God's eternal purpose. That's what we're talking about here. You look on the map. This is what you call a dispensational map. And you look here all the way to eternity past. God planned everything that's happening in the world today in eternity past. Now, He has allowed mankind a lot of He's on a rope. He's on a leash. And the devil is too. He can go so far. But, back in eternity past, he knew what we would do in time and space. And that's why he wrote things down as they happened. As he saw they would happen, that is. God created man, put him in the garden. He was innocent. He gave him the ability to sin. And he also made a provision that that sin could be overcome In other words, he would not go separated from God forever, but God would bring him back, bring man back to him through his Son. Nothing that any human being will ever do will ever get you to Heaven, except accepting Jesus Christ as your Savior, asking Him to save your soul and forgive your sins, and trusting in Him. All the way down to the curse of death, We have the Age of Conscience, we have the Flood, we have the Age of Human Government with Noah. That failed. Failed so badly that the Earth was Pangea or Godwanna. Earth was on one side dry ground and on the other side was water. And he divided the Earth in that day and confused the languages actually first and then divided the Earth. And that's how the continents in America were here. They split off from the Pangea and they divided in the earth. Then we have the oceans. We have the Atlantic, we have the Pacific Ocean, etc., etc. We have God calling Abraham out. Abraham never received the promises of God, but he believed God. Because in the end, God would give him all of what he promised. We have Isaac, we have Jacob. We have the 12 tribes of Israel. We have Israel today. We have the law of God. Israel went down into Egypt. They were down there for 400 years. And then God called Moses to bring them out of Egypt. He gave them the law. The law was supposed to tell mankind how vicious and evil we are. The law tells you how bad you are. That's it. I know, I went to a church when I was young. My grandmother had gotten killed. I was acquainted with them before that. My grandmother went to that church with me a few times. The one that raised me now, the grandmother was my mother, basically. And they gave me a Bible, and I read it. And boy, that Old Testament, I was just absolutely terrified. I was going to hell, and there was no way in the world out, and I was a young man. I hadn't really done a whole lot of bad things, you know. But anyway, when I got to the New Testament, I saw the promise. I didn't understand all about it, but I got to Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. Boy, that was a whole lot better news than what Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy were. That was a different thing. Anyway, that pointed man to Jesus. The Jews should have seen their delinquency, their inability to keep that law, except they became so pious and so proud that Jesus gave probably a story, not a parable. They call it the parable of the Republican and the Pharisee. I think it actually happened. Anyway, the Pharisee was standing on the corner, street corner, praying out loud, thanking God that he wasn't born a woman. that he wasn't born a Gentile, and that he wasn't a sinner, that he fasted and did all this kind of stuff, telling God how good he was. God doesn't want to hear that. God wants you to tell him how bad you are and how good he is. Simple as that. Well, then the publican there, which was a downcast society, they were rich, most of them, but the publican was a tax collector. A publican is an old word. So this tax collector, he wouldn't even raise his eyes up to God. Have mercy on me, I'm a terrible sinner. And God said, which one of these went home justified? The sinner did, not the Pharisee. God wants you to admit your sins to Him and to call upon Him to save you. It's supposed to point them to Christ, but instead they crucified Messiah. They did not keep the law. They were dispersed, they rejected Christ, and they were dispersed throughout the world. Few of them stayed in the land. The land over there, the land of Canaan, it's not Philistine, it's not Palestine, it's the land of Canaan. Canaan. Canaan means possession. And the reason why it's called possession is because it's going to be Israel's possession. Nobody else's is Israel's, because God gave it to them. Now, still today, the mass part of Israel is still not believing in Messiah. They still want to hang on to the law, and they want to go back and build a temple, and they want to do all these sacrifices and everything. But all that was supposed to point them and mankind to Jesus. Now, when Jesus started His ministry, He went down by the seashores of Galilee. You know, the first miracle that he did is he turned water into wine at that wedding. And the disciples and his mother were all amazed at his powers, what disciples he had at that time. Then he started calling his disciples out, what you call disciples, but they were actually church members. He called his church out, the word church, eglesia, in Spanish, Kerk in German. In English, it's church, but it should be translated assembly. He started calling his assembly out in his life. He placed apostles in that assembly already. They had a church clerk. They had a church treasurer. The treasurer was going to be no good. That's the one that betrayed him. But here's the church is now. And in Matthew 16 and 18, we have a kind of a controversy there with the disciples. And Jesus said, who do they say that I am? And they said, well, one of the prophets, Moses, whatever, you know. And he said, well, Peter, who do you say that I am? Who do you say them? Peter jumped up and he said, you are the Christ, the son of the living God. He said, well, he said, the synagogue didn't reveal that to you. The rabbis and all this, it was revealed from your father in heaven, revealed it to you. And he said, Peter, I'm gonna tell you something. You're a little stone, Petros, but upon this gigantic foundation stone, me, I shall be building my church And the gates of hell shall try to wrestle her down, but the gates of hell shall not do it, be able to do it. And then he gave that church that the church was him. And he said, you, the church will not, those people there, that church will not be destroyed. Matthew 28, 18 through 20, and all this happened before this now, okay? This is leading up, this is a church book, the church chapter, the third chapter of the church chapter of the Bible. All this church leading up, the church followed him into Jerusalem. He instituted the Lord's Supper. He set aside the Passover and instituted the Lord's Supper and put a replacement of it. In the Jewish family, the family was a family unit, and the family unit worshiped God. And each family was supposed to train their little children up and teach them what all this was. And there on the hill, they'd say, They teach a little child, why do we do this? And they said, because. And then the elder in the family would say, we were in Egypt. And that's the exodus, when they left Egypt. And that's what the whole Passover is about. Except, also, they have forgiven us of sins. And this is what, it was a training, the family unit was a training that God took away from the Jewish family and he established his church. And the church is supposed to teach the children the way to go. And each and every member of that church, mothers, the fathers, whatever, they are supposed to bring them. And that's why we have Sunday schools and all the things we have today to teach them about the Lord and how important serving the Lord is and trying to further His kingdom in the world today. 3 in 10 is a fantastic verse here. When Jesus went to the cross of Calvary, His sheep scattered. But He said, meet me in Galilee. So He went and met them in Galilee, and they went back, and then He went up to the Mount of Olives, the last thing in Acts, the first chapter there, it says the disciples, the church members, were there. The church was already there. The Day of Pentecost is not the birthday of the Church. The birthday of the Church is when He called it out in Galilee. What happened on the Day of Pentecost is that the Holy Spirit came down as the Comforter, the Paraclete of the Church. And it guided the Church, but it indwells each individual saved person. The Holy Spirit indwells each saved person. but it guides the church as the one that would lead them into all truth. Through the Holy Spirit, they would receive the New Testament. They didn't have the New Testament at that time. They didn't have the Gospel as far as we have the four Gospels. That was all a blank page at that time. Then God, through His disciples and His churches, would write the New Testament. And here, God has given instructions to the Church, to the Apostle Paul. 310 now. Now, The church is very important. From the New Testament letters we find out that in the judgment, the great white throne judgment, the church will help Jesus Christ judge the angels. Did you know that? The church of Jesus Christ will help the Lord judge the angels. And all of this whole chapter here tells us about this. It says, in order that, that hena there, the little conjunctive, he might cause to be made known, third person singular, first heiress, subjunctive, passive voice, comes from Genozo and Gnosko, actually. He might made known now, now, that little adverb of time there, now, to the rulers, and the authorities, to our case, the heads of all the countries, and to the authorities, these are the ones in the governments, we have a head of the government, we had kings and princes and generals and whatever back then, but then under him were other people, but to the rulers and to the authorities and upon heavens. Now, every nation, every nation has angels over it. If you see a nation, it has either good or bad angels over it. Every nation does. And every war, there are angels there in that war. Now, we're jumping ahead, but during the war, well, all the wars that Israel had since May the 14th, 1948, there have been some miraculous battles. Miraculous battles. I have different tapes and videos of generals saying what they saw during those wars. The enemy, they would have just one tank or whatever. They have one bullet. They have one bullet, one shell. That's all we got, one bullet. And God would make that bullet find its mark. And then they would see, the enemy would see great amounts of armies out there. There wasn't anybody. But they would see armies out there. And people testified to this during those wars. God is going to protect that nation. Look at what's happened here in the last, since October of the year that, what, October the 7th I think it was or something, 8th, whatever it was. when Hamas attacked Israel. They captured all those people. They captured tourists over there. There's American, what we call prisoners, everything. They beheaded babies. They tortured people to death. They starved them to death. Horrible things that they did. The word Hamas means violence. Hamas is a barbaric people. There are barbaric people, there are barbaric, there are heathens, there are barbaric. They say there's a religion. They say that they're very, very highly religious people. They will die for what they believe. But the gods that they worship are not the gods of the Bible. Not the God of Heaven. It's a God of violence. They worship violence, they worship terror. You see these rulers and different ones. Now, what angels? Do you think angels are behind them? Sure, that's what the Bible teaches. There are demons and angels behind all of these nations. Even Israel has got... Do you know who the main angel over the nation of Israel is? Do you know who that is? That's Michael the archangel. He's over protecting Israel. Michael the archangel. Now, there are many other angels, we can name some. We know of some in the Bible, even the book of Enoch tells us some of the names of the angels. Angels are out there and demons are out there, guiding and inspiring people to do different things. I think America has angels over it. Boy, I tell you what, not too long ago, I tell you, I didn't think there were any good angels over this country. I've got a little more hope now. I just pray that everything works out. Rulers and authorities. On the earth, there's a counter authority in heaven. There are spiritual forces in every way. It tells us that in the second chapter of the book of Ephesians also. is that he might make known to the rulers and to the authorities in the heavenly, in the upon heavens, epi-uranos, ha-shamayim in Hebrew, in the upon heavens, in the up heavens, by the agency of the church. The church will, the true New Testament churches that have come down to the ages, A true New Testament church is going to come down to the ages. The Catholic Church was a true church at one time. Well, let's put it this way. The Catholic Church was never a true church. But what became the Catholic Church, they were true churches at one time. The Catholic Church came into existence in 325 A.D. with Constantine. He named the church Catholic. The Universal Church. The church and the state became one. The Catholic Church began to imitate Judaism. The Catholic Church started dressing up their priests like the priests of Israel. Look at the Pope today and all the cardinals and the bishops and archbishops and all of that. Look at all of them. They're all dressed up like the priests of the Old Testament. They started imitating that. They started imitating that they can forgive sins. They cannot forgive sins. No one can forgive sins except Jesus Christ through His blood, through the Father. You have a right to pray to God the Father through Jesus Christ and ask for forgiveness of sins by His blood, not by anything else. Now it says here that the church is going to make known all the Word of God to the world. Islam, starting over here, 700 A.D., Islam has confused the world. The Catholic Church has confused the world. Look at how the Catholic Church confused theology. There was an evolution of theology in the Catholic Church. We have baptismal regeneration. We have infant baptism. We have a church in the state becoming one. We have baptism established by law. If you had to become a member of the church in the state, and you did that, they baptize babies, except you're only supposed to baptize believers, so you had to have a godmother and a godfather to make a testimony that they would raise the child, make sure the child raised in the church catholic, the holy church, and that they will be taught, you know, whatever. Because a baby cannot confess his sins, a baby cannot believe, and that baptism is useless. Infant baptism is established by law. The first pope was established, Pope Leo. We have indulgences established where you can buy forgiveness of sins or you can go out and kill people like Islam does and like Catholicism did and the church will forgive you. You can rape and pillage and kill and steal, but it's okay. But really, it isn't, not according to God. We have purgatory embedded with Satan image worship. Back over here, we have mariolatry started. And then Mariality evolves also as you see it. Now the Church, the Churches of the Lord Jesus Christ have supposed to have been, they have the authority to preach the Gospel. Islam doesn't. Neither does Catholicism. Never did. Not when it went away from the Word of God. Not when it went away from truth. By the agency of the Ecclesia. The Many-Sided Manifold, Ekklesia Heipolipokolios. The Many-Colored, The Much-Diversified, The Many-Variegated, The Rainbowed Wisdom, Sophia. That's a beautiful word for wisdom in Greek. They even name women, beautiful women, after Sophia. We have Sophia Loren. Sophia, the wisdom, godly wisdom, making known the many-sided, the variegated, the manifold wisdom belonging to and from God. That is in the albative and in the genitive also. All truth comes from God and all truth belongs to God. And the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Church that belongs to Jesus Christ has the authority and it has the administration of the kingdom in the world today. Now, that period of time will end at the rapture. I know some of you out there don't believe in the rapture. Well, it's too bad. It's going to happen anyway. First of all, it's only in 416 and 417. Then the tribulation period is going to come on the world. You're going to come upon all the Gentile nations for rejecting the Lord and what they have done to Israel, they're going to be judged for that. That's God's nation period. They may be ungodly buzzards today, but they're still God's people. You know, somebody out there, you may have a bad kid, but somebody gets after that bad kid, your heart goes with that bad kid, and that's God. That bad kid is God's child, Israel. But are you going to whip them up, spank them up straight? Half of the way through the tribulation period over here, At the three and a half year period of that period of time, Israel is going to be born again in an instant, in a day. They will realize what they have done and the one that they have rejected, that they did not believe in, that they have refused to honor as Hamashiach, of God, the King of the world, the King of Heaven, the King of God, the King of Heaven, all of that, the one that they have rejected, that one is their King. And they'll say to him, where did you keep those wounds in your hands? He said, in the house of my friends. And they will mourn over him as one mourned over his only son. The church has the authority today to preach the gospel. We need to preach the gospel. We in a little bitty church here discovered the word Missionary Baptist Church. We reach the world. We're very small. We live out here in an absolute I mean, in a wilderness, so to speak, out here in the wilds of Nevada, but we preach the Gospel all over the world. Thank you for listening to the Word of God tonight. And I hope that you've learned something from it. The Church has the key to the wisdom of God today. It's got the combination to the safe. And it is our job to preach the Gospel. without fail, without delusion, without deluding it. Our churches should not be entertainment centers. They ought to be places where the gospel is preached. Music is really wonderful, but it's not a big concert. It's not supposed to be a great big concert. It's supposed to be worshiping God. The church of the Lord Jesus Christ is limited to the true believers and the true churches from Matthew 16 and 18 to Matthew 28, 18 through 20 and Ephesians 3 and 10 and 11. 11 is real good. We did one verse tonight. You could preach a week on this verse, what's in that verse. And the next one also. Our Father, we send this message out for your honor and glory. Please use it wherever it goes. I pray, people, that they will see your church and want to seek it and want to serve you and want to help and support your churches. For your honor and glory, we send these messages out. Please, Father, forgive me where I fail you. In Jesus' name, I pray.