Page 427 then, in the middle of your page, we'll look at these other passages. I'm not going to do every detail of these passages. It's the idea that Israel's final restoration is all over the Old Testament and you need to know where they're at. So Jeremiah 31, 11-14, for Yahweh has ransomed Jacob, redeemed him from the hand of him that was stronger than he. And they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow unto the goodness of Yahweh, to the grain, and to the new wine, and to the oil, and to the young of the flock, and of the herd. And their soul shall be as a watered garden. And they shall not sorrow any more at all. Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, and the young men and the old together. For I will turn their mourning into joy, and comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow. And I will satiate the soul of the priest with fatness. And my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, says Yahweh. So the idea then, again, it's not now, like we said last week. This is future. And the idea is that He redeemed it from the hand that was stronger than He is referring to the Antichrist. that's who the Antichrist basically tried to, he tried to eliminate Israel and so basically he's saying I'm redeeming you from that hand. If you move on you have, you got minor prophets and other major prophets like Ezekiel, he still picked up the motif and if you read on the very bottom of your page Ezekiel 20, 42 through 44 it says, and you shall know that I am Yahweh when I bring you into the land of Israel into the country which I swore To give unto your fathers. That's the Abrahamic covenant Which is the basis for the land covenant and there should be shall ye? Remember your ways and all your doings wherein ye have polluted yourselves and ye shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for all your evils that ye have committed and And ye shall know that I am Yahweh, when I have dealt with you for my name's sake, not according to your evil ways, nor according to your corrupt doings. O ye house of Israel, says the Lord Yahweh. So, interesting enough there in that passage is, I'm not gonna treat you according to your evil ways, nor according to your corrupt doings. Why? That's important to understand. That Yahweh is not treating them according to their behavior. Why? What did he mention? I'm going to do this because I swore something to your forefathers. And what is that? It's the Abrahamic covenant, right? Okay, so like we said, the Abrahamic covenant is a unilateral covenant. That's why he says in that passage, it's regardless of how you behave that I'm gonna make sure this happens. And so he says, your evil ways, your corrupt doings, well, that doesn't get rid of them. And like we saw with the church fathers that were anti-Semitic, that's the very argument they made towards Israel, that Israel, because of their disobedience, that God cut them off. And what you keep seeing in scripture is this constant reference that it's regardless of your behavior, I'm going to do that. So it just contradicts a lot of these church fathers that you saw, and even current churches that believe this. Then you move down to Ezekiel 28. It says, Thus said the Lord Yahweh, when I shall have gathered the house of Israel from the peoples among whom they are scattered, this is after the Antichrist scatters them, and shall be sanctified in them in the side of the nation, then they shall dwell in their own land, which I gave to my servant Jacob. Well, what did he give? That's the Abrahamic Covenant, another reference to that. And they shall dwell securely therein. They shall build houses, plant vineyards, shall dwell securely when I have executed judgments upon all those that do to them despite round about them. And they shall know that I am Yahweh their God. So talking about the Abrahamic Covenant and security. that they're going to have. A couple things, the next few passages are very long, I'm just going to skip around just a little bit. In the Ezekiel 34 passage, basically when you read this, it's talking about an increased production in the land based on Yahweh's blessing. It's not what's happening currently like we talked about it. It happens in the future and they will not have to fear the nations. So then you move down to Ezekiel 36. Again, I'm skimming because this is a lot of text and you can read it on your own. But in Ezekiel 36, 8 through 15, again, another passage referring to tremendous production. In spite of the land having years of desolation, it will be tilled, it will be populated, and it will produce for Israel. And again, way more than what it is doing now. Now go to page 430. You continue to have this same theme. You see this in Ezekiel 36, 28 through 38. And again, I'll just read the first verse, and you shall dwell on the land that I gave to your fathers, and you shall be my people, and I will be your God. That is when they're connected back to Yahweh in salvation. And then if you move down the passage just a little bit to the very middle, it says, thus says the Lord Yahweh in that day, I will cleanse you from your iniquities, I will cause the cities to be inhabited, and the waste places shall be builded, and the land that was desolate shall be tilled, whereas it was desolate in the sight of all that passed by." Again, continuing to point out that I'm going to take away your approach You're going to be back in the land. Let's move over to the next page, page 431. This is a long passage in Joel chapter 2. Again, just skimming around, but I'll read the first verse. It says, Then Yahweh, jealous for His land. What is His land? Bakersfield, no, right? Notice that Yahweh only says this about the land of Israel, that he's jealous for that land. That is the land he picked out, that he gave to Israel and he's jealous for it. So the fact that anyone else that tries to take it, is going up against Yahweh. That's why I'm concerned. I don't know. I've heard false rumors, I think, about what Trump's peace plan is going to be with Israel and that came out that there were some leaks and that wasn't true or whatnot, that they're going to try to do a two-state solution. If we do a two-state solution, that's wrong. It's just totally wrong. You can't do a two-state solution based on theology. Not that I know that Trump or anyone else or Jared Kushner knows anything about theology, but the minute we start dividing the land of Israel, that's when the Abrahamic Covenant comes at us in its cursings. So pray for Trump to make the right decision on what he's going to do with the Palestinians. Israel's got a major problem right now, just as an aside. The Palestinians, and even north of them, they're big in building these tunnels. And imagine, I mean, that has to be dealt with. whether it's in the north or it's coming from the Gaza. Imagine you living in Israel and you're in your backyard, so to speak, having a barbecue, and all of a sudden some dude comes out from the middle of your garden and pops his head up and starts shooting everybody. And it's done in 12 or 15 locations because of the tunneling that's happening. And no one wants to talk about that. It is one of Israel's major problems is the tunneling that's happening. And by the way, we have the tunneling on the border too. And imagine the scenario, so I'm doing an aside here, I want you, because when we see this, this is God promising, I'm gonna make it all right one day. The same tunneling is happening in San Diego, and there's all these tunnels, and we don't know where they go. They could pop up anywhere and from what we understand, the terrorist organizations know about the tunnels and they're paying the drug cartels to use access to the tunnels. So imagine being at SeaWorld and all of a sudden some dude pops up and starts shooting people. Imagine being somewhere in San Diego and all these things, these guys in tunnels are popping up and doing a major hit. I mean, this is what Israel faces every day, through the tunneling. And they're, you know, it was by God's grace. I mean, think about this. The Israelis captured a guy, a Palestinian guy, terrorist guy, that had on him all the maps of the tunnels. That ain't a God thing, I don't know what is. He had all the maps of the tunnels. So Israel was effectively able to knock out a lot of the tunnels coming out of the Gaza, but they're still facing the tunnel issues up north, right? They're burrowing underneath. And then they just, the idea is that they'll pop up and just start killing everybody at the same time, simultaneously. And how far did El Chapo have to go to? I mean, it was like miles of tunneling. Well, that's what they're saying about our border and no one's addressing it, that there's all these tunnels that the drug cartels are using. And if El Chapo can use it, and he did it, they say it's being done here. And so we don't know. And the major issue is Tijuana. Tijuana is going to turn into the Gaza if we're not careful. That's what it's going to turn into. Because you think Tijuana is going to do anything with the drug cartels or Al-Qaeda or anyone else? No. It's going to turn into an outpost for every terrorist and drug cartel. But anyway, I do that to say that this, that when you look at all these land passages and you say God's going to provide security, If you lived in Israel and you're there and you can imagine that I'm in the backyard and a terrorist can pop up in my backyard and start shooting me and my family, then these verses mean a lot. Because God's saying, it's not going to happen anymore. I'm going to shut the whole thing down eventually. And so these are promises for the future, but you've got to understand what Israel's dealing with. Now, I guess the only way we could kind of relate to that is if we lived in San Diego and that tunneling thing started happening to us, and you wouldn't know where they pop up. Hard to imagine that. We're kind of far removed from all of it. Anyway, he goes, behold, I will send you grain and new wine and oil, and ye shall be satisfied therewith. And so it's promising high production. And because of that, it has to do with the rains. And if you move down, it says, for he gives you the former rain in just measure, and causes to come down for you the rain, the former rain, the latter rain, in the first month. And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the vats shall overflow with new wine and oil. And I will restore you to the years that the locusts have eaten the canker worm and the caterpillar, the palmer worm, my great army which I sent among you. So basically the idea is that the land's gonna be supernaturally producing but I'm gonna send the water, the rains at the proper times and you'll never be without the rains. And if you know with Israel's climate they are completely dependent on rain. Completely dependent. and the snow cap on Mount Hermon and whatnot. And basically the idea is that for a thousand years I'll never shut off the rain. It will always be available for your plants and crops and stuff and that will cause you to recover your losses for all these years that you've lost, that the land was desolate. And so when you read that, just a side note too, the New Apostolic Reformation, the Word of Faith movement uses these passages to say that you're getting your blessings now and is relating that to people in the church. And as you can see in context, we're talking about Israel. And so you've got a guy, you know, maybe Kenneth Copeland or even Benny Hinn will say, well, God's going to bring you rain in the former and latter days. And the rain represents blessing. And so your God's going to bless you now. And it's just, it's insane to take these passages out of that context and put them on Gentiles in the church. It just doesn't work, but yet people love it. People love to be told that God wants to prosper you. Anyway, go to the next page, page 432 again, and I'm going pretty quick. This is where I want to go. I want to land on the Davidic Covenant tonight. Joel 3.18, Notice that it shall come to pass that the mountains shall drop sweet wine, the hills shall flow with milk, and all the brooks of Judah shall flow with waters. And the fountains shall come forth from the house of Yahweh, and shall water the valley of Shittim. Notice that it keeps referring to wine. That wine is a very abundant and it flows and there's milk that's flowing and all that stuff Is that symbolic or is that real? Is what he's saying hyperbole or is he saying no, we're going to have a lot of wine We're going to have a lot of milk. We're going to have a lot of grain It is real. It is real. You're right. Now, for teetotalers that, you know, and I get it, but you're not going to get past the Old Testament in the use of wine. I'm just, as a side note, I'm just making an excursus right now. You cannot make the argument that the Bible forbids the drinking of wine. It's all over the messianic age. I mean, they will drink wine abundantly and it's all over the place. And what's happened, I just want to make this note, what's happened in Americana is what's called Christian fundamentalism. Again, I'm not advocating getting drunk or anything like that. Understand me. But when you see passages, what pastors have typically done is allegorize these. And you can't do that. It is talking literally about the abundance of provisions, whether it's foodstuff, or it's wine, or it's milk. It is talking about the abundance that will be available in the messianic kingdom. Wine is a symbol, literally, it symbolizes blessing. In order to have wine, it was a symbol of blessing. And it was used in the Passover. Even in Passover and Sabbath times, they'll even let children drink wine. They won't let them get drunk, but it's part of their ceremony. And so I know we're coming from Americana, and we're coming from a lot of ingrained fundamentalism, but you have to understand, when you look at Messianic passage like that, that's legitimate, that's real stuff that they're talking about, and you can't allegorize that away. Again, the Bible doesn't advocate getting drunk, But you cannot make an argument for the exclusion of wine. At least on that level. Jesus at a wedding turned water into what? Grape juice? No. It wasn't grape juice. It was wine. They know the difference between wine and grape juice in the Middle East. The kids will drink wine, yup. Yes, watered down. And you got to remember too, even in Israel, they watered the wine down. It was like two parts water to wine, but they were using wine a lot of times to sterilize their water. But you can't get away from that. You can't have anyone say, it's just grape juice. It's not. It's not that. You can't do that. Well, OK, so think about what wine was used for, OK? It was used as a sanitary device for water. But then it was used like if you had a birthday party or something and you go to dwarves ice cream Okay, so you you pound a banana split which is phenomenal at dwarves man That banana split is awesome But you know, I don't eat a banana split every night You know because you start packing on the weight you do it as a dessert for a birthday or something like that Okay, good wine new wine was looked at as that it was a a special treat You know, it was something that we did, you know, maybe if I have had guests over or if I was a host or it was a bar mitzvah or whatever, it was used in that sense as a treat. It was not used like they use in America as a dependency issue, right? And so the minute you cross the line in with wine being a, you know, a dependency issue, versus, hey, we're having a good time, we have friends, you know, now you've crossed the line. And you gotta know where that line's at, and you gotta know where you're at, even personally on it, because the guy you're reading, Frutenbaum, is Jewish, and he'll tell you he has a glass of wine with his dinner. You know, he's Jewish, and that's what they do in that culture. So that's why you'll see in the Old Testament that whole deal. So when the prohibition came out in Americana, they didn't get that from the Bible. They got that from fundamentalism. And again, don't get me wrong that I'm advocating going out and getting sloshed right now. Not. I'm just saying when you read these passages, don't allegorize them. That's not meant to be allegorized. It is meant to say they will have literal wine, they will have literal milk, they'll have literal grain. So there's like an abundant supply of good food. So wine was in the category of good food and oil, the olive oil was in the category of good food. And so you have to keep that in mind. Otherwise, if you start allegorizing that Then you have to allegorize the rest of it. And then you start having problems. So yeah, that's right. Absolutely. So there's no refrigeration. You don't have cold storage. And so they would juice them and the wine would keep. And you could use wine for a lot of different things. Medically, you could do all kinds of stuff. So yeah, absolutely. When you don't have refrigeration, you have to go either to salting or you have to go into fermentation. and that will preserve your food. So, like, when we were in Magdala, remember, they were talking to us about how they salted the fish. People would get the fish and take the fish and you could, if the fish was salted, it would last for a long time. And that's the same thing with wine and whatnot. But anyway, it's worth noting because you see this passage and it says, The mountains shall drop down sweet wine. It's the image of these mountains just flowing with wine instead of water. Now that's metaphoric, but it's also pointing to something literal. It's pointing to the abundance of wine. or the abundance of milk. And obviously milk doesn't flow off a mountain. What it's referring to is the sheep and the goats that are grazing on the mountain and how much they're producing as far as milk is concerned. Anyway, look at the next verse, Amos 9.13. Behold, the day has come, says Yahweh, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper and the treader of grapes, him that sows seed, and the mountains, so what, shall drop sweet wine and all the hills shall melt. Can't get past it, guys. It's an abundance of wine all over the place. Okay, we gotta jump then to the Davidic covenant, and this is where I wanna kinda camp out a little bit for the rest of the time. So that's the land in the Abrahamic covenant promises, and now we go to the reestablishment of the Davidic throne. And the two passages, we'll look at them, but I think we'll just stay with 2 Samuel today if we can get through it. This is the basis of the Davidic covenant, and which Jesus will sit on that throne in the future, okay? So let's understand the Davidic covenant from 2 Samuel. It says, moreover, Yahweh tells you that Yahweh will make you a house. Why is it a double reference? Yahweh tells you that Yahweh will do this. Isn't that interesting? Huh? Yeah, so. Don't miss those passages. I'm doing a thing on the foundations of discipleship, and I'm doing the Trinity right now. And what you'll notice in these passages in the Old Testament, you'll start noticing two Yahwehs, constant throughout the Old Testament. And the Jews knew it. One Yahweh would talk to the other Yahweh, and even with Sodom and Gomorrah, the Yahweh on the earth had the Yahweh in heaven call down fire and brimstone on Sodom and Gomorrah. How did the one Yahweh on earth do that? And so it's a perplexing passage. But you'll see that there's multiple Yahwehs. We're not saying multiple gods, but that there's multiple identities within the Godhead. And you start seeing that the Yahweh that was talking to Abraham with the two angels about Sodom and Gomorrah, he's the one that asked the Yahweh in heaven to rain down fire and brimstone. And the Jews knew, they've tried to suppress it a lot of times, the Jews knew there were two powers that they're noticing in two Yahweh's, and they knew there was only one God, but they couldn't reconcile the fact that we keep seeing these two powers. And obviously now then the Spirit was included in that, but there's actually books written on the two powers of the Old Testament. And now us understanding the Trinity, we know what those two powers are. It's actually three powers, one God, it's the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. So when you see that, moreover, Yahweh tells you that another Yahweh will make you a house. It's a reference to the plurality of the triune God, right? Just a little Trinity in there and make you a house. Okay, a house is a dynasty, okay? When your days are fulfilled, it's talking to David, and you shall sleep with your fathers when you die, I will set up your seed after you. Now, this is specific to what seed? Okay, watch. That shall proceed out of your bowels. So in 2 Samuel, he's very specific. He's the seeds coming out of your bowels and I will establish his kingdom So because because it's coming out of David's bowels. It is a direct reference to Solomon in this passage, okay, and He shall build a house for my name. So who built the temple right? It was Solomon, right? Okay, and I will establish the throne of Notice it doesn't say his throne, but the throne, the Davidic throne of his kingdom forever. So the first thing you start seeing is a dynasty is going to be created for David and he's going to have a throne, but it lasts forever. It's an eternal throne. And he goes, I will be his father and he shall be my son. If he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men. And so that did happen to Solomon. Solomon, as you know, didn't end up well, started okay, but he ended in apostasy. He ended in idolatry. Let me ask you this, just because Solomon ended in idolatry, Let's talk about him personally and let's talk about the Davidic throne. Just because he ended in apostasy, does that mean that Solomon wasn't saved? No, because he indicates he's saved early on in his life. Because when God says, what do you want? He says, I want wisdom. God's not gonna give wisdom to an unbeliever. So early in Solomon's life, he did believe and he continues to believe, but then he becomes polluted. He becomes idolatrous. He starts taking on the women that he's marrying. He's taking on their foreign gods and he starts practicing syncretism. So he ends in apostasy. So personal level, we're gonna see Solomon in heaven. On a reward level, he'll probably lose a lot of rewards. On a Davidic throne level, look what God says. and with the stripes of the children of men. But my lovingkindness shall not depart from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away before you." So the idea is, if your son, Solomon, commits iniquity, I'm not gonna take the kingdom from him, even though I did from Saul. Who's worse? I know this is weird. Who's worse, Saul or Solomon, morally? Who's worse? Saul? Saul was saved. Who's worse morally, Solomon or Saul? You've got to say Solomon. If you watch what he says he did, if he did, he'd tater chip, let it rip. I mean, he went for it. Saul, he did some stupid things and he was a bumbling idiot. But Solomon knew what he was doing and he had been given wisdom by God and he went crazy. I mean, 3,000 women? 3,000 women. Can you imagine? The sexual escapades just alone on that alone, what he was doing sexually with 3,000 women is he was, what's that dude that just died, that playboy guy? Hugh Hefner. He was the Hugh Hefner of the Middle East. 3,000 in your harem? Are you serious? And then he says he just went hog wild on everything else too. He didn't hold anything back. But God says, but my hesed, I shall not depart from him as I took it from Saul, whom I put away before you. Why? It shows you there's an aspect of the Davidic covenant that's similar to the Abrahamic covenant. And what's that similarity? Unilateral. It's unilateral. The reason he's not gonna take it away from Solomon, because of Solomon's bad behavior, is because it's a unilateral covenant, just like the Abrahamic covenant. I don't care how you behave, I'm going to do this, is the idea, okay? Hence, that's your clue for the new covenant. That's why you can't lose salvation, right? If you could lose salvation based on your behavior, it's not a unilateral covenant. The new covenant is a unilateral covenant, which means you can't lose salvation. Can you apostatize? Of course you can. Can you get into deep sin? Of course you can. Can you die out of fellowship? Of course you can. Can God kill you? Yes he can, out of discipline. But it doesn't mean you can lose your salvation. You gotta keep those thoughts in mind, because it'll really throw you off because of what Solomon did, and a lot of these characters did. And he goes, and your house, your dynasty, and your kingdom shall be made sure forever before you. Your throne shall be established forever. So there's really four things here, an eternal kingdom, an eternal throne, an eternal dynasty, And then I wanna move to the next point in 1 Chronicles. So you have three issues there, eternal kingdom, eternal throne, eternal dynasty, this is all unilateral, and then you move into 1 Chronicles 17 and you have the fourth aspect that I wanna show you. It goes, moreover, I tell you that Yahweh will build you a house and it shall come to pass when your days are fulfilled that you must go to be with your fathers. that I will set up your seed after you." Now notice this, it's similar to 2 Samuel, but it's different. And this is where it goes different. It's a reference to the seed, that one of your seeds coming. Now notice the first seed that he was referring to in 2 Samuel comes out of the bowels of David. That this seed doesn't come out of the bowels. It's not like Solomon, his direct son, okay? But it is referring to your lineage, if you wanna use that word. I will set up your seat after you who shall be of your sons. How is that different? That David will be an ancestor of one of these sons down the line. And I will establish his kingdom. He shall build me a house Now, this is not Solomon because it's the he who's established his kingdom forever. It's the same he, okay? So this is different than Solomon. He shall build me a house, a temple, and I will establish his throne forever. Not the throne that you saw in 2 Samuel, but his throne. Do you see the difference? You go from the kingdom to his kingdom, the throne to his throne. He's one of David's seeds. He's not right straight out of the bowels of David, but he is part of David's family. Therefore, you tell me what 1 Chronicles is referring to, or who? It's Messiah. And it's just the small changing of the words from the to his. And when you see that interchange, now David has been promised not only an eternal throne, an eternal kingdom, an eternal dynasty, but now an eternal person from his seed who will then take over forever the throne and the dynasty. So that is obviously the Messiah, because Messiah is of the house of David. I will be his father and he shall be my son, right? And I will not take my loving kindness away from him as I took it from that was before you, but I will settle him in my house and in my kingdom forever and his throne, not the throne, his throne should be established forever. So what is the house that Jesus is going to build? Solomon built the Solomonic temple. What is the house that Jesus will build? The millennial temple. the millennial temple. So you have 1st Chronicles 17 talking about this and if I can find it real quick, Zechariah the prophet mentions this. It's either in chapter 2 or chapter 3, one of the two. And the prophet Zechariah mentions that Messiah himself will then build the temple for Israel in the messianic age. And so it directly says that, and I can't find it, I'll have to find it at break. Anyway, the idea then is so Messiah will build the last temple on planet Earth and rule from Jerusalem. Okay, here's the application, we gotta take a break in just a second. Is Jesus currently on David's throne now? No. Good. Good. Now why would I say that? Because if you say he's on David's throne, that means he's ruling from a political throne. And David's throne is on earth. It's not in heaven. And the throne he is on right now is the Father's throne, he says. But the Davidic throne is on earth. Okay, part of your reward is that you get to sit on David's throne as well. Not everybody, but only those believers who overcome certain things, those Nike believers, they call them in Greek, will get to sit on that throne. What do you mean? Well, there's promises up and down in Revelation 2 and 3 that he goes, as I have sat on my father's throne, I will let you sit on my throne. What is Messiah's throne? you just read it. It's David's throne in the millennium, which means that if he allows you to sit on his throne, it means that you're a king in the millennial reign of Christ and you get to rule and reign and you will then sit on a throne And there'll be multiple thrones all scattered over the planet as other believers rule and reign territories, but that throne is all interconnected and it's David's throne. And so that's the throne that it's talking about in Revelation 2. He shall rule with a rod of iron. They shall be dashed to pieces. I also have received from my father, and I will give him the morning star. He who overcomes, keep my works in. I will give him power over the nations, his ruling and reigning. And then it says in another one, it says, he who overcomes, I will grant to sit with me on my throne. as I overcame and sat down with my father on his throne. He who has an heir, let him hear." So what are the two things that you have to overcome in order to rule and reign from David's throne? Well, the first one is the church he was addressing was the Thyatira church. And the second church he was referring to the Laodicean church. Okay? In order to rule and reign on David's throne, two things in this life you must overcome. If you're to overcome the Thyatira church aspect, you are to overcome doctrinal pollution. You cannot have an underdeveloped theological system full of errors. You have to have your theology straight in order to get to rule. So it does pay to study, okay? These people say, well, I'm just happy and I'm gonna be like a little lark in heaven floating around. No, you won't. You'll be cleaning toilets, okay? You'll be picking up gum off the street, okay? Uh-huh. This is why I'm telling you, man, when you start seeing this, that you have to overcome doctrinal corruption. If you maintain doctrinal corruption and you willfully go for it, you're losing this one. Doesn't mean you're not gonna go to heaven. It just means you're not gonna rule and reign because you should have figured this one out. You had enough study time, you had enough things to help you to be doctrinally pure. Okay, so that's a big thing. So your doctrine has to be right. So doctrinally pure. And the second thing is Laodicea. What do you have to overcome with Laodicea? They're lukewarm, right? Which means they're useless. Okay, why are they useless though? You have to overcome the reason why they're useless. They're worldly, right? They're affluent. The Laodicean church was extremely wealthy, which made them affluent, but that affluence blinded them to spiritual needs. And hence, because they were blind spiritually, they became useless to the Messiah. He couldn't use them, so therefore they don't get no rewards. So you and I, living in America, Those two challenges are hitting us right now with a great apostasy. You've got to overcome the apostasy and have doctrinally pure theology. Two, you must never allow your affluence to create in you a useless servant to the Messiah. And you think, why would money make me useless? I would think if I had more money, I could do more things for Jesus. Really? Sure. Because what does money do to certain people when they have it? Huh? Greed, it corrupts them. Let's just talk about service. Let's just talk about service. It pulls them away, doesn't it? Well, we're going here, we're going there. They're just not available to serve because they're too busy spending their money. They're too busy using their money. I'm serious, this is the biggest thing affecting American churches is the affluence of people who just simply are not here. Because where are they at? Well, we're in Vegas one weekend. Well, we went to the coast one weekend. Well, we went here. And that's great, you can take your vacations, that's wonderful, no one's gonna get it on you. But the average Christian is now coming about 12 times a year. I know not like in our church, but in nationwide, how does 12 times a year gonna cut it? How could that church use somebody that's coming 12 times a year? You can't. You couldn't use them for Sunday school. You couldn't even use them to pick up gum. We're just happy that you're sitting here. Thank you. But you come 12 times a year, we can't build anything off of you. You're useless. You see what I'm saying? Money then becomes a curse. Guys, I've seen it. And I'm not getting on to anybody for having things. You can have things, but you gotta have your priorities. And that's what Laodicean does. The minute somebody gets some money, they're like, okay, we're gonna go do this. And then what do they do? They leave behind their ministry and they just leave it. Well, who's gonna do this? I don't know, I can't do it now because I got all this money invested. I think the Lord said something about that. Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. No joke, man, I've seen it play out. That's what Laodicean's talking about, that money can take you away from Jesus. Not lose your salvation, but it can reprioritize your life, and you don't even know it. You don't even see it. You think, well, this is the blessing of God. You tell me. In Laodicea, when you read the passage, and he says, Jesus is chastising him, he says, so you think you've become rich? I'm telling you, you're poor. You think you see, I'm telling you, you can't see. Everything you think that God has blessed you, I'm telling you, you're not blessed. Be careful about money. It sometimes is not a blessing. It's given to you to take you away from Jesus. And if the devil thinks if he can't make you sin, then he'll give you some money and he'll buy you off. And that's what Laodicean is doing. Laodicean buys off Christians to where the point they become useless and then they lose the ability to rule. So those are the two things you have to overcome in order to rule on David's throne in the Millennial Kingdom, in the Millennial Kingdom, in the Millennial Kingdom, in the Millennial Kingdom, in the Millennial Kingdom.