Father in heaven, we do thank you, God, for letting us be here this evening. Lord, do pray with those that are sick, God. Pray that you heal them up and be a little out of line, Lord. Pray that they can figure out what's going on with her, Lord. Just give the doctors wisdom and just lead them in the right direction, Lord. God, I pray to bless this time we spend in your word tonight. In Jesus' name we pray, amen. All right, so the book of Joshua, continuing with the study of Jesus in the Old Testament. We could park here in Joshua for quite a while. We're gonna read chapter one. I'll give you some information on that. We'll probably get a little bit into chapter five, and Sunday we'll probably jump back to chapter two. I mean, the book of Joshua is just loaded, loaded with types of the Lord Jesus Christ. But Joshua 1.1, the Bible says, now after the death of Moses, The servant of the Lord, it came to pass that the Lord spake unto Joshua the son of Nun, Moses' minister, saying, Moses, my servant is dead. Now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, thou and all this people unto the land which I do give them, even to the children of Israel. Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, that have I given unto you, as I said unto Moses. From the wilderness and this Lebanon, even unto the greater river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and unto the great sea, toward the going down of the sun shall be your coast. There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life. As I was with Moses, so I will be with thee. I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee. Be strong and of good courage, for unto this people shalt thou divide for an inheritance the land which I swear unto their fathers to give them. only be thou strong and very courageous that thou mayest observe to do according to all the law which Moses my servant commanded thee turn not from it to the right hand or to the left that thou mayest prosper whithersoever thou goest This Book of the Law shall not depart out of thy mouth, but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein. For then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then shalt have good success. Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of good courage. Be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed, for the Lord thy God is with thee, whithersoever thou goest. Then Joshua commanded the officers of the people, saying, pass through the host, and command the people, saying, Prepare ye vittles, for within three days ye shall pass over this Jordan, to go in to possess the land which the Lord your God giveth you to possess it. And to the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh, spake Joshua, saying, Remember the word which Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you, saying, The Lord your God has given you rest and has given you this land. Your wives and your little ones and your cattle shall remain in the land which Moses gave you on this side, Jordan. But you shall pass before your brethren armed, all the mighty men of valor, and help them. until the Lord had given your brethren rest, as He had given you, and they also have possessed the land which the Lord your God giveth them. Then ye shall return unto the land of your possession and enjoy it, which Moses the Lord's servant gave you on this side, Jordan, toward the sun rising. And they answered Joshua, saying, All that thou commandest us, we will do, and whithersoever thou sendest us, we will go. According as we have hearkened unto Moses and all things, so will we hearken unto thee. Only the Lord thy God be with thee, as he was with Moses. Whosoever he be that doth rebel against thy commandment, and will not hearken unto thy words, and all that thou commandest him, he shall be put to death, only be strong, and of good courage. All right, so, and here in the book of Joshua, we can just park a while on Joshua himself. Joshua, I feel like I'm repeating myself every time we do this study, is a great type of Jesus Christ. What we're gonna see is Joshua come, he shows up, or he takes over after the death of Moses. And Moses is connected, obviously, to the law, right? Moses represents the law. Look at Luke chapter 24. Luke chapter 24, verse number 44. And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the Psalms concerning me." Alright, so that's one of the verses we've gone through quite a bit. where the Lord Jesus Christ talks about the Old Testament and how it speaks of Him, and He speaks of the three sections or the three parts of the Old Testament. The first one He lists there is the Law of Moses. That term shows up over and over and over throughout your Bible, in the Old Testament and in the New Testament, the Law of Moses. All right, we know that the law of Moses is the first five books of the Old Testament, right? Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy. That's what is considered the law. It's called the Pentateuch, but here the Lord calls it the law of Moses. All right, so Moses represents the law. He's the law giver. Look at John chapter one, look at verse number 17. for the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ." So we have a verse here that clearly shows the difference between Old Testament and New Testament. Old Testament salvation was by the law, they had faith but they also had to keep the commandments, they had to do works, they had to do the things God told them, they had to keep that law. So the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. All right, so here Joshua is going to represent the Lord Jesus Christ. So we have the law, and then we have grace. We have Moses, then we have Joshua. All right, so you have this type that's going to carry throughout the book of Joshua that's going to represent, Joshua's representing the Lord Jesus Christ. It's going to represent grace. A lot of it's going to be connected with Jesus Christ and a picture of his second advent, right? They're crossing over the Jordan River. They're going into the promised land. When the Antichrist comes in, he's going to, the Jews are going to be scattered. They're going to be out of their land. And when the Lord comes back, he's going to bring them back into their land. So the same thing that's happening in Joshua is going to happen again in the Tribulation or after the Tribulation at the second advent. Spiritually speaking, the law cannot get you into the promised land. So Moses messes up, he breaks the type, right? He messes up the type of the Lord Jesus Christ with that rock. He hit the rock the first time, right? And then he was to speak to the rock the second time, but he didn't. He hit it again and again, and then water came out, and the Lord said, because he didn't obey, he messed up that type. He wasn't allowed into the promised land, which is showing us that you can't keep, in the New Testament, to get to the promised land, to get to heaven, you can't keep the law. It's by Joshua, it's by Jesus Christ, it's by grace through faith. Let's go over to Romans chapter 3. Most of your religions today will tell you you've got to do good works. You have to do certain things whether to be saved or to stay saved, but the law has nothing to do with your salvation. Romans chapter 3 starting verse 19 Now we know that what things so ever the law saith and say it to them who are under the law That every mouth may be stopped and all the world may become guilty Before God, you know what the law does for you. It shows you that you're guilty before God That's all it does it when you when you go through The book of Leviticus, and I think we went through this when we were going through dispensations, right? When we talk about the book of Leviticus and the law, it shows us how holy God is. That word holy shows up over and over and over again. But what that tells us is God's holy, and then we keep messing up. We break these laws, we fail, we mess up, and it shows how unholy we are, right? So when we think about the law, it just shows us how guilty we are before God. Therefore, verse 20, by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight. For by the law is the knowledge of sin. Alright, so the deeds of the law, your flesh can't be justified. There's no salvation in keeping the law. The law just is the knowledge of sin. It tells you that you're a sinner. If you're dealing with people, you're witnessing, they have to realize that they're sinners. They can't get saved before they realize they're lost. So you gotta, what do you start with? Start with the law, all right? Start with the Ten Commandments. It's very easy, all right? Have you ever stolen anything? Have you ever told a lie, all right? And have you ever looked upon a woman with lust, right? Because it says that you're not to covet your neighbor's wife, but Jesus says that if you've looked upon her, you've already committed adultery in your heart. So, I mean, you're just nailing people, right, just over and over and over. So, you know, there's all kinds of things, all kinds of different tactics, but The law is going to point us to Jesus Christ is what we're going to see here in a little bit, but keeping the law, it doesn't do anything, it can't do anything for you because you can't keep it all. In the book of James it tells us if you've offended in one point you're guilty of all. So if you've told one white lie, you're guilty of murder, you're guilty of adultery, and most people don't see it that way, they don't understand it, but that's because they don't understand the Bible, they don't read the Bible. Alright, but now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets, even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe, for there is no difference." So salvation is by Jesus Christ, faith in Him, and you get His righteousness, you get God's righteousness, it comes by faith in Jesus Christ. For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God, being justified freely by works, by keeping the law, No, but being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God hath set before to be a propitiation through faith in His blood to declare His righteousness for the remission of sins that are passed through the forbearance of God. To declare, I say at this time, His righteousness, that He might be just and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus. So that's the amazing thing. The Bible says that Jesus Christ, the just, died for me, the unjust. So now because he's the just, he's also the justifier. He gets to decide who gets in and who doesn't get in. And you get in by faith in his shed blood on Calvary. Where is boasting then? Is it excluded? By what law? Of works? Nay, but by the law of faith. Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law." It's that simple. I mean there's no refute in that. That is clear as day. And what people, a good Catholic who knows a little bit of their Bible, well in the book of James it says faith without works is dead. So what do you do there? You have a contradiction, unless you rightly divide. You take them to James 1.1, to the twelve tribes scattered abroad. Are you a Jew that's scattered abroad? No, you're a Gentile, you line up with these Romans. So, how do we get saved? By faith, by grace through faith. It's not by the works of law. Therefore, we conclude that a man is justified. You are declared innocent. by faith without the deeds of law. Without them, you can't. It has nothing to do with salvation. And we see that picture with the death of Moses, and here comes Joshua, a type of Jesus Christ, bringing those Jews into the promised land. Without Moses, there's no Joshua. Without any law, there's no Jesus Christ. He didn't come to destroy it, he came to fulfill the law. The law was there to be our schoolmaster, to lead us to Christ, but Christ is the one that gets us into the promised land, gets us to heaven. Let's go over to Romans chapter 5. Verse number 1, therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Justified by faith, not by the works of the law. Galatians chapter 2. You would think that would excite people. You would think people would go, man, I don't have to do anything, I can just receive Christ, all I've got to do is put my faith and trust in Him. But people want to argue that, oh no, that's too easy. I've got to do something. So you're bigger, you're better, you're more powerful than the Lord Jesus Christ. Why did He die then? Well, we're going to see if we can be justified by the deeds of the law, the works of the law, then he died in vain. knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ. Even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ and not by the works of the law, for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified. All right, we get this just over and over and over again. Look at verse 21, same chapter. I do not frustrate the grace of God, For if righteousness came by the law, then Christ is dead in vain." Alright, so if you want to try to work your way to heaven, you know what you're doing? You're frustrating the grace of God. God's trying to give you something. He's trying to give you a free gift. All you've got to do is receive it, accept it, trust in the blood of Jesus Christ. But people want to say, now I've got to do this, I've got to keep the commandments, I've got to get baptized, I've got to take the sacraments, I've got to stay in the state of grace, I've got to go to confession, I've got to, I, I, I, I. Paul says, I do not frustrate the grace of God. Why? Because I believe that if righteousness comes by the law, then Christ is dead in vain. If you can earn it, why did He die? Why? If he had to die, it doesn't make any sense. If you look at the Old Testament, you had all those works. They were doing these laws, they were trying to keep it, they were doing these sacrifices. Why did Jesus Christ have to come if doing the works would get you to heaven? that didn't work, they failed, that no one could keep it, so He had to come to give people an opportunity to get there, to get to heaven. God's a merciful God, and that's the whole study on dispensations, on rightly dividing the Word of Truth. We find that Throughout these different dispensations, God dealt with man differently. You know, when He's dealing with Adam and Eve, they're sinless. They haven't done anything wrong, so they have one commandment. And when they break it, they're punished for it. And they couldn't keep the one law. One. So, if they couldn't keep one, how can we keep 600 of them? You can't do it. So God, he goes, you know what? I'm showing them they can't do it on their own. They can only do it through my son, Jesus Christ, who did it. He was the only one that could live the perfect, sinless life. Now they can trust in him. I'm giving it as a free gift. And man will still reject that. Look at Galatians chapter three, verse number eight. in the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed. So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham. For as many as of the works of the law are under the curse, For it is written, Cursed is everyone that continueeth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them." Alright, so there's another one that goes along with James. If you've broken one, then you're guilty of all. Well, this is if you're trying to, if you're not continuing in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them, then you're cursed. You're on your way to hell. but that no man is justified by the law and the sight of God. It is evident for the just shall live by faith, not by works." I mean, all people have to do is just read a little bit of Bible, just a little bit, and they can just have that pressure taken off of them. There's a relief with that. I mean, you know how it was when you got saved, that pressure, that weight of the world that was lifted off of you? Because you didn't have to try to work to get there anymore. You didn't have to do all these things. It was made easy for you. The law is not of faith, but the man that doeth them shall live in them. Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of law, being made a curse for us, for it is written, Cursed is everyone that hangeth on a tree. Alright, so we see that man is justified through faith in Jesus Christ and that alone. Alright, so when we look at Moses and Joshua, Moses had to go so Joshua could now be in control. Alright, so look at Galatians chapter 3 again, look at verse number 23. Moses had to die, Moses had to get out of the picture so Joshua could come in and now be in charge. But before faith came, we were kept under the law. So before Joshua, there was Moses. shut up into the faith which should afterwards be revealed. Wherefore, the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. But after that faith has come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster, for you are all children of God by faith in Christ Jesus." So Moses, representing the law, had to go away, so Joshua, representing Jesus Christ, could come in. The law had to be put away, so now grace is available. Alright, let's see, go over to Hebrews chapter 4 and we're going to look at Joshua again, he's a type of the Lord Jesus Christ in the second advent and the name Joshua is the Hebrew word for Jesus. Alright, so when it's written over here in the Greek, alright, what we're going to see is, if you have a concordance, look up Joshua. You're not going to find him at all in the New Testament, which is a very strange thing. I mean, we hear about Moses, we hear, if you go through Hebrews chapter 11, you see that, you know, the hall of faith, Joshua's not mentioned there. He's the one that brought him into the land. Well, we're going to see that there's two places here in the New Testament that Joshua is mentioned, but it says Jesus, because they're the same name. It's just one's, you have Joshua back there in Hebrew and you have Jesus here in the Greek. All right, Hebrews chapter four, verse number eight. For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day? All right, so this is a historical reference to Joshua bringing Israel into the land after the 40 years of wandering around in the wilderness. Joshua led them into the land, but they didn't have permanent rest. They get into the land, they take it over, but Judges chapter 1, Judges chapter 2, we see they're still fighting going on. They're still battling today. They don't have rest. But if we look at the rest of this passage in context, we're gonna see what the Old Testament Joshua couldn't do, the New Testament Joshua, Jesus Christ could do. Spiritually, what, give them rest? And literally in the millennium, he's gonna give them rest. All right, so spiritually, when you get saved, you get rest. There's a peace of God, right? Peace of God that passes all understanding. So let's read the rest of this chapter to kind of get that context. Look at verse number nine. there remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God." Right? To those that get saved spiritually. If you're looking at it doctrinally, that's going to be the Jews in the millennium. All right? For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works as God did from his. Let us labor, therefore, to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief. For the word of God is quick and powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit and to the joints and marrow and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. Who's that? Joshua. Jesus all right That is passed into the heavens Jesus the Son of God Let us hold fast our profession for we have not a high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities But was in all points tented like as we are yet without sin Let us therefore come boldly onto the throne of grace that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need all right, so we see that Joshua couldn't give the Jews peace or that rest when he brought them into the land, but because Jesus gave them peace, he'll give them peace right now, if they will, in their hearts. And, you know, in seven plus years, you know, if the rapture would happen now, they'll have rest when they get into the millennium. Look at Acts chapter 7, we'll see another example of this. Acts chapter 7, you have Stephen preaching to the Jews, right, and he gives them a history lesson. He's preaching on what happened in history, he talks about Aaron, he talks about what happened with Moses and all this, and he's going through, he talks about the tabernacle that they built, look at verse 44. He says, our fathers had the tabernacle of witness in the wilderness as he had appointed speaking unto Moses that he should make it according to the fashion that he had seen. So Mary goes up into Mount Sinai, gets the law, gets the pattern of what it's supposed to be, and then they build that tabernacle. And every time the pillar of fire goes by night or the pillar of smoke by day, they follow that thing. And when it stopped, they would set up that tabernacle, and that's where they would stay for a little while and worship. All right, verse 45, which also our fathers that came after brought in with Jesus into the possession of the Gentiles whom God drave out before the face of our fathers unto the days of David. Well, Jesus wasn't there in the Old Testament, that was Joshua that brought him in. All right, so that Jesus right there is a reference to Joshua. Now, just about every new translation of the Bible changes those two verses, they change Jesus to Joshua. I think out of all the ones, the big list that came up when I hit all English translations, I think seven of them had Jesus in maybe this verse, like four in the other, but some of them were, you know, it wasn't many. The majority of them changed it. But what that does, when they do that, they destroy the revelation that we get from this King James Bible. Dr. Ruckman used to talk about it all the time, that the King James Bible, you get advanced revelation from it. Things that you couldn't get from the Greek, things you couldn't get from the Hebrew, the original. And people scoff at that, but it's true. It's absolutely true. Let's go to Joshua chapter number five. Because we're going to see that there's a connection here. Not only is Joshua a type, so that type you get there in Hebrews 4 and Acts chapter 7, but it can also be applied here with Joshua chapter 5 that the Lord Jesus Christ was there. Hold on, what are you talking about? Well, let's look at verse 13. It came to pass when Joshua was by Jericho that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, there stood a man over against him with his sword drawn in his hand. Joshua went unto him and said unto him, Art thou for us or for our adversaries? And he said, Nay, but as captain of the host of the Lord am I now come. Joshua fell on his face to the earth and did worship and said unto him, What saith my Lord unto his servant? The captain of the Lord's host said unto Joshua, Loose thy shoe from off thy foot, for the place whereon thou standest is holy. Joshua did so. So, what we see here is going to be, again, a theophany. We talked about this a little while back. It's an Old Testament appearance, a pre-incarnate appearance of the Lord Jesus Christ as the angel of the Lord. This doesn't say an angel of the Lord or the angel of the Lord here, but what we're gonna see is there's a lot of evidence here to point that this is Jesus Christ. First thing we see that he sees a man with his sword drawn. All right, let's look at Numbers 22. I preached a message here recently on Balaam. Balaam's riding his donkey. Balaam wasn't supposed to go with those guys, go to Balak unless they came to him. He woke up and just saddled his ass and went. Never was bid to come, but he just went on his own. Look at verse number 22. Well, verse 21 says, Balaam rose up in the morning, saddled his ass, and went with the princes of Moab. And God's anger was kindled because he went. And the angel of the Lord stood in the way for an adversary against him. Now he was riding upon his ass and his two servants were with him. And the ass saw the angel of the Lord standing in the way and his sword drawn in his hand. The ass turned aside out of the way and went into the field. And Balaam smote the ass to turn her into the way. So there we see the angel of the Lord. We know that's a pre-incarnate appearance of the Lord Jesus Christ and he has a sword drawn, ready to do it. He was going to kill Balaam if it wasn't for that donkey. He was going to smite him. Let's look at 1 Chronicles 21. In 1st Chronicles 21 we get the account of David numbering Israel. Remember God told him not to do it. Pride lift him up a little bit here and it's a funny thing because you'll read in 2nd Samuel it will say that the Lord moved David and here we'll see in 1st Chronicles 21 that Satan provoked David to do it. Well which one's right? It's kind of like with Job, God allowed it, Satan's the one that did it, right? So, verse 1 says, Satan stood up against Israel and provoked David to number Israel. He's doing what he's not supposed to do. Look down to verse number 7. God was displeased with this thing, therefore he smote Israel. Remember the story, verse 13. David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait, let me fall now into the hand of the Lord for very great are his mercies, but let me not fall into the hand of man. So the Lord sent pestilence upon Israel, and there fell of Israel 70,000 men. God sent an angel unto Jerusalem to destroy it. And as he was destroying, the Lord beheld, and he repented him of the evil and said to the angel that destroyed, It is enough. Stay now thine hand. And the angel of the Lord stood by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. And David lifted up his eyes and saw the angel of the Lord stand between the earth and the heaven, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. All right, that he's between heaven and earth. Kind of like when Jesus was crucified, but right there he's got a sword drawn, just like he did when he was going to kill Balaam, just like he does here when he's standing before Joshua. Look at Revelation chapter 19. When Jesus Christ shows up again, he's going to have a sword. He's going to be using the sword. It's not going to be in his hand, but it's going to be coming out of his mouth. Revelation 19. Verse 13, He was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood, and His name is called the Word of God. The armies which were in heaven followed Him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean. And out of His mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it He should smite the nations. So we see that sword drawn, it's a picture, that is the Lord Jesus Christ. But I'll give you some more evidence. Over there in Joshua, it said, when he answered, he said, he was the captain of the host of the Lord. All right, I wanna look and see the exact wording there. Joshua come up to him, he said, look, are you for us or for our adversaries? And he says, nay, but as captain of the host of the Lord. So I'm not for you, I'm not for them. All right, he says, nay, you're with me. I'm the captain, you're going to follow me. He's going to be against the enemies. That's why his sword is drawn here. They're getting ready to go over into Jericho and start killing all these Gentiles and taking the land. And it's led by that angel. It's led by the captain of the host of the Lord. Hebrews chapter 2. Hebrews 2, verse number 10. for it became him for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings." So Jesus Christ is referred to as the captain of their salvation. He's the captain of our salvation and he's also the captain of the host of the Lord. The host is an army. We just read in Revelation 19 how he's going to come down leading that army, the host of the Lord. He's the captain. He's the one in charge. We see there when he's talking to Joshua, he said, loose thy shoe. That's kind of familiar, isn't it? Let's see, what exactly he says. Go to Exodus chapter 3. But over there in Joshua, he says, loose thy shoe from off thy foot, for the place whereon thou standest is holy. Joshua did so. On Exodus chapter 3, you have Moses coming up to that burning bush. It's not consumed. All right? Verse 4, when the Lord saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, here am I. And he said, Draw not nigh hither, put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground. So any normal ordinary angel isn't going to cause the ground to be holy, right? When the angel shows up to Sodom and Gomorrah to get Lot out of there, he doesn't tell Lot to take off his shoes because he's standing on holy ground, does he? here you have God. Moreover, he said, I am the God of thy father. Right? The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob. He's standing before deity. Joshua is standing before deity. It is the Lord Jesus Christ. So, when we have in Acts 7, verse 45, in Hebrews 4, 8, they're correct when they reference Jesus because the angel of the Lord, the captain of the host of the Lord, was a pre-incarnate appearance of Jesus Christ. So, the New Translations destroy that connection. They destroy that reference, right? And not only by changing Jesus to Joshua in those two, but they also change captain. They don't want Jesus to be a military leader when he comes back. They want him to be a religious, you know, peace. He's coming in peaceably. So they change captain to pioneer or founder or originator. He's the originator of their faith, the originator, the pioneer of their salvation. Not the captain, because that's violent. They're not expecting the Lord to come back as captain of the host of the Lord. They think He's going to come in peaceably. They're sadly mistaken. But when we see this, you know, a lot of these references with the second advent, especially here, Joshua chapter five, we see the Lord coming in with a sword. He's captain of the host. A lot of these times, you know, we're going through here, we're seeing that he's a king, right? The reference, a lot of these second advent references are just that second advent there where he's gonna be ruling and reigning. The government shall be upon his shoulders and there'll be no end to his kingdom. That's why the Jews got so messed up Because when he came in, that's not what he came in as. That's what they were expecting. They were expecting the king of the Jews to come in to restore the kingdom, to make us number one again. They want to see that sword drawn and then him coming in there just wiping all their enemies out so they can be restored as God's chosen people, as the number one nation. So when he comes in as the Lamb of God and not the Lion of the tribe of Judah, they get messed up, they can't grasp it, not realizing this had to happen first. Although he kept telling them he was going to rise again, but we see that over there in Acts chapter 1, that's what they were still worried about after the resurrection. Will doubt now restore unto us the kingdom? And he says, not for you to know. He had something else for them to do. He told them, it is not for you to know the times or the seasons which the Father hath put in his own power. The power they were about to give was a different type of power, the power of the Holy Ghost, to go and start preaching the gospel until he came back. Amen? Jesus in the Old Testament.