Amen. We're going to go ahead and jump on into our study. Pastor G, Brother Labone Gray has a digital copy of this whole book, but you can remind him. Oh, OK. Sorry, I see you taking pictures of stuff. I figure you're sending it to him, so. All right. Yeah, you can zoom in. All right. So we are on page 804. And Pastor G handed out some copies there. There's a couple more up here if you don't have one. Yeah, homework, you got to fill in all the blanks. What? What are you talking about? I have it all right here. You know what's nice about being the instructor? You get to pick which parts you emphasize, which parts you skip, and which parts you add. That's how that works. Yeah. So. Yes, he does. All right. Yeah. Oh, no, he doesn't have the book. He's got a paper. We handed him out. Oh, he's got a digital book. Yeah. Yes, sir. All right. All right. We're on page 804. We're continuing talking about the judgment of God or the seven judgments. And so not so far we've looked at in in earlier parts of the book or earlier not earlier parts of the book earlier parts of this lecture we looked at the judgment of God defined we looked at the judgment of God in relation to believers and that's what we've been dealing with that that was message two three four And now this one, five. Is that what we have for the title, five? Alright, I was going to say maybe I'm... What? Yeah, we're on main point number three, which is now shifting gears from judgment of the believers to judgment of God in relation to unbelievers. In relation to unbelievers. It's fine, brother, if you... That's fine, yeah. Amen, amen. We got, listen, we've got security around here, okay, it's okay. That's mainly for Sunday mornings, you know, it's fine. Hey, and with you sitting there, if somebody passes you and starts coming up here, don't worry, just tackle them, man. It's fine, yeah. we have pastor just for public service announcements just just for for for you to understand pastor g sits up here in the front usually just in case you know any of y'all get out of line or something and he can see you and get after it but That's right. Oh, OK. Alright, so on page 804 the judgment of God in relation to unbelievers. We're going to look here at his judgment upon Israel. Here first, so four of the seven judgments apply to mankind and or celestial beings. Two are national in context. OK, so. As we've what we've already looked at so far in relation to the judgment of God is we've I've gave you given you the overall Concept there, but we've looked only at judgment in relation to mankind from the perspective of believers, okay, or in relation to believers and so as we're looking now we're looking at unbelievers but particularly the nation of Israel so God's judgment upon the nation of Israel may be viewed as general and specific general and specific so let's look at the general here general judgment of God is currently called the times of the gentiles the judgment of israel began in 606 bc with the captivity of judah now some would argue the date The the dates that I learned when I was in Bible college a hundred years ago were 721 B.C. for the northern kingdom. That would have been Israel the northern kingdom was taken captivity by who. Nope. The Assyrians. And then the southern kingdom was in 586 B.C. According to Brother Sergeant 606 B.C. What's that? Twenty twenty some years difference. So. And that was Judah being taken captive by. Babylon. That's correct. That's correct. Some of y'all do your homework. You studied the Bible and you know, well, brother Wilhelm does anyways. Um and if brother Travis was in here, he would say he only knows cuz he was there and I'm just kidding. That's what brother brother Travis always picking at brother Wilhelm about about being older than him. So, That's because he was there and watched Adam name him. No, I'm kidding. So this period, the period known as the time of the Gentiles, refers to the time when no son of David sits upon the throne of David in the city of David, right? And Jerusalem is under Gentile dominion. Go to Luke chapter number 21. Write quickly. Not exactly. Luke chapter 21. verse number twenty four here it says and they shall fall by the edge of the sword and shall be led away captive into all nations and jerusalem shall be trodden down of the gentiles until the times of the gentiles be fulfilled now that is not that looks like on first Look, it looks like it's referring to the time of the Gentiles as future tense. It is. Referring to the time of the Gentiles ending. Or being fulfilled in future tense. That does not mean that it begins in future tense from this text. He's just referring to the time of the Gentiles in relation to its ending or its fulfillment. Does that make sense? OK so the time of the Gentiles began when God's focus kind of left Israel now some would argue that that the focus left Israel when they were taken captive by Babylon but some would argue that God still focused on Israel while they were in Babylon and there are many Old Testament books that would confirm that. So some would say well OK so the time the Gentiles would be after Israel returned but then rebelled against God and God was silent for four hundred years but God still perform miracles for Israel and then he sent Jesus. Right. So. The actual the time of the Gentiles beginning is disputed. It could be disputed that it happened A.D. 70 as far out as that or it could be disputed that it happened when Israel was taken captive by Babylon or when Judah was taken captive by Babylon. So. I would say that where I would land on that, I don't really make it hard fast. I'm okay with it either way, as far as that goes. I don't think that it makes a huge difference, as far as that goes. But it could be looked at as stages, if that makes sense. So Israel was beginning to lose its focal point when they were taken captive by Judah. And then instead of God focusing on I'm sorry by Babylon instead of God focusing on Israel as a nation or the Jewish nation he began focusing on individuals and so you have Ezekiel you have Daniel you have Ezra you have Nehemiah you have these prophets that God is dealing with in relation to Israel now they still prophesy to Israel. And so it could be argued again that God's still focusing on Israel even though he's taking them off into captivity. But he's dealing with them from that perspective now. And then like I said kind of like stages so they come back and there's this big revival right with Ezra and he stands on a pulpit of wood and he reads the word of God and everybody stands all day long right and they hear the the law read for I think it was three days straight. That's when he brought Israel back or Judah Judah the southern came so so to give you some context about when I when I keep saying Israel I'm using that in a general sense. So Israel is typically after after Solomon's reign. So Solomon was the son of David after he finished ruling Israel his son took over Rehoboam now Rehoboam kind of blew things apart. He said, well, part of it was because Solomon worshipped idols at the end of his life. And God said, I'm taking the kingdom from your son. And so Rehoboam, he comes and he says something really dumb to the people. He says, you know, my dad, you know, his my my my pinky finger is going to be bigger than his loins. And, you know, he chastised you with whips. I'm going to chastise you with scorpions. And You know, you thought it was bad under him. You thought it was hard under him. Just wait until you see how it is under me. And well, ten twelfths of the kingdom left him on that day. And they went with Jeroboam to the northern. They called that the northern kingdom or the kingdom of Israel. and the southern kingdom they called the kingdom of Judah because Judah was the family that David came from and that's the tribe that stayed with them now also included with the with the southern kingdom was Judah and anybody know what other tribe. Benjamin. Yes. And so you had Judah and Benjamin making up the southern kingdom and then you had now can all can anybody name the other 10 tribes. You had Reuben, and Gad, and Dan, and Naftali, and Zebulon, and Asher, and Levi. Well, Levi, Levi's kind of, they don't have their own space. So that would be, so I guess we would just name nine then, not Levi. Any others? I, I don't know. But I forgot. Ephraim, did I mention Ephraim? Manasseh they were so Ephraim and Manasseh were half tribes but they were considered full tribes in the sense that they they took one of them kind of took the space that Levi would have taken and Levi took the priesthood so so technically most of Levi would have ended up in the southern kingdom because of the the temple and you looked it up Ben no Benjamins we already mentioned Manasseh Naftali? Naftali? Yeah, I mentioned them. Issachar, that's one that I missed. Issachar. That's eight. I mentioned Zebulon. Who am I missing there? Huh? No. No, no, that's down, further down. He's of the Levitical tribe. yeah all right good enough you get the idea though the the kingdom was split in two and then the the the kings and the chronicles in your bible you're going to find that the kings and the chronicles and first and second samuel first second kings first second chronicles there they are chronicling the history of the kingdom of israel and when that split takes place they then chronicle the kings and their kingdoms on both sides so to talk about the king of Israel so and so he did evil on the side of the Lord and then he did what he did and then he died and then the next guy comes along and he did evil in the side of the Lord almost all of the kings of Israel did evil on the side of the Lord I mean Samuel Kings and Chronicles Yeah, and so a lot of that reading a lot of times people that's they call that flyover country so a lot of times you read in your Bible and they just fly over and it's like, you know, you just Kind of read it as fast as you can because there's a lot of names there but then once you get past the names it starts talking about the kingdoms and then it'll talk about the kings of Judah and it'll say that you know, so-and-so king of Judah he did evil on the side of the Lord and As and like in the northern kingdom, he'll say they'll say he did evil in the side Lord as his father Jeroboam and then Southern Kingdom, they'll say he did evil in the side of the Lord I'm not saying it exactly right but not like his father David, right and or he did good or he did well or he did how what was the term how's it how's it phrase it following the steps of his father david or something like that so he followed in the in that way and so you'll see that happening all along and so that split between northern kingdom israel and southern kingdom judea and then when they went off to uh so eventually Well, all along from the very beginning when they got into the promised land as one kingdom They didn't have a king right they had judges and during the time of the judges you find they they rebel against God God has one of the nations around them oppress them and then They cry out to God and say, help, help, help. And God sends a judge and the judge comes in. He preaches righteousness. He takes care of the enemy and then they're saved. And then for like 40 years or the rest of his life, they're good. But then he dies and they mess up again and they start serving idols and all this. lets them be oppressed again, and then they say, help, help. And then God says, OK, and he raises up another judge. And it happens all over again. And it happened over and over and over and over again for for more than 400 years. And then when Samuel was born, they followed God during Samuel's life and he was considered a judge. He would have been a judge and a prophet or a seer. And during his life, they followed and then when they when he got close to the end of his ministry Israel said hey you know we want a king all these other nations they have kings we want a king and then they got who king Saul right and so you had king Saul then you had king David and then Solomon and then Rehoboam and Jeroboam split the kingdom and then you have northern and southern After they messed up a whole lot, you know, they kept dealing with, you know, you had the Philistines that they were dealing with all the time, all the time. Or some would say Palestinians, Philistines. But they were dealing with that problem all the time, all the time, all the time, all the time. Well, typically they would be under oppression from outside nations whenever they're disobeying God. and then when they would obey God they would they would rule over the outside nations and they would expand and they would have peace and things would go well so eventually the northern kingdom gets taken away by a Syria if you remember the book of Jonah it's related because Nineveh is a major city in a Syria and the reason that Jonah didn't want to go was because his father and grandfather's generation had been heavily oppressed by the Assyrians. And he was like, I am not going. He was holding a grudge. And so that's why he didn't want to go to Nineveh. That's why God says, hey, go to Nineveh. He's like, I'm going the other way. That's right. So. So anyhow, then. So they go off to Syria and they never really returned. Well, when the ones returned that did return, they returned as they had intermingled with the Assyrians. And so the Assyrians and the northern king, they had intermingled. And so when they came back, they came back with children that were Jew and Gentile, both. And so they were they were they were called Samaritans. So when you look at when you find the New Testament the Samaritans you'll see that you know these Samaritans are looked at differently because they're not pure Jews. OK. So then the southern kingdom they had gone off to the off to Babylon and then they did return. they did return and they set the temple back up and they set up the wall right and all of that in the city of Jerusalem they set it all back up and then you find that God regularly reprimands them through prophets all throughout the next hundred and 10, 115 years, something like that. And in the last prophet there, Malachi, God's like, well, I told you, I told you as much as you can be told before, before I come myself. Yeah. And so about 400 years there's no prophecy of the scripture given. There are some historical books during that time. There are some uprisings during that time you have the kingdom of the Greeks that come in and you have the the you know Alexander the Great and all that and then you have the four sub kingdoms of Greece that that took over the major players between the the the those two you had Antiochus and you had Who was the other one. So lucid. And so you had them kind of fighting their border land was right along Judea and so they would be fighting so one would take over and then the other one would take over and the Jews kind of they had they had the bad part of that they were they were middle middle men so to speak. So then Jesus comes along. And along this time, he makes this statement of the time of the Gentiles. All right, so this time of the Gentiles had been in full swing to a certain extent, but of course, as we were mentioning in was it in Sunday school or it was in Sunday school this morning, I mentioned how. how you know you have the Roman rule that came along about sixty three B.C. and and then they have that Pax Romana which is taking place. Oh shortly before Jesus is born. And so during that time, you have the Greek occupation thrown off. And a lot of times when Rome would come in and take over an area, the people that area would would welcome them because they had heard things about you know peace and prosperity and things related to Rome as opposed to all the turmoil that was going on with Greece because when Alexander the Great took over everything he left it to his generals and his generals were constantly vying for power and when they're constantly vying for power everybody under them just suffered They were trying to get property and they were trying to get control and everybody under them suffered. In fact if you read in the history of the Maccabees Antiochus Epiphanes he comes he actually he actually invaded the temple on a pig. and sacrificed it on the altar in the temple. And a lot of people thought that that was the abomination of desolation. And in fact, a lot of people look at that and say that is the abomination of desolation. But it's not the one that the Antichrist is doing. But it's a picture of the one that the Antichrist is going to do. And so a lot of these things going along. I know. Sorry, you get me into history and we just go into history. But we're talking about the time of the Gentiles. The time of the Gentiles is a major aspect of it's a major aspect of the judgment of God on Israel and that's what we're dealing with today is the judgment of God upon Israel and so whenever the Gentiles were ruling Israel was suffering under their rule you had you know It's mentioned there Gentile nations and those referred to in Daniel chapter 2 and chapter 7 of whom I mentioned some right Babylon we talked about Babylon the Medes and the Persians took over after that and they also oppressed Israel and then you had and but the Medes and the Persians were the ones who released Israel from from from the the the captivity and they go back to their land well after that there's another king that raises up and that's Alexander the Great and he takes over the the the that region of the world at that time and there's that right you remember in Daniel chapter two the image that King Nebuchadnezzar had a dream about right you had the head of gold that's Babylon then you had the Medes and the Persians and then you had the Greeks and then you had the Romans right and then you had the broken up Roman kingdom which we see today but all along that time who's not on top who's not in rule Well Israel's not as far as kingdoms as far as as far as nations Israel's not it's the time of well Babylon is are they Jew or Gentile Babylon they're Gentile the Medes and the Persians Gentile the Greeks Gentile the Romans the Americans you know, et cetera, right? We're Gentile, right? I mean, you get down to the feet and you're talking about, you know, America and Russia and China and, you know, all the major powers of the day. But actually, there's a whole, yeah. so that I mean the Roman Empire it ended up with two legs right you had the eastern and the western and then as it broke down into the feet you know you had Britain and Spain and Portugal and those were major powers for a while and and France and then and Germany rises up and then you have you have all this stuff going on right and here we are a couple thousand years later still in the time of the Gentiles but when that time is fulfilled Israel comes back into rule and that won't happen till after the tribulation when Jesus comes back. But the time of the Gentiles is is a judgment on Israel. And as he says here Jerusalem literally means the city of peace. Ironically it has known very little peace. Right? Y'all y'all know the reason it's known as the city of peace is because the name means peace. Salem means peace. Yeah. Brother Bella, what you got? It means exactly what it sounds like. Anybody have a sack? No. Let me borrow your hat there. Let's pretend that this is a sack, right? And if I, let me borrow that for a second. If I sack her pencil, what did I do? I took it away. I bagged it and took it away, right? I sacked it, right? When Israel got sacked, they were bagged up and hauled off. Sorry. I don't have lice on my hands. I'm just kidding. What? Are you guys skipping ahead? Come on now. Yes. To this date, today, it has been sacked, he says here, 27 times. That's the city of Jerusalem. Now, he doesn't mean literally sacked. That's the term that kind of It refers to being taken over, being taken. Does that make sense? Some would say besieged is taken. Some would say when everybody's removed, it's taken. I mean, there's been a bunch of different ways that they've been sacked. Yes, sir. Yeah. It was raised and then it was raised and then it was raised again. So they raised it. And then after they were let and they were taken off to Babylon and then there they came back and they raised it. The other type of raised and then an 80 70. It was raised again. The other kind of raised right. or or what happens when you lose your job that's right yep they throw you in a bag and throw you out right so number two man long time on that but the times of the gentiles are a long time and that's a phrase that's mentioned a lot how many of you understood to the extent that I explained it today before I explained it, what the time of the Gentiles was. Anybody? All right, Brother Terry, he knew all about it. The times of the Gentiles, I mean, there's, that's the point, right? That's the point. Uh-oh. That's the point, to go into that stuff. Y'all realize history is a big deal. I know a lot of times we look at history like, oh, why we got to listen to this stuff about all this stuff that happened in the past? Because it all fits together. It all fits together. And you might say, well, how does pastor know those things? Y'all ever watched a movie before? Me too. Look. That's a real good long movie right there. You know if you if you look at the at what's going on the Bible. Just like you do any other epic or any other. Series or what what's the word that that they talk about when they talk about the this this guy and his the. Like when they do the Vikings and they talk about their. Not not not chronic. No, no that like they're yeah, like they're tales but like there's a word like when you talk about one particular Viking and you're like this guy's The saga there you go. Yeah, so it's like the sagas of Israel, right? and you if you if you look at the Bible bless you if you look at the Bible and you and you you dig into it like you're you're trying to see how did they get where they are today and And it's more than just I'm reading because I got to read. But you're like, what was going on in in Saul's head as the king of Israel? What made him think? And you look at these things from the perspective each each quote unquote story in your Bible is a real life account. It's actually it happened. And there's a lot of things that we don't know. You know. Like we know some things about David, right? We know that he fought a bear and a lion with his bare hands. We know that he took out Goliath of Gath. We know about his. We know his saga, right? But we don't know everything about all of the all of the aspects of. Sheep herding that he did when he was a shepherd for his father. We you can study into what it means to be a shepherd in biblical times and you can learn some of those things in the harsh weather that they dealt with and how you know sheep wander and you got to go get them and sometimes they wander off and there's a lion. And it's got them right. You got to fight a lion. Sometimes they wander off and they're hanging off the side of a cliff and you got to protect them. Do you guys realize that that it was a common thing that if a sheep was prone to wander and it wandered all the time that they the shepherd would take that sheep and break its leg so that it had to stay with the shepherd all the time and the shepherd would literally carry that sheep on his shoulders until the leg healed. And then you know what, when the leg healed and the sheep was able to go, he never wanted to leave the shepherd because the shepherd was there holding him while he healed that whole time. And so, of course, he doesn't want his leg broke. but probably more of what he remembers is less about his leg being broken more about the shepherd caring for him and carrying him and being close to him all that time right and there's all these things throughout the word of God that you you just it's so rich and the history is his story So it's important to grasp on that now. I don't remember everything. There's a lot of stuff I don't remember things that I don't remember right that's why I ask you guys sometimes and then who did what now and or Who are the who are the characters here, right? We start talking about you know, Reuben and and all the other sandwiches and so What's that? That's right. That's right. I need my legs broke sometimes. And so this is this is a general judgment the time of the Gentiles. But you have these. It's God allowing it really. When you look through and you see. Think about for example the split of the kingdom of Israel. And this is how it's a general judgment I know where I really usually I try to get done by this time but we're going to carry on a little bit. But think about this. It's called a general judgment because it's often. Actually simply the actions of Israel. Bearing out. In reality. It's not necessarily God directly. Going after think about this the split of the nation the split of the nation you had Remember the two main players remember what their names were The the Kings No, no Jeroboam and Rehoboam Rehoboam's the son of Solomon Jeroboam was Solomon's enemy Jeroboam had fled. The land. To Egypt. Because there was a problem between him and Solomon. And Jeroboam went to Egypt and God protected him there. Because he was coming back to take the kingdom from Solomon by taking the kingdom from his son. Isn't it interesting that before long before Rehoboam was going to take over the kingdom God had this whole thing not that God was orchestrating it all directly but indirectly there was this whole thing going on where this Jeroboam was he if he would have been in Israel during the time of Solomon he would have been executed but he went off to Egypt and he was protected and then he comes back right after Solomon dies and if you read the story Jeroboam is the one who raises up the elders of Israel to question Rehoboam about give us a break and so that split and the punishment of Solomon and Rehoboam was actually simply the results of the actions of Solomon in his life. It wasn't like God just got in there and twisted it all up. No it was just God letting man be man and do what they do. And it resulted in the judgment of Israel. You think about the things that happened with the Philistines. They just wanted their they just wanted some land there. Right. And so they would fight and take their property take that property and they would occupy and whatever. And then you'd have the fights back and forth. You think about the captivities. I mean whole nations y'all realize that that Syria was built by Nimrod in Genesis chapters at ten. Ten eleven there. You had major cities of Syria were. Were. Damascus. Later Damascus. Nineveh Babel. Right, not Babylon, Babel. Babylon was further south in the Iraq, Babylon area. What's the city called there? The capital of Iraq? No. Anyhow Baghdad there you go yeah so that would have been the city and then the region would have been Iraq so. But a lot of times these things are these major things that are happening. Remember how God called Nebuchadnezzar his servant. Now he called Nebuchadnezzar his servant. Before Nebuchadnezzar knew God. Why. Because Nebuchadnezzar was carrying out. The mission of punishing Israel. By the way Babylon suffered because they punished Israel. And part of that was, again, man just being man. You had the Medes and the Persians come in and say, we're in charge now. They actually went under the wall where the river goes under. Crazy. Sent their whole army under, like, stopped up the river and went under the wall. where the river is at night and took him out and remember that here's the interesting thing. Remember the handwriting on the wall. the hand the literal hand came out of the cup not not the thing from the Adams family but the the actual hand in the Bible and it wrote on the wall meanie meanie tickle you Farson right and so it said your weight in the balances and you've been found wanting and they come in and they say Daniel we need you to interpret this writing on the wall and he comes in and he interprets it and he says this is the grandson of Nebuchadnezzar or his son the term son could refer to biblically it could refer to any descendant in that sense so it's a grandson of Nebuchadnezzar and he's saying look you know what what's going on right now when when this handwriting happens on the wall they've taken they're celebrating but they've taken the things of the temple and they're drinking they're getting drunk and they're partying and they are worshiping idols this is the babylonians they're worshiping idols with god's things And then God says, you're done. And so Daniel comes in and he interprets it and he tells him, you're done. And not only are you done, but tonight you're done. And while they're in there partying, their city had already been taken. They had already come under the wall. And they come in, and guess what? Daniel gets to stay in a high position there with Darius and so on, right? That's right. He saw the handwriting on the wall and he was done that night. So but the all of these general judgments often just simply had to do with man responding being man. Man being the wicked vile wretch that we are right and and it's it's the it's the cause and effect factor right. We all suffer the consequences of cause and effect in this life right. You know I do. I don't wanna like speak negatively of my earthly father, but whenever I have to fill out like medical paperwork, like for life insurance or whatever, they ask you, you know, did any of your parents die prematurely? And I say, yeah, my dad. And they say, why? And I say, cancer. But then I always write in their lifestyle. Because this cancer was directly related to his choices. Right? And those are things that now, not all cancer is directly related to choices, but it's important to note when it is because choices don't always follow genetics, right? And so that doesn't mean that I'm gonna get it because he got it, because his choices brought him to that situation. But just the same choices we make every day bring us to the opportunities and the rewards both positive and negative that we receive every day, right? There are choices that we make, right? When the Cheez-Its are there and I have the opportunity to grab a handful and shove them in my mouth and eat those and then feel like I got hit by a truck the next day, I have the opportunity to make a choice. And when I choose to do it, I suffer the consequences. And when I choose not to do, y'all, I never thought about that. But if I eat a handful of Cheez-Its, I feel like I got hit by a truck the next day. I don't know. I don't, and you know what? I'm not saying Cheez-Its are bad for you. They're just not good for me, okay? But I was just thinking about that today. I was like, oh, she's got the Cheez-Its, you know? Better not. And so, like, when she's got the Cheez-Its out, I get a container of mixed nuts, and I can eat those and not die. So, but we make choices and they, then we get to receive the reward of our choices. And so, yeah, what you sow, that you also reap. And that's what Israel deals with from a general judgment. But then, there's a specific judgment. A specific judgment. Daniel's 70th week. The Great Tribulation occurs the 70th week referred to in Daniel 9.27. As he says 70 weeks are determined upon thy people, right? And then that last week it hasn't happened yet This is also known as the time you're gonna have to look up the verses on your own because I want to I want to cover this But we're moving into later time that I wanted to be Jeremiah 30 verse 7 there speaks of a time of Jacob's trouble and and. It's the subject of chapter 6 through 18 in the book of Revelation. That's the tribulation. Now God's pouring his wrath out on the world during that time, but Israel is receiving direct judgment of God and they are being prepared for something. It says here, while this period of divine judgment affects all men left on the Earth after the rapture, It is primarily designed to bring the nation of Israel to an end of itself. Not to destroy the nation or to end the nation, but to bring the nation to an end. And the end is preparation for national acceptance of Jesus as the Messiah when he comes. And so lots and lots of scripture for that. You all have the paper and for those of you online you'll have to. Pause and write it down and play and pause and write it down. OK. Ezekiel 20 verses 34 through 38 Ezekiel 22 verses 19 through 22 Isaiah 66 verses 7 and 8. Daniel 12 1 Hosea 3 4 and 5. That's chapter 3 verses 4 and 5. Zechariah chapter 13 verses 8 and 9 chapter 12 verse 10 and chapter 14 verses 2 and 3 so we talked about the judgment of God on Israel really quickly we we have still about seven minutes where we can have a little bit of Q&A Any comments or questions or anything in relation to what we've talked about? I know maybe some of that history was like drinking through a fire hose, or drinking from a fire hose. The elders? Typically, the elders pick the elders. Yeah, typically, the elders would train younger people to become the elders. And so they would line them up that way. The first set of elders that were chosen, Moses picked. Yes, sir. A lot of them were from pirates. I mean, statues. Yes sir. A lot of them did. A lot of the nations around Israel worshipped idols and when Israel would learn the way of the heathen and worship idols themselves they would suffer the consequences. Oddly enough it would be the nations around them that are worshipping idols that would bring the oppression on them. It's it's crazy how often times God's people will be oppressed by the wicked. By the people who aren't God's people. And God will use that as punishment. Even though they're not, you know, technically His people that are punishing His people. Pastor G? Well, historically, I believe the last time, Brother Wilhelm would be able to tell you the last time Jerusalem was sacked. There you go, 1967. No, being sacked means it was like, It was overturned, it was completely, the occupation changed. Leadership, control, all of that changed. And in some cases, buildings completely removed to the ground. And so sacked, typically we're talking about like, The whole city is emptied and new occupants are put in or the whole city is empty there there's a scattering of everybody that's there and I mean that's a pretty major thing you realize that many times his note there said twenty seven times everybody who lived in Jerusalem was removed from the city. Now, sometimes there would be exceptions like, okay, you're staying, you're staying, but as far, for the vast majority of the people, the occupants of the city, completely removed. That's a big deal, really. Sir? Yeah. Yeah. So. Yeah. So. So, I mean, he just said 27 times that I I'm not exactly sure where he gets the numbers 27 times. Not all of that is biblical. Some of it's like after Bible times, right? Like A.D. 70 was one of the times. Right, well, oh, well, from the time he wrote this to now, probably hasn't happened again. He wrote this, I believe, it was finished 1990, was the last copyright in the copy that I have, but it's probably been updated a few times since then, but there hasn't been a sacking of the city of Jerusalem in our lifetime, well, most of our lifetimes. Some of you that were born before 1970, there was probably, you know, it would have been maybe once in your lifetime. But if you think about, like, you had the Ottoman Crusades through there, you had the Roman Crusades through there multiple times throughout history, just over the last 2,000 years. You have it overturned and overturned and overturned and overturned. We're not just talking about, like, Israelites being removed from the city. We're talking about, like, in A.D. 70, Israelites were removed from the city, and who took over? The Romans. Right? And then, later on down the line, and I don't have all the history of it, but later on down the line, you have another group coming in, taking it over, right? The Ottomans, right? Muslim, the Ottoman Empire there. You have them taking over. And then you have Rome taking over again. And then you have Ottomans taking over again. Yeah, I mean, all of these different things going on. All these things going on over the last 2,000 years. Not always. Most of mankind has recognized Jerusalem to be a sacred site, regardless of their religion. It's typically recognized as the Holy Land. You know, Catholics have taken it over, Muslims have taken it over, Jews have taken it over. I mean, it's, there's like, and then even secular interests have taken it over. You have superstitious secular interests. You know, during World War II, you had Nazi Germany trying to take it over. I mean, there's all that, you know, trying to find relics and different things and stuff. There have been so many things that, where it's, where there's just so much overturn of that city. It's not always religious, but often it is. Sometimes it's political, sometimes it's religious, but it's considered a very important site regardless of who you're talking to. Sir? Huh. That would not be That would not be surprising if Magog had its eye on Israel. because it's prophesied that they're going to have their eye on Israel and some some believe that there will be an attack from the north. Before the before the tribulation. And I don't know. I haven't dug real deep on that. If you. Are we still alive. We're just rambling on you can cut the live feed so I can say some.