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Welcome everyone. It's Friday, and that's when I've taken to doing these live streams, and I really appreciate all the fellowship. I see so many people here already. 67. That's awesome. Thank you all for coming. And, uh, we're going to talk today about repentance. And I have to tell you, I sort of had a freefall experience the other day when I was doing this video, uh, for y'all. I think it was actually yesterday that I uploaded it.
And there's this 40 days of time that appears between the Feast of Trumpets, September 23rd of this year, 2025, and November 1st, which is the beginning of the Days of Noah and the potential day when we'll be changed from mortal to immortal and, you know, enter the ark, as it were, um, before the floods come on November 9th. So anyway, I was looking at those 40 days and I went, "This is just crazy how these things sort of show up." 40 days, and it's right there at the right time, the appropriate meaningful time when we would expect something like that to be there. But it had never occurred to me that there would be a significant period of time between the Feast of Trumpets and when we're expecting to see the sign of the dragon and, you know, our change and all of that.
So, uh, it was one more freefall experience for me, and, uh, yes, um, very close now says it definitely feels like we're in the final stretch. It really does. There is a kind of a spiritual sense, a sort of a spiritual atmosphere that, um, I'm just really picking up on, and I've heard other people say similar things. So, I really do think we're getting into that final, final stretch. And, you know, that has got me a little nervous, actually. Um, because if we're going to see things unfold the way I'm sort of seeing things in the book of Revelation, once, uh, the Feast of Trumpets hits and we're in a 40-day period of time, u, typically symbolically, 40 days has always been, um, the number that's associated with trial, with testing, with a probationary period. Um, and along with this probationary period, of course, and this time of repentance or testing, there's always grace and mercy. That's the cool thing is that the reason for this period of time is so that God can extend mercy. And as I was thinking about this, um, you know, this extension of mercy during a time of repentance, I started just musing on who, who is this addressed to? Who are, who are these 40 days? Who are they aimed at? And, uh, so I'd like to get some of your ideas in the comments there. Um, who do you think is, is the groups or the people that are going to need to, uh, engage in repentance? That would be, um, my question. Are we talking about believers? Are we talking about unbelievers? We talking about Israel? Talking about the world? Um, you know, who, who needs to repent and what do we need to repent of? And, uh, you know, we as, as human beings, as humanity. So, um, we got some, uh, answers coming in. Very close now says, "Lukewarm." Cloudy says, "All of us." Karen C, "All of us, lukewarm." Uh, Taniah, "Everyone. Uh, Catholics, Muslims, all of us believers."
You know, I, um, at first, I was thinking, well, this is an opportunity for non-Christians. And, and I always think, yes, it's an opportunity for non-Christians to, uh, come to the Lord and, you know, receive Him and, um, you know, become a child of God, a son of God. But then I'm thinking, you know, the people who really need to, um, engage in a time of repentance is probably believers. And I'll tell you why I'm saying that. In the beginning, when I, you know, for years, I was a, a classic pre-tribulational dispensational, uh, believer, years and years, and it was in Calvary Chapel and all of that. So I know that I know the drill there with all of that, and, uh, used to teach that too. So, at a certain, for, for a little while, and I don't anymore. But I remember when I, all of a sudden realized that the seven-year tribulation was kind of a man-made construct. It was something that people developed to create an eschatology, but it really wasn't there in the Bible, not the way people say. And I realized that everybody's, you know, eschatology is based on this. Okay, this is the framework. Seven years is a framework. And, uh, I remember the day that I realized that it wasn't exactly biblical. And, um, I had two, two feelings that went through, through my heart. First was this: I was mad. I was angry because I'd kind of been lied to. Not intentionally, but I'd been misguided, misdirected. And so, this is one of the reasons why my theology or my eschatology was like all over the map when it came to finding where do you get this in the Bible? You know, I, you know, you have to just pick and choose certain passages, but like Revelation, for example, you never see, or it's almost impossible to take the, uh, seven-year tribulation, uh, eschatology and figure out how it goes into the book of Revelation. Okay. So, I was mad.
And then the second thing, the second thing I felt was really a freefall. It was a freefall experience because if there isn't a seven-year tribulation, what is there? And there's obviously something. I don't know what it is. So, along the way, I've had a whole bunch of these freefall experiences. Another one was when I realized that, you know, "once saved, always saved." That's true. Everybody's saved. But when it comes to sons, sons of God who have an inheritance to gain, you can be saved and totally lose your inheritance. And that when we come across passages that, like in Hebrews, that we tend to think are about losing salvation, they're not about losing salvation at all. It's about losing your inheritance. And, uh, and then I started thinking about all the, all the people who teach that, you know, as long as you're born again, you're in, and that's good. And there's, you know, "once saved, always saved," and that's true. But they don't say anything about what you can lose if you're not living faithfully. Okay? And I'm not saying again, you have to be perfect. You have to do everything 100%. You know, you know, be this really holy person. What I'm saying is that you're always true and loyal to the Lord, okay? That He's, He's, He's the center of your world, as much as you allow the Holy Spirit to be working in your life, you're choosing Jesus every day. That's what faithfulness is. And I, I like to use it with the example of being married because I'm faithful to my husband, and he's faithful to me. That doesn't mean we're perfect. I'm a perfect wife, or he's a perfect husband. It means that we're faithful to each other. Okay? It's not about perfection. It's about loyalty. And I realized, you know, there's a lot of people who were told that you've been born again, you're good to go. As long as you know Jesus, you're good to go. And that is not the truth. Now, you can be one day old in the Lord, an hour old in the Lord, and if you're faithful to Christ for that whole hour, praise the Lord, you're good to go, and you'll have your reward. But honestly, there are people who just are turned lukewarm, slip-sliding away, and, um, you know, they can't expect that they're going to have the inheritance of ruling and reigning when they haven't submitted to any of the training. Okay?
And, um, you know, I, I, um, I'm just going to kind of look at, um, some of the comments here because I can see quite a few are whizzing by, and that looks like there's a lot of good comments. Um, uh, Sister Susie says, "I don't think it's so much repentance for the, uh, 24, but for the priests and kings as it is for our sanctification." Yeah. Um, then Maria says, uh, "Those who are deeply religious but believe in false gods, unbelievers after seeing things unfold." Um, you know, turning from sin, iniquity, um, we all fall down, um, so on and so forth. Um, uh, all right. So, um, there's a kind of repentance that I call Christian repentance, and it isn't where Christians repent of sin. Okay? It's where we have a change of mind or a change of heart. It's not anything about our moral character. We might be, you know, walking, walking with the Lord and, um, you know, living, you know, to the best that we know how, uh, you know, faithfully according to the light that we have, and then the Lord will come along, and He'll show us something. So, for example, one of the things that He showed me was this whole idea of the inheritance that you can be saved and still lose the inheritance. You don't lose salvation. You're not going into the lake of fire, but you're not going to rule with Christ. Okay? You can lose that. And that was a freefall experience for me. And I had to repent. I had to repent of the belief that it doesn't matter how you live. The important thing is that you're born again. Okay? And that's an error. It's not true. And it's not supported anywhere really in the Bible. You have to really pick and choose your verses to come out with a, um, a doctrine that says it doesn't matter how you live, that all you'll lose are some rewards, like you're, you know, people are thinking like rewards are little trinkets or something. No, the reward, uh, we receive the inheritance as our reward. That's what Paul says in Colossians. The inheritance is our reward.
So, I have a feeling that there is going to be a number of Christians who all of a sudden have an "aha" freefall moment. God is going to be showing them something that's different than what they have believed all these years, and they have to make a choice. And most of us really hate the freefall moment. We really hate it when we're like stepping out into the void and we don't know if there's, if anybody's going to catch us out there. We would rather have the safety of our false, you know, understanding than believe something that's true and scary. We, we just try to protect ourselves like at any cost. And Jesus had words about that. He said, you know, "If you want to save your life, you're going to lose it." And they're, you know, holding on to old doctrines is one way that we try to save our life. We try to protect ourselves from anxiety and fear and really having to learn something new. Um, you know, all of these things are are are ways that Christians need to to engage in repentance. Um, and it's not about, you know, stopping stealing or something like that. It's about opening up our hearts and minds to being taught of the Lord, letting Him share with us. And, uh, one of the things that I think we really need to repent of is our leaning on tradition. Um, whether it's, you know, these Jewish traditions that have found their way into Christian eschatology, or the traditions of men that come down through denominationalism, um, things we don't even know are traditions. We just think it's spiritual. We think it's, uh, you know, these are Christian, um, practices, and but if you try to find, um, the source of, um, they, most of them are not, they don't originate with the scriptures. And I think there's going to be a lot of repentance of those kinds of things, of the traditions of men that we've held on to and, you know, sought security in those kinds of things. And now is a really good time to start seeking the Lord about this and asking Him, "Where in your life, my life, have we been wanting to keep our life spiritually, eschatologically safe, okay? And not engage into, you know, out there where we don't know what's going on, where we don't think we know what's going on." So, yeah.
And now I understand what you're saying. Repentance from wrong thinking and doctrinal untruth and anything that doesn't align with Jesus. That's exactly right. It's about, um, uh, it's about getting a straight road in front of us. You know, Jesus is trying to get us to walk a straight path. And a lot of times we just kind of keep veering, um, you know, from one side to another, tossed to and fro by every wind of doctrine. And, you know, we need to have that straight view in front of us and to allow the Spirit of God to correct and straighten us out. Like I had crooked teeth. I had some of the worst crooked teeth when I was a kid. And I, um, my parents were very kind and very gracious. And even though it cost them money they didn't have, they took me to the orthodontist, and I had braces. And I had braces three and a half years. And painful. It was. Oh, I hated orthodontist, um, you know, braces tightening day. And I, I, it seemed to me like, uh, the orthodontist tightened those braces until he saw the tears come into my eyes, and then he stopped. And, you know, there is, there is pain involved in straightening. I guess that's an analogy I wanted to use. And it isn't continuous all the time, but you can't, you know, be true and straight without having to be brought into alignment, and sometimes that is a little bit painful. So, um, yeah, vacillating is so worrying. That's so true. Yeah. Um, let's see what it says here. Uh, what, what else you guys are commenting here. Yeah. Um, Jake says, uh, "Ken, uh, Psalm 119:71, 'It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I might learn thy statutes.'" That is so true. You know, when we can see everything that's come into our life, and everything that God is allowing into our life, and He doesn't allow everything into our life, but the things that He does allow are there for a reason. And they are to perfect us. They're for our perfection. And that is why we give thanks for all things and in all circumstances, for all things and in all things. And there are some things that God brings into your life that you cannot pray away. Okay? Um, Paul had a thorn in the flesh. I think the thorn in his flesh were these Judaizers who kept following him around. And Paul prayed that they would, God would send them away, that Jesus would make them leave. Hand. Jesus said, "No, for, um, my grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." And Paul says, "Therefore, I'll glory in my weakness that the power of God may rest on me." So these things that come into our life, we have to, um, embrace them and allow them to do their perfect work in our life. And this, this idea is all throughout the scriptures, all throughout the New Testament writings. These are verses that are not taught on very often, the role of suffering and, and how our, our heavenly Father is guiding our training to such perfection. And all He asks is that we don't resist the Spirit. Okay? Read Hebrews. "Do not resist the Spirit." Don't resent what He's doing in your life. Welcome it and allow it. Okay? Yeah. Stephen says, "No pain, no gain." That is so, so true. So true. Yeah. Um, uh, Val the Gal says, "Question, why did you move away from the change rapture date of Tabernacles to October 31st?" Okay, that was, that is kind of explained in, um, some of the videos that I've done on the sign of the dragons, since the, uh, basically from the start of this year, kind of starting with last year when I realized there was a connection between the star sign of the Pleiades. Okay, remember the sign of the dragon is a, is a, um, heavenly sign. There is something that's going on in heaven. And we're not talking just about the heaven where the stars are, but the heaven where the dragon is, where Satan is going to be casting a third of his angels to the earth. Well, we're also looking at, at like literal stars, okay? Literal star signs. And then I realized that the dates for, um, Halloween, which is when this, the sign of the Pleiades and please go back and watch some of those videos on Halloween and, uh, star sign of the dragon, my book Convergence. This is kind of the big deal in the book. Okay, this is the big deal. All right. Is that, um, Halloween is when this dragon sign appears. Okay. As in, this is the commemoration of the flood, right? Halloween is the commemoration of the flood. And how does Satan let his people know when to commemorate that every year, the release of demons onto the earth and the, uh, imprisonment of the fallen angels and the death of everybody. Okay, this is something that is, um, embedded in ancient cultures and civilizations all over the world, the flood, and the flood is attached to a star sign, the sign of the Pleiades. When the Pleiades is at its zenith on the ecliptic plane, which happens at Halloween, okay, October 31st every year, I realized that this commemoration of the flood on Halloween, actually the dates line up with the Days of Noah, with the flood dates, the flood account in Genesis 7. And I went, "Oh, this is probably the sign of the dragon." And, "Oh, there's seven days with an eighth day. Oh, I think this is it." And remember the dragon, the sign of the dragon, the stars falling, Satan coming to the earth. Um, there's also a meteor shower that happens every year at that same time. And now we've got that, uh, comet, threeey Atlas, coming in. So the other thing is, is that when you read in Revelation, uh, there's a mention of a delay in Revelation 10. "There will be no more delay." And then there is a sense in Revelation, uh, chapter 7, where Jesus is getting ready to seal the 144,000, and He tells the four trumpet angels, "Don't do anything." Okay? Like they're right on the edge of getting ready to do something, and He, and He says, "Don't do anything until we've sealed the servants of our God on their foreheads." So, there's this sense that even though the due date for the baby might have been the Feast of Tabernacles, the actual date when this child will be born and ultimately caught up to God and to His throne is going to be over the sign of the dragon, Halloween, over that, the, uh, Days of Noah, which we actually know those dates. Okay, we actually know those dates from what we read in the scriptures. And it's a seven days with an eighth day. And the day that we go into heaven is the same day that we have trumpets 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. And that fifth trumpet begins a count of five months or 150 days. And believe it or not, there is 150 days associated with the flood of Noah. The waters covered the earth for 150 days or five months. So, um, the, when the flood came, that's when the fallen angels were put into the pit. And the day we go up, and that fifth trumpet blows, it's the day they come out of the pit. And there's five months. There's only two places in the scriptures where this time frame is mentioned: once with the Days of Noah, and the other with the fifth trumpet. So what I've done is the due date for the male child is probably the Feast of Tabernacles, but the actual date when this is going to happen will be over the Days of Noah with the sign of the dragon and all, all of the, um, all of everything that goes with that. So I hope that answered your question. Um, it'd be great if we could leave over Tabernacles, but I don't think that that's going to happen. Um, and, uh, and then after seeing this 40-day period of time between the Feast of Trumpets and November 1st, All Saints Day, okay, followed by All Souls Day. This stuff is crazy. You can't, I mean, you can't make it up. Anyway, I started realizing, okay, this is another day count that was kind of a hidden day count that like just sort of showed up. Um, so anyway, we've got that. Um, um, all right. So, somebody says, "New rapture date next month, September." Here we go again. Rapture fatigued again. Who else is weary? Well, a lot of people are weary, and there are people, and a lot of very sincere people, who are, you know, having dreams or visions or whatever that September, uh, Feast of Trumpets, September 23rd is when the rapture is. That that isn't actually biblical. The, the rapture is not associated with the Feast of Trumpets. And the day and hour that nobody knows is the day and hour when the Day of the Lord begins. And that is not what we call the tribulation. The Day of the Lord is something totally different. The Day of the Lord won't start until after the sign that the disciples were asking about his coming and when he was going to set up his kingdom. And the sign that Jesus gave them gave them was that the sun, after the tribulation of those days, the sun will go dark, the moon will turn to blood, the sky will roll back, and then you'll see the sign of the Son of Man in heaven. Okay? That's when people are going to see that Jesus is at the door. That's associated with the sixth seal of Revelation. So, um, Jesus, the day and hour nobody knows is not the Feast of Trumpets, okay? It's when, when will the kingdom of God be ushered in? All right.
So, Jake asks, um, oh, I guess, uh, Tania asks, "Can you please further explain what submitting to training means?" Well, this is, um, um, it's, okay. So, there are a lot of scriptures that, uh, that talk about how, how the Holy Spirit is, His job is to conform us to the image of Christ. So that is in Romans 8. And a lot of, a lot of what I'm going to tell you comes basically from Romans 8 and then also a chapter in Hebrews. But Romans 8, what we learn is that the goal of the reason why we have the Holy Spirit in our life is, um, it's to seal us, of course, but, uh, let's just read, and basically what we're talking about is the battle that goes on in our life between the flesh and the spirit. Okay? Between our, the old way of living and our old way of doing things and our old resources and that we rely on, and living a supernatural kind of life empowered by the Holy Spirit and a change of character so that when we're poked and prodded and bad things happen to us, that what comes out is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, gentleness, meekness, and self-control. The Holy Spirit is trying to, uh, conform us to the image of Christ so that we are like Jesus. That's the goal. And it takes a lot of work for that to happen. And it takes a lot of cooperation on our part for that to happen. And Romans 8 talks about that. Uh, let's start with, um, verse 12. "So then, brethren, we are not debtors, but not to the flesh to live according to the flesh. For if you live according to the flesh, you will die. But if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God." That's okay. When we finally look at the rapture in Revelation, it's the rapture of sons of God. Okay? 24 elders, male child, 144,000. They're referred to as sons. You women can be sons of God, and men can be sons of God. It's a position. It's a standing. Ver, um, verse 15. "For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the spirit of sonship. And when we cry, 'Abba, Father,' it is the Spirit Himself bearing witness with our spirit that we are children of God. And if children, then heirs of God, fellow heirs with Christ, on the condition that, or provided that, we suffer with Him in order that we may be glorified with Him." You see, people don't talk about that. They don't talk about the need for suffering in order to enter into glorification. That, that they're two sides of the same coin. And what it means, um, to, you know, to engage or to be changed or enter into sanctification is that we allow the Spirit to work in our life. Okay? We allow Him to work, and He works through suffering. Okay? He works through good stuff too, but His primary tool is suffering. And this is what Paul says, verse 18 of the same chapter. "I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us." So go down to verse 26. "Likewise, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know how to pray as we ought, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with sighs too deep for words. And He who searches the hearts of men." That is, the Spirit is searching your heart. And He's searching my heart. And He knows what's in our heart. And He's interceding for us. Um, the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God. Okay? So a lot of times bad things will come into our life, and what we want to do is pray them away. Uh, you know, we've been told we live this life of victory and prosperity and happiness and joy. And so when bad things come into your life, you need to pray them away. And what, what Paul is saying is that there are certain sufferings that are going to come into your life. You cannot pray them away because the Spirit has allowed them. We don't know how to pray as we ought because when we come into bad things, we just want to like make it go away and pray it away. But it says the Spirit intercedes for us according to the will of God, and the things that are allowed into our life, the suffering, the sadness, the tears, the day after day after day, the, you know, depression, anxiety, these things are allowed. And if we believe what this next, uh, verse says, we will say we'll say yes to God. "For we know that in everything God works for good with those who love Him, who are called according to His purpose. For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, in order that He might be the firstborn among many brethren. And those whom He predestined, He also called. And those whom He called, He also justified. And those whom He justified, He also glorified." So, what, what I'm talking about is the faith walk. Becoming a Christian isn't just about praying the prayer, receiving Jesus, getting the Holy Spirit. Okay? That's, that's step one. Okay? And after that, we begin something called a faith walk. Now, we are walking in the good works that God has prepared for us. So this walk of faith that we're in is meant to transform us. Actually, most of the transformation, okay? And, you know, I'm, I'm saying this practically with tears here. The transformation that needs to take place before our physical transformation is taking place right now. Okay? This is when these things are happening. When the image of Christ is being made manifest inside of us so that when we get our celestial bodies, it's like the body will match what's happening on the inside. Romans 12, "I appeal to you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your minds, that you may prove what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect." Okay, the, the scriptures are replete. Okay? Just start reading. Start reading Romans, start reading Colossians, Ephesians, Philippians, um, you know, read James, read first Peter, okay? All these passages are talking about a faith walk now and a transformation of our, of our person, of our character, of our mind. Okay? This is so important. This transformation is happening now. And we, it, it's the most painful part of the whole thing. Believe it or not, it, and this being straightened out on the inside is like having braces or having, um, leg braces if you've got a crooked leg or you're not, you know, bow-legged or whatever. So anyway, that, that is, um, that is that. And let me go up and see. I hope I answered your question. I kind of get off on a tangent here. Um, so submitting to training means that you say yes to the Holy Spirit, that wherever, wherever you can, do the right thing or do the thing that He, you feel like Jesus is calling you to, or have a change of heart or a change of character, or forgiving people who are unforgivable, it seems like, or loving the unlovable, wherever you can walk in those things, that's what that's what the training is. Okay? Um, okay.
"Words in the Water," isn't it, isn't it true, ex-Jesus, to take into consideration the context and the Jewish traditions of the time when it was written? Well, you want to take into consideration context for sure and what people thought. But you never want to take those traditions as gospel truth. They are not the word of God. Okay? It's how they thought. It's what, you know, what they, you know, what they were thinking. It's the milieu that they were in, their culture. But you, for example, you can't take, say, the Galilean wedding tradition, which, you know, that's a big one that's out there, and you can't put that on par with the word of God. You can say, "Well, that's sort of how they thought about things." But God is very, um, God does not change with this one. I, I have found He does not change. And actually, when I first started doing this stuff, the Spirit of God was very firm about this, that I do not incorporate Jewish tradition into eschatology. He said, "Don't do it. The feast days, they exist in the Bible the way they are. The Jews have added to it. They've added traditions, this, that, and the other thing. But those traditions, according to Jesus, they're the traditions of men, and they stumble people." Okay? Traditions stumble people. And, and what had happened in the first century was they loved their tradition more than they loved the word of God. And you'll never go wrong by just, just taking the simple, plain message of the word of God, which is already so deep and so nuanced and so complex and so multi-layered. The, the traditions of men, while they may help us understand the culture, are not the word of God, and they will never help us interpret, uh, Bible end times. All right. So, let's see. Okay. So, yeah, "Words in the Water." Also, they're exactly 1,260 plus, okay? Yes. Oh, I'm sorry. I should read this out loud for people who are listening. Okay. I'm just speed-reading through it. Okay. "There are exactly 1,260 plus 1,290 equals 2550 days from the Feast of Trumpets in 2025 to the Day of Atonement in 2032, and another 40 days, we come to Hanukkah." Hey, guess what? All that was in my first book that I wrote, "A Kingdom of Priests." You have to realize that September 23rd of 2017, all those day counts were the same, landing on the exact same feast days, which is why I was believing in a seven-year tribulation then. Okay? And I had taken Daniel 12, those day counts from Daniel 12:11, and placed them in the day count. Okay? I, that's old news to me, and it was already in all my old timelines from eight years ago. But once I started reading Revelation, I realized that 1,290 days isn't in there. Neither is the 1,335 days. And then I started thinking about, well, if they don't apply to the end times, because we can't find them in Revelation, would they apply to Jesus' first coming? And they do. Okay. From the time the continual is taken away. Okay. The law and the prophets have continued until John the Baptist. Okay. The law and the prophets continued. The continual was taken away when John the Baptist came. And from the time of John the Baptist until the time the abomination was set up. Okay. I'm talking Daniel 12, I think verse 11, which was Christ. He became an abomination. He, um, okay, I have videos on this. Okay, exactly 1,290 days. Okay. "Blessed is he who waits till the 1,335th day." Well, that day, Pentecost. Okay. So, um, yeah, people, people can go along with those days, but they don't fit into Revelation at all. They're not there. And so, I, um, sort of let them go. Okay. And what's really, yeah, it's kind of interesting because I'm watching all these people do all these where these day counts fall in those days, and I go, "Yeah, I did that in 2017." So, yeah. Okay. Um, okay. So, um, yeah, Paula N is mentioning, um, End Times Berean, Tim Cohen, and Abraham at Overcome Babylon. I don't, I don't go along with what they think, but they're interesting people, and I just let everybody, you know, the Lord will lead you on what, what you like to watch and so on. So, um, all right. So, uh, Psalm 555 says, uh, "In Genesis 3:17, God cursed man and woman. Why do you think the animals were also cursed with those things?" Actually, God did not curse man, and He didn't curse the woman. He cursed the ground. They came from the ground. Uh, I know a lot of people teach that God cursed the man. He, He never did. He cursed the ground. And, um, I'll just prove it to you. I'll read it to you. The man was never cursed. And the woman would have difficulty in childbearing, but she was never cursed either. And the ground was cursed. And this is why when we get our celestial bodies, they're being kept in heaven for us because we're not going to get a body made of the dust of the ground. The ground is cursed. It's under a curse right now. Okay? Um, Genesis chapter 3, um, verse, uh, 17. "And to Adam He said, 'Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, you shall not eat of it. Cursed is the ground because of you. In toil you shall eat of it all the days of your life. Thorns and thistles it shall bring forth to you.'" Okay, so the ground was cursed because of Adam's sin. And actually, that goes right back to Romans 8 again. Romans 8:21. Let's take a look at that. I love the, this, the way the Bible is such an integrated book. Romans 8:21. Uh, and this is, um, what God did was He connected humans who have dominion over the earth with the earth, and our salvation and redemption, and the salvation and redemption of the earth is connected. Okay? So they're tied together. Um, uh, let's go to verse, uh, we'll go to verse 19 of Romans 8. "For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God." It doesn't say for the revealing of the bride. It says for the revealing of the sons of God. "For the creation was subjected to futility, not of its own will, but by the will of Him who subjected it in hope." So God cursed the ground in hope. "Because the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to decay and obtain the glorious liberty of the children of God. We know that the whole creation has been groaning in travail together until now. And not only the creation, but we ourselves who have the firstfruits of the Spirit groan inwardly as we wait for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies." Okay? And that is what we're waiting for. Okay? We're not waiting for the rapture. We're waiting for the redemption of our bodies. This is when we will get our celestial bodies. This is, this is the birth of the male child. Okay? So, I hope that helped. Um, let's see what else we got here. Uh, Chrissy Harvey asks, "Question, Sister Brenda, do you think believers who celebrate Halloween because they don't think it's a big deal will be changed, uh, that night?" Um, I think in the past God kind of just let people do okay. And, you know, I put other holidays in that same holiday as Halloween. Although I think Halloween is particularly bad. I don't celebrate it, and I don't observe it. There are a lot of people who just do it in ignorance, and God looks over that. We're not held accountable for things that we don't really know that haven't been made clear to us. But there's times when we are willfully, you know, we choose to not know, we don't want to know. So, you know, la, you know, we just don't. But I think this year is going to be different because there's going to be 40 days of testing. And I think that during that time, it's going to be bad. It's just going to be bad. It'll be bad for the whole world. And I think people are going to have a revelation, a supernatural revelation. People who are open will have supernatural revelation. Their eyes will be opened. If they choose to have their eyes opened, they will be opened, and they will start to see what time it is, where we're at. And like I said in my other video, if we're not raptured this year, then a lot of these videos are, um, won't age well. Let's put it that way. But repentance is always a good thing to do. And, you know, if there's a lot of trial in the world, a lot of, uh, war, which I think is on the horizon, there's, there's no way around that one. Economic collapse on the horizon. If we think COVID was bad with the lockdowns and all of that, I think that's all coming back along with, here in the States, martial law coming back. And, you know, I, I don't really know what this is going to look like, but I have a feeling that it's going to be utterly terrifying for a lot of people. And this is why the Lord lets us know in advance so that we can be prepared. And so this is a, a really good time right now to engage in, you know, with the Lord, to to talk to Him and ask Him, you know, "Is there something someplace in my life where I've been willfully closing my eyes and, you know, blocking my ears and going la because I don't want to hear what You have to say?" Okay? You can, you can, um, you can make it easy on yourself, or you can make it hard. Okay? God has a plan for you. And if you choose to submit willingly and early, it's always better. Trust me, it's always better. Um, uh, we're in the Hebrew month of Elul right now. This is the sixth Hebrew month, and traditionally the month of Elul, 40 days, the month of Elul, 30 days plus the 10 days going from the Feast of Trumpets to the Day of Atonement. Those 40 days are the time when, uh, uh, Jewish people do some soul-seeking, okay, prior to those holy days and, you know, engage in a kind of repentance and so on. And so those 40 days are, you know, part of their, you know, their cyclical calendar, whatever. The 40 days that we're looking at though are not in the month of Elul. They are prior to the Days of Noah. You know, just like before the flood came, there was preaching that went out. Noah was a preacher of righteousness. And I think there's a 40-day window of opportunity where believers can, you know, engage in this, you know, change of heart, change of mind themselves, and 40 days where we can help change the world for Jesus, bring people to a place of repentance. So, I was thinking about this today, and there's so many layers to this. Just like all things that are truly spiritual, you can never really plumb the depths of them. You just uncover a layer at a time. And to me, that's a hallmark. That is a hallmark of how God is, is that there's many layers to all of this. You, you never get to the bottom. Praise the Lord. But it's possible that the, the two witnesses will show up on the Feast of Trumpets. Very possible. That's when John the Baptist, right around the time when John the Baptist showed up. Okay. And, uh, and of course, Jesus was baptized, I believe, on the Day of Atonement. And then He had 40 days in the wilderness immediately where He was tested by the devil and came out of that testing in the power of the Spirit, a transformed, okay, a transformed ministry. Actually, Jesus began His ministry on the day He came out from the wilderness. Okay? That's when He began a new kind of ministry. And there is an analogy here too, that we have a 40-day period of testing before we enter into a new kind of life and ministry. So that's a thought. Okay. I'm just, I'm just sort of sort of shooting off the hip here of different things that have been going through my mind. And then, like, if the two witnesses appear on the day, you know, the Feast of Trumpets, well, you need two witnesses to, you know, declare the, the, the day is here. There's always two witnesses to anything God is doing. And, uh, you know, John the Baptist and God the Father were actually the two witnesses to Jesus. Uh, John baptized Jesus. God spoke. Uh, but if the two witnesses appear and people are aware that they're here, there are a lot of people who believe in this seven-year tribulation thing, who believe that the church, the bride, is raptured before that happens, who are going to be totally confused. Now, whether or not we actually see it or hear it, I kind of don't know. I think it's doubtful. I think the world, it's possible, but I have a feeling there's going to be things going down in Israel that will preclude news coming out of that country if it's this year. So, but it would make sense that they would come and they come in sackcloth. They're, they're clothed in sackcloth, which is is evidence of of mourning and contrition. And, you know, a change in your ways, a change of heart. And that makes sense. That would, that seems logical according to the symbolism. And we have the transfiguration prophecy as well of Jesus and the two witnesses, Moses and Elijah, two olive trees and the two lampstands who are going to set up the, the third temple, which is a tabernacle. Anyway, um, yeah, there's just a, there's a lot of layers of of meaning here that that can that can be found in the 40 days. So, I, I'm thinking about this, and I may do some more on that. But the thing about 40 days of repentance, 40 days of contrition and humility tied in with that is 40 days of mercy. Okay? We have, we have to see that that's part of it. When Jonah went to Nineveh, yet 40 days and Nineveh will be destroyed. The people repented, and God relented. So during 40, those 40 days, there was an opportunity for mercy, and that is, that's part of the deal is that that's that's a part of it for those who repent. Um, there's mercy, there's grace. So, um, anyway, that's sort of my thinking. Um, uh, do I think that Jesus will show up with the two witnesses? I, I think He will. And somebody asked about the significance of the 153 fish. There's a significance to it, but it's a numerical one, and I can't, um, I can't get into it, but it has to do with, um, uh, anyway, it's, it's 153, I think is, uh, well, never mind. I, because I'm not that good with numbers, but there is a numerical thing with that. So, all right. So, anything, um, uh, Christian Faith Gal asks, "Can I please explain the biblical definition of repentance? Are repentance and remorse the same? Also, what's the difference between Peter and Jesus Judas Iscariot? Did they both repent?" All right. Repentance, the, the literal meaning of the word is to, um, is to turn around or have a change of direction. So, I can be going north, and, uh, if I decide to repent, I'm going to travel south. Now, it just means you're changing the direction that you're going. You're have a change of mind and heart. That's all it is. Remorse. People can have feelings of remorse, but never repent. Alcoholics have remorse. They feel bad about what they did, but that doesn't mean they quit drinking or have a change of heart about that. So, repentance and remorse are not the same thing at all. And, uh, and when you bring up Peter and Judas Iscariot, Peter, they both felt remorse, but Peter actually turned and followed Jesus. Okay? He actually repented. Judas Iscariot is, uh, there, there is something different about him. And in the
The gospel of John, uh, there are rather some cryptic references about how about how no one can come to uh Jesus unless God draws him. And Jesus said about Judas that God did not draw him. Judas was not drawn. And then Judas, Jesus said that when he was he was lifted up, that he would draw all men to himself. So there is there is this gap in time between, um, between the Last Supper and when Jesus died on the cross. There's this gap in time of drawing where Judas killed himself. He killed himself after God was done drawing people and before Jesus began drawing people to himself. So he fell into that hole, and he's called the son of perdition, and it Jesus said it would have been better for him if he'd never been born. So Judas, um, Judas did not repent. Okay. Peter did. And actually Thomas, uh, who said, "I'm not going to believe unless I see the nail prints in his hand and put my hand in his side." Okay, he almost didn't make it. Okay, but then Jesus appeared and said, "Be believing. Don't, you know, don't be unbelieving. Believe." And, uh, Thomas said, "My Lord and my God."
So, all right, let's see what else. Um, let's see what else we've got here. Thank you all for showing up today. I always really appreciate, um, um, yeah, Christian, I appreciate your comment, um, about the list in Daniel 9:24, the things that God was going to do during those 70 weeks of years. Um, uh, I don't think a lot of newcomers have heard you explain it, how the list must be fulfilled inside the 70th week. Yes. Yes. Yes. Please watch some of my videos. The whole, you know, the prophecy in Daniel 9:24-27 is is actually really easy to understand. But it becomes hard when you have to unlearn a bunch of stuff, and you have to clear out the debris before you can actually go to the actual text. Just let it say what it says, believe what it says. And what you'll understand is that there was a bunch of things that had to be fulfilled where God would, by the end of the 70th week, take Israel from a rebellious group of people to people who will never rebel again at the end of the 10th Jubilee that's mentioned there in Daniel 9. So, a lot of videos on Daniel chapter 9. Please go to my playlist and watch some of those videos. Okay.
Uh, yes, thank you JD Stone about talking about the prime numbers and so on and so forth. Yeah, all of that's very interesting. Okay. Jake asks, "This should be obvious to me, but what is the purpose of prayer?" Well, you know, prayer is a big topic, and it isn't as obvious as what people think. The purpose of prayer, really, as far as I can see, is there there's a few purposes. It's it's communicating with God. It's actually talking to him. Uh, Paul says that he, um, prays without ceasing. It doesn't mean that he's praying every minute in his mind 24/7, but it means that he, he, his heart is opened up to constant communication with God. And now, just because your heart is open to being, um, having, uh, communication or conversation with the Lord doesn't mean that somebody's always talking. Okay? My husband and I can sit in a room, each doing our own thing, but we're open to communication when somebody has something they want to say. All right? So that's part of it. The other part is when we bring our requests and our supplications and our anxieties to God, and he asks that we do that. You know, cast all your cares on him because he cares for you, and so we can bring all those things to him. The other thing prayer does is it puts us in alignment with God and his word and his will. And that's really important. Prayer isn't about asking the great Santa Claus in the sky to give to, you know, give me my gimme list of the things that I want. It's not, it's not a list of requests. I mean, we can make requests to God, and we should, and we should, you know, notice when he answers those requests, but it's more than that. It's it's having, um, a a working relationship with, uh, with our Father, with Jesus, and with the Holy Spirit. And it's a partnership and a working relationship. And I, I've come to really understand more and more about the Holy Spirit being a tutor. And we can talk to each, you know, member of the of the Godhead individually. Okay? We can talk to Jesus. I talk to him. I talk to God the Father. I talk to the Holy Spirit. I ask the Spirit of God to please help me to guide my thinking, to be my teacher, to help guide me into truth. You know, I, I worship and praise the Father. I, I tell him I love him. That's prayer. Um, I talk to Jesus. I ask him to, you know, help help me to be like him. So, it's, it's just a constant communication. Okay, that's that's how I see prayer. And of course, there's more formal prayers when you're in a group of people and you're lifting one another up. And there's also prayers of of praise and thanksgiving. We can pray the Psalms. We can pray Paul's prayers, wonderful prayers in the book of Ephesians. So, um, yeah, all of that, um, all of that's prayer. So, yeah.
All right. So, Monica loves Jesus. Brenda, do you know the time space between the 144,000 and the great multitude seen in chapter 7? Okay, so here's here's the deal with them. The 144,000 are are from the 12 tribes of Israel. They're going to get saved. We're going to pass the baton to them. They are going to be sealed. They have kind of an apostolic ministry. People say they're evangelists, but they're not. They're actually apostolic. They're a first-tier group like the twelve apostles. The great multitude are actually, they're not from Israel. They're people from all, you know, people's languages, multitudes, and so on, nations. They're they're everybody, but they are people who either were lukewarm, you know, all of a sudden got on fire, or people who became Christians after we left. And they are going to be the fifth seal martyrs. And both the fifth seal martyrs and the 144,000 of Israel will arrive in heaven at about the same time. So that's kind of why they're there. They're different groups of people, but they both arrive in heaven at about the same time. The 144,000 who overcome, who are faithful to the Lord, they will be taken in a rapture event. I'm going to be talking about the three raptures in Revelation in an upcoming video. And the great multitude are the fifth seal martyrs. They're standing there in white robes, and there are more that keep coming in. Okay, so those are those two groups, but they arrive in heaven. Um, and it says that the great multitude is there after the great tribulation. Okay, and a lot of people will say, um, well, let me just read that real quick so you can see where I'm coming from, and then let me tell you something about tribulation in the book of Revelation because it's so important that we understand context here. Um, so, uh, John asks, uh, or the elder asks John, who are these clothed in white robes and whence have they come? And he, uh, John said that, you know, and he said to me, these are they who have come out and keep coming out, is the tense there in the Greek, they keep coming out of the great tribulation. They've washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. What great tribulation is being talked about here? It's not the 42-month tribulation for Israel because that's for Israel, and these are not Jews. Okay? These are people from, um, from, uh, all nations, all tribes, peoples, and tongues. So this is not the great tribulation for Israel that Jesus talks about in Matthew 24. This is the great tribulation, the 10 days of tribulation for believers. And that's found in Revelation 2:10. "Do not fear what you're about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you." That is, some of the 144,000 will be part of the martyr group that you may be tested, and for 10 days you will have tribulation. Be faithful unto death, and I will give you the crown of life. Okay.
All right. So, we're at a minute, hour, and eight minutes here. Let's see if there's any other, um, questions here. I think we're, um, I think I think I'm about done. Okay. So, I, um, thank you all for joining me. I hope this has been a blessing for you. I didn't really have anything, you know, super deep planned for today, but I, what I'm coming to see about this Friday meeting is that it really is a time for encouragement and helping believers, especially people who already kind of get what I'm doing here, to, um, to have a heads-up and to, you know, keep being serious and faithful about, you know, and sober in their spiritual walk. And I think that's the primary reason for, um, these Friday videos. At least that's what it seems like to me. And who knows how many of these I'll be able to do. So, I'm going to try to, um, you know, make as, uh, many videos as I can on these Fridays until I can't do it anymore. And, uh, you know, I really am thankful for all of you. You're all so encouraging. So, get a copy of my book, Convergence. It's on Amazon. And, uh, I talk about a lot of this stuff that's coming up. Days of Noah, why, why we're looking at October 31st and not the Feast of Tabernacles. So, um, yeah, there you go. Thank you so much, Mods, for helping out today. I always appreciate everything you do. You're just, you're just the best. You're the bestest of all. So, we'll see you all on another video. Hope you all have a really wonderful day.