to Proverbs chapter 15. Proverbs chapter 15. This started out as a study on the evil eye. I looked up everywhere the word eye and evil were conjoined in a verse, and I came up with nine verses total. And I was going to go through these things because the Bible has quite a bit to say about the evil eye and what an evil eye is. And that study is coming, whether it be tonight or whether it be sometime in the near future. But as I was going down through these things, there was some other things that just kind of kept coming to me and coming to me and coming to me. And this morning, as I was kind of going over everything and getting ready for the day and just spending time with the Lord and his word, As I told my wife this morning, the LORC just started giving me all sorts of stuff. Like, it just started pouring in. And I still am having a hard time filtering it all out, all right? There's just so much that he kind of poured in all at once. Almost like that storm we got last night. And it, our eaves troughs could not keep up with it. Like, they're perfectly clear and empty, and I cleaned them out, and they are there designed, and they're sized properly for the, the water was pouring over the things. Okay? That's how much rain we got. And we got, you know, quarter-sized hail. It wasn't a lot of quarter-sized hail. Most of it was about the size of a pea. But we got a lot of quarter-sized hail. I know Cowdery Sport got it worse, but enough about the storm. But that's almost what it was like this morning as I was trying to go through all of these things. And as I got down through this, and as I was going down through, I decided, you know what? I believe the Lord would have us to look at a connection between the eyes and the spirit. Okay, this is gonna be foundational for when we look at that evil eye, all right? And so we're gonna look this morning at the connection between the eyes and the spirit. This is not a full study on the topic. This isn't a full expounding on this thing. This is really just a few basic principles to lay down to look at what is the connection between the eyes and the Spirit. We're gonna be looking at what the Word of God says about it, specifically dealing with the eyes of the Lord and the Spirit of the Lord, okay? And so as we expound on these things, as we look at these few different passages, I believe we'll see these things come to light and try to keep it just foundational this morning as we look at this. But as I requested, please do pray for me as I try to get through these things. But in Proverbs chapter 15, this is where we're going to start. This will be somewhat of a springboard for us. Proverbs 15 in verse 3. It says, the eyes of the Lord are in every place, beholding the evil and the good. This is a concept that carries throughout the word of God. And if you follow this principle, this is absolutely a precept in the word of God. This is a doctrinal verse, okay? Which is interesting because all scripture is profitable and is given for doctrine. Okay? But here we find a great doctrine and a great precept that you can build upon. Now, I want you to understand, when you are building precept upon precept, line upon line, here a little, there a little, you're not building a wall to separate you from anything. That's not what you're doing. What you're doing is you are building a tower so that you can see farther. Okay? And as God builds precept upon precept, line upon line, it's going to take you up higher and higher and loftier and loftier. And you're going to be able to see not only farther, but you're going to have a higher perspective of the things that you saw at first. Okay? If you were in, has anybody walked the streets of New York City? Okay? Anybody ridden in a cab in the streets of New York City? Oh, a few, okay. Not many people here would really want to, right? One thing about riding in a cab or just a car in New York City is all you can see is the storefronts and the doors and the people. You can kind of peek out a little bit, but you can't, those skyscrapers are way too tall. You can't see the top. Okay? And if you do, there's not a whole lot of detail there. And so for the majority of people in New York City, really because they're just so heavy laden and down and depressed, all they see is what's here. Okay? But I've also gone up into the Empire State Building. Okay, ridden to the observatory part up at the top, and I was probably around Trevor's age, maybe a little younger. I can't remember exactly when. Went and visited my cousin. She lives in New York City. I still pray for her. She's not living there anymore. But we went up there and we were able to see everything. I mean, the Empire State Building isn't the tallest building in New York City. I believe that's the Freedom Tower now. But from that Empire State Building, you could see a whole different perspective. You could see all the streets and everything lining up. You could see farther. You could see more detail. You could see the broader picture of everything. But when you're down at the bottom, you just can't see a whole lot. Okay? And so that's what you want to keep in mind as you're studying the word of God, as you are allowing God to build precept upon precept, it's to get you to a higher plane. Okay? A higher plane than I have found. Lord, plant my feet on higher ground. Do you know how he does that? Precept upon precept. That's how he plants your feet on higher ground. Okay? This is something that is foundational that you can build upon, and we are going to do that this morning. that you're gonna build upon, and you'll be able to see Jesus in the volume of the book. I believe that's the ultimate goal, is it not? I really believe that's what God wants for us, is for us to be able to see his blessed son, his precious son, in the volume of the book. Okay, and so this is very foundational. The eyes of the Lord are in every place, beholding the evil and the good. Now what does this mean? It means that the eyes of the Lord are in every place, and that those eyes behold both the evil and the good. Okay, that's a very, very deep study right there. But we're gonna go a little deeper. Let's go ahead and go to 2 Chronicles 16. 2 Chronicles 16. We're following a couple of phrases. We're following a couple of words throughout the King James Bible. And what this is going to do, it is going to give you a fullness of understanding of that verse that we just read. Okay? 2 Chronicles 16, and look at verse nine. Oh, I'm in 17.9, I'm sorry, here we are, 16.9. For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth to show himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. And it goes on, herein thou hast done foolishly, therefore from henceforth thou shalt have wars. Now, you got to understand everything that's going on with Asa and, you know, the king of Syria and everything that's going on there. But the doctrine that we're looking at here is that, again, the eyes of the Lord go to and fro in all the earth. They go here and there. They come here, and they go there. They come to, and they go fro, okay? Which is exactly what we just read in Proverbs 13, that the eyes of the Lord are in every place, beholding the evil and the good. And so what we have here is a little bit more understanding. Not only are they in every place, but they go here and there. And there is a specific purpose. It's to show himself strong. But ultimately, it's to show himself. Now isn't that interesting? That the purpose of the eyes of the Lord going to and fro is to show himself. He's trying to show you himself in this study of the eyes. Okay? Precept upon precept. Let's continue on. Go to Zechariah chapter one. Again, to get to Zechariah, you start in Matthew, and you go back toward, headed towards Genesis, and you'll hit Malachi, and then you'll hit Zechariah. And it's not Zachariah. It's Zechariah. It's an E, not an A. There is a Zechariah, but it's not a book of the Bible. Just a little more for you there. If you don't learn anything else, you'll learn that this morning. Amen. All right, Zechariah chapter one, look at verse 10. You know what, for the context, let's do back up. Let's start at verse seven. This is a vision that Zechariah has here. Upon the four and 20th day of the 11th month, which is the month Sebat, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the Lord unto Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo, the prophet, saying, I saw by night and behold a man riding upon a red horse, and he stood among the myrtle trees that were in the bottom, and behind him were their red horses speckled and white. Then said I, O my Lord, what are these? And the angel that talked with me said unto me, I will show thee what these be. And the man that stood among the myrtle trees answered and said, these are they whom the Lord hath sent to walk to and fro through the earth. Now to Zechariah, that might not have made much sense. To me, that didn't make much sense until I figured out what is actually going to and fro in all the earth. What goes to and fro in all the earth? The eyes of the Lord. So what are these that are among the myrtle trees? What are these representing? The eyes of the Lord. Okay? Line upon line, precept upon precept. Okay? And then the vision goes on from there. I just wanted to pause at that place, though, to show you this. Again, another place where it speaks of they that go to and fro through the earth. Now we're going to build on that even further. Go to Zechariah chapter, let's see, chapter four. And I want you to look at verse 10. The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house, and his hands shall also finish it. And thou shalt know that the Lord of hosts hath sent me unto you. "'For who hath despised the day of small things? "'They shall rejoice and see the plummet "'in the hand of Zerubbabel.'" By the way, a plummet is like a plumbob, okay? I remember Brother Mike Batt preached on that one night, and I had a two by four with a plumbob hanging down, and it shows you if something is out of plumb or not, if it's level vertically or not, okay? And so this Zerubbabel has a plummet in his hand, and it says, "'With those seven, What seven? They are the eyes of the Lord, which run to and fro through the whole earth. Isn't that neat? So those eyes of the Lord running to and fro throughout the whole earth are to show himself. He shows himself strong and battled, but as he shows himself, we see where we're out of plum. Is it not? Listen, the night I got saved, I didn't get saved because God showed me how wretched I was. I got saved because I saw how true Jesus was, how straight down the line Jesus was, how holy he is. And I believed it. I believed that his grace, that one that God showed me, was sufficient for me being out of plumb. All right, and he saved me. It was that easy. It was that stinking easy. But we make it so hard by putting everything on you, don't we? Maybe now's not the time for that one. But we are gonna go a little further. You know, speaking of the seven, I've got time. Let's back up to chapter four, verse one. Let's read that whole thing. Let's look at this. Look at this, chapter four and verse one, Zechariah. And the angel that talked with me came again and waked me as a man that is wakened out of his sleep and said unto me, what seest thou? And I said, I have looked and behold a candlestick of all gold. Oh, who is that? That's Jesus. And with a bowl upon the top of it, and his seven lamps thereon, and seven pipes to the seven lamps, which are upon the top thereof. And two olive trees by it, one on the right side of the bowl, and the other upon the left side thereof." Now, you get the picture. There's a candlestick. There's bowls on the top. And there's seven lamps. And there's two pipes, golden pipes going to this and two olive trees. Got the whole picture. This is good. All right, verse four. So I answered and spake to the angel that talked with me saying, what are these my Lord? Then the angel that talked with me answered and said unto me, knowest thou not what these be? And I said, no, my Lord. Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, this is the word of the Lord unto Zerubbabel, saying, not by might nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the Lord of hosts. Now I've gotta pause here. Do you know who that Lord of hosts is, according to Isaiah chapter six? That's Jesus. Do you notice, is that spirit capitalized or lowercase in your Bible? It's a small s spirit. You know what that is? That's the personal spirit of Jesus Christ himself. Again, rising to the surface as a thread of gold. You follow that smallest spirit when it's attributed to deity throughout your King James Bible, according to the Cambridge text. Pre-85, 1985, when they changed it in 1 John 5.8. But you follow that throughout, and you'll be able to find everywhere that small s spirit, and it's attributed to deity, you'll find that's Jesus Christ each and every time. He is that spirit in Genesis 6-3. My spirit shall not always strive with man. It's a lowercase s spirit, and it's God speaking, and he says, my spirit. So, just again, just a little gold that comes to the top there. I love finding gold. But my spirit sayeth the Lord of hosts. Verse 7, who art thou great mountain? Before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain and he shall bring forth the headstone thereof with shouting, crying, grace, grace unto it. And that's a study in itself. And I have only scratched the surface on that. And I, I got so far in over my head, I had to back out. Just that verse right there. Okay. That's one study that I myself have backed out of, because God told me it wasn't time yet. So, at any rate, verse eight. Moreover, the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house, and his hands shall also finish it. And thou shalt know that the Lord of hosts hath sent me unto you. For who has despised the day of small things? For they shall rejoice and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel with those seven, those seven lamps. They are the eyes of the Lord which run to and fro through the whole earth. It's the lamps. Now you go ahead and you look in that tabernacle at that candlestick and those bowls and the knops and the things that look like almonds and the oil and the burnings and the candle, that's Jesus. Okay, you see Jesus in that, and the oil is there pumped into that thing to burn so there's a flame so it would fill the room with light, right? No, so it would shed light over against it so that you could see the candlestick. The precept I want you to understand here, that oil is the Holy Ghost, okay? He is that oil. You see him throughout the Bible spoken of in that manner. There's also a flame. Okay? He's spoken of throughout the Bible like that. So when you have the Holy Ghost, and he turns that oil up just a little bit, and that room gets a little brighter, and he shows you that candlestick with a little more detail, that's you seeing Jesus in the volume of the book. That's you being able to find him on every page, in every line, as we sang in the opening there in the Sunday school. Hearing his voice on every line. That's good stuff But these lamps that the eyes of the Lord was run to and fro through the whole earth. The reason is is to show himself All right, think of it this way The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord searching all the inward parts of the belly one aspect of your spirit is that it was given to you to search and And the Lord uses that as a candle. Now it's not a lamp. It's different than a lamp. But the Lord uses that as a candle to search all the inner parts of the belly. How does he do that? Well, he shows you in the volume of the book, his son. And then he takes that and he shines that light in the far corner of your heart that you don't want to look at because it's too dark and it's too gross. And he says, look at that. You say, we're just talking about the eyes of the Lord. Yeah, but he's searching your heart right now. What's coming to your mind right now? Maybe you're fighting off that spirit of slumber. It is warm in here. I mean, we could turn the ACs on, but at this point, what's the point? If you're going to stay awake, you're going to stay awake. If you're going to sleep, you got the spirit of slumber and you're going to sleep. But don't attribute the thoughts in your heart taking you someplace other than what's being preached. Don't automatically attribute that to you and your mind wandering. Now you can make your own mind wander and you can purposefully not listen to the thing I'm saying. But when you're trying your hardest to pay attention and these thoughts in your heart keep coming up, that's God. That's God searching you on the inward parts, trying to light up an area of your life that you refuse to look at. But you and your pride, the pride of your countenance, you're gonna snuff out that candle. You're gonna hide that thing under a bushel so it cannot look you in the eye. You don't have to look at your heart. You don't have to look at your bitterness, your anger, your hatred, your malice. You don't have to look at the wickedness of your ways. You don't have to look at your fornications and adulteries. You don't have to look at how you've destroyed the temple of God. You don't have to look at your rebellion against your parents. You'll make excuses. You'll make excuses. And most of those excuses have been given to you by well-meaning Baptist preachers. Most of those excuses have been given to you by those. Rather than letting the Word of God do what the Word of God does and just search you, okay? Those eyes are running to and fro in the whole earth. Is this room part of the whole earth? Does that mean his eyes as lamps are running to and fro in this room right now? And they might just light upon you. and search you like they never have before. There was a night when they searched me. I couldn't get away from those eyes. It's a terrifying thing. Oh, but his grace was sufficient. His grace was sufficient. Amen. All right. There is one thing I want to look at here at the end of chapter four, but we're not going to look at that quite yet. I think I might drop back into that and we'll look at that later on. Let's go to Revelation, Revelation chapter one, the revelation of St. John the Divine, chapter one. Let's keep in mind everything we've learned so far. The eyes of the Lord run to and fro in the whole earth, beholding the evil and the good. The eyes of the Lord are those things that run to and fro. They go here and there, and they're searching, but they also are there to show himself, okay? They are lamps, we saw that. These are those seven, which run to and fro. Revelation chapter one, look at verse four. John, to the seven churches which are in Asia, grace be unto you and peace from him which is, and which was, and which is to come, and from the seven spirits which are before his throne. Now we find seven spirits again. Seven spirits, that's a capital S spirit though. A rule in your King James Bible that you can apply, and you'll find this throughout, is where you find a capital S spirit. It is one of the three of the Godhead, either the Father, the Son, or the Holy Ghost. And those spirits are working spiritually in or through someone. Okay? Not every capital S Spirit in your Bible is that third person of the Trinity. We've looked at that. So many times you see the Spirit of Christ, and it's a capital S, but it says the Spirit of Christ. Other times it says the Spirit of the Father. Okay? Then there are other times where it talks of the Spirit, and you can clearly see that it's the Holy Ghost in that place. But you can't put a blanket statement and just say every capital S Spirit is the Holy Spirit. It doesn't work. It doesn't work if you believe your Bible. Okay, what God has done is he's given us a Bible so clear and so precise that we can dissect the Godhead. We can literally divide asunder soul and spirit. And we can see the discerning of the hearts, the intents of the heart, the thoughts and the intents of the heart in ourselves, but also in the Godhead. We went to 1 Corinthians 13, when that which is perfect is come, that which is in part shall be done away. It says for we prophesy in part, we know in part, He says, for now we see through a glass darkly, but then face to face. For now we know in part, but then shall we know even as also we are known. How does God know you? He knows everything about you. He knows every secret of your heart. He knows every thought that you have. He knows every intent that your thought has. He knows everything about you on the inward parts, on the outward parts. He knows everything. Why? Because his eyes go to and fro throughout the whole earth, beholding the evil and the good. So, there's coming a day where we will be able to know God exactly as we are known. What day is that when that which is perfect is come? Now, when is that day? Is that speaking of the day of Jesus Christ? Well, no, because he's already come. That's speaking of when there's going to be the fullness of a book. It's gonna be together as a volume. And it's gonna have everything together in such a way that you can dissect the Godhead and to know him exactly as you are known. To know him intimately on the inward parts. To know how he thinks. To know what his spirit is. To know which spirit is his and which is his and which is his. To know what each person of the Godhead does. To know how they wrought salvation in you. What part did the Father have to play in your salvation? I might have to preach on those things. What part did the Father have to play in your salvation? What part did the Holy Ghost have to play in your salvation? What part did the Word of God, Jesus Christ, the Son of God, have to play in your salvation? Each one had something differently and all of them work together. And salvation is wrought in a person by those things. And we have a Bible that will allow us to do that if you take it exactly as it is written. And let God build precept upon precept, line upon line, here a little and there a little. And so we see here, these seven spirits which are before his throne. Now where else do we see that? Let's go to chapter four in Revelation. Revelation chapter four. Hmm. Yeah, let's start at verse one. After this, I looked, and behold, a door was opened in heaven, and the first voice which I heard was, as it were, of a trumpet talking with me, which said, come up hither, and I will show thee things which must be hereafter. And immediately I was in the Spirit, and behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne. And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone. And there was a rainbow round about the throne in sight like unto an emerald." By the way, do you know why that rainbow's there around his throne continually? Genesis tells you. So he'd remember his covenant. Folks, we don't have to wait for a rainbow to appear in the cloud for God to remember His covenant that He's not gonna destroy the earth with a flood again. It's there all the time. I just think that's good. Verse four. And round about the throne were four and twenty seats. And upon the seats I saw four and twenty elders sitting, clothed in white raiment, and they had on their heads crowns of gold. And out of the throne proceeded lightnings and thunderings and voices. And there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven spirits of God." Now we just read that in chapter one. Here we see it again. And now who is this one that is on the throne? This is Jesus Christ. This is the Lord of hosts. This is Jehovah God. And those seven spirits are before his throne and they are depicted as seven lamps of fire burning. Now, if you wanna know where the fire comes from for eternal fire that was there on that altar in heaven and all of this, it's all the same fire. Can you imagine that? If we could just plug that in for just a second, that eternal fire that the Lord sent from the Lord out of heaven destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah and the other cities of the plain. There were four cities altogether. Zoar was one of them and he ended up eventually destroying that one, but I can't remember the other city of the plain, regardless. Let's just plug this in there for a second. If those lamps burning are the eyes of the Lord and they are the spirit of the Lord, seven spirits of the Lord burning before his throne, and that's where that fire came from that consumed Sodom and Gomorrah, just imagine the searching of the heart and the searching that those eyes do as they go to and fro in this earth. Imagine the destruction that those eyes are capable of committing. And we don't think anything of it. If that's where that fire came from, that came down from heaven, and it's the eyes of the Lord searching, there's only one good reason as to why God hasn't done the same to America as He searches it. Mercy. The long-suffering of the Lord is salvation. There's only one reason why he hasn't destroyed your house, and I'm not talking about the building. I'm talking about your family. It's his mercy. What a great grace his mercy is unto us. Now let's look at this. Chapter five again, or four, verse five. Out of the throne proceeded lightnings and thunderings and voices, and there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven spirits of God. Now, let's go over to Daniel chapter 10. Daniel 10. Oh, I think I want to be, yeah. We just saw this description. Look at verse five. Then I lifted up mine eyes and looked, and behold, a certain man clothed in linen, whose loins were girded with fine gold of Uphaz. His body was like the barrel, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as lance of fire, and his arms and his feet like in color to polish brass. The voice of his words were like the voice of a multitude. We just saw a description of Jesus Christ. It's the same description you saw in Revelation chapter four. It's the same one. And those eyes are his lamps of fire. And they're searching. They're going to and fro in this earth. Now I want you to go back to Revelation, I wanna look at chapter five. Start at verse one. And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within, and on the backside sealed with seven seals. And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, who is worthy to open the book and to loose the seals thereof. And no man in heaven nor in earth, neither under the earth, which is an interesting statement, was able to open the book, neither to look thereon. And I wept much because no man was found worthy to open and to read the book, neither to look thereon. And one of the elders saith unto me, weep not, behold, the line of the tribe of Judah. The root of David hath prevailed to open the book and to loose the seven seals thereof. I beheld in low in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders stood a lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes. which are the seven spirits of God sent forth into all the earth." It's the eyes of Jesus. Jesus Christ is that lamb. What did God tell Abraham? Isaac asked Abraham, his father, he said, father, look, here's the wood and the fire, but where's the burnt offering? And he said, my son, God shall provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering. It does not say provide for himself. It says he shall provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering. The lamb of God made that burnt offering for me. When thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin. Isaiah 53. You did it. Thou, thyself. And that sin offering is a burnt offering. According to the law of God, and I'm pretty sure Jesus Christ was gonna die lawfully. Pretty sure God was gonna keep his law in the sacrificing of his son. And the eyes of that one burn as lamps. What did those on the road to Emmaus say about it after Jesus revealed himself? Did our hearts burn within us? Why did they burn? Because those seven eyes were in their hearts searching him. Searching, going to and fro to show himself. Guarantee you could never convince those disciples that Jesus Christ never rose from the dead. There's not a bit of evidence, even if you were able to provide an actual physical body, they still wouldn't believe it. Why? Because Jesus Christ himself revealed himself to them. He burned within them. Burned within them. Listen, when man teaches you something, you can unlearn it. But when God himself gets in the corners of your heart and he takes this book and he burns it in you, there's nothing that's gonna convince you otherwise. Jesus Christ is the son of God. Do you know how I know that? Because the eyes of his dear son, Jesus Christ himself, the eyes of God, sought me. They went to and fro on all the earth and they buried deep in my heart. They burned within me to the point where I can't unbelieve it. You know, I'll never see Psalm 23 the same again. I'll never see Psalm 16 the same again. I'll never even seen Psalm 51 the same again. Psalm 88, Psalm 18, Psalm 116, Psalm 22, Psalm 2, Psalm 8, Psalm 9, Psalm 10. I'll never see any of these, Psalm 21. Psalm 25. I'll never see these the same again. Do you know why? Because Jesus took his eyes and he turned up, the Holy Ghost turned up that flame. He burned it in my heart. And I can't unsee it. That's my suffering Savior. That's Jesus Christ in the volume of the book. Oh, lest I forget Psalm 40. And then you start seeing Him everywhere. Isaiah 6, Genesis 3. Hallelujah, what a Savior. Now, I said I wanted to go to something, and this is precious to me. Go back to Zechariah 4. I don't know if he kept a place there. If not, that's fine. This isn't going to take long. Zechariah chapter 4, right at the end, verse 11. He says, these are the eyes of the Lord which run to and fro through the whole earth. Verse 11, then answered I and said unto him, what are these two olive trees upon the right side of the candlestick and upon the left side thereof? Remember those olive trees? What are these two olive trees, he says. And I answered again and said unto him, what be these two olive branches which through the two golden pipes empty the golden oil out of themselves? And he answered me and said, knowest thou not what these be? And I said, no, my Lord. He said, then said he, these are the two anointed ones that stand by the Lord of the whole earth. Now that may not hit you yet, but it's about to. Go to Revelation chapter 11. Keep your place here. Go to Revelation chapter 11. I want you to look at verse three. Revelation 11 and three. I will give power unto my two witnesses. And they shall prophesy a thousand, two hundred, and threescore days clothed in sackcloth. These are the two olive trees. And the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth. And if any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth and devoureth their enemies. If any man will hurt them, he must in this manner be killed. These, now this is interesting. These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy, and have power over waters to turn them to blood and to smite the earth with all plagues as often as they will. Now, who are these two witnesses? Who are these anointed ones? And more importantly, what do they represent? These are two witnesses, because at the mouth of two or three witnesses, a matter is established. At the mouth of two witnesses, a man was to be killed. What two witnesses are these? These are these two witnesses that everyone says, oh, you can't know who they are. There's no way of knowing who they are. I'm sorry. In 1 King 17, Elijah had the power to pray and it rained not in the days of his prophecy. If you're wondering on that, James chapter five. I can just, I'll read it to you just real quick. It's very, very simple. Verse 17, that's where it's at, not verse seven. Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain. And it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months. And you go to 1 Kings chapter 17, and that Elias that prayed is Elijah. So one prophet that is gonna walk this earth again during that time of tribulation is Elijah. It's one witness. Who's the other witness? Well, to have power over waters to turn them to blood, to smite the earth with all plagues as often as they will. Who had that power? Moses. So what's the importance of that? What's the doctrine? Why Elijah and Moses? Well, because you have the law in Moses, and you have the prophets in Elijah. Always the two witnesses bearing witness that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. In the volume of the book, those two olive trees, that oil pouring into that candlestick, the Holy Ghost of God turning up the lamps so that you, you, could see Jesus Christ in his fullness. Why do you wanna take that away by making your Bible easier to read? Why not just let it be line upon line, precept upon precept, here a little, there a little? Why don't you let it snare you and take you Make you fall backward. Why don't you let it humble you before holy God? Why don't you let it search you on the inward parts and let it burn within you and show you that secret of your heart that you didn't want anybody to know? Why don't you let it have salvation wrought in you? It's this laws and the prophets. Modern Christianity wants to cut out. We don't need it anymore. It's just allegory anyway. Not according to the words of Jesus Christ himself. But when you take it for exactly as it's written, and you take it in the English that God gave it to you, you with the Bible sitting, the King James Bible sitting in your hand, read it in that English and follow those words throughout and believe that there's authority in those words. I'm not diminishing the authority of Hebrew, Greek and Aramaic. I'm not diminishing that authority whatsoever, but God gave it to you in English because that's what your heart speaks. God will always deal with you in your native tongue. Follow that throughout. All we did was follow a few verses here. Maybe we have 10, but what did we see? Saw the eyes of the Lord going to and fro on all the earth. Saw that the eyes of the Lord are those seven spirits of God. We saw that the eyes of the Lord are those lamps burning to show himself. We saw that those lamps burning within leave an indelible mark upon you. We saw that what was pouring oil into those two lamps so that you could see Jesus Christ as the law and the prophets. and the things that God gave you so that you would have two witnesses to prove to you that Jesus Christ is the son of God. Preachers tell you you don't need that. Why? Why would God tell you you don't need the thing that he gave so that you could know Jesus Christ in his fullness? So we study the eyes and the spirit. Now, in connection with what I opened up with this morning, the eyes and the spirit are connected throughout this thing. Eyes can see. So what do we learn about a spirit? They see. It searches. God tells you to search. What's he telling you to do? Take your spirit, which is the candle of the Lord. Let him walk with you in the dark corridors of your heart, and to show you all the inward parts of the belly. Let him make manifest the secrets of your heart to you. Let him give you repentance to the acknowledging of the truth. And then let him lead you in the way everlasting. There, and I think we're done.