I'm going to move right on to the lesson. I know you've probably got some things you'd like to share with me, and maybe you can share them a little bit later, but we're looking at Ezekiel 36, and here's kind of a summation of what we've got. Ezekiel 36, the Lord spends the first 15 verses talking about the land. He is actually speaking to the land, that the land has been abused. Because all the Gentiles came into it, they treated it like it was their own, if not, land that belongs to God, and God gives it to whosoever He wishes. And it just so happens that that particular land He gave to Israel eternally. I know that sounds like a long term to say that. That's why Cain and Isaac get driven out of it. That's why all the other people get driven out of it. You're welcome to stay. and do things our way. But you are not welcome to stay and create havoc with us all the time. Did you follow that? That's what he was saying to people out there. Can the Philistine or the Palestinian stay? Yes. Yes. But not as an independent state. You can't do it that way. That's not God's way. He doesn't want his land divided. That's where we go on. From the land, he went to the people. He said, I'm going to restore the people. Starting in verse 16, he starts talking to us about how he's going to bring his people from all nations that have now, where they have gone, his people have gone, and profane his name. and they're now going to be drawn back, and they're coming back into the land, and he's bringing them. We've described that as another long process. It's not done just because 1948 they're declared a state, now 1949 Jesus will come, and 1950 everybody is all happy in the millennium. It's not done at all. In 1948, the land gets restored to them. But it's going to take a while to restore that land to its fruitfulness. to be able to support the number of people that he's going to bring there. He said, I'm bringing them from everywhere. I am going to populate your land, he said. So all those people have to come in and get it. And that's a long process. We're still in that process. Everybody follow me? We're still in it. And he said, even further, not only am I going to return you to the land, and it's not going to be because you asked me to. It's not because of you. It's because you profaned my name. And now I'm bringing you back in here. And once you see my goodness, you're going to repent. But it's not because of their repentance and their turning to Him that He brings them back. It's because they have profaned His name. Everybody follow that? Now, He brings them back. He said, I'm gonna change your heart. I'm gonna give you a new heart. I'm going to change your spirit. I'm going to put my spirit in you. My law is going to be in you. It's not something that's going to be outside of you. It's not an external thing you're going to do. It's an internal thing. It's in your conscience. It's in your heart. You'll know what's the right thing to do. I won't have to tell you. I won't have to have teachers to tell you. That's what's going to take place when the restoration is complete. But it's not complete yet. So, as it is with us, Please be patient with one another. You know, the work of God is not complete in us. I want you to understand there's still a resurrection to go. There's still a new body to get in that resurrection. There's still a complete conformity of our Lord Jesus Christ. All that's still got to go. We're not there. Now, he sees the process is done. God sees us as complete in Christ. And by that he means I've downloaded everything you need. For my own satisfaction, I have you where I want you. Now, live it out. You're gonna have to access everything I gave you by faith. Everything. I've given you all the peace you need. You're gonna have to access it. I've given you all the forgiveness that you're gonna need. Access it. I've given you all the love you're gonna need. Access it. And I'm gonna put you in experiences that make you have to do that. I'm going to put you in unsettling situations so you have to get rid of the anxiety through faith in Me. You follow the difference? So, every experience you're going to go through, guys, is a planned event to help you be just like Jesus. And that's why we need to be people who are not over-anxious about, what's the Lord doing right now? And why me? Why are you picking on me? If God is bringing you through something, guys, it's so you can move just like Jesus. That's the goal. That's the purpose. That's all it's about. You see, that's more important to Him than whether or not you get to be a middle-class American that gets to have everything you want to have. If he blesses you to the point that you get to have all that you want to have, how will you? But if he blesses you in such a way that you've got nothing left in this world but him, how will you? Does that make sense? So he blessed there, now he's going to change the people. I'm going to be the same people. And it's as he's doing that change that they're going to say, I hate myself. What were we thinking? Why did we do these disgusting things? Why didn't we walk out of it? That's when they're really going to understand grace. That you're saved by grace. Everybody follow that? It's in the goodness of God that you come to recognize His mercy and His grace. It's not in the awful stuff. It's not in the beating you and punishing you and all that stuff. The discipline in you is because you are His kid. That's not to make you His kid. You are His kid, so He's disciplining you. Straightening you out in some of the directions you're taking. Then He went on one step further. Not only am I going to restore you, but I'm going to restore all of you. Now, watch what I mean by all. That doesn't mean every single person. That means all of Israel. How much of Israel is there? Twelve tribes. We kinda know where two of them are. Kinda. They're absorbed into one tribe of Judah, and we call them today, Jews, in the shortened form of Judah. Where are the other ten? Well, there's a good documentary several years ago that came out, I think in 2017, I think is when it came out, that showed where the other ten may be. Found all kinds of people there who seem to be following something called Torah. in their own language, of course, but something called Torah. And it looks really similar to what Moses said. And they're doing all kinds of things that look like sacrifices, but they're knowing we can't really do sacrifices until we find a temple and they know it's in Jerusalem. Okay, so this is a good documentary. I don't know how accurate it really is, but it was a good documentary, something that opened your eyes to it. Here's what he said. I want you to take two sticks. On one stick, I want you to write Judah. On the other stick, I want you to write Joseph. I want you to say, and bring those two sticks together, I want you to tie them. And when they're tied together, I want you to see they're going to become one stick. They're blending in. They're going to be one stick. I am going to restore all of Israel. The ten that are lost, and the two that they believe are still around, all twelve are going to be together. Now, I hope you're grasping what I'm talking about here, because here's what He's going to do. Remember, when we come into that tribulation time, in order to start that tribulation off, He picks 144,000 from all 12 tribes, 12,000 of each. Are you, are you grasping this? He's going to bring all of Israel together, bring them into the same place, change their hearts, change their thoughts, change their minds, change all kinds of things about them, and make sure that all 12 are together in a single stick. And when that takes place, Now, Sequel 37 is where He said, here's this valley of dry bones. Can these dry bones live? Can they do that? And He said, well, you know whether they can or not. He said, speak to them. I want you to prophesy to the bones. He prophesied to the bones, and all these dry bones gathered up together again. They become living bones, and now they get sinews on them. Then they get muscles on them, and then they get skin on them, and now there they are, skinned people. Kind of zombie-like. No real life in them yet. And that's what Israel is today. They are the dry bones. They are brought back together. They are skinned up. But they don't have the Spirit. They're not going to live until Joel chapter 2 says, and I will pour out my spirit before that great and terrible day of the Lord. So somewhere around the tribulation time, somewhere before the tribulation time, somewhere in there, in the resurrection, he's going to pour out his spirit on Israel. And a new Pentecost is going to take place. It's different from the one that was before. because they didn't go ahead and accept their Messiah before. This one's going to be the actual fulfillment of Joel chapter 2. Everybody okay? That's what Ezekiel 37 is about. And 37, not only are they restored, but they're restored to the land. And in the land, he is going to speak to the land and tell it, bring forth. And that stuff is going to produce more than it's ever produced. Why? We've got a lot more people living there now. We're going to need a lot more food there now, and it's going to be there for a while. Now, anybody got any thoughts or comments about Ezekiel 36 and 37? I know you didn't even have to read them, and I'm going to encourage you to read them because I hope I haven't misrepresented it to you. doing it like that and I may have not covered all the verses here for you. Anybody have any thoughts or questions about 36 and 37? I'm wondering how many, how far back you'll go to get the book of our boons. You know, are they ones that die through the tribulation period? I think it's going to be And I know that people say, well, that's just Jesus. No, I think he means my servant David. He means exactly what he said. He's going to raise up David to be the king over that people that are on the earth as Israel. So I think he's going back to what he said. I don't know how many other people he's going to resurrect. I'm guessing everybody he didn't resurrect the day he resurrected. all the people in Jerusalem, all the saints came out on the ground and many people saw him at that point. That was Jerusalem. He's got another one that's to go for the holy place. Now, timing. Is that going to be at the beginning of that tribulation period or will it be at the end of it? That one I don't know. It doesn't seem to indicate timing to me. And it's now a little bit longer than you thought. When he says, I'm bringing Israel back, I'm bringing from all the nations. It does take a little while to do that. So we've been, let's say it's 48 when that started happening, and we are now at 24, and it's still going on. So the process doesn't have to be complete. You understand what I'm saying? He's going to bring them back. No, no, because us trying to figure out what God's doing and he is just kind of not revealing himself. This is as simple as that. Do I have to explain it? No, because I don't want to put myself in a problem area trying to explain something that only he knows. Even my Lord Jesus, when asked, when is this going to take place, said, I don't know. My dad knows. And it'll happen when my dad says. End of story. Now, let's go to Ezekiel 38. Somebody's got another question about Ezekiel 36 and 37, the restoration of Israel. Yes. Oh my goodness, remember when the guys from Dallas said, man, we're living in a time where you're seeing things happen. That was in the 70s. And yeah, now, those guys, are looking down and saying, wow, this is Ezekiel 36 and 37 happening before our very eyes. This is amazing. So, right, Matt? Yeah, there's such a variety of Jewish beliefs in Israel. And I guess they're excited, and they want to share with you. They're speaking to a people that have blinders in their eyes. Yeah. It's going to be a difficult situation. They'd love to share with you. And that takes us to Romans chapter 9, 10, and 11, where Paul said, man, my desire, and I ache every day because I go speak to my people, and they're blinders on, they can't understand a word I'm saying, they know what my words are, but they fight me. And that's still going on today. I am going to have a point where I do, causally. Now, I'm going to give the picture here, too. Not everybody, not every Jew in the tribulation, not every one of the restored Israel that's in the tribulation, are going to be following the Lord God. And they're going to do it. There are plenty who are not going to follow Him, and they are going to follow one we call Antichrist. They're going to follow Him, because they are unbelievers. And they are of their Father, the Devil. I'm going to remind you, Antichrist is the seed of Satan. That's what he's all about. That's what, all the way back to Genesis 3.15, and her seed, and your seed. are going to be in contention with each other. And he, her seed, will crush your head. But your seed will bruise his heel. So there was still that that was to come about. We still see some of that that will happen. Yeah, that's about seed. Alright, everybody with me? Let's go to Ezekiel 38. a whole lot of people going, this could happen any day. Yes, it really could. The word of the Lord came to me, saying, Son of man, set your face against God of the land of Magog, the prince of Rosh, Meshach, and Tubal, and prophesy against him. and say, Thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I am against you, O Gog, the prince of Rosh, Meshach, and Tubal. I want you to stop just for a minute. Gog is the name of a principality. Gog is the name of a principality, and he's the principality over Nagar. Just like there was a prince of Persia, that fought against Gabriel when Gabriel was coming with a message to bring to Daniel. Then Gabriel said, I left 21 days ago. And on my way down here, the prince of Persia withstood me. And I finally had to call for Michael, your angel, to come take care of me. So there's that fight going on there. Now I can come on and tell you the message that God sent me 21 days ago. And then I have to go back and fight with the Prince of Persia again. There is a Prince of Persia. And that Prince of Persia has been fighting the people of God all along. There are at least four angels, as I recall, bound in the River Euphrates today, which have to be released as the tribulation goes on. Everybody follow what I'm saying? So that's still going to go on. So that there are principalities there. So the big deal is God. And God has been a problem for a long, long time. It's the Northern Kingdom. This is the one that's in the North. This is the one that God said, have I not prophesied about you for a long time? Have I not said how evil you are? I'd like to remind you of something. Let's go. How are you fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning? How you are cut down to the ground, you who weaken the nation! For you have said in your heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God, and I will also sit on the mount of the congregation on the farthest side to the north. I will ascend above the heights of the clouds. I will be like the Most High. You shall be brought down from the shield to the lowest depths of the pit. I'm going to stop right there because you'll notice he wants to go to the farthest sides of the North. He wants to be in the North Kingdom. He wants to do whatever he's going to do in that Northern Kingdom. So this whole area up here has been pretty much an undealt with area. The European area has been dealt with by the Lord. All of the Roman area, all of the Babylon, all of this area in here, that's been dealt with. But this one wasn't. And this one, he says, I'm going to put hooks in your jaw and draw you down to here so that I can deal with you. I have been upset with you for a long time, I've talked about you for a long time, and now I'm going to bring you to your utter destruction. So just hold your hat, because I'm on my way. Now, let's watch how he goes. The Prince of Rosh, Meshach and Tubal, most believe that those are... Some hold that Rosh is the name of the king of Roshim, If I can say this, Rosh is the word which means head. Can you say that again? I'm sorry. What's that? You said Rosh means what? Head. We just went through last month Rosh Hashanah. Rosh Hashanah means the head of the year. That's the new year. So Rosh just simply means head. He is the Prince of Rosh, or more succinctly, he is the Chief Prince. He's the head of all the princes. You follow where we're coming from? So this is not about Roshuns. It's about the head of something. Something that is the head. Meshek and Tubal, that's a different thing. Meshek and Tubal were both The sons of Shem and Japheth, they were all descendants of Japheth. And Japheth did take over all the area from Turkey all the way through Eastern Europe. That was where most of the descendants of Japheth went. So Meshech and Tubal later became the cities of Moscow and Tubal. Do you know if it's still Trubalsk? That's what it was back in the Iron Curtain days, so I'm kind of old-fashioned myself. Seriously, back in the day. I don't know what it may be today. Let's say it was St. Petersburg and then it went to Leningrad and then it became St. Petersburg again, if I remember right. I believe it's Trubalsk. It just kind of depends on who's the dictator today. So, all the areas we're going to talk about now are going to be mostly areas that go that direction, north. So let's look and see what... Would China be included? Pardon me? Would China be included? China is not mentioned in this. No. At least not in this particular passage, okay? Let's go to verse 4. I will turn you around, put hooks into your jaws, and lead you out with all your army, horses, and horsemen, all splendidly clothed, a great company of bucklers and shields, all of them handed with swords." I'm just about to submit a notice. This is not good because it's something he wants to do. This Gog is not necessarily wanting to do that. Why? Goodness. He has been running rampant over this area He's been pretty much untouched. As a matter of fact, his people were still part of the people that were down here in Turkey, in Galatia. And these from Galatia had been moved from over here into Galatia, and moved from Galatia over into France and Spain, where they became Gaul. And from Gaul, they crossed the divide there, went into Ireland, Scotland, all that area, and became known as the Gaelic people, or the Celts. The Celts, alright? So, the people from Galatia are related to the Celtic peoples. Does that make any sense? So, all of these peoples were moved mostly by these people in the north. Because when the northern people would come down, it would terrify everybody. They were good horsemen. They were good at everything they did. They were good at battle. And they hated people. They just butchered them. They were called Scythians to the Greeks. he's including here, Persia, Ethiopia, Libya, verse 5, are with them, all of them with shield and helmet. Now stop right there. Persia, that's the old name for Iran. Ethiopia, that's everything south of Egypt. And then Libya, that's North Africa. So you've got the Africans and the Iranians joined together with Gog from the north to attack Israel. And Gog has had hooks put in his jaws. He's being drawn down here. It's not necessarily something that he dreamed of. It's that God put it in his heart, because God's got a judgment he wants to perform against Gog and Magog. Does that make any sense? Thoughts? Comments? And that's why everybody keeps their eye open. Now, what's Iran doing? Who's Iran's great partner? Who did Iran partner up with that gets to say, we'll take care of you if anything goes wrong? None other than Russia. That's not necessarily, follow where I'm at, they're not just fighting a war on one front. They do have the war with Ukraine, that's true, they do have that war going on. But they're not all quiet on the western front when it comes to the other countries, Kazakhstan and those other stands in there. They've got commanded armies to there, too. Commanded troops going on there because there's war going on there. So it's not like the people of the North are saying, yeah, just have one more war. We just have one more front to gain. And it's critical that it happens just as soon as possible. Russia and China both went on policy of abortion. They felt like they were getting too many people. So they decided, let's kill off some people. The best way to do that was to tell families you can only have so many children. And when they started having children, then they would abort them. And a lot of people lost out. Now, it sounds like it was a great plan at the time. But 20 years later, when you're needing soldiers, You cut your soldiers off. You have already destroyed them 20 years before now, and you're running short, especially if you've got somebody to kill them folk off. So when the Russians are being killed off by Ukrainians, they've got to move, and they're going to have to move fast. So if you follow them through, that's part of the hooks in the jaw. They're under a time crunch. the Chinese are under one probably worse than the Russians are. The Chinese have messed up their demographics so badly they don't have, they're not in the ground as far as an economy is concerned ten years from now. They just goofed, not realizing what they're going to do. They don't have enough young people to supply goods for the old people that are retiring and getting too old to work. So now they're unbalanced. So all these older people are taking all the income, while the young people are saying, we don't even live here anymore. We can do better in the United States. We can do better someplace else. And they don't want to be here. There's not enough of them. Are you following where we're coming from? So the demographics are going to make a big deal in this thing. And that's part of the hooks that go into the jaw that pulls you down. If you know you're going to be in need of something, and you know that it's not you alone that's going to have to fight this, that you can pick up some Iranians, you can pick up some Libyans, you can pick up some Ethiopians, you can have some people joining you in this battle, then it starts to get to be a little healthier situation. You following? But that's not all. Let's go ahead and look as he goes even further. Look in verse 8. Gover and all its troops, the house of Togarmah from the far north and all its troops, many people are with you. Ah, good. So Russia's not quite this thing by itself. They know that they have Gomer, and Gomer is just across, that Gomer is Eastern Europe. So they're gonna draw troops from Eastern Europe. Togarmah is Turkey and what's just north of Turkey. So they're getting that. They're getting those troops, they're getting the troops from Eastern Europe, and they're joining in with it. Now, as he said, many people are with you. Verse seven. prepare yourself and be ready, you and all your companies that are gathered about you, and be a guard for them. In other words, you're gonna go to war. So I'm gonna tell you right now, get yourself prepared. I'm about to bring you into a war that I want you fully armed. I want everything you can get on those arms. Get yourself fully secured and taken care of. Verse eight, after many days, you will be visited. So this was not gonna happen A while ago, this is after Midi Day, so this is at the end of time it's going to happen. You'll be visited. In the latter years, you will come to the land of those brought back from the sword and gathered from Midi people on the mountains of Israel, which had long been desolate. Remember what he said he was going to do in 36? Take care of the desolate land and make it a good land. He was going to populate it again with people who'd been brought back from the sword, who'd been brought back from the gathered there, all the places they had been in, which had long been desolate, they were brought out of the nations, and now all of them dwell safely. Now, that word safely is the word confidently. It doesn't necessarily mean that everything is just hunky-dory. They are having rockets fired into them all the time. So that's not a safe situation. But they have confidence that the Iron Dome will take that down. They have confidence that their defense systems and their technology are high enough that will keep them being safe. No, they don't have walled cities. Walled cities don't do much about rockets. But they do know they have something to kick the rockets out of. They do know they have a good military technology so they can drill confidently, not necessarily safely. Does that make sense to you? All right. You will ascend, coming like a storm, covering the land like a cloud, you and all your troops and many peoples with you. Thus says the Lord God, on that day it shall come to pass that thoughts will arise in your mind, and you will make an evil plan. You will say, I will go up against the land of unhauled villages, I will go to a peaceful people who dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, having neither bars nor gates, to take plunder, and to take booty, and to stretch out your hand against the waste places that are again inhabited. against the people gathered from the nations, who have acquired livestock and goods, who dwell in the midst of the land." Stop just for a moment. God from the north is going to look and see all the things that have developed in Israel. Israel has desalination plants that allow them to bring water from the ocean in. They have machines, I'll call them machinery, that takes water out of the air gives them fresh water to work with. They have medical technology that's unbelievable. More and more discoveries are found all the time. Lithium gets discovered there. Everybody's hot on lithium these days. Natural gas is found there. Oil is found there. So this is a land rich in resources. And it's in the middle of the world. all this wasted space here, and they've got stuff all around through it. But they've got to work at getting it someplace. They have it right here in the middle? That's such a strategic place. You can do all kinds of things. You can ship stuff everywhere from right here. You can take it right out to the Mediterranean. You can use pipelines to get it out. You can do all kinds of things. Because with verse 13, Pastor, would that be part of the land of milk and honey? Yes it is. God has made that land a special land so that with a small amount of space, it can do so much. There's so many resources there that just get discovered every now and then. It's an amazing thing. Yes, that makes it a special land. In verse 13, Sheba, Dedan, the merchants of Tarshish, and all their young lions will say to you, have you come to take plunder? Have you gathered your army to take booty, to carry away silver and gold, to take away livestock and goods, to take great plunder? They ask it, but they don't do anything about it. In other words, they're just letting you know, they see what's going on, but they're not about to stand up against it. Sheba and Dinan. From what I can gather, looking at peoples and where they went to, Sheba and Dinan look to be Saudi Arabia. That's where they, it looks like that's where it's from. Because that's where the descendants that came from over in the Israeli area, they went that way. Some of the Israelites and others went that way. And Saudi Arabia looks to be where Sheba and Ninan are located. That's not the case with the ships of Tarshish. It's really hard to find information that's solid on what Tarshish is. Tarshish is often, in the New Testament, identified with Spain, all the way out to Spain. So I'm guessing the ships of Tarshish maybe the peoples who somehow come through the Mediterranean or someplace else as seafarers bringing goods to Israel. There is not a solid way to look at it. There's a Tarsus. There's a Tarsus that was in Greece. There was a Tarsus, Paul's Tarsus. That was in what, Sicily, I think it was. So you have all kinds of stuff, not Sicily or Syria. You have all kinds of things identified. Where was it that Jonah was headed? He was headed to Tarsus. He wanted to get out of Dodge. He wouldn't get as far. Well, that was as far away from there as you could get. So some say he was headed to Spain. Well, that's true if the Spain of the New there are a few years in between there, you know? And that puts me in a place where I don't want to be so firm about saying that. There's just too many years in between there. You could have several places named Tarsenshaw. You know, there's several places named Springfield. All over the place. And I don't know that I want to say, well, they went to Springfield. Sometimes when my family talks about, when will you be going to Springfield? I have to stop, okay. Which Springfield are you talking about? Illinois? No, why would I care if you go to Springfield, Illinois? Okay, so you're talking about Missouri? Yeah, Missouri. I won't be going to Springfield, Missouri. I'll be passing through. I won't be stopping there. Anyway, so you have all those different places. Where are the ships in Tarsier? I think, here's something I need you to get. Because it says ships, They are a seacoast people. It's not talking about the camels of Tarshish. Not talking about the horses of Tarshish, the elephants of Tarshish, not the ships of Tarshish. So it's got to be some kind of coast land that travels some place by sea. I don't know where exactly it is. I can say this. of the boundaries of Israel. There's got to be ships that's bringing things, alright? So, wherever else it is, wherever this one may be found, I shouldn't say it better than that. So, they ask all kinds of questions. They don't want to get engaged with any kind of defense of Israel, but they are going to ask questions. Verse 14, Therefore some of them prophesy and say to God, Thus says the Lord God, on that day when my people Israel dwell safely, will you not know it? Then you will come out from your place, out of the far north, you and many peoples with you, all of them riding on horses, a great company and a mighty army. You will come up against my people Israel like a cloud to cover the land. It will be in the latter days that I will bring you against my land so that the nations may know me. when I am hallowed in you, O God, before their eyes. Thus says the Lord God, Are you he of whom I have spoken in former days by my servants the prophets of Israel, who prophesied for years in those days, that I would bring you against them?" And once again, a little concordance going for them there. The word North can bring you some wonderful information that you probably didn't think much about. Oops, I should have said it. I didn't think much about it because I wasn't paying attention to the importance of the North. And he's been talking about this for a long time. He's been saying somebody's going to come out of the North, somebody's coming out of the North, and I'm going to vote. I'm going to do bad things to people who come out of the North. It's going to be, as he's pointing out here, and he repeats his point, You've got another chapter on it, too. I think it's important to note this. It's going to be the people of the north joined with many peoples. It's going to be in the latter days, and it's going to be against Israel. Those things you can pretty well predict. He said that at least twice in this same chapter. with pretty good detail. That you're going to be in armed, you're going to be coming down here as you're coming down on that. I'm taking note of it. I'm telling you that I'm going to be against you. I know you're coming against my people. I'm the one that's motivating you to do this because I have a cause against you. And I'm going to take care of that. That's not an unusual thing. If you remember God, that's what he told Noah, he was going to do. I have a cause. and I'm gonna bring this on him, and I'm gonna have you build a ship, and if anybody wants to get on it, can get on it, but I'm gonna put you on it, and I'm sparing you. That's not unusual. He's done that before, okay? So him notifying people at a time when I'm about to do something, he sent Jeremiah to let the people of Judah know Babylon's coming against you. Here's the battle plan. Surrender. If you go ahead and surrender, God's going to take you away for 70 years and bring you back again. You don't surrender, they're going to do something fierce. You mentioned Jonah earlier. Jonah was supposed to go to Nineveh to let them know. Yes. So, just so you know, this is something God wants everybody to know. And His big word is this, that all the nations will know. If you just dealt with the way it is right now, we're dealing with personalities. We're dealing with political movements. We're saying Trump. We're saying Biden. We're saying Putin. God's not interested in your little pawns that you talk about. Because if you think about it guys, the way, if this is about Putin, it is a strategic error to leave what you got going with not very much resources to work with, to go the distance he's got to go to get the mountains of Israel covered with people like a cloud to move down. It's not a good political decision to do that. So what else would you do it for? How about if you've got a god that wrote 500 years before this and said four times, two in this chapter, two in the next one, I'm putting books in the jaws of the king of the north, and I'm yanking him down here. Notice, he doesn't say Putin any place. He doesn't have to, because frankly, it doesn't matter who's in charge. Because hooks are going to go to whoever's in charge. If Putin dies tomorrow, we'll just have to find some other human personality. It won't matter. God's bringing it down. Why? He's got a cause. He's got something he wants. and it's gone, and I don't want it. I don't want to go into 39. Read 39 for the next week. Because that, well, that one in the end of 38, where you've got 18 to 38, the 38-18, and all the way through 39, that one should chill as you read it. This was a terrible, terrible disaster that's about to take place there. not just for the people who are involved, but for a lot of people around the world. So look it over and see what you got to say. Thoughts, comments, questions? You got anything? What did you say to read it down here? Huh? What did you say to read it? Let's see if you go 38, 18, through 39. Yeah. So all the way down through there. And after you get depressed doing all that, then I'll tell you. And look at 40 and say, oh, I need to start reading 40 through 48. And again, it's a bit like reading a mechanics book, illustrated. But it's got good stuff that you can understand. You don't have to know all the dimensions. I stupidly one day thought, you know, I should take these dimensions. Oh, boy, I got lost in the hole, yes. Some place in Long Beach is going to build some rooms. And some place he's building a staircase there. How they fit together, I don't know. I hope they do. Yeah. My neighbor came over this weekend after Russia had done this and that and the other thing. And she said, did you hear the news? And I said, yeah. She says, should we be worried? I said, no. She said, why? I said, how about the end of the book? That's amazing that you know how the world views America, sitting back and forth, like, three or four years ago. They talked about Israel, we were all for them, but then, you know, you could tell they weren't all for them. They were against them. Right. They had to camouflage it. And so now we have a guy that the Lord installed, and he's for Israel. And when he said he could bless Israel, I said, well, bless you. So it's been a kind of a back and forth. Yes, it has. Back and forth. An unsafe place to be. All right. Father, thank you so much for the gift of this day. Thank you for the wonder that you're working in our midst. Thank you, Father, for letting us see the things that you're doing. Thank you for your Word. I'm thinking if you spoke this years and years ago, so that when it does happen, we'll all have to say, no, that was the Lord. Thank you for what you're going to do there in Jesus' name.