The Mark of the Beast and the Mark of God

all right so corey taught last week right does anybody remember what i talked about the week before that great deception okay false prophets all right you guys pay attention you guys are great does anybody remember what i told you i was going to talk about tonight all right you guys pay attention mark of the beast so i'm talking about the mark of the beast versus the mark of god would you bow your heads with me lord we love you so much lord we thank you we thank you for your holy spirit lord we thank you for your word we thank you for your salvation and messiah yeshua we thank you for the opportunity to come and to fellowship the worship or we just invite you to come and to meet with us or we ask that you would open our ears so that we can hear help us to have understanding help us to know your voice lord speak to us lead us help us to draw closer to you each day praise you we thank you in the name of yeshua all right so obviously i'm going to be starting in revelation uh but i'm going to be jumping around a lot so if you guys have your bibles handy you might want to lick your fingers and be ready to flip around all right so we're going to be in revelation chapter 19 verse 20. it says then the beast was captured and with him the false prophet who worked signs in his presence by which he deceived those who received the mark of the beast and those who worshipped his image these two were cast alive into the lake of fire burning with brimstone they said but it talks about this uh they received the mark of the beast those who were deceived remember we talked about the false prophet and the great deception right so that was kind of setting up for the mark he comes and he deceives he leads people astray and he gets them to take the mark this is those who were deceived who received the mark and who worshipped his image they were cast alive in the lake of fire so the book of revelation talks us tells about this mark and there's a lot of mystery about what the mark is a lot of questions a lot of guesses a lot of speculations and i'm not going to do that today some of you guys are like oh man i was really hoping you'd get up there and speculate a little bit about what that mark might be and if anybody who knows me knows that i'm not a big fan of speculation i want to know what does the word of god say and when it happens we'll recognize it i don't think we need to take too many guesses there's a lot of possibilities but you know if i get up here and tell you what i think it is chances are that's probably not going to be what it is anyway so what we want to do though is find out what does the word of god say about us so that we can be aware when it does happen what we're looking for right how do we recognize it how do we know what it is how do we avoid it and what we're going to look at today is you know there's a mark that the beast gives and there's a mark that god gives and i my theory about this my theory is if you have god's mark you're not going to take the mark of the beast anybody agree with that one okay so my goal today is to teach you how to have god's mark in your life so that you're less likely to take the mark of the beast so that you're not going to take the mark of the beast does that sound like a good place to start so the greek word translated mark is kerygma and it means a mark providing undeniable identification that's what the word referring to undeniable identification it's a symbol giving irrefutable connection between parties okay and it refers to an owner's unique brand so you've seen uh cattle owners or things like that where they'll put a brand branding iron and brand their cattle that's what basically it's referring to is something like that you put your mark on somebody brand them and show that you are their owner okay cattlemen do that with their cattle that's the kind of mark that this is talking about mark of the beast is going to be a mark of ownership to show that he owns whoever has that mark he's put his brand on them and uh but the bible also talks about god putting a mark on his people and we read in revelation 7 verses 2 through 4 says then i saw another angel ascending from the east having the seal of the living god and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels to whom it was granted to harm the earth and the sea saying do not harm the earth the sea or the trees until we have sealed the servants of our god on their foreheads and i heard the number of those who were sealed 144 000 of all the tribes of israel were sealed okay so this is uh it's interesting because it talks about the mark of the beast it says they'll take it on the right hand or on their forehead here says the seal of god is put on their forehead and then and then we're going to see in some other places it talks about the seal of god being on your hand or your forehead as well there's some interesting connections between these two right you have the mark of gods on the hand and forehead the mark of the beast on the hand and forehead so what do those things mean and how do they affect us revelation 14 1 also talks about this mark of god it says then i looked and behold a lamb standing on mount zion and with him 144 000 having his father's name written on their foreheads so in revelation 7 it says that the angels went and put a mark on their foreheads in revelation 14 it says that the mark was god's name it was written on their foreheads so the a lot of people aren't aware of this i think probably a lot of you might be but a lot of people outside of this group i think are not aware of what the torah says about the sign on your hand and your forehead and so a lot of you may be this might be a review for you but i want to go through some of this just in case you weren't aware of it so the bible talks about how we receive a mark of god on our hand and our forehead and in the torah in exodus 13 verses 6 through 10 it says seven days you shall eat unleavened bread on the seventh day there shall be a feast to the lord unleavened bread shall be eaten seven days and no leaven bread shall be seen among you nor shall leaven be seen among you in all your quarters and you shall tell your son in that day saying this is done because of what the lord did for me when i came up out of egypt it shall be a sign to you on your hand and as a memorial between your eyes catch that it's a sign on your hand and a memorial between your eyes it's a mark on your hand and your forehead what's he talking about passover right passover in the piece of unleavened bread he says you're to eat unleavened bread for seven days don't let any leaven be in your home it's a reminder of what i did for you when i brought you out of egypt do this throughout all your generations and teach it to your children and tell them we do this because god brought us out of egypt and he says this serves as a sign on your hand and on your forehead it says it shall be as a sign to you on your hand and as a memorial between your eyes that the lord's law may be in your mouth for with a strong hand the lord has brought you out of egypt you shall therefore keep this ordinance in its season from year to year okay we are commanded to celebrate passover and the piece of unleavened bread every year he says when you do this you are receiving mark of god in your life you're receiving a mark of god on your hand and your forehead is serving as a symbol as a sign of what god you serve that's what it's talking about right remember i but i think was it a couple weeks ago i said i was talking about the the false prophet i think i i think i mentioned this then you know that i've heard people say i i don't remember exactly where uh the context was but you know i've heard the phrase don't tell me which god you serve show me a wish command mr keith right well that's kind of what this is talking about right don't say which guide you serve show me by which piece you keep by which commandments you keep are you keeping the peace that god has command us to keep this is a sign of which god you serve now what's interesting is is i want to jump back just a little bit there are several marks and signs that are mentioned before we get to this point so when you you go to genesis chapter four anybody remember what happens in genesis chapter four cain and abel right so cain kills his brother abel abel had offered a better sacrifice kane offered a poor sacrifice not not one that pleased the lord the lord said you know that if you did well if you do well then you'll be accepted but you know if you don't sin is crashing at your door right and kane kills his brother abel and then god punishes cain and you you remember what he puts on cain's head it's a mark on cain's head isn't that interesting well then the the word that's used there in hebrew is oath means a sign well that word is used a number of places throughout the old testament and i'm just going to mention a few of them you turn over to genesis 7 what do you find you've got noah the ark and he says i'm gonna put my sign in the sky right the rainbow showing you it's it's i'm putting my symbol my sign in the sky my mark in the sky to show you that i will never destroy the earth again with a flood but a sign well then we go a little further and we get to the torah or we get to the you know exodus we get to the commandments what he's talking about and he says a lot of things well actually let me back up just there abraham he gave abraham a sign as well it's called circumcision he said it's a mark in your flesh it's a sign between you and me all of these these things are interesting so god put a sign in the sky between him and all the peoples of the earth that he would not flood the earth then he gets to abraham and he says i'm going to put a sign in your flesh signifying the covenant that i make with you and your descendants so he puts a mark in his most intimate part of his body the part where the reproduction comes from and he says this mark signifies that i am your god and that your descendants are because of me it's a sign between god and abraham but then we go into exodus we get to the ten commandments and we turn over we get to exodus as exodus 30 31 this isn't in my notes by the way i'm kind of winging it so i don't have a open bible in front of me does anybody have exodus 30 or 31 handy you want to run a bible up here to me okay exodus 31 he says yahweh spoken to moses saying see i have called you by name let me skip down just a little bit uh yeah verse 12. yahweh spake unto moses saying speak thou also unto the children of israel saying verily my sabbath ye shall keep for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations my sabbaths serve as a sign between me and you that you may know that i am yahweh that doth sanctify you you shall keep the sabbath therefore it is holy unto you everyone that defileth it shall surely be put to death but whosoever doeth any work therein that soul shall be cut off from among his people six days may work be done but the seventh is the sabbath of rest holy unto yahweh whosoever doeth any work in the sabbath day he shall surely be put to death wherefore the children of israel shall keep the sabbath to observe the sabbath throughout their generations for perpetual covenant it is a sign between me and the children of israel forever is a sign forever between me and the children of israel that we keep the sabbath this is a sign that god is making with his covenant people he's saying if you are keeping my covenant if you are keeping my commandments if you are doing these things if you are following me and obeying what i've instructed you this serves as a sign that you are my people it says for uh it is a sign between me and the children of israel forever for in six days yahweh made heaven and earth and on the seventh day he rested and was refreshed so he goes back and he cites creation he's saying that this is not only a sign that you serve me but this is also a sign that i'm the god who created everything you see how the connection goes in six days he created the heavens and earth and the seventh day rested and we keep that sign to show that we are serving the god who created everything the god who created in six days rested on the seventh day thank you oh all right so jump back in my notes now exodus 13 i read a minute ago so we're talking about the unleavened bread the piece of passover he says it is a sign a mark in your hand and on your forehead we have we've you know i just mentioned all these different signs kind of as they it popped into my head as i hadn't put them in my notes but let me jump in here now keeping passover is a sign on our hand and our forehead and so people who don't keep passover are missing the mark of god in their hand and their forehead have you ever thought about that when yeshua came at the last supper what did he say to his disciples he said do this in remembrance of me he's told them to keep passover do this you're sitting at a passover table eating unleavened bread with his disciples he said do this in remembrance of me he's telling them to keep passover we flip over first corinthians what does paul say remember first corinthians 5 what does paul say about passover for christ our passover was sacrificed for us therefore let us keep the feast not with the unleavened bread or malice or wickedness or not with the love and a malice wickedness but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth right we have numerous places throughout the bible where we are told to keep the passover we're reminded about it several times through the torah we see that they had to keep paso they kept passover before they went into the promised land too so after deuteronomy moses dies there joshua is taking them into the promised land right what's the first thing they do when they get there they circumcise their kids and they ate the passover it's interesting is it not the connections between passover our salvation the mark of god i think it's also interesting when you think about a three and a half year time frame you know we see that the time frame of the the antichrist things that are going to be taking place is three and a half years right there's 42 months 1290 days 1335 days these are all referring to a time frame of three and a half years we believe that the the spring feasts were about yeshua's first coming we believe the fall feasts have to do with the second coming the feast of trumpets announces his return the day of atonement is a day of judgment the reading of the book of life the feast of tabernacles is a celebration of the ingathering bringing his people in gathering the harvest at the end of the year well what is three and a half years prior to those events we're coming up on the fall feast now right they're going to be coming around the corner in the next but in september we're going to start having they have trumpets they have atonement then in october we're gonna have a piece of tabernacle so back up three and a half years and where do you land passover right so what do you do to receive the mark of god you celebrate passover he says you receive the mark of god in your hand in your forehead revelation let me back up to revelation 7 again i saw another angel ascending from the east having a seal of the living god and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels who to whom it was granted to harm the earth and the sea saying do not harm the earth the sea or the trees till we have sealed the servants of god on their foreheads and i heard the number of those who were sealed 144 000 of the tribes of israel were sealed so when when do you think the ceiling might take place i wonder i really wonder if it's going to take place at passover i have a you know i'm not i'm not prophesying or anything i'm not telling you this is a fact i'm speculating here and i know i told you a minute ago i don't like to speculate but i think it's a very good likelihood highly probable that god is going to mark his people at passover i think this is going to happen right before we see all these events take place when the antichrist comes to power and he starts leading people into taking the mark and worshiping the image and all those kind of things i think the the beginning of that three and a half year time period i think we're going to receive something at passover some kind of a mark some kind of a sign from god who is and who are not and so more than ever we should be seeking to keep passover making it a priority in our life if you haven't before i would encourage you to start this next passover the next this next spring start practicing passover is who knows which spring which passover it might be that this could take place so the bible also gives us another sign on our hand and our forehead this is in deuteronomy chapter 6 verses 4-9 it says here o israel the lord our god the lord is one you shall love the lord your god with all your heart with all your soul with all your strength and these words which i command you today shall be on your heart you shall teach them diligently to your children and shall talk about them when you sit in your house when you walk by the way when you lie down and when you rise up you shall bind them as a sign on your hand what are we binding as a sign on our hand the commandments of god these commandments that we are to talk about when we lie down when we arise when we walk out by the way when we sit at home when we talk to our children every part of our life should be wrapped up in this what are god's commandments talking about them teaching them to everybody we encounter it should be our whole life should be revolving around what does god's word say he says this serves as a sign in your hand and as a memorial between your eyes it's a sign on your hand and a sign on your forehead is that not interesting now i know in judaism they they take the the the wrap you know the phylacteries or is that they call inflectors the the prayer box that wrapped around their arm and they wrapped around their head i don't think that's what it's talking about i don't think that's what he's talking about i don't think it says you need to tie a box on your head with a leather strap i don't think that's worth saying i think it's saying live this out live out these commandments live out god's word make it part of your life so that every aspect of your life is revolving around god's word and that is a sign on your hand in your forehead and you think about what is what is your hands for they're what you're doing your works you're picking stuff up you're moving stuff around you're writing you're shaking hands everything you do in your life it's your works what is your head that's that's where your thoughts are so the things you think about so everything you think about everything you do is wrapped up in doing god's word that's a sign it's a sign of which god you serve is it not you know people you know you grow up in churches where you know people they go to church on sunday they you know what's the phrase you you live like the world six days a week and you lived like an angel on sunday or something like that i think was so i don't remember the phrase but something along those lines lived like the devil the rest of the week lived like an angel on sunday have you guys ever heard a phrase like that i'm probably misquoting it but that's that's the attitude a lot of people have right i'm just gonna i'm gonna take this you know this one day a week and i'm gonna dedicate it to god and i'll serve him then but the rest of the week i'm just gonna do whatever i want that's not what this is talking about deuteronomy 6 is saying every part of your day a day in day out every part of your life should be revolving around god and his word his instructions living according to what he says hear israel the lord our god the lord is one you shall love the lord your god with all your heart with all your soul with all your mind with all your strength yeshua said this is the greatest commandment right these words which i command you today shall be in your heart shall be in your heart we look at what is the what is the new covenant jeremiah 31 we prophesied again i'm going off my notes so i misquote don't hold me to it jeremiah 31 what's it say right this the new covenant that i'm making with the house of israel in the house of judah is not like the old covenant that i made with their fathers which they broke this new covenant that i'm making with them is i will write my law in their heart ezekiel was at 26. he says i'm going to take out that the heart of stone and put in your heart of flesh i'm going to write my commandments on your heart and cause you to do that i'm going to put my holy spirit in you to cause you to keep my commandments so we see that our obedience and keeping his commandments and doing them and writing them in our heart not only is it a sign that we we're worshiping and following the god of the bible but it's also shows that we have the holy spirit working in our life because that's the job of the holy spirit is to write god's word in our heart to cause us to do that so when you see somebody claiming to be a christian and they're rejecting god's commandments they're rejecting the word of god they're not living like what the bible says they're living lawlessly i mean the first question that comes to my mind is are you saved have you received the holy spirit are you part of the new covenant you realize that that's supposed to be written in your heart why are you rejecting god's word which god do you serve and these words which i command you today shall be in your heart you shall teach them diligently to your children parents this is this is part of what it means teach these words diligently to your children you know we've we've grown up in a society where we let everybody else raise our kids we send them to the babysitter we send them to the daycare we send them to public school people go to church and they say well why don't you guys have a children's program the reason is because i think parents need to be involved in the children's lives we don't have a children's program here because we want the children to be part of the church not part of the children's program i actually think that's why a lot of young adults leave church they've never been part of the church they were part of the youth group they were part of the children's church they're part of the college and career class part of the singles group whatever else they were part of they were never actually part of the church they didn't grow up in church they grew up in children's class i think it's great that kids are here in the room with their parents seeing their parents pray seeing their parents worship hearing the word of god being part of the church you know i think it's great when these kids come up and give me a hug and they know my name and i know their name i think this is awesome it's the way it should be they're part of the family parents need to be raising their kids and teaching them about god not shoving them off on a sunday school teacher not shoving them off on day care raise your kids to know god teach them to know his word and to do it this is part of the commandment that we've been given and this is part of what it means to have it as a sign on your hand and on your forehead is that you teach it diligently to your kids if you're not teaching it to your kids where's that sign it says this uh you shall tell your son in that day saying this is done because of what the lord oh wait no my thing's good you shall teach them diligently to your children and shall talk about them when you sit in your house so this is your leisure time what are you spending your leisure time doing when you sit at your house are you spending your leisure time in the word of god are you spending your leisure time scrolling facebook watching netflix watching football you know what what are you spending your leisure time doing are you spending your leisure time when you sit at home meditating on the word of god talking about the word of god teaching the word of god reading the word of god studying the word of god is that what you're doing any leisure time are you doing your leisure time for some other thing serving your flesh where's the sign you shall teach them diligently to your children shall talk about them when you sit at your house when you walk by the way when you lie down when you rise up so when you're out walking around when you're in bed asleep when you first thing you do when you get up in the morning your whole life should be revolved around the word of god the commandments of god they shall serve as the sign on your hand is frontless between your eyes is a sign which god do you serve which commandments are you keeping that tells me which god you serve which commandments are you teaching your children let it serve as a sign in your life which god you serve if you're serving your flesh you're serving what you you know what do i want this is one of those questions that um i had to ask myself when i first started eating kosher when i started started eating biblically clean first thing i i i did when i went to go get pizza i looked at the menu and i thought i have a choice to make i can choose which pizza i want which pizza is going to satisfy my flesh or i can choose which pizza is going to satisfy god and please him which pizza is going to make him happy and i know this to some of you probably sounds silly but you know i used to love the the all meat meat lovers thing and every kind of if it's meat put it on there i don't even care where it came from just put it on there that was the attitude i had before because i was i was a carnivore i love meat now there's any kind of meat you can get me sticking on there then i found out hey god doesn't want you to eat every kind of meat there is he's got a list of things you can and can't eat he says these things are clean for food these things aren't and i had a choice to make i had to say well am i going to feed my flesh or am i going to do what pleases god i'm going to do what pleases myself or am i going to do what pleases god and we have these kinds of decisions all the time most of the time we're just not aware of it we're not consciously thinking am i serving my flesh or my serving god in this moment is this decision i'm making a decision i'm making because of my flesh because of my will my desires what i want i want to serve me right now the decision needs to be what does god choose what would please god how am i serving god in this moment all the time we have these kind of decisions to make am i going to serve myself or am i going to serve god am i going to serve my flesh or am i going to serve the lord which mark are you putting in your life the commandments of god serve as a sign on our hand and on our forehead we're also told to put them in our heart and to do them told to teach them to our children told to talk about them all day long the commandments of god are as this are a sign that we are the people of god you know i think one thing a lot of people are confused about when they look at religion they say well aren't most religions basically the same i mean you you have a deity that you pray to you have a list of commandments about moral morality what's right and wrong do this don't do this and you know some people come to the conclusion well all religions are basically the same you guys just call god a different name is that true what makes that not true okay obedience is part of it but i mean you know you look at all religions they tell you to obey obey their god obey their commandments i heard something but i couldn't tell what it was presence of god okay let me tell you something about our god that is unique among all other gods okay there's a lot of unique things about him one he is true god but you look at all other religions what are they doing is they are trying to strive to earn their way to heaven they're trying to strive to earn their way to god they're trying to pay off their own debts work off their own salvation what did our god do laid down his life for our sins died on a cross that's what makes ours different than all other religions and so you say well so which god do you serve right what's the difference in how you serve the different religions right you look at what it what do the muslims do well their their holy days are a lot different than what the bible says friday is their sacred gathering day catholics what is theirs there's a sunday it comes from sun god sun god worship if you look at some of the history of constantine and what he did in the the fourth century he said that all the united uh all the roman empire should be united in celebrating the venerable day of the sun why do you say that because he was a sun god worshiper he merged christianity with the pagan religion of the sun god and they started worshiping on sunday a little bit later council of laodicea the council the catholic church basically at that point council said the council led us here they said anyone found judaizing by keeping the sabbath is to be anathema it means get rid of them that could mean kicking them out it could be off with their head it wasn't real specific and both examples were present in history anyone caught judaizing by keeping the sabbath kick them out they're no longer welcome here they're not part of this faith and so we had a really hard push against the sabbath at that point right sunday became the dominant thing and today we have pretty much the majority of christians keep sunday and they don't even know why they just do it because they were told that's when you do it what's the deal what happened to the sabbath which god which god do you serve constantine was the sun god worshiper and he instituted sunday catholic church is full of idolatry there's a mixture that's taken place and remember a couple weeks ago i talked about the false prophet what is a false prophet when who comes in the name of god and teaches you to do something contrary to what god says teaches you to serve other gods church is full of them people coming in the name of god and teaching you contrary teaching you to to not follow god's commandments when i heard i've heard people preachers on tv you know the tbn preachers get up and say you don't need to keep any of the commandments not even the ten commandments really what god are you serving i mean even even in the nazarene church where i grew up they say we you got to keep the ten commandments they just get a little fuzzy on the sabbath one well you know you just gotta take a sabbath it doesn't have to be any specific day that's kind of how they get around it you're still supposed to keep the sabbath according to you know what i was raised in believing in the nazarene church you still got to keep the sabbath it's just we just happened to do it on sunday but they they say you've got to keep the commandment the ten commandments for sure you get some yahoo on tbn who says hey you don't even need to keep those if you try to keep those you're trying to trying to earn your salvation you're rejecting grace that's that's the message of a false prophet that's the message of a false teacher teaching people contrary to god's commandments teaching people contrary to god's word so we have a mark on our hand and our forehead we've talked about a few of them let's go ahead and move on ezekiel uh 9 3-6 it says now the glory of god of the god of israel had gone up from the cherub where it had been to the threshold of the temple and he called to the man clothed with linen who had the uh red the writer's in corn at his side and the lord said to him go through the midst of the city and through the midst of jerusalem and put a mark on the foreheads of the men who sigh and cry over all the abominations that are done within it this is probably one that you hadn't noticed before most of you are probably aware of the sabbath most of you are probably aware of passover most of you are probably worried of shema because we talk about it pretty regularly those things are pretty regular conversations that we have i mean the liturgy that we say each week says this serves as a sign right but this one it says put a mark on the foreheads of the men who sigh and cry over all the abominations that are done that's interesting to the others he said in my hearing go after him through the city and kill and do not let your eyes spare nor have pity utterly slay old and young men maidens and little children and women but do not come near anyone whom has the mark and begin at my sanctuary so they began with the elders who were before the temple to start right here in the temple of god anyone who is not appalled at the things that appall god anyone who is not weeping over the things that makes god weak slave that's what he says in ezekiel that's a strong word isn't it start right here with the elders in the temple and then work your way out judgment comes in the house of god first the bible says so he's going to come to us first and he's going to look at us and say do you have the mark he's going to go throughout all the congregations in the world he's first going to visit them say who has the mark of god who doesn't those who sigh and cry over the abominations that are done receive the mark of god it says sigh and cry over the abominations what abominations might those be you know you guys are familiar with the leviticus 11 right the clean and unclean says these unclean things are an abomination to you so that is that is a type of abomination that is something but i don't do we weep over it do we weep that our brothers and sisters are eating shellfish do we sigh and cry about that we don't do we how do we treat that are we are we upset and appalled i know there's been times whenever it comes on my plate i get upset i didn't order that bacon send it back but do i get upset whenever i see my brother or my mom my aunt my neighbor i weep over them putting abominations into their life does it cause us to sigh and cry about leviticus 18 22 says you shall not lie with a male as with a woman it is an abomination is that something we weep over look at the world around us today homosexuality lgbtq xyz whatever they call it it's just running rampant right everywhere you look i mean when i was a kid it was taboo 20 20 25 years ago 30 years ago it was taboo very rare would you hear of somebody being gay or lesbian or cross-dresser or transgender like i don't even think transgender is even a thing back then people weren't changing their their gender you know somebody would say you know he's kind of a but i mean it was very rare that you had somebody who was full-blown homosexual and then we look at the world today 25-30 years later we have a homosexual pastors with transgender pastors in church where where in the world did we get so sidetracked that that is even possible today what happened they're pushing it so hard in our world today that our kids think it's just normal again they're hearing it about it at school they're seeing it on tv they're hearing about it in movies and music their favorite celebrities are showing it off and out and proud about it and everybody thinks it's wonderful everybody in the world thinks it's wonderful and most christians who realize that's wrong they grumble about it they complain about it they talk about how awful it is and i can't believe this kind of nonsense has taken place do they weep over do we weep over it seeing these people take the body that god has given them the creation that god has made and turn it into an abomination doing unspeakable things do we weep over that everything related to the lgbt movement is an abomination do we sigh and cry over these things deuteronomy 7 25 says you shall burn the carved images of their gods with fire you shall not covet the silver or the gold that is on them nor take it for yourselves lest you be snared by it but is an abomination to the lord your god this is one that might be a little bit harder for us to wrap our minds around he's talking about when you go in plunder land take over the land whatever conquer land you're not to keep their idols to destroy them you don't melt down the gold and reuse it repurpose it for something else to destroy it and so when we have opportunity to benefit or to profit from something that is unrighteous unholy and godly are we seizing that opportunity to benefit from it you do the bible says it's abomination basically what he's talking about is not taking this thing that was wicked and trying to profit from it somehow trying to gain that for yourself this is idols or an abomination idols are abomination so we look at think of how many idols there are in the world you talk about the statue of liberty lincoln memorial mount rushmore talk about the vatican and all the hundreds of different idols stacked up all over the place there talk about that giant jesus in rio i don't even know how about how big that thing is but it's humongous statue of jesus south america all over the world there are idols the bible says idolatry is abomination do we weep about that do we even think about it most of the time the people who are being led astray by these various idols deuteronomy 18 9-12 it says when you come into the land which the lord is giving you you shall not learn to follow the abominations of those nations there shall be not found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire or one who practices witchcraft or a soothsayer or one who interprets omens or a sorcerer or one who conjures spells or a medium or spiritus or one who calls up the dead for all who do these things are an abomination to the lord because of these abominations the lord your god drives them out from before you i know that was a mouthful witchcraft medium spiritus necromancy palm readers aerocards new age religion it's an abomination do we recognize those things when they take place first off do we recognize the abomination when it happens and then do we weep about it weeping over the people who are being led astray by it weeping over the people who are being participating in it art we're living in a world that is just flooded with magic witchcraft and it's treated like it's child's play like it's nothing no big deal i mean we have kids who grew up in grade school reading uh harry potter right the book's this thick and you got a a ten-year-old who can't put it down i don't even read books that thick right i mean i get a book over 200 pages i'm like i don't know 200 pages is a lot i don't know if i want to read any more than that these kids get a thousand book a thousand page novel and won't put it down this is flooded with witchcraft and then you've got disney you know the magic of disney all their little magical princesses right kids grow up on this stuff and they think it's nothing no big deal are you weeping about that witchcraft fortune telling palm reading astrology horoscope speaking to the dead magic speaking of spirits all those things are abominations bible says deuteronomy 22 5 it says a woman shall not wear anything that pertains to a man nor shall a man put on a woman's garment for all who do so are an abomination to the lord your god cross-dressing it's abomination have you ever been to those those halloween parties where the guy dresses up like a cheerleader or something they think it's real cute and funny that's an abomination the bible says it's not cute for a guy to put on a skirt the bible says that's an abomination not to laugh about that not to think it's silly or whatever it's an abomination we should be weeping about that crying about that deuteronomy 25 13-16 you shall not have in your bag differing weights a heavy and a light you shall not have in your house different measures a large and a small you should not uh you shall have a perfect and just weight a perfect and just measure that your days may be lengthened in the land which the lord your god is giving you for all who do such things all who have all who behave unrighteously are an abomination to the lord your god unethical business practices is an abomination cheating people robbing people giving unfair prices for things over pricing stuff unfair unethical business practices an abomination i worked at a place like that one time it was awful the bible says that's an abomination proverbs 3 32 says for the perverse person is an abomination to the lord perverse you ever met a perverse person before any any conversation you have they can turn into something sexual right i need to change the tires on my truck and somehow they can flip that around into something sexual right perverted reverse because that's where the mind goes their mind is full of perversion so everything is perverse so paul says to the to the pure all things are pure to those who are defiled nothing is pure you can't have a simple conversation with somebody like that because everything they think about is perverse constant perversity coming out of the mouth the perverse person is an abomination of the lord you weep over that person you weep about that person's soul but they are an abomination to the lord you weep over them and cry over them pray for them you sigh and cry over the perversity in the world this whole world is so perverse everywhere you look it's it really has gotten to the point where you just about can't leave your house without being assaulted by something perverse everywhere proverbs 6 16-19 says these six things the lord hates yes seven are an abomination to him a proud look a lying tongue hands that shed innocent blood hands that shed innocent blood that one should really get your attention right now because with 60 million abortions happening every year the world is full reverse abominations things that should make us weak a proud look a lying tongue hands that shed innocent blood blood a heart that devises wicked plans feet that are swift and running to evil a false witness who speaks lies and one who sows discord among the brethren says the lord hates these things they are an abomination to him proud look lying tongue hands that shed innocent blood a heart that devises wicked lands feet they're swift and running evil a false witness who speaks lies one who sows discord among the brethren these things are an abomination god hates these things and unfortunately some of these things are things that are practiced by people who claim to be following god how can someone so discord among the brethren unless they're one of the brethren think about that an outsider can't so discord among the brethren a non-believer how would they do that hey i don't know you but i'm here to stir up some trouble it's the people inside gossiping slandering backbiting arguing causing a contention stirring up strife treating people badly where it comes from says that's an abomination proverbs 17 15 says he who justifies the wicked and he who condemns the just both of them like are an abomination to the lord injustice is an abomination our core system the world today is extremely unjust there are people you know i've heard stories about somebody breaks into a person's home to rob them they get injured and they sue the homeowner and they win that's the kind of injustice that has taken place and what that doesn't even make sense right but the the courts are full of injustice like that full of un unjust rulings do we weep over the injustice that's going on in the world today proverbs 28 9 says one who turns away his ear from hearing the law even his prayer is an abomination did you know that prayer can be an abomination this goes back to what we said earlier which god do you serve which commandments are you keeping well if you're not keeping god's law you're not keeping his commandments then who are you praying to what god are you praying to because you're not serving the god of the bible so if you're not obeying him you're not keeping his commandments you're not serving him you're not listening to what he says obeying and doing it you offer up a prayer to him how does he even know you're talking to him they may be like are you talking to me i didn't know you were my servant you haven't done anything i asked you to do yet your prayer is an abomination to him it means nothing has no effect john james the new testament writers peter they all had similar things to say about prayer and they said that the prayers of the righteous are powerful they fail much proverbs says he who turns his ear away from hearing the law is prayers and abomination see how they're contrasted verses the righteous are powerful and avail much the prayers of those who don't listen to god's commandments are worthless an abomination you're thrown in the garbage so if i ask you how your prayer life is you might want to consider these two things are you listening and obeying god if your prayers aren't getting answered that might be the first place to start we need to learn how to recognize what an abomination is so that we can understand yeshua's warning about the abomination desolation thought about that what is an abomination so many people have in their mind they've got this preconceived idea of what that might look like and i'm not convinced i think it's something different he says let the reader understand he says when you see the abomination of desolation spoken of by the prophet daniel let the reader understand why does he give us that that warning that clue say it's not what you think it is this is what he's saying we know that what daniel talked about happened at the time of antiochus a certain way and so so many people think well it's just going to be the exact same thing they're going to have a temple they're going to put up on idol zeus they're going to sacrifice a pig we know what it is as soon as we see that happen we know who the antichrist is i don't think that's it i think it's different he's saying it's gonna take some discernment that's why he says that do not be deceived do not be led astray by false prophets he said if it were even possible the elect might be deceived it's not going to be as cut and dry and as simple and as easy as we we seem to think it is i don't think the abomination desolation is going to be an idol to zeus and a sacrificed pig on the altar in the temple if it was everybody in the world would be like oh yeah that's it all right get rid of that guy he's obviously the antichrist no it's going to be something different i think it's going to be something we're going to have to watch for so that we're not led astray so we have to know what what kinds of things does god call an abomination what kinds of things displease him we have to be familiar with those things know what displeases god so that we can recognize when an abomination takes place there's abominations happening all over the place matthew 24 15 16 therefore when you see the abomination of desolation spoken by dan by daniel the prophet standing in the holy place whoever reads let him understand then those who are in judea flee to the mountains so do we weep over the abominations that make god we the world is so full of abominations these days have we just kind of gotten callous to it turned turned our eyes the other way said you know i'm just gonna ignore all that stuff out there this is this is what i see so many people in torah communities doing they say hey let's let's get a village out in the woods and cut ourselves off from the rest of the world and hide out so we don't have to look at anybody else we don't have to see the the nonsense that they're doing in the cities we don't have to know about all their horrible things they're doing we can just live in the trees live in the woods keep torah love god and ignore the world we'll just be like the amish torah people that's what a lot of people that's the attitude a lot of people in this movement seem to have yeshua said let your light shine don't don't put it under a bushel don't hide it let it shine before men so that all may see how are you going to let your light shine if you're out in the woods where you're off the grid i don't even know you're there you let your light shine best by standing out in the street corner where everybody around you is full of darkness you say hey you're living in darkness but i know where you can find some light his name is yeshua right that's how you let your light shine isn't it isn't it we talk you know you look in revelation it talks about there's going to be a couple of witnesses there's two witnesses who go they stand out in the street they prophesy they preach i'm sure they're gonna be telling people to repent sure they're gonna be telling turn to yeshua is the only way to salvation it says they're going to be killed but you know the bible says that yeshua said if you follow me you're gonna be hated by men they hated him they're gonna hate you he says don't fear men fear god whatever they plan to do to you doesn't matter greater is he who is with you than he was in the world right weapon formed against me shall prosper i'll give you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy and nothing by any means shall hurt you i've given you all authority has been given to me he says and i have given you authority right why do we want to go cower and hide in the trees when we serve the king of kings have you ever thought about that let's go hide from the world i know we've we've served god and he's great mighty and awesome god he's king of kings lord of lords and everybody's going to bow down him but let's go hide in the trees where nobody can touch us nobody can see us where we have absolutely no effect in the world it doesn't make sense when the apostles received the holy spirit in the book of acts what does it say that they receive power boldness he says you will receive power when the holy spirit comes upon you and you will go and be why witnesses in jerusalem and judea sumerian to the ends of the earth didn't say when the holy spirit comes on you go hide in the trees because you don't want somebody to steal it from you so we've got two marks mark of god mark of the beast mark of god will prevent you from taking the mark of the beast hiding in the woods is not what's going to save you getting a bunker bomb shelter is not going to be what saves you getting your life right with god making sure you're one of those ones that gets the seal the name of god written on your forehead see the difference remember earlier i said you know people they have a choice to make every day am i going to serve myself my flesh or am going to serve god do what pleases him so many people are working in their flesh they're saying hey i gotta stock up stockpile on beans and rice and water i gotta build a bomb shelter under my house stockpiled guns you know they they're working in their flesh what do i need to do to survive how can i survive how can i keep myself safe how can i keep my family self how can i i i i what are they doing it's flesh what can i do to save myself it's flesh right god led the children of israel out of egypt he gave the man to eat water from a rock the shoes didn't even wear out can you imagine walking in the desert for 40 years and your shoes not wearing out it's unheard of especially the way they build shoes these days right kind of build them to break i think the point is god is going to protect his people the thing is you got to make sure you got that seal you have the seal of god on your hand and your forehead pursue that pursue the relationship with god love the lord your god with all your heart soul mind and strength teach this to your children talk about it when you lie down when you rise up let these commandments be on your on your mind on your heart and in your actions that everything you say and do glorify him right be faithful to him serve him do what he has do his will and not your own that's what it means to take the mark of god that's how you take the mark of god that's how you will receive it by serving him but you know there's one more mark i want to talk about is real brief it's not going to take me very long at all to talk about it this is a mark also that those in religion will receive there are christians people who go to church people are religious a mark that they're going to receive on their head it's mentioned in revelation 17 5. it says on her forehead was the name written mystery babylon the great the mother of harlots and the abominations of the earth what is a harlot prostitute right in the bible churches israel religious people congregations whatever you want to call it god's people throughout the bible are referred to as a woman israel is referred to as woman the church is referred to as a woman and when the woman is unfaithful she's called an adulteress or harlot right an unfaithful church is a harlot an unfaithful people is a harlot he's an adulteress and so if you're not faithful to your god the mixing of the worship of god with the worship of baal the mixing of the worship of god with the worship of self if you mix the worship of god with anything else it's an abomination this is what israel did over and over and over read through kings chronicles all the prophets read through jeremiah read through isaiah read through what they talked about it says that because they were not faithful to god they worshiped and served other gods they didn't abandon god altogether they just mixed they didn't say you know what forget forget the god of abraham they just mixed yeah we're gonna worship the god of abraham and we're gonna do this that's what they did they didn't see anything wrong with it they thought they were doing okay the prophet would come along and say you guys are you guys are committing adultery adultery against god you're a harlot you're an unfaithful bride because you're mixing your worship and so in revelation we see this unfaithful bride receives a mark on her head says mystery babylon the great the mother of harlots and of all abominations of the earth this is the mark that's going to be on her head so i guess the question we all need to ask ourselves is which mark do you want to receive in the last days it's mark of the beast that's going to win you a trip to the lake of fire you've got the mark of uh the mother of harlots sounds like a really interesting one you've got the mark of god which one are you pursuing now which one you think sounds the nicest but which one are you actively pursuing which one do you want to receive which one are you working for a worker's worthy of his wages right you reap what you're so right which mark are you earning which one are you working for which one are you going to receive mark is a sign of ownership it's a symbol of who owns you who you serve well the mark of the beast it says is the mark of a man right the number of a man 666 is the number of a man are you serving man serving yourself serving the world who's your owner who's your master you're serving god this is the question that everybody in the church needs to be asking yourself we love you so much lord i pray that but i pray that you you would help us help us to know you more i pray that you would stir our hearts to stir our hearts with the holy spirit that you would send your holy spirit in here right now send your holy spirit among us and stir our hearts towards you lord that we would not be complacent that we would not be mediocre satisfied content with just life as it is life as we know it but the jewish stir our hearts towards righteousness stir our hearts towards holiness draw us closer to you lord i pray that we would weep over the things that make you weak rejoice over the things that make you rejoice i pray that we would be people your people that we will receive your mark your name on our forehead that when we stand before you you would say well done i couldn't faith the servant i pray that you would give us wisdom that you give us guidance and direction or lead us by your holy spirit i just ask is anyone in here feeling oppressed or depressed you kind of stand up here anyone else feeling any kind of oppression depression something weighing you down you like prayer anybody else elders and deacons would you come let's gather around and pray anyone else who would like to come gather around and pray with us as well make some room for everybody i think that was a great way to end that time of prayer thank you all right you guys feel a little bit lighter does it feel like the whatever was weighing you down it's been lifted off does anybody still feel a burden that they need prayer for has your burden been lifted [Music] is [Music] they are similar may lord bless you and keep you my lord caused his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you may the lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace you're dismissed

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