00:00It also speaks about threats to the people of the Lord.
00:04Chapter 2, verse 10, it says,
00:06This they shall have for their pride,
00:09because they have reproached and made arrogant threats
00:11against the people of the Lord of hosts.
00:14So if these people are against God,
00:16they're also going to be against the people who belong to God.
00:19So are the people of the Lord of hosts.
00:22Do you count yourself amongst the people of the Lord of hosts?
00:25If you believe in Jesus, then you certainly are.
00:28And you're going to see there's going to be a spirit in the world
00:30which is going to be against you,
00:31an Antichrist spirit, which will get more and more strong
00:33as we get to the second coming of Jesus the Messiah.
00:38The Lord also has a covenant with the people of Israel,
00:40which hasn't been annulled because of the coming of Jesus.
00:44Some changes made to it, but God still has a covenant with Israel,
00:47and there's going to be a hostility to the Jewish people
00:50in the world at the end of days.
00:53And you can see that that is growing.
00:54You see some of the major forces which are both against Christians
00:57but also against Jews.
00:59Whether it's Islam, whether it's radical leftism,
01:02all these forces have a common root in their opposition to God
01:06and therefore also their opposition to the people of God.
01:12And it also goes on to speak about corrupt rulers and judges.
01:19Chapter 3, verse 3.
01:21Her princes in her midst of roaring lions,
01:23her judges are evening wolves
01:24that leave not a bone until morning.
01:27Her prophets are insolent, treacherous people.
01:29Her priests have polluted the sanctuary.
01:31They've done violence to the law.
01:34So he's saying that one of the features of this time
01:36is also going to be there's going to be a lot of corruption
01:37in the area of government.
01:41The princes are going to be like roaring lions,
01:46going to be corrupt.
01:47The judges are going to be like evening wolves.
01:49So you're going to see corruption in the area of government
01:52and of the expression of the law.
01:55Do you see that taking place in the world today?
01:58Increasingly so.
02:00And you see the prophets are going to be insolent.
02:02There's going to be people who are going to be speaking things
02:03in the name of the Lord which are against the Lord.
02:06And you're going to be priests who've polluted the sanctuary.
02:10Do you see any of that happening in the world today?
02:13Do you see churches which have been defiled
02:15with bringing in the gay pride and rainbow flag,
02:19bringing in Islam and other religions into the church,
02:21polluting the sanctuary, polluting things which are of God
02:24by bringing in unholy things which are unrighteous
02:28in the eyes of the Lord.
02:30And so you have this general spirit which leads to violence
02:34and leads to immorality, leads to rebellion against the Lord.
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