Seated, we'll jump into our study here. Yes, thank you. Did the missionary letter print? It did, okay. It doesn't matter, it's already been printed once, so. I mean brother Joe printed it so he might want it. I don't know All right, we're on page 805 is that is that what I printed I hope I printed the right pages Very good, maybe we will make some progress and finish tonight, but maybe not we'll see That would be really neat. What are we going to do when we finish this book? We've been doing this this series for. Eric, when was the first one? Yeah, what are we going to do? What are we going to do with ourselves? Yeah, bibliology that that first sermon was. Oh, it had to have been somewhere around August of 2014. So we have been in this study. I mean, it's 805 pages so far. We've been in this study for 11 years. It'll be 11 years in August. Yeah. So, yes sir, I guess we probably ought to move along, shouldn't we? But if we move along at a faster pace than we have been, then you kind of miss out on things at the end, you know. It's kind of like the picture I saw on Facebook, a pastor posted. my sermon for the first 45 minutes, and it was this hand-drawn, pencil-drawn, beautiful picture of a horse, just the shading is just right, the mane is perfect, everything's just so, and just beautiful, and then it says, the last 10 minutes of my message, when I realize I'm running out of time, and it's like, the rest of the horse is like, And so, we don't want to do that. We'll take our time, even if it means taking more weeks to get through it. So, we're at letter B here, the judgment of God upon the Gentile nations. And so, everybody know where we're at, like what we've done so far? So where we are in this lecture, the lecture is about the judgment, judgment of God, seven fold judgment of God. And we we looked at the judgment of God defined. We looked at the judgment of God in relation to believers. And in that area, we looked at past, present and future. And then we're looking at the judgment of God in relation to unbelievers. We looked at the judgment of God upon Israel, unbelieving Israel, right? That was last week. And then this week we are beginning the judgment of God upon the Gentile nations. And maybe, maybe we will continue to the judgment of God upon the unbelieving dead and maybe the judgment of God upon the angels. So how many is that? So we had past, present, and future judgment of the believer. We have for the unbeliever, Israel, Gentiles, unbelieving dead and the angels the seven seven judgments we're not talking about particular judgment like time and place we're talking about judgment groups so to speak so all right let's dive on in here so this judgment the judgment of God upon the Gentile nations is described in Matthew 25 verses 31 through 46 let's read That passage here real quick, Matthew chapter number 25 in your Bible. See, this is why I didn't have you stand for the reading of the text, because it's a few verses. Matthew 25, 31. When the son of man shall come in his glory and all the holy angels with him then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory and before him shall be gathered all nations and he shall separate them one from another as a shepherd divided his sheep from the goats and he shall set the sheep on his right hand and the goats on the left. Then shall the king say unto him unto them on his right hand come you blessed of my father inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. For I was in hunger and you gave me meat. I was thirsty and you gave me drink. I was a stranger and you clothed and you took me in naked and you clothed me. I was sick and you visited me. I was in prison and you came unto me. Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee and hungered and fed thee or thirsty and gave thee drink? When saw we thee a stranger and took thee in or naked and clothed thee? Or when saw we thee sick or in prison and came unto thee? The king shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me. Then shall he say unto them, On the left hand, depart from me, ye accursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was and hungered, and you gave me no meat. I was thirsty, and you gave me no drink. I was a stranger, and you took me not in. Naked and you clothed me not, sick and in prison, and you visited me not. Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee and hungered, or a thirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee? Then shall He answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these ye did it not unto Me, or to Me. And these shall go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into life eternal." Consider this, he says here, it is faulty exegesis to equate the throne of glory judgment with the great white throne judgment of Revelation 20 for the following reasons. Before we talk about those reasons, let's talk about some words. Any of you have any words in that statement that you'd like to understand what in the world he's saying? exegesis it is uh interpretation we'll just keep it real simple it's it's basically basically it's interpretation i i mean it's a little deeper than that but yeah for the most part we're talking about an interpretation or explanation or you know Yeah, so simple. We'll just keep it simple. So it's a faulty explanation or faulty interpretation to equate or make the same the throne of glory and the great white throne. They're not the same. So Matthew 25 and Revelation 20 are not the same. And here are three comparisons that shows us this. In Matthew twenty five it's the living nations in Revelation twenty it's the wicked dead. Right. In Matthew twenty five it says throne of glory in Revelation twenty it's the great white throne. In Matthew twenty five it's after the second coming and Matthew or in Revelation twenty it's after the millennium and not to mention. At the beginning of the passage It says. When the son of man shall come in his glory. And sit upon the throne of glory this is. His kingdom. This is pre kingdom age or at the beginning of the kingdom age. OK so the millennial kingdom. And we call it the millennial kingdom why. Anybody. because he rules for a thousand years. That's a millennium, right? It does not have anything to do with the generation that was born sometime in the 80s and through sometime at the end of the 90s. We're not talking about millennials. We're talking about the millennial kingdom. Not the kingdom of the millennials. Alright? Praise God for that. Amen. Amen. Man, I was ready to do do a little dance over that one. Amen. Praise the Lord. That's not not going to be the case for the Bella what you got. You aren't a millennial. It's okay. We're going there. Give it a minute. Give it a minute. Hold on. All right. In this judgment, all nations will be divided as sheep from goats on the basis of their treatment of, quote, my brethren. He's speaking of Israel. It says here, presumably during the events of Daniel's 70th week. Okay. Let's look at Joel 3 real quick here. Joel 3. Joel. That's on page 998 in my Bible. Probably not the same page for you. Daniel, Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah. So that will give you an idea of where it is. Joel chapter 3. Toward the end of your Old Testament, In verse two here, he says, I will also gather all nations and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage, Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations and parted my land. And then back in our other passage there, Matthew 25, in verse number 40, he says, and I'm just going to skip down to the part that it's referring to, "...inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me." So he's speaking there of his brethren according to the flesh. His brethren according to the flesh. You having technical difficulties again? No? Okay. Talking about Israel, yes. His brethren according to the flesh. He goes on he says it is evident some Gentile nations will back Israel when the Northern Alliance invades the promised land. Remember I mentioned something at the end after we went off of the live stream about a battle from the north. That's Ezekiel 38. It's always happening but is it the exact like. fulfillment of Ezekiel 38 I don't think so it may be a partial fulfillment or a shadow or a picture of a fulfillment like there's a bunch of that throughout history there are example after example after example of partial fulfillment or like a glimpse of a fulfillment like it's it's not being fully fulfilled but it's kind of like hey that that's kind of like you know it's it's a hint toward it Well let's look at Ezekiel 38.13. What? Oh, the part that was supposed to be not live. No, we talked about it, but I didn't, but I had to stop the live stream before I referred to outside sources. So, all right. Verse 13, Ezekiel 38 says, Sheba and Dedan and the merchants of Tarshish with all the young lions thereof shall say unto thee art thou come to take a spoil thou that hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey to carry away silver and gold to take away cattle and goods and to take a great spoil. Then it goes on to talk about Gog. And, you know, the battle of Gog and Magog that's mentioned at the end, like at the end of the, the very end of the Millennial Kingdom. It's not like new. There's gonna be, I believe, there's going to be a battle. They say Gog and Magog. That's basically Russia and Northern Europe. So, hey, we've got a thing here. Let's just real quick pull up a map. Would you look at that? We have a map. Come on. We have a scepter. No advertisement. I'm just going to show you the location. So, there we go. All right. So, Gog and Magog would be like this region here. A northern alliance, now this, there are some closer, because like Tarshish is like over yonder there. But a northern alliance is gonna be multiple countries of the north that are gonna come against Israel, okay? So that's the idea. I don't like that map for doing this. There's better maps for that. So yeah, there's stuff like right now, a northern alliance. Make this easier. I like doing this. This is fun. Need to get one of these for that one. All right. It's not Northern America. All right. Northern Alliance. So, what all is north of Israel here? a whole lot so Israel so here's Egypt this is the Mediterranean right Israel is the green part right there It's the lush green part among all this desert Okay, so you've got you got Israel right there little bitty Israel now what's north of Israel you got most of Iraq Syria Iran Turkey, you know Turkmenistan China is Uzbekistan Kazakhstan Greece is North Romania Ukraine Belarus Russia and you know, and then all these Northern European, you know, Finland, Sweden, Norway, all of that also. So a Northern alliance. Um, how many of these are going to be included? I don't know. I don't know. There are some that are directly mentioned, but we don't know exactly. So, um, so anyhow, this judgment is going to take place in the Valley of Jehoshaphat. I see. I'll show you the Valley of Jehoshaphat. So this judgment is right after the tribulation. So what's going to happen, I really should have downloaded Google Earth on this, it would have been awesome. So what's going to happen is, Jesus is going to come from way out here somewhere, and He's going to come in, and as He's coming in, Coming in here, coming in here, coming in here, coming in, coming in, coming in, oh, where are we going? Okay, coming in, coming in, and boom, right there. Okay, right here, about probably somewhere in this area right here, okay? Maybe he'll land right there, who knows? All right, so let's look at it 3D. Yeah, so this is the Mount of Olives here. So see the olive trees all over there? I don't know what that is, but all right. So look at this. What's that say? the Valley of Jehoshaphat. Well, it says Jerusalem. All right, the Valley of Jehoshaphat. I guess it won't show it but you can can you see the it's kind of small and green there. It gets smaller when I go. So the Valley of Jehoshaphat, where is that? That's you have the Mount of Olives right here and you have Jerusalem over here, right? It's the Temple Mount right there. All right, the Western Wall right there this is About right. There's the southern border and then it goes down into a valley here right there. You get the City of David there's this valley here that goes along and then down that way and then the northern border of the city there and then this is the eastern the eastern gate is right there and See? Right around here. Actually, maybe here. Can't really tell in this. You know, Google Earth does a little better job. But yeah, it's right around in there. And yeah, so this is supposedly Gethsemane, but Mount of Olives here, Temple Mount, when he lands on the Mount of Olives, it says it's going to cleave asunder and half will go to the north, half will go to the south. Come on. Half will go to the north, half will go to the south, and there will be a valley, a new valley made right through there. But he's going to stop Or maybe go back down right here to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. Right here. And they're going to have a little judgment. Now, here's my opinion. He'll be on his throne here. In the Old City. He'll be on his throne there. And he's going to gather all the nations. They're going to be in the valley. Alright, they'll be in the Valley of Jehoshaphat. I'm opening the Bible here. So that was Matthew 25, right? And that's verse number 31. And then I'm going to go down here to let's whoops. No, no, don't want to copy. All right. So, uh, Hmm. I was just curious. Anyhow, so, there's that. Anyways, he is, says here, the wicked are cast into hell, the righteous Gentiles will enter the millennial kingdom of Christ. Now let me ask you a question. Do you suppose that what it's saying here is that the... I'm helping you with your question, Brother Bella. Do you suppose that what it is saying here is determining heaven and hell for those during the tribulation based upon how they treated Israel? On the surface it looks like it, but no. how they treated Israel is based upon what they believed about Jesus so it's not just a direct if if he's if what he is saying is in order to go to heaven if you live into the tribulation in order to go to heaven you have to or in order to be in the kingdom and not go to hell because That, I mean, what was the alternative? What did he say to those on his left hand? He says, depart from me, verse number 41, depart from me ye cursed into everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels. In other words, those on his right hand go into the kingdom. Those on his left hand. Go to hell. Now. If what he is saying. If he is saying here that in order to not go to hell. You have to. Feed and clothe and visit. Jewish people in their distress during the during the tribulation. then what he would be saying is that during the tribulation, it's your works that save you from hell. That's not what he's saying. It's not what he's saying. What he's saying is, you didn't do these things. Now, in this passage, it doesn't say why they didn't do it. But we understand that if you compare scripture with scripture, everybody is saved by grace through faith. Not of works. Period. It doesn't change just because the tribulation started. And so, if you're watching this video and the tribulation has begun and you did not get raptured, you don't escape everlasting fire by finding an Israelite and doing these things. It's not a list of things you've got to do to escape everlasting fire. But it is a list of things that you will do. If you've trusted Christ. During the Tribulation. What will matter during the Tribulation to every Christian is? Israel, because that's what matters to God during the Tribulation. That's the primary focus during the Tribulation. I believe everybody who gets saved during the Tribulation is going to have a pretty clear knowledge of what's going on and who it's all about. It's kind of like, you know, here we are talking about, it's kind of like, you know, America gives Israel like special favoritism and things, right? Even if they do wrong things, we give them special favoritism. Why? Because they're God's chosen people. Now, does that mean that it's okay for them to do wrong things? No, but at the same time, they're our ally because We recognize them as God's people. Does that mean that we completely ignore any wrong that they do know we can certainly you know check them on that. But at the same time we recognize that the whole point especially during the tribulation is to woo God's people back to him. And so every Christian Gentile. During the tribulation everybody who gets saved in every Gentile that gets saved during the tribulation their ministry is to be a missionary to Israel. Every single one of them not necessarily the land of Israel but. His brethren. Jesus's brethren. That's what if if. If if somebody gets saved after the tribulation that's what the program is. The program for that seven years is God's pouring out his wrath on the world to woo Israel back to himself and and wooing Israel back to himself. And so during that time that's the program. And that's what Gentiles are doing, is trying to do right, live right, and be a blessing to Israel so that they can receive Christ. Not necessarily the nation. No, not necessarily the state. Yes These my brethren. Yes Mm-hmm. The Israelites. Yeah, and and it'll be the Gentile nations Some of the Gentile nations, you know, I personally now some people may disagree with this, but I personally believe that America is will probably still be here during the tribulation. I know people say well it's not in the Bible. America is not the Bible. No it's not. Neither is Russia Gog and Magog are. And there that's pretty much Russia. But you know other nations are mentioned. I think it's interesting and not necessarily don't take this and run with it but I think it's interesting that Israel during the tribulation is helped and carried on wings of an eagle. I don't know if it's just coincidence that America's main symbol is an eagle, but That's something to think about. That's all. But. Yeah, I mean, Revelation 12, I think it is. It's got it's got that mentions that in there. But anyhow, so that that judgment, the judgment of the Gentile nations understand that. No, Brother Bell, I know where you were going with that. It's not. They don't get saved by doing those things. And by the way, we like to apply those things today to anybody. Right. How many how many of you have have heard that it is the ministry of the church ministry of Christians to visit or to what's what was the specific statement here to give meat to the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, take in the stranger, clothe the naked, visit the sick and visit those in prison. That's where we get it. We get it right here. And it's not talking about the church today. It's talking about the Gentile nations during the tribulation. Now, is it wrong to do this stuff? No, it's good to do this stuff. It's good to do this stuff. But at the same time, you know, it's interesting that sometimes people put a major emphasis on it because it's right here. But it's really not talking about us. During this time, it's talking about the Gentile nations during the tribulation, but Nonetheless, these are good things to do. Even more so if it's Israelites because he's talking about his brethren. These my brethren. Yeah. That's a good point. She said if we do it now, if we believers do it now, and the younger generation that's coming after us, they see us doing it, and then say they didn't get saved, but they remembered us doing those things, then they end up getting saved during the tribulation. And they're like, hey, those are things that we need to do. Oh, yeah, it's right here in Matthew twenty five. And it's specifically in relation to us. Let's do those things because they're right to do. Right. I don't think that it's going to be. How many how many of you think that that that Christians with the right heart toward God have a major problem with doing these things? No. It's just kind of like, well, it's natural. We have a desire to do those things. Yeah. In general. Now, particularly Israelites, you know, but in general, yeah. So, that's the judgment of the Gentile nations. Should we do the next one or save it for next week? Save it for next week. Okay. All right. We'll have some q&a here. We can stay live as long as we don't get into anything too controversial. controversial stuff is for us only. Yes, sir. Yes. No, no, it's too late at this point for those. So, OK, let me let me give you the picture. Here we are today and this is a timeline here. OK, here we are today. Back over there on the other side of the wall, that's like, you know, 1,000 years ago, 2,000 years ago, you know, you get into the neighbor's yard, you're B.C. and, you know, all that, okay? So here we are today, and over there is, like, eternity future, all right? The New Jerusalem over there, okay? So here we are today, let's say, like, well, about right here, the rapture, all right? So not very far off, I don't think. I think the rapture's maybe, Personally, I mean, I'm making plans for the rest of my life. You know, the next 40, 50 years, if God gives them to me. But personally, I think it's probably going to be in the next 10 years. Maybe I'm wrong, but personally, that's kind of where I'm thinking. Okay, I'm not trying to set a date, just saying. It just seems like, yeah. So, rapture happens. Alright, so up we go. Right? All the believers gone. Seven years of tribulation, which by the way, seven years of tribulation in this timeline is that's it. Seven years over that far. I mean, it's you got, you know, it was a thousand years from here to there, you know, so seven years. It's like half a step. And so at the end of that seven years, Jesus comes back. Like I was saying, the Mount of Olives, right? We're coming back with him. So we will be at that judgment. We will not be subject to that judgment, but we will be at that judgment. We're going to see it happen. I picture us being behind him, you know, or somewhere or off doing some job that he gave us to do, right? So this is the dawn of the 1000 year reign of Christ during that time. So those of us that come back with him. He's kind of like, hey, get to work. Here's your job, here's your job, here's your job, go do your thing, right? And so we get our jobs, and we go do our thing, right? And we're off doing our thing, and while we're off doing our thing, the first couple weeks, whatever it is, or couple days, or maybe it's one afternoon, I don't know, he brings all the nations to the Valley of Jehoshaphat, and he separates the goats and the sheep, right? Now, let me back up a little bit. Yes. Let me back up a little bit. So, that's us. Israel, when he comes back, there will be some that are down in Edom, Petra, and there's going to be some that are in the city at that time when he comes back. They're going to see him coming, and they're going to receive him. They're going to run to Him, and they're going to trust in Him. The nation, like it says, a nation will be saved in a day. They're all going to believe in Jesus as their Messiah. And then, they're going to be put to work. Just like us. Hey, go ahead. Do you think? And then all the Gentile nations. There are no Jews in this judgment. It's all the Gentile nations. They come to be judged. And then those on the right hand. Hey, go ahead. Enter into the kingdom. Get to work. You know, go on out there. Do your job. You know, there are lots of other passages here that he'll say, OK, you've you've done you've been faithful in this. And so I'm going to there's your city and you've been faithful. There's your cities over there. And you've been OK. These are your cities over here. And you're going to manage these things. Right. And for those that were maybe a little less faithful, he's just say, OK, you're going to go over there. There's your city. There's your boss. You know, that kind of thing. So then. Those on the left hand. Off you go. Judgment. Negative judgment. Hell. All right. And then everybody does their thing for a thousand years. And then at the end of that thousand years, of course, during that time, the devil's bound in the bottomless pit. The Antichrist and the false prophet, they're in the lake of fire. And so during that thousand years, we're doing our thing at the end of that thousand years. Gog and Magog, the devil's released and Gog and Magog they have another northern alliance and they come down and they attack Israel. Israel at this point is holy and righteous and Jesus is ruling the whole world from Jerusalem. And they come down against Jerusalem and fire comes down from heaven and they're gone. And then there's the Great White Throne Judgment. And that's probably like kind of like this, this area here, right? Great White Throne Judgment. And then after that Great White Throne Judgment, which is all of the dead, are brought up to be judged for their final judgment and then cast into the lake of fire and then everyone else everyone who's been saved everybody who's come through the kingdom everybody who's who's been saved before that you know all along that way we had been with him on earth during that thousand years Now all of a sudden we turn around and there's a new heaven a new a new earth and new Jerusalem and then that's for eternity future on and on and on and on forever. So that's kind of the timeline. So this judgment it's over here on that timeline. So that's kind of. kind of where that takes place. So each time we, sometimes we'll have to do a refresher on the timeline. It's important to do that once in a while when we're going through eschatology or the study of end times, because there are those major points. Now there are a lot of little things that happen during that. tiny little seven years most of the Book of Revelations about that seven years. But it is only seven years. It's a real short time. Now you all know like the theory of relativity. It kind of comes into play here where for example as Brother Wilhelm has said there's you have the difference between spending an hour talking to your beloved or spending one minute with your hand on a hot stove. That one minute feels like it's a whole lot longer than that hour. And so that seven years, though it's only seven years, and for us, it's like the blink of an eye because we're in heaven and we see the stuff happening, but it's just, it's whatever. I mean, the reality is it's seven years, but seven years, like for us today, the teens are downstairs, so I can't really ask them right now, but for the younger, Seven years is a long time. Man, seven years. Seven years, long time. But yeah, when you get old, past 40, seven years, meh. Seven years, I'll be almost 50. Seems like a long way away, but it'll be here in just a minute. So that seven, you know, again, that seven years, it's gone, yeah. Yeah, so yeah, that judgment is after the end of the tribulation, right at the beginning of the millennial kingdom. Any other questions, comments, ideas? Yes, sir? Well, so God's chosen people and I don't just mean Israel, but God's people have always been rebellious all the way since the Garden of Eden. I mean, God's people. Like when I say God's people all people are God's people in a sense. But then you have from the Garden of Eden you have then you have Adam and Eve right. And they rebelled against God they were God's people they were the only people and they rebelled against God. And they were kicked out right. Then you have. People began to call upon the name of the Lord after Seth was born. And but then you had a whole bunch of bad stuff, right? And you had the flood. So God's people. God's people. all but Noah and his family rebelled against God. And then Noah and his family come off of the ark, and it's not even very long at all before Noah's kids are starting to mess up. And then, like 120 years after they come off of the ark, they've got this Tower of Babel thing. Messing up. Then, you know, they get over here to, this is a new timeline. They get over here to, you know, the, they set up their little areas and they spread out and stuff, right? And you have the, Mesopotamian region right with with Iraq area right and They're messing up. God says Abraham get up out of there Go over here, right and so God chooses Abraham Abraham goes over here And you know what stops in a city messes up goes to another city messes up You know he does some good things but he messes up. And so God's people all along the way. Have messed up. Right. And there there's been turmoil all along. And I don't say I'm not saying that just about Israelites because you know Abraham there he's the first Hebrew first one called Hebrew. And then we go on further and you have, you know, Isaac and Jacob and the twelve tribes, right? These are God's people. Now, after Jesus was rejected by the Israelites, God's people became his church. Now that hold on a second, because some people will take that statement and say, well, you know, the church replaced Israel. No, the church didn't replace Israel. Israel is still God's people. It's God's nation. The churches the Christians they're God's people in the sense that they're his children were part of the same family somewhat. Believing Jews are part of the same family. Unbelieving Jews are not part of the same family. Not yet. Not till they believe. Right. So all the ones who don't believe and they die in their sins though they're not in the family. But those who are around during the tribulation that believe they'll they'll be part of the family. Now. Back over here at today. The nation is the chosen nation of God. They are not following God. Now they may have some that are, but as a nation for the most part, they're not following God. Now that does not mean that everything that they do is wrong or that they should be rejected as a people. And on this whole Gaza thing. You know, it's really politically polarized. But the fact is, Israel was attacked. And the fact is, just like they have always done, Hamas and Hezbollah have always, if you've been around for any time and paid any attention whatsoever to the conflicts between Hamas and Hezbollah and Israel, you know If you're paying attention at all, you know that Hamas and Hezbollah purposely set up their their bases in civilian areas specifically and purposely in hospitals and schools where there are children and women so that when Israel retaliates on them, there are large civilian casualties. They do that on purpose because then they turn around and say, Israel is killing all our civilians. And then all of a sudden Israel is guilty of genocide. But they are firing rockets from the hospital. into Israel. So, and then you fire a rocket back to where the rocket came from, and it takes out civilians. But they always did leaflets and announcements to say, hey, we're coming to the area, all civilians need to leave. If you're still there, you're no longer a civilian, you're a part of the conflict. So they give that in Hebrew and Arabic and whatever languages they're speaking in that area. So that's not, I know we're still live, right? And I'm talking about what? Yeah, we're still live and I'm talking about some controversial stuff, but that's okay. So, but the idea is that, why is there so much turmoil? Well, you saw the map. Religiously. You know Israel. Being the people that God has chosen. Let's even take it further away from that they're not even with them not being religious. Did God make a promise about the nation of Israel. He did. He made a promise to Abraham. that that land would be his that that he would have a people nations that would be his. And made that promise to Isaac and to Jacob. And so. That promise that God made the devil has tried to. Keep it from happening right. God says there will always be my people now not always in the in the land but eventually back in the land and having it all and by the way it's not just that little sliver of land when when the kingdom comes and Jesus is ruling it'll be the whole world ruled from Israel which will be from the Euphrates River Iraq the middle of Iraq all the way to the Mediterranean and all the way from the like the north Area up there. It will include Syria and Lebanon and part of Turkey all the way down to the Red Sea including Saudi Arabia and part of Egypt and so all that area will be Israel and Then that'll be the capital of the world and all the rest of the world will will serve her with Jesus as the king so The turmoil, though, is because of man's sin. I mean, that's the simple answer. The sin of Israel, the sin of Hamas, that's what the turmoil is all about. Yeah I don't know that it's exactly Ishmael and Isaac's descendants but that's that's the common thought that it's Isaac and Ishmael the descendants there. It depends on as far as the genealogical discussion you have the children of Israel there. You know but the others you know they're still the Palestinians if they are. genealogically Palestinians, then they would be the Philistines, which would be the children of Ham and Canaan. So if that's the case, then that would be, you know, that would be who they were. Because Canaan land was the land of Canaan, the son of Ham. And if you remember, if you ever pay attention to the genealogies, if you remember Mizraim, which was one of the children of Ham also, Mizraim was the original name or one of the original names of Egypt. Phut, P-H-U-T, that was Ethiopia, right? So this is that, those were where they settled, right? And then you have Shem settling mainly in like Persia, Babylon, Persia area, kind of, you know, so you have but you had the children of Ham, including Nimrod, and, you know, so setting up like Syria and, or Assyria, and Babylon, and all of the different towns around there, you know. So the turmoil, It isn't just a blood thing right now. It's an ideology thing The ideology is what they're what what children are being taught in? the quote-unquote Palestinian Regions areas they're being taught that Israel and America are the devil like literally the devil They're being taught that that Israelis want to eat their children. I mean, they teach them very bad things about Israelites, about Israelis. But it goes the same the other way, too. There's a lot of propaganda on the Israel side, too. Still yet, there's this fight on that whole thing with trying to keep a foothold, and there are lies on both sides, but trying to keep a foothold in the land that God promised to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and then further and later confirmed to Moses. when they were going back into that land, right? And then Joshua and as they're setting up the land there, you know, you have the judges all the way through that and then, you know, with Samuel and then the kings and so on. So, much older than the present day groups. I don't think that the Palestinians are actually genealogically Philistines. I think they're probably, and I mean, this is without doing like DNA testing or whatever. They're probably, the people groups that are there, they're probably from Esau. Esau and Ishmael. Because you know, Esau married Ishmael's daughter. So that's, kind of how that mix ended up happening. Now, Esau was Edom, and Edom is actually going to be a safe place for Israel during the Tribulation, which is gonna be interesting. I believe Edom is either part of Jordan or part of Saudi Arabia, either southern Jordan or northern Saudi Arabia. So, I don't know, does that help answer that question? Alright, any other questions? Thoughts? Anything? We got like maybe two minutes. Alright. Comments? Complaints? Protests? Anything? Alright. My wife looks at me like, I've got a protest. No, I'm just kidding. All right, let's pray. Lord, we thank you so much for your goodness. Thank you, Lord, for the opportunity to talk about these things. The judgment of the nations. We pray, Lord, that as we look forward next week to looking at the judgment of God upon the unbelieving dead. Lord, may we have compassion that we might warn them. We pray, Father, that you'd bless our fellowship, the pizza, those that prepared it, all of that. Lord, we just pray that you would give us a very productive week, bring us back together on Wednesday for Bible study, Tuesday night for the youth center, and then the couples thing for those. Lord, we just pray that you'd bless your people, help us to be a light to this world, and help us, Lord, to be pleasing in your sight.