Episode 03 - A Galilean Wedding

[00:00:00] Speaker A: Good afternoon. We are Eyes to See Ministries International and my wife and I are doing a Wednesday teaching here at Community Media of South Central Pennsylvania. Each Wednesday today we are going to talk about a Galilean wedding. But before I start that, the significance of that, you'll see as we go. Some of the things that we're going to touch base on ongoing would be what is the significance of Galilee in the Bible? Who were the Galileans in the Bible? Who were the original 12 disciples who became Jesus apostles and where were they from? What were the common marriage customs in biblical times? But we're going to concentrate on a Galilean wedding and ultimately why this is important is we're going to talk about what the Bible calls end times. There is a Bible end times timeline recorded in God's holy book. And it's important that we know what prophecies have already taken place, which ones are in the process of being fulfilled and which ones have not been fulfilled yet. So if you are a disciple of Jesus, you should know that Jesus already came. The first coming of Christ, the first advents already happened. And there is also recorded in the Bible going to be a second coming of Christ. There will be a time and this might generate some questions from somebody, but there is an event that's recorded in the Bible that will happen before what you would read as the second coming. During this period that's going to happen. And the title of this message, and it will continue ongoing is called before the Wrath. There is going to be an outpouring of God's wrath on this earth called the Tribulation. It's a seven year period and you do not want to be alive here on the earth when he does this. Currently, the crucifixion, the death of Jesus Christ satisfied God's wrath. It had to be Jesus, something that important to God the Father, that his wrath would be held back. And at some point we'll talk a little bit about the flood, what happened in Genesis when God destroyed all of humanity except for one family. And again, the importance of this is if you look at Genesis, it was God that shut the door to Noah when Noah walked in the ark. While we're talking about a Galilean wedding, you will see that at that wedding ceremony the door is going to be closed. So right now, if you don't know who Jesus Christ is and you have not made a commitment, there is a limited opportunity right now for that door is still open. But when it closes, it closes. And at that point God Almighty, the Creator of Heaven, and earth is going to pour his wrath out on this world. And all of that wrath is going to be directed towards what will be people that didn't believe who Jesus Christ was. And that's why it's important that we understand this. And I know there was traditionally what people would call a pre tribulation event, a mid tribulation event, a post tribulation event. If you really study what is theologically being put out there today, because these mysteries have been revealed to certain people through the scriptures and there's more teaching happening on them. For the most part, the mid tribulational and the post tribulational events have been discounted. Now there's a pre wrath theory that's come to into play here. But we're going to talk about what's called the Rapture. We're going to define definitions. You're going to see the biggest holdback that people have. They say that word's not in the Bible. And again, you're going to be able to go as deep as you want in the word of God. And as you do, the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of truth will reveal other scriptures to you that will bring you to a point and you on any topic in the Bible, the more that you study that, you'll soon see the scriptures knitted together and all come together like a well fit glove on every topic. So we'll be looking at an end times timeline. There is a limited time that the church of God, bought by his blood for his purposes will be here. And we'll get to that moving forward. But I'm going to give you a homework assignment. I'd like you to read the Gospel of Matthew, chapter 24 and chapter 25. Because in chapter 23 at the very end, verses 37 and 39, Jesus will talk about his lament over Jerusalem. And that will lead into those three verses, into chapter 24. And I'll go through before we leave this evening, my wife will remind me, I hope, what I call the sectional headings in the Bible. The man made headings where we've taken as a body of Christ certain scriptures and looked at what the context is and gave it a heading. And then Also in chapter 25, the same first Thessalonians, chapter 4 and 5 are very important scriptures. This was written by Apostle Paul after Jesus crucifixion, his resurrection and ascension, where he was given the church at Thessalika an understanding of what was gonna happen. As the apostle, they were concerned that the people that had already died had missed what Jesus Talked about where they would be able to go to heaven. And Paul is going to open our eyes up there. And then also in 1 Corinthians, chapter 15, he'll address that this will all lead to a teaching in the book of Revelation, which I don't hear anybody speaking on right now. The revelation of Jesus Christ. That revelation in verse one says, given by God the Father for his servants, for God's servants, given to John. Apostle John, that book most people think is difficult to read and it is more, much more than the tribulation that I mentioned earlier. It's the revelation of Jesus Christ. So as believers in Jesus Christ, we could be excited knowing that there is a gift from God the Father called our salvation that was made available by the first coming of Christ. And without looking at the book of Revelation in its entirety, you will miss the exciting news of what we as believers have to look forward to as participants in the kingdom of God, Christ's thousand year, millennial and moving forward, what that means for us. So when Apostle Paul wrote we should know these things, I would not have you ignorant brothers and sisters. He's going to close that section in Thessalonians with, with this information, you should be able to edify and lift each other up in your belief in the blessed hope of what's to come. In verse three of chapter one in the book of Revelation, it said, blessed are they that read this book and hold to the truth within it. And there are seven total blessings throughout that book that those that read it and you're given an understanding how you'll be blessed by God. Remember John 17, 3, and this is eternal life, that they know you, Father, the one true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you sent. He is the express image of the Father. Jesus said, if you've seen me, you've seen the Father. And that whole book, the end book, the whole Bible is about the word of God. But that last book is about Christ, the Lord of Lords and the King of Kings. So I would encourage you, if you have some knowledge of the church age, what is called theologically the church age, and the catching up of the church to meet Christ in the air. Most people in the book of Revelation want to stop at the end of chapter three, when Jesus is done giving his seven letters to the churches. And if you do that because the church is not listed beyond chapter four, verse one. Well, why would there be 20 some chapters in a book that doesn't talk about us anymore? There's a reason for that. Talking about the Galilean wedding today you'll see why. And we'll review this again each week going forward as we cover these different topics so that you gain an understanding. And that's what the purpose of this is. The purpose of the Teacher in the body of Christ is to give an understanding of the written word of God. So a Galilean wedding. Israel is divided into three provinces. Judah is in the south, Samaria is in the middle, and Galilee is the northernmost part. Now what's interesting, if you're a believer in Christ, Christ said he came for the Jewish people. Later Paul would be sent to the Gentiles. But historically, when Jerusalem was destroyed and the tribes were scattered, there were people that were living in Galilee from different countries. And it became known as the Province of the Gentiles or Galilee of the Gentiles. And it's important that God has a sense of humor. Jesus came for the Jewish people first and yet there were Gentiles in Galilee that would hear that message. So you would have Jews and Gentiles there. And you know, I study military history, we call certain things. There's a target rich environment over there. There was a large population in that northern of Israel, which is why I believe Jesus started the ministry in Galilee and spent most of his time there. In this region, the Galileans were considered by the other Jews, by the people in Judah to be a lower class of people. They considered them to be ignorant, not educated, not well off. They even spoke a different dialect. They spoke Aramaic. So when Peter was questioned later, after Christ was captured, they said, you're a Galilean, you're one of his disciples. You're a Galilean because your language has given you away. It was Aramaic and Nazareth is in that region. So we talked earlier on, at some point we'll talk about why is Jesus called Jesus of Nazareth? Why did he start his ministry in Galilee? One of them is the region and the other is the province. Same area. But when we study the Bible, we looked at hermeneutics a little bit, the definition I gave you last week. It's important to understand the customs and the traditions of a group of people when we're studying the Bible so that we know why was this happening? There was a reason why Jesus used parables and most of them had to do with agriculture, for example. So there are wedding traditions in those Mediterranean countries outside of Israel that pretty much follow the same. And it's the same in Jerusalem as a whole, except Galilee has different traditions for their wedding. And when we go over this today, you're going to See, if you've read the Bible, a lot of the parables and the teachings of Jesus are now going to make sense. So people want to know when will events in the Bible take place regarding what I will call as the catching up of the church? Jesus told us not to worry about the when, but we're asking the wrong question. If we would ask the question and then seek the Bible for the answers, why is there going to be a rapture? You will see that this is a real event and why that is going to happen. Why is Jesus going to do this? So there's a movie from a company called Ingenuity Films, and the title of this DVD is called before the Wrath. So I'm going to read a little bit about their introduction to this. There's a group of theologians, there's a statistician there, somebody that maybe is a believer, I don't know, but he compiles data from surveys. And I'm going to give you, going along the way here, different statistics. For example, there's 27%, roughly 27% of the entire Bible is prophecy. And we don't hear people speaking about Bible prophecy. There's an urgency put on me to do what I do today for the body of Christ. And not everybody has that urgency. Why? I don't know. I can't speak for God, but there are some of us that do, and part of that is to speak about Bible prophecy. So as I travel to different churches, you'll see different formats on how different people preach and different topics. Hopefully they're being inspired by the Holy Spirit and those messages come from him. For this specific people group, my urgency right now, and I would ask this question, if Jesus came back tomorrow, what is it that you do in your normal day that you would cut loose and change, if anything? So my reality looks different today than it used to. I remember being in sixth grade, we were told to break down into groups of six. And the teacher said, if you were in a raft, your plane crashed or a boat sunk, there was only six of you alive in the raft and there was only enough food for five people. As a group of six, I want you to decide which person you're going to throw off the raft to save the other five. That's the sense of urgency that the original disciples had when Jesus ascended because they understood that his second coming would be what we define theologically as the imminent return of Christ. That by definition, imminent means to hang over, to threaten impending. So it hasn't happened yet. Appearing as if it's about to fall on it can happen anytime. There was an urgency in those first believers that Christ, when he ascended, could come back the next day. And we don't see that today. In my travels, I don't see that sense of urgency today. The Bible talks about that this time that we're talking about on a sliding scale is going to be like the days of Noah when the earth had total immorality. God grieved that he created people, that he brought a flood upon and killed all of humanity except Noah, who God said was righteous and Noah's family was saved and God shut the door. So as Galileans, they witnessed the first miracle of Jesus. And if you look at the Gospel of Matthew, chapter four, you'll see right up front, John the Baptist was beheaded, he was martyred, and Jesus starts his ministry, his public ministry in Galilee. He warned those people that there would be a time in the future of great deception. We're living in that time right now. And that will exponentially increase with the creation invention, if you will, and the launching of artificial intelligence. That knowledge which the Bible says will increase is increasing exponentially by the week. If you look at what existed today, doesn't take long to go on the Internet and just start scrolling down on reels to see what's changing in the world. Jesus said that we as disciples must hold on to our faith till the end. And he said one day he would return to save us from the end of the world. When that wrath is poured out over those seven years, there will be a sequence of events we'll talk about moving forward. But the world that you know it today is going to come to an end. And there will be a new heaven and a new earth and only those that heard the gospel that believed it. Jesus said, if you believe on me, when he was asked who would be saved, that's what you're being saved from. That's what your salvation means. You had to be saved. Unfortunately, most people don't believe that Jesus is coming back. If the majority of the world of humanity doesn't believe Jesus is who he is, it makes sense to me that that also would be the case. So what if there was evidence that proves that all this is real, that it's true? And that's what we're going to talk about in the weeks to come. The Bible talks about this catching up as being a mystery. That word is used. And as a mystery, we can ask ourselves, why does the Rapture have to happen? This catching up? There's going to be a reason when we look at the Scriptures, all scriptures given by God and God cannot lie. And if looked at from a hermeneutical standpoint in the right context, you will see that there is a natural conclusive answer to this question today. What's the point of it all? Why did Jesus speak on faith more than any other subject in the Bible? We why was he moved in his heart to compassion on people's faith? I would say tonight a Galilean which all but one of those original 12 apostles was from Galilee. The only one that wasn't, surprise, surprise was Judas Iscariot who betrayed Jesus. They would have understood the scriptures that you're going to hear over the next couple weeks because they're going to come to the conclusion that oh, it's a wedding. That's why the Rapture is going to happen, because it's a wedding. So we'll see. There's a key to all of this. The Bible talks about mysteries in the Bible and it talks about in the last days there will be revelation that comes that was hidden from humanity prior to this. Now this revelation has to be confirmed by the word of God. Somebody comes up and says, I got this new revelation about something and you can't find it in the Bible. The revelation, the revealed knowledge is what's already given. It's just expounded upon it and we have an understanding of it. So this could be the most profound discovery in human history. So again from the script, in this dvd, before the Wrath, there's actors portraying people back in the first century at a Galilean wedding. And they're speaking about and talking about why Jesus promise made through. Why was his promise made through wine at the Last Supper? Why is it that the world cannot know the day of his return? It's imminent now. You're going to learn moving forward that what is called the Rapture, there is no event or sign that will happen before that that you will know when that's happening. However, the Bible clearly gives us Jesus answered a question by his disciples when they said how will we know when this happens? And he was talking about his second coming. There are clear signs. So if you're alive on earth during this seven year period, that's the bad news. The good news is that time is only going to be seven years and you'll have certain signs that you'll know to look forward to. More than likely you'll be in hiding as God pours this wrath out. Why we were chosen as God's people to preserve this truth until the end of days. He gave it to his disciples, and they had to pass this knowledge on. And why has that been hidden until these days? So you're going to learn moving forward that Jesus is coming back. So after 2,000 years, we're going to rediscover a truth or discover a truth why Jesus will return before the wrath. So we are not destined to live in this world forever. So as a. As a Galilean wedding, what would happen is there was a betrothal period, so they're not going to go and walk into the synagogue and get married right away. And this is a. It's a union of families that's going to take place sometimes in Mediterranean in this period of time. These weddings were prearranged by the families. Now in Galilee, as opposed to the rest of Israel, the husband, the father of the groom, would bring a written contract to the father of the bride, a covenant contract. Does that sound familiar? The father is going to have a covenant that he's going to present to the bride. The bride's going to have all the power in the world to either reject that covenant or accept it. That's the difference. In the Galilean wedding, this would take place at the gate in the community, because the gate was where the elders of the community met, and that was important. So as people would start to gather at the gate, what would happen is the rest of the community would see this happening and they would start to think, something important is going to happen. They're going to the gate. And as they did this, a crowd would gather. So the other reason for going to the gate was because this was going to be a contractual covenantal agreement. They wanted witnesses there. So this is all done by design. So as they get there, the father of the groom is going to hand the father of the bride the contract, written contract. What they will do now, the bride does not have to give anything back to the groom. This is the only wedding in Israel where this is the case. The father is going to write into the contract what he will do. And the groom will also provide a gift for the bride. So the bride's family does not have to provide any kind of dowry. This is a free gift. Salvation is a free gift from God. So what happens is they read the contract, and then the groom is going to take a cup, fill it with wine, and hand it to the bride. And she takes the first drink. And she has the ability at that point to read that covenant and say, yes, I'll accept that, or no, I will not. Which is exactly as a believer what you would have done, but yours would have been by faith, through grace, by faith. But there is a covenant contract. There's a covenant that we entered into as the bride of Christ. So this is all going to mirror the Scriptures. The scriptures are going to back up with the truth, everything that I'm telling you tonight as we move forward to this. If the bride accepts the wine, she hands it back to the groom and the groom will now drink of it. At the Last Supper, Jesus gave the cup and told his disciples to drink of it. This was where he ushered in the new covenant. It was at a supper table that is a forerunner of what you will see happens at the wedding feast of the Lamb, which is Jesus. The lamb is a capital L. So at this point, this was agreed upon, but they still don't get married yet. What they're going to do is be separated for at least a minimum of one year, but they're already considered married. The groom has to go back to his father's house, at which time he will prepare a room for himself and the bride that will be attached. It's got to be added on to the Father's house. Now, if you read the Bible, this will begin to sound familiar. Jesus said, I must depart and I will prepare a house, a room for you. There's many rooms in my father's house. This is all being laid out in this custom that the Galileans learned of this betrothal process and wedding. So it will take the groom the better part of a year, sometimes up to a year and a half, as historical accounts show, to build this room. Because he has to gather the material and he has to prepare the room. He has to prepare the furniture, the table for what is going to become a wedding feast at this location. He has to gather up all the accoutrements and everything else that's going to take place on that day. The groom does this. Our groom is Jesus Christ and we are his bride. That's what's happening right now. The bride, when she leaves, has to gather enough material to put the wedding gown together. It's a white wedding gown and her wedding party material for that. Now, based on where they are, in Galilee, if they're not by a major trade route, caravan trade route. This is going to take a long time. She's going to gather this in pieces. And as she does this, she is with, at her house, the rest of the wedding party, the people that are going to be in there, the other women. There are scriptures we're going to look at moving Forward, where Jesus tells us more than once, watch and pray, be diligent and be ready. And he's going to give us a parable of 10 virgins, which we'll go over in detail one Wednesday. So as she's staying with this group of women and preparing everything, she does not know when the wedding feast is going to happen. The groom doesn't know. The only person that knows when this is going to happen is the groom's father. Now there's historical documentation of all of this. The groom may ask, when is that day? And the father's going to tell him. That's not for you to learn. It's not for anybody to know at this point. This is one of the reasons why the world cannot know when this is because Jesus is going to follow this traditional wedding, Galilean wedding process that he gave to the disciples through his oral teaching that's now recorded in the Bible, which they would have understood once they understood it was a wedding, then they understood where he was going with this. So they're separated for a lengthy period of time. Now just imagine you wanted to get engaged to a woman or a woman to a man, and you're excited about that. But now you have to wait. There's a long waiting period. It's a preparation period. I'm going to repeat that this separation period is a preparation period for things to not only take place along this timeline we're talking about, but there's also other people that don't know when the day is. And they have to, they still have to be invited into the wedding feast and they haven't been yet. Many have been invited and many have turned it down. So we're not there today. But if we learn through the Bible the truth, events that are taking place today, what happened yesterday and what is being spoken of by different government officials and you don't, I would encourage you, you don't have to spend a lot of time going through the Internet to see if you're single eye focused on this event and the imminent return. If you understand Christ can come back and it could happen before I get done speaking today. There should be a sense of urgency put in you. So my job, my assignment in the body of Christ is to make an attempt to put the same sense of urgency in the hearts of other people, believers and unbelievers through the truth, by giving them the truth and an understanding of it that I have been given. So it's a preparation period. The bride and the groom don't see each other during this period. So there should be a building up in their hearts of excitement on when this is going to happen. When are they actually going to be joined in what we would call today holy matrimony, which is a covenant. So there's a preparation period happening. You'll see when we go over the parable of the ten virgins, the significance of this parable as it relates to this wedding preparation, because only half of the people that Jesus gives are ready for this day. The other half, you will see are the church believers and the door closes on them. So this preparation period that's happening, the groom is going to have the room finished and he's gathered everything that he needs to gather for the wedding feast. It's all there, but he still doesn't know what when the Father's going to say, son, go get your bride. And there's usually historically documented accounts where when that room is finished, there's a good period of time that goes by before this feast takes place. When we look at the scriptures of when Christ comes in the clouds with the sound of an archangel, a trumpet, that call, you're going to see in a minute. It happens in this traditional Galilean wedding one night, and this happens at night. So remember that as you read these scriptures, I gave you your homework, and we'll refer everything moving forward that we look at to this Galilean wedding feast. One day, the father's going to get up, he's going to wake the Son up. Remember, it's in the middle of the night, early morning, or it could be midnight. That word midnight is mentioned many times in the Bible during these event warnings that were given by Christ. When that happens, the groom gets up, goes outside with his party and his father, and he, guess what he does? He blows the shofar. That's the trumpet that's spoken of by Christ. And he's going to walk through the street doing this. The bride will hear this and she will come out with her party and they will be joined in the streets. Now, as this is happening, the Galilean people in this area would know what's happening. They know there's a betrothal. Remember, there's witnesses. And now they've gone back and communicated with to the rest of the community as they would have done. And now people start coming out of their houses and they gather in the street and they're headed back to the Father's house. That's where this is going to go. When they get there, they're all going to sit down at the table and at that Point. If you didn't hear that trumpet and you didn't expect and you weren't ready, the door closes and it never opens again. That's the wedding feast of the Lamb. So we're going to learn what the righteous garment is that Christ talks about the word of God and other questions that I'll give you moving forward to hopefully stir you up and answer as we go along. I can't answer all of them in one session and it's your job to get and do your homework. I talked about Berean saints last week. Everything that I speak of that's being recorded and will go out on social media. You want to go into the Bible and, and you need to ask yourself, wow, that sounds pretty interesting. Is Pastor Peter giving me the truth or did he just make that up? Is he speaking to me in his own exuberance and excitement? Or is there evidence in the Bible of what he says is the truth? Is it backed up biblically by the truth, the word of God, the way, the truth and the life? That is a brief overview of what a Galilean wedding was. And as Jesus went through this teaching, ongoing teaching with his disciples, as this information was revealed to them and they were being taught to go out and gather others, the first thing Jesus told Peter was, follow me, I will make you a fisher of men. Everything that they were learning for three to three and a half years is going to start to make sense once they get the revelation. I get it. It's a wedding. It's a Galilean wedding. And you're going to see the evidence is going to be given to you biblically of that. So I would encourage you, I'll use a word that Paul used. I beseech you, brethren, brothers and sisters, to go into the Bible and rather than look at what you just heard with a critical spirit and discount this knowledge, because you're going to come to the conclusion and you already tuned it out the minute you heard the word rapture and say, that word's not in the Bible. Next week I'm going to show you it's not in the Bible, however, what it means. That phrase is in there. And that's where people get lost. And you know, our job as believers is to hunger and thirst after righteousness, which is Christ is our righteousness. It's the person of Jesus Christ. And the Bible said, blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness. There's another scripture that says, for his name's sake, they shall be filled. So as you read the Bible and ask the Spirit of God to reveal to you what he wants you to see. I read it out loud and I will pray before I open the Bible and and say what Paul prayed. Father, I come before you as your servant in spirit and truth and in faith, working with love. And I ask you today as I read the truth, for you to give me the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of God the Father as a person, Jesus the Christ as a person, and the Holy Spirit as a person. So as I read, open my eyes and Spirit of God, let me see what you want me to see today and let my ears hear what the Spirit saying to Peter Yonata today as I read this and prepare my heart, create in me an open, pure heart to receive the truth to today in the context that you want to give it to me. In Jesus name I pray. Amen. God's going to answer that prayer every time you give utterance because everything that I just prayed are different phrases from the word of God. And God can't lie. And I just came into agreement with his purpose for all of us. Which is why at some point in the future, the distant future, we'll have a teaching on effective praying. And I'm going to give you four scriptures, four prayers that Apostle Paul prayed that are impossible for God not to answer because they are his ultimate purpose for every one of his children. So when you pray that and come into agreement with him, he will answer that prayer all the time. So remember a Galilean wedding. If you look up a Middle. I said Mediterranean, I'm going to correct myself. The Holy Spirit just corrected me. It's a Middle Eastern wedding. There's a Middle Eastern wedding. There's a Middle Eastern theologian that was part of this project that confirmed that in the country that he was born and raised in was the same wedding tradition that the Israelites or the Jewish people have in Judah. And his eyes were opened when he realized the Galileans had a different wedding. There was a difference between that Middle Eastern traditional wedding and the Galilean wedding. So it should start to open your curiosity about why Jesus was raised in Galilee, the Galileans being looked down upon. You can see Scriptures in Isaiah where he said he was a sorrowful person. He had sorrow, he was talking about Christ and where he was from as well as other things. So all of the scriptures can be knit together in context if you study them. I recommend you get a good study Bible, one that preferably has center column notes, which the one that I have will link every phrase in the Bible to all the other ones that apply to it. And you'll have study notes. You'll see some of these things I'm talking about through the Scriptures. If you have a study Bible, you'll see some of them hopefully opened up. The Revelation of Jesus Christ, the groom, the Lamb, Read the Last Supper. What Jesus says in the Last Supper, he tells the disciples, I will not take of this fruit of the vine again until I'm with you again. There's a reason for that. It all is tied in to this Galilean wedding. And if you understand and do some research on what you just learned today, your understanding will be opened up so that when we go over these Scriptures, you'll begin to see this all knitted together neatly by God. My name is Peter Yanada. Eyes to See Ministries is a ministry created through inspiration of God to my wife Sherry and I to teach the body of Christ and the lost who Jesus Christ is. We are both part of what the church calls the fivefold ministry. And if you go to Ephesians, chapter four, you'll see by inspiration of God, where Paul says Jesus Christ himself gave gifts to the church, what those titles are and what our job is to edify and equip the body of Christ. You need to have an understanding of it. And that's what we are going to do every Wednesday. When the Jewish people came out of captivity from Babylon, they came back in three waves. In the second wave, Ezra and Nehemiah came back, the prophet and the priest, and they had been tasked to rebuild the wall around Jerusalem. For six days. Nehemiah called the people, all the people, to come to one location. And Ezra read the Scriptures from early morning till midday. All the people stood there and listened. And here's the amazing thing what God reveals to us. It says the people received what they heard because Ezra gave them an understanding of the reading. And that's what you need to hear. Preaching will give you or should inspire you to go back into the Bible. And now the teacher that office, their job in the church is to give you the understanding, a deeper understanding of what that is. And I can tell you right now that if your church doesn't know who the teacher is in it, it's lacking. And if the teacher is in the church and the teacher does not have a platform in which to speak and do what they've been called to do, you have a spiritually dead church. You cannot have a spiritually alive church. You need to be awakened through the word of God. And that's what These roles have to do with. And I'll go even further and say most churches lock themselves in within their four walls. And if you don't have the teacher in your church yet, guess where they are. They're in the universal church. And there's no reason why one church will say church A cannot be in a relationship with church. Church be. And have those people come within those four walls and fulfill what their calling is for Christ. And if you have that person in the church that's gifted by God to give that knowledge and you silence them, either as a church or the leader of that church, that's your fault. You are out of the will of God. Now, when I first got saved and I'm going to close now, I know I've gone over. I was led by the spirit of God to go to a church. And the lead pastor in that church, his name was Pastor Jerry Stoltzfoos, he was a firm believer that if there was something lacking in that church that it didn't have in the people that gathered there each Sunday, he was the first one to say, there's somebody in this church or somebody in that church. I recommend you contact that lead pastor, here's their name and contact number, and go there because that person is in that church right now and they're part of the universal church. I'll never forget that. That had such an impact on me. Exciting, enthusiastic impact. Then that same revelation today grieves me to no end that we've retracted as a universal church to where we won't do that. So I am thankful and I pray every day for Community Media of South Central Pennsylvania because while this is the platform that Sherry and I have, that Eyes to See Ministries has to put this knowledge out, it's here. So I would encourage you, if you don't know who they are, look them up on the Internet. Father, we just thank you that your words will never return empty because you cannot lie and you have purposes. It's your purpose that will eventually be concluded at some point and then continue into eternity for the people that believe you. That's why the word of God says you, words will not return empty. They will accomplish that which you send them forth to accomplish for your good pleasure. So I thank you for Community Media. I thank you for the platform to speak the whole counsel of God as your servant Paul said, not just the goodness of God, but also the wrath and severity of God. What God loves and what the Bible says he hates, which by definition means he loves a lot less. So I thank you today that this message is going to go out and that there's people that were curious on who Jesus is, is Jesus real, that their hearts have been pricked and that they want to know what they need to do. For all the people that have said, this is a hard saying who can hear it, all of heaven will rejoice over one that says, my heart's pricked. And I don't know why, but I feel like I need to go somewhere to hear more about what I just heard. So I know that you've already plowed the rocky ground out ahead, not just in this community, but internationally, because of the waiting period that Sherry and I had to wait before we ever met or rekindled the relationship with Ray Galker. And then even the time period had to elapse that six weeks before the meeting that Ray wanted to have happen between us and Mark. They were all in your timing, and we had to be led by you, within your timing. So based on that, your timing, I can thank you today that much of that rocky ground has been plowed ahead these sessions. So I thank you now for those people that have been pricked in their hearts. They can go on the Internet and look up eyestoseeministries.org they can contact Pastor Peter at 443-386-3941. I encourage you if you use that way to contact me, text me so I know who it is calling and I will get back with you as soon as possible, as soon as I can get clear to do that. But you would become an important person to me, even if we've never met before, because of this assignment given to us by God and by our future groom, our groom as the bride of Christ. So, Father, we pray. Pray this in Jesus name. Amen. [00:59:09] Speaker B: Holy, holy, holy Lord God Almighty early in the morning Our songs shall rise to thee Holy, holy, holy.