. They're not present with the Lord when they died. They ended up under the altar and they cried out loud, how long, how long? That's the guys we're talking about from what I can understand. They washed their own robes. You have any idea what that indicates? Did I wash my robes? I did not. He clothed me. I'm like the prodigal son when I said, Lord, I'm not worthy for nothing. And he says, get the fatty cat, bring the robes. Whose robes? Father's robes. Clean him up, fix him up. We're gonna have a feast. We're gonna enjoy some things. My son who was lost is found. That's me. They washed their own robes. Now fine linen's the righteousness of the saints. I have God's righteousness from Jesus Christ. I don't have my righteousness washed with his blood. You realize what he's saying there? They overcame him by the blood of the lamb. That's all I needed. The word of their testimony and love knocked their lives under the death. You know what those last two are? Those are works. Those are self-righteousness. He applied the blood to those and now their garments are washed white. their garments, and that isn't me at all. That is so different from me, you couldn't even possibly confuse the two. Anyway, they serve day and night in his temple, and they don't leave. From my understanding, I'm going to rule and reign with him, maybe over some cities. They don't leave the temple. If I'm ruling and reigning over cities, and these guys are stuck in that temple, that's another great distinguishment. They don't even get outside in the day. Verse 16 says that a light doesn't even get on them or heat. They stay inside the whole time. Who are they? They're the ones that came out of the great tribulation. You say, well, maybe it's just 144,000. Is that the only souls that are under the altar? Those 144,000 pretty well protected as they ran around witnessing. It was the other people that had a problem. They drank of the living water from a fountain. Will I need living water or do I already have eternal life? I already got it. Are they serving? Yep. My understanding, I'm a son. So this group of people end up in the temple and they end up doing all kinds of things that don't apply to me at all. Now, I don't know where that puts us. All I know is that that group is being distinguished more and more and more as a different group of people. And that thing about the living water, we got to get into more of it next week, but that living water starts coming out of that throne and it goes out in all kinds of places. And the Lord, we'll see this next week, but the Lord leads them to that living water and they get to drink from it. And that makes the difference. That life somewhere comes tying into that living water. Can you imagine what it'd be like to water your garden with living water? What if you watered your animals with living water? He says, this thing is living water. You talk about something that's going to change this earth, that living water is going to make a huge difference. What kind of water is that? I think it's supercharged. I was telling Brother Selden yesterday, we planted some tomatoes in some mushroom compost, and that's all they're planted in, you know. I just dug a big hole and stuck them in there. Man, I've got leaves on those tomato vines. They come out of that tomato vine, they'll go out in a leaf, you know, and have these little sprouts off the side, but they're just kind of a leaf thing. I got them 18 inches long coming off those things, big old petals on them. Man, I wish I had some of that living water. We'd grow some tomatoes, wouldn't we? Who is this doing it all? The one that saves us. Why'd he do it? He did it for his glory. Instead of being fascinated by it, try to think beyond that and be fascinated by the one that's doing it. Let's close in prayer.