We're gonna do Leviathan back on Leviathan, I tell you it's more or less of One verse out of chapter 27, but I believe we want to look at the strong symbolism that it it incurs and try to create in our mind and You know God's Word is active and alive and so I think that This is a excellent display of those that study God's Word will be able to put this together. Those that truly study God's Word and pray to God and being led about by the Spirit of God. It says, in that day, with his sore and great and strong sword, shall punish Leviathan. The Lord shall punish Leviathan, the piercing serpent, even Leviathan, that crooked serpent, and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea. So a whole lot of symbolism, as I told you last time, within that verse. But I think what Levantine is is the enemies of God. It's the enemies of God, not necessarily the creatures that I've described in the book of Job in our introduction. I was giving you some sort of sense of the gargantuan task that you would have that's upon us. of us doing something that's impossible to do without God's assistance, without God doing it. And God was showing Job his infinitude, his silliness of wanting to counsel God, or wanting to have counsel with God, or question God on what God was doing. When Job couldn't handle Leviathan, a beast that God had created. And I told you about that beast or whatever, but you know, to those of us that have been spoiled by television, like I said, that seeing us defeat all kinds of monsters and beasts or whatever, I think it's a little bit harder to get you in spiritual touch with the awesomeness of God. And I think that's kind of the reason a lot of people don't fear God, because they're Mind television has really burnt the brain up and a lack of reading and studying It's just the whole world system That's against God that that's the reason God's about to intervene and God has to intervene to defeat this Leviathan We know as I was telling you Leviathan was Satan It's that old dragon You notice in Revelation in different spots they call it that old dragon. It talks about it in Ezekiel as being Rahab, the monster in the midst of the Nile River or whatever. It was a simile that he was like what the Pharaoh was. Because the Pharaohs considered themselves as God. And in the midst of the people, and with the Roman government, with the Caesars, they wanted you to worship them as Lord. And you would lose your life if you wouldn't say that Caesar was Lord. How you doing, brother? If you wouldn't say that Caesar was Lord, I wasn't expecting you, Brother Mario. Well, God bless you. Thank you for coming in. We should have been a little bit earlier. You could have led us in prayer or something. We're glad to see you this afternoon. But like I said, it's Leviathan, part two, out of Isaiah, the 27th chapter that I'm speaking of, the 27th chapter of Isaiah, the first verse, Leviathan. And I'll tell you, as I was saying, the symbolism there is for Satan, Leviathan being Satan. Leviathan being that great monster, as I was telling you out of Job, it pictured it as a behemoth. of the cracker the crocodile or some monstrous animal that joe couldn't control leviathan that symbolism that the bible applies to it throughout the bible if you study it with any sort of intensity you start to see the rule that it's satan's rule because satan is the god of this world and only God can break Satan's rule, only God can take back the least to this world. Satan is our spiritual father of those who are still in the bondage of the devil. In other words, all of us in the world, we are born in bondage to Satan, and we are part of his world, and he's the god of this world. But Jesus Christ came to redeem us, to buy us back. that we were lost in that just as Satan as was our father and was born under Satan we of this dispensation Abraham becomes our father if we have the faith of Abraham because it's about faith and it's Jesus Christ coming through the rule of faith and without faith it is impossible to to please God and without faith you can't defeat Leviathan. You can't defeat the obstacles of this world. You can't defeat the things that's going on in this world. It also refers to Leviathan as that fiery serpent, the piercing serpent. That refers all the way back to Genesis, the book of Genesis when they Remember, the serpent was more subtle than any of the beasts. So there are many different names for Satan in the kingdom of Satan. But what happened is Satan has a government, which is the government of the rulership of this world, which is divided against itself because you have capitalism, communism, you have socialism, and you have so many different governments, but all of them are under the umbrella of Satan. but then transposed on top of those kingdoms. We've seen in the book of Daniel where that little stone that came, the kingdom of God, the people of Jesus Christ that are infiltrating Satan's kingdom. When Jesus Christ came, it says the kingdom of God is among you. It is within you. So this spiritual birth by faith, our belief and trust in Jesus Christ brings forth that spiritual gift. That's why you have to start having a spiritual mindset. That's why, like I said, it's a belief system. You have to believe and trust God. And that's something you can't see. That's invisible to a lot of people. It's a concept. It's a power. It's invisible, something supernatural. But it's with outside of yourself, unless you are born again. Now, if you are born again, if you need some paper, you can use the back of one of these. But if you are born again, that kingdom is within you, that's the seed of faith that is produced, that grows within you, that seed that was sown in the fertile soil of your heart is Christ within you, the hope of glory. That's when Christ starts to work within you to go against the kingdoms of this world because he says, my kingdom is not of this world. So the physical kingdom that we see, the physical kingdom that we see is not actually real, but it's real to our mind, but our mind makes it less and less real as we grow in faith, grow in the trust, and grow in Jesus Christ to overcome the world. That's why I keep telling him he wants us to overcome the world and let that same mind be in us that was in Jesus Christ. There you have the two dueling seeds in the earth, Satan being the adversary and the children of the world being the children of Satan. You understand that the two seeds in the earth, but then since you are born again and you're born of faith Now you're born into the kingdom of God you growing and now you start seeing a spiritual kingdom and you start Developing spiritual eyesight. That's why it says and led to see it says you were spiritually negative that you didn't have anything says come unto him it was revelations the third chapter and In the 17th verse when he's talking about the church of the Laodicea, even though they had all the things in a material world, in this world, he said, they yet were poor, blind, and naked. And he says, come unto me so I can anoint your eyes with spiritual salve that you can see. There's a spiritual world that surrounds us. There's a spiritual world all about us. And we can bring that world into our reality by believing in Jesus Christ and Him overcoming. And that's what I say, those of us that are born again, we can see those things. Coming down now, we can see Satan's hole being loosed. It was a lot of people yesterday that were very static over it or whatever, but it was a natural verdict that should have been reached anyhow. It was an open murder, the thing of George Floyd or whatever. But you see some of the powers of darkness being released in the justice system that empowers others to fight on. to fight this fight and there's going to be a greater confusion in the earth, a greater confusion in the world. But what God's government does, it brings organization out of chaos. It brings organization out of darkness. So it's going to bring organization out of the fall of this world as the kingdoms become the kingdoms of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. So that means a uniting of everybody worldwide, of all of the people, because if you notice the difference between this thing with George Floyd was that nationally, it was great, right? It was large. But this was an international event to where you seen people in the streets in Britain, people in the streets all over Europe and Asia and Japan, different cultures and everything. These were things that had been doing in the dark, the racial prejudice, the injustice system here. And I tell you, this system has to fall. All systems and governments of the world has to fall because what? God's system has to come about. God brings his system about and it's going to come through maybe probably capitalism. It's going to come through this system. That's why it's going to be so hard when this world system, this nation falls because as the great Babylon, it's the great merchandiser of the world. And most of the systems are attached to it. They're heavily invested in it, since it's the merchandiser. And Kappa eternalists left their system, their feudal system, feudalistic system, and joined the tents of Shem and Japheth. In other words, God's people through. Remember when Noah left the ark? And he had his three sons or whatever, Shem, Japheth, and Ham and Canaan. Whereas the Shemitic people and those others, God had had a separate blessing, but it was a curse upon some. But we see, you remember I told you about Nimrod came out of that system. That's when Nimrod came forward. But I'll get to that slowly. But anyhow, all of this comes out of what God had created in the beginning to be fruitful and multiply and have dominion on the earth, which seems as an impossible task for such a small group of people that is his church, his people at large. And that's why I tell you the church is not just the ones inside the building, but it's also those that are with outside the building. But we see them coming into the church in latter days. They're coming inside of the church because they see God destroying the great Leviathan. God is destroying the things that has us bound. We'll see a little bit of this more with AOC and Bernie Sanders and the progressive arm of the Democratic Party, because I think that's where the fracturing will come a whole lot. And the Republican Party is already fractured or whatever. But I told you several years back that the United States would destroy itself from within, just like Rome fell from within. But the other external part is that God is pulling on us. You remember when the Arab Spring started? And I said that this wasn't going to be the end of it, but this was the beginning of the end of Gentile rule. It's the end of days for men. In the book of Revelations 13 and 14, it says, who can make war against the beast? It gives every appearance of invincibility of a nasty fellow if ever one was described. Is this beast that places its mark upon human beings? And what is the mark of the beast in a spiritual sense? Or what kind of spirit emanates from this wild, ferocious, voracious system that we see? And we see that no other system is intimidating more than the United States government, the government of the United States. But as I said, the union that had begun to break within the last administration with Germany and the other nations or whatever, they're not going to stop setting up their own defenses and their own strategy. Because what happens if the Republicans fracture again In 2022 and 2024, when Donald Trump had split it and started to make United States or wanted the United States to be a sovereign power, and that loosed all the defenses in Germany and Japan and the other nations or whatever. Those other nations had woken up and says, well, okay, if they did do this and started with isolationism, where would that leave us? So that's why I say we're not looking, the churches are not preaching this because just as it was then when the Catholic Church during the times of Rome took over the government and they started having prosecution and Rome ruled through Augustus and the rest of them. the catholic church rule with iron hand and that's what you had back at the time of the crusades and all of the religious in the holy wars were just as this last uh... these last years seventy to eighty percent of the evangelical arm went with the republicans with trump or whatever but it divided the nations but it got a glimpse of what christianity had turned out to be what it had turned out to be and it's a monster It's anti-Christ and it's anti-God, and I think I told y'all at one time, even on the local level, where we see where, not saying that within these governmental agencies there's not people working, that's why I say God has people just like Daniel and the Hebrew boys within every government or whatever. but the united states is so totally corrupt the government the world system is so totally corrupt you know and that's russia china all of them or whatever but if we look at our own nation and you can look at the the baton rouge police department of of the city of baton rouge and if you look at all of the governmental programs uh... i i think i used to be a is exempt for the last time and how how large the VA was in all of these systems But those tentacles has become a leviathan in which, with faith-based initiatives in the church and people within that, it has corrupted and deceived the whole world. And now everybody believes in Jesus. Everybody's a Christian or whatever. So that presents as big as danger, because that's why Christ was fighting against the church, because there wasn't true converts. And it kind of dwarfs the minds of those that are in the church. A lot of them, that's true, because how do you fight against this when your pastor has sold you out politically? That's what's happening with a lot of the mega churches. The people say, well, why this mega pastor hadn't spoken out against Trump? Or why this hadn't happened? I was telling you about Christians United, Christianity Today, and all of those editors and things that started to speak against Trump. and was saying why was the church so silent on these issues that's because Satan has brought his tentacles into the church And Satan's ministers are ministers of darkness, but they have transformed themselves into angels of light. So that's why, you know, all of your communities and things you see, I mean, I was telling you about they was doing the COVID shots and all of these other things or whatever, but it's all about the dollar. All of these programs, the governmental programs and subsidies and set aside. The churches and the political systems that are running this, and I was telling you about my brother and some other people, they're not receiving of the services that they should, even though these are decent programs, long care term health for the people that should have nursing assistance, the transportation for the people that can't get back and forth or whatever, but it's utterly corrupt. It's people Mr. Luther used to drive for with a transportation company or whatever. You can call them to go to a doctor's appointment or whatever. They used to get maybe $50 for each patient, for each trip they take them or whatever. But within that, sometimes you would have to wait an hour or two before they pick you up. If they pick you up, they take you to the doctor and drop you off at the doctor or whatever, and sometime it'd be hours coming back or whatever. Sometimes you miss that doctor's appointment or whatever. But they still, they get paid. with this long-term nursing care and everything. And that's why I say it's just not a racial issue because 60% of them are black-owned and they have people that's on the payroll or that's getting paid but not doing the services. I got some people that I know that should be getting 26 to 29 hours of service a week or being helped a week or whatever. but that that's not happening in the people stealing from programs this woman on counseling agent that they call last year sometime or whatever with his wheel or whatever but the whole system has been corrupted in the churches have been corrupted for many a year so it's preaching and advocating the gospel but god is taking has the take care of them because the hypocrites they don't actually believe what they're saying and they don't understand what they're saying so how can you how can you tackle this invincible beast and that's why I was telling you I tried to pitch it and went through this symbolism of Leviathan is that you can't you can't defeat it you need a supernatural source you need something else you need a god you need guarded to defeat this and you know you didn't get in your mind of fire-breathing dragons and all of these other things that you can whip, but you can't defeat these things. So this government, this nation, this political system has become a behemoth, a leviathan, a monstrous system, and it seems invincible. If you go in the churches, the deacons are in on it, the preachers are in on it, everybody's in on it. They're not living the way they say it. 100% of it is fornication or adultery going on. Everything is involved in there, and the children and the people see it. They're not joining Christianity anymore. I cited the polls to you the other day that only 40% of the people now, it didn't fail, from 70% to 47% of the people belong to an actual church or actually go to church each week. But everybody believe in Jesus Christ that this is a Christian nation. But we have the largest death rate of any nation. They don't know what to do with gun control. But what does God say he's going to do with gun control when he comes in? He's going to beat their weapons in the plowshares. Countries like Australia and all that, that had banned guns in all these things. Because that Second Amendment was good when the United States was just developing as a pioneered nation, as a young nation or whatever. But you shouldn't have a right to bear arms nowadays. That's a very dangerous thing. And they're looking at that because a lot of the things that the Republicans fight against or whatever that they put in the hands, guns in the hands of people that can't take a sanity test. This guy that killed the other day, I forgot what kind of law they called it, but these people are not getting the help that they should. That was one thing Sharon Wesson-Broom ran on and she did, established this mental health center over here by my house on Florida Street with College Temple on that building they have it, to where instead of addressing it with police or whatever, that we try to look at the mentally ill or whatever. and all that because a lot of times you send police people out to these situations where you should send someone else out because a police is going to escalate the situation. It's not going to deescalate the situation. So right here in our own communities, we had a lot of mentally ill people that have been killed by the police. But it's still escalating. Everything in the nation is escalating and it seems to be no end. And that's why we're living in a police state. When we were coming up, if y'all were young or whatever, that you have to have three or four sheriff deputies or police deputies policing the libraries, getting paid $45 or $50 an hour off-duty pay at each and every library and at every store, every place you have. You have to have your own neighborhood watch police division or whatever. It's not getting any better. It is getting worse. and so you see how how does this how did this slow down its only that if god comes into your life and like he did joe at the beginning of the book you notice that he said joe was a perfect and upright man that feared god but it showed you throughout the book for those chapters that joe felt that he was such a christian or had did right so much that he had He had a right to question God on how God was running the universe and why God allowed to happen to him the things that happened to him. That's why when God approached Job, He only asked Job questions. He questioned Job and put Job at a state where Job said, I'm sorry to open my mouth if I said anything, because he showed Job of his utter helplessness in that he had to depend on God and that He couldn't run the universe, that he couldn't even run his own world. And he wasn't, if you notice when two of his friends attacked him, he attacked Job about his children. Because have you ever noticed throughout the Bible that with all of the prophets and all of the leaders, that none of them really had children that really followed the Lord, that most of them children deviated from the Lord? We really, once, until we learn we're not in control of anything and that we have to pray to God and ask him to control everything around us. David's none of his children. He had a very dysfunctional family. Jacob had a dysfunctional family. All of them had dysfunctional families. God's trying to bring us to the point where we utterly depend on him and ask him about every situation, about everything in prayer and supplication. Let your request be known to God. Everything you do, You'd be led by the Spirit of God. You see as God is in that. If God's not leading and prompting that, it's going to lead to confusion. I was praying, and I prayed about one of us the other night, because I told you, I spoke to you earlier about when you first got your vehicle, I say, well, that's good to glorify God with, but you'd better watch it because that calls for the devil. And you had so many problems and so many things going on. And I don't know what conversation you're having with God or how you're talking with God. Sister Jackson, Brother Jackson's not here, but I think they're listening in on a sermon out of you or whatever. But when God starts to bless you, that's when Satan comes against you to turn you away from God, to discourage you from hearing God. Because he don't want you to break loose and break out of bondage. Leviathan strikes fear into men to bring about submission to him and to control them. And that's what's been happening in the nation. You know, a lot of times, even if it's your spouse, and that's what I tell you, it's not a lot of men that are real men nowadays because most of the women are controlling the homes and controlling things. But once that woman starts to see you trying to be a man for yourself, that's when she really bears down and allows things to bear down. That's the temptress of the seductress. That's what Satan does. When he starts to see you turn to God, that's when he bears down on you to try to turn you back around or whatever. Because if you ever get loose, whenever God births you again, Those are the struggles that Satan knows that he's lost that person. That's why he applies so much force and so much power to you when you start believing and doing the things of God that he starts bringing all kinds of things against you to change your mind. All hell breaks loose with you. Looks like nothing goes right. But that means you're getting closer to God and that God's going to give you a breakthrough. But what are the churches teaching? Prosperity. Your best life now. Have this and have that. So when you try to avoid the suffering, avoid going through, avoid the broken way, avoid the broken When you start depending on others, thinking about others, the world says, no, you got to pull yourself up by your bootstraps. You can't depend on nobody or whatever. And it's your best life. You shouldn't have to suffer that. You should, no, it's about sacrificing. It's about dying to yourself. So as Satan deploying all of these things against you, it will look hopeless. It looked hopeless to Daniel. It looked hopeless to Elijah. You remember when Jezebel came against him, he ran a hundred miles in the opposite direction and says it is enough now to take his life. If he really wanted to die, he could have stayed where he was and Jezebel would have handled that. But sometimes, but what it is, Satan is the father of all the children of pride, and it's your pride that starts to bring in. And Satan can tell when something starts to step on his children's pride, just like you can tell when something's going wrong or right in your family and with the people around you, if God's waking you up. That's why I say I can't understand why the people in the church are not understanding this. And secularly, secularly, the people are talking about a woke people, a woke generation. That's the worst thing that could have happened. Mitch McCollum, all of them, came out after Maxine Waters the other day when Maxine Waters said that if this justice is not carried out with this vertical, wherever the protest, we have to press on and get much more harder. See, Satan don't want to hear that, look, we're not turning back. And see, that's what has happened. Young black people are motivated now that they're not gonna close their eyes. They are woken to what's going on in the nation. they'll walk and what's going on in the world so that's what i'm telling you there's chaos that's what happened but this is that the secular level they don't have a understanding but they know they're being threatened materially and i'll tell you the election of trump led to the uh... being a walk-in is seeing that there were much more racial prejudice that it was a whatever and with technology when joe developed the phone the iphone or whatever there's many more people now carrying those phones around taping and videotaping. What if that young man hadn't stood there for 10 minutes? Now he had to stand there for at least 10 minutes to tape nine minutes of that murder going forward. But all of the young people, secular now, go to their phones. But see, that's the problem. That becomes their gods. They're going after the wrong thing because you can't bring about justice in this world. I was telling people, what if the verdict does go the other way? Do you take it in your hands? Do you protest? Do you commit violence? No. You still have to leave that in the hands of God. See, so you can't bring about a physical destruction of the nation, because then you violate what Romans 13 and 1 says, obey those who have rule of authority over you. So sometimes when you put in something and you use it to entrap others, Our president was able to appoint two or three justices to the Supreme Court. But see, that's to the mind of man that you will get in bed with people you shouldn't. You will commit adultery or fornication with people that you shouldn't because if we can get some conservative judges appointed to the Supreme Court, we can fight abortion and we can fight these other issues. Those very three judges that he appointed, those very judges that they appointed, John Roberts was appointed by Bush, but those very judges have been the ones that uphold a lot of liberal policies that go forth. And Trump was extremely shocked when two of the judges, Gorsuch and Kavanaugh, voted against the things that he wanted to do because Satan's team is not united. It's a house divided against itself. So they have principles. They have religious morals that they have to still walk in those belief systems. See, if Satan was united, he could do something. And God doesn't allow us to unite in evil. That's why when Nimrod came, when he came down, Nimrod had united the people. And I don't get to Nimrod. I get way back here somewhere. The same as God, but where did it come from? But Nimrod had united the people in Babylon, right? The people had become one, but Nimrod was against God and said he stood in the face of God. That word stood means that he symbolically stood against God. He was the one that God came down and says, let us Do what I didn't see what's going on the big because the people were united and they was as one there was a billet tower that rich heaven But it was erroneous It would have been wrong. It would have been just as wrong as God allowing Adam and Eve to live Because is that why God issued the death sentence? I Because it's told Adam, the day you eat of the tree, you shall surely die. And if you keep reading on in Genesis, he never repeated that, but when he throwed Adam out of the garden, if you read in Genesis 3, 3rd chapter of Genesis, he says, let us put man out of the garden and set those two cherubims at the place of the garden so that he won't eat of the tree of life and live forever in this condition. Can I find somebody to read that for me? Y'all looking at me like you don't remember that portion there. You remember that portion there? Where when he put man out, so that works against the immortalist people that thought that man was born with an immortal soul. But the only way man can live forever Is in revelation you see where there's a tree of life and that we eat the fruit of that tree And that's we get eternal life from jesus christ. It's only in jesus christ where there's life That's the fruit of the tree that's continuing in his word but listen, it was uh, Uh chapter 3 of genesis The 20th verse and adam called his wife named eve because he was she was mother of all the living unto Adam also and to his wife the Lord God made coats of skin and clothed them. And the Lord God said, Behold, because the man has become as one of us, well, Satan had told him you could become as God. Well, he shaded the truth. He couldn't become as God because he was already made in the image of God. but he liked the character of god that's why we made jesus christ helped make us in his image in his likeness that characteristic is that's what makes god god is his nature that's what makes satan's children the children of the devil that's why when jesus confronted the pharisees and they say they are their father abraham say no abraham wasn't your father you wouldn't go around murdering me So I'm not stereotyping anyone, but as Jasper Williams preached at Aretha Franklin's sermon during her eulogy or whatever, he says, first, black lives have to start mattering to black people. It's something different when a few cops kill black people. You want to protest and riot, but each and every night in Chicago and cities across the nation, it's more black on black crime, much young black people killing one another more and more. Well, when life starts to matter to black people killing black people, that's when black lives really start to matter. He says, And God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to no good and evil. Now lest he put forth his hand, and take also the tree of life, and eat, and live forever. So there was a day that man was going to die. God knew that day because he foresaw that he knew man was going to sin. The day that man was going to die was the day he ate of that tree, which was what God had prophesied and told him. The day you eat of it, you shall surely die. So it was a spiritual separation. He didn't physically die at that time, but death is separation from God. That's what death is, a separation from God. And God says, your iniquity, your sin have separated you away from me. So he says, let us put man out of the garden, let's eat of the tree and live forever. He didn't want him to live in a state of necessarily knowing good and evil. Because just like Job, it's not good that man would know everything. If we didn't know about monsters, we didn't know about killing, we didn't know of all these things. That's where your innocence comes from, not to know of evil. He didn't want you to know evil. Can you control evil once you know evil? But if that's the diet that you eat of and drink of, and they sit down and watch television, it's about Dr. Phil, Oprah, and all of these people with fornication, adultery, and all of your sitcom, everything is focused about it. All of your rap music, everything is contrary to God. The whole system is permeated with Satan. It's permeated by things, the mark of the beast. The mark of the beast is carrying characteristics of Satan. It's not carrying characteristics of God. It's not a physical mark or something that you can see. If you see in the book of Ezekiel, when he marked those that were his and he sealed in their forehead, how do you seal your children? Is that your children looks just like you. then your likeness and image if you notice when Eve begot a man-child that man was in the likeness of Adam which was a fallen man that's why Jesus didn't come through the line of man he came through the seed of the woman man wasn't his father, God was his father he couldn't be made in the likeness and image of a sinful man because man had lost, man became deprived In the book of Genesis, chapter 8-10, it says, And Cush begat Nimrod, and he began to be a mighty one in the earth. He was a mighty hunter before the Lord, wherefore it is said, Even is Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord. And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Achan, and Calnate in the land of Shana. That's where Babylon began, and it was Nimrod who started it. Can you remember back some of the teachings I gave you about Cush and all of those things? That those were black people, that's where the cradle of civilization was, and that Nimrod, the mighty hunter, had stood before God. That's why when you hear of Sudan and all of those other nations now, that's where it all was. The Ethiopian, but you see all of those people are coming, will come back to the house of God. but if you listen to preachers like Hege and all of the rest of them that always talking about Israel well that's not the real Israel that Israel was created by the when it was the Rockefellers and whatever that created the Israel that's over there now that's not the Israel of God the Israel of God that's the church that was the example of the church those are the ones that didn't do right See, Israel was a chosen nation by God, but it was an example. You remember, he divorced Israel. He gave them a bill of divorce, but he didn't divorce Judah. Well, what happened? And that's why they blinded with the resurrection and blinded at Easter. When Jesus Christ died on the cross, when he died on the cross, that was the death of the testator. he was free to marry another there. So Israel was no longer his bride. They chose Caesar as their king. So he was free to take a Gentile bride there. Because if Israel was still Jesus' bride, we see that the church has become the bride of Christ. If the nation of Israel was still a bride, that would be bigamy, wouldn't it? He couldn't have two wives. but the church is ever inclusive that's why i say it's inclusive of all of me that's why abraham circumcision didn't come after that that was a sign of a seal because the philistines and other nations circumcised also so abraham's faith the trusted belief in god there wasn't a jew then the jews didn't start that started when the tribe of judah But Abraham wasn't, you know, they referred to him as a Jew, but he was the father of all nations. His name was Abram, not Abraham, but then God changed his name to Abraham. But see, that's where the government started. The government of God had started, it didn't start over, but when he destroyed the earth with a flood, and he said he never would do that again. So during that time, you see Nimrod rise up and he was going to establish the civilization. He was going to establish a kingdom that was rich to God, rich to the heavens. And that's when God scattered all of mankind. All of man's languages were scattered at that time. If you go back during the times of Pharaoh and all of these other pharaohs, you'll see that it was during the time of Joseph Reign when it says they had to leave Egypt because another pharaoh arose. Well, that word another can be defined two different ways. Another could mean another pharaoh arose up, but it could also mean a different pharaoh arose, a different kind of pharaoh arose. So I don't want to get into racial issues or other issues or whatever, but the government of the world, man's government, is coming to an end. God gave man's government. Man's government was only supposed to last a certain time. That lease would be up. God would come in and hold the unaccountable government. In other words, the government has become corrupt, so God takes over because government is accountable to God. And once government ceases to do what it should do, God takes over. So that's one of the things that a lot of the black women were stating, and one of the things that Maxine Waters was stating. What can the people think that's going to do if the black women seeing all of their young men being shot out in the streets and discrimination and everything to the point it is? But it's not also that, it's just that as we require wealth and get into the capitalism capitalistic system. We have our own 50 cents and ice cube and all of these people that we pattern our lives after our children, pattern their lives after do anything to get rich quick or whatever. We trouncing on one another for the dollar. The drugs and things couldn't multiply in our communities if we wasn't multiplying. but see you can't play hands on this love i did because disloyal but i could is something that you can't control and that's why jesus said the divisions will be in your own household is to be a guest your own father and mother will be against one another children's book brothers and sisters the rise up against one another god's looking for people that's what's staying in for him that will stand for him and walk by faith. Now if you stand for God and walk by faith, it's going to look like you're losing a lot. But appearances are deceiving. That's why God has to have you walking by faith. There's many a young white person that walked by faith, or older white people that walked by faith during the Obama administration, and the people said, well, look, you can't inherit this, or you can't do this, because you voting, you instituting, you putting him in. That's why a lot of children leave their rich families or whatever and go to the Peace Corps or whatever, because you have to go where God's leading your heart. But see, you're so physical, you used to be insecure, you used to take steps where you can see your way and guide your way. And that's the problem, you're walking by sight, not by faith. What is the Spirit, what is God telling you? Not self, now see, because self, you remember I told you, self was your worst enemy. When you attempt to do good, evil is right there. It's going to tell you, you know, if you do that, you're going to lose this. That's that reasoning and rationale. That's why God says your thoughts are not like my thoughts and your ways not like my ways. You have to follow the word of God. You have to be like a pilot flying an airplane. When he's flying that airplane and he's way up in the air, he can't think about or feel where he's going or whatever. He has to rely on his instrument panel. The instruments has to be right. He has to trust those instruments to get him to where he's going. We have to trust God. We can't see God, but we have to trust his word. We have to trust his spirit to get us where he's going. And it ain't always a feeling. Sometime you not gonna feel right about something. Sometime you might not feel married. That don't stop you from being married to it. Sometime you might not feel like getting up, but if you go and get up and press your weight, it'll be better. But that's the suffering part of it. So in Genesis 10, there's no mention of animals or anything here. And that Nimrod hunted wasn't. It said he was a hunter of men. He was a hunter of men. He took over. It says the context has to do with the description of character. moral, spirituality, and the culture around us. And that's what shapes us a lot of times. Our culture shapes us. And that's where, I tell you, it was a detriment to our own communities and places because our culture is shaping us. And we're like the product of the sun. We're eating the husks that are falling from the table. We're eating pods when if we would get up and go to our father God is your father and until you met your loss until you come to yourself and you awaken and you start following Christ When you come back to him, that's when he's going to put that ring on your finger. A ring is a symbol, just like Leviathan is a symbol. A ring is a symbol that you're united to God. We're following his laws, following his testimonies. If you would look in the book of Revelation, it says the beast comes back to make war with those that keep the commandments of God and have Jesus Christ as their testimony. Jesus Christ is the singling out factor. It has to have Jesus Christ because there's no other name given among men whereby we must be saved. That was the sacrificial blood. That blood has to be applied to your life. That's what gives it life, the blood of Christ. That blood that was shed, that's the spirit that enters into your body. That blood that was shared for us, not all of us, but it was shared to those whom he chose. And we defeat by the blood of the lamb. Now, that's going to be in your notes about some of those things. But Nimrod was a mighty man and a mighty hunter in terms. He was like the Nephilim that they speak of in Genesis 6 and 4. But I won't get off on a tangent running that rapid again. But he was a giant of a moral or spiritual nature. And that arises when somebody has a charismatic personality. It's just like as Donald Trump arose up through the ranks. He actually, as a lot of people were saying, he actually had a lot of democratic leanings or whatever. But his charisma and character was so that it influenced the people within his party or whatever. Actually, what had happened to the people that had any knowledge or any secular or worldly understanding, you've allowed a con man, a man that has always lived by graft, to come in and sway a whole nation, sway a whole people. And see, that's what happened in the churches. You have charismatic leaders that come in, and as the Bible says, with great swelling words, because the power of life and death is in words. And so they come in, they set up the large evangelical churches and things, you have the mega churches and things, and these things thrill your children. These things thrill your children. And they have programs for the children, healing places and all these places. What they do is just like Ferris, they leave your children here. They send buses and things to pick up your children. If you can control the children, the mind of the children, you have the parents. Because the parents worship the children now. is what the children want. Do you have a program that fits my children? Do you have all these things or whatever? So the little churches and the little preachers that's preaching the word of God, that's willing to stand up to the word of God, that are not sold out, that are not sold out for the materialistic things in the world, the things of the world or whatever, those are the ones that are barely making it, barely able to make their income because the people are willing to pay tithes and offerings and everything. Well, you were already wealthy. You already had these things, you just taking them out there so your pride wants you to have other people to say you're somebody. You get off on saying that you go to this particular church, that you attend Bethany, that you attend Word of Faith, that you attend this. It's all about just like with Jordans and all of these other shoes and everything. But can I tell you, Air Jordans is different from LeBron James. it was a different character to LeBron James than it was to Michael Jordan. We have to be able to see the difference in individuals. It does say we're not fighting against flesh and blood, but against powers and principalities. But what Satan does when he says, the earth to be aware because Satan hath come down to you. That is, Satan works through people now. The devil The word devil is a personification of the word evil. Satan means the adversary, the Satanic. That's where that word comes from. Satan means adversary. So that personality is able to get in people. Just like the Holy Spirit controls some, Satan gets into some, and those same characteristics. So that's why I say we have a murderous characteristics that's going around in a lot of our communities and areas. It has a get rich mentality. And if a person can control your thought processes, and that's what the world is, that's what television and all these things are doing, they're controlling your thought processes. If you think about getting wealth, if you think about things in the world, that's what you go to labor for. You're not laboring for satisfaction. But you always ask me, how was my day? And I always tell you, I have a good day because Until you find God, you won't have just good days. You'll have days that's just horrible and this and that day. But if you look at the apostles and everything, the worse the day was, the more they sung to God, the more they knew God was drawing them closer and nearer to Him. He was despotic. He was competitive. And that's what this nation has become. It has become too competitive. Also, Leviathan as a symbol has been used as a dragon. I'll go into the dragon next time. God begins the record all the way back in the time of Jacob in the book of Genesis 37 and 9 when Joseph had this dream that his father, mother, and brothers would bow down to him. Genesis 37 and 9. What we see in Revelation 12 and 1 where it borrows from that understanding of what Joseph was saying that they were bowed down to him. And that's where relatives and other people, the reason the division comes is man doesn't want someone with enmity to rule over him. If you're a child of God, there's enmity between you and the seed of the devil. So nothing you do will make the people of the world love you. But what you can do, you can quench or grieve the spirit of God by not following what he's telling you to do. Sometimes your heart could get in the way because of a personal relationship or how you personally do things. We've seen the United States fall pretty hard because during the Trump administration, there were a lot of nepotism. Just because your parents is a preacher, a teacher, or this and that doesn't mean you will be. You can't show favors to individuals just because they're close to you. You can't show favoritism to your wife. Partiality, you have to be impartial. You have to see all these things because a lot of us, it's our spouse that then gave us the problem. And I'm talking man and woman. That's where the problem lies. A lot of times the problem lies with your children or whatever. You've overspent or you do anything, you make bargains with them just for them to be good instead of not sparing the rod and use the authority that God told you to command that authority, but you don't want them to not like you. You want to be the good parent. You want to be the good neighbor. You want everybody to like you. That's a sort of pride also, to want people to like you. And that's what the Pharisees did. Thanks for praise and honor. A Levitian is a political system, but also a Levitian is a religious system. It's been invaded all of our lives. The tentacles go so deep, it's like it's in your blood. You hear that? It's in your blood. So you could be the devil. You're your worst enemy because it's in your blood. It's in your blood. That's why he's going to give you a new body. A body that's uncorruptible. You won't have that blood. The life force is in the blood. But you don't have Christ's blood flowing through your veins because the life is in the spirit, actually. That's where the life actually is. That's why it says, if you eat of the fruit of the tree, if you come unto me, you have eternal life. The life is in believing in heaven, faith and trust in him. It's spiritual. That which is spiritual cannot die. That's why you can't eat animal blood. You can't eat blood because the life is in the blood. The life was in Christ's blood. But that was a precious blood that atoned for you. That's what brought you back. And that's what gives you spiritual life. His shed blood, that has to be applied to your life. You have to apply it to your home. You have to apply it to everything you do. Jesus Christ has to be in it. And through him, you overcome. Through Christ, I can do all things. I can have the victory. But how can you, if it's leeching through your blood, if it's leeching through your very body, There's a spirit within man, you're under the law. One day that body's gonna die because Satan's your father. But if you have this new father, you didn't transfer allegiance, you're not worried about death. Death is not on Christians' mind because they know it's just sleep. And that, as Job said, though the earthworms destroy my body, Yet in my flesh I shall see God, because there's body terrestrials and there's bodies that are spiritual. Jesus Christ came back in a spiritual body and said, touch me, do a spirit have flesh as I do? It was a different body, but it was the same Jesus. They noticed that it was the same Jesus. But it was an incorruptible body. That's what we're all striving for, a body that's not given to sickness. That's why he gave the laws of the clean and unclean because once you start eating blood and those devices and things, he set those unclean laws and things up because Do you know with seafood, shellfish, and catfish, and shrimp, and all those things, he told them not to eat. Do you know those carry diseases and everything? That's where your arthritis, and tuberculosis, and pork, you have rhino worms, and all of those things that's detrimental to your health. It set them apart as a separate people. So eating food, that's why Paul came and says, there's no food that could commend you to God. It was just like circumcision. It was an outward symbol that that person was consecrated to God. That's what made him different. God had set him apart. He had sanctified him. And God sets us apart. He sanctifies us. So we don't depend on flesh and blood. We don't depend on anything that's physical. But Satan has those tentacles in us and we can't, if we're depending on ourselves, we will die like everybody else. But you can get away from that frame of mind by having faith in Jesus Christ that you have eternal life. Heavenly Fathers, we come before you this afternoon, Lord God, hearing your word, Lord God, preaching and teaching your word, Lord God. Have your word go home to the hearers, Lord God,