Satan Exposed: The Power Behind the Antichrist | Daniel 7 Bible Study

0:00All righty. Well, hey folks, this is Joe Ruiz. Welcome to Sunday Bible study on the Joe Ruiz show. Now tonight, we're going to be talking about the devil. Okay. And I really don't know what's going to happen. I really don't. And you know, maybe I'm sowing seed in your mind, but I know I do know this anytime that I've ever approached this subject with. I've always seemed to get a sense of a real sense of oppression. Okay. I, you know, it's just that and as I study it and I examine it, you know, I guess the whole bottom line of it is this that Satan doesn't want himself to be exposed.

1:00The less folks know about Satan, the better off he likes it. But we're going to do our very best and we're going to see how it flies here. Okay. Now today we're going to be getting into Revelation chapter 12. Now you say, hey, hold on a second, Joe. Hey, whoa, I thought we were studying Daniel. Well, we are, but you can't study the antichrist without studying Revelation. But as far as that goes, you can't study the antichrist without studying volumes of scripture. And you see, see, the devil, the devil has a Trinity. Okay. The devil is just like God does. And that Trinity finds its full manifestation over in the tribulation period. That Trinity is composed of the personages of Satan, Lucifer, the beast or the antichrist and the false prophet. Now, that's kind of a difficult thing to understand, but that's just the way it is. All right.

2:00Now we've made references throughout the entire study of Daniel, this is week five of Daniel. But we've made references through the entire study of Daniel to the beast or to the antichrist. And we're going to continue making references to him. I thought it would be appropriate at about this time to just kind of stop in Daniel as far as the verse by verse study goes. And let's kind of do like a, what do they call those things, a character sketch. Okay. Let's study a little bit about this beast, his origin and so on. And we'll get a little bit more information that'll help us as we carry on with Daniel to realize what's really coming. All right. Now we live in a strange age of a paradox. All right. And that, you know, we live in my estimation in one or one sense of the word in the most exciting possible time that you could live in. Because of course, you know, we're looking forward and we're expecting the imminent rapture and return to the Lord Jesus Christ.

3:02Now, I don't know how you can get any more of an exciting thing than that. You know, I don't know. But not only that, you know, we live in a time in which, you know, we have seen mega doses of prophecy fulfilled. I mean, we've seen more prophecies fulfilled than the last 10 generations before us saw put together. So as the clock here kind of winds down here and comes to a conclusion, you know, we see this whole event snowballing into an avalanche. And we live in that time. So in that sense of the word, we're, we're a privileged few. We certainly are a privileged few and thank God for that. Thank God for that. You know, from, from a human standpoint, sometimes, you know, sometimes I mone and grown and complain, you know, I do, I admit it about being born 200 years too late. Now, I know that's my flesh. I admit it. All right.

4:02It's just, it's just my flesh. I would have loved to see this country before they put a road in it or telephone pole. And, you know, before anybody heard of cars and SUVs and, you know, all this stuff. Yeah, I guess there's always the millennium, right? Amen. There's always the kingdom. So, you know, all isn't really lost for those that know the Lord. Isn't that right? Amen. And if you get bored with the kingdom, then there's the new heaven and the new earth. You can go down to. Right. So, I mean, I don't think you'll ever get bored with that thing, to be honest with you, but. And, and you won't get bored because it's an ever expanding kind of thing. Now, do you remember we talked about a lot of this in our revelation study. So a lot of this is going to be refresher for most of you. And if you haven't checked out the revelation series, go back and take a look at it. But we talked about the about it being an ever expanding kingdom. You know, they say it just goes on and on and on because the Bible says of his kingdom.

5:02There shall be no end. Now, you know, we always like to put a time frame on things. You see, but there's more to it than time, folks, of his kingdom. There shall be no end. Well, a kingdom is composed of, you know, when the traditional definition of kingdom really doesn't have anything to do with time. Now, a kingdom has to do with real estate. A kingdom has to do with constituents and of his kingdom. There shall be no end. So there's it, there's an ever expanding source of real estate and an ever expanding source of inhabitants of that real estate. That's wild. That's wild when you really sit there and think about it. I can't, I don't fully understand it and I'll be the first one to admit that stuff. I mean, I get it. I get it, but I don't get it. You know, it's just kind of one of those things caught right over your head, man. You know, it's, it's really something when you're, when you sit there and you ponder this thing. Now, my flesh.

6:02My flesh yearns for other times, but my spirit says, man, there isn't a better time to be alive than right now. Then right now, there just isn't. All right. Now, you know, we have the oppression of days to live with and that's the paradox. All right. That's the other side of the coin. So, you know, it's, so it's a strange kind of thing. It, it, it almost seems like if, if people, you know, a hundred years ago in, or say in Spurgeon's day, had the information dished out to them that we have. I don't know where they put it all because even, even Spurgeon, with the information that he had. And what he preached, he couldn't get them all in church. They packed them out. You know, and today, you know, we get the most exciting information of 2000 years of church history. And it's still hard to drag folks into a Bible study, to drag folks into a church, to drag folks into into a, a, a podcast like ours.

7:08You know, and it's a, it's a paradox. It's a paradox isn't as wild. The only, the only thing I know is that I'm glad I know what I know. I'm glad for what the Lord's taught me. I'm glad for the men that have, that have taken their time to study the word of God and to teach me. I'm glad that I'm on the right side, you know. I am certainly glad. All right. So, with all of that said, how about we get into the study? So, grab your Bible if you have your Bible with you. And we're going to go over to Revelation in chapter 12. And again, this should not be new stuff for you. If you've been following this show for any length of time, you know, prior to Daniel, we did 26 weeks, I think it was in our study of the book of Revelation. And we covered a lot of this. So, a lot of it's going to be a refresher. So, I hope you stick with us as we go through this. But this is important stuff. This is really important stuff. All right. So, I'm going to talk to you in chapter 12.

8:09Now, if you don't have a Bible with you, that's fine. Don't worry about it. If you're watching, I'm going to put the scripture up on the screen. I'll be reading it to you. If you're listening on the audio, you'll hear it. But I do encourage you. And I do want you to grab a pen and paper. Write these things down. Write these verses down. Check me on these things. Look these things up for yourself. All right. I want you to see these things. The whole goal of a Bible study is, you know, to kind of pull our ignorance together and come up with a solution to the questions that we ask. Right. And of course, we come up with those solutions based upon the word of God. Now, the only way you're going to get that is if you actually open up your Bible and study it for yourself. All right. So, I'm hoping that you're using these things in these studies that we're doing as a launching pad for you to get into your Bible. All right. The word of God is quick and powerful and sharp. And then any two-odged sword. Gotta get into it. You gotta read it. All right. Now, Revelation chapter 12. And we actually should go to Lord and prayer before we get started. You're right. So, Revelation chapter 12. Let's pray first and then we'll start. All right. Our Heavenly Father, we want to thank you for today. We want to thank you for the love, the mercy, the grace that you pour out upon us each and every day.

9:12God, do you want to thank you for your word? We ask you, God, just to open it up to us today. Reveal your truth to us today, God. We ask you just to bless the word as it goes out. And Lord, we also ask you to head just about and protect us from the wicked one. As we are going through this study where we're going to be talking about him, we're going to be exposing him. We're going to be showing you who he is and what he's all about. And God, I know he's not going to be happy about that. So, Lord, I ask you to protect this as we go through this. And we'll thank you for it in Jesus name. Amen. All right. Revelation and chapter number 12. Revelation chapter 12. And we're going to begin here in verse number one. And there appeared a great wonder in heaven, a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet and upon her head a crown of 12 stars. And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pain to be delivered. And there appeared another wonder in heaven and behold a great red dragon having seven heads and ten horns and seven crowns upon his heads.

10:16All right. Now, as you go through, as you go through the book of Revelation, all right, you're going to find periodic references to what we just read here, particularly in verse three. All right. This dragon is beast having seven heads and ten horns and seven crowns upon his heads. And all of that is a description of the devil. All right. If there's any doubt in your mind about that, at all, all you need to do is go down to verse number nine. All right. Verse nine and the great red dragon. All right. Now, the subject hasn't changed. The subject, if you know anything at all about English grammar, has remained the same. You get to verse nine and the great dragon was cast out that old serpent called the devil and Satan. So the great red dragon is the devil.

11:16All right. He is the serpent. That's who he is. All right. Now, now we need to know some things about him. If we're going to do a complete and objective study of the antichrist, we need to know a few things about it. Why both because the antichrist and the beast and the devil devil are in a sense welded together. You know, it's like it's like Jesus Christ and God are welded together. Amen. Now, you might be saying, you know, well, you know, there are two different personalities. Yes, but, but there's one unholy trinity. You see? And again, that unholy trinity of the devil, the antichrist and the false prophet. It shows up here in Revelation chapter 12. So we need to begin to understand a little bit about him. So let's begin with the devil and let's talk about his origin. All right. So take your Bible. If you wouldn't go with me to Ezekiel, Ezekiel chapter 28. Now you're going to go back into your old testament. All right.

12:16You're going to go to Daniel and then just keep flipping back to you into the book of Ezekiel. And you're going to get to Ezekiel chapter number 28. All right. Now again, I am covering material that isn't all new to some of you. All right. But then you also have to realize, you know, you know, to some other folks that are tuning in. Maybe just checking us out through this, through this Daniel series. Maybe the lot of this stuff is new. All right. So it's important for us to kind of go over this stuff. Now, Ezekiel chapter 28. In Ezekiel chapter 28, you're going to find the Lord speaking. And he's giving a description of the devil and he, and he humanizes him. All right. And he does it on several locations throughout the Old Testament. And what he's doing, or what he's doing that for is to show you that there's a double application. There's a double application. So in other words, some of these personalities here were, were, were dominated or controlled or filled with the devil.

13:22All right. I'll show you what I mean. Verse 11 of Ezekiel chapter 28. Ezekiel chapter 28 and verse 11. Moreover, the word of the Lord came unto me saying, Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus and say unto him, thus sayeth the Lord, or thus sayeth the Lord God. Thou sealest up the sum full of wisdom and perfect and beauty. You say, well, how do you know that this is a description that this description is the devil? All right. Next verse. Verse 13. Thou hast been in Eden. Okay, well, the king of Tyrus wasn't in Eden, but the devil was, wasn't he? So the Lord said, he was created and he was full of wisdom and perfect and beauty. You know, you haven't seen a more gorgeous creature than the devil. You know, he's usually portrayed, you know, by cartoonist as, you know, some hideous kind of creature.

14:27You know, you see even them in movies that they always portray him as some hideous kind of, hideous kind of creature. All right. You have never seen anything, anything more attractive to look upon. Have you, I mean, have you ever met a woman that, that, that just delights on looking on a hideous thing? Have you ever, honestly, have you ever met a woman yet who, who just was crazy about and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, you know, and, you know, dumb struck, looking at some hideous thing. Eve found something very mesmerizing in the devil. Isn't that right? She did. All right, verse 13, thou has been in Eden, the garden of God. Every precious stone was thy covering, the sardiest, topaz, and the diamond, the barrel, the onyx, the jasper, the sas, the sapphire, the emerald,

15:31and the carbuncle, and gold, the workmanship of thy tabrets, and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created. Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth, and I have set thee so. Thou was upon, thou wasst upon the holy mountain of God, thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire. Thou was perfect in thy ways from the day that thou was created till iniquity was found in thee. So now when the Lord made a perfect creature, he made the devil. Now, folks, now some folks think that's an inconsistency, right? They say, well, how could be perfect if he had the, if he had the capability of iniquity. If he didn't have the capability of iniquity, he wouldn't be perfect because perfection requires the option. Perfection requires a free will, you see. Perfection requires a free will. So he created the devil with a will just like you and I have.

16:41And you have the opportunity to say yes or no, the devil had the opportunity to say yes or no. And the devil over in Isaiah chapter 14, another description of his early days says, I will five times. And that I will was disobedience against God. It was a voice of rebellion being lifted up against the Lord. I will. I will. I will. I will ascend above the most high. I will. I will. Five times. He said it. Five times. You know, that's why in your Bible, five becomes the number of death. I will. You know, it's no coincidence that Genesis chapter five verse five, you have the first natural death recorded and Adam died. And then it just goes on. And so, so, so five is significant in that respect. So, here's the devil. He's created in this in in in perfection in his beauty and in his pipes.

17:49Right. And this reference to his pipes. Evidently, it's a musical instrument. So, in other words, you know, I mean, the devil was a travel with a traveling pipe organ. You know, I mean, he had it. You know, he had it. You know, they have all this, you know, all the computer software now where you can push one button. It sounds like a whole orchestra playing and and all that stuff. Well, you know, the devil had all the buttons. I mean, he had them all. I mean, he was just like like a symphony orchestra in motion, glittering with all kinds of gold and precious jewels. All right. Now, that's something to think about. You know, it's it's I mean, think about it. I mean, it's no wonder that Eve kind of got, you know, starry eyed to Winkeldust. I mean, that's something there. That's something. Now, you know, you know, I, I, you know, his fall.

18:53As we've already referred to, you know, was due to his rebellion against the Lord. And he has a great capability of change. Now, he has a natural appearance today. Although he can change that appearance. Second Corinthians chapter 11. And you can look that up later. But he has a natural appearance that's subject to change. All right. So what's his natural appearance? All right. Let's go to the book of Job. All right. Job in chapter 41. All right. Job chapter number 41. No, I'm sorry. Vert. Chapter 40. Job chapter 40. All right. Now in Job chapter 40, you have a rather lengthy description of the devil, particularly in verse 15. You get right on down through there. But let's look in chapter 40 and verse 17. All right. Chapter 40 and verse 17. The book of Job. He moved with his tail like a cedar.

19:58The sinews of his stones are wrapped together. His bones are strong pieces of brass. His bones are like bars of iron. He is the chief of the ways of God and so on and so forth. All right. Now in, in the verse or chapter 41. In chapter 41 and in verse one. Can't thou draw out Leviathan with a hook. Or his tongue with a cord, which thou let us down. All right. So here he's referred to as the Leviathan. A Leviathan. Now Leviathan is and we've all heard the word. We've all used the word Leviathan is typically a word that's used for some kind of a sea monster. Some kind of a monster that lives in the sea and interestingly, you know, you can read a sports article online or in a magazine, you know, from time to time, you'll find that archaic out of date 1611 no longer used word used in 2026 over and over and over again.

21:01John Jones was fishing in the Ozarks and he caught a real Leviathan. He's a record setting bass, you know. Wow, man, your Bible really is out of date, isn't it? Really is out of date. Now here he's referred to as Leviathan. Now the reason why is because his primary source of occupancy or residency is the great deep. The great sea, you know, just way out there. Wait, you know, folks want to know and I heard Dr. Ruckman one time talking about, you know, how he would have no part and go into the moon and I said, yeah, I meant to that. I don't want to go to the moon either. You know, I don't want to go because there's nothing up there for me. There's nothing up there for me. You know what? That that's territory that belongs to the prince of the power of the air.

22:02That's where the devil resides in that environment, the prince of the power of the air. All right. So now that Leviathan has many heads as the dragon and he lives in the sea. So I'm not going to run all those verses down for you because I don't want to I want to get on to some other things, but, but I want you to look them up. Look up these verses. They're important. Pride was his downfall. Pride was his downfall, but it was also his greatest weapon. The devil will use your pride against you more than anything else in the world. You know, you think about it, man, pride, right? That's tough stuff. You know, you know, people get their pride heard. You know, and we all do every one of us does, you know, it just comes in different ways. You know, you get over into Asia and the biggest deal over there is, you know, they got to save face. I mean, did you ever study anything about Asian culture? And it doesn't matter if it's Japanese or Korea or or or or or China.

23:10They all have their own, you know, little variations of it. But the biggest deal is saving face. They can't lose face. They, you know, that that's just a that's like a that's a blow that's just equal to death for them, you know, and it's wild, but it's just that's the way they are. And you know what that is? That's pride. That's pride. That's all that stuff is in the devil will use your pride against you. Now the side of them, the side of them make you fall down on your face. All right. Look in Job chapter 41. Job chapter 41 and and while as long as they look, let's look at, let's look at verse nine, Job 41 verse nine. Behold, the hope of him is in vain. She'll not one be cast down even at the side of him. None is so fierce. They dare stir him up. Who then is able to stand before me? Now smoke and fire proceed from him. Look over in verse 19 of Job 41.

24:16Out of his mouth, go burning lamps and sparks of fire leap out out of his nostrils go with smoke as out of a seething pot or cauldron. His breath, Kindle with coals and a flame go with out of his mouth. Now, you know, over the years, folks have asked me and said, well, you know, the Bible doesn't say anything against smoking. And on occasion, on occasion, I've said, no, I guess you're right, but I'll show you the first guy that did. And here he is right here, right. The devil is the first guy to take up the haven. Amen. Amen. I guess that's a good enough reason to quit, isn't it? I think it's a good enough reason. I mean, you don't want to look like him. Do you? So he fears nothing. Right. He that's what a script that's the Bible says he fears nothing. You know, there's a lot of descriptions given you there, a lot of descriptions.

25:16Now, that's the dragon. All right. That's the Leviathan. That's, you know, that's this monster that's out there, this monster of the deep. And he's real. And he's there, whether you care about it or you don't, whether you believe or you don't, he is absolutely and definitely real. All right. Now, Revelation 12 refers to 10 horns, seven crowns. All right. So the idea of the thing is this, those 10 horns are representative of 10 Gentile kingdoms in the tribulation period. All right. But there's only seven crowns. And the more you examine those seven crowns, the reason for that is this. Those seven crowns are representative of seven kingdoms. And the more you look at that thing, the more obvious it becomes folks that there is have only ever been seven kingdoms set up by the devil.

26:19All right. He has seven crowns. He's played his full hand and every kingdom that has come into existence since those seven crowns are simply a reoccurrence or revitalization or revival or rejuvenation of one of those seven. All right. Now, let's look at the seven historically and see if we can start to put some pieces together. Okay. Now, the first kingdom of man in the Bible was Babel. Under Nimrod. All right. And you read about him over in Genesis chapter 10 and that's somewhere around 2400 BC or so. All right. The next kingdom of man that you have is Egypt. Right. Under Pharaoh. Now, interestingly, in Ezekiel 29, all right. Ezekiel chapter, I'm with me there for a second. Ezekiel 29 and in verse three, Ezekiel 29 and verse three. Speak and say, thus say at the Lord God, behold, I am against the Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lieeth in the midst of his rivers, which have said, my river is my own and I have made it for myself.

27:35So here, Pharaoh is called a dragon. Now, after Egypt, you don't hear a lot about Gentile kings for a while because you have Abraham, you have Isaac, you have Jacob, and you got the patriarchs and and then you got David and you got Solomon. And then you got the nose dive of the kingdom of Israel because they're sin and their debauchery. And then once again, you see a revival of the kingdoms of Satan. All right. So the kingdom of heaven kind of pops up for a while. And then disappears and then and then you've got these these kingdoms here coming back in again, right. Part of these seven crowns. So a Syria, under Sannaka rib is the next one. You read about him over in second Kings chapter 18 and interestingly, the Antichrist in Isaiah chapter 10 verse 14. And I think I think it's a chapter is verse 30 is referred to as the Assyrian.

28:37So do you see what God does? You see what God does? He he ties things together for you. If you'll study it. If you'll study it. All right. Now, the next one is Babylon under Nebuchadnezzar. All right. And Nebuchadnezzar is also called a dragon and Jeremiah chapter 51, Jeremiah 50. All right. The next one is media Persia under Darius. Or Darius. Now Darius befriends the Jews and helps them in some ways. And so, you know, some folks say, well, how can you be an Antichrist? But you see the Antichrist befriends the Jews for the first part of the tribulation. Isn't that right? He makes a covenant with them. And then over in Daniel chapter 9, I think it's verse 27, that covenant's broken. The thing is busted. You see? And so you've got the perfect type in the percentage of Darius. You've got the perfect picture there. All right. And then you have Greece under Alexander the Great and the Bible and the Bible names the kingdom, but not the man. All right. He's called he's called a rough he goat. All right. The sixth head is kind of a mystery. You know, an X man has a word. And then and then you find the name of the king.

30:01And then you finally have Rome under the Caesars. All right. So let me help you understand what's going on. All right. All of these seven kingdoms of Satan had played out their role. They'd come in. They'd done their deal prior to the first coming of Jesus Christ. All right. What I'm trying to show you is in reality. All necessary prophecy has been fulfilled. All right. Now I want you to think about this. I want you to think about this. If you don't understand that. There's a lot of passages on this in the New Testament that that that seemed like a contradiction. All right. Because he came to his own and his own received him not, but as many as received him to them gave you power to become the sons of God. All right. The Lord Jesus Christ came and his own rejected him. All right. That is the Jewish nation received him not. They rejected him. Consequently, the gospel is turned. It's it's redirected toward a Gentile people.

31:10You see, the Jewish nation had the opportunity to receive Jesus Christ. You know, people are willing to make God more of a Calvinist than God is. You know what I mean? God is interested in you exercising your free will. He gave one to the devil, didn't he? The devil had an option whether he could fall or whether he could main loyal to the Lord. Now the Lord gave him that option and he exercised it obviously the wrong way. He gave Israel an option over and over and over again. They were offered the opportunity to receive the kingdom. Jesus spent three and a half years. The bulk of his preaching was about the kingdom. Here's how you get your kingdom. Here's what to do when you get the kingdom and and and here are some constitutional forms of the coming kingdom. Here's what's involved in receiving the kingdom. The reality must proceed any other thing. And the whole idea of receiving the kingdom is.

32:15Is going to be based upon your repentance and you doing what God has told you to do. All right. Now that's the message that was being preached for over three years as Jesus walked all around Galilee and Israel. And that's the same message that John the Baptist preached briefly. All right. Now it's folks say, well, wait a minute. Hold on a second. What if the Jews had received Christ? And then they would kind of think and say, well, well, they couldn't have received Christ because God had it all set up and cast in concrete that they wouldn't receive Christ. So. So so so that we could get a shot at it. Well, we think we're more than what we really are. Don't we? Now you see all necessary prophecy had found its fulfillment by the time Jesus showed up the first time all of the seven kingdoms of man had run their course. Christ came. God gave Israel an option. He gave them an opportunity.

33:15They chose to reject the Lord Jesus Christ. So they say, well, what would have happened? What if they had accepted them? Then they wouldn't have crucified them. Yes, they would have. You say, why would they have? Because it was forecast in scripture. God won't violate his word. And the only access that man could permanently have to God was through the blood of his only begotten son. Therefore, they would have still crucified him. He'd still had he'd still been buried. He still would have rose again the third day. But they had the opportunity to repent corporately as a nation at the preaching of the apostles following the resurrection. They have they had the opportunity to repent and ask chapter two when Peter preached they had the opportunity to repent when Stephen preached an ax chapter seven. And when they had that opportunity, they could have repented. You'll say, well, then what would have happened? The tribulation would have been ushered in the day of Jacob's sorrow would have come and the antichrist was in place.

34:24You know, Rome was in charge. One very necessary ingredient from a prophetic viewpoint for the Lord to return is that Rome would be in charge. Rome was in charge. Rome was in charge politically and religiously back in that day. You know, who's going to be in charge when the Lord comes back? Rome. Rome. You say, well, they're not in charge now. Well, they are a whole lot more than you know. A whole lot more than you know. You know, folks run around. They blame cop blame in the communist, right? You know, you better look a little bit deeper, folks. You better look a little deeper. Rome has got to be in charge. Now, Rome was running the show. Rome was calling the shots at that time. So everything was already in place. The Lord would have been crucified as prophesied in Isaiah 53 and Psalm 22 and so on. And he would have provided salvation to that people.

35:28And the tribulation could have ensued. The kingdom could have been ushered in. You say, well, what I've ever been born. I don't know. I have no idea. That's that's that's just that's pure speculation. But you could have been born in the kingdom. There's going to be a lot of folks born in the Millennial Kingdom. Amen. We talked about that in our revelation series. We talked about that in the dispensational series prior to the book of Revelation series. You know, I guess in a sense though, I'm glad that the Jew rejected Christ. Because then that made me or that placed me right smack dab in the middle of an age of grace. There is no grace in the Millennial. There's no grace in that. It's pure works. It's pure works. I mean, you either do or you don't do. And if you don't do pure works in the millennium. Aren't you glad you're a child of grace.

36:38I'm just I am just such a not had. You know, I honestly. I don't know if I'd survive in any other economy. I don't know how well I'd get along in any other any other economy or dispensation. I am I am glad. And I spent time at the Lord this morning about this before before I came into the studio to do the show. I am so glad. I am a child of grace. Thank God for grace, man. Thank God for it. Now, everything was in place. Everything was in place. The seven kingdoms have been run out. Right now, now I say this to say this, what's going on today is nothing new. And that's why we studied Daniel chapter seven and began to see that those kingdoms that are that are being enumerated there in Daniel chapter seven are really nothing more than an extension. They extended themselves and and we studied the parallels between between the English and the needs and the Persians and we started the parallels between the Greeks and the Russians and we started the parallels between Rome and America.

37:49So the great nations of the last days aren't new folks. They aren't new. They're they're only a revival or an extension of ancient kingdoms. That's all it is. That's all they are. There's nothing new under the sun. Solomon said, we're just an extension. That's it. Now, you know, the longer I look at this thing, the more I realize America is an extension of Rome. We're characterized by the leopard of Daniel chapter seven. We talked about it last week. And look, you know, and I am a patriot. All right. I love my country. But the longer I look at it, the more I realize what we are. You know, and it's good to understand that and I'm going to tell you why it's good to understand it because it'll make you a little more homesick for heaven. You know, I get riled up like everyone else does. You know, I, well, let me rephrase that.

38:52I get riled up like some folks do when I see all the injustices of the system. You know, and it's a wild. It's a crazy system. You know, it's so crazy. You know, that most of the time you can't make heads or tails out of it. You know, we've long since departed from genuine justice. You know, it's all politics. You know, it's whatever squeaky wheel gets, you know, whatever squeaky wheel makes the most noise. You know, that's really what the whole thing is. It's really what it's all become. And don't you hate that game? Don't you hate it. I mean, I just I absolutely detest it. I absolutely despise it. And yet that's the name of the game. That's just the way it works. You know, I am so glad. I or I will be, I should say, I will be so glad when the word of the Lord is the word of the land.

39:55Period. No exceptions. No questions asked. No if ends or buts about it. The word of the Lord will be law. Won't that be something man? Just think about that. That will be something. And you know, as a child of the God in this age, you have the opportunity in the Millennial Kingdom providing a qualified the judgemen see the Christ to help administer that law. Well, I mean, you think about that. You know, wow, man. You know, honestly, I'm I'll be the first to say I'll be honest with you. I'm not sure that I'm going to qualify. You know, I kind of just, you know, I'll just put my application for garbage collector in the city of Jerusalem. You know, I might not be too bad, you know, at least, you know, to be kind of close to the action, you know, but. But the system stinks, folks.

40:57The system is thoroughly polluted. There is something wrong with the system. And what are you going to do about it? I mean, there have been folks that have, you know, a lot more brains than I've got. A lot more money than I've got that for years have been trying to change the system for years and the system doesn't change. And the reason why the system doesn't change is because the system of this world is being directed and motivated by the devil. Now, what's going to happen in the near future is, you know, that Satan is going to find his incarnation in another personality. And it's going to it's going to be a humanized type of personality that's going to show up in the form of what we call the anti Christ. And the anti Christ is going to bring to a philosophical conclusion the, the, the philosophies of satanic government. Now, we see all of that around us today, but it's just going to be, you know, tied up in one neat little package here pretty soon.

42:00Pretty soon. And of course, you know, the idea of the devil is what? One world government. One world, the devil is against nationalism. You hear it all over everywhere today, nationalism, national, the devil is against national. That's why there's such, such venom against people who are nationalist in their thinking. The devil is against nationalism. The Lord is for nationalism. You know, you go through your Bible over and over and over again. God has declared that he has established the boundaries and the lines between various races and cultures and, and, and so on. God is a nationalist. Satan is not. God is a capitalist. Satan is a socialist. He's starting to get the picture. So do you see what's going on? Do I have to point out the rise of the DSA here in America?

43:02God is a separatist. Satan is an integrationist. And, and you see all those things. So in other words, the philosophies of the world are running contrary to what God, what the word of God says. And we're caught up in this malstrom as it were embracing the philosophy of the world and the satanic philosophy. And all of this is going in a direction. So, so that when the Antichrist shows up. And the Antichrist shows all he has to do is grab the right set of reins and say, come on, boys, follow me. Because philosophically and educationally, the world has been programmed to accept these ideas. You know, we're trying to, you know, we got this idea and, you know, that, you know, we're not going to have any poor people among us. And, you know, and the more we work at it, the more we put into it, the more we invest in it, the more poor people we actually get.

44:02You know, it's crazy. It is crazy. Do you remember what Jesus said? Jesus said, the poor, you shall always have among you. Isn't that what he said? Now, the world says we got to do different. The world says that we owe everybody health care. So let's socialize medicine. That's an interesting documentary sometime ago, you know, about England. After experimenting for over 50 years of socialized medicine, they've just, you know, they've finally publicly said that it's a bust. It doesn't work. We're going broke. This thing is killing us. You know what all that is? That's a satanic philosophy, folks. All of that stuff. All that's socialized, socialized, socialized man. It's a satanic philosophy. And folks say, well, you know, what are we going to do?

45:04We're poor. We can't afford. We can't do this. We can't do that. Well, I guess the first thing you need to do is trust the Lord. The first thing you need to do is trust the Lord. There's actually no doubt about that. And there are all kinds of exceptions. But the general rule of the thing is long life is attributed to obedience to the book. That's the general rule. Long life is attributed to obedience to the book. Let me give you a verse. All right. Children. Honor thy father and thy mother that their days may be long upon the face of the earth. You know what it says? That's what it says. Now, either it's true or it isn't true. So the socialization and the direction of the world is contrary to God. Contrary to God. Now in the day and age in which you and I live, and I know I'm kind of off the beat path with this thing.

46:09I'm trying to help you understand what's going on and the big picture in the day and age in which you and I live. We are right in the middle of this massive direction that is satanically motivated and inspired. And it's an extension of seven former kingdoms to get everybody together in one herd doing the same going the same direction doing the same thing marching to the same drum. Listen to the same song. You know, one of the things I refer to documentaries a lot. And another one just just came to mind. I watched his documentary not long ago on Prince Edward Island. Prince Edward Island is a Canadian province way up in the Northeast and to Canada, you know, up kind of north of Nova Scotia, you know, kind of between Nova Scotia and Newfoundland.

47:10To a to a great degree, Prince Edward Island. They've maintained kind of like an old kind of lifestyle. And a lot of people there are dependent upon fishing and living off that and living that type of a lifestyle for their income. And they're the kind of people who live very close to the land. And they went on to show that there were several villages along, I think the North Shore of Prince Edward Island, that the government has made every conceived and look, the Canadian government I'm talking about has made every conceivable effort that they know how to make to get these people to move out of their villages to larger communities. And in some cases they have, you know, they shut down whole villages and they told them that we can provide you with medical services. We can't do this. We can't do that. You've just got to move out. And so they were, you know, they were demonstrating some of that.

48:21And on some hands, you know, the government has made has met some strong resistance. And some of those people said, hey, look, we're not going. We're not going. Some of them left and some of them came back. And, you know, they got to the city and they said, well, man, I can't live like this. I can't handle this. And they turned around there and they're going back. You know, you can't make a living. I don't care. I'll die here. I don't care. Here I stay, you know, that type of that type of attitude. Now when you stop and think about that, you know, this serves as a good illustration. And I thought of it, I thought of it at the time. Why should the government care if you live in town or in the country? Why should they care? Well, you know, you've got to have access to medical services. Why should they care? Since when is it government's responsibility to make sure that you can have your appendix taken out on a moment's nose? Amen? Since when? Why? Why? Well, we have to make sure that your kids are educated properly. Since when is it government's responsibility to educate your kids?

49:31Now, see, you know, we can look at men like like Dewey and we can look at a lot of others and we can say, you know, that guy thought of that and that guy thought of that and that guy thought of that. And we can look at legislators and lawmakers and bureaucrats and plutocrats and all the rest of the crats. And we can and we can lay blame to them. But in reality, folks, don't you see the plot of the thing is far deeper than all of that. It goes far beyond human mentality. There is a satanic plot in this whole thing to get people into a herd mentality, get everybody to kind of point in the same direction, you know. And they can control you and get your thinking more aligned if they've got you in a metropolitan area. And if you jump out of the herd, then you become the deviant. You're the oddball. You decide, well, I'm going to keep my kids at home. You're the oddball, amen?

50:35You decide, I'm going to do things a little bit different. I'm going to do it God's way. You're the oddball. By the way, I'm going to stop and I'm going to talk about Christian education just just for a second. Right. This is kind of one of those shotgun messages. You know, you're just dealing with with a lot of different stuff here today. You know, I've come to the conclusion after years and years of studying this thing that that not only is it not the government's responsibility to educate your children, but it really isn't the church is either. It's not the church's responsibility to educate your kids. Do you know whose responsibility it is? I hope you're sitting down. I hope you're calm. You know whose responsibility it is. It is your responsibility. God gave it to you, not to me or anyone else. You see what a lot of folks are doing is they're looking for someone else to do it for them with they're looking for someone else to do what they're supposed to be doing for themselves.

51:44They're looking for folks to assume the responsibility that is given to them by God. It's your burden. It is your responsibility. You brought these kids into the world. Amen. You take care of them. And I think that's the most biblical approach there is. God gave them to you. God didn't give them to anybody else. He didn't give them to the government in spite of what the state says. That's the devil, man. Because that's the devil's philosophy. You see that's the anti-Christ philosophy. But the government is trying to instill this in your mind. That's why they say you've got to get your kids a social security number. You know, well, that's so they can keep track of everything. Keep track of everything. Think about it everywhere you go. They want your social security number. Your social security number is your de facto government ID number. That's your taxpayer ID number.

52:45Folks, it's your responsibility. Not anyone else's not the governments. Not anyone else's. The world is moving. The world is is is is is massive tornado moving towards socialism. Putting everything together so that the man is sin might be revealed and take charge. Now look, I went off the rails here. I know. And I didn't get very far. And, you know, I'm not going to go on to the last part of it, which reveals who that man is. And some characters about him. We'll do that in another time. We'll carry on with Daniel next week. All right. Our Heavenly Father, we want to thank you for today. We want to thank you, Lord, for your blessings. We want to thank you for the mercy and the grace that you give us. Lord, we thank you for our study today. Lord, I went off the rails a little bit here today.

53:46And, Lord, I know I didn't get everything covered. I'm going to ask you to forgive me and overlook that, Lord, and just just point us in the right direction for next time when we pick up in Daniel. And, Lord, I want to thank you for all those that are watching and listening. God, I ask that you would just help them to understand where this message comes from. And the heart of the message and the Lord, they'll be motivated to reach into their Bible and study these things out for themselves. Father, thank you so much for all that you do. We love you today in Jesus name. Amen. All right. There we go. Well, let's take care of some of the housekeeping. And then we will wrap all of this up here. All right. So folks, if you would, please don't forget to head over to our website, joe ruse.com. That's joe ruse.com. When you get over there, look for the contact form. It's up in the upper right corner there on the on the homepage. Open that thing up, fire us off a message, let us know what happens on your heart, what happens on your mind, any questions, comments, cares or concerns that you might have. Maybe have a, maybe have a complaint. Maybe you have a suggestion for a guest, maybe a particular topic you'd like to discover or maybe have a prayer request.

54:48Send them on over to us. We'd love to hear from you guys. Now, if you like me, you don't want to use the web form. I know because of the cap, she's thing, you know, unfortunately, I have to have it there as part of the deal. But if you don't want to use that, find just email me directly at info at joe ruse.com. That's info at joe ruse.com. Also, please don't forget that this is a live show weeknight seven p.m. Central time eight p.m. Eastern. Very, very important to check out the live show during the week. We have some incredible guests coming and then of course we have our Sunday Bible study show, which is where you are right now every Sunday afternoon at two p.m. Central time three p.m. Eastern time. And as you know, we're going to the book of Daniel, little detour today, but we'll pick up Daniel next week again. And so I hope you guys can check that out. Now, if you want to catch, if you want to catch the live show, ever you can catch us on rumble at rumble.com slash joe ruse on YouTube is at joe ruse. If you want to listen to the audio, the live audios available on our website, of course, across across the modern podcast 2.0 platforms.

55:52And then of course, we also have the download version available to you wherever it is that you get your podcasts. So plenty of ways to get your hands on the show. Also very, very important to please remember to like, subscribe and share the show with your friends, your family and your followers. Help us help help us get found. We would really appreciate that. All right, shout outs to our producing team executive producers Wayne Rankin Rosanna Rankin, Caroli and him and as Angela Wattusky and John Cele. These folks donate their time, their talent and their treasure to help us put these shows together. And we could not do it without their support. Now, if you want to check out more ways about how you can help out, just head over to the support page at joe ruse.com slash support and look for all the different ways you can donate to the show. And listen, all the producers, if you sign up as a producers, a recurring donation, various amounts all set up there, depending on your level. But all the producers get the shout out and every show they include in all our show notes. And when we do, when we do eventually restart the newsletter, you'll be included in all that as well.

56:53Also, producers get a IMDB credit that they can put on a resume if they like that they are an official producer of a podcast. So please go check it out. Jo Ru's dot com slash support joe ruse dot com slash support. All right, folks, I want to tell you about this fantastic product that I've been using now for about three months. This stuff is called masterpiece. All right, masterpiece is the next level toxin remover. Human caution supporters of the manufacturer of this product, they start with the best organic binder known zeolites and use a proprietary process resulting in an unmatched nanosized particle range. This is infused in the most nutrient dense substance on earth organic marine plasma. Folks, no other product has this much bioavailable zeolite and certainly no other product or no other zeolite formula has living minerals like masterpiece.

57:59The process to get this produces an unduplicable end product that is the perfect alchemy for holistic cleansing and nourishing been on this for three months. The results are astounding. I would not tell you to try this product if I haven't been using it myself and seeing results, sleeping better fewer aches and pains, better dreams, vivid dreams, clarity of thought, less brain fog. This stuff is amazing. So please go over to the website masterpiece. Health slash ruse masterpiece. Health slash ruse get 10% off your purchase right there on the website. So please take a look at it, check it out masterpiece. Health slash ruse. You don't even put the rules in the promo code. It's already there for you 10% comes right off. So please go check it out masterpiece. Health slash ruse masterpiece. Health slash ruse. Please check it out. Great, great stuff. All right. Well, with all of that said, I do believe that that is just about enough of me for today.

59:04Folks, please don't forget the website joruse.com. That's joruse.com. Let us know what you think. Questions, comments, cares, you're servants really want to hear from you guys. All right, folks, with that said, I hope you guys have a great Sunday. Enjoy this Lord's day. And remember, make Texas independent again. Go podcasting. Keep a steady stride. Keep talking. God bless you and have a great, great day. We will see you Wednesday night with Wayne. Good night, folks.