footsteps of Messiah and we're looking at the character of the Messiah's reign in the Millennium and I think we We stopped on page 391 of your textbook and we were discussing the rod of iron rule and we flushed that out a little bit, so now we want to look at the procession of the king, we want to look at how the kingdom is administered, the character of it, and then we'll start looking into the Gentile form of government. Okay, so on the bottom of page 391, the first thing we want to look at is a pretty famous psalm Songs have been written about this and a lot of times they get it wrong But it's actually the procession of the Messiah on the inaugural day of the Millennium when we have that marriage supper of the Lamb There is a procession of Jesus through millennial Jerusalem and we will be there we will get to see it and we will participate in it and then we'll have that marriage supper of the Lamb and Whatnot and all that the activities surrounding that but anyway It says, lift up your heads, O ye gates. That's the gates of Jerusalem in the millennial kingdom. And be ye lifted up, ye everlasting doors, and the king of glory will come in. Who is the king of glory? Yahweh strong and mighty, Yahweh mighty in battle. What battle is that referring to? The battle of Armageddon, because he caps it off, right? So lift up your heads, O ye gates, yea? Lift them up, ye everlasting doors, and the King of Glory will come in. Who is the King of Glory? Yahweh of Hosts. Notice the term Hosts is armies. That's the way you should translate it. Because he just got done fighting a battle with the armies that he has with him. He is the King of Glory. And basically what happens is he goes into Jerusalem and the procession then ends up into The temple where he then will sit down and take his throne in the Millennial Temple and rule and reign from Jerusalem during that period of time. So that's what you're seeing the king do. Then if you bring in Psalm 72, which is a very long Psalm, It talks about his character of his reign and what it kind of will look like and stuff. And so we want to just go through that for a moment. And it says, give the king your judgments, O God, and your righteousness unto the king's son. You will judge your people with righteousness and your poor with justice. The mountains shall bring peace to the people and the hills in righteousness. You will judge the poor of the people. You will save the children of the needy and will break in pieces the oppressor. They shall fear you while the sun endures, and so long as the moon throughout all generations. He will come down like rain upon mown grass, as showers that water the earth. In his days shall the righteous flourish, and abundance of peace till the moon be no more." So that's basically the whole millennial thousand years. He shall have dominion Also, from sea to sea, that's referring to the Dead Sea and also the Mediterranean. And from the river, that references the northern boundary of the river Euphrates, and to the ends of the earth. So, basically what it's trying to say is, it's not just the boundaries of Israel, that's the northern boundary is the Euphrates, and then the southern boundary would be the wadi of Egypt. but it now extends beyond Israel's borders into the entire planet, is the idea. Just to back up a little bit, when it talks about your people, your people, your poor, it's always a reference to Israel, okay? Because that's what's happening, he's becoming the king at this point in time, he's taking David's throne over the nation of Israel, which will be the head of the nation, not the tail. Notice that he will judge the poor of the people, The social justice warriors always want to reinterpret the idea of poor. It is not talking about economic poverty. It is talking about what Jesus said in the Sermon on the Mount. Blessed are the poor in what? Spirit. So anytime you see these words poor, most of the context, I will say, it is dealing with poor in spirit. The humble. That's the idea, okay? I wanted to make sure you remember that. And then he goes, they that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him, and his enemies shall lick the dust. Basically, the second coming basically gets rid of all of his enemies, right? But then enemies will come up later on in the kingdom age, later on, and try to oppose him. But they will basically lick the dust at that point in time. The kings of Tarshish and of the Isles shall render tribute. They will actually bring tribute to Jesus and bring tribute to Israel. The kings of Sheba and Sheba shall offer gifts, yea, all the kings shall fall down before him, all nations shall serve him. Interesting thing to add to this, that all nations will fall down before him, that happens many times at the Feast of Tabernacles. All nations are required to come up once a year to the Feast of Tabernacles in the millennial reign and worship the Lord. If they don't, Zechariah says, they are sinned, they plague, and the plague is that of no rain and a drought their country is given. So, the Feast of Tabernacles must be attended, and if not, He judges them for that. So, it's this idea of rod of iron. They will do it. There is nobody not in compliance with it. For He will deliver the needy when He cries, and the poor that has no helper. He will have pity on the poor and the needy. Again, poor in spirit, needy spiritually, okay? and the souls of the needy he will save. He will redeem their soul from oppression and violence. And it's talking about the end of the tribulation of when he does end finally the remnants of oppression from the Antichrist and the violence that was done to Israel. And precious will their blood be in his sight. And so we talk about that even when we're preaching through the book of Revelation, how much blood is spilt during the tribulation. And he's gonna make up for that, right? So that's the idea here. And they shall live, and to him shall be given the gold of Sheba. And men shall pray for him continually. They shall bless him all the day long. There shall be an abundance of grain in the earth upon the top of the mountains. The fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon, and they of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth." And so what you're starting to see is the abundance of food and all the things that he does provide by changing the environment and reversing the curse of what happened to Adam and Eve. At that point the earth will be in its Edenic conditions to where it offers up food very easily to humankind Versus we now have to work for it. It's hard to get it and We're actually fighting the environment many times For our food for our livelihood the environment will will not work against you at that point in time it'll actually work for you like it was destined to do and That's hard for us to understand because we know what we have to do if we grow crops. It's a lot of work and a lot of time and a lot of effort. You've got to have the right soils and the waters and all this other stuff and pesticides and whatnot. It won't be like that. Simply the earth will just offer up. It's just a bountiful supply. This makes for an environment that's extremely ideal. There's no want in this environment. There's nobody that's poor in this environment. There's nobody that needs a meal. There's no one that's starving to death. It's all eliminated. And yet I always want to keep this in the back of your mind. They will rebel against him. Even when their bellies are full, even when they have no wants, no desires, they still will rebel against Him. Isn't that amazing? Just keep that always in the back of your mind, how great the environment is, righteousness and all this other stuff, no crime, nothing, and they still will rebel against Him. And He goes, His name shall endure forever, His name shall be continued as long as the sun, and men shall be blessed in Him. All nations shall call Him happy. Blessed be Yahweh God the God of Israel who only does wondrous things and blessed be his glorious name forever and let the whole earth be filled with his glory amen and amen and so the idea then again is just just Idyllic condition is what psalm 72 is trying to get across and everyone basically obeys them Then you move over to the next page on 393 and again, we see more character characteristics his reign and thus flushed Isaiah 11 out a little bit and there should come forth a shoot out of the stock of Jesse and a branch out of his roots shall bear fruit and I want you to notice all the aspects of the Holy Spirit on Jesus okay and the spirit of Yahweh shall rest upon him the spirit of wisdom and understanding spirit of counsel and might, spirit of knowledge, and the fear of Yahweh, and his delight shall be in the fear of Yahweh, and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither shall he decide after the hearing of his ears. But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and decide with equity for the meek of the earth." Let's stop there. This is called the sevenfold spirit that's given to the Messiah. And when you see the sevenfold spirit, that's in the book of Revelation. The Holy Spirit is represented by seven lights. Okay? And so it's the sevenfold, full manifestation of the Holy Spirit given to the Messiah. Now, this is interesting. I want to connect some dots for you. In the first coming, Messiah had all seven manifestations of the Holy Spirit, because he's the Messiah and that's what's promised to him, that he'll have the full manifestation of the Holy Spirit with him. And hence, he will be able to do all of this, right? Wisdom and understanding, spirit of counsel and might, knowledge, fear of Yahweh, whatnot. That's a seven-fold aspect of the Holy Spirit. Okay. This is where the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit comes into play. Since the Holy Spirit fully is manifested on the Messiah at His first coming, and is able to do all these things through the Messiah, that's why Jesus said, you can say anything you want basically against the Son of Man, but the minute you say something against the Holy Spirit, we're done. It's over. You have committed what's called the impardonable sin. Because they're blaspheming the sevenfold manifestation of the Holy Spirit on the Messiah, that was predicted by Isaiah. They should have all known that. And when they do that, now that is what commits them to the unpardonable sin. And hence, They did do it, called the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit, as you know. And it was because they were blaspheming the seven-fold manifestation on the Messiah. So, let me connect another dot for you. And we've talked about the unpardonable sin, so I don't want to flush that out too much. The seven-fold manifestation of the Holy Spirit, then, when the church is started, will manifest on believers. But He will not manifest sevenfold on any one believer. He will manifest different aspects of the sevenfold, here a little, there a little, here a little, there a little, here a little, there a little, on believers in Messiah. And do you know why? Why doesn't one believer have all the sevenfold manifestation of the Holy Spirit. Because if you understand the church body, the church body is based on a principle of interdependency. And this is why Christians who want to fly solo really put themselves in jeopardy. Everybody possesses the Holy Spirit as a believer, but you and I do not possess all the gifts. Messiah possessed basically all the gifts at his disposal because he is the Messiah. But you and I do not possess the sevenfold manifestation of the Holy Spirit. We only possess certain aspects of that manifestation in the form of gifts. The gifts are plural, which means you have more than one, but you do not have all the gifts, and neither do I. Hence, this is where interdependency becomes necessary. And this is what a lot of believers don't understand. In order for a church body to have the full manifestation of the seventh manifestation of the Holy Spirit throughout the many gifts that He gives, you have to have a church body that's functioning correctly in order to see it. Because you won't see it in individual believers. All you will see is bits and pieces in individual believers, but you will not see the whole package. You can only see the whole package when the body is together. One of the reasons that people should attend and use their gifts in service to the body of Christ is so that the full manifestation of the Holy Spirit can be manifested in that church body. When a believer chooses not to use their gifts, when a believer chooses simply not to attend, The full manifestation of the Holy Spirit cannot be experienced. It just is not there. Because somebody's not there, or at least somebody's not using their gifts that contributes to that manifestation. Now you could have some of the people really doing everything they can, but it still will not be the full manifestation of the Holy Spirit. If that makes sense. And a lot of people just don't get this. They think that they don't possess anything, that they don't contribute to anything, and that's a fallacy. They do. They have multiple gifts. But here's the deal. The gifts are given to you by the Holy Spirit, and He wants you to manifest them in one of the seven folds. Whatever gifts you have will manifest in one of these seven characteristics. That's how it comes out. Wisdom, understanding, counsel, might. knowledge, the fear of Yahweh, those are all the kinds of things that comes out. And it'll be in that category, and you will manifest yourself in that area with using those gifts. The gifts are given to you in an embryonic way, and it's your responsibility to develop the gifts. It's your responsibility to know what your gifts are, and your responsibility to use them. Hence, if you don't use them, you quench the Holy Spirit. That's the idea. Sin grieves the Holy Spirit, but not using your gifts quenches the Holy Spirit because the Holy Spirit is not going to do what He wants to do because someone is stopping it. Someone is putting a halt on it. And hence, you will not see that full manifestation. The body of Christ was designed that not everyone has it so that you would be interdependent on other believers. The first one, out of his roots shall bear fruit. And then it goes, the spirit of Yahweh shall rest upon him. That's number one. The spirit of wisdom is number two. Understanding is three. Spirit of counsel, four. Might, five. Spirit of knowledge, six. And the fear of Yahweh, seven. So it rests upon him. Think of it this way, that the gifts, the sevenfold manifestation is the categories. And each category has the other gifts in those categories. So for instance, you could obviously see that if you have the ability to teach, you would probably fall under maybe the gifts of spirit of wisdom and understanding. Or if you're really good at counseling people, you might have the spirit of counseling, stuff like that. Those kinds of gifts would obviously bear themselves out in that those particular gifts. Gift of administration, gift of helps, gift of faith, things like that. So you'd have to look at Romans for that. You'd have to look at 1 Corinthians 12. Is it Romans 12? Yeah. And look at the different gifts and how they fit under that. But this is why I think it's important for everybody to know what their gifts are. And you really need to figure that out and and really start working on that stuff, because that's where you're supposed to be. If you're not using your gifts, or you, let's put it this way, if you don't know what your gifts are, there's no way you know how to use them. And you don't know how to develop them. And so, that's what you're gonna be, one of the things that the judgment seat of Christ is gonna say, what did you do with the gifts I gave you? Through the Spirit. Yeah, it isn't, isn't it? Isn't that interesting? We don't doubt that God does heal, He does. And, And obviously, he does even today, but there's no so-called healers. Healing does happen, and we pray for that. And Messiah healed, but what was the reason Messiah was healing? What was he trying to do by healing people? He was authenticating himself. And a lot of times the apostles healed, but they were doing that to authenticate themselves as apostles. So we don't say that God doesn't heal. He does. I mean, that's obvious. And a lot of people have been healed in different, various ways and have testimonies of it, but it wasn't because they had a healer. It was because the great physician healed them, not a person did. So yeah, I saw a hand somewhere back there. And so that's an interesting passage, and again, we will see that full manifestation of that aspect on Messiah at the second coming, but he had it at the first coming as well. Okay, so with that being said, let's move to the next page. Oh wait, I didn't finish that, sorry. Let's read the rest of that, sorry. And he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips he shall slay the wicked. He does that at the second coming, and he will do it at the rebellion at the end of the millennium. And righteousness shall be the girdle of his waist, and faithfulness the girdle of his loin. So it continues to show you the righteous rule of the Messiah. Okay, now we can move to 394, the Gentile branch of government. This is where you and I come in. This is where you and I are Rewarded if we are faithful and doing all the things we need to do This is where we participate in that Gentile branch of government Okay, so the first passage we want to look at is Revelation 24 through 6 and it says I saw thrones And they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them. And I saw the souls of them had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus, and for the word of God. And such has worshiped not the beast, neither his image, nor received the mark upon their forehead, and upon their hand. And they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years." So the idea there is there's two people being referred to. The ones he saw on thrones and then he saw those the souls of them who had been beheaded during the tribulation so Who is sitting on thrones at this point in time? If you recall and if you look at the first Chapters of Revelation 2 through 3 it will give promises to the church That if you know you overcome certain things then you will rule and sit on my throne and rule and reign. And then you see the 24 elders in Revelations 4 and 5 who are sitting there on thrones and then they cast their crowns before the Messiah. Well the 24 elders obviously is the church and I think we unpacked that a long time ago and based on the songs they sing and that their priesthood of kings which is exactly what the church is a priesthood of kings And so the 24 elders then become those who are sitting on thrones. That's you and I. We get to sit on thrones if we do what we need to do. And that gives us the ability to rule and reign. So then you have the tribulation saints, obviously. And then it says, and they lived and reigned with Christ 1,000 years. The rest of the dead, Live not until the thousand years should be finished. That's the idea of the unregenerate. This is the first resurrection. Blessed and holy is he that has part in the first resurrection. Over these the second death has no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ. and shall reign with him 1,000 years. So there's the co-reigning with Messiah, and there's the promise that we have of co-reigning with him. And so along with us will be the tribulation saints reigning in the Gentile form of government over the millennial reign. And notice he mentions the first resurrection. Remember, we categorized this, I think, last spring, that believers are in the category of the first resurrection. Unbelievers are in the category of the second resurrection and then we've talked about member multiple phases in the first resurrection and then two phases in the second resurrection the first two that would be resurrected in the second resurrection is the false prophet and the Antichrist thrown alive into the lake of fire and And then at the great white throne judgment all the unregenerate thrown into the the lake of fire. So that's the second resurrection category So we're in what's called the first category of resurrection the first resurrection Anyway, church and saints reign with christ over a thousand years. Okay, then you have a second tier Which is called kings Gentile nations will basically have kings over them And we get that from, we just read earlier Psalm 72, so we're not gonna read it again, but it talked about the nation, the Gentile nations having kings over them. And that will be some of us. Some of those kings will be you and I. And we will be the ultimate king because we're resurrected, we don't have a sin nature, we don't need sleep, and we can rule in righteousness. So see, one of the issues that people want to bring in the kingdom without Jesus and without resurrected saints, how can you have rulers unless they're resurrected? You have to have rulers who rule in righteousness. They can't be bribed. So the only people you could use were or will be resurrected saints, which makes the perfect scenario in the kingdom. So that's why everything has to be future. It cannot be now because You know, to say that some Christian pastor's gonna be a king or something like that right now, and some of these new apostolic reformation types and dominion types, and they're gonna establish the kingdom, yeah, but he has a sin nature still. And so God doesn't use people with a sin nature in that sense for the kingdom. He only uses people that are devoid of the sin nature to reign and rule with the Messiah, if that makes sense. Let's go to the next page, 396, and now we'll look at the Jewish branch of government. The first one who is a co-regent with the Messiah is King David. He's the king and he's also called the prince. And there's several passages that refer to this, Jeremiah 39, but they shall serve Yahweh, their God, and David, their king, whom I will raise up unto them. Ezekiel mentions this as well. And I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, even my servant David. He shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd, and I, Yahweh, will be their God. And my servant David, prince among them, I, Yahweh, have spoken it. So let me ask you this question. With all that David did in his life, good and bad, this sometimes surprises people that they see David ruling over Jerusalem, ruling over Israel during the millennial reign. Because they think, well, David did a lot of crazy things. Did that not disqualify him to rule? Well, it's obvious in David's life, he made a lot of mistakes. And obviously, God did forgive him. David paid some heavy prices in his life. There's no doubt about that. His kids and everything with his kids just went crazy. I mean, they went nuts, man. He was, you gotta think in Old Testament terms. David's personal life in a lot of ways was a mess. Just a complete mess you'd look at him in his personal life, and you're thinking oh Man, he's a bad dad He's really terrible with ladies Just not doesn't just got it doesn't have a grip on him. You know he just He never really overcame that Here's the deal you have to keep thinking in the church age we think in individualistic terms We think, and you're right to think like this, that your leaders should have a consistent life. And that is required, obviously, we're pastors and deacons and whatnot, that what they say and what they do should match up with their personal lives. And that's true, that's absolutely true in the church age. It's different in the Old Testament. It's different with kings. It's different with the nation of Israel because you're talking about political rulers. One of the big aspects that you'll see in the Old Testament is the fact that if the ruler has loyal love to Yahweh, that seems to trump a lot of things. If the king is not an idolater and doesn't bring an idolatry into the nation of Israel, he is very much celebrated. Okay, I know that's hard for us to grip because a lot of times we'll look at the king's life, whoever it might be, and you're like, man, that dude's a wreck. He's a total wreck. But in their culture and the way to think in Middle Eastern terms, David was one of the best kings for Israel because of what he did politically for Israel. He drove the Canaanites and the Philistines out, or the remnants of the Canaanites and the Philistines out. He killed Goliath. He did exactly what an Israelite king was supposed to do. And he did not introduce idolatry into the nation. When you have those two things, that's it, dude. That's like the pinnacle for a Hebraic king. Because if you look at all the other kings after that, except for a few, like Hezekiah and a few, they are disasters. They would introduce idolatry, all kinds of crazy stuff. Foreign gods, all weird stuff. I want you to think about this. Solomon introduced idolatry into Israel. He's a bad king. And obviously his personal life was a mess too. But you know who technically, by that definition, was still a good king? And this will really mess your thinking up. Saul. Now you already know that Saul was a disaster in his personal life. You know that. But why is he a good king? He did not introduce idolatry. He did not introduce foreign gods, and he did drive out the enemies of Israel. You have that one-two punch, you're a good king. You're a good king. Now, his personal life, disaster. David's personal life, disaster. But as far as ruling and reigning, They made it. Hence, their reward a lot has to do with how they reigned as king, not for their personal issues. And what, yeah, and as you can see, what they're doing is they're blending the man's personal life with his political office. And you really, you're not supposed to do that in the Old Testament. You're supposed to keep his political office separate. And if you can do that, you can judge the man fairly. David and Saul, absolutely fantastic. Rulers for Israel. Personal lives, disaster. Not someone they emulate on their personal lives. Okay, so if you can do that, then it starts making sense of, oh, that's why David's rewarded like this. He was one of the best kings Israel had. Yeah, he was. That's personal. That was a personal thing. See, you gotta think about this. None of Saul's stupidity ever affected the nation of Israel, per se. So you have to keep that category out here, and in his personal life, going to a witch, or another king having a brothel, or whatever, separate. And I know that's hard to do, but if you blend the two, you will not interpret things correctly. You have to keep them separate. So when you ask, how is Saul in governing the nation of Israel? He's great, right? And even though he had messed up with Yahweh, he knew he did. He kept coming back. And what did Samuel say? And a lot of people, they check Saul off. And Samuel tells them this, you're gonna join me tomorrow. You're gonna die on the battlefield. Well, that's something heroic. He's dying for what? He's dying on the battlefield fighting for Israel, okay? And so then he says, you're gonna join me tomorrow. You're gonna be with me tomorrow. That's what Samuel says. Okay, what did he mean by that? You're gonna die, number one. But where were you going, Saul? Thank you. You're gonna be where Samuel's at, and Samuel was in paradise. Hence, it shows you that Saul is saved. Now, he's a knucklehead, and there's a lot of Christians, as you can testify, that are complete knuckleheads. Their whole personal lives are a disaster. It doesn't mean they're not saved. You're saved by faith. Now, you're rewarded by whether you're not a knucklehead and you do good things, right? That's your reward. But Samuel testified, you're gonna be with me in paradise, in Abraham's bosom. You're gonna die, but you're gonna be with me. And so you can't write Saul off. And think about this, I'm trying to think, another king came to my mind. Yeah, there's Josiah, there's Hezekiah, there's all these guys. Even if you just go back before the kings, let's do the judges. Gideon, everyone's like rah-rah for Gideon. Do you know how Gideon ended his life? In idolatry. Doesn't mean Gideon's not saved, but he got back into idolatry at the end of his life. That's a no-no. That meant, politically for Israel, the judge had introduced idolatry into the nation. That is a death blow for a leader of Israel to do that. And obviously with Ahab and Jezebel, Jezebel was the first to introduce foreign gods into the land of Israel. So that messed up the whole kingdom up. And you can see that's what Elijah was fighting the whole time, and it caused havoc in the nation of Israel. So here's the deal, and this is hard to think about. As long as the man's personal life didn't affect how he governed the nation of Israel, he was okay approved in God's eyes. If that makes sense. You're here and then I'll come back. Right, you nailed it. That's exactly why they don't delve into that. They always sell that Saul's not saved. Because bless God, if you act like that, you're not saved too. Because that's a Calvinistic version that your works prove you're saved. And that should never happen. Your works are only proof of your discipleship, not your salvation. Because salvation is simply by faith alone. You can't see that. And so that's the mistake of Calvinism. Hence, there's where Lordship Salvation was developed to combat exactly what you're saying. That was done in the early 80s to combat this, what they attacked in Dallas Theological Seminary as easy-believism. And that came right out of John MacArthur, by the way, and Calvinism to say, well, you just can't say that because then you're saying people can live the way they want. No, we're not saying that. We're saying that if a person is not properly discipled, then they're going to act like a pagan. That's what the Corinth church was all about. They were acting like pagans because they weren't properly discipled and because they wanted to live carnal, obviously, but that's a lot of it. He did. That's another aspect that he repented of personally what he did, obviously, and got right with the Lord. So he's a man of God's own heart, which is shown by repentance. How does Catholics justify what now? Right. Yeah. And they say, well, that's the exception to the rule. That's how they get around it. I used to go around and around with priests about that. Well, there are the exceptions. And they would say this, theoretically. Well, if he could have, he would have. Oh. Oh, okay, it's all theory. But see, the thing is, anyone that bases salvation on works is gonna go back to this works issue, or anyone that tries to prove salvation by works is always hitting on the works issue, always. Let me ask you this, do you think you're gonna see Solomon in heaven? He apostatized, he went into idolatry. You still gonna see him? You think I can see Gideon? I do. They apostatized horribly, horribly. But they still were saved. They believed in Yahweh. Yes, you got it. Even Samson. Even Samson. I know where you're going with Samson. Because Samson's just a wild man. I mean, he can't control himself with women, and he's a ladies' man, and won't cut his hair for some reason, you know, all that stuff. And so, well you know why but the issue is with Samson he can't ever get his life figured out he's like a Peter Pan he's a boy who never grew up and he still is a good judge because he was kind of dragged into things he didn't really want to but when he did he throttled the enemies of Israel and so because of that he was a good judge yep absolutely That's why they call Israel now has what's called the Samson option. It's military strategy in Israel called the Samson option. And what is the Samson option? That in order to take their enemies out, they're willing to destroy themselves. That's the Samson option militarily that Israel has. And so you can see at the end, Samson came back to Yahweh and he prayed and he was destroying enemies. Hence, politically, for the nation of Israel, Samson's a good judge. So is Gideon. But personally, disaster. But why do you think God is trying to show you that? Why is he showing you the warts and all of these great leaders, these heroes of the faith, and he's showing you, oh my gosh, this guy has an anger problem, this guy has a lust problem, this guy has all kinds of issues. Why is God doing that? Because if you want to write that, you wouldn't write that in. Because we have them do. And he's saying, if I can use them, I can use you. Don't do what they do, but look, humans will sin even if they're saved. They get into really raunchy things. And I need you to be a man after your God's own heart, which means that I'm willing to repent of the things I do and come back and get reestablished with my father. And so that's one of the reasons why. And that's why a lot of people When they see David rule in rain, and I've seen people object to that and say, that's crazy. Why would God even use David for what he did? And they just don't simply understand the Hebraic way of seeing the leaders in the Old Testament. Now, that does not apply in the dispensation that you and I are in. That does not apply. The leaders must be consistent in the church age. It's a totally different ballgame. But that's the mistake of putting a dispensation on another dispensation. You will get confused real quick if you don't know what error you're in. Okay, well, I'm not following. That seems, I think what they gave you in the rules of argumentation is what's called a non-sequitur. It doesn't follow. That's what that is. What he said to you is a non sequitur. This doesn't follow based on the argument, because I can read the text, I can see what the guy's doing. He makes his confession, and then he dies. Yeah, there are no works following him. He is what the Apostle Paul would say in 1 Corinthians, that some will be saved as by fire, with all their works burned up. He had nothing to offer. He got there, but he has no works. Is that, yeah, because salvation is based on faith, not on works, but reward is based on what? Works. Works. At the judgment seat of Christ, what is judged? What does it say? What does it say? That your works will be judged. Let me throw another wrinkle into this. At the gray white throne judgment, what does it say is judged at the gray white throne judgment? their works were judged because see if you're at the great right throne judgment you're lost the only reason you're there is because you're lost so what's being judged is your works on the severity of hell that you're going to have if you're at the beam of seat Well, that means you're already saved. The fact that you're there means that you're saved. So that's a non-issue. What's at issue and at stake is, okay, what did you do as a Christian to be judged for your reward or loss of reward? And so when you read Revelation 20 and you read the Bemissi passages, it's all works, all works, all works. Hence, do you know why that's why the Catholics capitalize on that works thing? Because they say, look right there, it's works. And then they'll use James chapter two out of context and try to prove that your faith must be accompanied by works, right? Okay, any other questions on that? I know that was a little bit more than what you wanted, but I think it's important to understand how do we interpret Old Testament leaders? And this is why you see David, he's the prince and king of Israel during the millennial reign. During the millennial reign. During the millennial reign. During the millennial reign. During the millennial reign.