grab a hymnal and turn to our first hymn.
Hymn number one, Jesus, I, my cross have taken.
We'll sing there starting on the first.
♪ Jesus, I, my cross have taken ♪
With me, Heavenly Father, we just thank you for this day,
for the start of the new year.
And I just pray that not only would you be with us
for this service, that you'd keep us safe today,
but that you'd also just be with us
and bless Anchor Baptist Church for this first year.
Lord, that we would just do great works in your name
and that we would all have a desire
to serve you as best as we can this year
and going forward for the rest of our lives.
Please also just continue to be with us for this service,
have everything done decently and in order.
These things we pray in Jesus' name, amen.
All right, for our next hymn this morning,
turn if you would to number 10, "Near the Cross."
Hymn number 10, one, zero,
near the cross.
We'll sing there starting on the first.
♪ Jesus he ♪
See, we're starting a brand new Bible message
this week of Galatians chapter number one.
Definitely wanna encourage everyone
to be doing these Bible memory challenges,
just because when you memorize a chapter,
you really learn that chapter better than you can
any other way.
And even if a month or two months or a year from now,
you don't have the chapter memorized word perfect,
you'll never forget where that content is in the Bible.
You'll never forget the truth of that content.
So I really do wanna encourage everyone to do it.
But for those who did finish
the Hebrews chapter six challenge,
we do have some prizes.
So if you finished that challenge, come on up, prize.
We've got the Anchor Baptist Church hats here,
as well as some Anchor Baptist Church coffee mugs.
You can put cold or hot in this.
So if you did do that prize,
come on up and get your choice of that now.
Rocio, which one you want?
That or this, Jennifer?
I want to give a round of applause to those that did the challenge.
Great job.
Can I have an usher come and take these and put it back by the sound booth?
Thank you very much.
OK, and on the inside, if we go through our announcements here,
service times are listed Sunday morning at ten thirty,
Sunday evening at four thirty p.m.
and our Wednesday evening Bible study at seven.
We've been going through first Samuel.
So winning times are all listed there.
All those meet here at the church building.
Obviously, it's very, very cold today.
So if you go out so winning, please dress dress appropriately for that.
Make sure you're staying hydrated.
But we're still going to go out so winning today.
Nursing home ministry schedule is listed there.
If you participate in that, make note of that there.
And our year to date statistics, as you can see,
we got four salvations for the year so far.
So we're starting new and I'm really excited about the opportunities
that our church has for so winning this year.
We've got a lot of so winning events both at our church
and churches we're partnering with in the new IFB.
So it's definitely going to be a great year for so winning.
And I'm hoping to just go pedal to the metal this year
and try to do as much so winning as we possibly can.
I'm really excited for the opportunities this year.
On the right is our list of expecting ladies.
Please be in prayer for Mrs. Reed.
Also, upcoming events.
Had a really good time with the men's preaching night last week.
And that's something I definitely want to do more often,
maybe every five weeks or so.
And so on February 2nd, we're going to be combining a potluck
with a men's preaching night.
So by this evening, we'll have a sign up sheet for men
that would like to participate in that and preach.
But yeah, go ahead and bring food to share.
We'll have a potluck afterwards.
We'll have a men's preaching night on the evening service for February 2nd.
February 14th is a Friday, and we're going to start a sweetheart banquets.
And my goal is to have this as a yearly thing.
This is something that I did when we attended Sure Foundation Baptist Church.
And it was always a really fun evening for the married couples.
And this event is for married couples, not for engaged or dating
or anything like that. You got to be married.
But it's going to be a good time.
We'll have like a short marriage sermon.
We'll have some really, really good food catered.
And we'll have some marriage themed games afterwards.
It's going to be a really fun night for everyone.
So, again, I'll have a sign up sheet for that as well.
You're welcome to bring your kids.
Obviously, I don't expect you to go get a babysitter or anything like that.
If you have someone that you super, super, super trust in your life
and you're willing to do that, you're welcome to.
But the kids can, of course, come to this event.
We're probably going to have them playing games over there or something like that.
But when I do put the sign up sheet out, there's going to be a spot
to indicate how many children you're going to be bringing that need food,
because we're going to get separate food catered for the kids.
We're going to get super amazing food catered for the married mom and dad.
And kids are going to get like pizza or something like that.
OK, so just to prepare you for that.
April 19th, we're going to have a soul winning marathon here in Oklahoma City.
Try to reach people around Easter.
It's a great time when people are thinking about Christ.
So we're going to get special invites made and have a soul
winning marathon at that time.
May 16th through the 18th is a King James Conference
at Sure Foundation Baptist Church in Vancouver, Washington.
If you're looking for a conference to go to in the first half of the year,
this one would be a great one if you'd like.
May 31st, we're going to be pairing up with Steadfast Baptist Church
and doing a soul winning marathon in Durant, Oklahoma.
So that should be a great time.
We should have tons of soul winners for that.
And Lord willing, get lots of people saved.
June 28th, we're going to have just a church fellowship day
and of course, this is optional.
If you hate loud noises and aircraft, you don't have to go.
OK, but I'm going to it.
I'm excited for the air show and I'd like to hang out with all of you while we do that.
So you're more than welcome to come.
Obviously, you're going to want to bring like a chair and sunscreen and stuff like that.
It's going to be hot, but it's going to be a fun time.
October 6th through the 11th.
This is really far away, but I really wanted to announce it early
because you might have to get passports.
You might have to start planning for this.
Thank God, my wife and I, we're already booked.
We're going to this.
We've been to, I've been to the Bahamas Visions trip before,
and it's one of the best trips you'll ever take in your life.
The soul winning is absolutely incredible.
The nation there is a Christian nation in the sense that
all the kids in public school are taught the King James Bible.
You go into the public school
and there's just King James Bible verses on the wall,
and they're taught it in class,
and all the children are dressed like civilized human beings,
unlike our country,
and they're already very receptive to the Bible.
They just simply don't understand, you know, faith alone.
They don't understand eternal security oftentimes,
but they understand a lot of other things in the Bible.
In fact, me and brother Ben Naim were soul-winning,
and we handed someone a Sodomite Deception movie ticket,
and the guy just quoted Leviticus 2013 to me.
He's just like some random janitor.
And he's like, "Oh yeah, of course, Leviticus 2013."
He just says it.
I'm just like, "This is a great nation.
Like, this is a wonderful country."
So it's a great time,
and not only is it gonna be great soul-winning,
which, trust me, it's gonna be great soul-winning,
but also it's just gonna be a ton of fun.
Usually, I think we go soul-winning
for like five solid hours of hard work soul-winning a day.
And in the evening, people are swimming
in the beautiful Bahamas ocean
and hanging out on the beach.
There's usually a day where we do something really fun.
Some people like to go snorkeling, jet skiing,
hanging out at the nice resorts, eating good food.
It is an awesome, awesome trip.
So I really wanna encourage you to go.
Don't be afraid to even bring your children.
I'm taking all of my kids, and it's gonna be hard,
but it's also gonna be fun.
So we know it's a work trip for the Lord,
but also it's gonna be a lot of fun.
So I do wanna encourage you to go.
If you have any questions about this,
you need to reach out to Steadfast Baptist Church.
This is their event.
So email evangelistfur, steadfastbaptistkjv@gmail.com
or Pastor Shelley.
I'm sure everyone here has their contact information.
They'll be able to get you all the info you need.
But if you do book a flight,
make sure that you send your flight itinerary
to Steadfast Baptist Church
so that they know how to plan logistics.
So that's it for upcoming events.
If you'd like to give to our church online,
there's a QR code for you there.
And our prayer list on the back.
If you have any prayer requests,
make sure to email that email address.
I'd be happy to add that for you.
That's going to be it for announcements this morning.
Let's go ahead and go to our third song.
And our third song this morning
is going to be hymn number 20,
"When I See the Blood."
Hymn number 20, "When I See the Blood."
Sing there on the first.
Turn if you would to second Chronicles chapter number three.
Second Chronicles chapter number three.
Chapter number three.
"Then Solomon began to build the house of the Lord at Jerusalem
in Mount Moriah, where the Lord appeared unto David his father,
in the place that David had prepared in the threshing floor, Ornan the Jebusite.
He began to build in the second day, in the fourth year of his reign.
Now these are the things wherein Solomon was instructed for the building of the house of God.
The length by cubits after the first measure was three score cubits,
and the breadth twenty cubits, and the porch that was in the front of the house.
The length of it was according to the breadth of the house,
twenty cubits, and the height was in hundred and twenty, and he overlaid it within with pure gold.
In the greater house he sealed with fir tree, which he overlaid with fine gold,
and set there on palm trees and chains, and he garnished the house with precious stones for beauty,
and the gold was gold of pervane. He overlaid also the house, the beams, the posts, and the walls
thereof, and the doors thereof, with gold engraved cherry beams on the walls, and he made the most
holy house. The length thereof was according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits,
and the breadth thereof, twenty cubits, and he overlaid it with fine gold according to six
hundred pallets, and the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold, and he overlaid the upper
chambers with gold, and in the most holy house he made two cherry beams of image work and overlaid
them with gold, and the wings of the cherry beams were twenty cubits long. One wing of one cherub
was five cubits reaching to the wall of the house, and the other wing was likewise five cubits
reaching to the wing of the other cherub. And one wing of the other cherub was five cubits reaching
to the wall of the house, and the other wing was five cubits also joining to the wing of the other
cherub. The wings of these cherubims spread themselves forth twenty cubits, and they stood
on their feet, and their faces were inward. And he made the veil of blue and purple and crimson
and fine linen and and wrought cherubims thereon. Also he made before the house two pillars of thirty
and five cubits high, and the chapiter that was on the top of each of them was five cubits. And he
made chains as in the oracle and put them on the heads of the pillars and made in hundred pomegranates
and put them on the chains and he reared up the pillars before the temple one on the right hand
and the other on the left and called the name of that on the right hand jay chin and the other
and the name of the other the name of that on the left boaz let's pray lord we're thankful for
your word thankful to have these pictures for us say lord that this time you help us to minimize
distractions all this to just explain this chapter to us give them clarity of mind amen it's from
jewish voice dot org and the title of this article is update on the building of the third temple so
this is a publication by orthodox jews and this is what they're saying about it they say those who
believe scripture contains a literal fulfillment of the biblical covenants for the jewish people
and the jewish land of israel recognize rebuilding the temple is part of this promised future in
jeremiah's presentation of the new covenant for israel we read so they start off saying well anyone
who's a real bible believer anyone who actually believes the old testament of course they just
know that it's promised that a third temple is going to be rebuilt in jerusalem they're trying
to just put that on their audience like oh this is something that we just know that we just take
for granted and then they go and quote a passage in jeremiah and they use a false bible version
but i'll read it to you in the king james in jeremiah 33 14 it says behold the days come say
at the lord that i will perform that good thing which i have promised unto the house of israel
and to the house of judah in those days and at that time will i cause the branch of righteousness
to grow up unto david and he shall execute judgment and righteousness in the land now
the irony is that verse is clearly talking about the lord jesus christ and here you have
these orthodox jews saying oh anyone who actually believes this scripture knows that there's going
to be a third temple but it's like you clearly don't believe this scripture because you rejected
the messiah and it's so ironic that jews would look to the book of jeremiah and quote that to
the world when the whole point of the book of jeremiah is that the nation of israel and judah
had rejected god so bad that god allowed nebuchadnezzar and the babylonians to go into
their city and completely destroy their temple and it's just so ironic because here they are today
they're the exact same group of people they have the exact same mentality then they quote more of
jeremiah it says in verse 16 in those days shall judah be saved and jerusalem shall dwell safely
and this is the name wherewith she shall be called the lord our righteousness and of course
this is a foreshadowing of the millennial reign of christ when all israel shall be saved when
spiritual israel will also be physical israel then they quote something that is definitely not
applying to the millennium in verse 17 it says for thus or verse 18 is what i'm referring to but
verse 17 says for thus saith the lord david shall never want a man to sit upon the throne of the
house of israel neither shall the priests the levites want a man before me to offer
burnt offerings and to kindle meat offerings and to do sacrifice continually and see part of
jeremiah is talking about the fact that someday the nation of israel is going to be restored
you know this babylonian destruction is not a permanent thing for the nation of israel
obviously in the way far future they're going to have the millennial reign of christ where all
israel will be saved but even in the near future when during the times of ezra the temple is
rebuilt the levitical priesthood and the sacrifices will be reinstituted but that is definitely not
going to be happening in the millennial reign there's not going to be any sacrifices but i just
think it's so funny how they start this article by saying like oh any anyone who actually believes
the scripture knows the third temple is going to be rebuilt and it's like you guys rejected christ
the people at this time rejected god and destroyed their city you guys are no different yet then it
says this is uh the article says this passage speaks about the messianic age when all israel
will be saved and restored to the land of israel at that time a righteous descendant of david
the messiah will sit on the throne in jerusalem and the temple will again stand complete with its
levitical priesthood see they're talking about how the messiah is going to come in the future
because they don't recognize that he already came and of course jesus christ is going to come
again in the future but their perspective when they're saying the messianic age when the messiah
comes they're coming at it from the view that jesus never came that the messiah never came that
jesus wasn't the messiah and they're still looking forward to the first coming which of course is
going to be the anti-christ that they're looking for and then it says if this is to be a future
reality is there any sign of preparation for a third temple in israel today since 1987 when the
temple movement began preparations for the rebuilding of the third temple efforts to see
this become a reality in the 21st century have been slowly progressing while modern israel and
a large percentage of the jewish people throughout the diaspora are secular orthodox jews do not
believe these people will play a role in the rebuilding of the temple since it is a spiritual
work so they're saying you know ever since the jews were just spread about into the whole world
a lot of jews have just become secular and that's very true i mean when people say talk about the
jews what are you talking about are you talking about people who claim to be physically a jew
are you talking about people who claim to be culturally a jew are you talking about people
who are secular jews are you talking about the orthodox are you talking about the
hasidic jews i mean there's all sorts of different people that would call themselves jews
and the orthodox jews specifically i mean these are the ones with the black hat and the curlies
and the bob way okay that's who we're talking about here they're saying the secular jews aren't
going to be a part of this rebuilding this is what they say it is orthodox orthodox jews who
revived the sanhedrin the religious body that supervised the helichic i don't know if i'm
saying that right issues related to the temple and who intend to see it rebuilt in a proper way
so they're basically saying hey we're just the descendants of the pharisees and of the
sadducees that rejected christ we're reviving the religion of the of the jews at the time of jesus
we've rejected the messiah we're going to be the ones in charge of rebuilding the third temple now
right off the bat anyone who's a christian who's ever cracked their bible open one single time
this should be throwing all sorts of red flags that the group that hated jesus when he was on
this earth that rejected his teachings that had him killed the ones that set his blood beyond us
and on our children they're the ones that are excited to rebuild the third temple yet many
baptists today many independent fundamental baptists are excited about this idea and think
it's something great and are donating money to it and are praying literally praying to god
that this temple will be rebuilt now before we talk about this supposed third temple this morning i
want to do kind of a deep dive into just the history of the temple of god the history of
the temple go to hebrews chapter number nine let's talk about the real temple or tabernacle
or just dwelling place of god and that is the one in heaven that is the true tabernacle or temple
or whatever one you want to call it this is the true one the one in heaven hebrews chapter nine
verse 21 the bible says moreover he sprinkled with the blood both the tabernacle and all the
vessels of the ministry and almost all things are by the law purged with blood and without shedding
of blood is no remission it was therefore necessary that the notice patterns of things in the heavens
should be purified with these but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than
these see on earth whenever there was a temple or a tabernacle or a sacrifice of a blood or of a
bull or of a goat you know the blood of bulls and goats all of those things were just patterns
or pictures of the heavenly but it was necessary that the true blood was sprinkled on the true
altar in the true temple in heaven verse 24 says for christ is not entered into the holy place
made with hands which are the figures of the true but into heaven itself now to appear in the
presence of god for us bible saying jesus did not go into some temple in jerusalem some tabernacle
and sprinkle his blood on some altar made with hands he actually went into the true so one thing
right off the bat just as a foundation when we're going through the history of all the different
temples that were on this earth realized that none of those temples were the most special
important things they were always just a reflection of the true which is in heaven and today people
baptists they're really excited about this and and the people during the time when these temples
existed during the times of the kings during the time of jesus christ people often are very excited
about the carnal people are very excited about a physical temple and they get so excited when they
see you know sacrifices being made on some temple but none of those things were ever truly important
they were only important because they were a reflection of the true temple of god in heaven
and those bulls those goats they never washed away sins it was always a reflection of the true
sacrifice which was the lord jesus christ go to hebrews 8 turn the page to hebrews chapter 8 verse
number three it says for every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices
whereof it is of necessity that this man have somewhat also to offer she's saying look the
high priest the men that occupied this position they had to give gifts and sacrifices to offer
and so it's necessary that this man also had something to offer who's this man is talking
about Melchizedek who I believe is the lord Jesus Christ look at verse four it says for if he were
on earth he should not be a priest seeing that there are priests that offer gifts according to
the law who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things and as Moses was admonished of God
when he was about to make the tabernacle for see say if he that thou make all things according to
the pattern showed to thee in the mount. Moses when he built the tabernacle he was told very
clearly make sure you make everything exactly like I tell you because what this really is
this physical tabernacle on earth it's a pattern of what's in heaven and so even today we could
learn from this too because we have the instruction from God and God wants to make sure that we
build this church and do ministry and live our lives according to the pattern that God gave us
right and really this book is heavenly you know it's not it's not like this physical book is
special just like a physical building isn't special just like a temple wasn't special but
it's the things in heaven that those things reflect that are very very important go to second
chronicles 3 where we read this morning second chronicles chapter number 3 so we talked about
the true temple now let's fast forward a lot in history to Solomon's temple this is probably
the most famous well-known temple was the temple that Solomon built and I want you to notice
something interesting in verse number one of second chronicles chapter three the bible says
then Solomon began to build the house of the Lord at Jerusalem notice this in Mount Moriah you will
want to remember that location where the Lord appeared unto David his father in the place that
David had prepared in the threshing floor of Oran in the Jebusite so he's saying Solomon is going
to build the house of the Lord the temple in Mount Moriah which is the same place where David had
the threshing floor okay remember that because we're going to talk about really the history
of this exact location Mount Moriah so let's start with Abraham go to Genesis chapter 22
Genesis chapter 22 I went to Solomon because that verse clearly tells us where the temple was built
it was built on Mount Moriah now let's look at some really key important things that happen in history
on Mount Moriah Genesis chapter 22 verse one it says and it came to pass after these things
that God did tempt Abraham and said unto him Abraham and he said behold here am I and he said
take now thy son thine only son Isaac whom thou lovest and get thee into notice the land of Moriah
and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.
Now I did some research into some of the geography of this area and Mount Moriah is situated in
between two important ridges one is the watershed ridge on the west and you can go there today
still call that you can go visit this and on the east of Mount Moriah is the Mount of Olives
and of course that's where Jesus gave his famous Olivet discourse and so Mount Moriah is kind of
situated in between those two ridges but notice how God told him to go to the land of Moriah
to one of the mountains there to do what to sacrifice and to sacrifice who his son his only
son Isaac let's keep reading look at verse number six and Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering
and laid it upon Isaac his son and he took the fire in his hand and a knife and they went both
of them together and Isaac spake unto Abraham his father and said my father and he said here I am
here am I my son and he said behold the fire in the wood but where is the lamb for a burnt offering
and Abraham said my son God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering so they went both of
them together and here you have Abraham located in Mount Moriah which is this mountain of sacrifice
if you will the same mountain where David would build an altar someday the same mountain where
Solomon would build the temple here he's told to do what to do a sacrifice and here Abraham is
foretelling knowingly or unknowingly that God will provide himself a lamb for a sacrifice and
of course this is the Lord Jesus Christ why because the tabernacle the temple the offerings
the altars the sacrifice animals they were all just a pattern of the true and so here when he's
saying that the Lord will provide himself a lamb for the burnt offering that is true in the most
literal sense because God in the flesh Jesus Christ provide himself as a lamb John looked
at the Lord Jesus Christ and said behold the lamb of God which take away the sin of the world
that was a fulfillment of what Abraham's saying here that God will provide himself
a lamb look at verse number nine and they came to the place which God had told him of and what is
that that's Mount Moriah and Abraham built an altar there and laid the wood in order and bound
Isaac his son and laid him upon the altar laid him on the altar upon the wood and Abraham stretched
forth his hand and took the knife to slay his son and the angel of the Lord called unto him out of
heaven and said Abraham Abraham and he said here am I and he said lay not thine hand upon the lad
neither do thou anything unto him for now I know that thou fearst God seeing thou hast not withheld
thy son thine only son from me and here Abraham is a picture seeing that Abraham is willing
to offer his only son in a sacrifice to God of course this is a picture of the fact that God the
father was willing to offer his only begotten son the Lord Jesus Christ as an offering for sin and
where is it of all the mountains on this earth where God chose to picture this beautiful picture
of salvation he chose it on Mount Moriah the same place where the temple would someday be built verse
13 says and Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked and behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by
his horns and Abraham went and took the ram and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead
of his son now that's an important phrase at the end that this ram was offered in the place of his
son because we believe in the substitutionary death of the lord Jesus Christ that us we are
sinners deserving of hell but Jesus Christ in our place stood for us and died on the cross for our
sins and he replaced our sin he took our sin in his own body on the tree the bible says and he
gave us his righteousness it's a substitute and it's a beautiful picture here keep your place in
genesis 22 and also go to galatians chapter 3 galatians chapter number 3 we'll come right back
to genesis 22 but look at galatians 3 galatians chapter 3 verse 13 says this christ hath redeemed
us from the curse of the law notice being made a curse for us or it is written cursed is everyone
that hangeth on a tree so you know that's an amazing amount of love that the lord jesus christ
showed for us that while he was perfect while he never sinned while he never deserved any
wrongdoing done unto him whatsoever he actually was willing to allow himself to be made a curse
for us and he was completely you know all of the wrath of god was poured out on the lord jesus
christ not from anything that he did but from everything that all of us did all of our sins in
this room helped put the lord jesus christ on that cross but why is it so important well because
it's the substitutionary death he substituted his place for us go back to uh genesis 22 and
keep your place there in galatians 3 we'll come right back between these two places so we saw
that picture of the death of christ look at verse 14 it says and abraham called the name of that
place jehovah jireh as it is said to this day in the mount of the lord it shall be seen so notice
this mountain where i is a very important place and abraham even named this place jehovah jireh
verse 15 and the angel of the lord called unto abraham out of heaven the second time and said by
myself have i sworn say it the lord for because thou has done this thing and has not withheld thy
son thine only son that in blessing i will bless thee and in multiplying i will multiply thy seed
as the stars of heaven and as the sand which is upon the seashore and thy seed shall possess the
gate of his enemies and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed because thou has
obeyed my voice so on this mount in this mountain of sacrifice mount mariah we have i or we have
abraham going to sacrifice his son isaac god stops him god then gives him this prophecy that god is
going to bless abraham and all the nations of the earth through his seed which if you go to
galatians chapter three we know this is talking about the lord jesus christ verse number 16 of
galatians 3 the bible says now to abraham and his seed were the promises made he saith not and to
seeds of many but as of one and to thy seed which is christ see it was never about the physical
descendants of abraham being a physical descendant of abraham was never important was never special
jeez or in the new excuse me in the new testament it's told to the jews that god could make children
of abraham out of stones right so it was never important to be a physical descendant of abraham
but what is important is that the seed of abraham in that seed would all the nations of the earth be
blessed which is the lord jesus christ now this is one of the reasons why it's so important to
have a king james bible and not one of the modern versions because in many of the modern versions
the bible just says or the the fake bible just says oh through all your descendants will all the
nations of the earth be blessed well that kind of takes away from the spiritual truth because the
world today is not being blessed by the physical descendants of abraham but the world has been
blessed and is being blessed through jesus christ and where did this beautiful powerful truth where
was this first told it was told on the mount mariah it was told on the mountain of sacrifice
where abraham was told to sacrifice isaac where later other sacrifices would be done
in the temple and on that mountain the prophecy was foretold of jesus christ and it's like hey
baptist christians realize that from the beginning of this mountain's history it's always been about
jesus it's always been trying to get us to look not at the physical building the altar the animals
but would to be looking to the lord jesus christ and realizing the spiritual significance of this
go to genesis chapter 18 genesis 18 now what's so amazing about this prophecy to abraham is that
in genesis 18 you actually have the lord jesus christ himself telling abraham about a prophecy
of himself that's pretty amazing to think about in the plains of memory look at verse number
number one of genesis 18 it says and the lord appeared unto him in the plains of memory and
he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day notice how it says and the lord appeared now we
know this is not god the father because when people see god the father in the old testament
he's shining bright you can't look at his face he has to turn his hinder parts to you so that
you don't die because no man can see the face of god the father and live you know so this is for
sure not god the father but it still says that the lord is the one who came down and so what do we
know from that that this is actually the lord jesus christ this was a pre-incarnate appearance
of jesus christ coming to him in the plains of mammary and look at verse number 17 it says
and the lord said shall i hide from abraham that thing which i do seeing that abraham shall surely
become a great and mighty nation notice this and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in
him and we know from the other scriptures we just read how are all the other nations of the earth
going to be blessed through abraham well it's going to be through his seed the lord jesus christ
and i just find it fascinating that who gave him that prophecy who told him about that jesus
himself told him that i mean that's an amazing appearance of jesus christ in the old testament
now go to second samuel chapter 24 second samuel chapter 24 so we have mount mariah we know from
second chronicles 3 this is where solomon's temple would be built we also know that this is where
abraham went to offer his son isaac now let's look at another important story while you're turning
to second samuel 24 i want to read for you exodus 30 12 the bible says when thou takest the sum of
the children of israel after their number then shall they give every man a ransom for his soul
unto the lord when thou numberest them that there be no plague among them when thou numbers them
so in the law of god god prescribed a way for people to take a census to count how many people
they have in their nation and when god wanted them to take a census he wanted them to pay some
sort of ransom to the lord for every person that they count why well because he doesn't want the
people to start being prideful and thinking look how many people we have look how great we are
you know if you have to pay money to god for every person that you count you're acknowledging
god's power you're acknowledging the fact that hey god has blessed us with all these people
but here in second samuel 24 we see a story in the reign of king david where he went to go take
this census but he did not do it correctly he did not do it the way that exodus commanded he just
went and counted them without paying the sacrifice and as a result god started pouring out a plague
on the nation of israel he started punishing the people verse 15 of second samuel 24 says so the
lord sent a pestilence upon israel from the morning even to the time appointed and there died of the
people from dan even to bir sheba 70 000 men so you know god is very angry he's pouring out wrath
upon the people 70 000 people have died so far in the plague and verse 16 says and when the angel
stretched out his hand upon jerusalem to destroy it the lord repented him of the evil and said to the
angel that destroyed the people it is enough stay now thine hand and the angel of the lord
was by the threshing place of erona the jebusite remember that place and david spake unto the lord
when he saw the angel that smote the people and said lo i've sinned i've done wickedly but these
sheep what have they done let thine hand i pray thee be against me and against my father's house
and gad came that day to david and said unto him go up rear and alter unto the lord in the
threshing floor of erona the jebusite which we know from second chronicles that this place is
located where in mount mariah the same place where abraham went to offer his son verse 19 and david
according to the saying of gad went up as the lord commanded now notice what had happened here in
this story david had sinned david had not followed the commandments of god as a result god's wrath
was being poured out on the nation people were dying and what did god demand to rectify this
situation he demanded sacrifice and where was the sacrifice done it was done in the threshing floor
of ariuna in mount mariah now what is a threshing floor this is something that probably
none of us have ever had to deal with so i looked up and got some information about it
it says a thresh to thresh grain an animal usually pulled a wooden threshing sled over
the stocks of barley or wheat this cracked the husk breaking it off the grain after it was
threshed workers would use winnowing forks to throw the smashed piles into the air this was often done
on hilltops because they were exposed to the wind in the air the lightweight chaff blew away
while the heavier grain fell back onto the ground and i've seen pictures and videos of this where
people just they get those forks they throw all that stuff in the air the heavy grain falls like
right down in front of their feet and all the chaff just gets blown away and all that chaff kind
of gets gathered together that says here that the grain was then collected to be used in making bread
while the worthless chaff was gathered into piles and burned this is where the saying separating the
wheat from the chaff and even jesus was described as someone who was going to do this in his ministry
is separating the wheat from the chaff and what's the end result of the chaff it's to be burned but
i think it's interesting that god tells david to go to this specific place to do a sacrifice where
the carnal truth of this place was that you are separating wheat from chaff but the spiritual
truth is that when david went to do this sacrifice he was separating david from his sin and he was
separating the children of israel the nation of israel from their sin excuse me now it's not the
animal sacrifice that ever did this it was simply a picture of the fact that excuse me that jesus
christ is the one who truly separated us from our sins and that separated david from his sin so it's
kind of an amazing picture there how god uses these these carnal truths something as simple as
just threshing wheat to picture of the spiritual truth that was going on here separating david
from his sin stay there and i'll read for you john 336 says he that believeth on the son
hath everlasting life and he that believeth not the son shall not see life but the wrath of god
abideth on him and so someone who has not accepted this spiritual sacrifice of the lord jesus christ
they have not been separated from their sin and the wrath of god abides on them just like the wrath
of god was abiding on the nation of israel when 70 000 men were killed from dandibir sheba it took
that sacrifice to cause that plague to be stopped and here in the new testament john chapter 3 it's
explaining hey if you accept that sacrifice of jesus christ you're good you're saved you'll have
everlasting life but if you don't the wrath of god abides on you you know that's a terrifying
truth today that every unsafe person should be shaking in their boots thinking about the fact
that god's wrath is abiding on them and if they don't accept that sacrifice of jesus christ by
putting their trust in him for salvation they will experience the wrath of god for all of eternity
and there will be no second chance there will be no sacrifice in the future to try to get them out
there's no purgatory or temporary hell no it's an eternal wrath of god that these people will face
and so now in this life is our only chance to accept that sacrifice go to second king's
chapter number 25 second king's chapter number 25 so we saw that mount mariah what's the history
it's where david sacrifice or i'm sorry it's where abraham went to sacrifice isaac
it's where david went to the threshing floor to do a sacrifice to cause the plague to stop on israel
let's get some more history look at second kings 25 verse 8 the bible says
and in the fifth month on the seventh day of the month which is the 19th year of king nebuchadnezzar
king of babalon came nebozaradon captain of the guard a servant of the king of babalon unto
jerusalem and he burnt the house of the lord and the king's house and all the houses of jerusalem
and every great man's house burnt he with fire so here's another interesting piece of history
abraham david solomon solomon built the temple on mount mariah as we read in second chronicles
chapter number three but what happened the nation of israel rejected god rejected the prophets that
were sent to god started worshiping the false gods of the nations around them forsook the lord and
what did god do did god really care that much about the physical temple no because he actually
allowed nebuchadnezzar in the babalonian army to come into jerusalem and to completely destroy
the temple and solomon's temple was completely destroyed just burned to the ground and just
desecrated and this took place in 586 bc however there was a promise given to the children of
israel that this temple would someday be rebuilt go to ezekiel chapter number 40 ezekiel chapter
number 40 now there's a lot of speculation about the temple and ezekiel there's a lot of people
that think that there's all these end times applications to ezekiel and they're definitely
you could find some nuggets in the latter part of ezekiel where you can make some end times
application but i submit to you that ezekiel is this part we're going to read in ezekiel 40
is not an end times passage whatsoever this is not the millennium this is not what that's talking
about i'll prove that to you what it says in verse one is this in the five and 20th year
of our captivity what is the context of what we're about to read the children of israel are in
babylonian captivity the temple has been destroyed it says in the beginning of the year in the 10th
day of the month in the 14th year after that the city was smitten it's already been destroyed
in the self same day the hand of the lord was upon me and brought me thither in the visions of god
brought he me into the land of israel and set me upon a very high mountain by which was as the frame
of a city on the south so one thing that's important to realize when you're reading ezekiel
is the context number one that this was taking place during the Babylonian captivity so everything
that we read keep that in mind that when ezekiel's getting this vision he's understanding it in the
time frame that he's in also remember that what he's receiving right now is a vision this is not
real what he's seeing it is a vision and some people you know freak out because they'll look
at the temple that was rebuilt in the days of ezra and they'll say well everything wasn't
built exactly to the exact specifications that said in ezekiel well a couple things first this
is a vision number one number two what if i told you that people don't always follow exactly what
god tells them to do i don't know if you know this but sometimes people don't listen to exactly what
the bible says but i'm going to show to you why that i don't believe that the temple in ezekiel 40
is some end times future temple look at verse number 38 i clearly believe that this temple
is referring to the temple to come in the days of ezra is a rubables temple look at verse 38 it says
and the chambers and the entries thereof were by the posts of the gates notice where they washed
the burnt offering folks there's no burnt offerings in the new testament there's never
going to be another animal sacrificed that is sanctioned by god yeah there's going to be
blasphemous god-hating bible rejecting jesus christ hating jews that rejected his sacrifice
that will continue to offer sacrifices but folks this is an old testament passage right here he's
saying look you guys are in captivity you guys are probably very sad and depressed and worried
but i got good news for you someday this temple is going to be rebuilt and when this temple is
rebuilt guess what's going to happen there's going to be burnt offerings now that actually
makes sense if that happened in the old testament because it's the old covenant when these sacrifices
were done look at verse 39 and in the porch of the gate were two tables on this side and two
tables on that side to slay there on the burnt offering and the sin offering and the trespass
offering look all these offerings were pictures of what jesus christ would actually do the real
sacrifice these sacrifices are never coming back folks this is not talking about some millennial
temple this is talking about the temple that was going to be rebuilt in the days of ezra
zerubbabel's temple verse 45 and he said unto me this chamber whose prospect is toward the south
is for the who priests talking about the levitical priesthood the keepers of the charge of the house
and the chamber whose prospect is towards the north is for the priest the keepers of the charge
of the altar notice these are the sons of zadok among the sons of levi which come near to the lord
to minister unto them the sons of zadok were the ones running things during the time of the lord
jesus christ in fact that word sadducee it comes it's derived from zadok and while the sadducee is
definitely corrupted and perverted a lot of the service of god that these are the same group of
people here and so when he's saying hey all these people the sons of zadok levi they're having burn
offerings they're having sin offerings they're having trespass offerings there's priests they're
washing a burnt offering i can never read this and ever be convinced that this is anything other
than zerubbabel's temple because you it's just too it's just too big of a pill to swallow
to say that sacrifices are coming back in the millennial reign when jesus christ was a once for
all sacrifice and look there's there's people who believe that there's a coming temple in the
millennium and they don't believe sacrifices are coming back they don't believe that there's ever
going to be any animal sacrifices and i'm not mad at those people whatsoever but i am i am mad at
baptists that get up and teach that animal sacrifices are coming back that is blasphemous
that is a rejection of the entire new testament anyone who teaches and i'm not just saying this
flippantly anyone who teaches that sacrifices are coming back they are teaching satanic heresy
that is a stupid false doctrine that will never be tolerated that is a lie from the pit of hell
jesus christ was the sacrifice go to hebrews chapter number eight hebrews chapter number eight
now here's the thing perhaps in the millennium jesus christ is ruling and reigning from a
physical building perhaps like a glorified white house perhaps people will call that a temple i'm
not convinced of that but let me tell you what jesus christ definitely will not be ruling and
reigning from a temple that has the ark of the covenant and the holiest of holy places where
sacrifices are being done sure you want to call it like a glorified white house or something in
Jerusalem sure but those sacrifices are never coming back never look at hebrews 8 verse 6
but now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry by how much also he is the mediator of a better
covenant which was established upon better promises for if that first covenant had been
faultless then should no place have been sought for the second for finding fault with them he
saith behold the days come saith the lord when i will make a new covenant with the house of israel
and with the house of judah not according to the covenant that i made with their fathers in the
day when i took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of egypt because they continued not
in my covenant and i regarded them not say it the lord for this is my covenant that i will make with
the house of israel after those days say it the lord i will put my laws into their mind and write
them in their hearts and i will be to them a god and they shall be to me a people and they shall
not teach every man his neighbor and every man his brother saying no the lord for all shall know me
from the least to the greatest for i will be merciful to their unrighteousness and their
sins and their iniquities will i remember no more in that he saith notice a new covenant he
hath made the first old now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away folks the
old testament is gone let it go it died it's vanished away it's been replaced by a better
covenant you have so many people today you know messianic christians judaizing christians where
they want to mix the new testament they want to mix jesus christ with continuing to observe the
burn offerings and the washings and the feast of tabernacles and all these things look that stuff
is done the sabbath is done the carnal ordinances and washings all of those things were a shadow
of things to come and when christ fulfill those things those things are no longer a part of our
religion yes there's still spiritual truths and it's still beneficial to read the old testament
don't get me wrong it's beneficial to read the old testament we believe the law of god the moral
laws that god gave still stand today but you know what there's been things about the old testament
that has been changed the levitical priesthood has been changed you know the bible says that
we are kings and priests we believe in the priesthood of the believer that we on our own can
bow our head pray to god that jesus christ is the mediator between god and men the man christ jesus
we don't need to go to a temple to do sacrifices to get right with god to have fellowship with him
no you could pray to him wherever you want you could get to right with the lord wherever you
want you don't got to go to jerusalem look we live in the better testament we could eat bacon
we don't have to do all these sacrifices you don't got to put blood on your door posts anymore
ladies you would love that right once you love to just decorate your house front door with blood
i don't think you would this is the best estimate that we're living in right now
hey that jesus has applied the blood to the door posts of our heart and look stop worrying about
the temple stop caring about the physical grandiose temple and the things in jerusalem
look i think that land is cool because it's got a lot of history i love history but look there's
nothing different about that land than the dirt we're standing on right now in fact i'd rather
be standing on this dirt because people are more receptive to the gospel here that is a nation that
has rejected jesus christ that hates jesus christ and here in oklahoma we can go get people saved
every single day i mean every single time we go soul winning we're getting people saved i'm not
just enthralled by the mysticism of israel or jerusalem or anything like that because oklahoma
is better to be honest with you and every place really is better than that god forsaken land
because guess what they forsook god and god has forsaken them literally it is a god forsaken land
but look the old testament is never coming back stop getting to ezekiel 40 and the end of ezekiel
and being like oh you know this is the millennial temple this is a prophecy of the millennial temple
no it's not it is a prophecy of zerubbabel's temple and and it just makes sense like if you're
in the captivity where your temple was just destroyed you're not anywhere close to the new
testament yet i mean they still have a lot of old testament to come you know that's something to
look forward to and give them hope saying look look the temple's coming back the sacrifices are
coming back the priesthood's coming back i'm just letting you know that ezekiel but it makes no
sense for this to be talking about the millennium because guess what the sacrifices are never
coming back in the new testament never again and look salvation this is where people get
misunderstood people will read the old testament they'll see sacrifices for sins they'll see
pictures like david where he goes and does a sacrifice and god it seems like just forgives
their sins right away but those things were always a picture the carnal truths were always a picture
of the spiritual here's just a fact people have always been saved by faith in the lord people
have never been saved by works people were never saved by doing sacrifices following the law of
god people in the old testament were saved by trusting in the coming messiah did they know his
name was jesus no they didn't did they know everything about about him nope but did they
know the substitutionary death of the messiah yeah have you ever read the book of isaiah how
through his stripes through his bruises we are healed and how the equity of all of us was laid
on him by his stripes we are healed you better believe that doctrine is in the old testament
but even more so now when we have the new testament when we have the roman's road for
crying out loud there's no excuse to believe in the stupid doctrine of salvation by works
but guess what it's never been that way anyways it's always been by faith it will always be by
faith there's no coming you know age and the tribulation like the rukmanites teach that during
the tribulation you have to be saved by works nope it's always faith alone that's never changed so we
talked about on mount mariah what do we have uh we have abraham's sacrifice david's sacrifice
solomon's temple the destruction of solomon's temple now we'll go to ezra chapter six we
saw in ezekiel the promise of the rebuilt temple let's look at what's known as zerubbabel's temple
now this is the temple that was around during the days that the lord jesus christ walked this earth
when he went into the temple this is the temple when the devil tempted him in the wilderness
and took him to the highest point of the temple this was the temple that that's talking about
zerubbabel's temple ezra six verse three in the first year of cyrus the king the same cyrus made
the same cyrus the king made a decree concerning the house of god at jerusalem let the house be
built the place where on they offered sacrifices notice it's the same place and let the foundations
thereof be strongly laid the height thereof three score cubits and the breadth thereof three score
cubits you know i'm starting to think that it's not a coincidence that mount mariah has had all
these historical locations it kind of seems like god is directing this to happen because abraham
didn't choose where to sacrifice his son god said go to the land of mariah into one of the
mountains that i'll tell you of he told david hey go up to this threshing floor where's that
threshing floor mariah he told toliman where are you going to lay the foundation mount mariah then
is the rubble temple this king says hey you know we're going to build it you're going to rebuild
it in the same place that the sacrifices were done now go to matthew chapter 24 matthew 24
now it's kind of weird because it's called mount mariah but this land has been excavated and it's
been rebuilt over and it's had so much warfare that when you look at pictures of it today
it looks way different than ancient drawings of it and other pictures that you can see of it
because this land has just changed a lot so like being from idaho where we have real mountains
when i look at what is now mount mariah i'm like that doesn't really look like a mountain to me
but it's just because there's been a lot of warfare there's been a lot of excavation
construction stuff like that but that place does exist today and jesus was there in matthew 24
verse 1 he said or says and jesus went out and departed from the temple now what temple is this
is a rubble's temple the one that was rebuilt after the babylonian captivity and his disciples
came to him for to show him notice the buildings of the temple and jesus said unto them see ye not
all these things verily i say unto you there shall not be left here one stone upon another
that shall not be thrown down when you look at pictures of where this temple was during the time
of herod the great herod fortified the foundation of the temple mount and on that foundation were
buildings plural and the temple itself now jesus is saying that all of these things all of these
buildings there's not left one stone upon another that shall not be thrown down and you know i'm not
a hundred percent sure of this but there are pictures and it claims to on the edge of the
foundation of the temple mount which we know where that is there's all these stones there
supposedly from the destruction of this temple in 80 70 now that seems to be match reality to me
because that's exactly what jesus said would happen that there wouldn't be one stone left upon
another now as christians we always want to be careful not to put a hundred percent stock into
history what we know is a fact is this right here we are sure that everything in this book is true
but that doesn't mean that we can't at least consider historical sources and match them with
the bible and see if they could be plausible you know there's a very famous historian that lived
during this time his name's Flavius Josephus and i'm not sitting here saying you should believe
everything that he wrote or that everything he says is accurate but he was a firsthand witness
to the destruction of this temple in 80 70 and this is what he wrote he said around the altar and
this is the rebels temple were heaps of corpses while streams of blood flowed down the steps of
the sanctuary the romans pitched their standards inside the temple court and offered sacrifice
caesar ordered the entire city and the temple smashed to the ground now that's what he said
he saw i believe it you want to know why because it matches exactly what jesus christ said would
happen you have in jeremiah's time babylonians came in and destroyed the temple why because
they rejected god then god was merciful to them god was long suffering to them and in
ezekiel 40 god said hey you're going to get another temple you're going to get the priesthood
back you're going to get the sacrifices back and during the time of ezra we see that temple
rebuilt but when the lord jesus christ comes on the scene are the people running that temple
serving god are the people running that temple following the religion of god or have they
apostatized have they brought in false doctrine were they some of them teaching that there's
no such thing as the resurrection oh wait and did they reject jesus oh isn't this the
same people that said his blood be on us and on our children so what happened the same
thing that happened during jeremiah's time jesus said hey you see all these buildings
of the temple right here on this foundation that we're standing on there's not going to
be one stone left upon another and then josephus says hey i saw this destruction and i saw blood
flowing down the steps of the sanctuary hey you asked his blood be on you and on your
children and what happened in 70 ad titus and the romans came in and completely destroyed
that city it's just amazing how history repeats itself and all of this happened on the same
location i mean that's amazing to me on mount mariah and you know someday we're going to
talk about this a little more in detail the antichrist is going to come and he's going
to rebuild a temple and he's going to bring the sacrifices back he's going to go in and
destroy jerusalem just like titus did and rebuild that and again bring that false satanic
religion there and of course we know that the lord jesus christ will come and destroy
him with the spirit of his sword with the spirit of his mouth with the sword of the
spirit but it's amazing all of this happens at the same location now go to mark chapter
number 15 mark chapter 15 so on mount mariah what do we have thousands of years before
jesus christ abraham stands on mount mariah goes to sacrifice his son it's a picture of
the coming lord jesus christ david goes there does a sacrifice to separate israel from their
sins solomon builds a temple on mount mariah it's destroyed by the babylonians then on
mount mariah is rubble's temple is rebuilt and it's destroyed in 8070 now when jesus
died look at mark chapter 15 it says in verse 37 and jesus cried with a loud voice and gave
up the ghost notice verse 38 and the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top
to the bottom and when the centurion which stood over against him saw that he so cried
out and gave up the ghost he said truly this man was the son of god now here's the thing
the bible is very clear that jesus died outside the camp he died outside the city jesus did
not die on mount mariah but what is so amazing to me is that the death of the lord jesus
christ greatly affected the structure that was sitting on mount mariah because when jesus
died the the veil of the temple was rent entwined from the top to the bottom that very
historical place where abraham said that god would provide himself a lamb for the sacrifice
when that lamb was sacrificed that exact place where abraham was standing the temple veil was
rent from top to bottom i mean that is so amazing this is not a book written by men folks when
thousands of years before jesus christ was born you have abraham saying hey the lamb of god is
coming to sacrifice and then on that same spot the temple's veil is rent from top to bottom showing
that it wasn't some conspiracy no one was in there ripping that thing that thing was rent ripped by
god from top to bottom and you don't want you want to know why that is is because all this picture
right you got mount mariah mount mariah is such an important place mount mariah is where the mountain
of sacrifice but when jesus christ died that temple veil being rent god is saying hey mount
mariah doesn't matter anymore the temple doesn't matter anymore the veil doesn't matter anymore
because the real sacrifice has come the lord jesus christ that all of these sacrifices being
done on mount mariah he's come and now that temple veil being rent you now have access
to the holiest of holies through jesus christ before it's some priest it's some high priest
once a year on the day of atonement would go into the holiest of holies make some sort of sacrifice
but when jesus died now we all have that that access and guess what god allowing that temple
to be destroyed in 8070 on mount mariah is telling the whole world the temple doesn't matter anymore
the sacrifices don't matter anymore what matters is jesus and it's just so amazing how all throughout
history this mountain has been a picture of the sacrifice of christ he does it the temple
veil is torn and yet so many people still don't believe but thank god some did because look at
verse 39 and when the centurion which stood over against him saw that he so cried out and gave up
the ghost he said truly this man was the son of god and that is the just screaming truth from this
mountain that god has been screaming to humanity for thousands of years that jesus is the son of god
jesus is the true sacrifice and here on that mountain when that veil was torn it's just a
testament to the fact that jesus christ is the son of god so i just think it's amazing that god uses
just a physical location just a little mount in israel to picture something so beautiful
throughout history i mean that is so amazing to me and this book is just so deep there's so much
of it that i don't understand yet that i want to understand that when i i see things like this i
just get excited because there's probably so much more like this in the bible that we haven't seen
yet and you know this is a good reason to read your bible now let's talk about the third temple
we won't be too much longer go to second thessalonians chapter number two second
thessalonians chapter number two knowing all that we know now reading all that we've read
please explain to me why on earth god would ever want another temple to be built on mount mariah
why did he allow it to get destroyed the first place why did he have the temple veil be rent
in twain why did he allow the blood of those jews to run down the altar and down the steps
and to be completely destroyed why did he allow some anti-christ satanic religion known as islam
build upon that you know it's so funny you know in the in the wilderness satan tempted jesus christ
took him to the pinnacle of the temple it's the rubbables temple on mount mariah and you know what
he said he said if you are the son of god throw yourself down you know what's interesting about
that exact same place you know what stands there today is the mount on the rock or dome of the rock
islamic structure and that was taken over by the muslims in around six i want to say 50 ish ad and
in that dome there's an inscription in arabic that was written during that time and it says say only
the truth about jesus christ it is not fitting that god should have a son i just find it so
interesting that the devil during the time of jesus christ took jesus up there and tried to
tempt him with pride and tried to get jesus to glorify himself and and kind of just challenges
him are you the son of god and you know the devil still to this very day in that exact spot in mount
mariah is still challenging the world questioning if jesus christ is the son of god but you know
when that veil was torn and when jesus's prophecy of that temple being destroyed was fulfilled in
8070 you know it's very true that jesus christ is the son of god all the all the fulfillments of
prophecy and that's what this centurion realized by the way as soon as that happened he says wow
this is the son of god but you know satan has not stopped the same devil that took jesus that same
spot in that same spot is still challenging the world today but the coming temple look at verse
number two of second thessalonians two it says or verse one it says now we beseech you brethren by
the coming of our lord jesus christ and by our gathering together unto him that you be not soon
shaken in mind or be troubled neither by spirit nor by word nor by letter as from us as that the
day of christ is at hand he's saying don't just let people confuse you or scare you or trick you
into saying that jesus could come at any moment and this is what the preachers like to teach
the imminent return of christ that christ could come before i'm done preaching this sermon well
the bible says literally not to let anyone believe that okay that's a false doctrine verse three says
let no man deceive you by any means for that day what day the coming of christ shall not come
except there come a falling away first and that man of sin be revealed the son of perdition
notice what the anti-christ is going to do verse four who opposeth and exalted himself above all
that is called god or that is worshiped so that he as god sitteth in the temple of god
showing himself that he is god and some people will read this and say see it says the temple of
god that's proof that there's a third temple ordained by god coming hold on a second because
the anti-christ also here is saying that he is god does that make him god no he's calling himself
god and this temple this third temple is going to be called the temple of god but it's absolutely
not how do you know well because the anti-christ is the one that's coming to build it and to do
something in it go to daniel chapter 12 now notice how in second thessalonians 2 it talked about how
the anti-christ has to be revealed the anti-christ is going to be alive on this earth for a long time
before he's revealed how do we know when the anti-christ is revealed for certain look at
daniel chapter 12 verse 9 it says and he said go thy way daniel for the words are closed up and
sealed till the end to the time of the end many shall be purified and made white and tried but the
wicked shall do wickedly and none of the wicked shall understand but the wise shall understand
and from that time the notice daily sacrifice shall be taken away and the abomination that
make it desolate set up there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days blessed is he that
waiteth and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days but go thou thy way till
the end be for thou shalt rest and stand in thy lot at the end of the days so notice there's a marker
that changes something and it's when the daily sacrifice is taken away now we already read in
this article from the jews that the jews want another temple they want the priesthood back they
want the sacrifices back they read books like jeremiah and think that's talking about their false
religion and so i think it's very plausible that we will see a third temple rebuilt in jerusalem but
it's not of god that we will see animal sacrifices come back to that land but notice the antichrist is
going to cease he's going to cause those animal sacrifices to cease and what's what does it say
here it says and the abomination that maketh desolate set up he's going to set up this
abomination of desolation that the whole world is going to worship and what is he going to do
what's the the action that takes place that lets us know that this abomination of desolation has
taken place it's when he stands up in the house of god in the temple of god showing himself that he
is god that is when the whole world is going to know hey the anti-christ has been revealed
it's made plain it's made obvious this is the anti-christ because well he's sitting on mount
mariah on a fake temple where jesus christ once was and he's saying that he is god and you know
where it's going to be exactly on mount mariah that's what i believe because again he's in the
place of christ he's spitting in the face of god he's saying i'm going to stand in the place where
abraham preached about jesus where david pictured jesus where solomon's temple pictured jesus
whereas rubble's temple pictured jesus where satan has been laughing in the face of the world
for the last you know since the 600s spitting in the face of jesus christ saying it's not fit
for him to have a son that's going to be the exact same place i believe where the anti-christ
is going to commit the ultimate act of blasphemy saying that he is god so hey there's your third
temple that everyone's so excited about why are christians looking forward to the third temple
this is where the abomination of desolation is coming this is where the anti-christ is coming
to call himself god i cannot believe that christians believe this stuff or excited about
this stuff but what it comes down to is it comes down to not reading the bible it comes down to
reading all these systems of theology textbooks written by unsaved heretics like charles larkin
burning in hell teaching you this false doctrine of dispensationalism when you just read the bible
and you realize hey that temple was destroyed for a reason why because those old testament
things are ready to vanish away we live in the new covenant we live in the better covenant now
let's also talk about the picture of the temple go to first kings chapter number 10 first kings
chapter number 10 you know we've gone into a lot of history and doctrine so far let's talk about
what the temple pictured how we could apply it to us i would submit to you that the old testament
house of god the old testament temple is simply a picture of the new testament house of god
which is the church the local church look at first kings chapter 10 verse 1 it says and when the
queen of sheba heard of the fame of solomon concerning the name of the lord she came to prove
him with hard questions and you know one thing that we can learn from that is that we should be
as a church being an institution where people could come to with hard questions and get those
questions answered from the word of god where did queen of sheba go to do that she went to the
temple to do that and here in the new testament we should be doing the same things now it looks
like my notes might have printed all weird here so let me let me pull up the old phone here today
see it's good that we have technology folks go if you would to first timothy chapter number three
first timothy chapter number three now i'm not just making this up that the old testament temple
is a picture of the new testament church because the bible clearly says in first timothy three
verse 15 it says but if i tarry long that thou note that thou mayst know how thou oughtest to
behave thyself in the house of god what was the house of god in the old testament the temple but
what was the house of god in the new testament notice which is the church of the living god
the pillar and ground of the truth and i think this story of the queen of sheba going to king
solomon asking him hard questions and receiving the truth is a picture of how today people are
going to come to church with hard questions i mean people often when they're struggling in life
when they have hard questions of life that's usually sometimes a turning point for someone
where they say i need to seek god i need to go to church you know church should be a place
where we actually have the answers for them and look it's not like anything special about us or
our own carnal knowledge or wisdom it should be that we're able to take the word of god
and explain the truth why because jesus is the truth jesus is the word of god and we have the
book of ultimate truth at our fingertips and that should be the goal of our institution is to be an
institution of truth go to first corinthians 14 first corinthians chapter number 14 bible kind
of gives a picture of this in first corinthians 14 verse 7 it says and even things without life
giving sound whether pipe or harp except they give a distinction in the sounds how shall it be known
what is piped or harp you know if you're going out to war and you have some sort of battle cry
you have some sort of sound with the trumpet to gather the people you want that to be a very
certain sound so that when people hear that they're not they're not like was that a trumpet to
gather together for a sacrifice or was that a trumpet like we're being invaded right now
or like what kind of trumpet was that you want that trumpeter to make a certain sound so that
people know exactly what they need to do verse eight for if the trumpet given uncertain sound
who shall prepare himself to the battle so likewise ye except ye utter by the tongue words easy to be
understood how shall it be known what is spoken for ye shall speak into the air and you know the
truth is the new testament church should be a place where you get clear instructions from god's
word we're not leaving sermons thinking like so does this church believe alcohol is a sin i mean
what is this what is this drinking and moderation stuff like can i have like five beers a night is
that moderate or is it one beer every once in a while it's like no you should just get the word
of god and just say like no alcohol is allowed in fact if you drink if you're a drunkard you'll
actually be kicked out of this church that's a certain sound people be like huh i wonder
if alcohol is acceptable at anchor baptist church it's like nope it's very clear that it's not
you know and that should be preaching the truth of god's word you should get it clearly and
understand okay this is what i need to do this is what the battle cry is saying i know exactly
what my instructions are because i saw it from the word of god this is something that calvinist type
churches lack in greatly because they don't want to speak words easy to be understood because they
want to be adored and looked at as being super smart super intelligent they want to have the
adoration of man in their congregation they're not really interested in actually helping people
and actually giving a certain sound they just want people to look at them and see like wow you're so
smart wow you sound cool when you're speaking greek even though they don't even understand what
they're saying you know that's a worthless preacher that gets up and says all these fancy words that
no one understands you know jesus you know who he appealed to he appealed to the common man
and you know that's how preachers should be today that's how the house of god should be
is that we should be a place where just average joe can come and learn the word of god that is
what we want as a church go back to first kings chapter 10 let's keep reading about
this queen of sheba here and we're talking about how the temple is a picture of church verse two
says and she came to jerusalem with a very great train with camels that bear spices and very much
gold and precious stones and when she was come to solomon she communed with him of all that was in
her heart you know in the old testament you had the levitical priesthood and the temple of god
where people would bring tithes and offerings and gifts to the house of god to do the work of god
but in the new testament where do we do that we do that at the local new testament church
now keep your place there and go to first corinthians 9 some people like to attack this
doctrine and they're called parachurch ministries and parachurch ministries love to hate on tithing
and hate on giving your money to your local new testament church really because they want you to
give your money to them and a parachurch ministry is basically a separate organization from the
church that's not you know an ordained pastor an ordained leader it's just some organization going
off and doing their own thing one of the churches that i've gone to in the past rented from one of
these organizations before and it did not go well because they usually don't care what the bible
says these parachurch ministries but in the new testament where do we give our gifts ties offerings
look at first grindin's 9 verse 3 it says mine answer to them that do examine me is this have we
not power to eat and to drink have we not power to lead about a sister a wife as well as other
apostles and as the brethren of the lord and sephes or i only in barnabas have not we power
to forbear working the apostle paul saying look i have the right to not go out and work a secular
job because he's tending to the things of god he is being a full-time minister ordained minister
of god and he's saying look i have the right to do this but how does this work in practice because
i've had people challenge me on this and say that tithing is not biblical it's like okay so what
magical fairy you know tooth pixie dust bank would you like churches to draw from to pay for lights
and invites and missions trips and church events and staff and pastors like where do you expect
this to come from if if tithing is so unbiblical but you have in the old testament the queen of
sheba she goes to the house of god and she gives gifts she gives gold she gives all these things
to solomon to the temple you see them doing this in the old testament to the levitical priest
and in the new testament paul saying look i have this same power i have the power to take a paycheck
to work full time for the church and honestly people that hate this doctrine are usually bad
people because you know what's funny is i've i've been in church longer not taking a paycheck than
i have been in church while taking one and i was never upset by a pastor being paid to do the work
that he does i would never i never was thinking like man i wish the church had less money so that
we could do less work for god like what is wrong with you like what kind of heart do you have where
of all the institutions of earth you don't want the house of god to be thriving that is a wicked
attitude and you know what i'm not going to tolerate anyone going around telling people
that tithing is unbiblical look if you want to be wicked and not do that just keep that to yourself
i'll never say anything to you personally about it but don't ever go around and try to infect
people with that stupidity you know i've had someone try to challenge me on that and i told
this person look this is just a weird doctrine this is just a bizarre doctrine if you care about
the house of god why would you not want to see it be blessed financially doesn't make any sense
why would you if you're living in israel if solomon's your king why would you not want the
temple to be thriving why would you not want the sacrifices to be thriving and isn't it funny how
the queen of sheva's bringing money to king solomon and blessed people are blessing the temple
financially and it just so happens that king solomon's reign was the most prosperous time
in the nation of israel's history i mean the amount of assets that solomon had is mind boggling i
tried to like equate in modern dollars his assets one time because it talks about how he has apes
and peacocks and gold and land all these things and like if i'm even remotely right he would blow
elon musk out of the water like elon musk's net worth would be like a little piss ant compared to
solomon like i believe that solomon was probably the richest man who's ever lived in this earth but
here's the thing why would you not want the house of god to be blessed why would you not want that
it makes no sense and then if you say if you see in verse 7 it says who goes to warfare anytime at
his own charges who planted the vineyard and eateth not of the fruit thereof or who feedeth the flock
and eateth not the milk of the flock you know i would add something to this who goes to a job
and works a full 40 hours a week plus and doesn't take a paycheck because apparently think pastors
are the are the only people on earth that should do that pastors should just work insane hours and
just never get paid for it that's what a lot of people think that's insane verse 8 say i these
things as a man or say if not the law the same also for it is written in the law of moses now
we're getting to the word of god here thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out
the corn did god take care for oxen saying did god write this in the bible because he really cares
about the oxen or saith he had all together for our sakes oh paul you're so prideful he's under the
inspiration of the holy spirit right here he's saying god wrote that for me and for the and for
peter and for james and all the apostles that's who he wrote it for for our sakes no doubt this
is written that he that ploweth should plow and hope and he that thresheth and hope should be
partaker of his hope if we have sown unto you spiritual things is it a great thing if we shall
reap your carnal things and when people attack tithing when people attack giving to the house
of god it reveals something about them they care about carnal things more than the spiritual
because paul's asking them this this really logical question i mean it's just it's obvious
it makes sense if i've imparted unto you spiritual things is it really a big deal
reaping carnal things like what is of more value spiritual truths souls being saved the church of
god doing well planting churches doing the ministry what is more valuable that or money and when
someone is attacking tithing it shows you what they value more and you know that's that's a sad
life when you care more about money than the things of god that is a sad thing go back to first kings
chapter 10 but we see you know the house of god it's a place where the truth should be preached
it's a place where god's people can give of their finances to the lord verse number three also says
and solomon told her all her questions there was not anything hid from the king which he told her
not when the queen of sheba had seen all solomon's wisdom and the house that he built and the meat
of his table and the sitting of his servants and the attendance of his ministers and their apparel
and his cup bearers and his ascent by which he went up unto the house of the lord there was no
more spirit in her so notice the queen of sheba is just blown away by how well things are run
in the temple in the house of god and the new testament application for us is that the new
testament house of god is a place of service i mean she's looking and saying hey look at your
ministers look at how look at their apparel look at you know how they're working look at how all
these men are happy and you know us in the new testament we should look at the house of god as
a place where we could try to serve where we could try to input something into the church to make it
run better be better you know we have ushers we have music ministry we have all these different
areas that people help in our church and that is something that you could offer to the lord
sacrifice to the lord like these ministers were serving to god in the temple we too can serve god
in the house of god you know in psalms talks about how it's better to be a doorkeeper in the
house of god than to dwell in the tents of wickedness you know there's no such thing as
a menial task at church because this is the house of god i mean if you could do the most menial
task in your mind whatever you think that is cleaning the restrooms sweeping you know what
it becomes really meaningful and it becomes really important when you realize that it's the house of
god here you know we should strive to be a church that works really hard together that we invest our
time to bless this church so that when people come here they can be kind of like wow this place is
well run not for our own honor and glory but so that people would glorify god that's the point
that people come here learn the truth and have an opportunity to serve god verse six she said and
she said to the king it was a true report that i heard in my own land of thy acts and of thy
wisdom how be it i believed not the words until i came and mine eyes had seen it and behold the
half was not told me thy wisdom and prosperity exceedeth the fame which i heard you know i always
love it when people's expectations are a little bit different than what they meet in real life
because there's people that think oh new ifb churches they're so hateful they're so terrible
and then they come and visit and they're like wow this is the nicest people i've ever met these
people will give the shirt off their back these people will help me they will love me they'll
minister to me you know yeah sometimes pastor ross screams about the sodomites but you know
hopefully you think i'm somewhat of a nice guy at least right look at verse number eight happy are
thy men happy are these thy servants which stand continually before thee and that here thy wisdom
blessed be the lord thy god and notice that's really the end goal for people we want them to
come to this place blessed be the lord thy god which delighted in thee to set thee on the throne
of israel because the lord loved israel forever therefore made he the king to do judgment and
justice you know that is the end goal for this church is to reach people and to get them to
realize hey blessed be the lord god hey you know what christianity is a wonderful religion
hey you know the bible is the best book ever written hey you know what the commandments of
god are wonderful you know i've been i've been told my whole life that christianity is no fun
and that it's so restrictive and so many rules you know i'm starting to see that the commandments
of god are actually for my benefit hey i'm actually starting to see that this hard preaching stuff
actually works in my marriage and in my child rearing and in my career hey i'm actually
starting to see blessed be the lord god that is the goal right there lastly let's talk about
go to second corinthians chapter six number four the temple today temple today because you say you
know pastor aus has been a pretty doctrinal heavy sermon how do i apply this today well you know one
one way we could for sure apply this is don't support the anti-christ's third temple don't
support churches and pastors that are wanting to give money or pray or bless this idea of building
a third temple that's one way you could for sure apply this sermon but also look at second
corinthians chapter number six verse 15 says in what concord hath christ with belial or what part
hath he that believeth with an infidel and what agreement hath the temple of god with idols notice
this for ye are the temple of the living god as god hath said i will dwell in them and walk in them
and i will be their god and they shall be my people wherefore come out from among them and be ye
separate saith the lord and touch not the unclean thing and i will receive you and will be a father
unto you and ye shall be my sons and daughters saith the lord almighty see there is no physical
temple today and there's never going to be again a physical temple sanctioned by god that is done
but you know what is true is that we do have the temple today in a sense and it's you and it's me
and it's every saved christian we are the temple of the living god and as a result of that the
bible says wherefore come out from among them and be ye separate see the temple was supposed to be
a place of holiness it was supposed to be a place that had very rigid rules on who could enter and
when who could approach the holiest of holies and when they could not why because the temple
was supposed to be a place of holiness and likewise god wants our temple to be a holy temple god does
not want us defiling our temple with things like fornication things like drinking alcohol
taking drugs smoking marijuana oklahoma god does not want us to do these things he wants us to be
separate and you know what else was very important an aspect about the temple of god was that it was
a place of sacrifice so what can we do with our temple well number one be separated live a holy
life but what else you could do with your temple is you could sacrifice yourself in the service of
god you can do this in very simple ways how about just actually coming to church instead of just
being like yeah you know like once a year i'll care about god yeah you know like on christmas
on easter i'll care about god or you could say hey i'm the temple of the living god and you know
what god wants me to do with my temple he wants me to sacrifice of my time he wants me to actually
come to the house of god the new testament house of god and join other believers in worshiping god
because i'm telling you it's not the same thing listening to the sermons from home you need to be
around god's people here's another way you could sacrifice with your temple wake up in the morning
and cause your flesh to read this book look sometimes your flesh isn't going to want to do it
sometimes you're going to feel tired sometimes your mind's going to be elsewhere you don't want
to do it but you know what you're the temple and you know what temple should be doing they should
be sacrificing and so you don't want to do it hey that's all the more reason why you should do it
you want to sacrifice with your temple go out soul winning go out and take of your time your gas
your freezing in the wilderness out here and go preach someone the gospel of jesus christ that is
a sacrifice that is pleasing to god we'll go to two more places before we close go to roman 6
and roman's 12 roman 6 roman chapter 12 roman 6 verse 13 says neither yield ye
your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin but yield yourselves unto god as those
that are alive from the dead and your members as instruments of righteousness unto god how is it
that you use your temple for the lord you yield yourself as an instrument of righteousness that
means is when god tells you to do something you yield your body to obey what god says when god
tells you not to do something you decide i'm going to take control of my flesh take control
of my body i'm going to walk in the spirit and my temple is going to do the things that god
wants me to do and of course we're never going to be perfect we're going to fail in this
you know we should take the temple of god very seriously go to romans 12 this will be the last
place we go to romans 12 verse 1 says i beseech you brethren i beseech you therefore brethren
by the mercies of god that you present your bodies a living sacrifice holy acceptable unto god which
is your reasonable service you know we should be a church and we should be a people like abraham
where we are willing to sacrifice anything for god i mean the amount of faith that abraham had
to go and sacrifice his own son believing that god would provide himself ram lamb for burnt
sacrifice that is an incredible amount of faith and some people it's funny they like to blow their
mouse off like oh yeah i would die for jesus christ i'd be willing to stand and be martyred
You know, I can't wait for the tribulation. I'm gonna fight the antichrist. I'm gonna stand and die for him
It's like, you know how I know you're not gonna die for Jesus Christ is because you won't even live for Jesus Christ
You want to know how I know that you will fail in the tribulation for sure that you would not die for Jesus
Christ is because your body right now is not a living sacrifice
Because you're inconsistent in your Bible reading when your flesh doesn't want to read the Bible
You don't read when you don't want to pray you don't pray when you don't want to go to church
You don't want to go to church and you don't go to church and you know, it's just obvious in some people's lives
You're not even close to being a living sacrifice
But if you realize that you are the temple of God, you should look at yourself and say you know what?
I'm gonna be a living sacrifice
You want to die for Christ try living for him first because let's be honest dying is quick. It's one-time event
I mean if you just got if you got executed by the Antichrist and his armies and he just chops your head off
Look, it's just over it's just done. But you know what is way harder than that in my opinion
Is serving God faithfully three to thrive soul winning reading the Bible praying for decades and decades and decades until you die
And quite honestly, I think God is more impressed and pleased with a Christian who is a living sacrifice
Than someone that just is a martyr for Jesus Christ
You know as a church when we think about things like the temple when you read the Old Testament and you're reading these stories
About the temple first think about the Lord Jesus Christ and his sacrifice
But also think about how we could sacrifice for God in our lives. Let's pray Lord. Thank you for this day
Thank you for the beautiful spiritual truths about the temple and the location of Mount Mariah
I just pray that everyone in here would be very thankful for the sacrifice of Jesus Christ and that you just help us to
Love this world and to continue to make it our mission to tell people that Jesus Christ is the Son of God
We love you in Jesus name. We pray. Amen. You'll grab your hymnals
We'll go to our last song for the morning hymn number 30. Nothing but the blood hymn number 30
Nothing, but the blood we'll sing there starting on the first