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So you're there in Isaiah chapter 11. Isaiah chapter 11, so we're seeing our study through the book of Isaiah. And in chapter 11 here, we had definitely some famous verses, and really if I was gonna title this sermon, it'd be The Branch. And so what we're gonna see here is we're talking about Jesus, and there's this term or this name that's given to Jesus called The Branch, okay? So if you see at the very first part of this chapter here, it says in verse one, it says, And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a branch shall grow out of his roots. Okay, so this branch that we're gonna see here. Now I wanna read down to verse five, because this is all one thought as far as what's going on with The Branch, okay? In verse two, it says, And the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord, and shall make him of great understanding and the fear of the Lord. And he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears, but with righteousness shall he judge the poor and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth, and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked. And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins and faithfulness the girdle of his reins, okay? So I wanna show you the places where The Branch is mentioned, okay? So we obviously see here where The Branch is mentioned, and what we're gonna see in this passage actually is where Jesus is gonna be rolling and reigning for a thousand years, okay? So if you remember in chapter 10, we were dealing with the day of the Lord and just different things like that as far as God pouring out his wrath, but then you come into chapter 11 here and we're getting into what happens after that, the thousand year reign, okay? And so we're definitely gonna see that with other things that are mentioned here as far as what's going to be going on during that thousand year reign, but go to Jeremiah chapter 33. So I wanna show you the few places where this prophecy, if you will, of The Branch, okay? Which is Jesus, but we're gonna see in Jeremiah and in Zechariah where this is prophesied that he's going to come, and so, and you see with the stem of Jesse, right? The root, out of the roots of Jesse, and you think about I am the root and offspring of David, the bright morning star, that's what Jesus said, and so out of the stem of Jesse, and obviously Jesse is David's father, okay? So you have Jesse, David, and then Solomon going down the line when it comes to the kings, but so you see that that's what that's talking about is that lineage that The Branch is gonna be coming out of, okay? So in Jeremiah chapter 33, go to verse 14. So Jeremiah 33 in verse 14, it says, Behold, the days come, said 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. In those days shall Judah be saved and Jerusalem shall dwell safely, and this is the name wherewith she shall be called the Lord of Righteousness, for thus saith the Lord, David shall never want a man to sit upon the throne of the house of Israel, okay? So we see here that his name's gonna be The Branch, and then the city, Jerusalem, that's where it says she shall be called, it's talking about the city, okay? So the city's gonna be called the Lord of Righteousness, okay, and then it talks about the fact that David shall never want a man to sit upon his throne. Now, what does that mean to want, meaning that it's not gonna be needed, like he's not gonna be lacking it, right? Meaning that there's always going to be a man to be sitting on David's throne. Well, if Jesus is the son of David, and he's the king forever, then that's going to be true. Okay, that's how that was fulfilled, right? Because if Jesus is not the king that's sitting on the throne, then that prophecy failed, right? Because there is not a king sitting on David's throne right now on this earth, right? But obviously we know that Jesus is seated at the right hand of the Father, and he is the son of David, and his kingdom will have no end, but he's gonna rule and reign as the king of Israel in that thousand year reign. Now, go to Zechariah chapter three, in Zechariah chapter three we're gonna see that same thing about The Branch. So you see a lot of things in there, it talks about Jerusalem dwelling safely. We already saw this already in the earlier chapters of Isaiah where in the thousand year reign, what's the big thing? There's not gonna be any more war, right? It's gonna be a time of peace, so there's not gonna be any war, not until the very end when Satan is loosed. Is there gonna be any war or anything like that? So when it talks about them dwelling safely, that's what that's talking about, okay? So in Zechariah chapter three and verse eight, now this passage is dealing with Joshua, the son of Jostedek, which is obviously a picture of Christ, okay? And like we said, Joshua, Jeshua, that's a straight up derivative of the name Jesus, okay? Obviously Joshua, the son of Jostedek, is his own person, that's not the Lord Jesus, but he's the high priest, which you could obviously see how that's gonna picture Jesus in the New Testament, being the high priest after the order of Melchizedek. But in verse eight here, it says, "'Hear now, O Joshua the high priest, "'thou and thy fellows that sit before thee, "'for they are men wondered at, "'for behold, I will bring forth my servant the branch.'" Okay, so you see the branch mentioned again? And in your Bible, it may even be all caps, okay? Now, I don't believe that the capitalization's inspired, but you'll either see the capital letter branch or with the B there, or you'll see all caps. So we're talking about the Lord here. Now, in verse nine there, it says, "'For behold, the stone that I have laid before Joshua, "'upon one stone shall be seven eyes. "'Behold, I will engrave the engraving thereof,' "'said the Lord of hosts, "'and I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day.' "'In that day,' said the Lord of hosts, "'shall ye call every man his neighbor "'under the vine and under the fig tree.'" And so you know that when the thousand-year reign happens, everybody's gonna have their own vine, their own fig tree, right? And it's gonna be a time of great peace and prosperity, and you see a lot of that being said there. We're gonna get back to that verse where it talks about there's gonna be seven eyes on this one stone, okay? Because that's something that's gonna be answered in Isaiah chapter 11. Now, go to Zechariah chapter six, so go a few chapters forward there. Zechariah chapter six and verse nine. Zechariah chapter six and verse nine. So I just wanted to show you where the branch is mentioned. And so when we're talking about the branch, we're not talking about his first coming, okay? Obviously, we're talking about the same person, you know? We're talking about Jesus Christ, you know? But when you're talking about the branch, specifically what you're talking about is the branch that's gonna be ruling and reigning on this earth, okay? And so the timeline of the branch is something that hasn't happened yet. We're waiting for that to happen. But that's gonna happen after the rapture and after God pours out his wrath and all that. We are not all millennialists, right? Meaning that we don't believe that we're in the millennium right now, okay? Which wouldn't make sense anyway because it's been like 2,000 years, you know, or close to it since his resurrection. But we believe that a millennium's coming that he's gonna rule and reign for 1,000 years. Now, in verse nine there of Zechariah chapter six, it says, and the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, Take of them of the captivity, even of Heldai, of Tobijah and of Jadiah, which are come from Babylon, and come down the same day, and go into the house of Josiah the son of Zephaniah, then take silver and gold, and make crowns, and set them upon the head of Joshua the son of Josadak, the high priest. Now, this is gonna be a picture, so they're doing this physically to them at that time. But the picture is is that Joshua, the son of Josadak, the high priest is getting a crown put on his head, okay, or crowns. Notice in verse 12, and speak unto him, saying, Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts, saying, Behold the man whose name is the branch, and he shall grow up out of this place, and he shall build the temple of the Lord. Now, we're talking about Jesus, okay? So he's basically using Joshua, the son of Josadak, as a picture, saying, you know, put this on his head, because this is gonna picture what's gonna happen with Jesus, okay? Notice in verse 13, Even he shall build the temple of the Lord, and he shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule upon his throne, and he shall be a priest upon his throne. Now, this is something that's unprecedented, meaning that you didn't have a king and a priest at the same time, okay? Because if you remember, the priests were of Levi, and the kings of Judah were of David, right? They were of Judah, okay? And you didn't have a priest at the same time, and actually, that's where Uzziah messed up, right? He was the king of Judah, and he was trying to do the office of a priest, and he ended up becoming a leper because of it. But what's being prophesied is that Jesus is not only gonna be king, but he's also gonna be the high priest, okay? So he's the priest, you know, it talks about that the priesthood that Jesus sprung, the Lord sprang out of Judah, not out of Levi, okay? And so he's gonna be king and priest, and notice that, as you read on there, it says, and the crown shall be to Helam and to Bijah and Jedia and to Hen, the son of Zephaniah, for a memorial in the temple of the Lord, and they that are far off shall come and build in the temple of the Lord, and you shall know that the Lord of hosts has sent me unto you, and this shall come to pass if you will diligently obey the voice of the Lord your God. Okay, so obviously, I'm not getting into Zechariah there because obviously there's a near future application, but what's the main application? That Jesus is going to come and rule and reign as prophet, priest, and king, okay? And so he's fulfilling all those roles, and we see the branch, he's called the branch, okay? And so going back to Isaiah chapter 11, Isaiah chapter 11, is really at the beginning of this chapter, there's a lot to unpack if you will. So we see this branch, now when we're talking about the branch, we're talking about his millennial reign, okay? And this actually, this passage here, answers a question in Revelation that you may have, okay? And the question is, what are the seven spirits of God? Okay, so if you've read through Revelation and you're like, okay, what is this where it talks about the seven spirits of God and all this stuff, and are those like, is that like actual spirits like angels or is that, you know, what is that, okay? And I believe in Isaiah chapter 11, it answers this, okay? So I believe that the seven spirits of God that we're gonna see in Revelation is actually seven attributes of God, okay? Now notice in verse two of Isaiah chapter 11, so it's talking about the branch, and then it says that there's gonna be these seven different spirits that are gonna be resting upon him, okay? So the first one, notice in verse two, and the spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, okay? There's one. The spirit of wisdom, there's two. And understanding, there's three. The spirit of counsel, four. And might, five. The spirit of knowledge, six. And of the spirit of the Lord, seven, okay? So go to Zechariah, I should have had you keep your finger in Zechariah chapter three and verse nine, Zechariah chapter three, talking about the branch, okay? He brings up this stone. Now, what stone are we talking about? The stone which the builders rejected, right? Which became the chief of the corner, okay? Jesus Christ is the chief cornerstone. And notice what it says here. So when you're reading through Zechariah, it's pretty cryptic, right? You're like this stone with seven eyes, what in the world are you talking about, right? But when you look at the New Testament, you're like, okay, Jesus is that cornerstone. And then we're gonna see in Revelation that he has seven eyes, that it'll talk about in Revelation, okay? And so in Zechariah chapter three and verse nine, it says, for behold, the stone that I have laid before Joshua, upon one stone shall be seven eyes. Behold, I will engrave the graving thereof, said the Lord of hosts, and I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day, okay? So now we see the stone has seven eyes. We see in Isaiah chapter 11 that the branch has seven different spirits resting upon him, okay? And notice in Revelation chapter five, go to Revelation chapter five. Revelation chapter five. So if you didn't already believe that that stone's talking about Jesus, notice what it says in Revelation chapter five and verse five. It says, and one of the elders saith unto me, weep not, behold, the lion of the tribe of Judah, the root of David, hath prevailed to open the book and to loose the seven seals thereof. And I beheld, and lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God, sent forth into all the earth, okay? So what, you know, I'm not getting into the seven horns, but the seven horns usually represent crowns, okay? And you think about the seven horns, or the 10 horns on the beast had 10 crowns, and the seven heads had each a crown or whatever. But all that say is that this lamb that had been, as if it had been slain, who do you think you're talking about, right? Obviously, Jesus Christ is the lamb of God, and he was slain from the foundation of the world, and he has seven eyes, okay? And it talks about these seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God, sent forth into all the earth, okay? So, you know, you may look at that in seven spirits, you're like, are those like beings? Like you think about the angels, you know, they're ministering spirits and all this stuff. Well, I believe basically it's like the spirit of wisdom, you know, you think, go back to Isaiah chapter 11, with that in mind, you have these seven spirits that are resting upon him, okay? So that first one, I don't believe is like the person, the spirit of God, but more so the attribute of the spirit, meaning that, you know, you can think about the spirit of something as an attribute, okay? Now, in Proverbs, you have wisdom, for example. Wisdom is personified as a woman, okay? So wisdom's an attribute, okay? But when you're reading that, you're like, it sounds like it's talking about God, but here's the thing, that's one of God's attributes, okay, is wisdom and understanding and might, right? Those are attributes that he has, and it's personified as a woman in Proverbs, but here it's represented as eyes, right? And, you know, I'll get to that later on, because it talks about the fact that he's not gonna do judgment with his eyes, right? And the idea is, what's he doing judgment with? Wisdom, understanding, might, like all these different attributes, with the fear of the Lord, with the spirit of God, right? And that's how he's judging, you know? He's using these seven different attributes. I do not believe, okay, that Jesus has seven eyes, right? He looks like, you know what I mean? Like he's a lamb with horns and has seven eyes. Does that make sense? Like, there's a lot of things in the Bible that are symbolistic, okay? So, that being said, when it's talking about him looking like a lamb, and he has seven horns and seven eyes, it's representing who he is, right? He died for the sins of the world. He has the seven spirits of God resting upon him, right? And the eyes represent something, because it's how you look at everything, right? You look at it through the window of wisdom and understanding and knowledge and all these different attributes that God has, okay? And you can even look at the spirit of God, and the spirit of God, what's the fruit of the spirit? Love, joy, peace, long suffering, gentleness, meekness, you know, going down the line there. And so, all that stuff is, it's showing you how Jesus is going to rule, okay? He's going to rule with all of this resting upon him, okay? So that means he's going to be a righteous ruler, okay? Now, going back to Isaiah chapter 11, notice what it says, and that's what I want you to see there in verse three, dealing with those eyes, right? It says in verse three, and he shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the Lord, and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ear. So, you know, why are they called the eyes of the Lord? And it talks about these that go to and fro through the earth, right? Wisdom is personified as a woman, but it says, you know, I go into the habitable part of the earth, right? So wisdom is likened unto an attribute that's throughout the world, it's been with God from the foundation of the world, but it's personified. It's not an actual person, right? Wisdom's not a person, okay? Knowledge is not a person, it's an attribute or something that you want to attain, right? And it's personified, wisdom is personified as a woman, and it's interesting, if you go through Proverbs, and the parallels between wisdom and the wife of thy youth, or the virtuous woman, I mean, Stark, I probably, you know, I haven't done it yet, but I plan on doing a whole sermon on that, showing you all the stuff that's said about wisdom in Proverbs, and then all the stuff that's said about the virtuous woman in Proverbs, and it is a stark parallel. But here's the thing with that, you can't take things like that too far, right? Okay? Because let me ask you a question, does that mean women, you shouldn't be taking wisdom unto yourself like men are? Right? It's giving you a picture of like, how a man will cleave unto his wife, right? And how his wife will bring him on, or, you know, a virtuous woman will bring him on, and it's liking it unto wisdom, right? How wisdom will bring you on, or, and all these different things that come with it, right? And it's, you know, who can find a virtuous woman for prices far above rubies? But then it talks about wisdom, how it's prices far above rubies, okay? But listen, ladies, I mean, that's something that you should be looking at too, with wisdom, okay? Even though you're a woman, you know, but it's just giving you that example, it's giving you that personification to show you the relationship between a husband and a wife, and how that's how you should be cleaving unto wisdom, okay? So you don't wanna take it too far, just as much as you don't wanna take this too far with the eyes and, you know, like a spirit, meaning like a person or something like that. It's not that there's seven different, like, beings that are resting upon God, or on Jesus, right? It's the spirit of wisdom and understanding, might, all that, right? So you can see that in there. I hope that makes sense with the spirits of God, the seven spirits of God, but that's what that's talking about, okay? I do not believe that they're different persons or beings, okay, but that they're attributes. Now, going on from that, notice in verse four, it says, but with righteousness shall he judge the poor and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth, and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked. So we see here that now we're talking about the rod of his mouth, okay? Well, this makes a lot of sense, because this has brought up a lot that he's gonna rule with a rod of iron. Go to Psalm chapter two, Psalm two. Now, with this in mind, you know, read Psalm two with this in mind, and listen, what you gotta understand is that a lot of these passages are gonna have dual meanings, or just multiple layers of meanings, right? But look at Psalm two as if you're looking at it when Jesus is rolling and raining for a thousand years now, okay? Now, look at verse six. So Psalm two, verse six. Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion. I will declare the decree the Lord has said unto me, thou art my son, this day have I begotten thee. Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thy inheritance in the outermost parts of the earth for thy possession. Thou shall break them with a rod of iron, thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel. Sound familiar with the rod of his mouth, right? By be wise now, therefore, ye kings, be instructed, ye judges of the earth, serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice with trembling. Kiss the sun, lest ye be angry, and ye perish from the way when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him. So imagine now you're in a thousand year reign, Jesus is rolling and raining, and there's other kings and judges that are on the earth, right? Because during a thousand year reign, it's not like, you know, there's no one else that's rolling and raining, there's other nations, right? But he is the king of kings, right? So that means he is the king, and there's other kings and rulers and all that stuff that are going on, but everybody answers to him, okay? And he's basically saying, if you don't serve me, you know, fear. And kiss the sun, lest ye be angry. Meaning that he's gonna come after you, right? With the rod of his mouth, and with the sword of his mouth, right? He's gonna rule with a rod of iron. And so that means that those laws that are in the Old Testament, the perfect law of liberty, all those moral laws are coming back, okay? Not the customary stuff, not the animal sacrifices, and the divers washings and all that stuff that were a picture for the time then present, but all those things that never change, right? Moral laws like murder and adultery and all those different things will be enforced during the thousand year reign. Go to Revelation chapter 19, Revelation chapter 19, and you'll see this, you know, where he's gonna rule with a rod of iron in multiple places, but I want you to see that, that you can see that the branch is likening unto the thousand year reign, the fact that the seven spirits of God are resting upon him. We see that in Revelation chapter five before we get into the wrath being poured out of the great tribulation and the wrath. So, Revelation chapter 19 and verse 11, this is where Jesus is gonna come down on a white horse. This is the battle of Armageddon, okay? And notice in verse 11 it says, And I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse, and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war. Sound familiar, right? That he's gonna do it in righteousness, not with the seeing of his eyes, meaning that, you know, through those seven attributes is how he's judging and all that. Verse 12, his eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns, and he had a name written that no man knew, but he himself. Sound familiar? Dealing with Zechariah, how you're gonna have these crowns that they're supposed to bring? So he has many crowns on his head, and if you think about it, when we saw Jesus in Revelation chapter five, how many horns did he have? Seven, right? Those eyes are also likened unto lamps of fire, okay? When we're talking about the seven spirits of God. Notice as you go on there in verse 13 it says, And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood, and his name is called the Word of God. And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses clothed in fine linen, white and clean, and out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword that with it he should smite the nations, and he shall roll them with a rod of iron, and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God, and he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written King of Kings and Lord of Lords. Okay? So this is the final thing that happens before you go into the thousand year reign, okay? And what's that, you know, the kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ. And he's the Lord of Lords, the King of Kings, and he's gonna rule and reign with a rod of iron, okay? So that's very clear that you see this in Isaiah, okay? And obviously when you're going into Isaiah here, when you have the New Testament as a flashlight it's super clear, right? You know, when you're reading through, you're maybe going, who's the branch? What's up with these spirits being resting upon him? You know, what is this talking about, you know, as we're gonna see here with the wolf and the lamb and all this, what are we talking about, okay? And that's the next thing we see here is what's gonna be going on during his reign. So we already know that he's gonna be ruling righteously, okay, and praise God for that. Who here cannot wait for Jesus to rule and reign on this earth? And to reign with righteousness, I mean, just justice to finally come forth, right? Because just all the day long there's unrighteous judgments, and it seems like, you know, you think of Habakkuk saying that, that wrong judgment goeth forth, and you know, just, I mean, it's from the beginning of time it's been like that, but we're waiting for our king to come and to rule and reign and to just set everything right. So if you wanna see what a good government's gonna look like, you wanna see what good leadership looks like, wait until Jesus comes. And we'll be ruling and reigning with him. Praise the Lord for that. I mean, we're not only saved from hell, but we're gonna rule and reign with Christ for a thousand years, yea, for eternity after that. And that's amazing. But going to Isaiah chapter 11 here, very famous passage. Verse six, it says, "'The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, "'and the leopard shall lie down with the kid, "'and the calf and the young lion "'and the fatling together, "'and a little child shall lead them. "'And the cow and the bear shall feed, "'their young ones shall lie down together, "'and the lion shall eat straw like the ox, "'and the sucking child shall play on the whole of the asp, "'and the weaned child shall put his hand "'on the cockatrice den. "'They shall not hurt nor destroy "'in all my holy mountain, "'for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord "'as the waters cover the sea.'" So we see a lot here, right? But what's the principle that you're seeing here is that literally the animals aren't gonna be, they're not gonna be eating each other, okay? And now, I gotta say this, okay? The Mandela Effect is moronic, okay? And you're like, what are you talking about? Now, if you haven't heard of this, okay, this is the idea there was Nelson Mandela, right? He was like the president, he ended up becoming the president of South Africa. I don't know, maybe it was prime minister, whatever their leader was called over there, right? But he was in prison, okay? And basically, this guy was in prison, and there was a ton of people that said, we saw him die, he actually died, and he obviously didn't die because he became the president after that, or whatever, right? And so, what they call the Mandela Effect is they say, well, it's basically like this ripple in time where what you remember is like a past lifetime event or something like that, I mean, just stupidity. Now, you say, why are you bringing that up? Because people literally go into this and say, see, it's the Mandela Effect, it was the lion that laid down with the lamb, right? Like, not the wolf, you know, Mandela Effect. And you know what it is? People have been misquoting this for millennia, that's why. Would it really marvel you that people misquote the Bible and take things out of context or don't say it right? How about this, pride goeth before the fall. Is that how it says it? Or is it pride goeth before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall? You see what they did there? But how do you usually hear it said? Pride goeth before the fall. Because people are like shortening the verse. Well, at the end of the verse, you see lions mentioned, like the lion eating as an ox, right? So what do they get? Lion, lamb, right? They look at Jesus being the lion of the tribe of Judah and he's also the lamb and they're like, well, it's gotta be the lion and the lamb. But here's the thing, wouldn't the wolf make more sense with the lamb when it's always the ravening wolf in sheep's clothing, right, that's coming after sheep? What's always going after the sheep? I'm not saying a lion doesn't, right? Because obviously David killed the lion that had the sheep in its mouth, right? But the stupidity here, right? I mean, I've heard everything from the fact that, well, you know, in Star Wars, it was Luke, I am your father. And then you go back to it and it's like, no, he doesn't say Luke. He just says, no, I'm your father. That's because people misquoted it, right? I mean, people saw the movie and they're just like, Luke, I'm your father, because they're talking to Luke, right, and they say it over and over again to where that becomes what you think it says, okay? And the stupidity of it, right, and the fact that they take that and they're just like, well, you know, that's the Mandela Effect, we're in a ripple of time, that is baloney, okay? And a lot of them, you're just like, no, you're an idiot. You know, you heard it wrong. I mean, I can imagine them saying, well, you know, for all I've said and fallen short, right, Mandela Effect, because you're saying it's come short. That's because people misquoted it and they also use false versions all the time, okay? And so anyway, you're like, I didn't need to know that. You probably didn't need to know that. But this is one they bring up, you know, when they're talking about that stupid theory, okay? No, it's just that no one reads their Bible half the time and then they just hear what movies say. Yeah, movies say that all the time and they misquote the Bible all the time, right? Movies also say that, you know, all sin is equal and that we should love everybody, right? Movies, are you gonna tell me that Hollywood actually represents Christianity correctly? Show me a movie where they ever do that, right? Because Christians are always depicted as morons. They're always depicted as someone that doesn't know anything and it's always backwards and they're always the one that's the butt of the joke and they're never depicted as actually being people that should be respected, okay? Why, because a bunch of Jews are making these movies anyway and the Jews don't believe Isaiah anyway and so they're gonna misrepresent it and people are gonna say it wrong all the time because it sounds better to talk about a lion and a lamb, right, it has the same letter in there, right? Now like, we wanna have an alliteration or whatever. Anyway, all that to say is that, you know, all it's basically saying here though is the fact that, hey, you know, you're not gonna have animals eating each other and I don't know about you and maybe that's why it's talking about children doing this because children being born into the thousand year reign and I have no idea as far as like how it was before that but I'm not touching that cockatrice then and I'm not putting my hand on the holy asp. I don't care if it is the thousand year reign. Now obviously I'll be in a glorified body, so will you, so it won't matter at that point but I hate snakes, right? I hate snakes and, you know, but obviously what it's stating here is that you're not gonna have to worry about getting bit by a snake. You're not gonna have to worry about the lion eating you. It's gonna be a vegetarian meal, right? It's gonna eat straw like the ox, right? And so that's what it's telling you. Now go to Isaiah chapter 65. Isaiah chapter 65 because we see the same thing said but there's other information that's given to us here about this thousand year reign. So what have we learned so far about the thousand year reign? Well, we've learned that there's not gonna be any war. They're gonna beat their swords in the plowshares, right? And that everybody's gonna have their own vine and fig tree, right? So it's gonna be basically this perfect system of government, meaning that if you work hard, do what you're supposed to be doing and you're not, you know, a wicked person, that's what it's gonna show here, then you're gonna prosper, okay? And instead of the world being against you and everything being against you, basically you can live this great life for the Lord and have this great time but that doesn't mean everybody's gonna love it, right? Because people still love sin at this point and there's still gonna be people that don't like, they're not gonna like Jesus' government, okay? But that's where Isaiah 65 gets into. Now, go to verse 20. A few verses before that, it's talking about new heaven and new earth, right? So when you're going through Isaiah, what you have to realize is that it's not always chronological, okay? Because it'd be like talking about new heaven and new earth and then it's talking about people dying. So obviously, that can't be talking about the new heaven and new earth because in the new heaven and new earth, there is no more death, okay? That's where the New Testament's gonna come in and reign that in and be like, this can't be talking about new heaven and new earth because of this, okay? Plus, at the very end of the chapter, it's talking about the wolf and the lamb again so you know what you're talking about there, okay? But in verse 20, notice what it says. It says, there shall be no more thence an infant of days nor an old man that hath not filled his days, for the child shall die in hundred years old but the sinner being in hundred years old shall be accursed, okay? So what is this talking about? Well, it's gonna get on later there about how, well, let's just read on to verse 22 there. And they shall build houses and inhabit them and they shall plant vineyards and eat the fruit of them. They shall not build and another inhabit it. They shall not plant and another eat, for as the days of a tree are the days of my people, okay? So if you think about trees, they live for a long time. There's actually a tree that's like 4,000 years old, okay? So that means that trees can live for a really long time, okay? So what it's stating here is that what they're going back to is really before flood days, if you will, okay? With a little extra thing in there and the fact that the animals aren't eating each other, okay? But you're going back to where people live a lot longer. And what it's stating here is that what I believe is going on is that you're not gonna have a bunch of children dying, okay? Meaning like you're not gonna have, this is just my interpretation, okay? I could be wrong about this. But you're not gonna have an infant of days. What does that mean? Well, when you look at context, once you go to infant of days nor an old man that hath not filled his days, you're talking about death, right? Meaning that what I believe it's saying is that a child, you're not gonna have children dying in the womb. I don't believe you're gonna have miscarriages. I don't believe you're gonna have children dying at a young age, okay? Which you see a lot now, right? And so basically it's gonna be a lot better during that time than what it is right now on the earth, okay? And then it says, notice what it says right after that. It says, for the child shall die in a hundred years old, but the sinner, being in a hundred years old, shall be accursed, okay? So I don't believe that this is saying that at a hundred years old you're still a child, okay? I don't believe that's what that's saying. You could look at the, what's the contrast? Child to a sinner, okay? And you could look at this in the fact of like a child of God, right? A saved person, right, will die at a hundred years old and the sinner though will be accursed, okay? Meaning, I'll say this, that a child of God, it's just basically kind of giving the contrast there as far as how long people are gonna live but being accursed at a hundred years old, okay? So again, with some of these things, they're not exactly explicit as what's being said and what's gonna be going on then but what I don't believe is I don't believe it's saying that you're still a child at a hundred years old, right? I don't believe that was the case before the flood, right? That a hundred years old, you're still a child. The idea of growing up, it just expanded, right, to where you're like, a hundred years old is like when you were still 10 years old or something like that. I don't believe that's what that's saying, okay? I believe it's just talking about the blessings of someone that's not wicked or a sinner compared to the person that is and being blessed compared to being accursed and all that. Verse 23, it says, they shall not labor in vain nor bring forth for trouble for they are the seed of the blessed of the Lord and their offspring with them. So that's where I believe it's talking about the child is talking about, the seed of the Lord, the children of God, okay? And it shall come to pass that before they call, I will answer and while they are yet speaking, I will hear. So just notice that Jesus is down there, right, on the earth, okay, and it's kind of showing you that representation of like, you're calling out to God. He's like, boom, I'm there. I'm answering you before you even get done talking, okay? Because God obviously knows the future, right? He knows that you're going to say it and he's basically, he's on his way before you even start saying it is what it's saying, okay? Then it goes on, now this is where you really just tie in knowing that this is talking about the same time frame or the same event. The wolf and the lamb shall feed together and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock and dust shall be the serpent's meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy and all my holy mountains saith the Lord. So that same language is used in Isaiah chapter 11, okay? Again, they could probably be taking this verse too and see, it goes from wolf, lamb, lion, right? So they're just like, the wolf lies down with the lamb, or I'm sorry, that's the way it actually is, right? Confusing it with the Bible. The lion lays down with the lamb or the lamb lays down with the lion or whatever. Anyway, I hate the Mandela Effect. I just hate stupid theories and that's one of them, that's really dumb, okay? And especially when they bring up ones, I'm like, no, you're wrong. But it'd be like things like the Berenstain Bears. You know, you've always had Berenstain, right? You'd always say Berenstain, but it's actually the Berenstain Bears. It's like, yeah, it's because it's easier to say, okay? You know what that's called? Laziness in pronunciation, okay? How much easier is it to say Berenstain or Berenstain? It's a lot harder to say Berenstain, right? And so you just get, people are lazy, and you're just like, the Berenstain Bears, right? They're not saying the Berenstain Bears. I wanna make sure you get that, right? And so then they come back and say the Mandela Effect, okay? This is brought to you by the Mandela Effect. I don't know, it's just stupid, okay? Now go back to Isaiah chapter 11. Isaiah chapter 11. You're gonna Google this later, right? Look up YouTube videos about people in the Mandela Effect. I mean, this is, I don't wanna say it's as bad as the Flat Earth stuff, but there's people that are, it's like the same people that believe the Flat Earth, believe in the Mandela Effect. It's like a package deal with a lot of these weird theories that are out there. So in Isaiah chapter 11 and verse 10 here, now we're gonna get to a verse that's quoted in the New Testament here. In verse 10, it says, and in that day, there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people, to it shall the Gentiles see, and his rest shall be glorious, okay? Now, go to Romans chapter 15, because I wanna show you where that's quoted. Romans chapter 15. So, Romans chapter 15, verse eight, just to give some context here. Romans 15, verse eight, it says, now I say that Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers, and that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy, as it is written. For this cause, will I confess to thee among the Gentiles, and sing unto thy name. And again, he saith, rejoice, you Gentiles, with his people. And again, praise the Lord, all you Gentiles, and laud him, all you people. And again, Isaiah said, there shall be a root of Jesse, and he that shall rise to reign over the Gentiles, in him shall the Gentiles trust. Now, no doubt, when we're talking about Jesus coming the first time, the Gentiles will hear it, right? And the whole New Testament's about the fact that, hey, you know, the Gentiles are gonna hear it, the holy nation of those that are, whether they're Jew or Gentile, there's no difference in all that. But in context of Isaiah chapter 11, what are we talking about? We're talking about the thousand year reign. And you say, well, what is this talking about? Well, the term Gentile is synonymous with the word nations. And what happens at the end of Revelation when he pours out his wrath at the seventh trumpet, what happens? It says, the kingdoms of this earth are become, or world, I might have misquoted that, are become the kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ. So what is he? He's the king of kings, and he's ruling, he's reigning over the Gentiles, right? So what's going on? There shall be a root of Jesse, and he that shall rise to reign over the Gentiles, in him shall the Gentiles trust. And notice in Isaiah chapter 11, it says, to it shall the Gentiles seek, right, that root, which obviously is Jesus, right? And his rest shall be glorious. So it's likening, it's likening the thousand year reign to rest, right? Because it really, it really is, I mean, it's gonna be this utopia, if you will, of righteous judgment, righteous government, the animals aren't eating each other, right? And it's just a time of peace, no war, and just this prosperous time where if you're not a sinner, if you're not a wicked person, you'll live long on the earth, and you'll have, you know, basically the fruits of your labor, you're not gonna build something that'll be taken away from you, right? You're gonna plant a vineyard, and then you're gonna eat the fruit of it, right? It's just gonna be this great time to live on the earth, okay, and that's what it's stating there. So, you know, sometimes when you read these verses in the New Testament, you think it's all applying to that like one moment in time where Jesus came, and some of these are more so like looking toward the future as far as what's gonna happen in the future, and, but obviously the Gentiles are gonna trust in Jesus back then, but the Gentiles trusted in Jesus before the New Testament as well, okay? But that prophecy is particularly talking about when he's gonna be ruling and reigning for 1,000 years. But going back to Isaiah chapter 10 there, now, the rest of this chapter, obviously is dealing with something that's happening in the near future, okay? But there's something that I see here, if you look at the timeline of events, okay? The reason I have you go back to chapter 10 is because I want you to see that something had already happened, okay? Before we get to chapter 11, okay? Chapter 10 in verse 20 here, it says this, and it says, and it shall come to pass in that day that the remnant of Israel, and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again stay upon him that smote them, but shall stay upon the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, in truth. And the remnant shall return, even the remnant of Jacob unto the mighty God. For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet a remnant of them shall return, the consumption decreed shall overflow with righteousness. Now, if you remember last week when I was talking about this, we're talking about what? The rapture, right? We're talking about the fact that all the saved are gonna return into the land, we're gonna rule and reign with him, that remnant is saved, obviously, but it's also returning with him to the land, okay? And I don't wanna touch on that again, but what I want you to see, notice in verse 11 of the next chapter. Verse 11 of the next chapter. So, Isaiah 11, 11, it says this. And it shall come to pass in that day that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left from Assyria and from Egypt and from Pathros and from Cush and from Elam and from Shinar and from Emath and from the islands of the sea, and he shall set up an ensign for the nations and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth. So he's gonna gather together all these from the four corners of the earth. Sound familiar? To what we would liken unto the rapture. But notice that it says the second time, right? He's recovering this remnant a second time. So I personally believe this is talking about, if you're looking at, okay, what just happened in Isaiah chapter 11? The 1,000 year reign. What happens after the 1,000 year reign? You have the second resurrection. So I believe this is talking about that in the future, obviously, something that hasn't happened yet. But go to 1 Corinthians chapter 15, right? Because we know that in Isaiah 10, when we were talking about the fact that, hey, he's gonna, a remnant shall return. We see in the New Testament it says a remnant shall be saved. We know that being saved physically in the rapture and the redemption of our body, all that stuff works together there because then after that, he's gonna pour out his consumption, right? He's gonna pour out his wrath, and I covered that. Then you get to chapter 11, we're talking about the branch coming, rolling and reigning, the wolf dwelling with the lamb, all this stuff is going on. Then it says, hey, he's gonna do this a second time with the remnant, okay? And so notice in 1 Corinthians chapter 15, verse 23, talking about the resurrection, this is the resurrection chapter, it says in verse 23, but every man in his own order, Christ the firstfruits, so Christ is the firstfruits of the resurrection, afterward, they that are Christ that is coming, then cometh the end, okay? So if you see that there's Christ who's the firstfruits, then you have they that are Christ that is coming. What is that? That's the first resurrection. But then you have then cometh the end, that's where you have the resurrection of the just and the unjust, right? You have the second resurrection of the just, right? And so notice it says, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, so when does that end happen? When he's delivered up the kingdom to God, okay? Even the father, when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power, for he must reign till he hath put all enemies under his feet. The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death, okay? So this is where you have death in Hellscast and the leg of fire, this is the second death, and so what's he talking about? He's talking about the second resurrection, okay? That's the end. And I believe that's what Isaiah chapter 11's talking about. Go to Revelation chapter 20, Revelation chapter 20. I think it's really interesting how chronological, if you remember, Isaiah 7 to 12 is all one piece of prophecy, right? That Isaiah is saying to Ahaz. And what does chapter seven start off with? If you're looking at the big picture, the big prophecies, Emmanuel is gonna be born, the virgin shall conceive, right? That's what starts it off, and then you see these progressions that's very much the same as far as just the timeline of events, okay? And so Revelation chapter 20 verse four, it says, and I saw thrones and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them, and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus and for the word of God, and which had not worshiped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads or in their hands, and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. But the rest of the dead lived not again till the thousand years were finished. Now, think about it, it says this is the first resurrection. So this is the first resurrection, it's talking about first floor there, right? Everybody that's lived and died up to the point of, you know, they didn't take the mark of the beast, you're getting up to the rapture, right, at that point. But it says, but the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand year reign. That means they're going to live again, okay? Now obviously we don't believe that people that are living and dying in the thousand year reign are gonna be soul sleeping, okay? Meaning that they would go to heaven in their souls, right? But their bodies won't live again until the thousand years have been accomplished, okay? Notice in verse six it says, Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection, on such the second that hath no power. But they shall be priests of God and of Christ and shall reign with him a thousand years. So those that are Christ that is coming, they're gonna rule and reign with Christ for a thousand years. But the rest of the dead that die in Christ after that are not gonna live again until the thousand years expire. And that's where I believe you have chapter 10 of Isaiah, you have that the remnant shall return, right? The remnant shall return, and you know, when it talks about, it's interesting because when it talks about the second time he's gonna recover the remnant of his people, it doesn't talk about them returning, right? It just talks about assembling them from the four corners and all this, okay? Because after that, after the end here, it's not about returning back to that land. I mean, he's making a new heaven and new earth. He's creating a new heaven and new earth, okay? And so it's a little different that second time, but I see that second resurrection, if you will, that's happening in Isaiah chapter 11. Now going back to Isaiah chapter 11, we'll finish up here with the rest of the chapter because there's also this idea of God destroying again, okay? Because what we have, and this is why, when you read through the Old Testament, sometimes you'll see things, you're like, is this talking about the battle of Armageddon? Is this talking about Gog and Magog? You know, like, because there's two major battles that the Lord is involved with, okay? And one is Armageddon, which happens before the thousand year reign, and Gog and Magog happens after the thousand year reign, okay? So I believe that what it's talking about here in Isaiah 11 at the end here is more so detailing the fact that, hey, this is the final battle, if you will, that's happening at the end, okay? After the thousand year reign, all of that. So we read the verse two there, I'm sorry, verse 12. Verse 13, it says, If the envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off, Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim, but they shall fly upon the shoulders of the Philistines toward the west, they shall spoil them of the east together, they shall lay their hand upon Edom and Moab, and the children of Ammon shall obey them. Notice this in verse 15. And the Lord shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea, and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the river, and shall smite it in the seven streams, and make men go over Dryshod, and there shall be a highway for the remnant of his people which shall be left from Assyria, like as it was to Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt. Now, there's something interesting about this, and you're like, you think too deeply into this. So it's interesting because when you look at the children of Israel, there's two major events that happen to them where God delivers them. One is where he took them out of Egypt. And he keeps saying, as I took you out of the land of Egypt. He keeps saying it over and over again. But then when Judah goes into captivity with Babylon, he says, you're no longer gonna say I'm the God that brought you out of the land of Egypt, but I'm the God that brought you out of this land. So it's basically saying, hey, this is kinda like the new redemption, if you will. I'm bringing you out of Babylon and bringing you back into the land. Does that make sense? So you kinda have that Egypt, Babylon. What happens in the end times? Babylon, what happens at the end of Isaiah 11 here? Egypt. So it's kinda like Egypt, Babylon, Babylon, Egypt, and it's kinda going back. And if you think about the fact that how is God dealing with the whole world in history? You have paradise where there's no death, the Garden of Eden. Then you have before the flood where people are living a really long time, and it's kinda like this still kinda paradise-esque. It's a lot better, right? Things are bigger, people live longer, all that. After the flood, what do you have? You have people living a short span. It's a lot worse. We're basically in the worst portion of history, if you will, from after the flood till the thousand year reign. Then after the thousand year reign, what do you get back to? Back pre-flood. What happens in the new heaven, new earth? Back to paradise. Do you see how it goes forward, then back? And you kinda see the same thing a little bit here with how God's battles go, right? How he delivers, right? Egypt, Babylon, Babylon, Egypt. It's kinda going back and forth. You're like, that's thinking too deep in there. Maybe I am. Maybe that's not exactly there like that, but you know what? I think it kinda makes sense there. Just to show you that there is this battle, go to Revelation chapter 20. I just wanna show you that after the thousand year reign, there is this battle. And you could easily overread this and think this is not a big event, right? Because it's just a few verses. But Revelation chapter 20 and verse seven, because if you think about Revelation 20, there's a lot of time that takes place in that one chapter, right? When you're thinking about the thousand years that's going on there that's just speaking about for a little bit there. But that's where Isaiah comes in and gives you a lot more information, right? And also Ezekiel's gonna give you a lot more information about this battle, which we're not gonna go into tonight. But in Revelation chapter 20 verse seven, it says, and when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison and shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog to gather them together to battle the number of whom is as the sand of the sea. Now if you remember in Isaiah chapter 11, what do you see that he's gathering his outcasts and the remnant from the four corners of the earth, right? So you see that same language that's being used there when it comes to his saved or his people and saving them. But also the fact that hey, Satan's going out to the four corners of the earth gathering together his armies. And notice it says Gog and Magog, okay? Well, that's a marker to take you back to Ezekiel 38 and 39 because the only places you're gonna see Gog and Magog mentioned besides maybe the genealogies in Genesis, actually that is the only other place you're gonna see it, is in Ezekiel 38 and 39 where you see this massive battle going on, okay? And so yeah, there's actually a lot going on here. And so for your homework, go back and look at that and you'll see, hey, there's actually a big battle going on here. Verse nine there says, and they went up on the breadth of the earth and encompassed the camp of the saints about in the beloved city. So basically the saints are being encompassed about. This is where God's gonna save all of his people again, right? So you kind of have this second, you know, redemption of the saved and, you know, what we're gonna see right here. And fire came down from God out of heaven and devoured them. Okay? You see how it's just like one little, it's not even a whole sentence, right? It's just like fire came down and devoured them, right? But when you go to Zechariah and you go to Ezekiel 38 and 39, you'll see a lot more information about what's happening to them. About their eyes consuming inside of their head. I mean, it's pretty intense, okay? But, and like I said, we're gonna be getting to Isaiah chapter 12. Not next week, but the week after, Lord will in there. And Isaiah 12 is kind of, it's a shorter chapter, but it's all about praising the Lord and all that. And you can think, what happens after the battle of Gog and Magog, death and hell are cast in the lake of fire, but you just have new Jerusalem and just praising God for all of eternity and just the good news that happens at the end there. So you kind of see that finale in chapter 12 that you see in Revelation 21 and 22. So, but Isaiah chapter 11, there's a lot in there. Obviously a lot of stuff that, you know, I'm not gonna get into tonight, but hopefully all that makes sense there. And let's end with a word of prayer. Dear Heavenly Father, we thank you for today and just pray that you be with us as we go out there the rest of the week here and just help us to know your word, Lord. Just all the different things that we can see in the book of Isaiah. And Lord, we know that we're not really touching maybe even the surface on a lot of this stuff, but Lord, we just pray that you'd help us understand it so that we can bring glory to your name. Lord, we love you. We pray all this in Jesus Christ's name. Amen.