#1173 Jerusalem & Lebanon

JERUSALEM AND LEBANON tape 1173 Ariel or Ariel (pronounced differently) in the Hebrew name. It is a Hebrew, and it has, it has more than one translation. (Harel) in the Egyptian manuscripts is, as well as the Hebrew manuscripts means toe altar hearth of God. And of course a rosh (sp?) is a lion so it can be the lion of God. Which actually or also can be city. So today as we utilize it from the 29th chapter of Isaiah, it means the city of God. Jerusalem. But it also means the hearth of God. And I think, let's think on that a moment. What, what is a hearth? Well, many of you got a fireplace. It's got a hearth. A hearth in a furnace, which God's altar is in a sense for He is a Consuming Fire. Where He renders and refines people's acts such as whether it be of gold, silver, brass, wood or straw. So the hearth is the stone on which the precious ore is laid to separate the true gold, the real thing, from the fake. So within this meaning you have the sayings of Christ as well as Paul and others about testing God's children as by fire. Okay? Your deeds. So we see within this Ariel is God's return. And what this is going to be today is about His reclaiming Jerusalem and Lebanon. Bringing them back into the fold. But they experience just prior to that, which you're in that time now. Prophecy is a beautiful thing when you look at it. And so I want you to open your mind in this prophecy and understand we are talking about the city of God. Jerusalem. The one that David name Jerusalem when it was named Jebus. Because the Jebusites had formed it. An unclean birth as it is written in Ezekiel chapter 16. But yet God's favorite place in the universe. Not just earth. The universe. And the place He intends to set up His eternal home when we go into the eons of time called by most heaven. Okay? So, open your minds to the prophecies within this chapter because it will change subjects on you. Or have more than one meaning. And we will call on those as we go by. Open your Bibles if you would to Isaiah chapter 29. Isaiah chapter 29 reads verse one. "Woe to Ariel. To Ariel the city which David, where David dwelt." Where he lived. "Add ye year to year and let them kill sacrifices." You let time go on over and over and over and let those holy days come to pass and keep celebrating them. But what God is letting you know is sooner or later time is running out. Gonna be time for a little change. So, and, and this is what--you know God utilizes this. And you know, if, if they're killing sacrifices, what are they doing? They're worshipping God. Supposedly. They're, they're talking religion here. Okay? He said, `you just keep it up year after year.' And let her go there. Well, look at Jerusalem down through the years. The wars. Rumors of wars. Anxieties.

Verse two. "Yet I will distress Ariel and there shall be heaviness and sorrow. And it shall be unto me as Ariel." Now here you have to pick up on the dual meaning. In other words let me, let me just reread that and translate it for you what God is saying here. Okay? Yet I will distress Jerusalem the city of God. And there shall be heaviness and sorrow and it shall be unto me as the hearth of my furnace. The hearth of my altar. In other words, I'm going to do some refining there. I'm going to pour the cup of wrath out. I'm going to straighten some people out. I'm going to get their attention. That's what it, go ahead year after year keep on playing your sacrifices to me. But make sure they align with God's Word. That's what He's saying and meaning. Verse three. "And I will camp against thee round about and will lay seige against thee with a mount. And I will raise forts against thee." It means I'm going to conquer you. That geographical location. I'm going to take it over. I'm going to do it in. that is to say, as far that that is bad is concerned. Here is where weak minded people say `that scares me, that frightens me.' Well God's not angry at you. He's not talking to you here. He's talking to those that play church. Those that like to play sacrifice and yet they don't mean it. And they don't, (pm interrupts himself) David I've got a little bit of a ring. Can you give me a little adjustment there. (goes back to lecture). Those that play church. In that simply don't get around to serving God with their hearts to mean it. To take it seriously. To love Him. Not be afraid of Him. He's not angry with you when you try. When you love Him. You don't have, you don't have one iota of fear that you should have aligned to his fire. Even though it be a consuming fire for some. To you it's the Holy Spirit. Have you ever felt the Holy Spirit? All it does is gently warms your heart, your mind, and leads you. That's all you have to fear from God. But if you're wicked, then watch out. Burnee, burnee. Okay? That's what He's talking about here. I'm going to, I'm going to change some things. Okay? For those that keep burning sacrifices given to Me, buying their way out. So forth. Okay? Verse four. "And thou shalt be brought down and shall speak out of the ground. And thy speech shall be low out of the dust. And thy voice shall be as of one that hath a familiar spirit out of the ground. And thy speech shall whisper out of the dust." Its going to twitter. Peep, peep, peep, peep nice religious things. You're going to be lower than a snake's belly. That's what He's saying. Let me just put it in good old Arkansas language. He's saying you're going to be one sad sack because I'm bringing it down on you and you're not going to, you're going to be ashamed. And one that speaks with a familiar spirit, do you know what that is? That's demonics. Letting

evil spirits enter into your family and around it. And you're supposed to be a Christian? And you allow it? When God has given you power over Satan and over all of his operations, his, his little buddies? And you don't take advantage of it? You just let them romp? `Well they're just watching us do sacrifices.' O, are they? Well, you are supposed to take charge. Be can do type people. Don't put up with stuff. `Yes, but Christians are supposed to be forgiving.' Not to Satan! Who taught you that kind of stuff? You're forgiving to your loved ones, to your family and people that try, that are trying to do better. BUT YOU DON'T SHOW KINDNESS TO SATAN. He'll eat you alive. Okay? So beware of familiar spirits. They're kind of trying to come back into the world today. And watch that whispering, you know. There's nothing hidden from God. And when they, especially if they whisper out of the dust. Okay? That's kind of like when somebody's supposed to go back to dust-- you want to talk to them? Of course not. Not from the dust you don't. Verse five. "Moreover the multitude of thy strangers" translate that enemies, okay? The multitude of thy enemies "shall be like unto small dust" like blowing dust. There's going to be that many of them. "And the multitude of the terrible ones" the tyrants "shall be as chaff that passeth away. Yea it shall be in an instant suddenly." The word instant here is patha (sp?) and it means the wink of an eye. That should bring another Scripture to mind to you. It should bring to mind 1 Corinthians chapter 15 verse 52. What happens at the wink of an eye there? We are changed instantly. He said, its going to end. There is a moment fixed in time that this is going to change. And I have every intention of changing it. Letting you, He's forewarning you. I'm going to do it. And the, you don't have to worry, even if your enemies are as thick as the dust, do you think that God isn't in control? You're His servant, what are you worried about? It doesn't matter how thick they are. It doesn't matter how many of them there are. We have the power and that power is the power that God invested in us to control our lives to be in charge of ourselves, lives, and to conquer that that is evil. Whereby you stand above it. You don't have to worry about it. You're basically immune to it. You have been inoculated with an inoculation that prohibits anything negative scorching you. That inoculation is called the Holy Spirit. And as long as you follow the Holy Spirit and take as it is written in St. John chapter 14 that He will remind you or call to mind, your memory, all these things if they get in your way. You'll know. Your unction will be to know when to stiffen your back and to straighten things out. Okay? That's the way our Father operates. He has an instant in time, a blink of an eye that, that's what (?) in the Hebrew tongue means. Like a wink. Just that (pm snaps his fingers) quick. Its going to happen. Too late to

change minds then my friend. Got it? Okay? But again, you don't anything to worry about. He's your Father and fathers do not hurt children that are obedient. Alright? Or correct them I should say. Verse six. "Thou shalt be visited of the Lord of Hosts with thunder and with earthquakes" have you ever wondered about those seven thunders in the book of Revelation? They're coming. "and great noise and storm and tempest and the flame of devouring fire" and that flame of devouring fire is our Father. So what are you worried about? If you say you are worried about God then I feel sorry for you. You just don't understand His love toward you when you serve Him. He's not going to let something bother you. He's going to take care of it that that you can't. He expects, he expects you to stomp little ants yourself. That that you can take care of. Okay? Don't let them get into your sugar. Okay? And you'll do fine. But what you can't take care of, He'll take care of it for you. Okay? That is if you love Him. That's up to you. You can play church all you want to, but leave His word out of the equation and allow familiar spirits to bring strange doctrines into your mind, and you're a lost soul. God will cut you off like (pause) He didn't want you. And do you know something? He wouldn't. Verse seven. "And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel" and here we have to translate it Jerusalem, or Israel even if you would "and even all that fight against her and her munitions and that distress her shall be as a dream of a night vision." It, all its going to amount to is its going to like to seem like all of her enemies is like they, it was a bad dream. Why? God is going to take care of business. He's going to clean house. Don't ever waste your time worrying or being frightened of what the future brings. You have the promises. You have the guarantee in the Son that He loves you. And that He will take care of you, and that's exactly the way you should treat the fear in your heart of the Consuming Fire--its just a bad dream to those that don't love God. That's the way its going to be. And it will be worse than a bad dream to them quite frankly. Verse eight. Listen carefully. "It shall even be as when an hungry man dreameth and behold he eateth, but he awakened and his soul" that is his nephesh "his soul is empty. Or as when a thirsty man dreameth and behold he drinketh but he awaketh and behold he is faint and his soul" his nephesh "hath appetite. So shall the multitude of all the nations be that fight against Mount Zion." giving it the geographical location. Did you note something there? That their soul, when they wake up from all of this sacrifice and listening to the whispers--their soul is empty. What? There's

nothing there. They have no depth. They're, they're a sheep gone astray and they have not the comforter, the Holy Spirit. They have not that power and authority that He brings you. That He gives you. So, just empty. But did you notice that it did say that they had an appetite? The second time when they wake up they have an appetite. Are you able to solve that? Can you help that just a little bit? Have you got a little morsel of Truth that you might assist them with? That you might help them just a little bit with? Because they're going to wake up hungry and wonder what happened. How, how was I misled? Why would I listen to the sayings of men and little whisperers--you know like on the internet and stuff like that? You know, the internet can be used if you have a good mind. But if you get on and listen to garbage. Garbage in, garbage out. You turn into garbage yourself. I mean, do you believe in documenting what someone says? `Well, I saw it in print.' O well, great (sarcastic) Isn't that something? You know, let me sell you the Brooklyn Bridge. Let me give you a free trip ticket to hell. Okay, because that's where those things lead to. You have to document everything. Don't be, do you know what happens when you pass on garbage that you haven't documented? You're one of those that speak with an unfamiliar spirit. How do you think God feels towards you? If you are passing out undocumented garbage to Christians, trying to steal their souls, you're a spiritual murderer in God's eyes. That's pretty serious stuff, my friend. Make sure that what you pass out, what you teach others, that you document it in the Word of God. That you are doing His will. No more. No less. In the simplicity which Christ teaches. Period. That's all. And we go with verse nine. "Stay yourselves" I mean, hang on. Stay yourselves "And wonder. Cry ye out and cry. They are drunken but not with wine. They stagger but not with strong drink." How many people, do you just walk up and in average of not, not necessarily belonging to your church or of your faith but you just walk up to on the street and start talking Bible with them. What do they know? I mean, I am talking about this generation. Okay? And many passed as far as that is concerned. But they are in a stupor. And who put the stupor there? Verse ten. "For the Lord poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep and hath closed you eyes. The prophets and your rulers, the seers hath He covered." He's blinded them. In a sense, that blindness comes innocence as far as worshipping antichrist. Which is where we are about to get to here. As long as they are ignorant to the fact, but you see, once you know the Truth and you return back to the other its like a dog going back to its vomit as the way Paul puts it. Or is it Peter? Whichever. Okay? New Testament teaching. Or

maybe I better correct it and say like an old sow returning to her wallow after you get her cleaned up and put a ribbon on her. That's what its like. Stay with your Father's Word. Its so simple. Again, a child can understand it. It's a matter of discipline in your mind to taking, being a captain of your ship. And your ship is your body. Okay? And mind. Verse eleven. "And the vision of all is become upon, become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed. Which men deliver unto one that is learned saying `read this, I pray thee.' And he saith `I cannot for it is sealed.'" And naturally you know, let's take the book of Revelations which unlocks all of God's Word. It is sealed. It is sealed to some. But there are some that, who, Who opens the seals for man? Okay. Chapter six the great book of Revelations the Lamb of God opens the seals and explains them. Some of us have understood those seals for fifty years and longer. And for them you are able to recognize the trumps when they come to pass. But you're not going to recognize them until you understand the seals. And then there is a given time that the four winds are released again. And that's what's important for this moment. What we taught as Passover. And the four winds are loosed at the sixth trump. Okay. Verse twelve. "And the book is delivered unto him that is not learned saying `read this, I pray thee'. and he saith `I'm not learned'" I can't read. I don't know what it says. Why would somebody when they knew they couldn't read say read it. Because you have some people that go around today saying, `I didn't need a teacher, I've got the Holy Spirit teaching me every word of God's Word leading me.' That's a lie. You've got to, Christ is the Living Word. Once you study the Word, the Holy Spirit will give you unction and to understand. But this is the way that people get off into fields of the unfamiliar spirit. Heresay. Traditions of men rather than what is, I'll use an old Saxon word rote. That's, that's, that's what you have to learn by with the unction of the Holy Spirit. Verse thirteen. "Wherefore the Lord said `for as much as these people draw near Me with their mouth and with their lips do honor Me, but have removed their heart far from Me and their fear toward Me is taught by the precept of men." by their traditions of men. You know, this is why its so important to teach God's Word chapter by chapter and verse by verse. That way you are studying God's Word and not the words of man. And do you know something? You would be surprised how many people have apparently didn't even go to a Sunday school class? Because if you say `Eve did not eat an apple?', they're going to say, `Well, that's not true. Its right there in the Book of God.' O? Well, show me where. It isn't. Its not there. But

they have listened to traditions of men for so long that they don't know what the Word of God says. And that's sad. That is really sad because He wrote this letter especially to you. His children. He wanted you to read it. Not somebody else. He wanted you to read it. And with understanding in the simplicity in which He gave it. When you, if you were to take Titus chapter one, which you only have, verse fourteen, it tells you not to listen to the commandments of men. They'll mess you up. Okay? Verse fourteen. "Therefore, behold I will proceed to do a marvelous work among this people. Even a marvelous work and a wonder for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish. And the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid." They're going to be fooled. In other words, there is a place in Isaiah where it says `I'm, all your leaders are going to, have the minds of children.' and act like children. And so many do. And we see these prophecies as they come to pass. And we see many foolish things done. You know, like they will say, there's a debate going on at this time about sexual offenders. `what should we do with them?' Well, why not read your Bibles? It says kill them! Hang them up! String them up! Do you know something? Your children are safe after that. And what does God say about it in Deuteronomy chapter 29? He says, nineteen rather. Others will see and learn and these things will stop happening among you. That's what you do about it. And many might say, `Well, Jesus changed that.' No, He didn't. In Matthew chapter five He said `I haven't changed one jot'. That's to say the sound of one letter of the law. And then He continues on, what is it, in verse 25, 23 somewhere along in there, He says, `You have heard that if one kill'-well, you see you need your Strong's Concordance and you need to take that word kill back to the Greek. And you find it is foniance (sp?) which means commit's a criminal homicide they're going to burn. Their chances of burning are real good. That's what He says. Of course God is the judge. We are not going to judge people. That's why there is a great white throne of judgment and that's when the final trial for a murderer takes place. Not here on earth. Okay? So, so Jesus (pauses) so, so what about the minds of people when they argue `Well, we can give them life'. `No, no we could put a bracelet on them.' you know "and we could track them. That way maybe they couldn't hurt babies.' No, you put a bracelet around their neck and jerk it. Okay? Then they can't hurt children any longer. That's what God's word says to do with it. And some are going to say "where?". Well, I told you. Numbers 35 tells you what to do with them. But, where, where are their minds? Why would you turn a predator like that loose on little kids and wonder how you're going to keep him from bothering them when you're going against God's Word? Against His Law. What I'm saying is they have the minds

of babes and no common sense. And its written. All they had to do is read the letter that God has sent us and you wouldn't have those things happening. I guarantee you not by the same people. They would not be around to participate. Okay? Verse fifteen. "Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the Lord and their works are in the dark and they say `who seeth us? And who knoweth us?'" God does. Okay? Always be honest with God. Well, and you know something? There's not one of us that doesn't do things at times that you kind of have to go to Him and say `Lord, I think I messed up.' As a matter of fact, I know I did. And I just want You to forgive me and on and so forth. Be honest with Him. In other words, what, what can you hide from God when He knows what you're thinking? That's foolish to think you can hide something from God. That's why you always want to be open with Him because He already knows. "surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potters clay. For shall the works say to Him that made it `He made me nought'. Or shall the thing say of him that formed it" framed it rather "He had no understanding". He didn't know what He was doing. God made me but He sure didn't know what He was doing. Now who could say something like that? You wouldn't have much pride in yourself would you? And you know, God is the Creator. We are the created. And God loves us. So you wouldn't want to argue with the Potter when you're the clay, would you? And it even goes a little deeper in the Hebrew manuscripts. It says who want to change the Potter Himself and call Him clay? I mean, that's, that's riskay. You want to listen to your Father. You know, as much as He loves you, as much as He wants that personal walk with you, to be in step with you--how could you be afraid of Him? Or how could you, how could you want to argue with Him, when we get down to this parable of the potter you can't get any plainer of saying He's It. He's in charge. Its going to happen the way He said it. Well, you know why? Its for our betterment. it's the best thing in the world for us is to go by His plan. Not the plan of man okay? Verse seventeen. "It is not yet a very little while" now listen to me. Wake up for me. "It is not yet a very little while and LEBANON should be turned into a very fruitful field. And the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest." In other words, that that you think is a fruitful field today when God returns and rejuvenates everything is going to seem like a forest compared to what it will be like then. Beautiful. Wonderful. The rejuvenation of this world. And as you can better understand then why Paul would say in Romans chapter 8 the creation itself groans for the day He returns and accomplishes just this. You want to watch Lebanon. God loves that place. What, what does it mean? when you say Lebanon what are you

saying? White. Because it is mountains. In the wintertime why would they call those mountains white? Because its got snow on the top, okay? (pm laughs) and they're white with snow. And they why would you call them white in the springtime? Because there's limestone up there and they're white. Alright. So they named them white mountain and that's what Lebanon means. But most of all, because of what grows there. Satan always wanted to be one of those cedars of Lebanon but all he was was a plain old box cedar. That's like one of them little old salt cedars you see down on Red River. Okay? A little old twisted scrub. That's what satan is in God's eyes. He's not one of those gigantic cedars of Lebanon. That fragrance of fresh cedar that protects, even protects against insects and things of that nature. God loves Lebanon. But Lebanon has been called to the forefront here and in all end time prophecies. Right now today for the last thirty years the Syrian army, the old army of the Assyrian if you'd really like to bring it up to date and think a little bit, has been their protector. How would you like to have a fox protecting your chicken house for thirty years. You might come up missing some chickens. Okay? Well, they pulled out and it leaves a vacuum. You're going to see problems from Hezbollah and many other things. No doubt transpire in Lebanon at this time. it's a ticking time bomb. But watch it closely. God has His eye on the place. You are going to see things happen there. But right now, do you understand what I am saying its basically, they have no army to speak of and they don't have all that strong of a police force. So watch Lebanon. But the main thing is, know what is written. He's going to rejuvenate it and its going to be a fresh, wonderful place. Verse eighteen. "And in that day shall the death hear the day of the book and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity and out of darkness." God's going to pull back their scales and they are going to know and they're going to see the Truth. You know when that is, its at His return of course. "The meek also shall increase their joy in the Lord and the poor" that is to say the oppressed. Not, don't, don't translate it poor. It will mislead you. Oppressed. Those that are oppressed by the bad happies. "Among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel." it's a good day coming. It truly is. "For the terrible one is brought to nought." The antichrist is going to be done in. zippo. Nothing. "And the scorner is consumed and all that watch for iniquity are cut off." Those that like to plan crime in the night. They're, the fact that they wake and watch in the night for the opportunity to that that is evil. He's, I'm going to fix their wagon. I'm going to put a stop to it. Verse twenty one. "That make a man an offender for a word." They're misleading. They'll put something out there that is so untrue and

yet people will say "Did you read that!?!" Not me boy. "And lay a snare for him that reproveth at the gate." They try to rig judgeships . They try to bring wrong judges into power. And they boycott any judge that is a Christian that loves the Lord, that loves the Word of God. Where that we have a bunch of fake judges and they control things. They're the judgeship. "that reproveth in the gate". That's where judgeship is done. That's what the saying means. "and turn aside the just for a thing of nought." in confusion, the just can, how can you fight that? Because of the confusion. Weeeellll, (pm stretches the word out) thank goodness through the Father you fight it and we win. Never be a defeatist when God has given you the power and the authority over all that's evil. You don't, you don't have anything to worry about. We win. Okay? Why? He's our Father. Twenty two. "Therefore, thus saith the Lord who redeemed Abraham concerning the house of Jacob" that is all of the natural seed "Jacob shall not now be ashamed neither shall his face now wax pale." He's going to be proud and he's going to be serving our Father. Why? Because he understands the Word now. Its open and they see clearly where they went wrong. With understanding. And thank God for the remnant of God's elect that see the seals. And the seals have been broken and opened. Opened on some a long time ago so they could teach others and others can teach others. They keep breaking open. Opened by who? Man? No, by the Lamb. The Lamb of God. Revelation 6:1. It wasn't angels that pass out seals. it's the Lamb of God and He's been doing it for a long time. He paid an awesome price to be able to do that. He paid that price on the cross and those that He opens their eyes to those seals, He expects them to utilize it. Verse twenty three. "But when He seeth His children" this is to… "the work of Mine Hands" when Jacob the head of Israel sees his children the work of My hands, that's the potter talking. Okay? That's our Father "in the midst of Him, they shall sanctify My Name and sanctify the Holy One of Jacob and shall fear the God of Israel." They're going to respect, revere Me. Not the false Christ. They're going to know the Truth. They're not going to follow familiar spirits or gobbledygook. They're going to take the Letter of God and read it chapter by chapter and verse by verse. Instead of traditions of men that make void the Word of God. Its coming my friend. There's an instant, an instant coming. At the blink of an eye. That quick. Too late then to change minds. Be careful my friend. Verse twenty four. "They also that erred in spirit shall come to understanding and they that murmured shall learn doctrine." shall

learn in the Hebrew `an acceptable truth'. And what is that acceptable truth? it's the word of God. And the Word of God is so strong. So prevalent. Do you know something? It changes your life beloved. It gives you strength, power and will to accomplish what God would have you accomplish. To be a comfort and a pleasure to mankind. Why? How do you comfort them? By giving them Truth. Solidity in life not a bunch of foolishness. Not a bunch of nonsense. Not something that stirs trouble. But that solidifies life itself in the way God created us to be happy. To understand. To know. And to lead and to direct through His Word. Lebanon again comes to me in another Scripture where God gives His Name in the great book of Hosea. Hosea means, the very word itself means salvation. Are you saved? Do you know how to find salvation? True salvation? Well, God told a story by using a man Hosea and told him to go marry a harlot that had a bunch of illegitimate children. And by the harlot he had a child or two. And within that story is locked the Truth like the first child of the marriage was Gomer. And it means a sowing or a scattering like I am going to scatter your children Israel. And then there was a girl baby born and He said name her Loruhamma. And Lo in Hebrew means not, no way. And ruhamma means mercy. What God is saying there's not going to be any mercy here to these lost children. They're scattered. And then there was a boy named. Born and named from this harlot. And would you believe God told a man to go and marry a harlot? Well, He did. That's what the book of Hosea is about and it means the Hebrew word salvation. Hosea. Yashua. Okay? Got it? And He named the boy, He said you name him LoAmi. Well, Ami in the Hebrew tongue means people. And Lo, not my people. They're scattered. They're talking against Me. I don't want them in that light or where, where they are like that. Call them Loami. Not my People. And as Zachariah, in the great book of Hosea as they come together, He said you call her not Loruhamma but you call her Ruhamma. Mercy. I'm going to show mercy on her. She's My child. And then He said, you call Loami, don't call him Lo any more for they are My people. And He was gathering together that so that you understand where we are picking up here in the fourteenth chapter of the great book of salvation Hosea in the Minor Prophets. "O Israel return unto Me, unto the Lord thy God for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity." I mean, by your faults. You messed up. "Take with you words and turn unto the Lord. Say unto Him, take away all iniquity" sin "and receive us graciously. So will we render the calves of our lips." We will be with you Father because we love you. Verse three. "Asher shall not save us." The Assyrian wouldn't. tiasher is satan. There is no way that something wicked could save you. "We will not ride upon horses neither will we say anymore to

the works of our hands `ye are our gods'. for indeed the fatherless findeth mercy." who are the fatherless? The orphans. Those that are scattered. Those today that, how many people can read God's Word and He says, I promise you I'm going to make Israel as numerous as the stars of heaven and the sands of the sea. And most people take one little tribe and put all of God's children in that and they don't even know who they are. And where did they scatter? Why, why is it when you reach into your pocket you pull out a coin that says `In God We Trust". And why is it that God has blessed this nation as the only great super power of the end times? Did He mess up? Did He forget something? No, man did. But God leads His own. He chooses His own to follow Him. They were orphans and that's the whole story of the book. These children by this harlot. Because she went whoring after other gods. Verse four. "I will heal their backsliding. I will love them freely for My anger has turned away from him." Because of the wicked one. Now I can love my children. "I will be as the dew upon Israel. He shall grow as the lily and cast forth his roots as Lebanon." Boy those old cedars roots can reach out there and grab it. Okay? They can be strong. "His branches shall spread and his beauty shall be as the olive tree and his smell as Lebanon." That beautiful fresh cedar. Its just, it doesn't get any better. "They that dwell under the shadow shall return. They shall receive as the corn, (pm corrects himself) revive as the corn and grow as the vine. The scent thereof shall be as the vine of Lebanon." God loves that place. Why its next to the very place He chose as His favorite spot in the universe. Again, you'll find that written in Ezekiel 16. "Ephriam shall say `what have I to do anymore with idols?' I have heard Him and observed Him." who did he hear? God. And what did God say? Listen carefully. "I am like a green fir tree. From Me is thy fruit found." so God Himself says I'm like a great cedar. I'm like a great fir tree. Why? Well, its real simple. Find you a little old oak out here somewhere and tell me what happens to it in the wintertime. The leaves are not everlasting are they? They take a little break. They dry up and blow away. And somebody's got to do some leaf raking. But an old evergreen is forever and that's what God is saying. You know a lot of people take a Christmas tree and put it in their house. And they don't know that God Himself said I'm a great evergreen. Great fir tree. Symbolism? Yes. But freshness and the pureness symbolic of eternal life. There it is. Don't let idiots rob you of God's truth. Of God's words. Verse nine. "Who is wise?" are you? "Who is wise and he shall understand these things? Prudent, and he shall know them. For the ways of the Lord are right and the just walk in them. But the

transgressors shall fall therein." it is written. He wrote it. He sent to us. We have it and we are to live by it. Its your choice. Your life. Your ship and you're the captain. And much advice will be poured upon you. Do you listen to it? Or do you listen to God's word? In your life, which comes first? Chatter and whispering or God's Word? Who is the final boss? It better be God's Word then you, I will be looking at a happy person. But if you listen to the traditions of men that make void the Word of God. I said make void. Do you know what make void means? It won't work for you. Prayers won't be answered. `Well, I just pray, and pray, and pray.' (sarcastically said) Have you gone back to God's Word and thanked Him, repented totally. Have you anointed yourself and your home if its sick? That's what He said to do. Have you done it? `well, I didn't know about that.' (sarcastic) Well, you didn't read His letter. Its that simple. Anyway, you know, I thank our Father that we don't have to be afraid of anything other than fear itself. We know where to go. If there's trouble we know how to do one of two things. You see man only fears the unknown. Alright? When you know there's a big old tree coming up down here in the road, what are we going to do? Well, we can go over it, under it, around it or we can saw that sucker into little pieces and throw it out of the road. We can always plan and win. We can always take care of business. Especially when we have His knowledge and His help. Heavenly Father, we thank You Father for Your Word, for Your Truth, for this Letter. Father we thank You for the warnings that You give us concerning the end times and we will watch Lebanon. We will watch Jerusalem at this time Father as Your passages, that instant comes to pass Father. We thank you for foreknowledge for prophecy in Your Word. In Jesus Name we pray. Amen. Amen. Amen.